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Radioactive waste management requires, as any other industrial activity, planned and systematic actions to provide adequate confidence that the entire system, processes and the products involved will satisfy...
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Historically, chemical separation or "reprocessing" technologies have been used to separate the plutonium and uranium in irradiated nuclear fuel from fission products and from other isotopes that have...
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05-08-2007
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Meeting the environmental challenges inherited from the Cold War and making informed and responsible nuclear weapons waste disposal decisions calls for our attention and commitment.When the Governors of...
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05-16-2007
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The European Union's energy policy is of primary importance in the Community strategy for sustainable development, supply and security. At the end of 2000, the European Commission published a Green Paper...
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05-18-2007
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Radioactive waste arises from many sources, including medical and industrial activities, as well as power stations and fuel reprocessing. The waste can be in a gaseous, liquid or solid state, but the most...
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05-16-2007
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Radioactive wastes are generated in a number of different kinds of facilities and arise in a wide range of concentrations of radioactive materials and in a variety of physical and chemical forms. There...
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06-18-2007
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GAO identified several changes in LLRW disposal availability and federal agency oversight since its 1999 report that have had or might have significant impacts on LLRW management by the states. For example...
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06-18-2007
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Academic, industrial, medical, utility, and government entities in the United States, particularly the Department of Energy (DOE)—commercially disposed of at least 15-million cubic feet of low-level radioactive...
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06-18-2007
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A SCIAM article that discusses the basic development and advantages of the fastreactor/pyroprocessing system.
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The Department of Energy (DOE) is working to obtain a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to construct a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The project, which began...
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