Liquid battery could charge green energy

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Recovery Funds Remove and Secure Nuclear Waste

Workers completed the last phase of nuclear waste cleanup at the Nuclear Radiation Development site near Grand Island, New York, and at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.

Last summer a total of four truckloads – three from Nuclear Radiation Development, one from Berkeley –of soil, sludge, tools, rags, and protective clothing contaminated with radioactive elements was driven to a Department of Energy (DOE) disposal site outside Carlsbad, New Mexico. Encased in steel drums, the waste was then placed in storage facilities  more than 2,000 feet below ground. Costs were covered by $172 million in Recovery funding.

Savannah River Site employee
carrying time capsule to place
inside P Reactor before sealing.

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Plastic Free Campuses Campaign Launches at UC–Santa Barbara

Most plastics, which are made from a currently diminishing supply of petrochemicals, are not designed to be recycled and are not biodegradable. Instead, they break down into very fine particles, called polymers, when exposed to ultraviolet radiation and those particles can attract toxic chemicals.

These particles are piling up in the oceans, in the form of giant garbage islands, and are building up in the digestive systems of animals and humans through bioaccumulation. And that’s a troubling fact that a coalition of students at the University of California–Santa Barbara can’t ignore, so they’re setting out to reduce plastic consumption on their campus altogether.

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