Sentences with phrase «radioactive waste which»

They are part of the radioactive waste which several governments — including the French — are planning to bury in deep underground repositories, thereby risking public anger.

The committee pointed out that there is already a huge quantity of radioactive waste which is not in a form suitable for separation.

«What we're talking about here is highly complex, multicomponent radioactive waste which contains almost everything in the periodic table,» Goel said.

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.

«Homecoming» wastes no time on rehashing the tired story of a radioactive bite which gives Peter his powers or dwelling on how his Uncle Ben gets killed.

I applaud the efforts of Residents for the Preservation of Lowman and Chemung and People for a Healthy Environment, Inc. to bring the issue of radioactive drilling wastes in the Chemung County landfill to the attention of the public, the DEC and the Chemung County legislature, which is currently considering a sizeable expansion of the Chemung County landfill to allow the landfill to take more drilling cuttings.

Albrecht - Schmitt said that the discoveries could help scientists build new storage containers for radioactive waste, plus help separate radioactive fuel, which means the fuel could be recycled.

Corroded stored waste containers can lead to radionuclide (radioactive) leakage, which may reach groundwater.

Citing the continual delays with the Yucca Mountain project, which the Obama administration mothballed in the face of Nevadans» opposition, Perry said in a letter to state lawmakers, «The citizens of Texas — and every other state currently storing radioactive waste — have been betrayed by their federal government... because a federal solution still does not exist.»

This type of waste often consists of items such as used protective clothing, which is only slightly contaminated but still dangerous in case of radioactive contamination of a human body through ingestion, inhalation, absorption, or injection.

The slag, which typically includes some radioactive uranium and radium in addition to calcium minerals, is the waste product from the conversion of phosphate ore to phosphorus.

«Our gel helps regain control of the radioactive material and produces 90 percent less waste than water,» claims Shaun McCabe, president of Asia - Pacific systems for CBI Polymers, which recently donated 100 five - gallon pails of its cleaner to the Fukushima cleanup effort and hopes to sell hundreds more there.

This process could help scientists and governments comply with the European Council Directive 2011 / 70 / EURATOM on the «responsible and safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste» which requires EU Member States to establish a dedicated policy, including the implementation of national programmes for the management of spent fuel and radioactive waste.

(Reuters)- Managers mishandled a radiation leak at a New Mexico nuclear waste dump in which 21 workers were exposed to airborne radioactive particles due in part to substandard equipment and safety systems, a U.S. investigator said on Wednesday.

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.

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.

Science answers: Spent fuel is more dangerous because it contains a mixture of fission products, some of which can be long - lived radioactive waste, and also plutonium which is highly toxic.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

Though the concept of borehole disposal, which would see radioactive waste entombed far deeper than traditional repositories, has existed for decades, the idea has been revived in recent years, spurred by troubles in finding a long - term home for the country's spent fuel.

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.

'' [A] nuclear waste repository should not be built until it can be shown, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the facility can, in fact, do what its advocates claim - isolate radioactive materials from the biosphere for more than 10,000 years - and that construction of such a repository will be benign in its effects upon the people, the environment and the economy of the state or region within which it would be located.

The contract - which includes a one - year base period and four one - year option periods - provides continuing technical assistance and research support to NRC activities related to storage, transportation, possible reprocessing and ultimate geological disposal of used nuclear fuel and high - level radioactive wastes.

In particular, nuclear transmutation technology has been drawing significant attention after the accident.This publication is timely with the following highlights: 1) Development of accelerator - driven systems (ADSs), which is a brand - new reactor concept for transmutation of highly radioactive wastes; 2) Nuclear reactor systems from the point of view of the nuclear fuel cycle.

My own take on this is that people will take the short - term most efficiently expedient actions, which is also the worst thing they can do — they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create radioactive waste that can't be disposed of....

Coal ash, which contains radioactive material and heavy metals, including chromium, arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury, is China's number one source of solid industrial waste.

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

And just like existing nuclear power plants, they produce long - lived, highly radioactive nuclear waste for which no safe management and permanent storage exists.

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

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.

to take title to and be responsible for the final disposition of radioactive waste created by the irradiation, processing, or purification of uranium leased under this section for which the Secretary determines the producer does not have access to a disposal path.

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)?