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Hot cells now processing transuranic waste for final disposal - Oak Ridge, TN - The Oak Ridger

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:28:21 -0000

Remote-handled transuranic waste resulting from decades of research activities at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now being readied for safe, long-term storage out of state. Specially designed rooms called hot cells enable this environmental legacy to be safely sorted and packaged into containers with robotic arms, avoiding all human contact and supporting worker safety.

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Nuclear Power, Recycling Needed Now - Business - redOrbit

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:16:29 -0000

AT A time when America is paying $1.5 billion a day for imported oil, it seems incomprehensible that something isn't being done to remove the albatross around the neck of nuclear power.

For that we can thank Congress. It is supporting renewable energy, everything from solar and wind power to biofuels and other green sources. While renewable sources might help meet peak energy demand, they simply can't provide the "base-load" electricity that our nation needs to drive the economy.

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Whitehaven News: Who Nuclear Management Partners are

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:28:11 -0000

Nuclear Management Partners Ltd is a joint venture comprising URS Corporation - Washington Division, AMEC and AREVA.

URS Corporation - Washington Division (formerly Washington Group International) is a provider of planning, engineering design, construction, technical, management, and operations and maintenance services to public and private sector clients worldwide.
It employs 25,000 people. Washington and URS are the main sponsors of Whitehaven Rugby League.

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MOX Fuel Production for Kyushu Electric to Start in October

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:18:54 -0000

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Used nuclear fuel shipments start

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:11:07 -0000

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Planned plutonium shipment raises concerns - UPI.com

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:07:00 -0000

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Weapons-ready plutonium shipped to France in unarmed ferry - Local & National - News - Belfast Telegraph

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:01:08 -0000

Plutonium suitable for nuclear bombs was secretly shipped last week from the controversial Sellafield nuclear complex to France on board an old, unarmed ro-ro ferry.\n\nThe shipment – originally due to take place in March, but postponed after an outcry - is the first of several due over the next few years.

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BBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Sellafield 'dirty for a century'

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:53:37 -0000

It will take over 100 years before the toxic nuclear site at Sellafield is safe, it has been revealed.

A Westminster report claims that the UK's largest atomic power-station, overlooking the Irish Sea, won't be completely clean until 2120.

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Arms Control Associationn: Bush’s Nuclear Reprocessing Plan Under Fire

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:49:38 -0000

The Bush administration’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) program, already under siege, has been further imperiled after recent action by several congressional panels and an April report from the congressional watchdog agency.

Administration officials have claimed that GNEP, which seeks to develop new nuclear technologies and new international nuclear fuel arrangements, will cut nuclear waste and decrease the risk that an anticipated growth in the use of nuclear energy worldwide could spur nuclear proliferation.

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The time has come for nuclear power with recycling | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:02:08 -0000

Energy experts largely agree that nuclear power is the most environmentally benign and cost-effective method available for generating large amounts of base-load electricity. Nuclear power can help alleviate global climate change due to greenhouse-gas emissions and also help reduce our dependence on imported oil.

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STLtoday - Swords to plowshares: nuclear bombs to electricity

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:47:16 -0000

Nuclear power's resurgence in the United States is tied to a surprisingly effective program that is helping to make the world a safer place from nuclear weapons.

Known as the "megatons to megawatts" program, it has led to the elimination of huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons materials, thus making it much more difficult for rogue countries and terrorist groups to obtain them.

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Domenici: Time to look at temporary nuclear waste storage, recycling - Politics: The Early Line - Las Vegas Sun

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:47:44 -0000

WASHINGTON — In another sign of Congress’ increasing frustration with the slow pace of the Yucca Mountain project, a longtime nuclear advocate today announced an effort to have the private sector help the Energy Department develop interim nuclear waste storage sites separate from Nevada.

Sen. Pete Domenici, R-New Mexico, has put forward a bill that would allow $1 billion annually from the fund designated for Yucca Mountain to instead go for developing nuclear recycling and interim waste storage sites run by public-private ventures.

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Gordon Brown seeks Sellafield nuclear deal with Japan - Telegraph

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:34:41 -0000

The Prime Minister Gordon Brown will talk to his Japanese counterpart, Yasuo Fukuda, at the G8 meeting in Hokkaido next month about a potential £1bn a year deal which would boost the UK's nuclear industry.

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Bloomberg.com: UK seeks nuclear reprocessing deal with japan

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:33:50 -0000

June 23 (Bloomberg) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will meet with his Japanese counterpart Yasuo Fukuda next month to discuss a nuclear-fuel reprocessing contract, worth about 1 billion pounds ($1.98 billion) a year, the Telegraph reported.

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Russia closes Soviet weapons-grade reactor : Europe World

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:28:49 -0000

Moscow- Russia shut down a weapons-grade plutonium reactor Thursday as part of a non-proliferation agreement with the United States to reduce the risk of their nuclear bomb building sites. The Soviet-Era reactor, secretly built in Siberia in the 1960s, is the second to be turned off this year, four decades on from the height of the Soviet Union's atomic weapons programme.

"The industrial reactor ADE-5 was terminally stopped. That is the final closure of the reactor," a spokesman for the Siberian Chemical Combine, in the closed city of Seversk, formerly known as Tomsk-7 was quoted by Itar-Tass as saying Thursday.

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Fuel brought into Monju nuclear plant : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)

Tue, 20 May 2008 08:56:42 -0000

FUKUI--Nuclear fuel was brought Friday into the Monju fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, which had been shut down since a sodium leak accident in December 1995.

The last time nuclear fuel was brought into the reactor was in November 1995, shortly before the accident.

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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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The Columbus Dispatch : DOE plan for nuke waste is reshelved

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:50:59 -0000

WASHINGTON -- Some say a multibillion-dollar recycling center for nuclear waste would be an economic blessing for southern Ohio. Others see it as little more than a radioactive waste dump.

But both sides agree on at least one thing: The Department of Energy initiative will not happen anytime soon on the grounds of the former uranium-enrichment plant in Piketon -- or perhaps anywhere else.

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Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: Key GNEP Decision Left to Next President

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:42:13 -0000

With its Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) already facing resistance from Congress, the Bush administration has decided to leave to the next president key decisions affecting the domestic leg of the controversial program.

Administration officials have claimed that GNEP, which seeks to develop new nuclear technologies and new international nuclear fuel arrangements, will cut nuclear waste and decrease the risk that an anticipated growth in the use of nuclear energy worldwide could spur nuclear proliferation.

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TVA to design concept plan for nuclear waste reprocessing plant : Knoxville News Sentinel

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:36:17 -0000

The Tennessee Valley Authority has received $4 million to develop a conceptual design for a nuclear waste reprocessing plant that could end up as a demonstration facility built on the former Clinch Breeder Reactor site.

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