Not only does this mean we reduce consumption and the processing and disposal of hazardous products, but it also reduces our legislative liability and costs.
The Energy Department, which operates the Savannah River Site, a nuclear processing and disposal complex, said it hoped to continue discussing the issue with South Carolina officials to prevent confrontations at the border.
State Attorney General Charlie Condon says he will sue the Bush administration to stop plutonium shipments planned for mid-October from Rocky Flats, Colo., to the Savannah River Site, a nuclear processing and disposal complex near Aiken.
Gov. Jim Hodges, a Democrat, had threatened to order the state highway patrol to block the trucks carrying the plutonium because he suspected that the Bush administration intended to store it permanently at the site, a nuclear processing and disposal complex near Aiken, S.C.
Nations are today faced with an overwhelming social problem of processing and disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW).
Additional costs incurred due to OSD in order of importance are in the processing and disposal operations (Stewart and Daniels 1995; Stewart et al. 2001).
The drugs involved are toxic and require specialized and expensive equipment for storage, processing, administration and disposal.
It oversees the use, processing, handling, and disposal of nuclear materials and wastes, inspects nuclear-power plants and monitors both their safety procedures and their security measures, enforces compliance with established safety standards, and investigates nuclear accidents.
Although recent studies have considered carbon stored in forest products [5], the biological and industrial forest carbon cycles are linked and the forest industrial ecosystem (harvest, transportation, processing, consumption, and disposal) is a significant user of fossil fuel [2].
Within the multi-objective stochastic model for a forward/reverse logistic network design by Ramezani et al. (2013), the opening of plants, distribution centers, collection centers, hybrid processing facilities and disposal centers is connected to alternative capacity levels.
"Waste management", that is the generation, collection, processing, transport, and disposal of solid waste is important for both environmental reasons and public health.
