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The proposed facility would store up to 100,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel near Carlsbad and Hobbs. Court blocks proposed Holtec International nuclear waste site in New Mexico Skip to main ...
Proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Long-term nuclear waste warning messages are communication attempts intended to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future, within or above the order of magnitude of 10,000 years. Nuclear semiotics is an ...
The Hanford nuclear site contractor responsible for radioactive waste tanks for more than 16 years has lost $10.2 million in potential pay after claims that workers were too often idle because ...
A dip to 192 was reported in 2020 and 210 in 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic which led to frequent operations pauses as workers were infected. ... there were just 133 shipments of nuclear waste ...
The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board was established in the 1987 Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act (NWPAA) (P.L. 100–203) to "...evaluate the technical and scientific validity of activities [related to managing and disposing of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste] undertaken by the Secretary [of Energy], including
A national Nuclear Fuel Waste Act was enacted by the Canadian Parliament in 2002, requiring nuclear energy corporations to create a waste management organization to propose to the Government of Canada approaches for management of nuclear waste, and implementation of an approach subsequently selected by the government. The Act defined management ...
On June 23, a federal judge approved, with WA State Department of Ecology’s agreement, a request to push the deadline back 20 months for beginning nuclear waste treatment, at the $17 billion ...
One of four example estimates of the plutonium (Pu-239) plume from the 1957 fire at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. The Rocky Flats Plant, a former United States nuclear weapons production facility located about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Denver, caused radioactive (primarily plutonium, americium, and uranium) contamination within and outside its boundaries. [1]