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Radioactive waste repositories

Radioactive waste repositories

  • Waste Control Specialists
    Waste Control Specialists, LLC (WCS) is a treatment, storage, & disposal company dealing in radioactive, hazardous, and mixed wastes.
  • Asse II mine
    The Asse II mine (Schacht Asse II) is a former salt mine used as a deep geological repository for radioactive waste in the Asse Mountains of Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, Germany.
  • Gyeongju nuclear waste disposal facility
    The Gyeongju nuclear waste disposal facility is of silo-type design involving disposal at depth meant to safely house dangerous radioactive waste at Gyeongju in South Korea.
  • Lake Ontario Ordnance Works
    The former Lake Ontario Ordnance Works (LOOW) was a 7,500-acre (3,000 ha) military installation located in Niagara County, New York, United States, approximately 12.
  • Deep geological repository
    A deep geological repository is a nuclear waste repository excavated deep within a stable geologic environment (typically below 300 m or 1000 feet).
  • Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
    The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is the world's third deep geological repository (after closure of Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht Asse II Salt Mine) licensed to permanently dispose of transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 years that is left from the research and production of nuclear weapons.
  • Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
    The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a non-departmental public body of the British Department of Energy and Climate Change, formed by the Energy Act 2004.
  • Posiva
    Posiva Oy is a Finnish company with headquarters in the municipality of Eurajoki, Finland.
  • Sellafield
    Sellafield is a nuclear fuel reprocessing and nuclear decommissioning site, close to the village of Seascale on the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England.
  • Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant
    The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant (Finnish: Olkiluodon ydinvoimalaitos) is on Olkiluoto Island, which is on the shore of the Gulf of Bothnia in the municipality of Eurajoki in western Finland.
  • Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant
    The Nuclear power station Oskarshamn is one of three active nuclear power stations in Sweden.
  • Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant
    Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Forsmark, Sweden, and also the site of the Swedish Final repository for radioactive operational waste.
  • Drigg
    Drigg is a village situated in the civil parish of Drigg and Carleton on the West Cumbria coast of the Irish Sea and on the boundary of the Lake District National Park in the Borough of Copeland in the county of Cumbria, England.