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What does HLRW stand for?

High-Level Radioactive Waste


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Samples in periodicals archive:
New York is the only state that contributes to the cleanup of a high-level radioactive waste site.
The report also discovered the agency used inadequate steel bars to build another facility that "could have resulted in a spill of up to 15,000 gallons of high-level radioactive waste," Gregory Friedman, the Energy Department's inspector general, wrote in the report.
When decommissioned in 1987, Hanford held two-thirds of the nation's high-level radioactive waste stored in 177 underground tanks.
The Office of River Protection is charged with taking care of 50 million gallons of high-level radioactive waste in 177 underground storage tanks.
Sixty percent, by volume, of the high-level radioactive waste in the United States is stored at Hanford.
The product of 20 years of study and $4 billion in research, the project is supposed to be the solution to the ongoing threat to public safety and national security resulting from the accumulation of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at various facilities throughout the country.
Part of the Sellafield complex in Cumbria called B215 consists of 21 concrete and steel tanks containing more than 1,500 cubic metres of high-level radioactive waste.
The answer: A canister of high-level radioactive waste, traveling from one of 109 aging US nuclear powerplants to Yucca Mountain, Nevada -- the proposed "final resting place" for America's most deadly garbage.

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