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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]
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Transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste is sent from across the country to the WIPP site for disposal in a 2,000-foot-deep underground salt deposit, mostly made up of clothing, equipment and other ...
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 ...
In 2000, the company purchased the nuclear services business arm of Waste Management Inc. [13] One year later, the company announced that it was dropping GTS from its name, and was once again known as Duratek. Duratek was purchased by EnergySolutions at a 25.7% premium over the February 7, 2006 stock price when the merger was announced. [7]
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 ...