Minnesota State Planning Agency
The federal Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) of 1982 was a compromise between Western and Eastern states. While not explicitly ordering it, the Act called for construction of two underground nuclear waste repositories, one to open in the West in 1990 and one in the East several years later.
Potential sites for the first repository were identified in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, Texas, Utah, and Washington. Draft environmental assessments, issued in December 1984, proposed three sites for further investigation. These sites were Yucca Mountain, Nevada; Deaf Smith County, Texas; and Hanford, Washington.
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2016-08-12 06:08:09 pm |
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2016-08-12 06:08:08 pm |
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ingest cpf |
Initial ingest from EAC-CPF |
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