Sentences with phrase «radioactive waste during»
All this would be of substantially less concern if New York were like most of the other states that produce some radioactive waste during natural gas drilling.
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The EPA is responding to questions raised by U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer during a visit to Niagara County earlier this week about why the agency's staff appeared to have stopped plans for remediation of three sites with radioactive waste.
Dan Telvock of Investigative Post discusses the presence of radioactive waste in Niagara County during WBFO's Press Pass.
Baxter suggested that the particles fell onto the roadside during the 1960s and early 1970s when radioactive material was being carried in trailers to the waste shaft.
One such product linked to these activities, isosaccharinic acid (ISA), causes much concern as it can react with a wide range of radionuclides — unstable and toxic elements that are formed during the production of nuclear power and make up the radioactive component of nuclear waste.
In October 2009 the government of Italy announced that a wreck discovered off the southwestern tip of the country is the Catania, a passenger vessel sunk during World War I — and not the Cunski, a cargo ship loaded with radioactive waste, as alleged by district authorities from nearby Calabria.
The immediate motivation for safe disposal is the radioactive waste stored currently at the Hanford Site, a facility in Washington State that produced plutonium for nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
During the next two years, as Nevada challenges or confronts DOE, Congress, and, perhaps, the NRC concerning various aspects of the Yucca Mountain program, it will be equally important to undertake efforts to assure that the issue of radioactive waste shipments, including the routes such shipments will use and the cities and communities that will be impacted, is given wide exposure nationally.