Radioactive waste

• Read the amicus letter of Friends of the Earth, California Communities Against Toxics, the Nuclear Information and Resource Service.
• Parents Against Santa Susana Field Laboratory whose children have experienced rare forms of pediatric cancer filed another amicus letter supporting the petition.
• To this day, its toxic and radioactive contamination threatens more than 700,000 people living within ten miles of the site.
• If the lower court decision stands, the state will have enabled Boeing to put radiologically contaminated debris anywhere they like.

• However, this process is severely hindered in acidic wastewater where excess protons (H+) impair the adsorption ability and damage the lattice structure of the adsorbent.
• A team of researchers led by Prof. Kuk Cho from Pusan National University, Korea, found a way to turn this adversity into an advantage.
• It utilizes the typically problematic H+ ions in acidic wastewater to enhance the cesium ion (Cs+) adsorption process.
• These results establish KCaSnS as a promising candidate for the removal of radioactive ions from NPP wastewater.

• Plastic bags, they point out, can take hundreds of years to decompose, while radioactive waste can remain dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years.
• As an environmental philosopher, I spend a lot of time thinking about facts such as these.
• To be sure, like all things, planet Earth will eventually meet its end, engulfed, perhaps, by the expanding sun.
• Almost no matter what we do, life will persist on Mother Earth – she is one tough lady.
• So we don’t need to engage in environmental action for the sake of anything as grand as planet Earth or Mother Nature.
• The anthropocentrists seem to assume that people can only ever take environmental action either for the sake of some gigantic entity such as planet Earth, or for the sake of human beings.

For the sake of the animals

• The anthropocentrists quoted above would, I expect, acknowledge that that huge area of highly biodiverse tropical forest should continue to be protected.
• But they would add that it needn’t be protected for the sake of the planet.
• Even if the forest is levelled and transformed into coffee plantations, the planet will be just fine.
• These animals are not just parts of planet Earth, Mother Nature or whatever.

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  Oberhaching / Ascheberg, 18 April 2023 - Daldrup & Söhne AG (ISIN DE0007830572), drilling technology and geothermal specialist, has received an order from the Bundesge-sellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE) for the construction of a shaft pilot borehole for the Asse, the Remlingen R 18 exploratory borehole.
• It is a complex high-tech drilling contract that serves to obtain data on the basis of drill cores.
• For the next few years, Daldrup & Söhne AG expects an increasing order volume for these challenging drilling projects in Germany and other EU countries.
• A new, attractive market segment is opening up for Daldrup & Söhne AG.