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Recycled Nuclear Waste Will Power a New Reactor via Wired

Posted on 2020/02/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Last week, the Department of Energy gave a commercial company the green light to test fuel made from spent uranium. Idaho National Laboratory sprawls across nearly 900 square miles in the southeastern corner of its namesake state. Home to America’s … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Nevada play leaves nation’s nuclear waste in limbo via Politico

Posted on 2020/02/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The president wants to win the state he narrowly lost in 2016, but he may be jumping into an energy issue. By ERIC WOLFF and ANTHONY ADRAGNA […] Trump, who is targeting a state that he narrowly lost to Hillary Clinton in 2016, … Continue reading →

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No funding for Nevada nuclear waste repository in proposed federal budget via Las Vegas Sun

Posted on 2020/02/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By John Sadler President Donald Trump’s proposed fiscal 2021 budget doesn’t include any funding for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada. Released today, the budget includes language criticizing the political stalemate over the stalled project, which was defunded a … Continue reading →

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After Gates Foundation picks St. Louis, activist group says Bill Gates needs to work on West Lake Landfill first via KSDK

Posted on 2020/02/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The landfill is owned by Republic Services, a company of which Bill Gates is the largest stakeholder. Justina Coronel BRIDGETON, Mo. — A local activist group is trying to get the attention of a well-known billionaire. Bill Gates’ Foundation picked … Continue reading →

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Saugeen Ojibway Nation vote ends company’s plans to store nuclear waste near Lake Huron via Times Herald

Posted on 2020/02/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Jeremy Ervin An Ontario power company has announced it will no longer consider storing nuclear waste underground near Lake Huron.  The decision came following years of Michigan lawmakers asking Ontario Power Generation to reconsider. It took the vote of the Saugeen Ojibway … Continue reading →

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NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE CONTAINERS BREAK DOWN WHEN EXPOSED TO WATER via Futurism

Posted on 2020/02/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

DAN ROBITZSKI The U.S. government’s plan for safely storing nuclear waste just hit a serious snag: Exposure to groundwater could corrode its new storage containers, spilling radioactive materials into the Earth. The plan, as it stands, was to trap nuclear waste in … Continue reading →

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Matt Canavan announces nuclear waste dump location in South Australia via The Guardian

Posted on 2020/02/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Farm on Eyre Peninsula volunteered by owner to house low and medium risk waste […] On Saturday the federal resources minister, Matt Canavan, said 160 hectares of the Napandee property in Kimba would host Australia’s radioactive waste, the vast majority … Continue reading →

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Nuclear power: Recycling a bad idea via Greenfield Recorder

Posted on 2020/01/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By DEB KATZ Nuclear industry advocates always seem to come up with grand ideas that nuclear power will “solve” our energy problems. Now it’s a solution to climate change. Their solutions always downplay any problems with high-level nuclear waste claiming … Continue reading →

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Savannah River Site sends first large shipment of nuclear waste to WIPP since 2014 incident via Carlsbad Current Argus

Posted on 2020/01/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Adrian Hedden A nuclear waste repository in Carlsbad recently accepted its first large cask of low-level waste in six years, following an accidental radiological release and unrelated truck fire in 2014 that led to the facility’s three-year cease in operations. … Continue reading →

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Some Hanford radiation exposure records could harm workers and taxpayers, report says via Tri-City Herald

Posted on 2020/01/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BY ANNETTE CARY Recordkeeping at Hanford could be improved to track worker radiation exposure, including to ensure fair compensation for workers who develop cancer, according to an inspection report of the Department of Energy Office of Inspector General. Issues in … Continue reading →

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