What this means for nuclear waste disposal is even more dramatic, but more on that later!
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It said Rosneft had also carried out a study focused on nuclear waste disposal in the Kara Sea.
Funding for the program will be scaled back while the administration works on a new strategy for nuclear waste disposal, the document says.
Councillor Woodburn said she accepted talks about Cumbria were at an end, but that nuclear waste disposal in the county was at "limbo".
It is charged with deciding safety issues for the major nuclear programs such as relicensing existing reactors, evaluating proposals for nuclear waste disposal designs, evaluating new designs for the next generation reactors and the small modular reactors.
Berkely said transporting the nuclear waste to Nevada will damage the environment and do little to remedy the nation's nuclear-waste disposal dilemma.
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Now it's getting another underground claim to fame: a huge nuclear-waste disposal site.
Funny thing is, for the last 20 years, there's been a pretty good solution for burying nuclear waste: deep borehole disposal.
Councillors voted 21 to 13 against formally expressing interest in the government's facility for the geological disposal of nuclear waste.
The government is implementing a policy of geological disposal of nuclear waste and has invited communities' opinions on the planned facility.
Nuclear is dangerous because the disposal of radioactive waste remains unsolved and because it increases the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation.
Its services include engineering, decontamination, radioactive waste processing, and removal, transportation, and disposal of waste for closed nuclear power plants and former weapons sites.
Decades of improper radioactive waste disposal earned Hanford the notorious distinction of being most contaminated nuclear site in the Western Hemisphere.
And then there are some really nasty forms of industrial waste, such as spent nuclear fuel, for which no universally accepted disposal methods have thus far been developed.
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