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The Japanese government and nuclear power ... of spent fuel and other high-level radioactive waste. Authorities finally settled on the approach of burying waste deep underground at facilities ...

The ongoing assessment of areas to host a final disposal facility for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants ... there is a possibility of underground coal, so the entire town ...

Finland's $4 billion Onkalo project consists of a six-mile network of underground ... of-its-kind nuclear waste repository after Posiva proposed using it to permanently house high-level ...

High-level radioactive waste, generated from spent nuclear fuel, emits radiation ... in 2000 stipulates that the waste must be buried underground at a depth greater than 300 meters.

and can store 3500 cubic metres of them and high-level waste. 'Lot 3' is a near-surface storage facility for low- and intermediate-level short-lived waste with a capacity of 55,000 cubic metres. It ...

First, finding a place to dispose of this high-level nuclear waste. The current consensus is that burying the waste deep underground in geological disposal facilities (GDFs) is probably the safest ...

said that nuclear waste storage is dangerous. “You’re talking about a high level of nuclear waste from commercial plants. It’s one of the most deadly substances known to mankind,” Kamps said.

Despite growing support for nuclear energy nationally and ... But state law still prohibits high-level radioactive waste storage, as envisioned in HB 16, unless the federal government establishes ...

NRC issued a license to ISP to construct and operate an interim storage facility designed to hold up to 5,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste from nuclear ...

Legislation passed last year allowing nuclear waste to be stored at Osborne, but the government says a location for any high-level waste storage is still to be decided. A former senator has ...