Tag Archives: nuclear waste

Germany launches new search for permanent nuclear waste disposal site via DW

Posted on 2020/09/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Germany has named 90 locations that could safely house containers of radioactive nuclear waste permanently. The controversy over what to do with waste from the country’s nuclear power plants has been long and divisive. Germany formally launched its new search … Continue reading →

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Combating corrosion in the world’s aging nuclear reactors via c&en

Posted on 2020/09/21 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Researchers hope to extend reactor lifetimes with advanced methods and materials that guard against degradation caused by harsh conditions by Mitch Jacoby Forty years of hard labor in punishing conditions sounds like an interminable sentence. Imagine finding out near the end … Continue reading →

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Moms creating change | EPA starts process of removing waste from West Lake Landfill via Channel 5

Posted on 2020/08/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

“It makes us hopeful that eventually this will be what it should have been,” said Dawn Chapman one of the women who rallied for the cleanup ST. LOUIS — A radioactive landfill in north St. Louis County has posed a … Continue reading →

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State report: Exposure to air near Bridgeton Landfill may have harmed people’s health via St. Louis Public News

Posted on 2020/07/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By DAVID CAZARES Updated at 5:45 p.m. with statement from Republic Services — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has determined that past exposure to sulfur-based compounds in the air near the Bridgeton landfill may have harmed the health of … Continue reading →

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OPINION: Fukushima nuclear waste decision also a human rights issue via Kyodo News

Posted on 2020/07/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Baskut Tuncak In a matter of weeks, the government of Japan will have the opportunity to demonstrate to the world how much it values protecting human rights and the environment and to meet its international obligations. In the aftermath … Continue reading →

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Nuclear waste shipment leaves Germany for Russia via BBC News

Posted on 2020/06/24 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A shipment of 600 tonnes of depleted uranium has left a nuclear fuel plant in Germany bound for Russia, a Russian environmentalist group says.  Twelve rail cars left the Urenco plant in the town of Gronau, close to the Dutch … Continue reading →

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Taiwan VP reassures Lanyu residents government will dispose of nuclear waste via Taiwan News

Posted on 2020/06/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

About 100,000 barrels of nuclear waste from nation’s 3 operational nuclear power plants have been stored on Orchid Island since 1982 By George Liao,  TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Vice President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) said that disposing of the nuclear waste stored … Continue reading →

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Federal agencies want to extend nuclear waste site to 2080 via Santa Fe/New Mexican

Posted on 2020/04/28 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Scott Wyland […] The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s permit is set to expire in 2024, but federal officials who oversee the nation’s nuclear programs believe the underground repository near Carlsbad can keep taking radioactive waste for decades to come. … Continue reading →

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Nuclear agency proposes deregulating disposal of some US radioactive waste via Chemistry World

Posted on 2020/04/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BY REBECCA TRAGER The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is facing protests after proposing that low-level radioactive waste be disposed of in commercial landfills not explicitly designed to hold it, rather than at licenced radioactive waste sites. The NRC’s proposal, issued in … Continue reading →

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Cleanup of U.S. nuclear waste takes back seat as virus spreads via Texarkana Gazette

Posted on 2020/04/05 by nfield

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. government’s efforts to clean up Cold War-era waste from nuclear research and bomb making at federal sites around the country has lumbered along for decades, often at a pace that watchdogs and other critics say … Continue reading →

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