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3 unusual facts about radioactive waste


Höfer, Germany

Radioactive waste from the deep geological repository Schacht Asse II in the Wolfenbüttel district and ashes from waste incineration facilities, containing toxic metals, were frequently transported to the mine Mariaglück.

Industrial wastewater treatment

The waste production from the nuclear and radio-chemicals industry is dealt with as Radioactive waste.

Texas gubernatorial election, 1998

Mauro attacked Bush for his position on teachers salaries and support for a nuclear waste dump in Sierra Blanca.


Hanford Site

On February 15, 2013, Governor Jay Inslee announced a tank storing radioactive waste at the site is leaking liquids on average of 150 to 300 gallons per year.

International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation

The International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC) formerly the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) began as a U.S. proposal, announced by United States Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman on February 6, 2006, to form an international partnership to promote the use of nuclear power and close the nuclear fuel cycle in a way that reduces nuclear waste and the risk of nuclear proliferation.

Uranium-238

DUCRETE, a concrete made with uranium dioxide aggregate instead of gravel, is being investigated as a material for dry cask storage systems to store radioactive waste.


see also

Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact

The Central Interstate Low Level Radioactive Waste Compact and US Ecology purchased land 2 miles west of Butte, Nebraska in the early 1990s with the intention of placing a dump site there.

Cetraro

According to Fonti a manager of Enea paid the clan to get rid of 600 drums of toxic and radioactive waste from Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, and the US, with Somalia as the destination, where the waste was buried after buying off local politicians.

FEPs

Features, events, and processes, which are terms used in the field of radioactive waste management to define relevant scenarios for safety assessment studies.

Morsleben radioactive waste repository

The first partial authorization for retrievable storage of 500 cubic meters of radioactive waste from the crowded central storage depot in Lohmen near Dresden, East Germany was granted in 1971/72.

Operation Roller Coaster

Contaminated soil was transported to the Area 3 Radioactive Waste Management Site in the Nevada National Security Site and the sites were re-vegetated.

Studsvik

Studsvik has a radioactive waste processing facility in Erwin, Tennessee in the US, which opened in 2000.