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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. 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.

  4. Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act - Wikipedia

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    The Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act (1978) is a United States environmental law that amended the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and authorized the Environmental Protection Agency to establish health and environmental standards for the stabilization, restoration, and disposal of uranium mill waste.

  5. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository - Wikipedia

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    This leaves the United States government (which disposes of its transuranic waste from nuclear weapons production 2,150 feet (660 m) below the surface at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico) [7] and American nuclear power plants without any designated long-term storage for their high-level radioactive waste (spent fuel) stored on-site ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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 ...

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

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    A federal court blocked a company’s license to store nuclear waste in southeast New Mexico after the project faced stern opposition from environmental and industry groups in the years since it ...

  9. Low-level waste - Wikipedia

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    In 10 C.F.R. § 20.2002, the NRC reserves the right to grant a free release of radioactive waste. The overall activity of such a disposal cannot exceed 1 mrem/yr and the NRC regards requests on a case-by-case basis. Low-level waste passing such strict regulations is then disposed of in a landfill with other garbage.