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  2. Low-level radioactive waste policy of the United States

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    There are three options for the disposal of such waste: in-state disposal, joining with other states to form a compact, or by contracting with a state or compact that has a disposal facility. [3] Requirements for LLW disposal sites have been established by the NRC and use a series of natural and engineered barriers to prevent any radioactive ...

  3. Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact

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    The compact was established by the "Compact Law" and the "Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments of the 1985." The Central Interstate Low Level Radioactive Waste Compact and US Ecology purchased land 2 miles west of Butte, Nebraska in the early 1990s with the intention of placing a dump site there. There was extensive controversy and the ...

  4. Waste Control Specialists - Wikipedia

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    Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) is a treatment, storage, & disposal company dealing in radioactive, hazardous, and mixed wastes. Developed and controlled by Texas billionaire investor Harold Simmons until his death at the end of 2013, the company was founded in Dallas, Texas in 1989 as a landfill operator, and awarded a unique license for disposal of low level radioactive waste in 2009.

  5. Another defeat for cleaning up low-level nuclear waste ... - AOL

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    On June 23, a federal judge approved, with WA State Department of Ecology’s agreement, a request to push the deadline back 20 months for beginning nuclear waste treatment, at the $17 billion ...

  6. Low-level waste - Wikipedia

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    Low-level waste storage pit at the Nevada National Security Site. Depending on who "owns" the waste, its handling and disposal is regulated differently. All nuclear facilities, whether they are a utility or a disposal site, have to comply with Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations.

  7. Interstate compact - Wikipedia

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    Rocky Mountain Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact; Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact; Southwestern Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact; Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact; Western Interstate Nuclear Compact (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah ...