Sentence examples for waste stockpiles from inspiring English sources

In addition, thorium reactors could theoretically be used to burn up the dangerous plutonium stored in existing nuclear waste stockpiles.

However – as the Guardian recently revealed – there are fourth-generation technologies already available that can dispose of both plutonium and waste stockpiles much more reliably and cheaply.

Surely even Senator Edwards can understand that if fourth generation reactors could be built then the obvious place to build them would be right next to existing waste stockpiles.

Incineration, and virtual elimination, of waste stockpiles is possible in a thorium (Th) fuelled critical or subcritical fast reactor.

Infiltration of oxygen- and ferric iron-bearing water into coal waste stockpiles contributes to the oxidation of pyrite and other sulfide minerals with the subsequent release of SO4 2− and metals into mine drainage (Moses et al. 1987; Moses and Herman 1991; Evangelou 1995).

This area is heavily influenced by the industrial emissions of Gdańska Rafinery, Fosfory of Gdańsk (phosphatic fertiliser plant), Gdansk Shipyard, industrial waste stockpiles (in particular phosphogypsum), slag and ash heaps all emitting many pollutants, including F− (Bombik et al. 2011).

The Interior Department rejected a bitterly contested plan to create a nuclear waste stockpile at an American Indian reservation in Utah's west desert.

Surely if you build more reactors it will increase the radioactive waste stockpile, which you – or someone else – will have to clean up?

The late Professor David MacKay, the brilliant and exuberant chief scientist at the previous government's climate change department, endorsed an estimate suggesting that one of these potential technologies, the integral fast reactor, could supply all the UK's energy needs for 500 years by consuming the nuclear waste stockpile.

In 2011, this occurred in: the Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, and the Ukraine, and could be due to waste, stockpiling, misreporting, or other errors.

For the second time in 14 years the hunt for a long-term solution to Britain's nuclear waste stockpile seems to have foundered in Cumbria.