Search Results: Radioactive Waste Storage
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is the first major nuclear waste disposal facility to be built in the United States, and so far also the only one. This Department of Energy (DOE) facility east of Carlsbad, New Mexico, is a final disposal site for government-...
Nuclear technology lab and test location, and a major radioactive material storage/disposal site. Located on 573,608 acres in southern Idaho, facilities include 52 nuclear reactors, 13 of which are still operable. The Navy's nuclear-powered submarine reactors are...
A nuclear power plant on Lake Michigan, with a single reactor. This facility includes more than twenty 16-foot-tall casks used for storage of radioactive spent fuel rods, each containing 30 tons. One of a growing number of nuclear power plants opting to store their...
This Department of Energy uranium mill and laboratory was originally founded as a source for uranium for the Manhattan Project. It later became the center of the government-initiated uranium mining boom of the 1940s and 1950s, propelled by the defense department's...
The Savannah River Site is a 310-square-mile Department of Energy (DOE) facility located on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River. It is one of the major nuclear materials processing plants in the United States, and is operated by the Westinghouse Company. The...
The Nevada Test Site (NTS) is a 1,350 square miles (860,000 acres) restricted area in southern Nevada, owned and operated by the Department of Energy. It is a multi-use, open-air laboratory that was the primary location of the nuclear weapons testing program for the...
Built in 1972, this was Maine's only nuclear power plant. It was decommissioned in 1997, and was dismantled over an eight year period, at a cost of over $500 million. The reactor vessel was shipped by barge to the nuclear waste storage facility at Barnwell, South...
Now the only nuclear power plant operating in Massachusetts, Pilgrim Station is located a few miles down the coast from Plymouth Rock. Like many similar plants, it was constructed by Bechtel, and is powered by a General Electric reactor and generator. Built at a cost...