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  2. Long-term nuclear waste warning messages - Wikipedia

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    Proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Long-term nuclear waste warning messages are communication attempts intended to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future, within or above the order of magnitude of 10,000 years. Nuclear semiotics is an ...

  3. Nuclear recycling aims to reduce waste, provide 'generational ...

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    A major impediment to nuclear cost-effectiveness is the current waste model. Nuclear waste is stored onsite and is managed by utilities, like Entergy, and doesn't leave any room for recycling and ...

  4. Environmental impact of nuclear power - Wikipedia

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    Proponents of nuclear power argue that the problems of nuclear waste "do not come anywhere close" to approaching the problems of fossil fuel waste. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] A 2004 article from the BBC states: "The World Health Organization (WHO) says 3 million people are killed worldwide by outdoor air pollution annually from vehicles and industrial ...

  5. Cruz spearheads effort to derail nuclear waste dumping in oil ...

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    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is urging the Supreme Court to uphold a ruling holding the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacks licensing authority, arguing that nuclear waste sites in Texas pose "an ...

  6. Ocean disposal of radioactive waste - Wikipedia

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    Radioactive waste container located in the North-East Atlantic dumping zone (NEA zone). From 1946 through 1993, thirteen countries used ocean disposal or ocean dumping as a method to dispose of nuclear/radioactive waste with an approximation of 200,000 tons sourcing mainly from the medical, research and nuclear industry. [1]

  7. List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll - Wikipedia

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    The Windscale fire resulted when uranium metal fuel ignited inside plutonium production piles; surrounding dairy farms were contaminated. [33] [34] The severity of the incident was covered up at the time by the UK government, as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan feared that it would harm British nuclear relations with America, and so original reports on the disaster and its health impacts were ...

  8. Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository - Wikipedia

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    The Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository is a deep geological repository for the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel. [1] [2] It is near the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant in the municipality of Eurajoki, on the west coast of Finland. It will be the world's first long-term disposal facility for spent nuclear fuel.

  9. High-level radioactive waste management - Wikipedia

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    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]