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Scullion still keen on Muckaty for nuclear dump - (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:31:58 -0000

Country Liberal Party Senator Nigel Scullion is continuing to push Muckaty Station, 110 kilometres north of Tennant Creek, as an ideal spot for a national nuclear waste dump.

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Nova Scotia News - N.B. greens want ban on uranium mining

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:31:46 -0000

FREDERICTON (CP) — Environmental groups in New Brunswick are calling for an immediate ban on uranium exploration and mining as companies continue staking large swaths of the province.\n\nRepresentatives of several conservation groups said Wednesday about 30 organizations, including church and farming groups, have signed a statement calling for a no-uranium mining policy, similar to moratoriums already in place in Nova Scotia and British Columbia.

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CLEAN-UP JOB THAT WILL TAKE MORE THAN 100 YEARS

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:31:03 -0000

As the Government gives the go-ahead for a new generation of power plants, MARTIN BOOTH takes a look at what will happen to Oldbury nuclear power station as it nears the end of its life after 40 years of service.

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Sydney Morning Herald: Government forced into inquiry on radioactive site

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:24:40 -0000

RELATIVES of a couple who died of cancer after living near an unmarked radioactive waste dump at Hunters Hill have welcomed a parliamentary inquiry into the contamination scandal that has dogged state governments since the 1960s.

"I hope they uncover exactly the level of damage that has occurred in terms of people's health and lives," said Katie McGrath, whose mother and father died of cancer in their 30s after living at the family's home in Nelson Parade.

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Traditional owners urged to back solar over uranium (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:20:11 -0000

The chief executive officer of Alice Springs' native title body says traditional owners should not support a uranium mine south of the town.

Darryl Pearce from Lhere Artepe says Aboriginal people would prefer to see solar technology projects instead of uranium mines.

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Ohio.com - Selling, donating dump opposed

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:16:41 -0000

A grass-roots group is lobbying to ensure that a now-closed toxic-waste dump in Uniontown is not sold or given away.

Concerned Citizens of Lake Township has written to federal, state and county officials seeking to block the proposed sale of the 30-acre Industrial Excess Landfill off Cleveland Avenue Northwest.

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Chadron Record: NRC says mine opponents’ contentions merit attention

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:14:20 -0000

Plans for expansion of the Crow Butte uranium mine to a 2,100 acre near the cemetery north of Crawford will face additional scrutiny by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission as the result of a ruling released April 29.

After considering issues raised at a January hearing in Chadron, a three member panel of NRC administrative law judges concluded that concerns about potential contamination of groundwater supplies and threats to human health raised by opponents of the mine expansion deserved further consideration and oral arguments.

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Uranium and Lead Kuwaiti's Sand Heads for Idaho

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:11:36 -0000

Over the past two weeks, for the first time, news was shared in Kuwait that sand that has been contaminated since the 1991 U.S. Coalition War in Kuwait has now been shipped to U.S. soil and is currently heading to Idaho.

The sand’s contamination resulted from U.S. military vehicles and munitions combining in a combustive accident at the end of that war.

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Whitehaven News: Tenders sought for new N-waste storage ideas

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:08:09 -0000

As revealed in The Whitehaven News, the option of storing spent fuel in underground vaults, is becoming a possible alternative to reprocessing for Britain’s expected fleet of new nuclear reactors and a graphic illustration of the mountain of spoil, as large as the Egyptian pyramids, that would be created by an underground repository has been reproduced by a Welsh council that feared such a repository coming to Wales.

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Nukes: A Gorgeous Monument to Radioactive Decay

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:55:56 -0000

What do you do when you have a barn-sized pile of nuclear waste materials that you have to store for 100 years while it loses its toxicity? In the Netherlands, the answer was to stick it inside a giant art project: specifically, this orange building called the Habog Facility, covered in physics formulas by Einstein and Planck. Every twenty years, the building will be repainted in a lighter color to symbolize the slowly decaying radiation in the waste.

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

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Uranium company fights EPA ruling

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:31:12 -0000

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A uranium mining company contends a U.S Environmental Protection Agency ruling is stalling its plans to begin operations in northwest New Mexico.

The EPA ruled last year that a 160-acre parcel near Church Rock is part of a dependent Indian community, therefore requiring that Hydro Resources Inc. obtain an underground injection control permit with the EPA, not the state of New Mexico.

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Casper Star-Tribune: Questions about uranium

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:30:10 -0000

Ranchers and rural residents in northeast Wyoming say they've seen the brochure on how uranium producers perform in-situ leach mining. What they don't know is how it's going to work in their neighborhood, with the soils and aquifers under their homes.

Some say they're also unsure about how reliable producers are when it comes to self-monitoring, and whether state regulators are prepared to properly oversee a pending rush on in-situ uranium mining in the state.

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ReviewJournal.com - ERIN NEFF: 'Buried here only over my dead body'

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:17:16 -0000

It's hard to find Nevada residents who still think Yucca Mountain is the biggest issue in the state, but this election year might just put it back on the map.

After all, Sen. John McCain is solidly behind the proposed nuclear waste dump, even though he sometimes wears an environmentalist hat and at other times a fiscal conservative hat.

Yucca Mountain could be a huge environmental disaster -- and it's already cost enough billions of dollars to actually deserve the honor of federal government boondoggle.

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PDF: National Nuclear Workers’ Memorial

Tue, 13 May 2008 09:07:35 -0000

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Village's Residents Live on Deadly Turf | TheLedger.com

Tue, 13 May 2008 09:00:18 -0000

TALLEVAST | In this deeply rooted village in Southwest Florida, it's not unusual to find generations of the same family living doors apart. Now these lifelong settlers are bracing for their hamlet to die.

The water in this black community tucked between Bradenton and Sarasota is poisoned with cancer-causing chemicals leaked from an old beryllium plant that anchors the neighborhood of 80 homes.

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Star-Telegram.com: | 05/12/2008 | Texas could lead nuclear power surge

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:53:02 -0000

AUSTIN -- With eight power plants on the drawing board, Texas could lead the way in an American renaissance of nuclear power, according to industry leaders and some policymakers.

Four power companies -- New Jersey-based NRG Energy, Amarillo Power, Dallas-based Luminant and Chicago-based Exelon -- have proposed building nuclear plants in Texas. That would increase the reactors in the state from four to 12, and more than triple its nuclear output.

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LocalNews8.com - Appeals court hears challenge to uranium mine

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:51:23 -0000

DENVER (AP) - Federal judges in Denver say they're surprised the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued permits to allow a company to leach uranium out of an aquifer that supplies drinking water to thousands of Navajos in New Mexico.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Monday in a case brought by opponents of the mine.

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American Thinker Blog: The nuclear waste over/under

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:48:14 -0000

A leading foe of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal facility in Nevada has left a peculiarly-worded request for the disposal of his earthly remains.

"Over my dead body"

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Can Fungi Really Stop the Radioactive Contamination of Our Earth?

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:42:14 -0000

Just weeks after UK press coverage on citizen outrage over the continuation of firing Depleted Uranium at the Dundrennan military firing range in Scotland and the increased radioactive contamination of the environment there...

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Company challenges EPA ruling : State and West : Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:38:49 -0000

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