The bags, which contained waste such as plastic, wood and metal, should have been sent to the Low Level Waste Repository, at Drigg.
Chemical reprocessing at Hanford would generate 22, 000 tonnes of high-level waste and 500, 000 tonnes of low-level waste.
The high-level waste would then be enclosed in glass canisters and buried deep underground while the low-level waste was stored above ground in special secure facilities.
This would typically be a manufacturer, distributor, licensed radioactive waste broker, or a licensed low-level radioactive waste disposal facility.
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Thousands of barrels of low level radioactive waste were dumped in the trench in the 1950s and 1960s.
That means that low-temperature waste heat can be used to produce high-quality chemical energy hydrogen for the first time.
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For their part, Taipower and its regulator, the Atomic Energy Council, no longer claim, as they once did, that the Lanyu dump contains only very low-level waste such as used gloves.
Tokyo Electric is now grappling with where to put the stuff, even dumping thousands of tons of less-radioactive water into the Pacific to make room for it in a reservoir for low-level waste.
These materials include low-grade waste from power stations and small devices containing radioactive materials such as cesium-137, used in some cancer treatments, cobalt-60, used in food irradiation, or americum, incorporated in sensors for oil exploration.
Rare earth minerals are often mixed with radioactive elements, and processing creates low-level radioactive waste.
Sellafield nuclear firm has pleaded guilty to sending bags of low-level radioactive waste to a landfill site.
It has an advantage over competition in that the company operates a mile-square low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) facility in Clive, Utah.
Neighbouring South Korea expressed concern that it was not warned about TEPCO's decision to dump low-level radioactive waste into the sea to make room to store more toxic stuff on land.
Produces renewable energy from low-temperature heat waste.
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Many entrepreneurs waste too much time on low-priority administrative tasks, procrastinating on higher priority but tougher tasks, resulting in last minute crises, and failure to complete the critical work that people are really expecting of them.
The company manufactures low-carbon fuels made from the industrial waste of steel mills, oil refineries and chemical manufacturers.
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Critics contend that keeping interest rates artificially low to encourage borrowing merely encourages companies to waste money and avoid improving their efficiency and competitiveness.
The remaining 52 units would become low-temperature heat, usually disposed of as waste into adjacent rivers or the air.
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Apart from petty corruption and slovenly officials, the main gripes have been low pay, rising income inequality, inefficiency, waste and asphyxiating bureaucracy.
"The idea is to be very low cost, very safe and generate very little waste, " said Mr Gates during a talk at China's Ministry of Science and Technology during which he confirmed the tie-up with Terrapower.
They waste a lot of money on defensive, low return projects instead of really making the full payout to shareholders.
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By contrast U.S. exports to China consist largely of agricultural commodities, minerals, and even more humiliatingly waste paper and scrap metal and as befits such low-valued Second Worldish goods travel by sea.
Tesco says the "Buy One, Get One Free Later" is part of a wider goal to turn it into a zero carbon business by 2050 and increase low carbon choices for customers, reducing the amount of household waste.
Slow-growth shrubs are definitely low-maintenance plants, requiring less pruning and creating less yard waste.
Meat is a dead matter, low in minerals, and produces uric acid in excess which is a waste product.
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If firms are passing up easy opportunities to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by re-using waste, then governments have set the price of emissions too low.
Katerva, a new nonprofit set up to recognize and support stand-out sustainability efforts around the world, has just announced the winner of an award competition it hopes will be like a Nobel prize in the broad and somewhat amorphous field of sustainability: Sanergy, a company that builds low-cost toilets in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya and converts the waste into fuel and fertilizer.
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Jon, Bridget, and their teammates designed a low-cost, easy-to-ship mini-press that can turn biomass waste products, such as banana peels, into a viable wood-alternative for cooking.
The carbon dioxide is then separated with a proprietary method that uses low-temperature heat something readily available for free, since it is a waste product of many power plants.
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