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  2. Nuclear flask - Wikipedia

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    Wagon with transport cabin containing a nuclear waste flask, at Bristol. A nuclear flask is a shipping container that is used to transport active nuclear materials between nuclear power station and spent fuel reprocessing facilities. Each shipping container is designed to maintain its integrity under normal transportation conditions and during ...

  3. By barge, rail or truck? Feds propose travel routes for ... - AOL

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    Nearly 90,000 metric tons of radioactive waste is being stored at the nation’s nuclear power plants at a cost to the federal government of more than $9 billion and counting. The total is ...

  4. 489 shipments of nuclear waste made its way to WIPP in 2023 ...

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    In 2017, the year WIPP reopened in April of that year, there were just 133 shipments of nuclear waste sent to the site. ... EM reported the facility disposed of 9,000 containers of TRU waste ...

  5. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository - Wikipedia

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    The nuclear waste was planned to be shipped to the site by rail and/or truck in robust containers known as spent nuclear fuel shipping casks, approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. While the routes in Nevada would have been public, in the other states the planned routes, dates and times of transport would have been secret for ...

  6. San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station - Wikipedia

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    The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), operated by Southern California Edison (SCE) is approximately 100 km (60 mi) south of Los Angeles, 6.5 km (4 mi) south of San Clemente, CA. It is located between the Surf Railroad Line and the Pacific Ocean within Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton .

  7. Los Alamos decontaminating nuclear waste. Could is save ... - AOL

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    A DOE presentation from 2020 showed the agency expected to produce about 2,000 containers of waste per year at Los Alamos during pit production by 2026, and that between the lab and Savannah River ...

  8. Low-level radioactive waste policy of the United States

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    The transport of LLW is regulated by two United States government agencies. The first is the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) under the 1974 Transportation Safety Act (H.R. 15223), and second, the NRC under authority of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. § 2011) and the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. [16]

  9. Nuclear waste permit being modified. How much will it cost? - AOL

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    Transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste is sent from across the country to the WIPP site for disposal in a 2,000-foot-deep underground salt deposit, mostly made up of clothing, equipment and other ...