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Nuclear Waste
Take the nuclear option, or we die -- 09 Jul 2005Nuclear waste disposal, or the storage of it, brings out a heap of emotional comments, mostly devoid of scientific evaluation. It ... (Western Australia Post Newspapers,)
A 'middle way' out for Tibet -- 09 Jul 2005...abuses, an education system that neglects traditional Tibetan culture and language, mineral exploitation, and use of Tibet as a nuclear waste dumping ground ... (Scotsman,)
Nobel laureate looks at termites as new energy source -- 09 Jul 2005...said that as petroleum reserves are "running out," some countries have turned to nuclear power to meet their growing energy demands, but nuclear waste poses a ... (Taipei Times,)
Young artists wanted for Boat Week -- 09 Jul 2005You may not know this, but Americans have their nuclear waste shipped to Canada for disposal. So, to tell you the truth, I think you get the better deal.". ... (Port Huron Times Herald,)
FSU diving team joins search for missing girl -- 09 Jul 2005...wide variety of underwater equipment, including tools and equipment that allow divers to search in water contaminated by chemical, biological and nuclear waste ... (Tallahassee.com,)
Nuclear waste: 1 plant, 48 tons a year -- Jul 3, 2005The gray structures are unremarkable except for what is loaded inside: Each contains roughly 13 tons of high-level nuclear waste that has been accumulating at ... (San Francisco Chronicle,)
Ministry to establish system for disposal of waste from nuclear ... -- Jul 3, 2005...nuclear power plant regulations was passed in the current Diet session, enabling companies to legally dispose of extremely low-level nuclear waste as ordinary ... (Asahi Shimbun,)
Nuclear waste options presented -- Jul 5, 2005Northern Ontario communities that don’t want anything to do with a nuclear waste dump won’t be asked to break ground. It’sa ... (Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal,)
Nuclear waste data wasn't faked, expert insists -- Jun 29, 2005WASHINGTON - A scientist at the center of a controversy over potential falsification of documents about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump insisted before ... (MSNBC)
Chubu Electric Says Melted Waste Caused Smoke at Nuclear Plant -- Jun 30, 2005July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Chubu Electric Power Co., Japan's third- biggest power producer, said a canister containing melted low- level nuclear waste was the cause ... (Bloomberg)
Germany ends nuclear waste transports -- Jul 5, 2005The last castor was transported in mid-June to an intermediate storage facility at Ahaus though there have been no transports of nuclear waste within Germany ... (Nuclear Engineering,)
Dimona nuclear waste looking for a dumping ground -- Jul 5, 2005Nuclear affairs expert Shafiq Al Horani disclosed in Amman, Jordan important and dangerous information related to Dimona, the Israeli nuclear reactor in the ... (Palestine News Network,)
Nuclear waste puzzle unsolved -- Jun 27, 2005...of the year. But the site remains home to several tons of high-level nuclear waste, a costly legacy of the nuclear era. At its meeting ... (Berkshire Eagle,)
Letters - Misunderstanding about nuclear waste abounds -- Jun 26, 2005It is garbage to write about "nuclear garbage cans" that are "lethal as long as man has existed on Earth" ["No nuclear garbage cans," Letters, June 21]. ... (OCRegister (subscription),)
Fire put out at Japan nuclear waste processing facility -- Jun 30, 2005TOKYO: Fire fighters put out a fire at a low-level nuclear waste processing facility at a plant in central Japan. The incident took ... (GEO,)
Five-State Nuclear Waste Compact Weighs Own Future -- Jun 29, 2005The compact was formed to build a waste site for Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Nebraska. But Nebraska denied a license ... (WIBW,)
Nuclear waste is real fear factor -- Jun 28, 2005That way we won't notice the real issue, the one the industry wishes would go away: nuclear waste. No one really knows what to do with all that hot stuff. ... (Arizona Republic,)
Nuclear waste watch - 6/30/05 -- Jun 30, 2005The federal law defining nuclear waste says all of West Valley's wastes are high-level and must be buried in mountains, not just under 40 feet of dirt as ... (Joplin Independent,)
Utilities, Butte want slice of nuclear waste settlement -- Jun 29, 2005Ben Nelson acted in "bad faith" and blocked efforts to build the nuclear waste site. Nebraska negotiated a settlement and reduced the amount to $142 million. ... (Lincoln Journal Star,)
