Tag Archives: Department of Energy (DOE)

House panel calls out nuclear officials over repeated failures via The Albuquerque Journal

Posted on 2015/06/14 by norma field

Members of a U.S. House panel said Friday that they are frustrated with decades of security and safety lapses at some of the laboratories, manufacturing facilities and other sites that make up the nation’s nuclear complex. The lawmakers, during a … Continue reading →

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Beatrice Brailsford: Nuclear waste deal wrong for Idaho via The Spokesman-Review

Posted on 2015/06/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

At the beginning of 2015, the U.S. Department of Energy succeeded in wresting a preliminary agreement from Idaho’s governor and attorney general to allow two shipments of “research quantities” of commercial-spent nuclear fuel into Idaho. The proposal, if implemented, will … Continue reading →

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How the Atomic Age Left Us a Half-Century of Radioactive Waste via Time Magazine

Posted on 2015/01/23 by norma field

By Kate Brown Dealing with nuclear waste at a plant in Washington State has proved an intractable problem. Why? The Nuclear Disaster You Never Heard of This Is How TIME Explained the Atomic Bomb in 1945 In 1951, atomic optimism … Continue reading →

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In U.S. Cleanup Efforts, Accident at Nuclear Site Points to Cost of Lapses via The New York Times

Posted on 2014/11/02 by norma field

Earlier this year, a violent chemical reaction at a New Mexico facility that stores waste from the making of plutonium bombs broke open a storage drum and sprayed the waste into the air, leading to the closure of the repository. … Continue reading →

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Watchdog: Nuclear waste fund has amassed unused billions via Orange County Register

Posted on 2014/10/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Collected to pay for disposal, money has instead gone nowhere – as has the waste. So, $41 billion is not chump change. It could buy some 430 Airbus jets, two-thirds of the California High Speed Rail project, six months of … Continue reading →

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Gov’t audit raps Los Alamos over lax handling of radioactive waste via Fox News

Posted on 2014/10/05 by norma field

A government report released this week blasted the safety procedures for handling radioactive waste at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, following a leak that prompted a shutdown in February. […] Among the critical points made in the … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Radiation Releases Continue in New Mexico via Reader Supported News

Posted on 2014/07/02 by norma field

By William Boardman Something happened in February, something is STILL going on nvironmental radiation releases spiked again in mid-June around the surface site of the only underground storage facility for nuclear weapons waste in the U.S., near Carlsbad, New Mexico. … Continue reading →

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Sick Former Hanford Worker Speaks Out about his Deadly Disease & Federal Compensation for Sick Workers via KHQ Q6

Posted on 2014/06/07 by norma field

Lawrence Rouse spent nearly 20 years working at Hanford’s most hazardous sites. He says he was exposed to nuclear waste radiation and toxic chemicals several times. Now he sadly lives his life with a deadly disease. He receives some compensation … Continue reading →

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For injured Hanford workers, it’s one denial after another via King5.com

Posted on 2014/05/24 by norma field

A recent spate of chemical vapor exposure incidents at the Hanford Site is focusing attention on how the Department of Energy and the private companies working on the nuclear waste cleanup treat workers after they have been injured. Twenty-eight workers … Continue reading →

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New Information Provided About Possible Contributor to the WIPP Radiological Event via Department of Energy

Posted on 2014/05/18 by norma field

The Department of Energy issued the following statement today regarding new information generated during the May 15 entry into WIPP: Since the February 14 radiological release, the Department and its Waste Isolation Pilot Plant have been working deliberately to safely … Continue reading →

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