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THE NEXT STANDING ROCK SHOWDOWN COULD BE OVER NUCLEAR WASTE via OZY, Mountain View, CA

Posted on 2017/09/21 by nfield

Last Columbus Day, a group of Native Americans staged a small news conference at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, bearing signs denouncing a nuclear waste disposal site 90 miles away at Yucca Mountain. Among the speakers was Tom Goldtooth of … Continue reading →

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Zion skyline in for a change with planned razing of nuclear towers via Chicago Tribune

Posted on 2017/09/15 by nfield

By Mary McIntyre The green-capped concrete towers of Zion’s barren lakefront will be gone soon, but the nuclear waste that has crippled the city economically will remain. Zion Solutions, which is part of Utah-based EnergySolutions, will finish deconstructing and demolishing … Continue reading →

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Rowe seeks federal compensation for hosting nuclear waste at former atomic power plant via Mass Live

Posted on 2016/10/04 by norma field

ROWE — Yankee Rowe Nuclear Power Station shut down in 1992, and was demolished and decommissioned by 2007, but the fenced and isolated site on the upper Deerfield River still hosts 127 tons of spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste … Continue reading →

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House bill would compensate Zion for storage of ‘stranded’ nuclear waste　via The Chicago Tribune

Posted on 2016/07/12 by norma field

US Rep. Bob Dold, R-Ill., has introduced a bill that would compensate Zion and other communities that have served as storage facilities for nuclear waste. Exelon’s Zion Nuclear Power Station has housed about 1,020 metric tons of used nuclear fuel … Continue reading →

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