Nuclear Waste Policy Act (Section 112) Environmental Assessment Overview, Reference Repository Location, Hanford Site, Washington
Nuclear Waste Policy Act (Section 112) Environmental Assessment Overview, Reference Repository Location, Hanford Site, Washington
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.