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Exelon officials tell board about spent fuel storage
Exelon representatives brought the Ogle County Board up to speed July 15 on their plan for storage of spent fuel at the Byron Nuclear Generating Station. Communications director Robert Kartheiser said construction has already begun on a dry cask storage system which he said is necessary to the operation of the nuclear plant.
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Nuclear Highway: Radioactive On The Road, Manhattan Project Nuclear Waste To Be Taken From Tennessee To New Mexico Via Truck - CBS News
Motorists across the South could soon be sharing the highway with nuclear waste generated decades ago in developing the first atomic bomb. Tons of this so-called "transuranic waste" have been waiting for years to leave what is now the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a final home in New Mexico, where the government has built a permanent vault in salt beds nearly a half-mile deep.
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Yucca Mountain price tag: $90 billion - Vegas News - Las Vegas Sun
The new price tag for building and operating Yucca Mountain is estimated to be $90 billion, the Energy Department said today, providing the first real snapshot of lifespan costs after Congress has repeatedly pleaded for an updated financial picture. The estimate is $19 billion higher than previous rough estimates provided last year for the nation's nuclear waste dump about a 1 1/2-hour drive outside of Las Vegas.
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Where Now for Atomic Waste? | Current Affairs | Deutsche Welle | 12.11.2002
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Castor (spent fuel) transport route between France and Germany
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The Local - German atomic waste transport cancelled for 2009
Transport of radioactive waste to an interim storage facility near the German town of Gorleben from a reprocessing plant in La Hague in France has been cancelled for the coming year, German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Tuesday.
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Monticello nuclear plant ready to move spent fuel
Months of planning at the Monticello nuclear plant will be put into practice soon when spent nuclear fuel is moved to a new storage facility. Radioactive fuel rods will be moved in a process designed for safety and security from inside the plant to the above-ground storage.
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IOL: Recycling of spent nuclear fuel on the cards
The government is in favour of recycling the hundreds of tons of highly-radioactive spent uranium fuel that has passed through the country's three nuclear reactors, members of parliament's minerals and energy portfolio committee heard on Wednesday.
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Power Engineering - Wet spent nuclear fuel storage facility unveiled by Swiss
27 May 2008 - The wet storage facility for spent fuel at Goesgen nuclear power plant in Switzerland has been unveiled by Kernkraftwerk Goesgen-Daeniken AG at a ceremony attended by high-ranking representatives of the customer, Areva. The facility is capable of accommodating up to 1008 uranium or mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies. It has already received its first batch of spent fuel and impressively confirmed the merits of its sophisticated design.
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Feds asked to probe towns' nuclear waste concerns | htrnews.com | Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter
MANITOWOC — Lawmakers have asked federal regulators to investigate concerns of residents living near two nuclear plants about the storage of nuclear waste in their backyard. Point Beach Nuclear Plant, in Two Creeks, and Kewaunee Power Station, in Carlton, currently or plan to store spent nuclear fuel rods in dry cask storage bunkers at their facilities along Lake Michigan.
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newsobserver.com | Court awards Progress Energy $83 million
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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Whitehaven News: Secret plutonium shipments begin
THE first of a number of shipments of Sellafield plutonium sailed from the Port of Workington last weekend on board the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s ship Atlantic Osprey. The secretive night shipment, already delayed by two months because its original departure date was leaked in advance to the press, was accompanied by what one local resident described as ‘over the top, wall-to-wall security’ which sealed off the docks.
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ReviewJournal.com - News - Yucca delay may spur interim storage
WASHINGTON -- State legislators are adding their voices to those who have grown impatient at slow progress in establishing nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain. The National Conference of State Legislatures is expected today to recommend the government identify one or two sites where used nuclear fuel can be stored temporarily until the proposed repository 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas is built and until fuel recycling can be made available.
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Questions are raised about nuclear fuel storage and dismantling Zion plant -- chicagotribune.com
Community activists concerned about storage of spent fuel at the Nuclear Power Station in Zion want more information from owner Exelon on its plan to have the plant dismantled by a contractor. A former commissioner with the Waukegan Park District was among about 60 people who attended a presentation by Exelon Nuclear officials last weekend that drew pointed questions.
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Atomic waste clean-up plan comes under fire | Environment | The Guardian
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