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2. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - Wikipedia

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   The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, in New Mexico, US, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht Asse II salt mine) licensed to store transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 years. The storage rooms at the WIPP are 2,150 feet (660 m) underground in a salt ...

3. New Mexico settles with federal government on LANL ... - AOL

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   The New Mexico Environment Department and the U.S. Department of Energy entered a settlement agreement on Aug. 30 outlining cleanup terms for radioactive waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

4. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository - Wikipedia

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   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] In 1982, Congress established a national policy to solve the problem of nuclear waste disposal.

5. Court blocks proposed Holtec International nuclear waste site ...

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   More: Holtec's New Mexico nuclear waste proposal questioned during federal court hearing. Similar opposition was voiced by Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott, and state lawmakers in both states recently ...

6. Low-level radioactive waste policy of the United States

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   To relieve this problem and at the same time to accelerate action, Congress passed the Low Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-240). The Low Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act (LLRWPAA) extended the operation of the three existing disposal sites to December 31, 1992.

7. Their town was polluted with radioactive waste. Now, they may ...

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   Time and again, a mining company promised to clean up uranium waste in New Mexico. Now it wants to buy out residents and avoid full cleanup.

8. Nuclear Waste Policy Act - Wikipedia

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   The Nuclear Waste Policy Act did not require anything approaching this standard for permanent deep-geologic disposal of high-level radioactive waste in the United States. U.S. Department of Energy guidelines for selecting locations for permanent deep-geologic high-level radioactive waste repositories required containment of waste within waste ...

9. Idaho resumes radioactive waste shipments to New Mexico ... - AOL

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   The New Mexico agency suspended the shipments Sept. 14 following problems with three shipments. Idaho resumes radioactive waste shipments to New Mexico after ‘embarrassing’ incidents Skip to ...