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The Enduring Problem of Nuclear Reactor Waste
The problem of nuclear reactor waste will have to be resolved as nuclear energy becomes more frequently adopted as the ...
The future of nuclear energy depends on moving past the politics of nuclear waste and implementing long-overdue reforms.
The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository site in southern Nevada has been a proposed long-term solution for spent nuclear fuel for decades. Nevada officials generally have fought the project ...
At a townhall, Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray addressed concerns about Radiant Nuclear proposed nuclear project in Bar ...
Wyoming lawmakers are wrestling with whether to green light potentially numerous nuclear waste sites throughout the state.
Yucca Mountain is located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. It was chosen in the late 1980s as a possible storage site for waste material from nuclear power plants.
The United States alone has 85,000 metric tons of nuclear waste, which is increasing at a rate of 2,000 metric tons per year.6 The most dangerous of this waste is designated high-level waste (HLW), ...
The Nuclear Waste Administration Act would essentially yank responsibility from the Department of Energy (which has spent more than $10 billion on moribund Yucca Mountain, once seen as a potential ...
In 2021, the commission approved temporary storage sites in Texas due to nuclear power plants running out of space, and the planned permanent underground storage facility in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain.
The government began issuing regulations to allow private licenses for spent nuclear fuel storage in the 1980s, a few years before Congress designated Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the permanent ...
The Supreme Court ruled a company can store nuclear waste at a facility near the Texas -New Mexico state line. Nuclear experts say the 6-3 ruling could free up private companies to keep nuclear was… ...
The NRC granted the Texas license to Interim Storage Partners, based in Andrews, Texas, for a facility that could take up to 5,500 tons (5,000 metric tons) of spent nuclear fuel rods from power ...