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Maine Yankee, the former nuclear power plant in Wiscasset, has reached a final settlement with state agencies to compensate for groundwater contamination at the site. The agreement calls for Maine Yankee to pay $930,000 to several projects in the region ranging from land conservation easements along the Sheepscot River to the restoration of a large area of salt marsh.

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The attorney for 80 property owners near the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion plant claims four law firms have been paid $9.4 million to defend the plant's former owners in a suit filed by the property owners over ten years ago. James Owens, attorney for the property owners said, "The amount of money the Federal Government is paying to stall claims of these Property Owners is unconscionable".

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MDS Inc. (TSX:MDS) is suing Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. and the federal government, seeking $1.6 billion over the cancellation of the MAPLE reactor project. The Toronto-based company, a major supplier of nuclear medicine isotopes, said Wednesday it has served AECL with notice that it is seeking arbitration, and at the same time has filed suit alleging negligence and breach of contract. The company's parallel litigation against the government alleges inducement to break a contract and interference with economic relations.

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A worker who was splashed with radioactive waste at Hanford in 2002 died this week of cancer, a day before a court ruling in his lawsuit against a Hanford contractor.\n\nDaniel Golden, 56, of Sunnyside, died Tuesday. He had been diagnosed with cancer a little over a year ago, said his son, Dave Golden of Sunnyside.

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The Tokyo District Court has rejected a damages suit filed by a former worker at a nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture, in which the plaintiff sought about 44 million yen in compensation for developing multiple myeloma, a kind of blood cancer, due to exposure to radiation. Mitsuaki Nagao, a former nuclear-related firm employee from Osak

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A federal court awarded Progress Energy $82.8 million to cover the company’s costs related to storing spent nuclear fuel at its plants in the Carolinas. The Raleigh company, along with other utilities, sued the Department of Energy to cover its costs after the government failed to open a repository for used nuclear fuel by 1998, as required by law.

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A federal judge has upheld a jury verdict of $350 million against the former operators of the defunct Rocky Flats nuclear plant in a class-action lawsuit brought by the plant's neighbors. Judge John Kane affirmed the February 2006 verdict in a 73-page ruling released Tuesday and tacked on 8 percent interest compounded annually dating back to the time the suit was filed in January 1990.

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As a lawsuit filed by landowners near the former Rocky Flats nuclear manufacturing plant approaches its third decade, the case has finally been cleared to move to the appeals court. U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane on Tuesday entered a formal judgment awarding a class of landowners near the plant $376.8 million.

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Those who filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit against EnergySolutions say they hope their fourth attempt at their suit will be successful. U.S. District Judge Bruce Jenkins dismissed the group's last False Claims Act suit but in a ruling last month allowed the three men to modify and refile, to the protest of EnergySolutions attorneys.

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DENVER (AP) - Federal judges in Denver say they're surprised the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued permits to allow a company to leach uranium out of an aquifer that supplies drinking water to thousands of Navajos in New Mexico. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Monday in a case brought by opponents of the mine.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A uranium mining company contends a U.S Environmental Protection Agency ruling is stalling its plans to begin operations in northwest New Mexico. The EPA ruled last year that a 160-acre parcel near Church Rock is part of a dependent Indian community, therefore requiring that Hydro Resources Inc. obtain an underground injection control permit with the EPA, not the state of New Mexico.

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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Monday it will rule on a case that could make it harder for U.S. companies to obtain protective tariffs on low-priced foreign goods. The dispute centers on whether uranium that U.S. utilities send to France for enrichment and then import for use in nuclear power plants qualifies as a "good" or "service."

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The Supreme Court said yesterday that it would hear a dispute between USEC of Bethesda and a French supplier of low-enriched uranium in a case the federal government said has implications not only for the energy industry but also for efforts to dismantle some nuclear weapons.

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