Tag Archives: nuclear waste

Life after Oyster Creek: nuclear waste piles up in Lacey via app.

Posted on 2020/01/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

LACEY — Almost a half century’s worth of nuclear waste is accumulating on concrete pads in southern Lacey, refuse from what used to be the town’s economic engine.  Towering steel-and-concrete canisters of highly radioactive fuel rods, which once powered the reactor inside the now-defunct Oyster Creek … Continue reading →

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Nuclear waste removal begins 30 years after power station closure via BBC

Posted on 2020/01/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Work has begun on removing nuclear waste from Berkeley power station, 30 years after it was decommissioned. The disused Magnox generator, situated on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire, closed in 1989. It was the world’s first commercial … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Power Is “Clean”—If You Ignore All the Waste via Mother Jones

Posted on 2020/01/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

These 2 charts compare a coal-burning power plant and a nuclear generating station. JONATHAN THOMPSON This story was originally published by the High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nuclear power generates electricity without emitting greenhouse gases or other … Continue reading →

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Congress Demands Investigation Into the U.S.’s Nuclear Coffin via Popular Mechanics

Posted on 2019/12/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Runit Dome is leaking radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean. By Kyle MizokamiDec 27, 2019 The U.S. Congress has ordered an investigation into the so-called “Runit Dome,” a concrete dome containing contaminated radioactive debris leftover from nuclear weapons tests. The Department … Continue reading →

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New form of uranium found that could affect nuclear waste disposal plans via The Guardian

Posted on 2019/12/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

by Anna Demming Research shows underground storage can create new form of element which could affect groundwater […] Many governments are planning to dispose of radioactive waste by burying it deep underground. However, new research has found that in such storage … Continue reading →

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Tokyo ‘Recovery Olympics’ offer scant solace to displaced victims of Fukushima nuclear disaster via The Japan Times

Posted on 2019/12/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BY MARI YAMAGUCHI AND STEPHEN WADE FUTABA, FUKUSHIMA PREF. – Nine years after an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster devastated wide areas of the prefecture, the torch relay for the 2020 Summer Games will kick off in Fukushima. Some baseball and softball games will … Continue reading →

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Opinion: California’s San Onofre nuclear plant is a Chernobyl waiting to happen via Los Angeles Times

Posted on 2019/11/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By KATE BROWN Nuclear accidents often aren’t surprises. Whistleblowers had warned of the dangers before such disasters occurred in 1986 in Chernobyl, Ukraine, and 25 years later in Fukushima, Japan. As one of the world’s wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, the U.S. … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Colonialism: Indigenous opposition grows against proposal for nation’s largest nuclear storage facility in NM via NM Political Report

Posted on 2019/11/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Kendra Chamberlain A proposal for New Mexico to house one of the world’s largest nuclear waste storage facilities has drawn opposition from nearly every indigenous nation in the state. Nuclear Issues Study Group co-founder and Diné organizer Leona Morgan told … Continue reading →

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Nuclear waste removal project moving forward via WKBW

Posted on 2019/11/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Waste from Manhattan Project stored in Lewiston LEWISTON, N.Y. (WKBW) — People who live near a nuclear waste storage site got an update on a plan to remove the wasteWednesday night.  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provided an update on … Continue reading →

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What happens to nuclear waste from power plants? via DW

Posted on 2019/11/13 by nfield

African countries looking to invest in nuclear energy as a source of clean electricity should consider Europe’s struggles with disposing of radioactive waste. Seventy years after the nuclear age began, no country has built a place to safely store its waste, … Continue reading →

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