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Presentation of ANDRA research at Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research Laboratory, in Bure. The Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs (French pronunciation: [aʒɑ̃s nɑsjɔnal puʁ la ʒɛstjɔ̃ de deʃɛ ʁadjoaktif]; ANDRA), or National agency for the management of radioactive waste is a 'public institution of an industrial and commercial nature' charged with the ...
The La Hague site is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at La Hague on the Cotentin Peninsula in northern France, with the Manche storage centre bordering on it. Operated by Orano , formerly AREVA , and prior to that COGEMA ( Compagnie générale des matières atomiques ), La Hague has nearly half of the world's light water reactor spent nuclear ...
The incinerator has a rated capacity of 5000 tons of waste / year. An explosion on September 12, 2011, caused the death of an employee, and injured four others. This happened in a furnace at the site of reprocessing nuclear waste at Marcoule. It was an "industrial accident" and not "nuclear accident".
The activities of nuclear facilities generate fission products with very high levels of radioactivity and lifetimes in the tens of millennia. [5] Additionally, there are actinides that are less radioactive but have lifetimes in the millions of years, such as neptunium-237, which has a half-life of 2.1 million years, [6] fission products with lower activity such as iodine-129 (half-life of 16 ...
Radioactive waste container located in the North-East Atlantic dumping zone (NEA zone). From 1946 through 1993, thirteen countries used ocean disposal or ocean dumping as a method to dispose of nuclear/radioactive waste with an approximation of 200,000 tons sourcing mainly from the medical, research and nuclear industry.
“Fusion, on the other hand, does not create any long-lived radioactive nuclear waste.” The waste byproduct of a fusion reaction is far less radioactive than in fission, and decays far more ...
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established a timetable and procedure for constructing a permanent, underground repository for high-level radioactive waste by the mid-1990s, and provided for some temporary storage of waste, including spent fuel from 104 civilian nuclear reactors that produce about 19.4% of electricity there. [39]
No single question bedevils American energy and environmental policy more than nuclear waste. First, nuclear power plants in the United States generate about 2,000 metric tons of nuclear waste (or ...