USA’s nuclear waste dilemma
Nuclear dumping in SC a concern – – TheState.com, 7 Jan 2011, “……….The panel is expected to recommend to President Obama by mid-summer how to deal with the nuclear waste, which is growing as nuclear power plants continue to produce electricity. The U.S. has generated more than 70,000 metric tons of high-level nuclear waste — lethal material that, in some cases, doesn’t break down for thousands of years. Continue reading
The basic facts on Texas Radioactive Waste Commission decision
Post your opinion on this site. Texas to US: Send Us Your Radioactive Waste – Commission OKs site, to be fourth such dump in country SHARE YOUR TAKE 
Texas to US: Send Us Your Radioactive Waste – NewserBy Kate Schwartz, Jan 5, Commission OKs site, to be fourth such dump in country– In a move sure to delight the nuclear-energy industry and depress environmentalists, a Texas commission yesterday set the ball rolling on legislation that would make the state the final destination for 36 states’ low-level radioactive-waste. Continue reading
USA’s Blue Ribbon Commission to talk about wastes and new nuclear reactors
The commission has until June to come up new strategies for dealing with the thousands of tons of spent nuclear fuel…….They will also hear about plant Vogtle’s expansion. There Southern Company plans to build the first new nuclear reactors in decades
Commission Plans Nuclear Tour, GPB Newsw, By Noel Brown 5 Jan 2011, AUGUSTA, Ga. — A federal panel charged with finding new ways to store high level nuclear waste will tour the Savannah River Site near Augusta Thursday. The Blue Ribbon Commission for America’s Nuclear Future was created by the Obama administration last year Continue reading
Texas – “bring me your poor huddled masses of radioactive waste”
some environmental groups said the plan would provide an incentive to the nuclear-energy industry to expand without coming up with better places to store its refuse.
“It’s defying logic to make more waste that we don’t have a good place to put,”……Opponents say a conflict of interest exists between the commission,
Texas to Take States’ Radioactive Discards – WSJ.com, 5 Jan 2011, By ANA CAMPOY A Texas commission Tuesday set in motion the importation of low-level radioactive-waste from 36 other states, a move long sought by the nuclear-energy industry and long opposed by environmentalists.The Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission, which manages the state’s radioactive-waste dump, voted 5-2 to approve rules governing the process for accepting the out-of-state material. Continue reading
Indian government not really concerned about nuclear waste
today, we don’t have a waste management problem. We will have it by the year 2020-2030,”
Nuclear waste not an immediate problem for India: Ramesh – The Economic Times, 4 Jan 2011, NEW DELHI: Amid concerns over waste management at the proposed nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Maharashtra, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said it was not an immediate problem for India Continue reading
Mon Dieu, Electricite de France is supposed to pay for nuclear waste storage
Under French law, EDF has to build a portfolio of assets to enable it to pay for the decommissioning of France’s 58 nuclear reactors and radioactive waste storage…EDF was supposed to have set aside enough money by the end of June 2011 for decommissioning of all of its nuclear assets and waste storage. A planned power law gave the utility a five- year extension on the deadline to June 2016.
EDF Puts 50% of RTE Grid Operator into Dedicated Fund for Nuclear Charges – Bloomberg, By Tara Patel – Jan 3, 2011 Electricite de France said it will improve its debt ratio with the transfer of half the French power grid Reseau de Transport d’Electricite into a fund that will cover costs for dismantling nuclear reactors……… Continue reading
Blue Ribbon Commission for America’s Nuclear Future targeting South Carolina for waste dump?
South Carolina might be forced to take on an even larger nuclear waste role than it already has.
