Waste Management

US / DOE Told To Study Other Countries In Bid To Finalise Radwaste Programme

By David Dalton
6 May 2021

‘Long and tortuous’ process has taken toll on workforce capacity
DOE Told To Study Other Countries In Bid To Finalise Radwaste Programme
Congress has not funded the Yucca Mountain repository project in Nevada since 2010.
There are significant opportunities for the US Department of Energy to increase its preparedness for creating a “unified and integrated” programme for the storage, transportation, and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, a report by the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board says.

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