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  2. Dry cask storage - Wikipedia

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    Dry cask storage area. Dry cask storage is a method of storing high-level radioactive waste, such as spent nuclear fuel that has already been cooled in a spent fuel pool for at least one year and often as much as ten years. [1] [2] Casks are typically steel cylinders that are either welded or bolted closed. The fuel rods inside are surrounded ...

  3. Nuclear flask - Wikipedia

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    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 hypothetical accident conditions.

  4. 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.

  5. Congressmen want 100-year canisters for spent nuclear fuel ...

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    The bill, if enacted, would require the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to mandate that future nuclear waste storage canisters at nuclear power plants have a lifespan of no less than 100 years.

  6. Los Alamos decontaminating nuclear waste. Could is save space ...

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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 ...

  7. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository - Wikipedia

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    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.

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

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    More: Feds lose appeal of vacated license for nuclear waste storage site in Permian Basin Initially, the PMR allowed the DOE to consider auditing any site every three years instead of annually ...

  9. Radioactive waste - Wikipedia

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    The Nuclear Assisted Hydrocarbon Production Method, [116] Canadian patent application 2,659,302, is a method for the temporary or permanent storage of nuclear waste materials comprising the placing of waste materials into one or more repositories or boreholes constructed into an unconventional oil formation. The thermal flux of the waste ...