Nuclear Waste Outpaces Solutions -- Jun 12, 2005The gray structures are unremarkable except for what is loaded inside: Each contains roughly 13 tons of high-level nuclear waste that has been accumulating at ... (Los Angeles Times,)
Secret nuclear waste disposal sites revealed -- Jun 9, 2005New Scientist can reveal that the nuclear waste agency, Nirex, identified five sites in Scotland and seven in England as geologically suitable for a deep ... (New Scientist (subscription),)
Nuclear waste sites list revealed -- Jun 10, 2005Five sites in Scotland which were considered for dumping nuclear waste, have been publicly unveiled for the first time. The list ... (BBC News,)
Nuclear waste agency selected dumps on the basis of political ... -- Jun 11, 2005...land, shot into the headlines last week after it was outed as one of five sites in Scotland shortlisted as a potential dump for all Britain’s nuclear waste. ... (Sunday Herald,)
US seeking new ways to store nuclear waste -- Jun 11, 2005WASHINGTON, DC -- As the Energy Department falters in its effort to bury nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, the nuclear industry and Congress are ... (Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription),)
Decision will step up waste shipments from nuclear site -- Jun 16, 2005BUFFALO, NY -- Out-of-state shipments of low-level nuclear waste from the West Valley Demonstration Project will be stepped up under a Department of Energy ... (Newsday,)
Brown throws down gauntlet to CLP on nuclear waste dump -- Jun 8, 2005Federal Greens Senator Bob Brown is challenging the Country Liberal Party (CLP) to follow words with action in opposing a nuclear waste dump in the Northern ... (ABC Online,)
PM's nuclear waste stance alarms ACF -- Jun 10, 2005Prime Minister John Howard has made a serious backdown on the storage of nuclear waste and given the general public cause for alarm, the Australian ... (Age (subscription),)
Panel Nixes Interim Nuclear Waste Storage -- Jun 14, 2005WASHINGTON -- Senators struck a blow for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump Tuesday as a spending panel rebuffed a House effort to establish ... (Washington Post,)
South Korea Reattempts to Select Nuclear Waste Site -- Jun 8, 2005...the government selected Wido, a small island located 14 kilometers off the southwestern coast, as the site for the nation’s first nuclear waste repository. ... (Korea Times,)
Editorial: How not to deal with nuclear waste -- Jun 15, 2005IT WOULD be difficult to think up a worse way of deciding where to put your nuclear waste. First, conduct the process in secret: lock ... (New Scientist (subscription),)
Nuclear waste: the 1,000-year fudge -- Jun 11, 2005Secret plans to postpone solving Britain's nuclear waste crisis for up to 1,000 years are being drawn up by the nuclear industry, The Independent on Sunday can ... (Independent,)
Revealed: 12 sites for burying nuclear waste -- Jun 10, 2005A secret list of 12 sites considered for burying nuclear waste, including some near built-up areas, has been released under the Freedom of Information Act ... (Independent,)
Russia, US to Remove Nuclear Waste From Uzbek Reactor -- Jun 17, 2005He said that the withdrawal of nuclear waste from the research reactors built in various countries by the US and the Soviet Union is one of the main tasks of ... (MOSNEWS,)
Politics left UK nuclear waste plans in disarray -- Jun 15, 2005SECRECY and political interference ensured that the UK's plans for disposing of its nuclear waste ended in failure. That is the ... (New Scientist (subscription),)
Biotech push overrides locals' worries -- Jul 8, 2005Palm Beach County's push to woo biotech companies outweighed residents' concerns Thursday about allowing nuclear waste at a growing industrial park. ... (Sun-Sentinel.com,)
Sites not ruled out for nuclear waste -- Jun 10, 2005JAMES GOFFIN 10 June 2005 14:26 Nuclear waste bosses today refused to rule out Norfolk as a potential site for a radioactive dump. ... (Norfolk Eastern Daily Press,)
Nuclear waste may be dumped here -- Jun 17, 2005The possibility of radioactive waste being dumped in West Norfolk cannot be ruled out, chiefs at nuclear waste agency, Nirex, have admitted. ... (Lynn News,)
Nuclear 'waste' is valuable resource -- Jun 18, 2005Nearly 25 years after Congress called for construction of an underground nuclear waste repository, many Americans still don't comprehend that the "waste" is ... (Cincinnati Enquirer,)
