News tagged with hanford nuclear reservation
Gov't considers 7 states for mercury site
(AP) -- The federal government is trying to find a location to store the nation's excess mercury deposits, with seven states being considered. But the government is quickly finding out that very few people ...
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Studying slimy substances for a cleaner environment
Extracellular polymeric substances, or EPS, are the slimy material that bacteria excrete and surround themselves with as they form biofilms. EPS are mostly water (up to 95%), but the remaining ingredients ...
Mar 20, 2012 |
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Glass from the past informs decisions for the future
A new investment at the Department of Energy’s EMSL is now being used in an international effort to study 1,800-year-old pieces of glass from a Roman shipwreck and ruin. The primary goal of the research ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 16, 2012 |
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New research on Japanese quake ominous for Pacific Northwest
Scientists are still unraveling last year's giant Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and some of what they're finding doesn't bode well for the Pacific Northwest.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 21, 2012 |
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Northwest power surplus may halt wind energy
(AP) -- The manager of most of the electricity in the Pacific Northwest is running such a surplus of power from hydroelectric dams that it put wind farms on notice Friday that they may be shut down as early ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 14, 2011 |
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Tackling the erosion of a special river island
Locke Island is a small island in a bend of the Columbia River in eastern Washington that plays a special role in the culture of the local Indian tribes. Since the 1970s, however, it has been eroding away ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Researchers develop alternate method to dispose nuclear liquid waste
An alternate method of processing certain liquid wastes into a solid form for safe disposal has been developed by researchers at Penn State University and the Savannah River National Laboratory. The solidified form has been ...
Feb 22, 2006 |
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Hanford clean up to take longer, cost more
A secret government study says soaring costs are among the latest problems plaguing clean up of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, north of Richland, Wash.
Dec 01, 2005 |
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