Sentence examples for waste trench from inspiring English sources

An old safe buried in a waste trench at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State has yielded an artifact from the birth of the atomic age: a batch of plutonium that is among the first ever made.

During excavations from 2004 to 2007 a sample of purified plutonium was uncovered inside a safe in a waste trench, and has been dated to about the 1940s, making it the second-oldest sample of purified plutonium known to exist.

The federal government solicited requests for prototype proposals in March, and hundreds of companies responded with designs featuring everything from a nuclear waste trench to sci-fi hyperloop transportation system.

However, our samples were obtained directly from a waste trench in a site containing known Pu contamination and probably reflect the presence of a nearby buried source within the trench.

The trench-sampler described in this paper enabled quantification of actinides in water within a former waste trench, as well as providing the capability to monitor the fluctuating water levels and their response to rainfall.

Concentrations of volatile organic carbons (VOCs) were highest in the waste trenches and decreased with distance downgradient towards the seep.

Trucks can easily unload their wastes into the trench, and the wastes compact naturally due to semi-aerobic biodegradation, after which the trenches are refilled and covered.

Just as the Suffragettes, the Stonewall riots and the Chartists have become part of the celebrated canon of history while contemporary political rioters are vilified, it is only possible in isolation to say radical things about the futility and waste of the trenches so long as one refers to a war which is far enough in the past.

When workers at Area 51 first came to me in the 1990s, they described how the government had placed discarded equipment and hazardous waste in open trenches the length of football fields, then doused them with jet fuel and set them on fire.

Solar Impulse said the discovery of living organisms at such a depth played a crucial role in the prohibition of nuclear waste dumping in ocean trenches.

Pictures show a fleet of these red droids proceeding along the trenches laying waste to a fragile – and obviously German – enemy.