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Spent nuclear fuel, occasionally called used nuclear fuel, is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant). It is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction in an ordinary thermal reactor and, depending on its point along the nuclear fuel cycle , it will have different isotopic ...
Wording that would have blocked a project to store spent nuclear fuel rods near Carlsbad and Hobbs was stripped from the U.S. Senate version of the appropriations bill being considered by Congress ...
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act further limits the capacity of the repository to 63,000 metric tons (62,000 long tons; 69,000 short tons) of initial heavy metal in commercial spent fuel. The 104 U.S. commercial reactors then operating were expected to produce this quantity of spent fuel by 2014, [36] assuming that the spent fuel rods are not ...
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 ...
Congress is considering a bill that includes language prioritizing local consent for any state that hosts nuclear storage sites. Federal budget talks could endanger Holtec nuclear waste site near ...
Holtec proposed to build a facility to temporarily store spent nuclear fuel rods at the site on the surface, ultimately with a capacity to hold up to 100,000 metric tons of the waste brought into ...
The Onkalo is a planned deep geological repository for the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel [60] [61] near the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant in Eurajoki, on the west coast of Finland. Picture of a pilot cave at final depth in Onkalo. Several methods of disposal of radioactive waste have been investigated: [62] Deep geological repository
Interim Storage Partners proposed building capacity to store used nuclear fuel rods from private power plants at the site in Andrews, Texas, and was granted a license to do so by the Nuclear ...