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2. Waste Control Specialists - Wikipedia

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   Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) is a treatment, storage, & disposal company dealing in radioactive, hazardous, and mixed wastes. Developed and controlled by Texas billionaire investor Harold Simmons until his death at the end of 2013, the company was founded in Dallas, Texas in 1989 as a landfill operator, and awarded a unique license for disposal of low level radioactive waste in 2009.

3. High-level radioactive waste management - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. West Valley Demonstration Project - Wikipedia

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   The reprocessing of fuel also resulted in the accumulation of 660,000 US gallons (2,500 m 3) of high-level radioactive waste in an underground storage tank. [1] [5] An additional 15 acres (0.061 km 2) of the property was licensed by New York State for burial of low-level radioactive waste in 20-foot (6.1 m) deep trenches. [6]

5. Wayne County Commission: 'This must stop,' calls for end to ...

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   Several officials across the state reacted with concern after the Detroit Free Press reported that Republic Services' Wayne Disposal will take radioactive waste from a site in New York where the ...

6. Revelations of possible radioactive dumping around the Bay ...

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   A former chemical plant dumped thousands of tons of industrial waste around the San Francisco Bay Area. The deposits were made in places that are now open to the public — and could contain ...

7. Low Level Waste Repository - Wikipedia

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   The site stores low level radioactive waste from Sellafield, MoD sites, nuclear power stations, hospitals, universities, medical companies and the oil industry. The site, which was opened in 1959 by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, [1] covers about 270 acres (110 ha) on the site of the former Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF Drigg).