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The reprocessing of fuel also resulted in the accumulation of 660,000 US gallons (2,500 m 3) of high-level radioactive waste in an underground storage tank. [1] [5] An additional 15 acres (0.061 km 2) of the property was licensed by New York State for burial of low-level radioactive waste in 20-foot (6.1 m) deep trenches. [6]
To relieve this problem and at the same time to accelerate action, Congress passed the Low Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-240). The Low Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act (LLRWPAA) extended the operation of the three existing disposal sites to December 31, 1992.
In early 2022, officials said WIPP hoped to increase shipments of waste to 10 to 12 per week from federal nuclear facilities around the country.
In 1982 the Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Management Executive (NIREX) was established with responsibility for disposing of long-lived nuclear waste [78] and in 2006 a Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs recommended geologic disposal 200–1,000 metres (660–3,280 ft ...
No single question bedevils American energy and environmental policy more than nuclear waste. First, nuclear power plants in the United States generate about 2,000 metric tons of nuclear waste (or ...
A rebuild of the ventilation system at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant was delayed by three years and increased in cost by $200 million. Nuclear waste managers explain cost increases as disposal ...
Managing the Western New York Nuclear Service Center at West Valley, including (1) overseeing the State's interests and share of costs at the West Valley Demonstration Project, a federal/State radioactive waste clean-up effort, and (2) managing wastes and maintaining facilities at the shut-down State Licensed Disposal Area.
In total, about 34 metric tons of surplus plutonium was planned to diluted and disposed of at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad.