"Permanent disposal" means to get rid of something in a way that is meant to be final and cannot be reversed or retrieved.
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It would be transformed into a physically stable form — perhaps a glasslike substance — and then shipped to Yucca Mountain or some
other permanent disposal site.
Do not flush it in the toilet or wash it down a drain as ticks can survive such attempts
at permanent disposal.
The other is to utilize federal monitored retrievable storage (MRS) facilities, in which the DOE could store nuclear waste from commercial nuclear plants
pending permanent disposal or reprocessing.
The fluids are pumped back down a different hole drilled far below the shale into porous rock
for permanent disposal.
When the bath becomes saturated with fission products, technicians clean the solvent and process the extracted fission products for
permanent disposal.
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established a framework for
the permanent disposal of the nation's nuclear waste, leading to the 1987 selection of Yucca Mountain, a barren peak in the high desert of Nevada, as the site of a deep geologic repository that would be built and operated by the Department of Energy.
With no disposal facility available at the Chalk River site, the proposed NSDF once approved and constructed will provide
a permanent disposal solution for a variety of waste materials.