Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most readily reusable weapons ingredient is tritium, a radioactive gas used in some warheads to increase the power of the nuclear reaction. Tritium decays rapidly, so existing bombs must be periodically replenished. This tritium windfall may even keep the Department of Energy from reactivating the accident-prone Savannah River plant near Aiken, S.C., where the gas is manufactured...
...tens of thousands of tons of hot waste left over from 46 years of weapons production -- everything from gloves to ball bearings. This material will , remain radioactive for millenniums. The U.S. has only one facility designed to store this production waste, but the opening of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, 655 m (2,150 ft.) underground in massive salt domes near Carlsbad, N. Mex., has been stymied by political wrangling and safety concerns. Last week the Department of Energy attempted to sidestep congressional deliberations on the matter and ship the first load of waste to the plant. It was halted...
...only is wetland restoration expensive, but the vitality of restored wetlands also frequently proves disappointing. Initially, a new wetland created in south San Diego Bay seemed to do well -- until it became infested with tiny plant-sucking insects. Then scientists learned, to their dismay, that grasses in the artificial marsh did not grow high enough to provide the beetle predators of these pests with waterproof living quarters. Today, five years after its construction, this underachieving wetland continues to struggle along. Its grasses are stunted, its food web impoverished. Biologist Joy Zedler, director of San Diego State University's Pacific Estuarine...
...plant in his state took the lesson to heart, increasing profits 100 percent over the last year solely by conserving energy, he said...
...began wondering what it all could possibly mean. I was musing aloud about some breakdown at a nuclear power plant -- that would explain Baklanov's presence. But it turned out much worse than that...