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  2. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository - Wikipedia

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    An infographic about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. Spent nuclear fuel is the radioactive by-product of electricity generation at commercial nuclear power plants, and high-level radioactive waste is the by-product of reprocessing spent fuel to produce fissile material for nuclear weapons. [19]

  3. High-level radioactive waste management - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Clive Disposal Site - Wikipedia

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    The Clive Disposal Site is the site of a radioactive waste storage facility [1] currently operated by EnergySolutions in Clive, Utah, an unincorporated community of Tooele County. [2] It is located in the western portion of the state, close to the Dugway Proving Grounds .

  5. Workers start emptying radioactive waste from massive, leak ...

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    The underground radioactive waste storage tanks and the vitrification plant are in the center of the site. Tank AX-101, which is not suspected of having leaked, was built in the mid-1960s using ...

  6. WA, feds upend plan to clean up one of nation’s most costly ...

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    Highlights include starting treatment of the Hanford site tank waste for disposal on the current schedule of 2025 for the least-radioactive waste and 2033 for the high-level radioactive waste ...

  7. Radioactive waste - Wikipedia

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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.

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