The budget also cuts funding for the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage program.
Last night's Cumbria nuclear waste storage programme provoked a big response so here are some thoughts on your feedback.
Such units, for example, generally come with a nuclear waste storage containment device.
FORBES: After Fukushima, U.S. Seeks to Advance Small Nuclear Reactors
Plans to build a nuclear waste storage facility on Romney Marsh in Kent have been thrown out by Shepway council.
West Cumbria has been ruled out of current plans for an underground nuclear waste storage facility, energy minister Baroness Verma has said.
At present, 120 nuclear waste storage facilities exist in 39 states that hold 70, 000 tons of spent fuel, which is growing at 2, 000 metric tons a year.
The Obama Administration has abandoned development of a nuclear waste storage facility proposed for Yucca Mountain, Nevada in favor of emerging technologies for recycling and stabilizing spent fuel.
FORBES: U.S. nuclear fuel rods to sit in pools -- like those that failed in Japan -- until 2050
The other aspects of the build include the turbine halls, standby power generators and a pumping station for the cooling water, interim waste storage facilities as well as a visitors' centre.
State help will be limited to reforming the lengthy licensing process, streamlining the planning system and levying a charge on nuclear operators to pay for decommissioning and waste storage.
ECONOMIST: Nuclear power: The wind, the sun—and the atom | The
In January The U.S. Department of Energy adopted a new policy for the storage of nuclear waste, embarking on a plan to build two new interim storage sites and a new permanent storage facility.
And the current arrangements were criticised last year when a National Audit Office report raised concerns about the safety of storage of waste at Sellafield.
There is absolutely nothing you can do to improve the taste of beef more than dry aging it, which concentrates the flavor but is costly in terms of both storage and waste, as the meat shrinks significantly and loses weight.
FORBES: Ultimate Valentine's Day Dinner - With Mail Order Help
The shipments to Nevada will have reduced on-site storage of nuclear waste by just 4 percent, she added.
CNN: Nevada representative warns against nuclear waste storage
While the report focuses more on finding long-term storage for radioactive waste, it also considered the reprocessing of such fuel.
Transferring the spent fuel from wet to dry storage would allow the waste to be stored for decades longer or until a permanent home could be found, says GAO, in an earlier report.
The President understands that in order for this to be the type of source that it needs to be in the future, we do have to seek a permanent storage facility for that waste, and that's what he believes this commission will be charged to do.
The government's agreed solution to the storage question is to bury the nuclear waste.
IMechE says the simplicity and elegance of the Highview process is appealing, especially as it addresses not just the problem of storage but also the separate problem of waste industrial heat.
The company was granted permission in January to build a depot for its waste collection service, along with HGV and staff parking, skip storage and a vehicle depot.
Instead of sending their nuclear waste to France and Britain, the power stations will have to build local storage facilities.
All the nuclear waste created since Sizewell B started generating electricity in 1995 is currently stored on site under water in storage ponds.
应用推荐