Topic > Waste management and disposal - 624

The management and disposal of hazardous materials has been a serious recurring problem throughout the world for some time now. These problems have gotten worse since we discovered how to improve the quality of radioactive materials. These materials now have the power to make cities uninhabitable for humans with just a simple mechanical error. Waste management and disposal must be a priority for all countries in the world so that we can prevent the occurrence of any major event that causes loss of life and so we can have a healthy growing environment for future generations to come . Measures have already been adopted by some countries to manage and study these dangerous materials, these studies have in fact provided us with new, important data that will help us find a new way to properly dispose of this waste. In my main article "Study of actinide elements provides new insight into safe nuclear waste containment", we follow Dr. Neil Jarvis and his team of scientists to Namaqualand, South Africa, where nuclear waste disposal is being studied on a site called Vaalputs. In Va...