Nuclear waste 'a terror target' -- Jun 9, 2005Nuclear waste in Britain is being left open to terrorist attack because a Government committee is ignoring essential expertise, a Middlesex University ... (Barnet Times,)
Nuclear value could waste away -- Jun 15, 2005The Quad-Cities can be proud to be home to a $100 million nuclear energy plant. It definitely beats one alternative: being home to a $0 nuclear waste dump. ... (Quad City Times,)
Secret nuclear waste disposal sites revealed -- Jun 9, 2005New Scientist can reveal that the nuclear waste agency, Nirex, identified five sites in Scotland and seven in England as geologically suitable for a deep ... (ZPEnergy)
Senate panel rebuffs House call for interim nuclear waste storage -- Jun 14, 2005WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate spending panel on Tuesday rebuffed a House call to establish temporary storage sites for nuclear waste as a back-up to the delayed ... (Las Vegas Sun,)
Gov. Huntsman Fights Nuclear Waste Coming to Utah -- Jun 13, 2005Gov. Huntsman Fights Nuclear Waste Coming to Utah. Governor Huntsman will co-sponsor a proposal to stop nuclear waste from coming to Utah. ... (KSL-TV,)
NIREX reveals location of potential nuclear waste sites -- Jun 10, 2005Communities across Britain could be blighted following the publication of a list of potential nuclear waste dumping sites by NIREX, the Government's nuclear ... (Greenpeace UK,)
First Nuclear Waste Load Makes Trip Through Oklahoma -- Jun 8, 2005OKLAHOMA CITY -- The first of an expected 2,000 shipments of radioactive waste from a closed uranium processing center has been trucked through Oklahoma on its ... (Channel Oklahoma.com,)
IS NUCLEAR WASTE A SOLUTION – OR A PROBLEM? -- Jun 13, 2005OUT of sight, out of mind: that old saying could become very true of West Cumbria’s huge legacy of nuclear waste. And this week ... (Whitehaven News,)
Decision will step up waste shipments from nuclear site -- Jun 16, 2005BUFFALO, NY Out-of-state shipments of low-level nuclear waste from the West Valley Demonstration Project will be stepped up under a federal decision that will ... (WSTM-TV,)
Russian nuclear waste storages almost completely full, says ... -- Jun 22, 2005Moscow, 22 June: Russia's technical oversight authority, Rostekhnadzor, said the country's storage facilities for radioactive waste and spent fuel are almost ... (Monsters and Critics.com,)
Uproar over UK nuclear waste sites -- Jun 10, 2005Nirex insisted that any new selection process of suitable sites to dispose of nuclear waste would not use the old list as a starting point. ... (Gulf Daily News,)
Entergy asks state for nuclear waste storage in Vernon -- Jun 23, 2005Once the governor signed the legislation allowing Entergy to seek PSB approval for on-site storage of nuclear waste, Public Service Commissioner David O'Brien ... (Barre Montpelier Times Argus,)
Nuclear waste was mooted for district -- Jun 20, 2005...is mainly historic in nature, but recognises some locations could be considered again in a new siting process, depending on how the UK nuclear waste legacy is ... (Bucks Free Press,)
Governor Huntsman To Co-Sponsor Nuclear Waste Proposal -- Jun 13, 2005...(KSL News) -- Governor Huntsman will co-sponsor a proposal to stop nuclear waste from coming to Utah. Huntsman opposes a temporary ... (KSL-TV,)
Russian nuclear waste stores almost 100% full - official -- Jun 22, 2005MOSCOW. June 22 (Interfax) - Russia's technical oversight authority, Rostekhnadzor, said the country's storage facilities for radioactive ... (Interfax.ru,)
Threats saved beauty spots from nuclear waste dumps -- Jun 10, 2005WELSH beauty spots once earmarked as potential nuclear waste dumps were spared after survey staff were threatened, it has emerged. ... (ic Wales,)
New Incentives Set for Nuclear Waste Dump -- Jun 16, 2005South Korea may soon decide the location of a nuclear waste repository as the government on Thursday reopened a bid for the site, offering a variety of ... (Korea Times,)
Tory nuclear waste sites revealed -- Jun 10, 2005A list of 12 sites considered for storing nuclear waste by the last Tory government has been released under the Freedom of Information Act. ... (BBC News,)
Radioactive waste a permanent issue -- Jul 6, 2005...to become independent of our apparent need or self-proclaimed right to burden future generations of Vermonters with disposing of our nuclear waste so we can ... (Barre Montpelier Times Argus,)
