The Salt Mine Solution
In the Salado salt formation a half-mile below the New Mexico desert, WIPP has room to store all the radioactive waste an expanded nuclear power program could produce. Emphasis on the word could.
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Nuclear Waste
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The Three Pillars of Nuclear Waste Cleanup
Analysis: Openness, accountability and trust can lead to effective actions to reduce present and future risks.
Tradeoffs Abound in Nuclear Waste Cleanup
Analysis: Waste disposal after decades of nuclear weapon production will require taking risks.
Stewing Over Nuclear Weapon Leftovers
In Part One of a three-part series, the author of America's Nuclear Wasteland analyzes what it will take to clean up the mess left by the nuclear arms race.