The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) has met its goal to complete eight shipments of transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico for permanent disposal ...
As the result of a congressional mandate, the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Nuclear Security Administration has asked the National Academies to evaluate the general feasibility of DOE’s ...
FILE - A sign marks he Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, March 6, 2014, near Carlsbad, N.M. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File) ...
Adrian HeddenCarlsbad [email protected] More nuclear waste is being sent from a federal national lab in the state of Washington to the underground repository near Carlsbad.… ...
A private company that designs and manufactures parts for nuclear reactors has abandoned a project in New Mexico that sought to store nuclear waste from commercial power plants for an unspecified ...
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What should countries do with their nuclear waste? Management strategies focus on radionuclide iodine-129
One of the highest-risk components of nuclear waste is iodine-129 (I-129), which stays radioactive for millions of years and accumulates in human thyroids when ingested. In the U.S., nuclear waste ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Department of Energy will take more time to make a potentially controversial decision on where radioactive liquid waste from ...
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