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    High-level radioactive waste management addresses the handling of radioactive materials generated from nuclear power production and nuclear weapons manufacture...
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    and other waste streams created by nuclear reprocessing. Waste formed by vitrification of liquid high-level waste. Liquid high-level waste is typically...
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    Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. Radioactive waste is a result of many activities, including nuclear...
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    Low-level waste (LLW) or Low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) is nuclear waste that does not fit into the categorical definitions for intermediate-level waste...
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  • Nuclear waste (see Radioactive waste) Organic waste Packaging waste Post-consumer waste Radioactive waste Low-level waste High-level waste Mixed waste...
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  • Radioactive waste disposal may refer to: High-level radioactive waste management Low-level waste disposal Ocean disposal of radioactive waste Ocean floor...
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  • (DOE) proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project, Federal high-level radioactive waste management program, and related Federal programs...
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    facility within Yucca Mountain for spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive waste in the United States. The site is on federal land adjacent to...
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    Waste management laws govern the transport, treatment, storage, and disposal of all manner of waste, including municipal solid waste, hazardous waste...
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  • Geomelting Treatment Nuclear transmutation Nuclear reprocessing PUREX Nuclear technology portal Nuclear power High-level radioactive waste management...
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    and surface runoff), radioactive waste, and others. What constitutes waste depends on the eye of the beholder; one person's waste can be a resource for...
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    hazardous or radioactive waste within a stable geologic environment, typically 200–1,000 m deep. It entails a combination of waste form, waste package, engineered...
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    program. Organic wastes can be destroyed by incineration at high temperatures. However, if the waste contains heavy metals or radioactive isotopes, these...
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    Bioremediation of radioactive waste or bioremediation of radionuclides is an application of bioremediation based on the use of biological agents bacteria...
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    high-level radioactive waste management, which includes looking for a site for a repository for high-level radioactive waste that will guarantee the...
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    microorganisms within a landfill as they decompose organic waste, including for example, food waste and paper waste. Landfill gas is approximately forty to sixty percent...
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  • Polyethylene High Impact Polystyrene High Level Waste High Temperature Incineration Household hazardous waste Household Waste Recycling Centre Hydrofluorocarbon...
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  • operation of existing radioactive waste repositories; preparation for the construction of a deep geological repository for high-level waste; maintaining records...
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  • have come in contact with radioactive materials". Waste is generally categorized as high level waste (HLW) and low-level waste (LLW). LLW contains materials...
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    Intermediate-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Center (WLDC) is a facility used to safely house low- to intermediate-level radioactive waste (LILW) at Gyeongju...
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    spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste were required to pay the costs of disposal of such radioactive materials. The waste program, which was...
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  • COPLR Code of Practice for Litter and Refuse CoRWM Committee on Radioactive Waste Management COSHH Control of Substances Hazardous to Health CoTC Certificate...
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    secondary during the early development stage. Initially Mayak dumped high-level radioactive waste into a nearby river, which flowed to the river Ob, flowing farther...
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    List of waste management companies List of waste management topics List of waste types Mixed waste (radioactive/hazardous) National Priorities List (in the...
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  • advanced reprocessing, plutonium fuel fabrication and high-level radioactive waste management. It succeeded the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development...
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  • weapons • Nuclear and radiation accidents • Nuclear safety • High-level radioactive waste management Ocean trash — Garbage patch • Ghost net • Washed Ashore...
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    waters. Industrial waste is often mixed into municipal waste, making accurate assessments difficult. An estimate for the US goes as high as 7.6 billion tons...
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  • selected for Australia's national radioactive waste management facility, where domestically-generated nuclear waste would be stored. Construction was...
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    similar to those for higher-level radioactive waste, using various depths of borehole depending on the activity of the waste. A notorious incident of neglect...
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    containment of radioactive gases—the primary focus of most reactor containment buildings—and the confinement of solid radioactive waste, which is the primary...
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