If farmers are prohibited from reincarnating their chicken manure into feed, local waterways could in some cases become waste repositories.
In "The Million-Year Health Standard" (editorial, Nov. 25), you suggest that we may not need to be too concerned about future radiation leaks from nuclear waste repositories because we'll likely have devised technological solutions to cancer and radiation contamination.
Dr. Chu said the political difficulties in trying to obtain a license for the Yucca Mountain site should serve as a guide in searching for other nuclear waste repositories in the future.
Various construction materials are under consideration for nuclear waste repositories.
Bentonite clay is considered as possible backfill material for nuclear waste repositories in crystalline rock.
Use of clay barriers has also become widespread in sealing landfill and waste repositories.
Therefore, clay barriers are employed to seal Cs-137 polluted areas and nuclear waste repositories.
Bentonites are preferred materials for use as engineered barriers for high-level nuclear waste repositories.
Clay formations are adequate host rocks for high-level radioactive waste repositories.
An essential task of performance assessment of radioactive waste repositories is to predict radionuclide release into the environment.
The origin and transport of dissolved gases in the geosphere is of interest for assessment studies of nuclear waste repositories.
