The purex process can be modified to make a urex uranium extraction process which could be used to save space inside high level nuclear waste disposal sites such as the yucca mountain nuclear waste repository by removing the uranium which makes up the vast majority of the mass and volume of used fuel and recycling it as reprocessed uranium. Locations of low level waste disposal facilities the four active licensed low level waste disposal facilities are located in agreement states see map additional information about the facilities may be found at the web sites maintained by the respective agreement states. Bush approved development of the facility but since then the project has been challenged by many groups.
The proposed yucca mountain storage facility located in nevada about 100 miles 160 9 kilometers northwest of las vegas is a good example of the problems associated with nuclear waste disposal. Develops guidance for environmental compliance and oversees the decommissioning and cleanup of contaminated sites safe management and disposal of llw and uranium recovery. The office of nuclear material safety and safeguards nmss develops and implements nrc policy for the regulation and safe management and disposal of spent fuel and hlw.
The cnsc is proposing that nuclear facility operators consider the strategy of in situ decommissioning to place the facility or portions of the facility in a safe and secure condition in which some or all of the radioactive contaminants are disposed of in place which may result in the creation of a waste disposal site draft regdoc. The plant is at pinawa which is 113. The federal regulator is reviewing a plan to bury nuclear waste at the site of the former research centre owned by the firm canadian nuclear laboratories.
Adjacent to bradwell nuclear power station in essex ministry of defence land on potton island 8 km from. Sites shortlisted by nirex as potential nuclear waste dumps in the late 1980s colon. The international atomic energy agency iaea definition b of this option is the disposal of waste with or without engineered barriers in.
Additional ideas have also been considered and discounted in the past see section on other ideas for disposal below and information paper on international nuclear waste disposal concepts. The site is located on federal land adjacent to the nevada test site in nye county nevada about 80 mi 130 km. The yucca mountain nuclear waste repository as designated by the nuclear waste policy act amendments of 1987 is a proposed deep geological repository storage facility within yucca mountain for spent nuclear fuel and other high level radioactive waste in the united states.
The united states is home to 21 stranded nuclear waste storage sites according to a new map from the congressional research service that displays a total of 80 sites where the country s.
