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The price tag for cleaning up nuclear waste at Hanford site just went up another $4.5 billion via Los Angeles Times

Posted on 2016/12/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The U.S. Energy Department said Friday that its long-troubled attempt to build a plant to process highly radioactive sludge at a former nuclear weapons site in central Washington state will cost an additional $4.5 billion, raising the project’s price tag to … Continue reading →

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[Video] Over 9 million bags of nuclear cleanup waste piled up across Fukushima Pref. via The Mainichi

Posted on 2016/12/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The number of bags of waste from decontamination efforts around the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant reached a little under 9.16 million as of the end of September according to Fukushima Prefecture and the Environment Ministry. The 1-cubic-meter bags … Continue reading →

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PILGRIM’S PROGRESS: INSIDE THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR-WASTE CRISIS via The New Yorker

Posted on 2016/12/01 by norma field

On a mild September day in 2012, Paul Rifkin asked a friend with a helicopter to help him perform an experiment. Rifkin, a retired restaurateur turned amateur photographer, wanted to capture aerial images of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, which sits … Continue reading →

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Australian nuclear waste dump divides tiny outback town via Aljazeera

Posted on 2016/12/01 by norma field

  Hawker, South Australia – The towering mountains of the Flinders Ranges stand imposingly against the hundreds-of-kilometres-long stretch of flat, desolate country. While the mountains are named after the British explorer who trekked them in the early 19th century, the indigenous … Continue reading →

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Bridgeton residents allege radioactive waste found in home came from West Lake Landfill via St. Louis Public Radio

Posted on 2016/11/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Updated Nov. 15 with additional details —Residents in Bridgeton have filed a lawsuit Tuesday afternoon in the St. Louis County Circuit Court, alleging that radioactive waste was found at a home near the West Lake Landfill. The lawsuit names nine companies, including … Continue reading →

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Why worry about nuclear waste? What has the future ever done for us? via Ecologist

Posted on 2016/11/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The long term problems of what to do with nuclear waste remain entirely unsolved, writes Andrew Blowers. Yet governments and the nuclear industry continue to peddle their untenable ‘bury and forget’ policy of deep geological disposal, which only unloads the … Continue reading →

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Arch being slid into place over damaged Chornobyl reactor. It is the world’s largest movable structure (Video) via UA Position

Posted on 2016/11/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Ukraine`s Ecology Ministry has shared footage showing how a new structure – an arch more than 350 feet high and 500 feet long – is being slid into place over damaged Chornobyl reactor No. 4. The structure, which is estimated … Continue reading →

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Protesters take to the streets to ‘Say No’ to an SA nuclear dump via The Advertiser

Posted on 2016/11/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

CHANTING “dump the dump”, Anti-Nuclear Coalition supporters took to the streets on Monday outside the University College London campus on Victoria Square. Protesting both the proposed nuclear waste storage facility and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Symposium, activists on Monday described … Continue reading →

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Work starts in Fukushima on intermediate waste facility via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2016/11/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Environment Ministry on Nov. 15 started building a facility in Fukushima Prefecture that will store radiation-contaminated debris for up to 30 years, despite obtaining permission for only 11 percent of the site. The 16-square-kilometer storage facility is expected to … Continue reading →

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Nuclear dump referendum sought by South Australia’s Premier via ABC

Posted on 2016/11/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Debate over building a high-level nuclear waste dump is not over yet in South Australia, with Premier Jay Weatherill saying he wants a state-wide referendum on the issue. Mr Weatherill said he was keen to restore bipartisanship with a “broad … Continue reading →

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