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Much of the expenditure will have to go for pollution-control equipment, which can add anywhere from 15% to 40% to the construction and operating costs of a coal-fired plant. Yet no matter how much money is spent, a study by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare warns...
Why couldn't the Navy leave the rocks in Antarctica? Because the twelve-nation 1959 treaty on Antarctica bans disposal of any radioactive material there.
¶ President Carter appointed an inter-agency task force to recommend a national policy for the disposal of nuclear wastes, a prerequisite for large-scale nuclear development. The transportation and storage of spent fuel and other dangerous wastes have been so obstructed by technical and bureaucratic delays that only one...
Almost immediately the first sign of trouble appeared. When the fine, nearly microscopic carbon fibers escape into the air-either during their manufacture or when the composite material is purposely or accidentally incinerated-they can settle on electrical equipment with disastrous results: carbon fibers are good conductors of electricity and...
As the chain saws snarled and the great logs were carted off to Virginia for disposal, passers-by on Pennsylvania Avenue paused to watch and wonder. Trees have been an integral part of American commerce, folklore and culture. Especially elm trees. William Penn signed his treaty with the Indians in...