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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.

8. Aging infrastructure could pose risks at Waste Isolation ...

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   The salt “creep” is what gradually buries the waste disposed of at WIPP, placed in the facility after being trucked from nuclear facilities around the U.S. and emplaced in the 2,000-foot-deep ...

9. West Valley Demonstration Project - Wikipedia

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   The West Valley Demonstration Project is a nuclear waste remediation site in West Valley, New York in the U.S. state of New York.The project focuses on the cleanup and containment of radioactive waste left behind after the abandonment of a commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in 1980. [1]