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Report: Some Los Alamos nuclear waste too hazardous to move via Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on 2021/08/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Scott Wyland  Los Alamos National Laboratory has identified 45 barrels of radioactive waste so potentially explosive — due to being mixed with incompatible chemicals — that crews have been told not to move them and instead block off the … Continue reading →

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Feds see no problems with nuclear waste storage in West Texas, New Mexico despite concerns via Carlsbad Current Argus

Posted on 2021/07/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Adrian Hedden A proposed storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in West Texas near the New Mexico border will have no impact on the environment, per a federal report released Thursday. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued its final environmental impact … Continue reading →

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America’s Nuclear Waste Has Nowhere to Go and More Is Coming via Vice

Posted on 2021/07/25 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Pentagon recently announced plans to up the production of plutonium pits, a core component of nuclear weapons. By Matthew Gault Outside the sleepy Maine town of Wiscasset (population 3,700), armed guards patrol a slab of concrete surrounded by a chain … Continue reading →

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Remediation completed at former New Haven nuclear facility in USA via Nuclear Engineering International

Posted on 2021/07/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The US Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), along with partners at the federal, municipal, and community levels, and the private sector, on 9 July announced completion of remediation activities at the former United Nuclear Corporation site in … Continue reading →

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France reaches deal to send back nuclear waste to Germany via rfi

Posted on 2021/06/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Paris and Berlin have reached an agreement in principle to allow the return of nuclear waste processed in France to Germany by 2024.  […] German energy firms sent the spent nuclear fuel to Cogema facility (now part of Orano) in Normandy for … Continue reading →

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Judge issues tentative order rejecting lawsuit to stop San Onofre nuclear plant dismantlement via The San Diego Union-Tribune

Posted on 2021/06/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Del Mar advocacy group says Coastal Commission should not have OK’d permit By ROB NIKOLEWSKI […] Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff issued a tentative decision rejecting a lawsuit by the Samuel Lawrence Foundation, an advocacy group based in Del … Continue reading →

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US seeks bids to manage underground nuclear waste dump via Albuquerque Journal

Posted on 2021/06/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BY SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Energy Department is seeking bids to manage the federal government’s only underground nuclear waste repository amid efforts to rebound from a pandemic-related slowdown and as work continues to replace the facility’s ventilation … Continue reading →

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Hanford nuclear waste tank may be leaking, U.S. officials say via KOMO

Posted on 2021/04/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

by NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — An underground nuclear waste storage tank in Washington state that dates to World War II appears to be leaking contaminated liquid into the ground, the U.S. Department of Energy said Thursday. … Continue reading →

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Ukraine opens new nuclear waste site at Chernobyl via AP

Posted on 2021/04/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By YURAS KARMANAU KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president on Monday unveiled a new nuclear waste repository at Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster that unfolded exactly 35 years ago.  President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Chernobyl together with … Continue reading →

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Plutonium programs in East Asia and Idaho will challenge the Biden administration via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2021/04/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Frank N. von Hippel Among the Biden administration’s nuclear challenges are ongoing civilian plutonium programs in China and Japan. Also, South Korea’s nuclear-energy research and development establishment has been asserting that it should have the same “right” to have a … Continue reading →

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