Tag Archives: nuclear waste

Traces of carcinogen found at school leads to concerns about nuclear waste facility via ABC6

Posted on 2019/04/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

AVERLY, Ohio — The Pike County Health Department is calling on the US Department of Energy to suspend all activities related to the construction of a nuclear waste disposal facility. That comes after they found traces of “a known carcinogen” at … Continue reading →

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States Are Using Taxpayer Money to Greenwash Dirty Nuclear Power via The New Republic

Posted on 2019/04/25 by yukimiyamotodepaul

New Jersey is the latest state to subsidize aging reactors with credits designated for clean energy. By GREGG LEVINE This week, New Jersey’s public utilities commission awarded clean-energy credits to three vintage nuclear reactors. In doing so, the state joined New York, Illinois, and … Continue reading →

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Layoffs planned at Idaho nuclear waste processing project via Kivi Boise

Posted on 2019/04/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — A U.S. Department of Energy contractor in charge of cleaning up radioactive waste at a federal site in eastern Idaho says it will eliminate up to 190 jobs starting this summer. Fluor Idaho in an announcement … Continue reading →

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Where will the nuclear waste go after Three Mile Island shuts down? via The Inquirer

Posted on 2019/04/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

by Andrew Maykuth After the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear accident 40 years ago, most of the reactor’s partially melted uranium fuel was hauled away to the Idaho National Lab, where the radioactive waste now slowly decays in steel and concrete containers, … Continue reading →

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Los Alamos National Laboratory site resumes shipping nuclear waste via Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on 2019/04/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Safety problems for the past five years prevented Los Alamos National Laboratory from using an important building built to temporarily store and load drums of radioactive waste. But officials on Friday said the structure, known as the Radioassay and Nondestructive … Continue reading →

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New Mexico Is Divided Over The ‘Perfect Site’ To Store Nation’s Nuclear Waste via NPR

Posted on 2019/04/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

NATHAN ROTT Thirty-five miles out of Carlsbad, in the pancake-flat desert of southeast New Mexico, there’s a patch of scrub-covered dirt that may offer a fix — albeit temporarily — to one of the nation’s most vexing and expensive environmental … Continue reading →

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Letter: It’s time to get rid of nuclear power via Reading Eagle

Posted on 2019/04/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Situation is not as rosy as industry advocates claim. Editor:I recently received a brochure from Nuclear Powers Pennsylvania asking me to urge my senator to support subsidizing the state’s nuclear power industry. It provided a one-sided perspective of the negative … Continue reading →

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US Nuclear Waste Dump Marks 20 Years via VOA

Posted on 2019/03/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Many years ago, the United States government started a project aimed at proving that nuclear waste can be safely left underground. The government approved plans to set up a processing center, known as the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, in the New … Continue reading →

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KEPCO to ship MOX nuclear fuel assemblies from France in 2020 via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2019/03/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By YUSUKE OGAWA/ Staff Writer MARCOULE, France–Kansai Electric Power Co. (KEPCO) plans to transport 32 plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies from France to Japan in 2020 at the earliest to help reduce its stockpile overseas. KEPCO plans to use … Continue reading →

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Embrace of nuclear power ignores its downside: Dangers and disruptive shutdowns via Boston Globe

Posted on 2019/03/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] I doubt the 80,000 displaced residents of Fukushima Prefecture or the former inhabitants of Chernobyl’s thousand-square-mile Exclusion Zone would sit easily with the Globe’s notion that nuclear plants are a source of “clean power.” Nor would New Englanders who … Continue reading →

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