Sentences with phrase «waste dumped underground»
Bacteria could not only thrive on nuclear waste dumped underground, but may immobilise it and make it safer.
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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).
No proliferation issues, plus it provides a way to use the waste instead of trying to find an underground dump for it.
An estimated 50 million gallons of liquid wastes from Cold War plutonium production processes - laced with radioactive caesium and strontium salts - were dumped in a 13.7 sq. mile area south of central Hanford's 177 underground radioactive waste tanks.