Canada: Snafus plague nuclear bodies
Ahead of the release of a report on the troubled relationship between Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. and its nuclear regulator, documents obtained by Canwest News Service show communications between AECL and the regulator were fraught with problems. The report by an independent consultant is expected to focus heavily those problems.
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Mortality among Navajo uranium miners. -- Roscoe et al. 85 (4): 535 -- American Journal of Public Health
Another major review on the health and impacts of uranium mining on Dineh (Navajo) People.
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Government Accountability Project: EPA Quietly Releases Climate Change Health Effects Report
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a major study by the US Climate Change Science Program synthesizing current scientific knowledge of climate change-induced threats to human health. This information should be critical to the EPA’s previous “endangerment finding” for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. However, the EPA Office of Air and Radiation, the branch assigned rulemaking responsibility, evidently did not rely on and did not cite the CCSP report.
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GAO: Security Lapses Continue at Los Alamos - Washington Post Investigations
Security lapses at one of the nation's three nuclear weapons testing labs, the storied Los Alamos National Laboratory in the New Mexico desert, have continued despite frequent and sometimes heated calls for improvements by congressional leaders, according to a Government Accountability Office report released today.
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Childhood leukaemia information can be released if anonymised - Times Online
Information concerning the incidence of childhood leukaemia in a particular postal area should not be disclosed unless either it could be anonymised so that it was not personal data or could be released in a form which did not contravene one of the data protection principles under the Data Protection Act 1998.
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Report: The Self-Limiting Future of Nuclear Power
Nuclear power generates approximately 20 percent of all U.S. electricity. And because it is a low-carbon source of around-the-clock power, it has received renewed interest as concern grows over the effect of greenhouse gas emissions on our climate.
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Political Meltdown: German Mishaps Put Nuclear Power under Scrutiny - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
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The Prague Post Online: Business: Wasting energy
It was supposed to diffuse a potentially explosive political conflict over nuclear power, but an independent panel of experts commissioned to study the future energy needs of the Czech Republic almost led to a government meltdown last week. After months of preparation, the group failed to present viable results at a July 4 meeting with Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek, shrouding the future of the country’s ailing energy policy in further uncertainty.
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Radioactive vulnerability: Borderline security - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
From January 2003 to September 2007, GAO investigators discovered numerous border security vulnerabilities -- at ports and at unmanned and unmonitored border locations in four states on the northern border, three on the southern and two other states requiring international air travel.
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Syria lacks skills, fuel for nuclear facility: IAEA | Reuters.com
DUBAI (Reuters) - There is no evidence Syria has the skilled personnel or the fuel to operate a large-scale nuclear facility, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog said in remarks aired on Tuesday.
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Uranium Report: Plenty More Where That Came From
Amid heightened international interest in nuclear energy, countries are paying closer attention to a finite resource that helps to make nuclear power possible: uranium. A report released today finds that new discoveries and re-evaluations of known conventional uranium resources will be adequate to supply nuclear energy needs for at least 100 years at present consumption level. Growing demand and higher prices have spurred greater investment in exploration and led to larger identified conventional uranium resources over the past two years.
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NRC releases Nuclear Fuel Services event notification reports
ERWIN — As Nuclear Fuel Services proceeds with plans to improve safety, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has released previously withheld documents detailing incidents at the plant over a three-year period. Earlier this month, the NRC released 58 event notification reports between 2004 and 2007. Twenty-four of the documents pertain to NFS, and 34 were associated with BWXT in Lynchburg, Va.
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PDF: GAO: LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE Status of Disposal Availability in the United States and Other Countries
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knoxnews.com | Rad incident report
Dirk Bartlett, director of government relations for EnergySolutions, today released a copy of the incident report the company submitted to the state earlier this year following a contamination incident at the Bear Creek Road waste-processing facility. The worker who opened the package received by far the highest radiation dose (about 2.8 rems), although a few others were in the area at the time.
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Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2008: Modernizing Spent Fuel Management in the U.S.
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Study says nuclear power isn’t as “safe and clean” as Bush claims | Cleantech.com
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Brown Daily Herald - Regulators criticize warning of nuclear risks
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