Britain holds £160bn stockpile of nuclear fuel - Times Online
Britain has a stockpile of plutonium and uranium that, if converted to fuel, could be worth nearly £160 billion and power three nuclear reactors for 60 years, scientists say.
The future of the stockpile - largely left over from burning fuel - will be decided by ministers over the next year, The Times has learnt. Its value is estimated as the equivalent of 2.6 billion barrels of oil.
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Britain holds £160bn stockpile of nuclear fuel - Times Online
Britain has a stockpile of plutonium and uranium that, if converted to fuel, could be worth nearly £160 billion and power three nuclear reactors for 60 years, scientists say.
The future of the stockpile - largely left over from burning fuel - will be decided by ministers over the next year, The Times has learnt. Its value is estimated as the equivalent of 2.6 billion barrels of oil.
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Video: Hanford 618-7 burial ground - Videos | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news
Hanford workers are making progress digging up the 618-7 burial ground, just north of Richland, Wash., as part of the cleanup of the nuclear reservation. Among debris they’ve unearthed are drums with potentially flammable shavings of a zircaloy and beryllium alloy and some large stainless steel tanks, one of them holding some radioactive thorium oxide powder.
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Video: Hanford 618-7 burial ground - Videos | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news
Hanford workers are making progress digging up the 618-7 burial ground, just north of Richland, Wash., as part of the cleanup of the nuclear reservation. Among debris they’ve unearthed are drums with potentially flammable shavings of a zircaloy and beryllium alloy and some large stainless steel tanks, one of them holding some radioactive thorium oxide powder.
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Travel Front - Sierra: A meeting of the natural and the nuclear - sacbee.com
British artist Chris Drury explores the wilds and atomic legacy of Nevada
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Nuclear fuel storage begins - Times-Standard Online
After decades of debate and more than a year of construction, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. workers placed and sealed the first cask of spent nuclear fuel from the Humboldt Bay nuclear power plant into an underground container Friday.
Over the next few mo
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Mining company apologises for uranium waste - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The chairman of Marathon Resources has made a formal apology to the owners of Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary for his company's misconduct at the site in outback South Australia.
The company dumped thousands of uranium drill samples in plastic and calico
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Lockheed's Tallevast plans fall on angry ears - Top Stories - Bradenton.com
Anger and frustration erupted at Mount Tabor Church Thursday night as residents demanded Lockheed Martin Corp. stop work on the Tallevast pollution plume until the community is moved out of harm's way.
But relocation was not on the agenda of the meeting
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Hanford relieved, nuclear waste tank not leaking
A leak has been ruled out as the cause for a drop in the level of highly radioactive waste in a tank at the Hanford nuclear reservation.
Instead, Energy Department officials and contractors say, variations in the level of the liquid apparently are linked
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Nanotechnology solution for radioactive waste cleanup
Radioactive material is toxic because it creates ions – by stripping away electrons from atoms – when it reacts with biological molecules. These ions can form free radicals, which damage proteins, membranes, and nucleic acids. Free radicals damage components of the cells' membranes, proteins or genetic material by "oxidizing" them – the same chemical reaction that causes iron to rust. This is called "oxidative stress". Many forms of cancer are thought to be the result of reactions between free radicals and DNA, resulting in mutations that can adversely affect the cell cycle and potentially lead to malignancy.
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Reactor will create tons of toxins -- baltimoresun.com
I was disappointed that Tricia Bishop's article "Nuclear plant hearing today" (Aug. 4) failed to discuss the costs or real alternatives to a new nuclear power plant.
In fact, the costs to taxpayers in both government subsidies to the nuclear industry and safety are enormous when nuclear power is compared with investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency.
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State official backs 2nd license for nuclear waste disposal firm | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Permit would allow higher level material at site in Andrews County
AUSTIN — A Dallas-based company on Tuesday cleared another hurdle in its multimillion-dollar effort to operate a radioactive waste dump in West Texas.
The executive director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality recommended that the commission grant Waste Control Specialists a second license for disposal of low-level nuclear waste in Andrews County.
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NRC: News Release - 2008-148 - NRC Releases Review of Doe’s Hanford Waste Treatment Plant
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has provided Congress and the Secretary of Energy its conclusion that the Department of Energy’s regulatory processes for its Waste Treatment Plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state, if properly implemented, are adequate to ensure public health and safety.
The conclusion is contained in a review delivered Aug. 6 to Congress and the Secretary of Energy and made public today on the NRC’s ADAMS online document system at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/web-based.html by entering access code ML081150883. Congress required NRC’s review in the Omnibus Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2008. The review was conducted with the full cooperation of DOE.
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Cancer Rife in Group Seeking Cash Settlements - Health - redOrbit
West Valley Demonstration Project employees and former employees have been comparing notes as they help each other obtain cash settlements under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990. What they have learned is unsettling.
Most of the 15 members of the organization, dubbed the West Valley Nuclear Compensation Group, who met Friday in Concord Town Hall for only the second time, have either been treated for cancer, have recently been diagnosed with it or have lost a spouse to the disease.
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New Energy Focus - Nuclear authority "right" to withold report on radioactive waste
As the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority launched a fresh consultation last week on how best to communicate with the public on a new radioactive waste disposal site, it was been told it does not have to publish a draft report on possible locations.
The NDA was asked for an earlier, draft version of the 2006 report "Potential Areas of Future Geosphere Research" , which identified geological factors requiring research regarding the possibility of locating an underground disposal facility for nuclear waste.
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EnergySolutions profits double in second quarter - Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions saw profits double in the second quarter of 2008.
Net income was $12.6 million, or 14 cents per diluted share, for the quarter ending June 30, 2008. Year-ago net income was $6 million.
Thanks largely to the acquisition in June 2007 of the British Reactor Sites Management Co., revenues at the nuclear energy service company nearly tripled to $460 million for the quarter. Same-period revenues for last year were $162 million, the company reported Monday.
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Waste not, want not | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama released a new ad over the weekend in Nevada, targeting Republican rival John McCain's support for dumping nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
"Imagine trucks hauling the nation's nuclear waste on our highways to Yucca Mountain," the ad says. "John McCain supports opening Yucca. He's not worried about nuclear waste in our state -- only in Arizona."
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Friday faceoff: Tap energy sources that don't produce toxic waste | democratandchronicle.com | Democrat and Chronicle
It's amazing that nuclear power is considered clean and safe when its by-products require burial deep under Earth's crust for 10,000 to 100,000 years before it no longer poses a direct threat to life.
Nuclear power is certainly more environmentally-friendly than fossil-fuel- driven power plants — humans have literally changed the environment using fossil fuels. But, it's clearly not the winner of the "Go Green" award.
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No leaks in crash with radioactive material -- chicagotribune.com
Authorities say no radioactive material leaked when a container of Iridium 192 was thrown from a pickup truck in a crash at a busy intersection on U.S. 41 in Evansville.
Police say the material was in concrete testing equipment carried in the truck's camper bed. The force of the crash between the Team Industrial Services Inc. pickup and another vehicle Thursday morning sent the equipment into the roadway.
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SunValleyOnline: Idaho slated for radioactive waste: Idaho Slated to be Navy Dumping Ground:
Still dealing with the fallout of being a repository for contaminated sand from Kuwait, Idaho is reportedly slated to be the dumping ground for literal fallout: radioactive remnants from a World War II-era Navy shipyard, according to a San Francisco alternative newsweekly.
“Currently, the Navy is proposing to excavate soil from IR-07 and IR-18, including known mercury and methane spots, and ship it to dumps in Idaho and Utah,” said the San Francisco Bay Guardian, in a July 16 story.
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