Nevada's Yucca Mountain is the "furthest along and most advanced" high-level nuclear waste repository, Cheney said.
Three Cumbria councils have deferred plans to allow tests for a possible underground nuclear waste repository.
This is the proposal to use a Nevada mountain site as a nuclear waste repository.
Britain has been searching for a national waste repository for over 30 years.
The bags, which contained waste such as plastic, wood and metal, should have been sent to the Low Level Waste Repository, at Drigg.
Campaigners have called for the Lake District National Park to be excluded from a search for an underground nuclear waste repository in Cumbria.
BBC: Lake District National Park may host nuclear waste site
Maybe some company could offer a reprocessing service that gives the utility a smaller quantity of waste for the repository plus some nuclear fuel to help offset the cost.
Councils in west Cumbria have expressed an interest in hosting an underground repository for waste from the Sellafield reprocessing plant.
BBC: Lake District National Park fears over nuclear waste store
Unknown to most, the United States has an operating deep permanent geologic repository for nuclear waste, called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP.
Whether it's at Yucca or somewhere else, having a central repository of nuclear waste would be a better solution than keeping it at the individual nuclear plant sites, Was said.
Prior to my present position, I was Director of the New Mexico State University Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center, the independent and academic monitoring facility for the Department of Energy WIPP, a little-known deep geologic nuclear repository for bomb waste.
Prior to my present position, I was Director of the New Mexico State University Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center, the independent and academic monitoring facility for the Department of Energy's WIPP site, a little-known deep geologic nuclear repository for bomb waste.
Under NWPA, DOE is required to permanently dispose of spent nuclear fuel (as well as defense HLW) in a deep underground repository, and to take physical control of the waste beginning in 1998.
In fact, more nuclear waste has gone into WIPP than was ever destined for that other famous nuclear repository, Yucca Mountain.
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