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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. 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. Weldon Spring Ordnance Works - Wikipedia

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   Weldon Spring Ordnance Works. Weldon Spring Ordnance Works (WSOW) was a 17,323-acre (70.10 km 2) U.S. Government -owned, contractor-operated (GOCO) facility in St. Charles County, Missouri, 55 km west of St. Louis. [1] The site was originally operated by the Atlas Powder Company during World War II from 1941 to 1945 to produce explosives. [1]

5. Wayne County leader: 'Make it very, extremely expensive' to ...

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   U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., speaks during a Wayne County Board of Commissioners public meeting on a recently announced plan that would bring hazardous, radioactive waste to a landfill in Van ...

6. Dean Buntrock - Wikipedia

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   Dean Buntrock. Dean L. Buntrock is an American businessman and philanthropist most well known for his founding and longtime leadership of Waste Management, Inc., [ 1] North America's largest waste services company. Over his 40-year career he increased revenue from $1 million to $9 billion. [citation needed]

7. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository - Wikipedia

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   The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, [2] is a proposed deep geological repository storage facility within Yucca Mountain for spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive waste in the United States. The site is on federal land adjacent to the Nevada Test Site in Nye ...