radioactive waste storage site

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• 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

• waste — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 missing an opportunity to do/use sth ADJECTIVE ▪ absolute, complete, total, utter ▪ The whole thing has been a complete waste of time. ▪ big, colossal …   Collocations dictionary

• Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository — Yucca Mountain The proposed design …   Wikipedia

• Nevada National Security Site — Nevada Test Site November 1951 nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. Test is shot Dog from Operation Buster, with a yield of 21 kilotonnes of TNT (88 TJ). It was the f …   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

• Dry cask storage — Example of a dry cask storage area. Dry cask storage is a method of storing high level radioactive waste, such as spent nuclear fuel that has already been cooled in the spent fuel pool for at least one year.[1]. These casks are typically …   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

• Hanford Site — The Hanford Site is a decommissioned nuclear production complex on the Columbia River in south central Washington operated by the United States government. The site has been known by many names, including Hanford Works, Hanford Engineer Works,… …   Wikipedia

• Hazardous waste in the United States — Under United States environmental policy, a hazardous waste is a waste (usually a solid waste) that has the potential to:*cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating… …   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