DOE Does Not Plan To Use an Abandoned Salt Mine at Lyons, Kansas, for Nuclear High-Level Waste Disposal
EMD-82-64
Published: Mar 23, 1982. Publicly Released: Mar 23, 1982.
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GAO was requested to determine how the Department of Energy (DOE) and a corporation intend to use an abandoned salt mine near Lyons, Kansas. Even though the corporation bought the mine as a potential low-level nuclear waste burial site, concerns have persisted that DOE intends to use it for high-level nuclear waste disposal.
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