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  2. 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.

  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 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]

  5. Inside a nuclear tomb: The underground store that's humanity ...

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    The world's first large-scale underground nuclear waste disposal site has just finished construction. Tons of waste will be buried over 100 years.

  6. The Hanford Site is America's most contaminated nuclear ... - AOL

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    Experts have said the Hanford Site in Washington is an underground Chernobyl waiting to happen. Here's what the most toxic area in America is like. ... open door of a storage room for nuclear fuel ...

  7. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - Wikipedia

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    The storage rooms at the WIPP are 2,150 feet (660 m) underground in a salt formation of the Delaware Basin. The waste is from the research and production of United States nuclear weapons only. [1] [2] The plant started operation in 1999, and the project is estimated to cost $19 billion in total. [3]

  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. Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository - Wikipedia

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    Spent nuclear fuel is a valuable resource that can be utilized in breeder reactors, and several other components also have useful applications. The fissile Plutonium-239 content could contribute to humanity's conversion to clean and reliable energy into the future, and burying it in permanent sealed storage would limit that potential.