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The property was named the Western New York Nuclear Service Center and would eventually host a commercial spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant and low-level radioactive waste disposal site that was operated by Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. [1] Nuclear Fuel Services was a subsidiary of the W.R. Grace Company in 1963, when the Atomic Energy ...
Anti-nuclear protest near nuclear waste disposal centre at Gorleben in northern Germany. Nuclear waste policy in Germany is in flux. German planning for a permanent geologic repository began in 1974, focused on salt dome Gorleben, a salt mine near Gorleben about 100 kilometres (62 mi) northeast of Braunschweig. The site was announced in 1977 ...
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 ...
No single question bedevils American energy and environmental policy more than nuclear waste. First, nuclear power plants in the United States generate about 2,000 metric tons of nuclear waste (or ...
A nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad could be used to generate "clean energy" as federal official sought input from the public for the project.. It’s part of the U.S. Department of Energy ...
An infographic about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. Spent nuclear fuel is the radioactive by-product of electricity generation at commercial nuclear power plants, and high-level radioactive waste is the by-product of reprocessing spent fuel to produce fissile material for nuclear weapons. [19]
TRU nuclear waste in need of disposal could increase at Los Alamos as it was planned to generate 30 pits a year, combined with 50 a year by 2030 at the DOE’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
In 2000, the company purchased the nuclear services business arm of Waste Management Inc. [13] One year later, the company announced that it was dropping GTS from its name, and was once again known as Duratek. Duratek was purchased by EnergySolutions at a 25.7% premium over the February 7, 2006 stock price when the merger was announced. [7]