Radioactive Waste 356 - Department of Energy Is Trying To Reclassify Some Nuclear Waste In Order To Send It To The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

        The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is the third deep geological repository for nuclear waste in the world. The first two were located in Germany and are closed. The WIPP is licensed to permanently dispose of transuranic radioactive waste left over from the development and manufacture of nuclear weapons. It is supposed to safely isolate nuclear waste for ten thousand years.

Nuclear Reactors 632 - Japan Needs A Better System Of Compensation For Nuclear Disasters

        As of the end of 2010, Japan was generating about thirty percent of its electricity from nuclear power from its fleet of forty-two commercial power reactors. They intended to raise nuclear power generation to forty percent. Then, in March of 2011, a tsunami flooded the Fukushima power plant and four of the six reactors at the site were destroyed.

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