Sentences with phrase «radioactive waste into»

Would be a great point if it wasn't for TEPCO dumping millions of gallons of radioactive waste into the ocean everyday.

The hair on the back of my neck goes up when I read, as I did on this blog, an innocent question such as «Why can't we inject radioactive waste into the Earth's magma?»

Not exact matches

We've already done that with the opposite reaction, fission — the breaking of large atoms into smaller particles — which leaves us with the troublesome byproduct of radioactive waste.

Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»

It's like the days when GE could dump tons of PCBs and radioactive waste water into the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers.

Their fundamental discoveries may aid research into the management of nuclear waste, by helping scientists understand how chemicals can be used to separate the most radioactive elements.

In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.

A new study shows that a surprising amount of the plant's leaked radioactive waste has made its way into groundwater underneath nearby beaches.

And just where all the fuel and other radioactive solid debris on the site will be stored or disposed of long - term has yet to be decided; last month the site's ninth solid waste storage building, with a capacity of about 61,000 cubic meters, went into operation.

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.

The study found that some well waste from the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania contained radioactive material not previously reported, with the potential for leaching from landfills into the environment.

As a result, radioactive waste has seeped into the ground.

Take the burping tanks: huge sealed stainless vessels holding 4 million litres or more, into which chemical and radioactive wastes were dumped indiscriminately by the contractors who ran Hanford.

Public opposition to a dump for radioactive waste in northern Germany has forced the government to hold a public hearing into the safety and suitability of the plan — the first such hearing to be held in the country.

When the U.S. military abandoned Camp Century, a complex of tunnels dug into the ice of northwest Greenland, in the mid-1960s, they left behind thousands of tons of waste, including hazardous radioactive and chemical materials.

«The study raises an important issue, how climate change can result in unanticipated release into the environment of toxic and radioactive wastes that were optimistically presumed at the time to be stably isolated,» Daniel Hirsch, director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said in an email.

The high - level radioactive waste would then be incorporated into the glass matrix.

RICHLAND, Wash. — A federal project director from the U.S. Department of Energy will discuss how the Hanford waste treatment plant will immobilize radioactive waste by turning it into glass as part of a continuing lecture series from 3 - 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, in the Washington State University Tri-Cities East Auditorium.

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.

Studies at McGill University in Montreal showed that seaweeds bind to radioactive waste that has found its way into the body from food so it can be removed.

Our wide - ranging and slightly scattered conversation included his plot to get the government to marbleize and bury all radioactive waste, and the story of the time he snuck into the Department of the Interior.

Candidates were asked which of these phrases - «acid rain», «global warming», «noise pollution», «radioactive waste» — went into these sentences: 1.

This included fracking wastewater that state officials had allowed to be dumped at local sewer plants — facilities incapable of removing the complex mix of chemicals, corrosive salts, and radioactive materials from that kind of industrial waste before they piped the «treated» water back into Pennsylvania's rivers.

Liquid wastes containing radioactive caesium and strontium salts were stored in underground tanks at Hanford, which rabbits routinely burrowed into.

Every waste dump in the U.S. leaks radiation into the environment, and nuclear plants themselves are running out of ways to store highly radioactive waste on site.

For every pound of enriched uranium that goes into a nuclear reactor, more than 25,000 pounds of radioactive waste are produced in the mining and processing of uranium.

There are other obstacles as well, such as the facts that nuclear power plants take a long time and a lot of material to build, release radioactive material into the environment in «unplanned releases,» generate waste which must be kept isolated from the biosphere for as much as 10,000 years, and create more potential bomb material cruising around the economy.

Dane: I just now (4-14-16) heard you discuss climate engineering and the synergistic complexities which flare into existence when combined with Fukushima Radiation in both the air and the Pacific — and other radioactive particles from who knows where (Iraq war DU,left - over above ground atomic explosions, millions of tons of nuke waste just dumped into the oceans since 1945)?

On that visit, Caldicott guaranteed headlines by advising residents to evacuate the town because «that radioactive waste will leak into the water for the rest of time».

Activist warns Port Hope that radioactive waste will leak into water and air «for the rest of time» was the headline in the Toronto Star.