Tag Archives: nuclear waste

Extension sought for storing Three Mile Island debris via Goskagit.com

Posted on 2017/06/10 by nfield

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials requested a 20-year extension involving the storage in Idaho of reactor core debris from the partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. The U.S. Department of Energy in a document made … Continue reading →

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Hanford workers who took cover offered radiation testing via Tri-City Herald

Posted on 2017/06/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Hanford nuclear reservation workers who were at the site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant Thursday morning are being offered tests for radiation exposure. […] But rather than rely solely on the results of air and other samples collected, “we believe each employee should have … Continue reading →

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Finland Works, Quietly, to Bury Its Nuclear Reactor Waste via The New York Times

Posted on 2017/06/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

OLKILUOTO ISLAND, Finland — Beneath a forested patch of land on the Gulf of Bothnia, at the bottom of a steep tunnel that winds for three miles through granite bedrock, Finland is getting ready to entomb its nuclear waste. If … Continue reading →

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Radiation Alarm Prompts Order for Workers to Seek Cover via The Seattle Times

Posted on 2017/06/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

SPOKANE — Radiation warning alarms sounded Thursday at a former plutonium-production plant in Washington state, prompting a take-cover order that sent about 350 workers seeking cover indoors during the demolition of a plant that for decades had helped make nuclear … Continue reading →

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Lawmakers ask State to fight nuclear disposal plan via The Detroit News

Posted on 2017/06/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Washington — A bipartisan group of lawmakers from Great Lakes states wrote to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday, urging him to stop the Canadian plan to build a nuclear waste repository less than a mile from Lake Huron in … Continue reading →

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Russell Jim honored for lifetime of work on nuclear waste via Yakima Herald

Posted on 2017/06/07 by nfield

For decades, Russell Jim has worked to remedy Hanford’s legacy of nuclear waste. Over the years, it has taken him to a mine atop Hanford’s Gable Mountain, the halls of Congress and to Yakama Nation tribal meetings in Toppenish. In … Continue reading →

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Activist in exile says Norway’s nuclear waste support is irresponsible via The Barents Observer

Posted on 2017/06/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Nadezhda Kutepova was forced to flee Russia after fighting for the rights of the residents in radioactive contaminated villages near Mayak, the site where all spent nuclear fuel from Andreeva Bay will be sent.  On June 27, the first shipment … Continue reading →

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PILGRIM STATION: Fire danger in nuclear pools underestimated, scientists say via Wicked Local Plymouth

Posted on 2017/06/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A fire in just one of the 90 densely-packed spent fuel pools at U.S. nuclear reactors could release considerably more radiation than the 2011 reactor meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi, according to a policy paper published in a recent Science magazine. … Continue reading →

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Ontario Power Generation insists on burying nuclear waste beside Lake Huron: Walkom via The Star

Posted on 2017/06/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna keeps asking OPG to look at other locations. The utility keeps not obliging. Credit Ontario Power Generation for this: When it comes to choosing a place to store nuclear waste, the crown corporation is consistent. It … Continue reading →

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Next step on partially collapsed Hanford tunnel — fill it up via Tri-City Herald

Posted on 2017/06/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

On May 9, Hanford workers discovered a section of the tunnel roof about 20 feet long had collapsed, potentially exposing equipment with highly radioactive contamination stored in the tunnel.  An emergency was declared and initial steps taken to stabilize the 360-foot-long … Continue reading →

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