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Many Nevadans' opposition stemmed from the so-called "Screw Nevada Bill," the 1987 legislation halting study of Hanford and Texas as potential sites for the waste before conclusions could be made. [46] The county containing the proposed facility, Nye County, supports the repository's development, as do six adjoining counties. [47]
The NRC has entered into agreements with 37 states, called Agreement States, to allow these states to regulate the management, storage and disposal of certain nuclear waste. Section 274 of the amended Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (P.L. 83-703 Sec. 3113) provides a legislative basis under which the NRC gives up portions of its regulatory authority ...
In 1982 the Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Management Executive (NIREX) was established with responsibility for disposing of long-lived nuclear waste [77] and in 2006 a Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs recommended geologic disposal 200–1,000 metres (660–3,280 ft ...
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WIPP officials recently estimated it would take until about 2080 to fulfill WIPP's capacity for waste. But to clean up the nation’s nuclear waste, a 2022 Government Accountability Office report ...
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It is the site of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, which is currently identified by Congressional law as the nation's spent nuclear waste storage facility. However, while licensure of the site through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is ongoing, political maneuvering led to the site being de-funded in 2010.
Along with Holtec, Interim Storage Partners received a license from the NRC in 2022 to build waste storage capabilities at an existing nuclear facility in Andrews, Texas. That license was vacated ...