Yucca Backers Rallying -- Jul 8, 2005...set for July 29 in Pahrump illustrates a growing relationship between rural Nevadans and interests that support the proposed nuclear waste repository. ... (RedNova.com,)
Keep nuclear waste in the east says concerned Kenora residents -- Jun 10, 2005A draft of a report on what to do with Canada’s nuclear waste is not sitting well with some Kenora residents. By Dan Gauthier. ... (Daily Miner and News,)
Nuclear waste dump warning -- Jun 10, 2005By David Green. SITES in East Anglia might be reconsidered for a nuclear waste dump, an environment group warned last night. The ... (East Anglian Daily Times,)
Nuclear Waste On Trucks Get Headlines; Dirt Gets Moved -- Jun 9, 2005By Mike Owens. (KSDK) - Monday, trucks loaded with nuclear waste began moving from Ohio to Texas, right through St. Louis. The shipments ... (KSDK,)
Nuclear Waste Watch - 6/22/05 -- Jun 22, 2005...spent-fuel rod burial facility, but that is not on the horizon at this time.I don't know why Scandanavians insist on building high-level nuclear waste sites on ... (Joplin Independent,)
Nuclear waste site selection by November -- Jun 13, 2005A party official said, "The nation's first nuclear waste storage will be decided by the end of November, after announcing procedures and timetable in June and ... (Korea Herald (subscription),)
Nuclear waste watch - 6/15/05 -- Jun 15, 2005Editor's note: To read prior op ed columns by Ron Bourgoin, put "Nuclear waste watch" in the search box on The Joplin Independent homepage. Go Back. (Joplin Independent,)
Russia sites new nuclear waste dump:- -- Jun 22, 2005A Russian official said Wednesday the Kremlin approved building a so-called dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in central Siberia. ... (Webindia123,)
Probe of British N-waste leak might affect Hanford -- Jul 2, 2005YAKIMA – Federal officials are closely monitoring the investigation into a leak at a nuclear waste treatment plant in Britain – a plant managed by the same ... (The Spokesman Review (subscription),)
Secret list of possible N-waste sites revealed -- Jun 10, 2005A secret list of 537 sites deemed suitable to store up to 250,000 cubic metres of nuclear waste for up to 100,000 years was published for the first time ... (The Observer,)
States opposed to national nuclear waste repository -- Jun 7, 2005ELEANOR HALL: Back in Canberra, Federal Cabinet is today expected to make a decision to store the country's nuclear waste on the mainland, as the nuclear ... (ABC Online,)
Cabinet to consider nuclear waste site -- Jun 5, 2005The federal Environment Minister has refused to say whether the Government is no longer planning to store Australia's nuclear waste offshore. ... (ABC Online,)
Nuclear waste? Not in my backyard: Carr -- Jun 7, 2005As federal cabinet met in Canberra today to discuss the fate of future nuclear waste in Australia, the ALP appeared divided over whether they supported power ... (Sydney Morning Herald (subscription),)
NT Senator branded 'liar' over nuclear waste plan -- Jun 6, 2005Territory politicians have broken into a lather of accusations over an impending Federal Cabinet decision on what to do with the Commonwealth's nuclear waste. ... (ABC Online,)
Cabinet to assess nuclear waste dump sites -- Jun 6, 2005TONY JONES: Tomorrow the Federal Cabinet meets to discuss possible locations for a nuclear waste dump after ruling out using an offshore site. ... (ABC Online,)
Australia may house nuclear waste dump -- Jun 5, 2005The federal government may reverse its plan to send nuclear waste offshore due to security fears and transport difficulties. Prime ... (Australian Financial Review,)
Nuclear waste in corroding towers 'yet another worry' -- Jun 6, 2005Towers storing nuclear waste from the 1950s are starting to corrode and are yet another worry at Sellafield, according to a European Parliament team which ... (Belfast Telegraph,)
Iranian delegation, Russian officials discuss nuclear cooperation -- Jul 8, 2005Rumyantsev said the spent fuel would be placed in nuclear waste storages, where it would remain for another ten years after it arrives in Russia. ... (RIA Novosti,)
Atomic debate heats up in Australia -- Jul 8, 2005Opponents of atomic energy also argue that nuclear waste remains a huge and unsolved problem, that health issues are sufficient on their own to reject any ... (New Zealand Herald,)
First nuclear waste shipment passes through area -- Jun 7, 2005CINCINNATI -- The first of an expected 2,000 shipments of Cold-war era radioactive waste left a former uranium-processing plant in southwest Ohio for Texas on ... (Palladium-Item,)
