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The West Valley Demonstration Project is a nuclear waste remediation site in West Valley, New York in the U.S. state of New York.The project focuses on the cleanup and containment of radioactive waste left behind after the abandonment of a commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in 1980. [1]
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 ...
The state of New York and two counties (Allegany and Cortland) filed a lawsuit against the LLW Policy Act in result of its inconsistency with the Tenth Amendment and the guarantee clause. [1] Including New York and the support of the two counties, seventeen states also joined New York as amici.
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. COVID-19 an obstacle for nuclear waste disposal at ...
Concerns were raised by government watchdog groups for a plan to dispose of Cold War nuclear waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository in southeast New Mexico, as the federal government ...
More: Nuclear waste disposal permit issued for New Mexico site, WIPP to get bigger in November. The letter argued temporary storage as the company planned to build, should only exist when a ...
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]
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