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    The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, in New Mexico, US, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive...
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    written records, tables, figures, graphs, maps and diagrams The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant has done extensive research in development of written or pictorial...
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    Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in the United States went into service in 1999 by putting the first cubic metres of transuranic radioactive waste in...
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  • variations of High, Medium/Intermediate, and Low Level waste. "THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT LAND WITHDRAWAL ACT as amended by Public Law 104-201 (H...
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  • at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. SWEPP is part of the Radioactive Waste Management Complex, located southwest of EBR-I. Radioactive Waste Management...
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    of its transuranic waste from nuclear weapons production 2,150 feet (660 m) below the surface at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico) and American...
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  • pool Spent nuclear fuel shipping cask (transportation) Synroc Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Deep borehole disposal Vitrification / Geomelting Treatment Nuclear...
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    Clean Tech Revolution Three Mile Island accident health effects Waste Isolation Pilot Plant "Electricity and the environment - U.S. Energy Information Administration...
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  • area known as "nuclear alley", which also includes the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and Waste Control Specialists. 23 June 2006: LES was granted license...
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  • River Site and the Hanford Site Operation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - the US nuclear waste repository Elimination of chemical and biological...
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    considered it; plans for storing waste at Yucca Mountain were scrapped in 2010, while the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant opted for granite monuments and buried...
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    MgO is packed in bags around transuranic waste in the disposal cells (panels) at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, as a CO2 getter to minimize the complexation...
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    York state. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, was designed as a pilot, test study site for deep geologic storage of radioactive waste. It is managed by...
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    Long-time nuclear waste warning messages The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in the United States is for transuranic waste from dismantled nuclear weapons. Asse...
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  • nuclear waste repository Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Grigory Pasko Nuclear fuel cycle Radioactive waste Great Lakes Basin § Nuclear power plants Decommissioning...
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    military facilities at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in a deep salt formation in New Mexico. A future way to reduce waste accumulation is to phase...
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    on 28 September 2006. "How do we warn future generations about our toxic waste?". newhumanist.org.uk. 5 May 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022. "The Long Now...
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    is located in this county. Eddy County is the location of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. In 1866, Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving drove vast herds...
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    Nuclear power (section Waste)
    of nuclear power plants and facilities produce radioactive waste, or nuclear waste. This type of waste is also produced during plant decommissioning....
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    of shipments of transuranic waste were contained and sent by truck and by rail to the DOE's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Project in New Mexico...
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    "radioactive sludge" ruptured while being prepared for transport to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Southeast New Mexico for permanent storage. The 55-gallon...
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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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    Carlsbad lobbied for the establishment of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a site where low-level nuclear waste would be stored thousands of feet underground...
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    waste (TRU). These require different disposal pathways. TRU wastes from the U.S. nuclear weapons complex is currently disposed at the Waste Isolation...
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    contaminated buildings continued with the waste materials being shipped to the Nevada Test Site, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, and the Envirocare...
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    M. (1993). "The Advantages of a Salt/Bentonite Backfill for Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Disposal Rooms" (PDF). MRS Proceedings. 333: 911. doi:10.1557/PROC-333-911...
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    Vale 144 °F (80 °C)  New Mexico 122 °F (50 °C) June 27, 1994 Waste Isolation Pilot Plant −57 °F (−49.4 °C) January 13, 1963 Ciniza 179 °F (99.4 °C) New...
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  • cleanup work was completed in November 2021. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, New Mexico "Plutonium Finishing Plant" (PDF). Hanford / US Govt. Archived from the...
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    anti-nuclear groups at the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Plant, the Idaho National Laboratory, Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository proposal, the Hanford Site, the...
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    for storing reactor waste". Starting in 1999, military-generated nuclear waste is being entombed at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. In a...
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