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2. Low-level radioactive waste policy of the United States

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   In response to the complex disposal issue, Congress passed the Low Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-573), which established that each state was responsible for disposing LLRW generated within its boundaries. [5] Congress asserted that LLRW could be most safely and efficiently managed on a regional basis.

3. Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program - Wikipedia

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   The Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) is a United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) project to manage and cleanup environmental contamination that resulted from early United States Atomic Energy Commission activities.

4. Low-level waste - Wikipedia

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   Waste with specific activities above these thresholds are categorised as either Intermediate-level waste (ILW) or high-level waste (HLW) depending upon the heat output of the waste [2]. Very Low Level Waste (VLLW) is a sub-category of LLW. VLLW is LLW that is suitable disposal with regular household or industrial waste at specially permitted ...

5. WA, feds upend plan to clean up one of nation’s most costly ...

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   Highlights include starting treatment of the Hanford site tank waste for disposal on the current schedule of 2025 for the least-radioactive waste and 2033 for the high-level radioactive waste ...

6. Workers start emptying radioactive waste from massive, leak ...

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   It will reduce the risk of radioactive waste reaching the Columbia River, said federal official. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. ... Tank waste level uneven.

7. Another defeat for cleaning up low-level nuclear waste ... - AOL

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   800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. ... starting to treat high level radioactive waste by 2033 or having the plant fully operating in 2036. ... makes more sense than vit for this low ...

8. Maxey Flats - Wikipedia

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   The Maxey Flats low-level radioactive waste disposal site is a Superfund site in Kentucky which served as a disposal site for low-level nuclear waste from 1963 to 1977. [1] Investigations by the Environmental Protection Agency , among others, determined that plutonium stored at the site had migrated beyond the site's trenches, and the site was ...

9. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board - Wikipedia

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   The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board was established in the 1987 Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act (NWPAA) (P.L. 100–203) to "...evaluate the technical and scientific validity of activities [related to managing and disposing of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste] undertaken by the Secretary [of Energy], including