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A large amount of accumulated nuclear waste is stored in various containers and facilities at more than 100 sites in 39 ...
Lincolnshire will not be used to store nuclear waste after the county council voted to withdraw from the process. Nuclear ...
The primary activities at WIPP involve the disposal of transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste from DOE sites around the country via burial in a salt deposit about 2,000 feet underground. SIMCO will take ...
Even if the U.S. starts today, it will take decades to site, design and build a facility for disposal of its nuclear waste stockpile. That process must accelerate now, before the reactors we need ...
The comments came during a public hearing held Tuesday in Carlsbad by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear ... for disposal as transuranic (TRU) waste, which the site is permitted ...
The Hanford nuclear site's massive vitrification plant could begin treating waste for disposal as soon as this summer.
Parks Township residents are concerned, even skeptical, that government contractors can remove 33,000 cubic yards of nuclear ...
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory ... Energy Act to license waste storage at a private site without a state’s consent, the law does not specifically refer to the storage or disposal of spent nuclear ...
The report, called “bunken chosa” (literature survey), or reviews of geological maps and research ... unsuitable for nuclear waste disposal might remain candidate sites until the end.
A government agency says it is "considering other options" for the location of a nuclear waste disposal site on the Lincolnshire coast. Nuclear Waste Services' (NWS) plans for a geological ...