Sentences with phrase «radioactive waste remains»

But a place to throw such radioactive waste remains necessary.

«Places that are frozen today may not remain frozen tomorrow; places that are fairly dry now may not be so over the half million years which radioactive wastes remain dangerous,» Hirsch, who was not involved with the study, said.

Not exact matches

The agreement requires Entergy to make repairs and upgrades to Indian Point and its storage system for the radioactive waste that remains after the fuel is used.

If the ice melts, the camp's infrastructure, as well as any remaining biological, chemical and radioactive waste, could re-enter the environment and potentially disrupt nearby ecosystems, say the study's authors.

Unlike the waste from conventional nuclear power plants, which remains radioactive for tens of thousands of years, the by - products of fusion decay within decades.

The MIT Study found that reprocessing and recycling plutonium — which creates weapon - usable material and some of the most radioactive waste in the world — is also uneconomic and likely to remain so for decades to come.

It is very likely that Fukushima was and remains a cover - story for the real source of radioactive poisoning in the Pacific — and that is the unchecked and massive amount of nuclear waste dumped there by the US Navy.

«Nuclear waste remains radioactive for thousands of years and the nuclear industry has not come up with a technological process to deal with this highly toxic waste and similarly as toxic chemical industry dump their waste in the ground, so does the nuclear industry.

Time is an issue as well because the waste remains radioactive for thousands of years.

Researchers of a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters on Aug. 4 said that the military camp's infrastructure, which include the remaining biological, radioactive and chemical wastes, could re-enter the environment and disrupt nearby ecosystem because of climate change.

Fusion remains the holy grail of clean energy research, because the fusion reaction generates new elements that are not radioactive, unlike nuclear fission which leaves us with hazardous fuel wastes that require generations of management.

«Even if nuclear reactors weren't top terrorist targets,» asks one, «even if radioactive waste didn't remain deadly for ten thousand years, even if you wouldn't mind radioactive waste passing through your town - how would you feel about exposing your family to a potential radiation accident?»