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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.
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."
In response to the complex disposal issue, Congress passed the Low Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-573), which established that each state was responsible for disposing LLRW generated within its boundaries. [5] Congress asserted that LLRW could be most safely and efficiently managed on a regional basis.
Real Men opens in a Tulsa diner, where a “225-pound nuclear waste driver” named Flex Crush says the titular line over a breakfast of “steak, prime rib, six eggs, and a loaf of toast” while ...
In addition, they comment that the episode "explicitly criticizes media spin-doctors who distort the impacts of ecological degradation caused by wealthy corporations such as the nuclear power plant." [22] On February 13, 1991, a local group in Albany, New York, fought the government's plan to create a nuclear waste dump in their neighborhood ...
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 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 that produce about 19.4% of electricity there. [39]
A billboard paid for by Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, a Washington-based organization, sits on the corner of 6th Avenue and Stevens Street on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024 in Tacoma.