...material from 121 temporary sites, including SRS, where high-level defense wastes vitrified in glass and sealed in metal canisters are in storage with no clear path to final disposition."The commission is visiting multiple defense sites, but...
...site's Saltstone facility. Sludge is the most radioactive of the waste. It is turned into glass form and encased in metal canisters in a process called vitrification. It is being stored temporarily at the defense waste facility until a permanent...
...12 years. The top half of the Genesis capsule will open on a hinge, like a giant clamshell. Inside is a sealed metal canister that contains the solar-particle collectors, which are made of ultra-pure silicon wafers. Once the canister...
...impact is more ominous. The funds earmarked for cuts are those used for the site's environmental cleanup. We have metal canisters containing millions of gallons of some of the most deadly substances devised by man. Many of the tanks were built...
...plutonium is extracted for use in its breeder reactor program. The remaining waste is sealed with melted glass into metal canisters, then shipped back for storage. Nuclear officials say the shipments are safe, but activists argue that Rokkasho...
...plutonium is extracted for use in its breeder reactor program. The remaining waste is sealed with melted glass into metal canisters, then shipped back for storage in Rokkasho. Nuclear officials say the shipments are safe. But activists argue Rokkasho...
...amateur mixologist might want to try a shaker that is similar to the one the pros use, the Boston shaker. It has a metal canister and a glass tumbler that fit together. The big difference is the lack of a built-in strainer. Hold the cobbler...
...illustrate the sensitive nature of the nuclear mission at SRS. "Security has no quitting time," states one. Miniature metal canisters, which look like their larger counterparts used to store nuclear waste, are still very much part of a story that...
...early step in closing radioactive waste tanks at SRS. The extracted solution is bonded with glass and encased in metal canisters at the waste processing facility. The canisters are being buried temporarily at SRS, but are intended for permanent...
...Islands next month. Their remains were among those of 24 people, packed in lipstick-sized capsules and loaded into a metal canister by the newly formed Houston-based Celestis Inc. The others include space physicist Gerard O'Neill, rocket scientist...
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