Blue Ribbon panel to tour SRS, look for solution, The Augusta Chronicle, 3 Jan 2011, Group tasked with finding answer for waste problem By Rob Pavey.In terms of nuclear issues, the eyes of the nation will be on Augusta this week as the Obama Administration’s Blue Ribbon Commission for America’s Nuclear Future visits Savannah River Site and Augusta. Continue reading
Showdown at the ole Texas nuclear waste dump
Vermont’s nuclear waste showdown in Texas Burlington free Press, 28 Dec 10, Gov.-elect Peter Shumlin’s inauguration is causing a stir in Texas that’s reverberating back here to Vermont.That’s where a commission will meet two days before Shumlin takes office to vote on whether to allow radioactive waste from states to be dumped in a long-planned Texas site that was going to be strictly for Texas and Vermont. Continue reading
An evil Christmas present for Texas – nuclear waste importing
“This is an evil Christmas present from WCS and Harold Simmons,” said Tom “Smitty” Smith, director of the liberal environmental group Public Citizen of Texas. After a news conference blasting the plan, Smith and other environmentalists rolled a black barrel, with a radioactive symbol on the outside, under the state Christmas tree outside the Texas Capitol
Activists protest nuke waste plan for West Texas Houston Chronicle, 24 Dec 2010 The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Warning that Texas could soon become the dumping grounds for nuclear waste from around the nation, environmentalists accused state regulators and a politically connected company Thursday of rushing a dump expansion proposal past Texans who are too focused on the holidays to even notice. Continue reading
UK nuclear waste burial site endangered by earthquake risk
“It would be stupidity to bury high levels of radioactive material underground in areas which can be affected by earthquakes.
Earthquake ‘could hit plans to bury nuclear waste’, Whitehaven News, By Alan Irving, 22 December 2010 WEST Cumbria’s potential for burying highly radioactive nuclear waste could have taken a step back as a result of Tuesday night’s earthquake, say campaigners.Seismic tremors have to be seriously considered as part of a watertight safety review if a site is eventually found which appears to have the right geology. Continue reading
US Energy Department’s dilemma over depleted uranium disposal
This type of low-level radioactive waste, though it meets state standards now, presents a special problem for regulators because it gets increasingly hazardous for around 1 million years and large quantities could potentially exceed state hazard allowances. Separate from the Savannah River waste, the company already has buried 49,000 tons of DU from past disposal contracts…..
Energy Department cancels search for interim depleted uranium storage | The Salt Lake TribuneBy Judy fahys Dec 21, 2010 The U.S. Energy Department has scrapped its search for temporary storage for two shipments of depleted uranium and is now looking for another place to bury the low-level radioactive waste permanently. Continue reading
Attack on a UK nuclear train would be a terrorist coup
particularly concerned about the possibility of an attack on the nuclear trains that go through the main Olympic site in east London, since a successful attack on one of them in its vicinity, whether during or in the lead-up to the Games, would be a terrorist media spectacular.
Video of UK protest Guest post: The Nuclear trains that threaten our safety | The Olympic Borough
The Nuclear trains that threaten our safety, The Olympic Borough, Dec 20th, 2010 by Dave.Anyone who uses Stratford station on a regular basis may have encountered this lot, the Nuclear Trains Action Group (NTAG), doing their best to raise awareness about what they believe is a serious threat to our safety and security. Continue reading
Big campaign donations likely to get nuclear waste dump approved
The radioactive waste to be dumped near West Texas aquifers will be hot for tens of thousands of years.6 Waste Control’s license extends a mere 15 years. Thereafter that gullible sap–the Texas taxpayer–will be left holding the bag.
Rick Perry’s nuclear money machine dallasnews.com, Wayne Slater, Dec 20, 2010, Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons is the focus of a new study that says his $1.1 million investment in Gov. Rick Perry this year could pay many millions in return. The issue is the West Texas nuclear waste dump that Simmons controls. Continue reading
Despite setback, Nevada will fight against Yucca Mt nuclear waste dump
“While the NRC may not have ruled in Nevada’s favor on this latest challenge, the Yucca Mountain Project is already in mothballs and by the time we’re done, this boondoggle will be a pile of bleached bones in the Nevada desert,”
Nev. Gov.-elect Sandoval vows fight on Yucca Mt. Las Vegas Sun, The Associated Press, Dec. 15, 2010 .Despite a setback from a U.S. licensing panel, opponents of a national nuclear waste repository in Nevada say they will press the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to examine new science about potential dangers stemming from erosion at the site. Continue reading
Costly new attempt to make Chernobyl nuclear reactor safer
New shelter over Chernobyl nuclear reactor to be built in 2015, ITAR-TASS, KIEV, December 13 — A new shelter over the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant will be commissioned in 2015, Ukrainian Minister of Emergency Situations Viktor Baloga said during a visit to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant with Administrator of the U.N. Development Programme Helen Clark on Sunday……Under the project a new arch-shaped shelter 108 meters high and 150 meters long will be built over the current sarcophagus. The facility will be equipped with modern radiation security control systems. The new Chernobyl shelter will have 100 years of service life… ITAR-TASS
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