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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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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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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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A plastic bag’s 2,000-mile journey shows the messy truth about recycling
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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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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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Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem
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Big Oil’s solution for plastic waste littered with failure
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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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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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How the Kingston coal ash spill unearthed a nuclear nightmare
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How the waters off Los Angeles became a DDT dumping ground
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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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Hundreds of workers fell ill after cleaning up America’s largest industrial disaster without proper gear. At least fifty have died. Twelve years later, they’re still waiting for help
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Vermont first state to implement a statewide ban on food waste
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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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Returning beachgoers left 13,000 pounds of trash on Florida's Cocoa Beach, prompting crackdown
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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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Advocates raise questions about proposal to allow some nuclear waste to be disposed in landfills
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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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The mattress landfill crisis: How the race to bring us better beds led to a recycling nightmare
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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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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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Plastics or people? At least one of them has to change to clean up our mess
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Solar-powered barge gobbles up trash in Finland's waterways
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It looks like a lake made for Instagram. It’s a dump for chemical waste
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The world's first automatic textile recycling facility will be built in Malmö
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