Fusion produces no greenhouse gases, and, unlike nuclear fission, it does not produce long-lived radioactive waste.
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Copeland and Allerdale have been earmarked as potential sites to store high-level radioactive waste.
For days after the March 11 accident, tons of radioactive waste were dumped into the Pacific.
Higher level radioactive waste will then be sent to a dedicated waste management facility.
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The Stop Hinkley group said reactors will discharge more radioactive waste into the Severn Estuary.
Rare earth minerals are often mixed with radioactive elements, and processing creates low-level radioactive waste.
Now the company says two more of its plants in Illinois leaked radioactive waste.
About 9, 000 people are employed at Sellafield where radioactive waste lies in ponds and silos.
Hanford was leaking radioactive waste at a rate of 150 to 300 gallons annually.
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Britain needs to find a site for the long-term underground disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
However, we know from other instances that radioactive waste may accumulate in sea food.
The clean-up produced 3, 500 cubic metres of radioactive waste and left the local economy devastated.
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Sellafield nuclear firm has pleaded guilty to sending bags of low-level radioactive waste to a landfill site.
Thousands of barrels of low level radioactive waste were dumped in the trench in the 1950s and 1960s.
Radioactive waste dumped in the Hurd Deep, off Alderney, is not dangerous, according to Guernsey's environmental health unit.
Lynas says it intends to process the radioactive waste into other materials, such as road surfacing, diluting it.
This would typically be a manufacturer, distributor, licensed radioactive waste broker, or a licensed low-level radioactive waste disposal facility.
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The Japan crisis already has led to renewed calls for the company to dispose of this radioactive waste elsewhere.
The permits cover the discharge and disposal of radioactive waste and cooling water.
Cleanup of radioactive waste at nuclear sites across the country would be delayed.
BNFL, this plant produces about three-quarters of the radioactive waste that is pumped from Sellafield into the Irish Sea.
An energy firm has begun work on a new store for radioactive waste at Sizewell B nuclear power station.
The Environment Agency permits cover the discharge and disposal of radioactive waste and cooling water and running of standby generators.
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Nuclear fission avoids using large quantities of fossil fuel for energy but is very contentious because it produces radioactive waste.
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While the report focuses more on finding long-term storage for radioactive waste, it also considered the reprocessing of such fuel.
Nuclear is dangerous because the disposal of radioactive waste remains unsolved and because it increases the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation.
Decades of improper radioactive waste disposal earned Hanford the notorious distinction of being most contaminated nuclear site in the Western Hemisphere.
It has an advantage over competition in that the company operates a mile-square low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) facility in Clive, Utah.
All day he raises the example of Brookhaven, a nuclear lab leaking radioactive waste, as evidence of Big Business's nefarious influence.
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