Nuclear Energy Handbook
WIPP: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
external URL: http://www.wipp.ws/
| The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is the world's first underground repository licensed to safely and permanently dispose of transuranic radioactive waste left from the research and production of nuclear weapons. After more than 20 years of scientific study, public input, and regulatory struggles, WIPP began operations on March 26, 1999. |
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| URL: | http://www.wipp.ws/
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| language: | English
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| originator: | university, laboratory or research organisation
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| country: | USA
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| access: | open to the general public
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| type of data: | textual information
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| type of site: | non-commercial site
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| related sites: | Environmental Health Center's WIPP page
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| subject category: | nuclear facilities
| nuclear waste treatment and storage
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| INIS/ETDE category: | radioactive waste management
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| keywords: | nuclear waste
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