LEARNING AND ADAPTING TO SOCIETAL REQUIREMENTS
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LEARNING AND ADAPTING TO SOCIETAL REQUIREMENTS
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NEA
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Over the past forty years, the development of the technology needed to isolate radioactive waste in underground rock systems has been found to be a formidable problem. This is especially the case in connection with high-level waste (HLW) after its removal from operations in nuclear power plants. There is also the additional problem of isolating low- and intermediate-level waste (LILW).