Chemical reprocessing at Hanford would generate 22, 000 tonnes of high-level waste and 500, 000 tonnes of low-level waste.
They contain another, much less radioactive waste called transuranic waste (TRU waste) that is thousands of times less radioactive than high-level waste.
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The bags, which contained waste such as plastic, wood and metal, should have been sent to the Low Level Waste Repository, at Drigg.
New Mexico, in agreeing to WIPP, required that Congress enshrine in law a promise that the feds would not send high-level waste into the state.
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The high-level waste would then be enclosed in glass canisters and buried deep underground while the low-level waste was stored above ground in special secure facilities.
No operating high-level waste dump exists anywhere in the world.
Tokyo Electric is now grappling with where to put the stuff, even dumping thousands of tons of less-radioactive water into the Pacific to make room for it in a reservoir for low-level waste.
What if we could build a nuclear reactor that offered no possibility of a meltdown, generated its power inexpensively, created no weapons-grade by-products, and burnt up existing high-level waste as well as old nuclear weapon stockpiles?
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This would typically be a manufacturer, distributor, licensed radioactive waste broker, or a licensed low-level radioactive waste disposal facility.
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Nevada's Yucca Mountain is the "furthest along and most advanced" high-level nuclear waste repository, Cheney said.
Copeland and Allerdale have been earmarked as potential sites to store high-level radioactive waste.
Higher level radioactive waste will then be sent to a dedicated waste management facility.
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Rare earth minerals are often mixed with radioactive elements, and processing creates low-level radioactive waste.
Britain needs to find a site for the long-term underground disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
Sellafield nuclear firm has pleaded guilty to sending bags of low-level radioactive waste to a landfill site.
Thousands of barrels of low level radioactive waste were dumped in the trench in the 1950s and 1960s.
And he's also pointed out that the problem of the country's high level nuclear waste hasn't gone away.
It has an advantage over competition in that the company operates a mile-square low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) facility in Clive, Utah.
Britain needs to find a site for the long-term underground disposal of high-level radioactive waste as some if it stays dangerous for 100, 000 years.
The Sellafield plant is the UK's largest and most hazardous nuclear site, storing enough high and intermediate level radioactive waste to fill 27 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
President George W. Bush approved Yucca Mountain as the site to store the U.S.'s spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste, but President Barack Obama cancelled work on the project in 2009.
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The amount of waste from households in Somerset has fallen to its lowest level since the 1980s, the county's waste and recycling service has said.
Their goal: fight food waste at the first level of production and offer healthy food at an affordable price.
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Gardner explains that dealing with waste issues at the federal level has historically been problematic.
Dodge's house is an early-1980s split-level ranch, with a large construction waste bin full of refuse in the front yard and a shutter hanging askew next to the window above the garage.
If Walmart is able to replicate their efforts on a national level, an 80 percent reduction in waste would be the equivalent of preventing 11.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year.
Cutting waste in health care can shift down the level of spending.
Mr Walker said the waste management department absenteeism rate had remained at a similar level.
Yet any waste of a valuable resource is offensive at a visceral level.
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