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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. 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.

4. High-level waste - Wikipedia

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   High-level radioactive waste is stored for 10 or 20 years in spent fuel pools, and then can be put in dry cask storage facilities. In 1997, in the 20 countries which account for most of the world's nuclear power generation, spent fuel storage capacity at the reactors was 148,000 tonnes, with 59% of this utilized.

5. Work to finally start under disputed $45B contract for ...

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   Treatment of high level radioactive waste is not required to start until 2033. ... The underground radioactive waste storage tanks and the vitrification plant are in the center of the site.

6. WA, feds upend plan to clean up one of nation’s most costly ...

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   Highlights include starting treatment of the Hanford site tank waste for disposal on the current schedule of 2025 for the least-radioactive waste and 2033 for the high-level radioactive waste.

7. $45 billion Hanford nuclear waste cleanup contract awarded to ...

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   The 580-square-mile Hanford site in Eastern Washington adjacent to Richland was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear ...

8. Dry cask storage - Wikipedia

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   Dry cask storage area. Dry cask storage is a method of storing high-level radioactive waste, such as spent nuclear fuel that has already been cooled in a spent fuel pool for at least one year and often as much as ten years. [1] [2] Casks are typically steel cylinders that are either welded or bolted closed. The fuel rods inside are surrounded ...

9. Nuclear Waste Policy Act - Wikipedia

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   Highly radioactive spent fuel rods were stored in pools of water at reactor sites, but many utilities were running out of storage space. [3] 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 ...