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The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 is a United States federal law which established a comprehensive national program for the safe, permanent disposal of highly radioactive wastes. The US Congress amended the act in 1987 to designate Yucca Mountain , Nevada, as the sole repository.
The locations across the U.S. where nuclear waste is stored. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established a timetable and procedure for constructing a permanent, underground repository for high-level radioactive waste by the mid-1990s, and provided for some temporary storage of waste, including spent fuel from 104 civilian nuclear reactors ...
In 1982, Congress established a national policy to solve the problem of nuclear waste disposal. This policy is a federal law called the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, [20] which made the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) responsible for finding a site, building, and operating an underground disposal facility called a geologic repository.
Texas, will decide "whether the Commission has authority to issue the license under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 or the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982."
Curran said this was illegal under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. More: Aging infrastructure could pose risks at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear waste site. That meant, she said, the Holtec ...
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established both the federal government's responsibility to provide a place for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, and the generators' responsibility to bear the costs of permanent disposal.
Sep. 24—WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) and Congressman Mike Levin (CA-49) Tuesday introduced the bipartisan Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2024, which would ...
The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board was established in the 1987 Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act (NWPAA) (P.L. 100–203) to "...evaluate the technical and scientific validity of activities [related to managing and disposing of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste] undertaken by the Secretary [of Energy], including