A deep geological repository is a way of storing hazardous or radioactive waste within a stable geologic environment, typically 200–1,000 m below the surface...
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The Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository is a deep geological repository for the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel. It is near the Olkiluoto Nuclear...
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Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, is a proposed deep geological repository storage facility...
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The Deep Geologic Repository Project (DGR) was a proposal by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) in 2002 for the site preparation, construction, operation,...
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exploring various disposal strategies, usually focusing on a deep geological repository, though progress in implementing these long-term solutions has...
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Radioactive waste (section Geologic disposal)
subsequently converted into a glass-like ceramic for storage in a deep geological repository. The time radioactive waste must be stored depends on the type...
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deep boreholes instead of in more traditional deep geological repositories that are excavated like mines. Deep borehole disposal seeks to place the waste...
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Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (category Radioactive waste repositories in the United States)
or WIPP, in New Mexico, US, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht...
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Morsleben Radioactive Waste Repository (German: Endlager für radioaktive Abfälle Morsleben-ERAM) is a deep geological repository for radioactive waste in...
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deep geological repository. This also contributes to increase the total waste volume and the number of disposal galleries in a geological repository....
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WIPP may refer to: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a deep geological repository for nuclear waste Women in Periodical Publishing (today known as Exceptional...
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Posiva (category Radioactive waste repositories)
currently constructing the Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository, the world's first deep geological repository, at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant site. Posiva's...
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Gorleben salt dome (category Radioactive waste repositories)
The Gorleben salt dome is a proposed deep geological repository in a salt dome in Gorleben in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in the far north-east of Lower...
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sole organization in Canada working towards the development of a deep geological repository (DGR) for the long-term storage of used nuclear fuel from Canadian...
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Konrad mine (category Radioactive waste repositories)
mine (Schacht Konrad) is a former iron ore mine proposed as a deep geological repository for medium- and low level radioactive waste in the city Salzgitter...
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the used fuel is directly disposed of in a deep geological repository. Several geological media and repository designs are being studied according to different...
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contracts with waste producers. ANDRA is responsible for the Cigéo deep geological repository project. ANDRA is currently based at five locations: The head...
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essential that the Czech Republic constructs its own deep geological repository. The deep geological repository will provide a facility in which high-level waste...
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have been linked to underground engineering problems, such as deep geological repository. In general, microcracks in rock can be subdivided into four groups:...
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Asse II mine (category Radioactive waste repositories)
Asse II mine (Schacht Asse II) is a former salt mine used as a deep geological repository for radioactive waste in the Asse Mountains of Wolfenbüttel, Lower...
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then. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository is the proposed U.S. Department of Energy deep geological repository storage facility for spent nuclear...
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moratoria on new nuclear power until a storage solution emerges". A deep geological repository seems to be the favored approach to storing nuclear waste. On...
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Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research Laboratory (category Radioactive waste repositories)
département. It allows study of the geological formation in order to evaluate its capacity for deep geological repository of high-level and long-lived medium-level...
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Natural nuclear fission reactor (category Radioactive waste repositories)
as they are today, which implies that α was the same too. Deep geological repository Geology of Gabon Mounana Kuroda, P. K. (1956). "On the Nuclear Physical...
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Wackersdorf. The radioactive waste was intended to be stored in a deep geological repository as part of the Gorleben long-term storage project. Today, there...
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generally accepted that the final waste will be disposed of in a deep geological repository, and many countries have developed plans for such a site, including...
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release of magnesium ions dissolving in brines intruding the deep geological repository is also expected to minimize the geochemical disruption. As a...
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Horizontal drillhole disposal (redirect from Deep Horizontal Drillhole Disposal)
in deep horizontal boreholes instead of in more traditional deep geological repositories that are excavated like mines. The design concept is intended...
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would be one of the more mobile and troublesome radionuclides in deep geological repository disposal of nuclear waste. Reprocessed uranium often carries traces...
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Bruce nuclear site in Tiverton, Ontario. OPG proposed to build a deep geological repository adjacent to the WWMF to serve as a long-term storage solution...
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