Sentences with phrase «waste deep underground»

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.

Plans to bury Britain's radioactive waste deep underground should be acted on immediately without the need for further research, the Royal Society has said.

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He leads a team at Monash University in Melbourne that is developing technologies to extract fossil fuels more cleanly, turn waste products into fertiliser and cement, and store carbon dioxide deep underground.

One approach that is gaining currency among environmental scientists is carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a form of carbon sequestration in which CO2 is removed from the waste gas of power plants, typically by absorbing it in a liquid, and subsequently burying it deep underground, hence keeping the gas out of the atmosphere.

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.

Those were supposed to be the centerpiece of an $ 80 million, federally funded project to see whether the government could get rid of some highly radioactive waste by sticking it deep underground.

«Nuclear waste will remain buried deep underground for many thousands of years so there is plenty of time for the bacteria to become adapted.

Boreholes envisioned for holding highly radioactive waste would be far deeper than proposed or existing underground disposal.

Borehole advocates say tubes of cesium and strontium waste stored in a pool at the Hanford site in Washington could go deep underground.

The disposal of our nuclear waste is very challenging, with very large volumes destined for burial deep underground.

A similar chemical reaction stemming from the sloppy disposal of Los Alamos» nuclear waste in 2014 provoked the shutdown of a deep - underground storage site in New Mexico for more than two years, a DOE accident investigation concluded.

The world's only deep underground nuclear waste dump is in New Mexico, and efforts of many New Mexicans to prevent high - level waste disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) have had an effect on the state's decisions (page 5).

In the next few weeks and throughout 2004, there will be several major activities related to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the world's first deep underground nuclear waste repository, located in southeastern New Mexico.

Next, the CO2 has to be extracted from the sorbent and sequestered, presumably by pumping it deep underground at relatively high concentration or by binding it to minerals — a bit like how we handle nuclear waste.