Free Geek Twin Cities: E-Waste and education
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Amazon destroys millions of items of brand new, unsold stock each year
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This is why we don't shoot earth's garbage into the sun
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Circulus theory: How one man wanted to save the world by taxing its poop
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End of wind power waste? Vestas unveils blade recycling technology.
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Is recycling worth it anymore? The truth is complicated.
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Collapse possible at Manatee County (FL) wastewater reservoir
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In Colorado, the looming liability of oil and gas cleanup
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IAmA chemical engineer who works with spent nuclear fuel. AMA!
Thanks to @suspended and @deimos for the suggestion! Hey y’all, I am a basin chemistry engineer for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Our facility stores spent...
Thanks to @suspended and @deimos for the suggestion!
Hey y’all, I am a basin chemistry engineer for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Our facility stores spent nuclear fuel from a variety of research and experimental reactors underwater. Our specialty is highly-enriched aluminum-clad fuel, but we have a diverse array of unusual fuels from around the world. A good overview of fuel types can be found here.
My primary responsibility is ensuring the basin water is kept highly pure to minimize corrosion to the fuel, as well as ensure it is free of radionuclides to the extent practicable. I’m happy to answer any questions I can about nuclear fuel, nuclear power, radioactive waste, etc.
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Corrosion of Al-clad fuel
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A fantastic video on high level nuclear waste
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Hanford radioactive sludge removal
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Textiles to tiles: Veena Sahajwalla's recycling revolution
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How the Kingston coal ash spill unearthed a nuclear nightmare
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The more boneless, skinless chicken breasts I sell, the worse I feel
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Brad learns how to compost | It's Alive
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A single-step approach to nuclear reprocessing
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At Iceland's Blue Lagoon you can swim in power plant wastewater – here's a story about geothermal energy, cheap heat, and how to keep some ducks warm
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How Big Oil misled the public into believing plastic would be recycled
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Arizona university prevents potential Covid outbreak by testing feces
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Vermont first state to implement a statewide ban on food waste
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While not a solution, knowing how to recycle and compost can help the environment
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Ballpark peanuts, a classic summer pleasure, have been benched
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COVID-19 may have been in Italy as early as December 2019, according to new research of sewage samples
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The great cheese emergency
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Greta Thunberg scolds Danes for dumping wastewater – thirty-five billion liters of unfiltered sewer water have been pumped into the Oresund Strait since 2014
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Nearly two million chickens at Eastern Shore farms set to be destroyed because of coronavirus-related plant shortages
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USDA let millions of pounds of food rot while food-bank demand soared
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Spoiling rice in Vietnam show perils of food protectionism
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US restaurant closings spur farmers to destroy food
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‘Human beings have overrun the world’: David Attenborough calls for an end to waste in impassioned plea to address climate change
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Even garbage is under threat from the coronavirus' impact on the economy
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Nearly 11,000,000 kilograms of strawberries might get thrown in the trash in California each week due to weakened demand caused by coronavirus
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Coronavirus measures could cause global food shortage, UN warns
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Restaurant suppliers are stuck with tons of unsold food
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Disinfecting wipes being flushed down toilets causing major pipe problems
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South Korea is composting its way to sustainability with automated bins, rooftop farms, and underground mushroom-growing
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Planet plastic - How big oil and big soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades
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Inside the mad-science world of a professional fermentation chef
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Struggling to keep up, Finland exports plastic waste – a quarter of all plastic waste will be sent to facilities in Sweden or Germany for sorting and repurposing
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Wind turbine blades can’t be recycled, so they’re piling up in landfills - Companies are searching for ways to deal with the tens of thousands of blades that have reached the end of their lives
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Copenhagen fashion week announces radical sustainability goals – hopes to transform it into a platform for advocacy with tough new environmental requirements for participants
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A journalist in Japan looks at how much single-use plastic he accumulates in a week, then attempts to spend a week without using any
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America’s radioactive secret: Oil-and-gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year
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A microbial map of the city – Boston, USA
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The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world – Mette Lykke, co-founder of fitness tracker Endomondo, and CEO of food waste app, Too Good To Go
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The hiding place: Inside the world's first long-term storage facilty for highly radioactive nuclear waste
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Why your kid loves the garbage truck so much
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How the US betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster
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Oslo Municipality's Water and Sewage Administration has offered a useful tip to reduce water waste – it's OK to pee in the shower
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One supermarket chain in Finland has an idea to address food waste – S-market has started holding 'happy hours' for products nearing expiration date
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