Tag Archives: nuclear waste

First step to a solution on nuclear waste: End Yucca Mountain via Las Vegas Sun

Posted on 2019/01/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Judy Treichel There is an interesting phenomenon at the Department of Energy when it comes to the disposal of high-level nuclear waste. When a new concept for getting rid of waste is proposed, the reaction from the department is: … Continue reading →

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Hearing planned on barrel ruptures at E. Idaho nuclear site via Idaho State Journal

Posted on 2019/01/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A government board that makes recommendations on U.S. Department of Energy facilities plans to hold a public hearing concerning the rupture of four barrels containing radioactive sludge at an eastern Idaho nuclear site. The Defense Nuclear … Continue reading →

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Activists want details on inquiry into ex-nuke weapons plant via KRQE

Posted on 2019/01/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By: DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press DENVER (AP) – Activists asked a U.S. judge Thursday to make documents public from a 27-year-old criminal investigation into a former nuclear weapons plant outside Denver with a history of fires, leaks and spills. The … Continue reading →

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Niigata government to dispose of radioactive mud stored since Fukushima crisis via The Japan Times

Posted on 2019/01/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

NIIGATA – The Niigata Prefectural Government said Tuesday it will dispose of radioactive mud that has been stored since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and ask the operator of the crisis-hit plant to shoulder the costs. The prefecture, located about … Continue reading →

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Edison’s Plans To Resume Nuclear Waste Transfer May Face Legal Challenge via KPBS

Posted on 2018/12/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Southern California Edison may face more legal challenges before resuming the transfer of highly radioactive spent fuel rods from cooling ponds to silos near the beach at San Onofre. San Diego attorney Mike Aguirre said Edison has not lived up … Continue reading →

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80,000 TONS OF NUCLEAR WASTE ARE SITTING IN LIMBO via Futurity

Posted on 2018/12/19 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Thousands of tons of highly radioactive spent fuel are in temporary storage in 35 US states, with no permanent solution in the works. Experts now show how to end this status quo. The United States government has worked for decades … Continue reading →

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Trump plan to reclassify nuke waste alarms environmentalists via AP

Posted on 2018/12/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Trump administration wants to reclassify some radioactive waste left from the production of nuclear weapons to lower its threat level and make disposal cheaper and easier. The proposal by the U.S. … Continue reading →

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Energy company applies to drill wells near former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant via The Denver Post

Posted on 2018/11/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

U.K. firm files applications ahead of vote on stricter well setbacks As a decision looms by Colorado voters on more stringent siting requirements for oil and gas drilling, an energy company has applied to drill up to 31 wells near … Continue reading →

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Failures of Congress Keep Nuclear Waste Scattered Across the US via Roll Call

Posted on 2018/10/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Government’s liability is $34 billion and growing as communities wait and wait some more In Zion, Illinois, 257 acres of prime lakefront property about 40 miles northwest of Chicago should be at the center of a redevelopment plan to revive … Continue reading →

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Washington County Nuclear Site Reactor Core Raised via USNews

Posted on 2018/10/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The reactor core at a University of Arkansas-owned nuclear test site has been raised and contained and will be transported to a final disposal site in Nevada in the coming weeks. […] Dean Wheeler, a spokesman at the Utah-based nuclear … Continue reading →

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