He complains to his superiors, but is shot, dumped into a toxic waste canister, and thrown out to sea.
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An ever-growing chain reaction of explosions obliterates Area Two and spreads to the waste canisters strewn over the lunar surface.
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Organizers said they had wanted to bring real nuclear waste canisters to the rally, but were denied a permit to do so by the Capitol Police.
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The money for nuclear waste canisters would have benefited several companies seeking federal licenses to haul fuel rods from nuclear reactors and Department of Energy nuclear waste.
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The latest design, compared to one tentatively recommended in a 1998 interim report, also now includes expensive titanium " drip shields " over the waste canisters to keep away water deposits.
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The waste canisters would be encased in protective casks and brought to the site by either rail ( the DOE's preferred method ) or truck, which might mean thousands of truckloads.
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But because of concern over heat accumulation from the waste, the department now is considering a variety of measures _ including putting waste canisters farther apart _ to keep the repository above the boiling point.
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In tests carried out by Nevada on the alloy that the Energy Department plans to use for waste canisters, he said, some combinations of water and heat corroded the metal in less than a year.
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Yucca Mountain was chosen as a potential site because there's not much water anywhere near it, and in particular because the ground water level is hundreds of meters below where the waste canisters would be placed.
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Much of the recent discovery of deep microbes has been done by governments exploring the practicality of storing nuclear wastes underground and trying to understand what effects microbes could have on metallic waste canisters and their contents.
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