Sentences with phrase «nuclear waste repository at»

The administration's decision to withdraw the application for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, lacks scientific justification and could hamper the nation's effort to use nuclear energy to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

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

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.

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With no permanent waste repository in sight, the nuclear industry is storing spent fuel at reactor sites.

This capability was shown recently at the Bruce Nuclear Site, explains Neuzil, a proposed low / intermediate waste repository 1,200 feet underground in Ontario, Canada.

- The Department of Energy is warning that the 77,000 - ton limit set for nuclear waste at the Yucca Mountain Repository already falls short of our needs.

Currently, without any central repository, nuclear waste generated in the U.S. is stored at or near one of the 121 facilities across the country where it is generated.

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).

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.

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.

At Southwest Research and Information Center, much of our work over the past 35 years has been to address the enormous legacy of nuclear's past and present — sick and dead people and contaminated land and water from uranium mining and milling, the world's first underground nuclear waste repository, and the political and economic power of the two nuclear weapons laboratories and their environmental impacts.

Rusinko has held senior engineering management roles on complex technical projects including the national nuclear waste repository project at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, the Savannah River site in South Carolina, and the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant in Washington state.

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.

Last fall, the group told lawmakers that a nuclear waste policy should focus on a consent - based approach, rather than one focused on Yucca Mountain, that is «technically sound» and requires that SNF is managed safely and securely at reactor sites until a repository becomes available.

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.

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.