DEC: West Valley cleanup short of goals - Business First of Buffalo:
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
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
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
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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Nuclear Fuel Recycling: More Trouble Than It's Worth: Scientific American
Although a dozen years have elapsed since any new nuclear power reactor has come online in the U.S., there are now stirrings of a nuclear renaissance. The incentives are certainly in place: the costs of natural gas and oil have skyrocketed; the public increasingly objects to the greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels; and the federal government has offered up to $8 billion in subsidies and insurance against delays in licensing (with new laws to streamline the process) and $18.5 billion in loan guarantees. What more could the moribund nuclear power industry possibly want?
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DOE and TVA to work together on GNEP data
DOE and federal utility Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA, will work together to provide Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman with the data he will need to determine a path forward by the end of the year for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership program, DOE said April 24.
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SRS Begins New Era Of Salt Processing - News - Augusta, GA
AIKEN, S.C. (April 22) -- According to a press release, the Department of Energys (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) began to accept radioactive salt waste solution at the Actinide Removal Process (ARP) and Modular Caustic Side Solvent Extraction Unit (MCU) facilities, where the salt waste will be decontaminated, ushering in a new era of salt waste processing.
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Monju reactor's future uncertain / Spate of problems likely to doom Oct. target for restart of operations : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)
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SDLP calls for Sellafield to close after radioactive leak - Local & National - News - Belfast Telegraph
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Minister admits total failure of Sellafield 'MOX' plant - Green Living, Environment - Independent.co.uk
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Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: Bush Calls for More GNEP, MOX Facility Funds
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Sellafield produces very little of anything - apart from headaches for its operators | Greenpeace UK
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Whitehaven News: Sellafield loses out on its place in nuclear history
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