Sentences with phrase «level nuclear waste disposal»
However, U.S. government policy is to handle UET as wastes, not a uranium resource, and to build multi-billion-dollar conversion plants to remove the depleted uranium and to dispose of that waste through shallow land burial at low - level nuclear waste disposal sites.
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And nuclear - power opponent groups are filing and winning legal fights to force utilities to present disposal plans for low - level waste before they can build a new reactor.
For decades, public sentiment, expressed in hearings, protests, public opinion polls, and other means, has strongly opposed spent nuclear fuel and high level waste storage or disposal in New Mexico.
Republican leaders in the U.S. House support legislation to nominate Yucca Mountain as the storage and disposal location for high level waste and spent nuclear fuel.
The world's only deep underground nuclear waste dump is in New Mexico, and efforts of many New Mexicans to prevent high - level waste disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) have had an effect on the state's decisions (page 5).
The law limited WIPP to defense transuranic (plutonium - contaminated) waste and prohibited transportation or disposal of high - level waste or spent nuclear fuel.
The many serious technical deficiencies of the Yucca Mountain site and DOE's flawed approach to geologic disposal notwithstanding, the most potentially explosive aspect of the federal program is the reality that tens of thousands of shipments of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level radioactive waste will travel the nation's highways and railroads - through 43 states and thousands of communities, day after day for upwards of 40 years.
The contract - which includes a one - year base period and four one - year option periods - provides continuing technical assistance and research support to NRC activities related to storage, transportation, possible reprocessing and ultimate geological disposal of used nuclear fuel and high - level radioactive wastes.
While nuclear energy is regarded as the lesser of the two evils when compared at an emission level to the burning of fossil - fuels, it may trump on the containment of the heat process, which burns in a contained nuclear reactor through an in - ward heat - chemical reaction called fission, but nuclear energy production is a chain from uranium mining to the toxic waste disposal and therefore as an entire process is an equally high risk environmental option.
On the civil side, at the trial court level, Quinn Emanuel has successfully defended clients in matters ranging from nuclear waste disposal and the operation of industrial facilities and landfills to oil spills and soil and groundwater contamination.