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Design collective Andra Formen has created furniture from electric scooters fished out of the canals of Malmö
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The toxic history of color
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Council bids to print McDonald’s customer car number plates on wrappers
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Infinited Fiber has invested heavily in a technology which can transform textiles that would otherwise be burned or sent to landfills into a new clothing fibre
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UK looks to Sweden for a solution to nuclear waste – repeated attempts to find a suitable location have been stymied by political intransigence and environmentalists
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Environmental defenders celebrate a ‘huge’ win for ‘unique’ Tasmanian rainforest
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How flip-flop art helps clean Kenya's beaches | World Wide Waste
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A day in the life of India’s e-waste workers
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Poland: ‘Huge’ amounts of chemical waste dumped into river
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Finland is building the world's first permanent disposal site for nuclear waste, with no shortage of people wanting to be its neighbours
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Polio found in New York wastewater as state urges vaccinations
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Kayaking the sickest urban river in Australia
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Many in India make a living off garbage, from ragpickers to entrepreneurs. Join us as we look at how they turn trash into shoes, tiles, teddy bears, and more | World Wide Waste
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Single-use plastic waste is getting phased out in California under a sweeping new law
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How people live off a garbage mountain that keeps catching on fire | World Wide Waste
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Racing an excavator to save this house’s wood from landfill
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How we track COVID-19 (and other weird stuff) in sewage
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A plastic bag’s 2,000-mile journey shows the messy truth about recycling
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Nuclear waste is safer than you think
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UN experts call for Sweden to scrap a planned iron ore mine – toxic waste and other contaminants would cause 'irreversible risks' to land used by the Sámi
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Can bitcoin be sustainable? Kryptovault's operation is part of a fightback against criticism of the famously energy-intensive industry
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Can you pump sewage? When it comes to wastewater, what goes down must come up again
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Sweden approves plans for Forsmark nuclear waste storage site – will bury nuclear waste in the bedrock, and seal the facilities once they are full
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The secret MVP of sports? The port-a-potty.
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'If you eat here, you're dining with rats'
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Manufacturers will be forced to create a universal charging solution for phones and small electronic devices, under a new rule proposed by the European Commission
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Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem
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Cheap material could help convert waste heat into electricity
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Scientist invents toilet that turns human feces into cryptocurrency
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Big Oil’s solution for plastic waste littered with failure
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How sewer pipes work (feat. fake poop)
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No, you can’t recycle a bowling ball (but people sure keep trying)
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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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Urban fish ponds: Low-tech sewage treatment for towns and cities
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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.
More links:
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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Portland police officers guard Fred Meyer dumpsters, face off with residents seeking discarded food after power outage
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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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