At Fukushima, radiation leak continues, spent fuel storage pool a big problem
A separate storage pool for spent fuel rods also is drawing the attention of some Tepco and safety officials. The area, which takes fuel rods from all six reactors, is located near the No. 4 reactor. The pool is nearly full with 6,375 units of fuel, according to Tepco.
Japan Nuclear Dangers Linger Despite Progress, WSJ, By PETER LANDERS And NORIHIKO SHIROUZU, MARCH 20, 2011,As of late Sunday, power was still out at reactors No. 3 and No. 4, the two most troublesome during the nine-day fight to keep the nuclear plant from spinning out of control. Until Tokyo Electric Power Co. fully restores power at the reactors and turns on cooling systems knocked out after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, it faces continued radiation leakage from spent fuel rods stored at the two reactors. Continue reading
What about the state of Japan’s existing nuclear wastes?
still no one is speaking about the state of the nuclear waste already in Japan
No Nukes Now? A Lesson From Japan and Questions About the Security of Japan’s Nuclear Waste THE HUFFINGTON POST,Michael Vazquez, 16 March 11, Three weeks ago, I highlighted the risks Japan faces, as a nuclear energy-dependent nation on an earthquake fault line, in my review of Into Eternity, a documentary about a nuclear waste repository deep underground in Finland. I also noted how Australia — which was the first choice of scientists in Finland for storage of nuclear waste — had just been hit by a 200-year flood. Continue reading
Precedent set in weakening the rules for transporting radioactive waste on waterways
.. the precedent set when it comes to transporting radioactive waste…..On Feb. 4 of this year, the CNSC approved BP’s plans to ship the generators overseas, giving the power company a special dispensation over existing regulations covering the amount of radioactive materials allowed on inland Canadian waterways. It’s a big dispensation too: Edwards says the amount of radioactivity in the shipment is 60 times the permissible amount of radioactive waste allowed in one vessel for inland waters, and six times the amount for an ocean-going one. Furthermore, an environmental assessment of the changed plans was never held…….
Swimming with plutonium, Montreal Mirror, by PATRICK LEJTENYI, 11 march 11, Ontario’s Bruce Power nuclear plant is shipping hundreds of tonnes of radioactive waste up the St. Lawrence. Critics worry this is only the first batch Continue reading
83 MPs join opposition to nuclear garbage shipment across Great Lakes
Groups urge feds to stall ‘nuclear garbage’ shipment Eighty-three MPs sign petition Montreal Gazette, By CARMEN CHAI, Postmedia News March 9, 2011 Continue reading
Secret dumping of nuclear wastes at Teesside, UK
the Ministry of Defence (MoD) cleared tonnes of hazardous and radioactive material left over after bomb blasts and transported it back to the UK, where it was dumped at Port Clarence landfill, Stockton, in 2008.
Shock at nuclear waste dumping on Teesside – Gazette Live, UK 7 mar 11, VETERANS of nuclear bomb tests carried out during the Cold War have spoken of their shock at discovering radioactive waste from the mission was dumped on Teesside 50 years later. The ex-servicemen witnessed the blasts at Christmas Island in the South Pacific first hand, and believe many veterans’ lives have been ruined by the after effects of exposure to the fallout. Continue reading
U.S. Energy Dept sued over failure to provide nuclear waste dump
it could be several years before a repository is constructed and the federal government can begin accepting waste from nuclear power plants. Until then, the association wants to halt the nuclear waste fund fees that the Energy Department collects for that purpose…….
Lawsuits express no confidence in nuclear “Waste Confidence Rule”
For many, the separate suits by state attorneys general and environmental groups raise fresh questions over why America is pouring billions into a nuclear renaissance with no long-term strategy for handling waste from the nation’s existing facilities. ….The lawsuit targets NRC’s recently updated “Waste Confidence Rule.”
