The dump is meant to handle transuranic wastes, or man-made elements that remain radioactive for thousands of years.

The Japanese are already designing a reactor that burns transuranic nuclear waste.

The citizens' group contended that the material actually belonged to a higher category -transuranic waste - that must be isolated at a Federal repository.

This makes startup on these transuranic wastes more difficult especially for a compact design that uses a smaller primary salt inventory.

It should have received its second shipment of transuranic waste about a week ago.

A boxcar of transuranic waste from the site was refused entry into Idaho and returned to the plant.

The result is less transuranic waste than in a reactor using the uranium-plutonium fuel cycle.

She added that "no sites have identified transuranic wastes as an imminent risk.

Remote-handled transuranic waste is packaged and certified in a hot cell facility.

It's going to be the nation's first disposal facility for transuranic waste.