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Diagram of an underground low-level radioactive waste disposal site On Feb. 14, 2014, radioactive materials at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant leaked from a damaged storage drum due to the use of incorrect packing material. Analysis showed the lack of a "safety culture" at the plant since its successful operation for 15 years had bred complacency.
In 1982 the Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Management Executive (NIREX) was established with responsibility for disposing of long-lived nuclear waste [77] and in 2006 a Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs recommended geologic disposal 200–1,000 metres (660–3,280 ft ...
High-level waste is the highly radioactive waste material resulting from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, including liquid waste produced directly in reprocessing and any solid material derived from such liquid waste that contains fission products in sufficient concentrations; and other highly radioactive material that is determined, consistent with existing law, to require permanent ...
Radioactive waste § Management; Toxic waste dumping by the 'Ndrangheta This page was last edited on 21 September 2023, at 23:42 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Workers at the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository have started using a newly mined disposal area at the underground facility in southern New Mexico. Officials at the Waste ...
In total, about 34 metric tons of surplus plutonium was planned to diluted and disposed of at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad. Plutonium disposal plan at nuclear waste repository ...
The NRC has entered into agreements with 37 states, called Agreement States, to allow these states to regulate the management, storage and disposal of certain nuclear waste. Section 274 of the amended Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (P.L. 83-703 Sec. 3113) provides a legislative basis under which the NRC gives up portions of its regulatory authority ...
A rebuild of the ventilation system at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant was delayed by three years and increased in cost by $200 million. Nuclear waste managers explain cost increases as disposal ...