Salt Waste Processing Facility — The Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) is a proposed nuclear waste treatment facility for the United States Department of Energy s Nuclear Reservation Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina. It is being designed and constructed by the… … Wikipedia
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant — The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is the world s second underground repository (after closure of the Germany s Asse Salt Mine in 1977) licensed to safely and permanently dispose of transuranic radioactive waste that is left from the… … Wikipedia
Salt in Cheshire — Cheshire is a county in North West England. Rock salt was laid down in this region some 220 million years ago, during the Triassic geological era. Seawater moved inland from an open sea, creating a chain of shallow salt marshes across what is… … Wikipedia
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Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository — Yucca Mountain The proposed design … Wikipedia
Nuclear Waste Policy Act — During the first 40 years that nuclear waste was being created in the United States, no legislation was enacted to manage its disposal. Nuclear waste, some of which remains dangerously radioactive with a half life of more than one million years,… … Wikipedia
Transuranic waste — is defined as: Waste containing more than 100 nanocuries of alpha emitting transuranic isotopes per gram of waste with half lives greater than 20 years, except for high level radioactive waste...All TRU elements are heavier than uranium, have… … Wikipedia
Molten salt reactor — scheme. A molten salt reactor (MSR) is a type of nuclear fission reactor in which the primary coolant, or even the fuel itself is a molten salt mixture. MSRs run at higher temperatures than water cooled reactors for higher thermodynamic… … Wikipedia
Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment — MSRE plant diagram The Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) was an experimental molten salt reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researching this technology through the 1960s; constructed by 1964, it went critical in 1965 and was… … Wikipedia
Hazardous waste in the United States — Under United States environmental policy, a hazardous waste is a waste (usually a solid waste) that has the potential to:*cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating… … Wikipedia
Rose Park, Salt Lake City, Utah — Rose Park is a neighborhood on the west side of Salt Lake City, Utah. Rose Park is one of the poorest sections of Salt Lake City, and among the most ethnically diverse areas in Utah Fact|date=September 2008. Of the 61 regions monitored by the… … Wikipedia