America’s Forgotten Nuclear Waste Dump in the Pacific

Chapter 11: Mine Waste Dump

The Overburden of waste and uneconomic mineralized rock is required to be removed to mine the useful mineral resource in a surface mining operation. In this process a dump is formed by casting the waste material and dumping it in nearby area. The dump so formed is known as mine waste dump. Waste dump may be classified as internal and external dump. External dump is created outside the pit where...

Evaluation of the heat transfer rate increases in retention pools nuclear waste

In this paper, we have tried to find a solution for quick transfer of nuclear wastes from pools of cool water to dry stores to reduce the environmental concerns and financial cost of burying atomic waste. Therefore, the rate of heat transfer from atomic waste materials to the outer surface of the container should be increased. This can be achieved by covering the bottom of the pool space with c...

THE NOx SYSTEM in NUCLEAR WASTE

Geochemical Controls on Waste-rock Dump Seepage Chemistry at Several Porphyry Mines in the Canadian Cordilleran

In 2003, Red Chris Development Company started collecting baseline data to support its application for environmental approvals to mine the Red Chris porphyry copper-gold deposit located in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. An extensive geochemical testing program revealed that the majority of the waste rock has the potential to generate acid. However, the presence of significant quantities...

Developments in Nuclear Waste Disposal