Tag Archives: nuclear waste

Oak Ridge heavy element production site receives historic designation via Knox News

Posted on 2018/05/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Radiochemical Engineering Development Center (REDC), which produces heavy elements and isotopes, was recognized as a historic nuclear landmark Wednesday in an American Nuclear Society ceremony recognizing more than 50 years of isotope production and nuclear fuel cycle … Continue reading →

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Researchers turn low-level nuclear waste into glass via New Atlas

Posted on 2018/05/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Cold War left behind significant amounts of low-level nuclear waste, but the future may be a bit cleaner thanks to a team of scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), who have vitrified low-level … Continue reading →

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Nuclear power plant to be decommissioned via Daily News-Miner

Posted on 2018/05/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

FAIRBANKS — An Army Corp of Engineers team is planning the formal decommissioning of the only nuclear power plant ever built in Alaska, Fort Greely’s SM-1A plant. The SM-1A plant provided steam and electricity to the Army post near Delta … Continue reading →

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Marshallese poet draws attention to nuclear dome via RadioNZ

Posted on 2018/05/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A Marshall Islands poet has highlighted climate change, nuclear destruction and waste in a poem about a dome on Runit Island. After the second World War, the US tested 67 nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands and dumped its nuclear … Continue reading →

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Campaigners slam £1m incentive to store nuclear waste via The Guardian

Posted on 2018/05/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Compensation offered to encourage local communities to allow test boreholes is described as ‘completely inadequate’ MPs from both major parties have attacked the government’s latest incentive to entice communities into volunteering to host Britain’s first deep underground store for nuclear … Continue reading →

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The Latest: House approves bill on Nevada nuclear waste dump via Star Tribune

Posted on 2018/05/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

WASHINGTON — The Latest on legislation to revive the nuclear waste dump at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain (all times local): 11:26 a.m. The House has approved an election-year bill to revive the mothballed nuclear waste dump at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain despite … Continue reading →

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Plan to entomb nuclear reactor breaks promise to Manitobans, watchdog group says via CBC

Posted on 2018/05/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories says plan offers least amount of risk A watchdog group says a plan to entomb the old nuclear reactor at Pinawa, Man., could pose a risk to people and the environment. “This plan that they’ve come up … Continue reading →

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Deadly nuclear waste flights resume from Wick via The Press and Journal

Posted on 2018/05/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Controversial top secret flights carrying Dounreay’s deadly nuclear waste from Scotland to the USA resumed at the weekend. A US Air Force C-17 Globemaster touched down at Wick airport at 11:51am on Saturday to receive a load of highly enriched … Continue reading →

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Proposed nuclear storage site in southeast New Mexico accused of ‘nuclear colonialism’ via Carlsbad Current Argus

Posted on 2018/05/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Fears of a proposed nuclear waste repository between Carlsbad and Hobbs extended beyond the two cities, stirring anxiety from residents across New Mexico and west Texas.  Leona Morgan, co-coordinator of the Albuquerque-based Nuclear Issues Study Group and a Diné activist, … Continue reading →

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Storage plan for spent fuel adds to nuclear debate via Los Angeles Chronicle

Posted on 2018/05/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A plan to temporarily store tons of spent fuel from U.S. commercial nuclear reactors in New Mexico is drawing fire from critics who say the federal government needs to consider more alternatives. Dozens of people packed a … Continue reading →

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