Sentences with phrase «with radioactive waste»
There is still no safe, reliable solution for dealing with the radioactive waste produced by nuclear plants.
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The tunnel contained rail cars filled with radioactive waste, leading to concerns of a radiation leak.
Not to mention the life cycle cost associated with radioactive waste.
Those 400 trucks filled with radioactive waste have not started their journeys around town.
The issue concerns what to do with radioactive waste after uranium and plutonium have been recovered from spent nuclear fuel using reprocessing methods such as Plutonium Uranium Redox EXtraction (PUREX).
The state has known for almost four decades that more than 60 properties are contaminated with radioactive waste in Niagara County and Grand Island.
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.»
Another option is to mix the plutonium with radioactive waste and vitrify the cocktail.
In October 2009 the government of Italy announced that a wreck discovered off the southwestern tip of the country is the Catania, a passenger vessel sunk during World War I — and not the Cunski, a cargo ship loaded with radioactive waste, as alleged by district authorities from nearby Calabria.
Other proposals involve injecting Mars» core with radioactive waste to fire it up, while other scientists think artificial magnetic fields may be the answer.
They will not contaminate the earth with radioactive waste.
Helium - 3 is different from other helium gasses, it is a lighter isotope and when it fuses with other nuclei it releases energy with no radioactive waste.
Bin it, sink it, bury it — we still don't know what to do with our radioactive waste.
Sixteen years ago the RCEP told the government that it should not allow any significant expansion of civilian nuclear power until the industry could demonstrate that it knew what to do with radioactive waste.
It's a classic dilemma: If the solution to the climate problem is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions through nuclear power, then future generations spared catastrophic global warming must figure out what to do with our radioactive waste.
By lobbying hard (and donating heavily to politicians» campaign funds), his company, Waste Control Specialists, has managed to get the state legislature to pass a law allowing private companies to deal with radioactive waste.