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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 ...
Because of the elements' longer half-lives, TRU is disposed of more cautiously than low level waste and intermediate level waste. In the U.S. it is a byproduct of weapons production, nuclear research and power production, and consists of protective gear, tools, residue, debris and other items contaminated with small amounts of radioactive ...
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 ...
TRU nuclear waste in need of disposal could increase at Los Alamos as it was planned to generate 30 pits a year, combined with 50 a year by 2030 at the DOE’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
In 2017, the year WIPP reopened in April of that year, there were just 133 shipments of nuclear waste sent to the site. The highest annual total ever was 1,142 shipments reported in 2006, records ...
The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board was established in the 1987 Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act (NWPAA) (P.L. 100–203) to "...evaluate the technical and scientific validity of activities [related to managing and disposing of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste] undertaken by the Secretary [of Energy], including
The activities cover also studies of structural integrity and functioning of nuclear components, emergency preparedness and radioactivity environmental monitoring, nuclear waste management and decommissioning, as well as the study of non-energy technological and medical applications of radionuclides. A dedicated functional entity is devoted to ...
In 2010, Robert Alvarez, a former Energy Department official, ... Though Hanford stopped producing plutonium decades ago, the surrounding areas continued to feel the effects of the nuclear waste.