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Mayor rebukes utility’s reported plan on storing nuclear waste via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2018/01/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

MUTSU, Aomori Prefecture–The mayor here rejected and denounced Kansai Electric Power Co.’s reported intention to transfer spent nuclear fuel to an intermediate storage facility in the city. “That can never be allowed,” Mutsu Mayor Soichiro Miyashita said at a news … Continue reading →

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As choice of nuclear waste facility starts narrowing, people of Kimba are either excited or disgusted via The Advertiser

Posted on 2018/01/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

IF there are two words that can split an already isolated South Australian town and destroy lifelong friendships, they are “nuclear waste”. Kimba, on the northern edge of the Eyre Peninsula’s vast grain-growing belt, is home to two of the … Continue reading →

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Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program via Telesur

Posted on 2018/01/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The fact that Israel possesses nuclear weapons is not in dispute, but how did it procure them and with whose help? Val Reynoso investigates. Israel’s nuclear-weapons program was initiated by the founding prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, who stated that … Continue reading →

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Wylfa’s nuclear waste removal delayed by machinery snags via BBC News

Posted on 2018/01/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The removal of all nuclear waste from Anglesey’s Wylfa power station will take almost a year longer than planned. The decommissioning process at the site, which closed in December 2015, has been hit by delays following problems with machinery. About … Continue reading →

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Funds sought for cleanup at UA nuclear reactor test site via The Commercial

Posted on 2017/12/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

FAYETTEVILLE — Cleanup at a nuclear reactor test site built in the late 1960s began this year after three decades of waiting. Thousands of pounds of low-level radioactive waste have since been trucked away from rural Washington County to specialized … Continue reading →

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Ukraine to get loan from U.S. for nuclear waste storage facility via New China

Posted on 2017/12/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

KIEV, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) — Ukraine will get a loan of 250 million U.S. dollars from the U.S. institutions for a construction of a facility for nuclear waste near the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the Ukrainian government said on … Continue reading →

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Home checks for radioactivity finished. 240 Hanford workers also want body checks via Tri-City Herald

Posted on 2017/12/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Surveys of the homes of seven Hanford nuclear reservation workers were completed Thursday, with no radioactive contamination found, according to the Department of Energy. Specks of radioactive contamination have been on seven workers’ cars or pickups this week. At least … Continue reading →

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Kansai Electric to scrap two reactors in latest blow for Japan’s nuclear sector via Reuters

Posted on 2017/12/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TOKYO (Reuters) – Kansai Electric Power Co said on Friday it will decommission two 38-year-old reactors at its Ohi nuclear plant as Japan’s electricity industry struggles to cope with new safety standards imposed after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The widely … Continue reading →

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Fukushima ‘ice wall’ linchpin not living up to high hopes via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2017/11/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Although 34.5 billion yen ($309 million) in taxpayer money has funded an “ice wall” to keep out groundwater from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant site, the frozen barrier may not be meeting hopes and expectations. In particular, the … Continue reading →

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Fukushima: A million tonnes of radioactive water still in storage after nuclear disaster via ABC

Posted on 2017/11/25 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Japan cannot agree on what to do with a million tonnes of radioactive water being stored at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant — and there is a chance it could spill if another major earthquake or tsunami were to … Continue reading →

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