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Listed below are a number of proposed "solutions" to combat ... ) has fallen out of favor in the U.S. because the spent fuel rods are highly radiactive and must be stored for several million years ... clean (spent materials would need to be stored for less than 100 years) and there is a nearly limitless supply of fuel in the ...
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Nuclear Waste
Spent fuel ... licensed by NRC for temporary storage of spent fuel. Private Fuel Storage (PFS) has submitted an application to the NRC for a license to store spent fuel on the reservation of the ...
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ECNT » Current Campaigns » Other » Toxics & Waste - Nuclear Waste Dump
Lucas Heights reactors in Sydney, NOT for hospital waste and other low-level waste. These reprocessed spent fuel rods are amongst the most highly ... Ph. ECNT on 8981 1984 for a copy. $29.95 each. » PDF Downloads: Spent Nuclear Fuel - Reprocessing and Repositories. A report by Jim Green, National Nulcear Campaigner, Friends of the ...
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EIA Kids Page - Energy Field Trips with Energy Ant to North Anna Power Station
The spent fuel rods are placed in special containers at the bottom of a very deep pool of water (that looks like a swimming pool) to cool off. The rods ...
www.eia.doe.gov

Living on Earth Today: Pedaling Lewis & Clark
Spent fuel rods from the reactors were dissolved in nitric acid to separate out the plutonium. Enormous amounts ...
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OCRWM - Disposal Options
Transmutation Reprocessing (recycycling) spent nuclear fuel involves using a chemical process to separate out plutonium and fissionable uranium from spent fuel rods. This process can reduce ... spent nuclear fuel, then changing the radioactive elements into generally shorter-lived substances. If developed, this technology could reduce the amount of time that some of the elements in spent fuel ...
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OCRWM - Waste Packages
Transportation, Aging and Disposal (TAD) canister. Under normal conditions, the rods will permanently remain in the ... four times per fuel assembly. The Department of Energy is currently working with vendors to design TAD canisters that meet Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirements. U.S. Navy spent fuel and glass ...
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Yucca Mountain highlight just how impossible it is going to be to deal with spent fuel rods) unless we find a solution to creating wind farms, which are the only quick, viable ... waste issue cannot be addressed rationally. And the problem of creating a single site for spent nuclear waste does not even address the serious problem of transporting that waste across our ...
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Food Irradiation | Radiation Protection | US EPA
However, there are also large cesium-137 irradiators and the Army has also used spent fuel rods for irradiation. Top of page What are the sources of radiation used? The food irradiation ...
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U.S. Warns North Korea Against Nuclear Test - New York Times
If the rods are reprocessed, they could yield enough plutonium for ... either a nuclear test or the removal of more nuclear fuel from a North Korean reactor. North Korea's ability to strike ...
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