Sentences with phrase «permanent nuclear waste storage»
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Yet, no country has developed an acceptable or permanent method for high — level nuclear waste storage, thereby leaving both present and future generations at great risk.
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The Surfrider Foundation is opposed to permanent or long - term storage of radioactive waste at the recently deactivated San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) due to its proximity to the coastline, susceptibility to geological instability and location within a densely populated area.
Legislators approved a bill seeking to advance the permanent storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
And just like existing nuclear power plants, they produce long - lived, highly radioactive nuclear waste for which no safe management and permanent storage exists.
Today, nuclear waste has no permanent storage facility.
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.