Tag Archives: Yucca Mountain

NRC: DOE Does Not Meet Land Ownership, Water Rights Requirements for Yucca Mountain Site via Power

Posted on 2014/12/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

In the third part of a long-awaited safety evaluation report (SER) for the stalled Yucca Mountain permanent nuclear waste repository released today, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) says the Department of Energy (DOE) fails to meet necessary requirements relating to … Continue reading →

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City to feds: Get nuclear waste out of San Onofre via Orange County Register

Posted on 2014/11/15 by yukimiyamotodepaul

An August decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to let spent radioactive fuel remain in storage at the defunct San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station indefinitely does not sit well with elected leaders in San Clemente, the plant’s closest neighbor. The … Continue reading →

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Yucca Mountain redux via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2014/11/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Republican takeover of the Senate and consequent sidelining of the Democratic majority leader, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, will undoubtedly increase calls for reviving the Energy Department’s proposed nuclear waste repository at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain. The project got a big … Continue reading →

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Calls to Use Yucca Mountain as a Nuclear Waste Site, Now Deemed Safe via The New York Times

Posted on 2014/10/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday released a long-delayed report on the suitability of Yucca Mountain as a disposal spot for nuclear waste, finding that the design met the commission’s requirements, laying the groundwork to restart the project if control … Continue reading →

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Presley to Obama: Mississippi doesn’t want nuclear waste via The Clarion-Ledger

Posted on 2014/08/19 by norma field

Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley has forwarded to President Obama resolutions passed by the PSC in opposition to storing nuclear waste in Mississippi. Last year, federal officials considering alternatives to plans to store the nation’s nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Waste Solution Seen in Desert Salt Beds via The New York Times

Posted on 2014/02/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

CARLSBAD, N.M. — Half a mile beneath the desert surface, in thick salt beds left behind by seas that dried up hundreds of millions of years ago, the Department of Energy is carving out rooms as long as football fields … Continue reading →

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Political Split Bigger Than Scientific Fissures Over Nuclear Waste Home via EnergyBiz

Posted on 2013/10/31 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Resolving the issue of long-term nuclear waste storage seems impermeable. Yucca Mountain is alive, but barely. Other ideas are plausible, but remote. Right now, used nuclear fuel rods are cooled in pools for up to five years before they are … Continue reading →

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Illinois Biggest Atomic Dump as U.S. Fails to Pick Site via Bloomberg

Posted on 2013/10/25 by yukimiyamotodepaul

U.S. lawmakers have debated for decades where to put all the spent fuel generated by the nation’s nuclear power plants. The dithering means that an unintended site has emerged: Illinois. About 13 percent of America’s 70,000 metric tons of the … Continue reading →

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Longtime Nevada environmental activist Garrett dies at 88 via The Las Vegas Review Journal

Posted on 2013/10/20 by norma field

Garrett was a board member of the Nevada environmental group Citizen Alert and one of the original opponents of the federal government’s MX missile system that was once proposed to cover much of eastern Nevada. She later helped lead fights … Continue reading →

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What can be done with abandoned nuclear plants via The Bennington Banner

Posted on 2013/09/17 by norma field

Imagine a summer day in, oh, let’s say, 2050. The sun is shining. It’s about 85 degrees (let’s pretend for the moment that global warming hasn’t turned the earth into an oven by then) with no humidity. Children are out … Continue reading →

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