Sentences with phrase «repository for this waste»

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.

In Darwin's day, the prevailing ethos of so - called free - market capitalism treated the planet as a limitless resource, and its atmosphere and oceans as an equally limitless repository for waste.

Not exact matches

Much more care needs to be taken in choosing locations for deep - mine repositories for high - level radioactive waste.

The Obama administration's budget cuts funding for oil research and the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository as it increases money to renewables, carbon capture and storage

Cortez Masto, a Democrat who voted for Perry, said she received assurances in private meetings that he would listen to her concerns about advancing the now - stalled Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in her home state of Nevada.

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.

Experts agree that a geologic repository remains the only viable long - term solution for disposing of the majority of commercial nuclear waste.

Ultimately, if consent - based siting efforts fail, in favor of the common good the federal government must exercise its power of eminent domain to overcome local opposition, creating a deep geologic repository for nuclear waste.

- 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.

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.

America's Department of Energy has not given enough priority to technical and scientific investigations of Yucca Mountain in Nevada, where it plans to site an underground repository for nuclear waste.

Macfarlane's «education and experience... make her eminently qualified to lead the NRC for the foreseeable future,» said Reid, a leading opponent of a recently shelved plan to open a nuclear waste repository in Nevada.

Dear EarthTalk: I've heard that there are plans to build a large repository for nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain in Nevada, but that plans have been slow and are very controversial.

WIPP is a repository for defense - related transuranic waste near Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Perry also fielded numerous questions about his plans for the moribund and politically sensitive Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada.

Though the concept of borehole disposal, which would see radioactive waste entombed far deeper than traditional repositories, has existed for decades, the idea has been revived in recent years, spurred by troubles in finding a long - term home for the country's spent fuel.

Rock salt is a candidate rock to host a repository for high - level radioactive waste (HLW) because of its favourable characteristics.

Why the DOE chose unsuitable sites as candidates for the high - level nuclear waste repository.

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.

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

Nonetheless, the West Valley FEIS states that the preferred alternative A includes: «TRU waste shipments to WIPP could occur within the next 10 years if the TRU waste is determined to meet all requirements for disposal in this repository; however, if some or all of WVDP's TRU waste does not meet these requirements, the Department would need to explore other alternatives for disposal of this waste.»

Although the world's first geologic repository for military nuclear waste does not have room for all of the hottest waste it is supposed to handle, the federal government is proposing to disregard legal limits and expand the types and amounts of waste destined for the site.

Voting to create a waste repository at Yucca Mountain today would solve no problems and create a few new ones for the people of my state.

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.

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During the years of debate about WIPP that started in the 1970s, many New Mexicans expressed concerns that if WIPP ever opened as the nation's only repository, there would be significant likelihood it would attract proposals for additional wastes.

While the final fate of Yucca Mountain may be decided in Congress, the courts, or the NRC, the fact is that there will be no repository for spent fuel and high - level waste for decades.

Over the years, science has given way to raw politics as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and supporters of DOE's repository project in Congress have sought to obfuscate and compensate for an ever - multiplying set of flaws and problems with the site and with the notion of transporting unprecedented amounts of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level nuclear waste across the country.

While PFS says that the facility would operate for 40 years (assuming that their license would be renewed) and that all the waste would then go to a repository, opponents point out that there might not be a repository, that the tribe can not force the waste out once its there, and that in case of accidents, their land that could be permanently contaminated.

'' [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.

Proposed by Svensk Karnbranslehantering (SKB, the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company), the encapsulation repository will not only store Sweden's nuclear waste, but also presents opportunities for the Swedish government to entertain proposals to accept waste from other European nations.

Requiring a repository as a prerequisite for nuclear power would allow Brown's anti-nuclear allies, Ralph Nader, Sierra Club, and Natural Resources Defense Council, to prevent the construction of nuclear power plants merely by then blocking the waste repository, as has now been the case for over forty years.

NUCLEAR: • Despite fierce opposition from Nevada lawmakers, the House approves a bill that would restart the licensing process for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

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.

This is why, for example, it took twenty years and cost fifteen billion dollars to study and analyze the Yucca Mountain site for use as the nation's high level nuclear waste repository.

«Given your Administration's opposition to make use of the Yucca Mountain repository, will you bring forward a viable, long - term solution for [nuclear waste] disposal that would win public support and the necessary votes in Congress?

No permanent waste repository (thanks, Sen. Reid), no appetite for new reactor siting by the public, and no interest by the funding community.

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.

When the agency delivered (by truck) its 17 - volume, 8,600 - page application for Yucca Mountain to the NRC in June 2008, it projected the repository could begin receiving waste in 2020 — 22 years later than the 1998 goal established by the NWPA.

Congress has been planning for an underground repository to hold spent fuel from commercial power plants and waste from defense plants since 1982.

RE # 129: Lucia, I can give you an example of a code that has had «full V&V» for its use on the Yucca Mountain Project (high - level radioactive waste repository).

Advising the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on the community benefit structure for the extension of national low level radioactive waste repository near Drigg.

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.