Tag Archives: Yucca Mountain

4.1 earthquake rattles Nevada security site near Yucca Mountain via The Las Vegas Review Journal

Posted on 2017/07/18 by nfield

[…] Nevada State Geologist Jim Faulds said the Rock Valley Fault zone has a recent history of generating small earthquakes, including a January 1999 swarm that included eight earthquakes between magnitudes 3 and 4.7. […] The State of Nevada Nuclear … Continue reading →

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Senators grill Perry on Yucca nuclear storage plans via The Hill

Posted on 2017/06/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Energy Secretary Rick Perry was in the hot seat Wednesday as senators grilled him over his push to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said the fight over making Yucca the sole location for the … Continue reading →

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Three Mile Island closure looms after third failed bid via York Dailey Record

Posted on 2017/05/27 by kojimaaiko

For the third year in a row, Three Mile Island failed to secure a crucial contract to sell its electricity, increasing the possibility that the plant will soon close. The plant is allowed to remain open through 2034. However, Exelon will decide by … Continue reading →

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Response to “Revive Yucca Mountain”

Posted on 2017/04/13 by nfield

RE:  Revive Yucca Mountain: Illinois has more nuclear waste than any other state, all of it in temporary storage, April 12, 2017   To the Editors of the Chicago Tribune:   The recent Tribune editorial demanding quick action to reactivate … Continue reading →

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Federal Court Awards Conn. Nuclear Plant Owners via Connecticut Law Tribune

Posted on 2016/04/13 by norma field

Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co. et al. v. United States: A federal judge has awarded nearly $77 million to the owners of three decommissioned nuclear power plants in New England, including Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co. in Haddam Neck, Connecticut, … Continue reading →

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Stop Fukushima Freeways National Campaign Kickoff via NEIS

Posted on 2015/10/26 by norma field

WHAT: Stop Fukushima Freeways National Campaign Kick-Off WHEN: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 LOCATION AND DETAILS: · Press Release 12 noon: release of maps of potential road and rail transport corridors for high-level radioactive waste (HLRW) through Illinois, and its implications … Continue reading →

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American Indians accuse NRC of ‘environmental racism’ via Las Vegas Review Journal

Posted on 2015/10/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The feds call it “environmental justice.” Western Shoshones say it’s really “environmental racism.” Whatever words apply, a challenge by American Indian tribes on that subject in the latest Nuclear Regulatory Commission report for disposing nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain could … Continue reading →

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Recent hearings were the last gasps of the Yucca Mountain road show via Las Vegas Sun

Posted on 2015/09/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The federal government’s long-winded campaign to mollify the nuclear power industry by adopting Yucca Mountain as the burial grounds for spent, highly radioactive fuel rods is running on fumes. And the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s hearings last week in Southern Nevada … Continue reading →

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US government seeks new sites for nuclear-waste storage via Nature

Posted on 2015/03/25 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Department of Energy pursues interim plan for commercial fuel and permanent location for defence waste. […] The DOE’s new plan has the department pursuing a two-pronged approach to handling nuclear waste. A 24 March decision by US president Barack Obama … Continue reading →

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Pilgrim nuclear plant expands waste storage to concrete casks via The Boston Globe

Posted on 2015/01/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Massachusetts’s only nuclear power plant said Friday that it would begin packing its spent fuel in super-tough concrete-and-steel containers. Previously, all of the nuclear reactor fuel rods from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth were submerged in a deep … Continue reading →

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