United opposition to nuclear waste dump in northern Australia -- Jun 6, 2005Politicians from Australia's Northern Territory are angry at a government proposal to create a nuclear waste dump in the Territory. ... (Radio Australia,)
Congress requests review of Hanford waste plant -- Jun 28, 2005The waste treatment plant will use a process called vitrification to turn the waste into glass logs for permanent disposal in a nuclear waste repository. ... (Seattle Post Intelligencer,)
Nuke waste disposal ideas put forth -- Jun 25, 2005By Bryan Meadows - The Chronicle-Journal. That’s one suggestion regarding what to do with Canada’s growing stockpile of nuclear waste. ... (Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal,)
Far too many dirty truths about nuclear power -- Jul 7, 2005...electricity generated from nuclear fission. But we have yet to build a federal repository for nuclear waste. Given that US reactors ... (San Jose Mercury News,)
Hot idea: Fight warming with nuclear power -- Jul 6, 2005The Natural Resources Defense Council has a similar position. "These problems" — safeguarding plutonium, reactor safety and nuclear waste disposal — "need ... (MSNBC)
Feds monitoring British nuclear leak -- Jul 2, 2005YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Federal officials are closely monitoring the investigation into a leak at a nuclear waste treatment plant in Britain — a plant managed ... (Corvallis Gazette Times,)
Nuclear time-bomb ticks on Central Asian valley’s edge -- Jul 6, 2005...presidential poll on Sunday, officials in the remote town of Maili-Suu evoke a doomsday scenario involving two million cubic metres of radioactive nuclear waste ... (Daily Times,)
Driven by energy shortages, China races to expand nuclear power ... -- Jul 2, 2005Originally, plans called for the waste to be stored there for up to 15 years, or until a national nuclear waste dump is set up. ... (Malaysia Star,)
Thorium Fuels Safer Reactor Hopes -- Jul 5, 2005But design challenges and a Cold War-era interest in using nuclear waste byproducts in atomic bombs pushed the industry to use uranium as its primary fuel. ... (Wired News)
Panel Nixes Interim Nuclear Waste Storage -- Jun 14, 2005Senators struck a blow for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump Tuesday as a spending panel rebuffed a House effort to establish temporary storage ... (San Francisco Chronicle,)
Lab refines nuclear fuels as LANL is in forefront -- Jul 5, 2005..."While I support progress in developing an underground nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, I believe that our single-minded focus on the permanent ... (Los Alamos Monitor,)
Research and Markets: Changes Afoot for the Renewable Energy ... -- Jul 8, 2005...a favoured method of generating electricity owing to concerns about the possible health and environmental dangers (as well as long-term nuclear waste disposal ... (Business Wire (press release),)
US and Europe weigh in on nuclear energy -- Jun 26, 2005...nuclear power. But a safe way to dispose of nuclear waste has not been resolved, and accidents are always possible. Nuclear power ... (Taipei Times,)
Hatch takes aim at PFS -- Jun 24, 2005The nation's nuclear waste policy should not include private storage facilities, Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch said Thursday. ... (New Utah,)
NEWS IN BRIEF -- Jul 2, 2005...and Oklahoma will meet July 14-15 in Little Rock to determine how to spend $141 million received from Nebraska in a dispute over the disposal of nuclear waste. ... (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription),)
And another thing . . . -- Jul 7, 2005Doomed to repeat it? The federal government has a history of bungling the containment, storage and removal of nuclear waste. This ... (The Spokesman Review (subscription),)
A Paradigm shift in Policy mechanisms for Kyoto -- Jul 6, 2005This might be part of the solution, at least as an interim stop-gap technology, provided that the nuclear waste issue could be resolved. ... (Scoop.co.nz (press release),)
States opposed to nuclear waste dump -- Jun 7, 2005As federal cabinet met in Canberra to discuss the fate of future nuclear waste in Australia, the ALP appeared divided over whether they supported power sourced ... (Seven.com.au,)
Energy department offers three plutonium plans -- Jul 2, 2005...said. Therefore, if INL takes on the burden of plutonium-238 production, what happens to the nuclear waste created in the process? ... (Twin Falls Times-News,)
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