Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem
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Big Oil’s solution for plastic waste littered with failure
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No, you can’t recycle a bowling ball (but people sure keep trying)
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Amazon destroys millions of items of brand new, unsold stock each year
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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.
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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How the Kingston coal ash spill unearthed a nuclear nightmare
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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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The hiding place: Inside the world's first long-term storage facilty for highly radioactive nuclear waste
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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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Amager Bakke, the incinerator and the ski slope tackling waste
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Where to report birds tangled in plastic rubbish
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New infrared-based technology promises to give textiles recycling a giant leap forward by replacing manual sorting with an automated method in Finland
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IKEA has committed to becoming a circular business by 2030 – by eliminating waste and reusing resources
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Cigarette butts are toxic plastic pollution. Should they be banned?
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Nuclear power offers an abundant supply of low-carbon energy. But what to do with the deadly radioactive waste?
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Crystal Geyser mistakenly emails Chronicle: Randle Bottling project likely ‘dead’
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The world's first automatic textile recycling facility will be built in Malmö
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Asian countries take a stand against the rich world’s plastic waste
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The toxic effects of electronic waste in Accra, Ghana
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Malaysia returning unwanted Canadian plastic
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Grocery stores are packed with plastic. Some are changing
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Inside the long war to protect plastic: Single-use plastic is clogging oceans and landfills. The industry that makes it has waged a decades-long campaign to keep it on the market.
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Meal kits have smaller carbon footprint than grocery shopping, study says
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Economics of recycling
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The rise of ‘zero-waste’ grocery stores
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The zero-waste revolution: How a new wave of shops could end excess packaging
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On poisoning children
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Are plastic bag bans garbage?
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How US recycling is changing now that China won’t take it
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Kipple field notes
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Five Melbourne councils forced to dump recycling in landfill as Victoria crisis deepens
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