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high-level waste

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noun

  1. radioactive waste material, such as spent nuclear fuel initially having a high activity and thus needing constant cooling for several decades by its producers before it can be reprocessed or treated Compare intermediate-level waste low-level waste

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Those rules would allow the agency to reclassify some high-level waste based on its radioactive concentrations.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024

A recent Royal Commission report argues that South Australia could profit by storing high-level waste from nuclear reactors overseas, buried deep underground at a location still to be chosen. 

From Reuters ● Aug. 17, 2016

But he said the groups in southeastern New Mexico, western Texas and Mississippi are only the most public of potential hosts to express interest in taking in high-level waste.

From Washington Times ● May 26, 2014

New Mexico, in agreeing to WIPP, required that Congress enshrine in law a promise that the feds would not send high-level waste into the state.

From Forbes ● Jan. 25, 2012

“Apparently, the N.R.C.’s senior leadership is ineffective in upholding the integrity of this agency,” said Aby Mohseni, acting director of the commission’s division for high-level waste repository safety.

From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2011

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