Sentences with phrase «disposing of spent nuclear fuel»

As the U.S. makes new plans for disposing of spent nuclear fuel and other high - level radioactive waste deep underground, geologists are key to identifying safe burial sites and techniques.

Without the federal government capping nuclear industry liability (i.e. Price Anderson Act), signing contracts to take custody and dispose of spent nuclear fuel (i.e. Nuclear Waste Policy Act), bankrolling civilian and military atomic research and development for light water and breeder reactors (i.e. Atomic Energy Act), and other programs, the industry would not exist.

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The research may eventually help lead to ways to safely dispose of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel that is stored now at commercial nuclear power plants.

It also produces large volumes of spent nuclear fuel that must be disposed of in a safe fashion.

But as for a long - term solution, there is no consensus as to disposing of, or permanently storing, the spent nuclear fuel.