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  2. Radioactive waste - Wikipedia

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    Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. It is a result of many activities, including nuclear medicine, nuclear research, nuclear power generation, nuclear decommissioning, rare-earth mining, and nuclear weapons reprocessing. [1]

  3. 489 shipments of nuclear waste made its way to WIPP in ... - AOL

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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. The highest annual total ever was 1,142 shipments reported in 2006, records ...

  4. High-level radioactive waste management - Wikipedia

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    In 2000, a Specified Radioactive Waste Final Disposal Act called for creation of a new organization to manage high level radioactive waste, and later that year the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO) was established under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

  5. High-level waste - Wikipedia

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    High-level waste is the highly radioactive waste material resulting from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, including liquid waste produced directly in reprocessing and any solid material derived from such liquid waste that contains fission products in sufficient concentrations; and other highly radioactive material that is determined, consistent with existing law, to require permanent ...

  6. Canadians' nuclear waste storage plan in Great Lakes ... - AOL

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    (The Center Square) – The Canadian government's ongoing plan to permanently store 50,000 tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste in the Great Lakes basin near Ontario has sparked bipartisan ...

  7. US Supreme Court to hear nuclear waste storage dispute - AOL

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    In the 5th Circuit ruling against the license, Judge James Ho, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump, cited a different law, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, that was amended in ...

  8. Nuclear decommissioning - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear waste costed the American taxpayers through the Department of Energy (DOE) budget as of 2018 about $30 billion per year, $18 billion for nuclear power and $12 billion for waste from nuclear weapons programs. [38] KPMG estimated the total cost of decommissioning the US nuclear fleet as of 2018 to be greater than US$150 billion.

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

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    Concerns were raised by government watchdog groups for a plan to dispose of Cold War nuclear waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository in southeast New Mexico, as the federal government ...