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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]
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 ...
High-level waste is full of highly radioactive fission products, most of which are relatively short-lived. This is a concern since if the waste is stored, perhaps in deep geological storage, over many years the fission products decay, decreasing the radioactivity of the waste and making the plutonium easier to access.
The high-level tank waste is among the nation’s most dangerous nuclear waste and poses a risk to the nearby Columbia River. And it’s a complicated toxic cleanup project. It’s also DOE’s ...
Ecology said when it started negotiations that it did not plan to budge on key terms. That included the start of treatment of the least radioactive waste, starting high level radioactive waste ...
Four melters are at the heart of the project to turn radioactive and chemical waste into glass. After 20+ years radioactive waste melting plant in Eastern WA takes key step forward Skip to main ...
An act to provide for the development of repositories for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, to establish a program of research, development, and demonstration regarding the disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, and for other purposes. Enacted by: the 97th United States Congress ...
The vitrification plant is planned to treat all the high-level radioactive waste in the tanks and much of the low activity waste. About 90% of the waste to be treated is low activity waste.