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  2. High-level radioactive waste management - Wikipedia

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    The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established a timetable and procedure for constructing a permanent, underground repository for high-level radioactive waste by the mid-1990s, and provided for some temporary storage of waste, including spent fuel from 104 civilian nuclear reactors that produce about 19.4% of electricity there. [38]

  3. Deep geological repository - Wikipedia

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    Highly toxic waste that cannot be further recycled must be stored in isolation, to avoid contamination of air, ground and underground water. Deep geological repository is a type of long-term storage that isolates waste in geological structures that are expected to be stable for millions of years, with a number of natural and engineered barriers.

  4. 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]

  5. EDITORIAL: A permanent storage site for nuclear waste ... - AOL

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    Yet these communities are storing tons of nuclear waste because the federal government has failed to ... EDITORIAL: A permanent storage site for nuclear waste is long overdue, for Wiscasset and ...

  6. Radioactive waste - Wikipedia

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    The Nuclear Assisted Hydrocarbon Production Method, [116] Canadian patent application 2,659,302, is a method for the temporary or permanent storage of nuclear waste materials comprising the placing of waste materials into one or more repositories or boreholes constructed into an unconventional oil formation. The thermal flux of the waste ...

  7. Nuclear Waste Policy Act - Wikipedia

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    The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 created a timetable and procedure for establishing a permanent, underground repository for high-level radioactive waste by the mid-1990s, and provided for some temporary federal storage of waste, including spent fuel from civilian nuclear reactors. [3]

  8. Texas nuclear waste storage permit invalidated by US ... - AOL

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    A U.S. appeals court on Friday canceled a license granted by a federal agency to a company to build a temporary nuclear waste storage facility in western Texas, which the Republican-led state has ...

  9. Cold War nuclear waste is prioritized at Carlsbad-area ...

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    Concerns were raised by government watchdog groups for a plan to dispose of Cold War nuclear waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository in southeast New Mexico, as the federal government ...