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- Title
US seeks waste-research revival.
- Authors
Tollefson, Jeff
- Abstract
The article offers information on the need of research into underground waste storage in deep nuclear-waste repository in the U.S. Topics discussed include a radioactive plutonium and americium leak out of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico on February 14, 2014, health and environmental impacts of radioactive leak, and Yucca Mountain in Nevada which has been designated as the future site of an underground repository by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
- Subjects
RADIOACTIVE waste repositories; PLUTONIUM; AMERICIUM; RADIOACTIVE wastes &; the environment; UNITED States. Dept. of Energy
- Publication
Nature, 2014, Vol 507, Issue 7490, p15
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/507015a