Sentences with phrase «more nuclear waste repositories»
At the end of the two - year deliberations period, the BRC recommended that a new «single - purpose organization» be given the authority and resources to begin developing — using a «consent - based approach» — one or more nuclear waste repositories and consolidated storage facilities.
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No country with nuclear power has a viable underground repository for waste, and proposed sites in France face public opposition, despite more widespread support for nuclear power.
After more than 20 years of controversy, the first truck of radioactive garbage arrived at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the world's first nuclear waste repository, on March 26, 1999.
WIPP's budget clearly has much more to do with rewarding and encouraging political power than any results for waste emplacement in the world's first nuclear waste repository.
'' [A] nuclear waste repository should not be built until it can be shown, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the facility can, in fact, do what its advocates claim - isolate radioactive materials from the biosphere for more than 10,000 years - and that construction of such a repository will be benign in its effects upon the people, the environment and the economy of the state or region within which it would be located.
Examples include refining ways to securely handle radioactive waste from nuclear reactors; testing repositories for carbon dioxide captured at power plants; and, perhaps more important, improving the electricity grid so that it can manage large flows from intermittent sources like windmills and solar panels.