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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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Nova Scotia News - Pickering station worries nuclear watchdog

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:32:47 -0000

OTTAWA — Canada’s nuclear safety watchdog warned last month that it was concerned about an "erosion of safety margins" at the Pickering B nuclear station near Toronto.\n\nA letter from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission surfaced Tuesday on the eve of a hearing in which Ontario Power Generation will make the case for renewing the station’s operating licence until 2014.

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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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Commanding heights (2) | Nuclear diplomacy | Economist.com

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:26:29 -0000

British Energy proves a slow sell

EVEN today, 13 years after it was built, Britain's newest nuclear-power station looks futuristic, with its landmark white containment dome and the blue haze of Cerenkov radiation in the cooling pond. In contrast to the huge furnaces needed to burn coal, a reactor core at Sizewell B roughly the size of a smallish lorry produces 3% of Britain's electricity. But its construction was so controversial—sparking one of the longest planning inquiries ever—that, after it was finished, nuclear power was abandoned for a generation.

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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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Nuclear tests by French on Mururoa still rankle - 16 May 2008 - NZ Herald: New Zealand National news

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:23:31 -0000

Nearly 35 years after France thumbed its nose at world opinion and held a series of nuclear tests on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific, David Barber's view has not changed.

It was a fundamentally wrong thing for France to do and nothing since had altered that opinion, Barber said.

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DOE - Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Members Convene in Jordan For Second Steering Group Meeting

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:21:00 -0000

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Energy today announced continued progress at the conclusion of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership’s (GNEP’s) second Steering Group meeting. Representatives from twenty-eight countries and three intergovernmental organizations attended the two-day meeting in the Kingdom of Jordan hosted by the Jordanian Atomic Energy Commission.

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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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Political clashes underline limits to intelligence reform - Los Angeles Times

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:18:53 -0000

WASHINGTON -- As head of analysis for all U.S. spy agencies, Thomas Fingar was making final edits last summer on a long-awaited intelligence report on Iran.

The draft concluded that Tehran was still pursuing a nuclear bomb, a finding that echoed previous assessments and would have bolstered Bush administration hawks. Then, just weeks before the report was to be delivered to the White House, new intelligence surfaced indicating that Tehran's nuclear weapons work had stopped.

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Event to honor fallen industry workers | chillicothegazette.com | Chillicothe Gazette

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:17:27 -0000

Former workers at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon will host a memorial to deceased nuclear industry workers on Memorial Day this year.
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Vina Colley, a former worker at the plant will host the memorial starting at 10:30 a.m. at Campy Oyo in Portsmouth.

Organizers in Piketon will join other workers at 14 nuclear sites throughout the country to remember former workers who have died due to illnesses they may have contracted while working at nuclear facilities operated by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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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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Nuclear Regulatory Commission calls meeting about local GE plant | WWAY NewsChannel 3 | Wilmington NC News

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:15:33 -0000

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has called a meeting regarding the GE Plant in Castle Hayne. The commission is concerned about an alert the global nuclear fuels facility issued in January when moisture may have leaked into a container of uranium dioxide powder.

The executive director of the environmental watchdog group NC Warn said it was most likely a human error. However Jim Warren voiced his concern, saying, "That's the NRC's clever way of saying there was no risk."

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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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Atomic testing burned its mark - Las Vegas Sun

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:10:50 -0000

Predawn atomic fireballs and billowing mushroom clouds — plus the radioactive and political fallout accompanying them — are all part of Nevada's long-time association with nuclear weapons testing.

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Livermore lab fails terror test - ContraCostaTimes.com

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:09:52 -0000

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's protective force failed to deter a mock terrorist attack during a recent security drill, according to a Time magazine report online Monday.

During the simulated night-time attack several weeks ago, a team posing as terrorists was able to defeat the lab's defenses and get hold of their target of pretend nuclear material, according to unnamed sources.

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The Times - Nuclear plans will triple SA’s power prices

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:09:17 -0000

And Eskom GM says a mild winter will go a long way to minimise load shedding

The government’s plan to include nuclear and renewable sources in the energy mix could push electricity bills even higher than currently foreseen, a senior Eskom official said yesterday.

The Cabinet has formally committed the country to build conventional and Pebble Bed nuclear power stations.

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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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