Tag Archives: nuclear waste

The UK’s nuclear waste could be buried underground in Cumbria via NewScientist

Posted on 2020/11/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By  Adam Vaughan A long-running search to find a site for an underground nuclear waste store in the UK has received a boost today as a community in north-west England took the first formal step towards hosting the £12 billion facility. Two years ago, … Continue reading →

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Nuclear waste shipment arrives in Germany, protests likely via KOIN.com

Posted on 2020/11/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BERLIN (AP) — A shipment of reprocessed nuclear waste arrived Monday at a port in northern Germany, and authorities were braced for likely protests as it is transported across the country to a storage site. A ship carrying six containers … Continue reading →

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Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare via Arms Control Association

Posted on 2020/10/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

November 2020 Nailing the Coffin of Civilian Plutonium Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a NightmareBy Frank von Hippel,Masafumi Takubo, andJungmin KangSpringer Press198pp. Reviewed by Thomas Countryman […] The earliest rationale for using plutonium as a nuclear fuel rested … Continue reading →

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Trump Admin to Give $1.4 Billion to Try to Revive the Nuclear Power Industry via Truthout

Posted on 2020/10/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BY Peter Montague The nuclear power industry may be getting a new lease on life, thanks to a $1.4 billion taxpayer subsidy from the Trump administration. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in August approved the design of a new kind of nuclear … Continue reading →

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Welsh politicians urge openness on impact of mud from nuclear power station via The Guardian

Posted on 2020/10/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Hinkley Point C building site waste due to be dumped in sea near Cardiff The builders of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station must be completely open about the potential environmental impact of dumping tens of thousands of tonnes … Continue reading →

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Watchdogs push New Mexico to limit US nuclear waste dump via Journal Star

Posted on 2020/10/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Watchdogs on Wednesday renewed their call for New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and state environmental regulators to take a stand against the federal government as it looks to extend and expand … Continue reading →

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Aomori wants reassurance that it won’t be final nuclear waste site via The Japan Times

Posted on 2020/10/21 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Aomori Prefecture on Wednesday urged the government to reconfirm its policy of not building in the prefecture a facility for the final disposal of high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants across the nation. The request was made during a … Continue reading →

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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: don’t allow radioactive waste into our local landfills! via Change.org

Posted on 2020/10/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Melissa Bumstead OCT 20, 2020 —  Tomorrow, October 21 is the last day to say no to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: No nuclear waste in our local landfills! The NRC’s “Proposed Interpretative Rule on Transfer of Very Low Level Waste … Continue reading →

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Texas Governor Urges Trump to Oppose Nuclear Waste Plans via Courthouse News Service

Posted on 2020/10/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

TRAVIS BUBENIK (CN) — Texas Governor Greg Abbott has come out against two rival plans to ship highly radioactive waste from the nation’s nuclear power plants to sites on the Texas-New Mexico border, saying either plan would be unsafe and … Continue reading →

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Four powerful players want a nuclear waste solution. What’s stopping them? via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2020/09/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By David Klaus The 92-page platform adopted at the Democratic National Convention does not include a single sentence on the issue of how to manage the more than 80,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel sitting at 70 sites in communities across the country. … Continue reading →

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