Tag Archives: radioactive waste

Radioactive facts in Gaziemir and authoritarian negligence via Yeşil Gazete

Posted on 2020/06/10 by nfield

Gaziemir, one of the 30 districts of Izmir, was recognized as “Chernobyl of Izmir” due to the nuclear waste that remained in the soil for decades. The nuclear waste was detected in the grounds of The Aslan Avci Lead Factory in 2011, … Continue reading →

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Critics Alarmed by US Nuclear Agency’s Bid to Relax Rules on Radioactive Waste via Guardian UK (Reader Supported News)

Posted on 2020/05/08 by nfield

Nuclear Regulatory Commission keen to allow material to be disposed of by ‘land burial’ – with potentially damaging effects he federal agency providing oversight of the commercial nuclear sector is attempting to push through a rule change critics say could … Continue reading →

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One Side of a Nuclear Waste Fight: Trump, The Other: His Appointees via the New York Times

Posted on 2020/02/24 by nfield

By Maggie Haberman Before the 2018 midterm elections, Senator Dean Heller stood with President Trump in the glittering Trump International Hotel near the Las Vegas Strip, looking out from the top floor, and pointed. “I said, ‘See those railroad tracks?’” … Continue reading →

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Bruce County divided over becoming permanent site to store Canada’s nuclear waste via CBC

Posted on 2020/02/22 by nfield

Canada has 57K tonnes of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel and nowhere to put it […] On Thursday, politicians in Bruce County debated whether their community should be home to a place to put that waste, what’s called a deep geologic … Continue reading →

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The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site has always been a political football. Trump is the latest president to fumble via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2020/02/22 by nfield

By Allison Macfarlane As with much policy-setting in the Trump administration, a single tweet from the president on February 6 appeared to reverse a previous stance. The message about Yucca Mountain, the nation’s proposed geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel … Continue reading →

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LANL cleanup faces $100M cut via Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on 2020/02/18 by nfield

By Scott Wyland […] The agency’s preliminary “budget in brief” shows a proposed 46 percent reduction in funding for the lab’s environmental managemenet, which handles cleanup of legacy waste generated before 1999, including during the Manhattan Project and Cold War. … Continue reading →

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Wash. state reverses course on some nasty Hanford nuclear waste. Alternative was worse via Tri-City Herald

Posted on 2020/02/12 by nfield

By Annette Cary Richland, WA After a bitter fight nearly 15 years ago to exclude Hanford from a new federal law for reclassifying some radioactive waste, the state of Washington now sees that law as the best alternative to ensure adequate … Continue reading →

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Nuclear waste storage plans aren’t as safe as we thought, experts warn via The Independent

Posted on 2020/01/28 by nfield

Anthony Cuthbertson @ADCuthbertson Current methods for storing high-level nuclear waste are “severely” unsafe, scientists have warned. Researchers at Ohio State University discovered that long-term plans to store radioactive waste from nuclear arms production are unsustainable and would result in radioactive materials being released … Continue reading →

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Tepco estimates 44 years to decommission Fukushima No. 2 nuclear plant via The Japan Times

Posted on 2020/01/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. has estimated that it will take 44 years to decommission its Fukushima No. 2 nuclear plant. Tepco presented the outline of decommissioning plans to the municipal assembly of Tomioka, one of the two host … Continue reading →

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State report: LANL lost track of 250 barrels of nuke waste via Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on 2019/12/11 by nfield

The contractor that’s been in charge of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s operations for the past year lost track of 250 barrels of waste, while the company heading the legacy cleanup mislabeled and improperly stored waste containers and took months to … Continue reading →

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