Tag Archives: radioactive waste

US Nuclear Dump Facing Space, Staffing Challenges　via Manufacturing.net

Posted on 2020/12/02 by nfield

The repository is at the center of a multibillion-dollar effort to clean up waste from decades of U.S. nuclear research and bomb-making. Dec 1st, 2020Susan Montoya Bryan ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The federal government’s only underground nuclear waste dump could … Continue reading →

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All casked up with nowhere to go: Why we shouldn’t be talking about nuclear waste “disposal” via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2020/11/30 by nfield

By Linda Pentz Gunter (Note: Please join a webinar on nuclear waste hosted by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC, and moderated by Beyond Nuclear, to discuss the World Nuclear Waste Report with its editor, Arne Jungjohann, and US chapter author and former Nuclear … Continue reading →

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Japan Struggles to Secure Radioactive Nuclear Waste Dump Sites via The Diplomat

Posted on 2020/09/16 by nfield

By Thisanka Siripala Japan’s worsening depopulation crisis is crippling the public finances of regional towns. Now one small town has made national headlines after expressing interest in storing radioactive nuclear waste underground in a last ditch effort to save itself from … Continue reading →

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Why Scientists Fear a Chernobyl-Like Catastrophe Could Happen at Hanford via Columbia Riverkeeper

Posted on 2020/09/15 by nfield

Join Columbia Riverkeeper and partners for a roundtable discussion about the frightening consequences that delayed cleanup could have at one of Hanford’s most high-risk facilities, the Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility (WESF), a place that houses one-third of all radioactivity … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Power As an Environmental Justice Issue via NEIS

Posted on 2020/09/13 by nfield
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If Trump and Biden agree there shouldn’t be a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain, can’t we all? via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2020/08/27 by nfield

By David Klaus, August 26, 2020 Believe it or not, there is an issue on which Donald Trump and Joe Biden agree: Both have announced their opposition to building an underground repository to permanently store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in … Continue reading →

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#478 – San Onofre Beachfront Nuke Waste Dump: Edison Sneaks Deadly Rule Change thru Coastal Commission – Public Watchdogs’ Charles Langley & Nina Babiarz via Nuclear Hotseat

Posted on 2020/08/21 by nfield

San Onofre Beachfront Nuclear Waste Dump – and owner Southern California Edison’s manipulations to abandon the Holtec thin-walled “tin can” canistersto High Tide on the beach.  Can you spot the problems?  HINT:  There are even more!  Listen Here: Audio Player00:0000:00Use … Continue reading →

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Canadian utility formally drops underground radioactive waste storage next to Lake Huron via Detroit Free Press

Posted on 2020/06/29 by nfield

Keith Matheny, An Ontario nuclear power generating company has officially dropped its pursuit of a deep underground storage facility for low- to intermediate-level radioactive waste within a half-mile of Lake Huron. […] With that, OPG’s more than 16-year pursuit of … Continue reading →

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Holtec Settles Legal Battle with Massachusetts Over $1B Nuclear Plant Cleanup via ENR

Posted on 2020/06/24 by nfield

Massachusetts officials have dropped a lawsuit against Holtec International, now site owner and intended cleanup manager of the closed Pilgrim Nuclear Plant near Plymouth that allows the $1.13 billion-decontamination and decommissioning of the 670-MW site to move forward to be … Continue reading →

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Standing up to Rosatom　via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2020/06/22 by nfield

Anti-nuclear resistance in Russia: problems protests, reprisals The following is a report from the Russian Social Ecological Union (RSEU)/ Friends of the Earth Russia, slightly edited for length. You can read the report in full here. It is a vitally important document … Continue reading →

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