Sentence examples for waste burial from inspiring English sources

The study was carried out adjacent to a former waste burial site in Waste Area Grouping 5 (WAG5) on the Oak Ridge Reservation, Oak Ridge, TN.

Waste burial in uncontrolled landfills can cause serious environmental damages and unpleasant consequences.

We dug up the diseased top layer of soil, loaded it into cars and took it to waste burial sites.

Mr. Wyden and Ms. Murkowski are two of the main sponsors of a bill to restart the search for a nuclear waste burial site.

Opponents of nuclear power have long cited the lack of a firm plan for a waste burial place in opposing license extensions for reactors.

The data produced is of upmost importance for quantitative risk evaluations such as models for waste burial in low permeability units.

For instance, the bill includes $580 million for the development of a national nuclear-waste burial site at Yucca Mountain in southern Nevada -- $11 million less than the Bush administration sought but $123 million more than was spent in the previous year.

[C8.] U.S. to Pay Power Company The federal government promised to pay at least $300 million in damages to Exelon for a failure to accept nuclear waste for burial.

The Energy Department plans to apply to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license in 2004 and wants to begin accepting waste for burial in 2010.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission heard arguments on Thursday from representatives of each company, as well as radiation safety officials from three states, the lawyer for a company that processes waste for burial and an expert from a group that opposes nuclear power.

The federal government promised on Tuesday to pay at least $300 million in damages to the Exelon Corporation, for its failure to accept nuclear waste for burial, in a settlement that implies a total cost to the Energy Department in the billions of dollars.