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2. High-level radioactive waste management - Wikipedia

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   In 2000, a Specified Radioactive Waste Final Disposal Act called for creation of a new organization to manage high level radioactive waste, and later that year the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO) was established under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

3. Radioactive waste - Wikipedia

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   Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. It is a result of many activities, including nuclear medicine , nuclear research , nuclear power generation, nuclear decommissioning , rare-earth mining, and nuclear weapons reprocessing. [ 1 ]

4. Waste treatment technologies - Wikipedia

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   Landfills waste are categorized by either being hazardous, non-hazardous or inert waste. In order for a landfill design to be considered it must abide by the following requirements: final landforms profile, site capacity, settlement, waste density, materials requirements and drainage.

5. Mixed waste (radioactive/hazardous) - Wikipedia

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6. High-level waste - Wikipedia

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   High-level waste is the highly radioactive waste material resulting from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, including liquid waste produced directly in reprocessing and any solid material derived from such liquid waste that contains fission products in sufficient concentrations; and other highly radioactive material that is determined, consistent with existing law, to require permanent ...

7. 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.

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

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   The Department of Energy is going forward with a contract award valued at up to $45 billion to a BWXT-led company to manage the Hanford nuclear site tank farms that store radioactive waste and the ...

9. Journal of Hazardous, Toxic & Radioactive Waste - Wikipedia

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   The Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers and covering planning and management for hazardous, toxic and radioactive wastes.