Sentence examples for waste legacy from inspiring English sources

The figures reveal the Department of Energy and Climate Change spent more than half last year's £3bn budget on the UK's nuclear waste legacy.

"It just seems that somewhere along the way, New York lost its vision for dealing with our toxic waste legacy," said Val Washington, executive director of Environmental Advocates.

It was, said critics, a wasted legacy.

We must not waste their legacy.

This is a choice that has to be made, because we have a monstrous pile of nuclear waste, a legacy of both the irresponsible short-termism of those who ran previous generations of nuclear power plants and of the nuclear weapons industry.

At issue is a settlement agreement between the lab, the federal government and the state to clean up hazardous waste, the legacy of decades of nuclear weapons and chemical research.

On Runit Island, one of forty islands of the Enewetak Atoll of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, sits "The Dome" - a 328 feet wide crater that has been filled with 85,000 cubic meters of radioactive debris and waste (the legacy of early atomic weapons tests) and covered with two feet of concrete.

"We have managed to remove legacy waste from the site instead of leaving it for future generations to manage.

Today, the DOE is a mission agency whose task is to pursue science to address national needs in clean energy production, legacy waste cleanup and global climate management.

Once you have an understanding of the waste in your legacy system and you've charted out the decisions that result in that waste, the last step is asking a simple question.

It is postulated that the existence of this type of framework might be inevitable given both nuclear-specific and non-nuclear drivers and may be essential for the nuclear industry to deliver current and future challenges from the clean-up of legacy waste sites to time and budget, future generation nuclear reactors and small-scale mass-production of modular nuclear power plants.