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Radioactive Waste: Status of Commercial Low-Level Waste Facilities

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date May 5, 1995
Report No. RCED-95-67
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Summary:

Thousands of businesses, medical facilities, and universities along with more than 100 nuclear power plants generate waste material contaminated with radioactivity. These waste products, called commercially generated low-level waste, have typically been buried in shallow trenches at a few sites around the country. States plan to construct 11 new disposal facilities. These planned facilities are the result of state efforts to implement federal legislation making them responsible for developing new disposal facilities. This report assesses states' progress in developing new disposal facilities, their potential economic and environmental effects, and alternatives to the current approach to developing new facilities.

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