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  2. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository - Wikipedia

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    The DOE began studying Yucca Mountain in 1978 to determine whether it would be suitable for the nation's first long-term geologic repository for over 70,000 metric tons (69,000 long tons; 77,000 short tons) (150 million pounds) [22] of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste as of 2015 [when?] stored at 121 sites around the nation ...

  3. 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.

  4. The Hanford Site is America's most contaminated nuclear ... - AOL

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    Most concerning is the highly radioactive waste that was stored in 177 storage tanks, each holding between 55,000 and 1 million gallons. A double-shell tank farm containing six underground tanks ...

  5. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - Wikipedia

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    The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, in New Mexico, US, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht Asse II salt mine) licensed to store transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 years. The storage rooms at the WIPP are 2,150 feet (660 m) underground in a salt ...

  6. Cold War nuclear waste is prioritized at Carlsbad-area ...

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    More: Final testing underway at $486M air system for nuclear waste site near Carlsbad That panel was one of two new panels approved for mining in the permit, intended to replace space lost to ...

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

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    More: Feds lose appeal of vacated license for nuclear waste storage site in Permian Basin Under the Land Withdrawal Act, WIPP is allowed to dispose of up to about 176,000 cubic meters of TRU waste.

  8. Long-term nuclear waste warning messages - Wikipedia

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    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 interdisciplinary field of research, first established by the American Human Interference Task Force in 1981.

  9. 489 shipments of nuclear waste made its way to WIPP in ... - AOL

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    More: The WIPP facility near Carlsbad will mine new space to dispose of nuclear waste That meant 386 shipments, or about 79 percent of the total sent to WIPP in 2023, came from Idaho.