Word: disposall
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Wylie, who teaches the popular Soc Sci 160, "Nonverbal Communication," said "we communicate with everything at our disposal," including sounds other than voice, gestures and the rhythm of our speech.
Members of the committee questioned Koehlor closely about procedures to be used in case of accidents and about the waste disposal system, which filters all waste draining out of the lab.
Back in the benign 1950s, Americans looked on the atom as a friend, a cheerful Reddy Kilowatt that would provide cheap, abundant electricity to run their factories, power their TV sets and even chill the beer they drank while watching them. Today much of this enthusiasm has not only evaporated...
WASTE DISPOSAL. Nuclear plants store most of their wastes, which average about 30 tons of spent fuel rods, in water-filled "swimming pools" on the plant premises. But many of these pools, intended to provide only temporary storage, are almost filled, and the wastes are piling up.
However, of those scientists who have studied the matter and expressed an opinion, the overwhelming majority believe the waste-disposal problem can be satisfactorily resolved. The reprocessing of spent nuclear fuels, which the U.S. Government has refused to allow in its ineffective effort to prevent proliferation of weapons, would convert...