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[en] The United States Department of energy, after considering a number of alternative disposal methods for radioactive wastes in the United States, Proposed that these wastes should be disposed of in deep geologic repositories. This alternative is currently being developed at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), for transuranic waste, and investigated at Yucca Mountain, for spent power-reactor fuel and vitrified high-level waste, the latter resulting principally from defense activities. In addition, a research program on subseabed disposal was active from 1973 until 1987 but is currently suspended. The two deep-geologic disposal projects are discussed in detail and the subseabed-disposal research project is briefly summarized. 28 refs., 39 figs., 4 tabs
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1990; 67 p; US fact-finding mission on waste management; Moscow (USSR); 15-20 Jun 1990; CONF-9006193--1; CONTRACT AC04-76DP00789; NTIS, PC A04/MF A01 as DE90012245; OSTI; INIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep
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ALLOY-ZR98SN-2, ALLOY-ZR98SN-4, ALPHA-BEARING WASTES, BOREHOLES, BWR TYPE REACTORS, CASKS, FUEL RODS, HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES, INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTO, LAW, MARINE DISPOSAL, PWR TYPE REACTORS, RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL, REGULATIONS, SITE SELECTION, SPENT FUELS, SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTO, UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL, UNDERGROUND FACILITIES, URANIUM 235, URANIUM DIOXIDE, WATER COOLED REACTORS, WIPP, YUCCA MOUNTAIN
ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS, ACTINIDE NUCLEI, ALLOYS, ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, CAVITIES, CHALCOGENIDES, CHROMIUM ADDITIONS, CONTAINERS, CORROSION RESISTANT ALLOYS, ENERGY SOURCES, ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS, EVEN-ODD NUCLEI, FUEL ELEMENTS, FUELS, FUNCTIONAL MODELS, HEAT RESISTING ALLOYS, HEAVY NUCLEI, IRON ADDITIONS, ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES, ISOTOPES, MANAGEMENT, MATERIALS, MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, MOUNTAINS, NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, NICKEL ADDITIONS, NUCLEAR FACILITIES, NUCLEAR FUELS, NUCLEI, OXIDES, OXYGEN COMPOUNDS, PILOT PLANTS, POWER REACTORS, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES, RADIOACTIVE WASTES, RADIOISOTOPES, REACTOR COMPONENTS, REACTOR MATERIALS, REACTORS, THERMAL REACTORS, TIN ALLOYS, URANIUM COMPOUNDS, URANIUM ISOTOPES, URANIUM OXIDES, US DOE, US ORGANIZATIONS, WASTE DISPOSAL, WASTE MANAGEMENT, WASTES, WATER MODERATED REACTORS, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, ZIRCALOY, ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS, ZIRCONIUM BASE ALLOYS
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