Sentences with phrase «radioactive waste site»

A family whose home has high levels is exposed to 35x more radiation as the NRC would allow if that family were standing next to a radioactive waste site

A family whose home has high levels is exposed to 35x more radiation as the NRC would allow if that family were standing next to a radioactive waste site

In 1980, Congress passed a law that made states responsible for disposal of their own wastes, but states were encouraged to form compacts to locate one low - level radioactive waste site for several states.

Not exact matches

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.

In the meantime, highly radioactive waste is being stored on - site in spent fuel pools at each nuclear plant, with 1500 tons of waste are currently stored at Indian Point.

Researchers at Ben - Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have found that radioactive matter migrates more quickly in carbonate bedrock formations once it has leaked from a tank from near surface waste sites and geological repositories.

There are about 1,300 dry casks at 55 sites nationwide; however, most of the radioactive waste generated in the United States sits in cooling pools similar to Japan's.

At the Hanford site, creating glass with radioactive waste is expected to start in around 2022 or 2023, Goel said, and «the implications of our research will be much more visible by that time.»

As the U.S. makes new plans for disposing of spent nuclear fuel and other high - level radioactive waste deep underground, geologists are key to identifying safe burial sites and techniques.

The household product was used to absorb liquid in radioactive debris at a waste disposal site in New Mexico where a radiation escaped to the surface and exposed 21 workers

Mariotte said utilities that want to build new reactors have known for 10 years that Barnwell would close but failed to include on - site storage or options for handling low - level radioactive waste in their license applications.

But, unlike the 150 particles found on the foreshore next to Dounreay over the past 18 years, the 20 latest particles did not originate from the explosion in 1977 which blew the lid off a waste shaft, spewing its radioactive contents around the site.

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.

At the Hanford nuclear site in eastern Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is building the world's largest radioactive waste treatment plant for cleanup of 56 million gallons of radioactive and chemical waste.

Germany, like the United States, has no long - term disposal site for high - level radioactive waste.

Working on soil samples from a highly alkaline industrial site in the Peak District, which is not radioactive but does suffer from severe contamination with highly alkaline lime kiln wastes, they discovered specialist «extremophile» bacteria that thrive under the alkaline conditions expected in cement - based radioactive waste.

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.

That is about 20 kilometres southeast of the proposed burial site of at least 25 000 tonnes of highly radioactive spent fuel and high - level waste from the US's -LSB-...]

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.

Billions of dollars have been spent to evaluate Yucca Mountain as disposal site for radioactive waste since the 1970s.

A disposal site on Yucca Mountain would need to hold up to 77,000 tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste for up to 1 million years.

Thus, WIPP's mission has been to demonstrate whether the federal government and its contractors, at the cost of unknown billions of dollars can: (1) safely operate WIPP to meet the «start clean, stay clean» standard; (2) safely transport plutonium - contaminated waste through more than 20 states without serious accidents or release of radioactive or hazardous contaminants; (3) meet commitments to clean up transuranic waste at about 20 DOE nuclear weapons sites; and (4) safely close, decontaminate, and decommission the WIPP site, beginning in 2030 or sooner.

GTCC waste is «low - level» waste that is so radioactive for more than 1,000 years it can not be disposed in existing low - level waste sites.

The many serious technical deficiencies of the Yucca Mountain site and DOE's flawed approach to geologic disposal notwithstanding, the most potentially explosive aspect of the federal program is the reality that tens of thousands of shipments of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level radioactive waste will travel the nation's highways and railroads - through 43 states and thousands of communities, day after day for upwards of 40 years.

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.

Approximately 300 million liters of highly radioactive wastes are stored in hundreds of underground tanks at the Hanford Site in Washington and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.

Ken Czerwinski (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has accepted an invitation from the director of the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to serve as an expert on a study mandated by Congress on the treatment of low - level radioactive waste at the Hanford site in Washington state...

Abbey Hepner's Transuranic series provides a close - up look at the radioactive waste at sites in the western United States.

Other environmental concerns relate to the radioactive contamination of the Arctic Ocean from, for example, Russian radioactive waste dump sites in the Kara Sea [42] and Cold War nuclear test sites such as Novaya Zemlya.

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.

The site selected to store the U.S.'s radioactive waste — Yucca Mountain in Nevada — is both volcanically and seismically active.

Technetium - 99 is a common radioactive contaminant in groundwater at nuclear waste sites.

«A new video — Everything you always wanted to know about nuclear power... but were afraid to ask — found on the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility Web site, debunks various nuclear myths including the notion that France «recycles» its radioactive waste.»

There are 3 nuclear facilities that currently accept the least radioactive «Class A» waste; at present, two have all but stopped accepting waste from other states, leaving Clive, Utah as the only site.

Working with all the UK's major consignors of radioactive waste, covering just about all the UK's public nuclear sites and for many years worked for UK Nirex Limited.

Support all field activities while working with radioactive and hazardous materials / waste in radiological zones / hazardous waste sites.

Worse, many sites became contaminated from accidents and spills, but no record of these radioactive waste dispersals were kept.