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Some of the radioactive waste at Hanford was supposed to be stored in the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, [254] but after that project was suspended, Washington State sued, joined by South Carolina. [255] Their first suit was dismissed in July 2011. [256]
The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, [2] is a proposed deep geological repository storage facility within Yucca Mountain for spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive waste in the United States.
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The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established a timetable and procedure for constructing a permanent, underground repository for high-level radioactive waste by the mid-1990s, and provided for some temporary storage of waste, including spent fuel from 104 civilian nuclear reactors that produce about 19.4% of electricity there. [38]
The waste is brought into WIPP about 30 miles east of Carlsbad from Department of Energy sites throughout the U.S. and buried in the underground salt deposit about 2,000 feet beneath the surface.
Category for radioactive waste repositories in the United States. Pages in category "Radioactive waste repositories in the United States" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
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The U.S. Department of Energy announcement last week means some radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production stored in Idaho, Washington and South Carolina could be reclassified and moved for ...