As U.S. Moves Ahead with Nuclear Power, No Solution for Radioactive Waste, Solve Climate News, By Abby LubyMar 3, 2011 A pair of legal actions against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission raises fresh questions over how and where to store the nation’s growing nuclear waste, Continue reading
Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s unfounded claim that “waste disposal solution will be available”
The NRC maintains its position that a repository “will be available …. when necessary.” But the petitioning groups say that assumption is made without “foundation in the facts and history of the U.S. geologic repository program.”….
As U.S. Moves Ahead with Nuclear Power, No Solution for Radioactive Waste, Solve Climate News, By Abby LubyMar 3, 2011“…….Less than a week after the attorneys general sued, environmental organizations petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to overturn two NRC rules that say storage and disposal of radioactive waste poses no significant safety or environmental concerns. Continue reading
Destruction of Hanford Towers
the structures being demolished “weren’t radiologically contaminated so they weren’t previously an item that we were rushing to take down.” But, because they don’t have that type of contamination, they can be demolished relatively quickly, making the project eligible for federal stimulus funding
Explosives to bring down Hanford towers, Seattle Times Newspaper, 3 March 11, A number of tall industrial structures at the former Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Eastern Washington will come down in a spectacular fashion Friday, courtesy of federal stimulus funding.By LYNN PORTER Continue reading
Don’t let Entergy off the hook on nuclear waste cleanup
SAFSTOR “would let Entergy off the hook” for cleanup and waste disposal for years or even decades, wrote the delegation.
“While Entergy may prefer leaving the plant to sit like an abandoned factory because it has not saved the necessary funds to fully decommission the plant, this is not the safest option for Vermonters,” Leahy, Sanders and Welch wrote..
Leahy, Sanders, Welch say no to SAFSTOR, Brattleboro Reformer By BOB AUDETTE / Reformer Staff March 2, 2011 BRATTLEBORO — Vermont’s congressional delegation is urging the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ensure it will force Entergy to clean up the site of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant as soon as it closes down. Continue reading
Natural Resources Council challenges NRC’s WASTE CONFIDENCE RULE
In absurdist fashion, the new Waste Confidence Rule contains a “predictive” safety “finding” that simply stipulates spent reactor fuel can be disposed of safely at some unspecified time in the future, whenever it becomes “necessary” to dispose of it. The Rule also concludes that for at least sixty years after the cessation of reactor operations, spent fuel can be safely stored at reactor sites or in “special” facilities.
Sixty Thousand Tons of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Stored at U.S. Reactors for 60 Years? Natural Resources Defence Council, Matthew McKinzie February 23, 2011 Why NRDC has Challenged the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Waste Confidence Rule Last week my colleague and NRDC Senior Attorney Geoffrey Fettus filed a legal challenge to two final rulemakings by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission: the “Waste Confidence Decision Update” and the “Consideration of Environmental Impacts of Temporary Storage of Spent Fuel After Cessation of Reactor Operation.” What does the Federal Government want to do with these new Rules, and why is NRDC opposing them?…….. Continue reading
New Mexico to get Hanford nuclear wastes
Workers entered in groups of three or four wearing three layers of protective clothing and breathing through air hoses,.. [wastes] will be shipped in a waste box to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico for disposal.
Reprocessing nuclear waste – not a solution to the intractable waste problem
Yucca nuclear waste dump project to close soon
Obama budget confirms end of Yucca Mountain project –Las Vegas ReviewJournal.com By Steve Tetreault Feb. 14, 2011 Continue reading
Battle in USA over nuclear wastes costs
It marks only the latest chapter, however, in the fiery battle over nuclear-waste storage. While a storage facility would be a boon to the nuclear-power industry, it’s considered a pariah to people who live near proposed site locations.
Nuclear-Power Firms Push Back Against Fees – WSJ.com, FEBRUARY 11, 2011, By TENNILLE TRACY
WASHINGTON—Buried in the details of President Barack Obama’s budget release Monday will be more than $770 million that nuclear-power companies pay each year for a waste-storage site that’s years behind schedule.But this might be the last year the White House can count on that income. Continue reading
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