News tagged with yucca mountain
Experts call for local and regional control of sites for radioactive waste
Jul 09, 2009 |
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The withdrawal of Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a potential nuclear waste repository has reopened the debate over how and where to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear waste.
Erosion of the Yucca Mountain crest
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 05, 2009 |
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The Yucca Mountain crest in Nevada, USA has been proposed as a permanent site for high level radioactive waste. But a new study, already published as an article in press by Elsevier's journal Geomorphology and recently includ ...
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Yucca Mountain: Good spot for nuke waste?
Dec 06, 2007 |
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A U.S. government study suggests the proposed Yucca Mountain radioactive waste repository in Nevada is arguably the best location for such storage.
20 years of Yucca Mountain research now available for scientific review
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May 09, 2007 |
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The scientific community can now take a long-awaited look at the research behind the selection of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as the nation's high-level radioactive waste repository.
Ignition for Colombian yucca car
Aug 21, 2009 |
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After a three-year slog Colombian scientists have revved up a car that runs on yucca-derived ethanol, spurring hopes that the Latin American staple could be transformed into an abundant fuel.
Feds unveil Yucca Mountain cleanup plans
Oct 27, 2005 |
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U.S. Energy Department officials have announced plans to make Yucca Mountain a "clean" nuclear waste dump, but Nevada officials aren't happy.
Washington proposes nuclear reprocessing
Dec 27, 2005 |
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Radioactive waste reprocessing from U.S. nuclear power plants, which has never worked in the United States, is being proposed in Washington.
Researcher urges nuclear waste options
Aug 18, 2006 |
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The Bush administration is eagerly pushing nuclear power as a way to help solve the U.S. energy crisis. But in its new plan for nuclear waste management, the administration is taking the wrong approach, says an MIT professor ...
Mountain Gorillas Pose No AIDS Threat, Researchers Say
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mountain gorillas do not pose an AIDS threat to humans, according to researchers at the UC Davis Mountain Gorilla One Health Program.
Are female mountain goats sexually conflicted over size of mate?
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Mountain goats are no exception to the general rule among mammals that larger males sire more and healthier offspring. But University of Alberta researcher David Coltman has found a genetic quirk that might make female mountain ...
New radar helps monitor site of century-old tragedy
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Alberta researcher has turned the site of a southern Alberta rockslide tragedy into the proving ground for new equipment meant to avert such a disaster in the future.
Nuclear fusion-fission hybrid could contribute to carbon-free energy future
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants.
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