Sentences with phrase «permanent nuclear waste repository»

There was a decision in 1982 to have the United States Department of Energy build a permanent nuclear waste repository.

The Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future wasn't specifically asked to decide the viability of a permanent nuclear waste repository in remote Yucca Mountain, Nev..

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

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 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 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.