Nuclear Waste Policy Act (Section 112) Environmental Assessment, Reference Repository Location, Hanford Site, Washington, Volume I
Nuclear Waste Policy Act (Section 112) Environmental Assessment, Reference Repository Location, Hanford Site, Washington, Volume I
In February 1983, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) identified a reference repository location at the Hanford Site in Washington as one of the nine potentially acceptable sites for a mined geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. The site is in the Columbia Plateau, which is one of five distinct geohydrologic settings considered for the first repository.