Sentences with phrase «radioactive waste disposal»

Such is the case for other radioactive waste disposal sites with similar total radioactivity content as the Elliot Lake sites, but in a more compact form.

Contaminant biology research funded by the Environmental Health Program is slated for reductions, and the Toxic Substances Hydrology Program would see funding eliminated for radioactive waste disposal and municipal wastewater science.

Further to your Instant Expert on nuclear fission and objections to the idea of radioactive waste disposal via a rocket...

Low - level waste, such as contaminated protective shoe covers, clothing, wiping rags, mops, filters, reactor water treatment residues, equipment, and tools, is stored at nuclear power plants until the radioactivity in the waste decays to a level safe for disposal as ordinary trash, or it is sent to a low - level radioactive waste disposal site.

In some cases, it even exceeded the radioactivity level that requires disposal only at federally designated radioactive waste disposal sites.

Ten Russian inventors are filing patent applications in the West which give an alarming insight into the Eastern bloc's past policy on radioactive waste disposal.

Although bacteria with waste - eating properties have been discovered in relatively pristine soils before, this is the first time that microbes that can survive in the very harsh conditions expected in radioactive waste disposal sites have been found.

HR 3053, a previous version of which was passed by the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee in June last year, preserves Yucca Mountain as the most expeditious path for used nuclear fuel and high - level radioactive waste disposal while authorising interim storage, including private storage initiatives, until Yucca Mountain is ready to start receiving used fuel.

A team of scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) working in collaboration with Tohoku University, Tokyo City University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency has proposed a novel approach to tackle the problem of radioactive waste disposal.

As Mother Jones reports, there's is a fat market for radioactive waste disposal, since 36 states lack a permanent location for storage, and Simmons has lobbied to allow other states to petition to have their waste shipped off to his facility in Texas.

Today, Nevada and the nation must contend with what has become a single - minded, coercive federal effort to turn Yucca Mountain into a radioactive waste disposal site at any cost and by any means, while the mountain's flaws and the program's uncertainties continue to mount.