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Springville Journal: West Valley Demonstration Project cancer claimants being denied compensation
A group of 15 cancer victims, survivors, relatives and friends who worked or who are still working at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) were expecting to see Senator Chuck Schumer at their meeting held last Friday. But Susanne Klein, whose husb
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Spain nuclear watchdog seeks sanctions over leak | Reuters
Spain's nuclear watchdog on Monday pressed the government to bring charges against a nuclear plant for seriously breaching safety rules in handling a radioactive leak for which more than 2,600 people were screened.
The Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) said that even though the leak last November caused no damage to the population or environment, management at the Asco I plant had failed to inform it of the leak in time or adequately protect workers.
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BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Highlands and Islands | Radioactive waste now 'harmless'
Tonnes of radioactive liquid metal - a legacy of the experimental fast reactor programme at Dounreay in Caithness - have been destroyed.
Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) said the material was turned into "harmless" salt water.
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Westinghouse, Areva eye India nuclear plants-paper | Markets | Markets News | Reuters
India's Nuclear Power Corp has tentatively picked four suppliers, including U.S.-based Westinghouse Electric and France's Areva (CEPFi.PA: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), for planned new projects, the Hindu Business Line reported on Monday.
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NRC: News Release - 2008-152 - NRC Issues Final Environmental Impact Statement for Vogtle Early Site Permit
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has issued its final environmental impact statement (EIS) on the proposed Early Site Permit (ESP) for the Vogtle site, about 26 miles southeast of Augusta, Ga. The report contains the NRC's finding that there are no environmental impacts that would prevent issuing the ESP.
The report, NUREG-1872, "Final Environmental Impact Statement for an Early Site Permit at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Site," is available on the NRC Web site at: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1872/index.html. The staff bases its conclusion on its thorough, independent review of an environmental report from the applicant, Southern Nuclear Operating Co. The EIS takes into account consultations with federal, state, tribal and local agencies and consideration of comments received during the public scoping process.
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Project: Assessing Medical Preparedness for a Nuclear Event - A Workshop
The Institute of Medicine will convene an ad hoc committee with experts in emergency medical response and treatment, medical and public health preparedness, health sciences research, and nuclear medicine to organize a public workshop on medical preparedness for a nuclear event. The workshop will feature invited presentations and discussions that assess the health care capacity to treat an affected population with the goal of assuring a safe and effective response to nuclear incidents by civilian and government medical systems and public health services. Specifically, an agenda for the workshop will be developed with topics to:
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Duke settles with whistleblower | Cincinnati Enquirer | Cincinnati.Com
Duke Energy reached an out-of-court settlement this weekend with a former employee who claimed he was fired after raising concerns about payments the utility made to some of its biggest customers.
Lawyers for Duke and John Deeds, the former employee, confirmed the deal today.
• Duke made secret payments to companies.
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Dominion seeks DOE loan guarantee for new reactor | Markets | Reuters
Dominion Virginia Power said it has applied with the U.S. Department of Energy for a loan guarantee for a potential third nuclear reactor at the North Anna Power Station in Central Virginia.
"Today's filing is another important step in the process we began more than seven years ago to position ourselves to be among the first to get a license for a new nuclear unit," Mark McGettrick, president and chief executive officer of Dominion Generation, said in a release on Friday.
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The Associated Press: Reactor shut down after fire at Calif. nuke plant
Authorities are investigating a fire at a California nuclear plant that forced a reactor to be shut down.
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant spokeswoman Sharon Gavin said Monday that there was no danger of a radiation leak after a fire the day before. The blaze was in a non-nuclear part of the plant.
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Press TV - Russia mulling Baltic nuke fleet
Russia may arm its Baltic fleet with nuclear warheads in response to a US plan to build a missile shield in Poland, Sunday Times reports.
The London-based newspaper quoted senior military sources as saying that the Russian nuclear warheads could be supplied to submarines, cruisers and fighter bombers of the Baltic fleet based in Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania.
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Georgia: Terror fears over whereabouts of region's nuclear material - Telegraph
When the breakaway region of Abkhazia split from Georgia in 1993, the world's only known case of enriched uranium going missing was reported after up to 2kg of the potentially devastating material was stolen from a laboratory.
There are now fears that the organised criminal gangs that are rife in the region could exploit the confusion of the current conflict to loot other stocks.
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Georgia: Terror fears over whereabouts of region's nuclear material - Telegraph
When the breakaway region of Abkhazia split from Georgia in 1993, the world's only known case of enriched uranium going missing was reported after up to 2kg of the potentially devastating material was stolen from a laboratory.
There are now fears that the organised criminal gangs that are rife in the region could exploit the confusion of the current conflict to loot other stocks.
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British Energy stalemate puts new nuclear reactors at risk | Business | The Observer
The on-off £12bn takeover saga of British Energy risks delaying plans to build new nuclear reactors on government-owned sites, it has emerged.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), the government-backed body, is waiting to launch a formal auction of land surrounding its sites.
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Russia’s new nuclear challenge to Europe - Times Online
Russia is considering arming its Baltic fleet with nuclear warheads for the first time since the cold war, senior military sources warned last night.
The move, in response to American plans for a missile defence shield in Europe, would heighten tensions raised by the advance of Russian forces to within 20 miles of Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, yesterday.
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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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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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Gulf Times – India's Tata eyeing $3 billion nuclear venture
With India’s nuclear isolation likely to end soon, energy major Tata Power is busy planning and studying a minimum $3bn (Rs.120bn) foray into nuclear power.
“Tata Power will initially venture into nuclear power either on its own or through a joint venture once the sector is opened up to private utilities,” said Sharaf Ali Bohra, advisor for Tata Power.
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Green Left - Nuclear warships to be banned in Tasmanian waters?
On August 6, in memory of the bombing of Hiroshima by the US in World War II, a vigil to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons was held outside Hobart’s Town Hall. The vigil, attended by 40 people, had a street theatre component to it titled Target X. Members of the Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) and medical students demonstrated the effect nuclear weapons had on people.
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TorontoSun.com - Canada- Nuclear Reaction
Some Canadian energy facts
- In 2007, electricity in Ontario was generated from nuclear (51%), hydro (21%), coal (18%), oil and natural gas (8%) and other alternative sources (2%).
- By 2020, Ontario will need to replace about 80% of its electrical generation (25,000 MW) because of growth in demand and aging plants, about half of which are nuclear.
- Load growth 1997-2007: Ontario's electricity demand has increased from 146 TWh to 154 TWh over the last decade -- less than 1.0% per year and by average 0.5 % per year.*
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Nuclear energy: Miss. at crossroads | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger
While both national parties' presidential candidate are touting the theory of more nuclear energy as way to lower dependence on foreign oil, Mississippi is at the crossroads of the issue.
Republican candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., after touring a Michigan nuclear plant, recently said: "If we want to enable the technologies of tomorrow like plug-in electric cars, we need electricity to plug into."
McCain accused Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., as opposing nuclear energy. But Obama's aides accused McCain of misrepresenting his position, saying the Democrat was open to more nuclear plants, but only when such issues as security of nuclear fuel and disposal of waste were resolved.
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