Sentences with phrase «underground nuclear waste repository»
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.
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In the next few weeks and throughout 2004, there will be several major activities related to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the world's first deep underground nuclear waste repository, located in southeastern New Mexico.
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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.
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.
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.