Sentences with phrase «level nuclear waste repository»

This is why, for example, it took twenty years and cost fifteen billion dollars to study and analyze the Yucca Mountain site for use as the nation's high level nuclear waste repository.

Since 1986, I have been involved with volcanic hazard studies for the proposed high - level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.

Problems at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, proposed site of the first high - level nuclear waste repository, and implications for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a military waste repository in New Mexico.

Why the DOE chose unsuitable sites as candidates for the high - level nuclear waste repository.

The half - lives (the period in which radioactivity halves) of these atoms range up to tens of thousands of years, a feature that led U.S. government regulators to require that the planned high - level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada isolate spent fuel for over 10,000 years.

Once isolated by the bacteria, the strontium could be sequestered in high - level nuclear waste repositories, while the rest of the waste could go to a less expensive lower - level repository, saving space and money.

Not exact matches

Since 1982, the federal Nuclear Waste Policy Act has required that DOE's high - level waste (HLW) in tanks at Hanford, Washington; Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory; and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, go to the government's HLW repository (slated to be at Yucca Mountain, Nevada).

Over the years, science has given way to raw politics as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and supporters of DOE's repository project in Congress have sought to obfuscate and compensate for an ever - multiplying set of flaws and problems with the site and with the notion of transporting unprecedented amounts of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level nuclear waste across the country.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1998 the government had a contractual obligation to put all of the high - level waste into a national repository because of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act that Congress passed in 1982.

Advising the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on the community benefit structure for the extension of national low level radioactive waste repository near Drigg.

REALTORS ® in Nevada aren't gamblers when it comes to the safety and attractiveness of their communities, both of which they say are at risk now that the federal government has officially chosen the state to be the country's sole repository for high - level nuclear waste.