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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. Nuclear Waste Policy Act - Wikipedia

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    The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 is a United States federal law which established a comprehensive national program for the safe, permanent disposal of highly radioactive wastes. The US Congress amended the act in 1987 to designate Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as the sole repository.

  4. Nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain could roil ... - AOL

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    Opposition to storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain has united Nevadans across political lines — until now. A Senate candidate has spoken favorably about the idea.

  5. Yucca Mountain - Wikipedia

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    It is the site of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, which is currently identified by Congressional law as the nation's spent nuclear waste storage facility. However, while licensure of the site through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is ongoing, political maneuvering led to the site being de-funded in 2010.

  6. Deep geological repository - Wikipedia

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    Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository and the locations across the U.S. where nuclear waste is stored. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in the United States went into service in 1999 by putting the first cubic metres of transuranic radioactive waste [39] in a deep layer of salt near Carlsbad, New Mexico.

  7. High-level radioactive waste management - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. opted for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, a final repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, but this project was widely opposed, with some of the main concerns being long-distance transportation of waste from across the United States to this site, the possibility of accidents, and the uncertainty of success in isolating nuclear ...

  8. New Mexico signs final order to renew permit at US nuclear ...

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    New Mexico environmental regulators on Thursday finalized a 10-year permit extension at the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository that they say will increase oversight and safeguards ...

  9. Long-term nuclear waste warning messages - Wikipedia

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    Conceptual designs for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant included an "Information Center" at the geometric center of the site. [4] The building would be an open structure of solid granite or concrete, measuring 40 by 32 by 10 feet (12.2 m × 9.8 m × 3.0 m), and contain Level IV messages.