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Brinton was raised in Perry, Iowa, and is the child of two Southern Baptist missionaries. Brinton came out as bisexual to their parents in the early 2000s. [8] According to Brinton, their parents disapproved of Brinton's attraction to a male friend from school and sent the then-middle school student for conversion therapy, an experience Brinton later described as "barbaric" and "painful" in a ...
Dan Parks also worked at the Santa Susana Field Lab, as a health physicist in the 1960s, where he witnessed the burning of radioactive waste in burn pits, and frequently saw workers illegally vent radiation into the atmosphere. In 2015 they spoke out about the incident in an investigative report by NBC News. [1] [2] Dan Parks Karen Silkwood: 1974
The Human Interference Task Force was a team of engineers, anthropologists, nuclear physicists, behavioral scientists and others convened on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy and Bechtel Corp. to find a way to reduce the likelihood of future humans unintentionally intruding on radioactive waste isolation systems.
Transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste is sent from across the country to the WIPP site for disposal in a 2,000-foot-deep underground salt deposit, mostly made up of clothing, equipment and other ...
The NRC has issued licenses like the one at issue in this case for the temporary storage of spent fuel produced by nuclear reactors since 1980 in recognition that the nuclear-power industry would ...
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant disposes of transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste in an underground salt deposit about 30 miles east of Carlsbad, shipped in from Department of Energy sites around the ...
Proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Long-term nuclear waste warning messages are communication attempts intended to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future, within or above the order of magnitude of 10,000 years. Nuclear semiotics is an ...
The Hanford Site is the most polluted area in the US, though cleanup started decades ago.. Estimates say it will take decades more and up to $640 billion to finish the job. The site just received ...