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Smoldering Landfill Could Threaten Nuclear Waste via ABC News

Posted on 2013/05/29 by norma field

Dawn Chapman can put up with the noxious smell caused by smoldering trash in a landfill near her suburban St. Louis home. But if the burning creeps close to buried nuclear waste, she’s ready to get out. It’s a problem … Continue reading →

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Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Plant May Be Too Dangerous via Scientific American

Posted on 2013/05/09 by norma field

The most toxic and voluminous nuclear waste in the U.S.—208 million liters —sits in decaying underground tanks at the Hanford Site (a nuclear reservation) in southeastern Washington State. It accumulated there from the middle of World War II, when the … Continue reading →

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Sequester Energy Cuts Could Affect Nuclear Waste Cleanup At Sites Including Hanford via Huffington Post

Posted on 2013/03/07 by norma field

WASHINGTON — Cleanup of radioactive waste at nuclear sites across the country – including one in Washington state where waste tanks may be leaking 1,000 gallons per year – would be delayed under automatic spending cuts set to take effect … Continue reading →

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Energy Department says budget cuts could delay cleanup at highest-risk nuclear sites via The Washington Post

Posted on 2013/03/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

WASHINGTON — Cleanup of radioactive waste at nuclear sites across the country — including one in Washington state where waste tanks may be leaking 1,000 gallons per year — would be delayed under automatic spending cuts set to take effect … Continue reading →

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Underground Nuclear Tanks Leaking in Washington State via NY Times

Posted on 2013/02/22 by Tomomi Yamaguchi

SEATTLE — Six underground tanks holding radioactive waste are leaking at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washington, Gov. Jay Inslee said on Friday after a meeting with federal officials overseeing the cleanup of the nation’s most polluted nuclear site. … Continue reading →

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An open letter to President Obama: The time on the Doomsday Clock is five minutes to midnight via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2013/01/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

An open letter to President Obama: The time on the Doomsday Clock is five minutes to midnight By Robert Socolow, Thomas Rosenbaum, Lawrence J. Korb, Lynn Eden, Rod Ewing, Alexander Glaser, James E. Hansen, Sivan Kartha, Edward “Rocky” Kolb , Lawrence … Continue reading →

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A people’s truth via Aeon

Posted on 2012/12/06 by norma field

The vast Hanford nuclear site was supposedly safe for its neighbours. Now they are fighting the experts for their story to be told Kate Brown 03 December 2012 Tom Bailie grew up on a dryland farm in Mesa, Washington, just … Continue reading →

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Scientist, Candidate and Planet Earth’s Lifeguard via The New York Times

Posted on 2012/10/02 by norma field

Barry Commoner, a founder of modern ecology and one of its most provocative thinkers and mobilizers in making environmentalism a people’s political cause, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 95 and lived in Brooklyn Heights. […] Raised in Brooklyn … Continue reading →

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Breaking News: Secret US military testing of radiological materials on poor and minority communities via Climate Connections

Posted on 2012/09/24 by norma field

In a story that is breaking right now, Dr. Lisa Martino-Taylor, a sociologist in St. Louis. MO (US), has introduced evidence that “secret military tests conducted during the Cold War targeted poor and minority communities for exposure to what is … Continue reading →

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Decades later, nuclear workers’ families compensated via TribLIVE News

Posted on 2012/07/02 by Tomomi Yamaguchi

It took eight years of finding paperwork and waiting on government reviews, but Helen Sobotka, 68, of Springdale got a lump-sum, tax-free payment from the federal government for $150,000. The government paid the money, which went to her late mother, … Continue reading →

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