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NUCLEAR: FFTF reactor fuel shipped to Idaho | Tri-City Herald

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:33:47 -0000

The last of the fuel has been removed from Hanford’s shutdown Fast Flux Test Facility and shipped to Idaho almost a year ahead of a legal deadline.\n\nThe research reactor is being deactivated to allow it to be put into a long-term surveillance and maintenance mode at minimum cost by August 2009.\n\nThe Department of Energy was required under the Tri-Party Agreement to have the last of the fuel removed from the reactor in March 2009.

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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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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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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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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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The Pentagon Is America's Biggest Polluter | Environment | AlterNet

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:35:35 -0000

The nation's biggest polluter isn't a corporation. It's the Pentagon. Every year the Department of Defense churns out more than 750,000 tons of hazardous waste -- more than the top three chemical companies combined.

Yet the military remains largely exempt from compliance with most federal and state environmental laws, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Pentagon's partner in crime, is working hard to keep it that way.

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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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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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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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Hospitals releasing radioactive waste | Herald Sun

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:12:46 -0000

FOUR major public hospitals are being ordered to stop leaking radioactive waste into the sewerage system.
The waste is mainly from the radioactive iodine used to treat thyroid cancer patients.

Sydney Water has demanded that the hospitals -- Royal North Shore, Liverpool, Nepean and Concord -- install decay tanks to protect workers from exposure.

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Hitting a Nuclear Roadblock - TIME

Tue, 13 May 2008 07:56:42 -0000

Steve Creamer wants to talk about saving the world. The CEO of EnergySolutions, a nuclear power cleanup and disposal company, says it's his personal mission to help usher in the "nuclear renaissance," an era he says is coming on the heels of the carbon emission dark ages. Creamer has spent the past three years amassing a near monopoly on low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) management in the U.S.

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Waste panel votes to ban EnergySolutions' import of Italian N-waste - Salt Lake Tribune

Tue, 13 May 2008 07:38:18 -0000

BOISE, Idaho - Eight Western states on Thursday derailed EnergySolutions' plans to import nuclear cleanup waste from Italy and bury some of it at the company's Utah landfill.
Members of the Northwest Compact on Low-level Radioactive Waste voted unanimously here to tighten the compact's contract with the Salt Lake City nuclear waste company to make it clear that foreign waste is not permitted. They also closed a loophole that has allowed past shipments of foreign waste to be buried in Utah after being processed at the company's Tennessee processing plant.

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Deseret News | Plan to store Italian nuclear waste rejected

Tue, 13 May 2008 07:37:32 -0000

BOISE — The EnergySolutions proposal to store radioactive waste from Italy in Utah received a unanimous thumbs down Thursday from the Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management.

Utah's compact committee member Bill Sinclair, picked by Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., read from a "clarifying" resolution after a 90-minute closed session to discuss a federal lawsuit EnergySolutions filed this week. Representatives on the eight-state compact all voted to approve the resolution.

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New Reactors and Waste Dump for east shore of Lake Huron

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:51:48 -0000

The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission released draft guidelines on April 7th for the environmental review of two separate projects proposed for the Bruce Nuclear Station near Kincardine, on the eastern shore of Lake Huron.

Bruce Power Inc. and Ontario Power Generation are the proponents for the projects. Bruce Power is proposing the construction of up to four new nuclear reactors at the existing Bruce Nuclear Site, located on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, north of Kincardine. The project is expected to generate approximately 4,000 megawatts of electricity to the Ontario grid.

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State orders radiation tests at Weymouth Neck waste site - The Boston Globe

Fri, 09 May 2008 09:02:11 -0000

State officials have decided that the 68-acre Weymouth Neck hazardous waste site should be tested for radiation contamination.

The decision marks a change in direction for Department of Environmental Protection regulators who earlier this year received a statement from ConocoPhillips, the site's previous owner, indicating that the company was satisfied that its cleanup effort was complete and the site posed no significant risk to people living or working on it.

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DEC: West Valley cleanup short of goals - Business First of Buffalo:

Fri, 09 May 2008 09:01:02 -0000

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation says 21 years after agreeing to remove radioactive waste at the Western New York Nuclear Service Center in West Valley, the federal government has not met expectations.

The state agency released a report May 7, saying the U.S. Department of Energy has yet to reach the first regulatory milepost -- the completion of a final environmental impact statement at the facility, which has been closed since 1975.

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