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    A deep geological repository is a way of storing hazardous or radioactive waste within a stable geologic environment, typically 200–1,000 m below the surface...
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  • The Deep Geologic Repository Project (DGR) was a proposal by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) in 2002 for the site preparation, construction, operation,...
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    Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, as designated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act amendments of 1987, is a proposed deep geological repository storage facility...
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  • Thumbnail for Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository
    The Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository is a deep geological repository for the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel. It is near the Olkiluoto Nuclear...
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    exploring various disposal strategies, usually focusing on a deep geological repository, though progress in implementing these long-term solutions has...
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  • Thumbnail for Morsleben radioactive waste repository
    Morsleben Radioactive Waste Repository (German: Endlager für radioaktive Abfälle Morsleben-ERAM) is a deep geological repository for radioactive waste in...
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    subsequently converted into a glass-like ceramic for storage in a deep geological repository. The time radioactive waste must be stored depends on the type...
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    have been linked to underground engineering problems, such as deep geological repository. In general, microcracks in rock can be subdivided into four groups:...
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  • WIPP may refer to: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a deep geological repository for nuclear waste Women in Periodical Publishing (today known as Exceptional...
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    Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (category Radioactive waste repositories in the United States)
    or WIPP, in New Mexico, US, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht...
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  • deep boreholes instead of in more traditional deep geological repositories that are excavated like mines. Deep borehole disposal seeks to place the waste...
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    deep geological repository. This also contributes to increase the total waste volume and the number of disposal galleries in a geological repository....
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    sole organization in Canada working towards the development of a deep geological repository (DGR) for the long-term storage of used nuclear fuel from Canadian...
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    moratoria on new nuclear power until a storage solution emerges". A deep geological repository seems to be the favored approach to storing nuclear waste. On...
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  • Posiva (category Radioactive waste repositories)
    currently constructing the Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository, the world's first deep geological repository, at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant site. Posiva's...
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  • essential that the Czech Republic constructs its own deep geological repository. The deep geological repository will provide a facility in which high-level waste...
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    Natural nuclear fission reactor (category Radioactive waste repositories)
    as they are today, which implies that α was the same too. Deep geological repository Geology of Gabon Mounana Kuroda, P. K. (1956). "On the Nuclear Physical...
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    then. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository is the proposed U.S. Department of Energy deep geological repository storage facility for spent nuclear...
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    conduct tests on the suitability of sedimentary rock for use as a deep geological repository for Japan's spent nuclear fuel (a similar research facility in...
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    place for radioactive waste is planned. The salt dome Gorleben, a deep geological repository is proposed. Moreover, an interim storage for spent nuclear fuel...
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    generally accepted that the final waste will be disposed of in a deep geological repository, and many countries have developed plans for such a site, including...
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  • Thumbnail for Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs
    contracts with waste producers. ANDRA is responsible for the Cigéo deep geological repository project. ANDRA is currently based at five locations: The head...
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  • Bose–Einstein condensate (also known as superatom) Minor actinide Deep geological repository, a place to deposit transuranic waste Pluto was a planet at the...
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    United States has planned disposal in deep geological formations, such as the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, where it has to be shielded and packaged...
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    Konrad mine (category Radioactive waste repositories)
    mine (Schacht Konrad) is a former iron ore mine proposed as a deep geological repository for medium- and low level radioactive waste in the city Salzgitter...
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    not correctly executed and/or the wrong conclusions were drawn. Deep geological repository Spent nuclear fuel "Our methodology". McEwan, Tim; Savage, David...
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  • Underground Research Laboratory (category Radioactive waste repositories)
    The Underground Research Laboratory was a test site for deep geological repository of nuclear waste operated by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's (AECL's)...
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    release of magnesium ions dissolving in brines intruding the deep geological repository is also expected to minimize the geochemical disruption. As a...
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    for the construction of the Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository, a deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel, is going on (as of Q4 2022). The...
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    Sellafield (category Radioactive waste repositories)
    Sellafield. Longer term it is hoped such waste would be consigned to a deep geological repository for permanent storage. The radioactive inventory and lack of modern...
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