transuranic waste

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• Transuranic waste — is defined as: Waste containing more than 100 nanocuries of alpha emitting transuranic isotopes per gram of waste with half lives greater than 20 years, except for high level radioactive waste...All TRU elements are heavier than uranium, have… …   Wikipedia

• Waste Isolation Pilot Plant — The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is the world s second underground repository (after closure of the Germany s Asse Salt Mine in 1977) licensed to safely and permanently dispose of transuranic radioactive waste that is left from the… …   Wikipedia

• Radioactive waste — 2007 ISO radioactivity danger logo, designed in part for long term radioactive waste depositories which might survive into a far future time in which all knowledge of the meaning of present common radiation danger symbols and signs has been lost… …   Wikipedia

• Low level waste — (LLW) is a term used to describe nuclear waste that does not fit into the categorical definitions for high level waste (HLW), spent nuclear fuel (SNF), transuranic waste (TRU), or certain byproduct materials known as 11e(2) wastes, such as… …   Wikipedia

• High level waste — (HLW) is a type of nuclear waste that arises from the use of uranium fuel in a nuclear reactor and nuclear weapons processing. It contains the fission products and transuranic elements generated in the reactor core. HLW accounts for over 95% of… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear Waste Policy Act — During the first 40 years that nuclear waste was being created in the United States, no legislation was enacted to manage its disposal. Nuclear waste, some of which remains dangerously radioactive with a half life of more than one million years,… …   Wikipedia

• high level waste — noun radioactive waste from spent reactor fuel, which contains the fission products and transuranic elements generated in the reactor core; the most dangerous form of radioactive waste. Abbrev.: HLW Compare low level waste …  

• Deep geological repository — Technicians emplacing transuranic waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, near Carlsbad, New Mexico A deep geological repository is a nuclear waste repository excavated deep within a stable geologic environment (typically below 300 m or 1000… …   Wikipedia

• Savannah River Site — The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a nuclear materials processing center in the United States state of South Carolina, located on land in Aiken, Allendale and Barwnell Counties adjacent to the Savannah River 25 miles from Augusta, Georgia. It is… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear reactor — Core of CROCUS, a small nuclear reactor used for research at the EPFL in Switzerland This article is a subarticle of Nuclear power. A nuclear reactor is a device to initiate and control a sustained nuclear chain reaction. Most commonly they are… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear reactor technology — This article is a subarticle of Nuclear power .A nuclear reactor is a device in which nuclear chain reactions are initiated, controlled, and sustained at a steady rate, as opposed to a nuclear bomb, in which the chain reaction occurs in a… …   Wikipedia