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Recycling nuclear waste may sound smart, but it’s splitting the atom world in two
18 Apr 2025 16:14 GMT
… -friendly way to cut waste and reduce uranium mining. … especially without a permanent waste disposal plan in the … climate crisis — taking the nuclear waste we’ve already got piling … The pitch is seductive: cut radioactive waste, sidestep fresh uranium mining, …
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Buried for 50 years: US legacy nuclear waste remains shifted to new graveyard
18 Apr 2025 13:00 GMT
… at ORNL.
Global efforts toward radioactive waste management
Scientists across the globe … facility will safely store highly radioactive waste for 100,000 years.
Canada … similar project. The country’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has chosen …
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Ignace and NWO to host open house on nuclear waste site
18 Apr 2025 13:00 GMT
… open house on the future nuclear waste disposal site the since agreeing … be co-hosted by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) and what …
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Oak Ridge cleanup crews remove radioactive waste stored at ORNL for over 50 years
16 Apr 2025 23:52 GMT
… recently disposed of highly radioactive waste that had been … waste to the Transuranic Waste Processing Center.
“Packaging a radioactive … ,” Patrick Rapp, Transuranic Waste Processing Center area project … in mind.”
The radioactive material removed was used …
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How 77 Tons of Radioactive Waste Ended Up in Brooklyn
16 Apr 2025 22:05 GMT
… at least 77 tons of radioactive waste at a 120-acre … s most populous borough.
The radioactive waste, as well as other … are at risk from the radioactive waste at the former Equity … cleaning up long-standing radioactive fossil fuel waste.”
“National Grid will …
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Environmentalist warns against Mosaic’s project to build a road with radioactive waste material
16 Apr 2025 11:08 GMT
… the making using slightly radioactive waste material is underway in … will use phosphogypsum, a radioactive phosphate mining byproduct, to … distribution of a hazardous waste, which could harm the … worthwhile resource, not a waste, and we are decades …
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U.S. still struggling with how and where to dispose of nuclear waste
16 Apr 2025 03:15 GMT
… a permanent disposal site for nuclear waste — but political and legal challenges … plants continue to generate more radioactive waste. Public and commercial interest in … my work has been containing nuclear waste during temporary storage and permanent …
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Household hazardous waste collection event happening April 26
17 Apr 2025 15:23 GMT
… Washington, N.C.
Household hazardous waste material includes products that contain … and ammunition.
Commercial waste, explosives/flares, radioactive materials (e.g., … smoke detectors), biological waste and motor …
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Candidates urged to speak out about burying nuclear waste
15 Apr 2025 19:14 GMT
… accidental releases of radioactivity and radioactive elements into the environment. Upstream … site) face significant risk of radioactive contamination," said the news … about “consent” for the project, nuclear waste transportation, whether NWMO should be …
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PNG’s first hospital waste incinerator
17 Apr 2025 11:31 GMT
… as chemical, radioactive, universal or industrial waste. Medical facilities generate waste hazardous chemicals … and radioactive materials. While …