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...nuclear plants, to find out how many have been moving fuel in violation of NRC standards. The results will be in by April, along with a menu of fuel-pool safety recommendations. (By using a technique called dry-cask storage, utilities could empty their pools and warehouse rods in airtight concrete containers, reducing risk. In the past, the NRC has ruled that the process isn't cost effective...
...Pacific area and Russia that are working together to advocate safe disposal of these hideous weapons. The Army has the capability today to eliminate the risk of continued storage of its aging, leaky M-55 rockets by draining the nerve agent from them and storing it in safe, airtight bulk containers. Unfortunately, the Army has been more interested in pushing forward its incineration program than in protecting the safety of our communities. I live near Richmond, Kentucky, the site of one of the Army's nine chemical-weapons stockpiles, and am therefore very concerned about their safe, prompt disposal. MELISSA...
...trees and their stalactites of dried resin fell, some of them ending up buried in soft sediments at the bottom of still and shallow bodies of water. There, over millions of years, the molecules of resin gradually amalgamated into long, durable chains, creating a material remarkably like plastic: airtight, watertight, chemically inert...
When the hour of execution finally arrives, the killers will be transported from their bunkers in airtight, fire-resistant containers. At the death house, they will be loaded onto conveyor belts, stripped by remote-controlled machines, then plunged down a chute into a 2700-degree F inferno. Anything that comes into contact with these untouchables during their final transport--wraps, pallets, gloves--will be incinerated as well. Thus America will bid an unsentimental farewell to 30,600 tons of chemical weapons...
...parties two choices: 1) They all three give one another ironclad commitments to a full and permanent cease-fire, a very wide zone of separation between combatants and a build-down of forces, with every detail of every map and timetable firmly and finally agreed on--an agreement so airtight (here's the rub) that it is self-enforcing, without need for outside "implementers"; or 2) we declare the parties insufficiently committed to peace, walk away and wash our hands...