Sentence examples for waste burying from inspiring English sources

The case also pointed to a weakness in the government's broader plan for disposing of nuclear waste: burying it inside Yucca Mountain at a repository that the government is trying, in fits and starts, to open near Las Vegas.

The board heard presentations from three major nuclear companies on strategies for sorting out the components of nuclear waste: burying some, recovering others for use as fuel and putting some in reactors to be transformed into materials that are easier to handle.

If the mine gets all of its permits and is approved, Augusta's subsidiary, Rosemont Copper Company, will dump billions of tons of toxic mine waste burying some 4,000 acres of canyons, streams and prime wildlife habitat on the Coronado National Forest.

THERE are really only three things you can do with waste: bury it, burn it or recycle it.

In another case last year in Florida, a state investigation discovered mass graves, dozens of misplaced bodies and mounds of medical waste buried in a cemetery.

At first, the United Nations said the base's handling of its waste met international standards — that it used sealed septic tanks, which were regularly emptied by a Haitian contractor, with the waste buried in a proper landfill.

For Chkalovsk, the end of Communism meant piles of uranium waste, buried under a few feet of soil in places where young shepherds now graze flocks of sheep and goats.

In another case, 14 death care corporations in Florida were stripped from a couple last year after a state investigation discovered mass graves, dozens of misplaced bodies and mounds of medical waste buried in one of their cemeteries.

Therefore, issues of land resource consumption, surface water/groundwater contamination, and greenhouse gas effect may imply higher environmental penalties than the savings obtained from waste buried.

Waste buried in granite would create its own tomb of rock in just a few years, Gibb says, and the technology to separate the worst radionuclides from the rest of the waste is on the horizon.

This week's decision was influenced by an impassioned campaign by the Cumbrians who did not want to see waste buried in the county - and certainly not in the Lake District.