Sentence examples for long-term repository from inspiring English sources
Pending construction of a long-term repository, U.S. utilities have been storing HLW in so-called dry casks aboveground.
But since Sept. 11, security concerns and a proposal for a long-term repository for spent nuclear fuel have raised alarm.
This form of Mox would not be used as nuclear fuel, but would be encased in canisters and buried in a long-term repository.
For decades America has failed to create a long-term repository for the waste from its civilian reactors at its chosen site, Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
A low-intensity earthquake shook the desert floor early yesterday near Yucca Mountain in Nevada, where the government plans to install the nation's first long-term repository for high-level radioactive waste.
The British and Irish governments agreed that Boston College, with its enduring interest in Northern Ireland, would be a suitable and safe long-term repository for the controversial papers.
Pending construction of long-term repositories, nuclear power plants stored HLW in so-called dry casks aboveground.
Captured carbon dioxide could be sequestered (stored) in long-term repositories such as geologic formations beneath the land, in sediments of the deep ocean, or conceivably as solids such as carbonates.
Under this vision, biofuels would remove carbon dioxide from the air as they grew, energy facilities would capture that carbon dioxide when the biofuels were later burned for power, and then the captured carbon dioxide would be sequestered (stored) in long-term repositories such as geologic formations beneath the land, in sediments of the deep ocean, or conceivably as solids such as carbonates.
Biological samples have been stored in long-term repositories in both Cambridge, UK, and in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
In addition, it is often the case that when a project's funding period ends, the generated data are lost because they are not moved to long-term repositories: these once-funded project sites degrade over time and sometimes disappear entirely.
