Sentence examples for drums of waste from inspiring English sources
The generator is surrounded by large drums of waste vegetable oil Paul and Celica have bought from local restaurants.
Energy Department officials said today that Los Alamos shipped 714 drums of waste last year, with 252 scheduled to go this year, 1,176 next year, 2,940 in 2002 and increasing numbers in the following years.
Members of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, an environmental group in Santa Fe, worried that toxic and radioactive fumes could be released into the air if the fire spread to drums of waste at the laboratory.
Moreover, workers buried an estimated 35,000 drums of waste in an unlined landfill on the 1,400-acre 1,400-acreontaminated about 30 more acresiteth industriandsolvents and other contaminatedaboutre dumped directly on the ground and in wastewater treatment lagoons.
Other workers rifled through drums of waste contaminated with plutonium — by hand, but with their hands protected by gloves that reached through a protective plexiglass barrier — to remove liquids and aerosols so the waste could meet the guidelines to be accepted at a deep underground depository in New Mexico.
The casks are designed primarily to transport and store 30 55 gallon drums of waste.
The US Energy Department report on last year's radiation accident at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad showed that a drum of waste containing radioisotopes like plutonium was improperly packaged at the Los Alamos National Laboratory near Santa Fe before arriving for disposal.
A major problem is that legal disposal is costly — fees for a 55-gallon drum of waste containing benzene or metal-plating waste can run $400 or more, not including transportation.
The room contained bags and drums of radioactive waste, as well as bags of asbestos and chemical waste.
Others told about burying hundreds of drums of unknown waste from the reactor facility and digging a trench 125 by and 12 feet deep for waste drums north of Wykoff Run Road.
"They had their flood several years ago, and you literally had 55-gallon drums of radioactive waste floating around, including a lot of dead, radioactive rats.
