radioactive waste repository

From 1981 an area of the site was gazetted as a low-level radioactive waste repository.

Two radioactive waste repositories are already in operation.

Lucas Heights is a high level radioactive waste repository with spent fuel rods put straight in the ground.

Heathgate should be establishing their own radioactive waste repository on the Beverley site.

Negotiations between Commonwealth and State governments for the establishment of a national radioactive waste repository began in 1979.

In 1998-1999 it put forward a proposal for a high level radioactive waste repository to be built in remote central Australia.

The council's frustration threatens to undermine the government's attempts to persuade it to host the country's first high-level radioactive waste repository.

The identification of sites of high-level and low-level radioactive waste repositories will concern many Canadian communities.

Finding a location willing to accept a long-term radioactive waste repository is not easy in any democracy, and Malaysia is no exception.

This is now the site of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority low-level radioactive waste repository.

The European Union proposed a set of safety standards to manage underground radioactive waste repositories as part of a long-term strategy.

These facilities are being used in projects such as one in which the influence of microbes on radioactive waste repository materials is being investigated.

That's why radioactive waste repositories are often in desert areas--sand is often almost pure silica.

Yucca Mountain, located in Nevada is being tested as a suitable site for a spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste repository.

The system is being investigated as a good natural analogue of reactions and trace-element migration predicted to be significant in a cement-back-filled radioactive waste repository.

Proposed Radioactive Waste Repository near Woomera, South Australia.

Among the unconsolidated sediments, sand deposits are considered a rather unconventional geologic host medium for siting radioactive waste repositories, the clays being the preferred choice.

Moreover, no geologic formation of adequate size for a permanent radioactive waste repository has yet been discovered that has been stable for so long a period.

In November 2015, Pinkiwillinie was identified as one of six sites short-listed for a possible low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste repository in Australia.

Börde, a district in Saxony-Anhalt in Germany, is arguably best known as the area of the former Morsleben radioactive waste repository.

In the same document, the Commonwealth said "The former British testing program at Maralinga cannot be compared to the establishment of a near-surface radioactive waste repository."

Opposition to National Radioactive Waste Repository being located at Billa Kalina, in Lake Eyre basin.

Pangea Resources Australia Pty Ltd was a company notable for a controversial proposal for an international high-level radioactive waste repository in Australia.

The military appears to be supporting a proposal to build a permanent radioactive waste repository on Novaya Zemlya using one or more of the shafts built for underground nuclear explosions.

All radioactive materials are sent for storage at the radioactive waste repository operated by the State radioactive waste organization and the information is recorded by the NRA.