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    Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, is a proposed deep geological repository storage...
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    plans to use Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a repository for nuclear waste. Trump's previous budgets have included funding for Yucca Mountain but, according...
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    site of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, which is currently identified by Congressional law as the nation's spent nuclear waste storage facility...
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    casks of waste. After approximately 75 years, the waste will be completely isolated from the environment. The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository is an...
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    defense-related waste, and this is expected to increase to 119,000 tonnes (260 million pounds) by 2035. The U.S. opted for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, a...
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    by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository for the first 10,000 years after closure. The U.S. EPA's...
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    planned disposal in deep geological formations, such as the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, where it has to be shielded and packaged to prevent its...
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    inadvertently encountering radioactive waste stored at sites like the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. The task force suggested "oral transmission"...
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    of highly radioactive wastes. The US Congress amended the act in 1987 to designate Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as the sole repository. The act allowed Nevada...
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    Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, but the project was shelved in 2009 following years of controversy and legal wrangling. Yucca Mountain is on Native...
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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 reactor...
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    level nuclear waste. The storage was not designed to house spent fuel permanently, but when plans for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository were terminated...
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  • radioactive waste policy of the United States Radioactive waste Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository Classification...
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    in southern Nye County, near Yucca Mountain. The Nevada Test Site and proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository are in southwestern Nye County...
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    following the ending of work on the incomplete Yucca Mountain Repository. At present, there are 70 nuclear power plant sites where 65,000 tons of spent...
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  • disposal, interim storage is necessary. As the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository – like elsewhere in the world – is controversial, on- or...
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    corrosion”. With the zeroing of the budget for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, more nuclear waste is being loaded into sealed metal casks...
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  • Department of Energy's (DOE) proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project, Federal high-level radioactive waste management program, and related...
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  • disposal Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Grigory Pasko Nuclear fuel cycle Radioactive waste Great Lakes Basin § Nuclear power...
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  • The film is about a team of technicians who go to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository to investigate problems concerning power and communications...
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  • of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, using a nuclear device assembled from radioactive material stolen from an abandoned nuclear waste storage...
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    The first boring machine reported to have been built was Henri Maus's Mountain Slicer. Commissioned by the King of Sardinia in 1845 to dig the Fréjus...
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    used to save space inside high level nuclear waste disposal sites, such as the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, by removing the uranium which makes...
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  • concerns. These anti-nuclear concerns related to nuclear accidents, nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism and radioactive waste disposal. In the early...
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    Gregory Jaczko (category Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials)
    block the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project from advancing. After leaving the NRC, Jaczko called for a global ban on nuclear power. Gregory...
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    Station Nuclear Power Plant construction site in New Hampshire for 20,000 opponents of the reactor. Shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident...
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    used to save space inside high level nuclear waste disposal sites, such as Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, by removing the uranium which makes...
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    Robert Ferguson (physicist) (category American nuclear physicists)
    down the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project. Ferguson was the author of two books based on government mismanagement of nuclear waste and spent...
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    that a repository will contain waste for so long that future containment breaches will pose no significant health or environmental risks. Nuclear reprocessing...
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    campaigns relating to the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Plant, the Idaho National Laboratory, Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository proposal, the Hanford Site,...
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