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Singer has worked as a consultant for several government agencies, including the House Select Committee on Space, NASA, the Government Accountability Office, the National Science Foundation, the United States Atomic Energy Commission, National Research Council, the Department of Defense Strategic Defense Initiative, Department of Energy Nuclear Waste Panel, and the Department of the Treasury.
* Nuclear Waste Disposal Resources
LLNL also receives funding from DOE ’ s Office of Science, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, and Office of Nuclear Energy.
* 1982: Nuclear Waste Repository Act PL 97-425
* The cost of storing nuclear waste from nuclear plants for more than 1, 000 years ( over 100, 000 for some types of nuclear waste ) is included in the cost of the electricity the plant produces, in the form of a fee paid to the government and held in the Nuclear Waste Fund.
The municipality is mainly known for the Borssele Nuclear Power Station and the Central Storage For Radioactive Waste.
The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository was to be a deep geological repository storage facility for spent nuclear reactor fuel and other high level radioactive waste, until the project was defunded by Nevada Senator and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2010.
Nuclear Waste Locations
This policy is a federal law called the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which made the U. S. Department of Energy responsible for finding a site, building, and operating an underground disposal facility called a geologic repository.
In 1987, Congress amended the Nuclear Waste Policy Act and directed DOE to study only Yucca Mountain, which is already located within a former nuclear test site.
The purpose of the Yucca Mountain project is to comply with the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 and develop a national site for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste storage.
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act further limits the capacity of the repository to of initial heavy metal in commercial spent fuel.
There was significant public and political opposition to the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository project in Nevada.
The 10, 000 year period for compliance assessment is consistent with EPA's generally applicable standards developed under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act.
* Macfarlane, Allison M. and Ewing, Rodney C., editors, Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste MIT Press, 2006.
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization is currently seeking a site for a potential repository for the used fuel from all Canadian nuclear reactors.
The Agency for Nuclear Projects ( Nuclear Waste Project Office ) is a part of the Nevada state government, under the administration of the Governor of Nevada.
The Agency is responsible for fulfilling the federal oversight responsibilities called for in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.
PORFLOW software package is a comprehensive mathematical model for simulation of Ground Water Flow and Nuclear Waste Management developed by Analytic & Computational Research, Inc., ACRi
* Dismantlement and Radioactive Waste Management of DPRK Nuclear Facilities, Whang Jooho and George T. Baldwin, Sandia National Laboratories, April 2005 ( SAND 2005-1981P )
* Nuclear Fuel Waste Act
§ 61. 55 Waste Classification enforced by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, reproduced in the table below.
The band's single, " Nuclear Waste " b / w " Digital Love ", was reissued on CD in 1995 with liner notes and three bonus tracks, though none of the bonus tracks involved Howlett.

Nuclear and
* Nuclides and Isotopes 14th Edition, GE Nuclear Energy, 1989.
* 1986 A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union ( now Ukraine ), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
* 1953 Nuclear weapons testing: the Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
* Holger Nehring, ' From Gentleman's Club to Folk Festival: The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Manchester, 1958-63 ', North West Labour History Journal, No. 26 ( 2001 ), pp. 18 28
* Holger Nehring, ' National Internationalists: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons, the Politics of Transnational Communications and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957 1964 ', Contemporary European History, 14, No. 4 ( 2006 )
* Holger Nehring, ' The British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Cultures of the Cold War, 1957 64 ', Contemporary British History, 19, No. 2 ( 2005 )
* Nuclear chemistry study of how subatomic particles come together and make nuclei.
* 2000 The 3rd reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
* 1987 The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed.
Mountbatten expressed his feelings towards the use of nuclear weapons in combat in his article " A Military Commander Surveys The Nuclear Arms Race ", which was published shortly after his death in International Security in the winter of 1979 80.
* 1971 The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
* 1958 The Peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
* 1968 The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D. C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
* 1987 New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987
* 1951 Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
* 1972 Pakistan launched its Nuclear detterent program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
* 1962 Nuclear weapons testing: The " Small Boy " test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
Among the Laboratory's current major active projects are the Mars Science Laboratory mission ( which includes the Curiosity rover ), the Cassini Huygens mission orbiting Saturn, the Mars Exploration Rovers ( Spirit and Opportunity ), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Dawn mission to the dwarf planet Ceres and asteroid Vesta, the Juno spacecraft en route to Jupiter, the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory ( GRAIL ) mission to the Moon, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array ( NuSTAR ) X-ray telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
* Siegfried Balke ( CSU ) Minister of Nuclear Energy and Water
* Siegfried Balke ( CSU ) Minister of Nuclear Energy and Water
In 1978, Luxembourg tried to build a 1, 200 MW nuclear reactor but dropped the plans after threats of major protests .< ref >“ Reactors .” Wise Nuclear issues information services.
* 1954 Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
* 1953 Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
* 1974 Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
* 1995 In New York City more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.

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