Nuclear facilities have long been seen as the top of the list of locally unwanted land uses (LULUs), with nuclear waste repositories generating the greatest opposition. Focusing on the case of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in southern New Mexico, we test competing hypotheses concerning the sources of opposition and support for siting the facility, including demographics, proximity, pol...

2 9 The individual waste management quantities reported are mutually exclusive to avoid double-counting. For example, an incinerator may destroy 99% of the chemical in the waste; in this case, the amount reported as treated on-site would be the amount destroyed by the incinerator, not the amount that entered the incinerator. The amount not destroyed in incineration (1%) would be reported as rel...

The company’s proprietary electro-thermal-deactivation process destroys human pathogens without producing harmful airborne emissions and permits resource recovery. Stericycle operates on a multiregional basis, providing medical-waste collection, transportation, treatment, disposal, reduction, and resource recovery. FROM: Washington State Department of Health. Press Release: Probable transmissio...

The Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) is the largest national research centre in Switzerland. Its multidisciplinary research is dedicated to a wide field in natural science and technology as well as particle physics. In this context, PSI is operating, amongst others, a large proton accelerator facility since more than 30 years. In two cyclotrons, protons are accelerated to high speeds and then guide...

This paper investigates the power saving mechanism of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). UMTS discontinuous reception (DRX) is exercised between the network and a mobile station (MS) to save the power of the MS. The DRX mechanism is controlled by two parameters: the inactivity timer threshold tI and the DRX cycle tD . Analytic analysis and simulation model are proposed to study ...

on waste can alter the optimum transition path. In the optima with recycle, the lower waste penalty from reduced buildup of 239Pu more than compensates for the separations and fuel fabrication facility costs. Figure 3 shows this buildup for each of the runs. However, with a high repository discount (run 3) recycle technology is unable to compete with cheap direct disposal. The optimum in run 4 ...

Dr. Ghosh has presented a novel technique for the con­ version of Municipal Waste (MSW) to methane rich gas. Prior work has either permitted fermentation to proceed naturally (landfill gas extraction) or used conventional stirred reactors (DOE Ref COM facility). Proposed is to recycle leachate through a mass of solid waste to achieve volatile acids and then to convert the acids to methane in a ...

Industrial pollution prevention has been incorporated into several aspects of the chemical engineering curriculum at The University of Tennessee. One is an industrial internship program. This technology selection example focuses on a case from a pilot internship project sponsored by a pesticide manufacturer. This project involved synthesis and evaluation of waste management strategies for reduc...

Disposing of sewage sludge in an economical and environmentally acceptable manner is a problem for all communities that have wastewater treatment plants , Similarly , many com­ munities are having to dispose of increasing quantities of solid waste. These problems could be solved by co-disposal of sludge and solid waste in a common facility. This study , .‘nvnH .. --­ au­ &LLnAE -' .‘maL­nH .. o...

The Department of Energy’s Pantex Plant is where the nation’s nuclear weapons are being dismantled. The facility generated low-level radioactive waste contaminated with tritium. The waste consists of scintillation liquid, scintillation vials (glass and plastic) and support material (dry activated waste). The waste was generated as a result of plant processing and area surveys. Mason and Hanger ...