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Germany – what to do with nuclear waste dump mess?

Government admits to mistakes in dealing with nuclear waste dump

The German government has admitted to mistakes in its handling of the controversial derelict nuclear waste dump in Asse. It also called on energy companies to share the cost of shutting it down… Continue reading →

January 15, 2010 Posted by | Germany, wastes | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Utah – depleted uranium to be tested for radioactivity

environmental group says it reviewed shipping manifests for some of the waste and found the barrels contain waste in concentrations higher than state law allows EnergySolutions to accept.

Utah governor orders depleted uranium testing The Associated Press

TheSunNews.com Jan. 13, 2010 SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has ordered the testing of barrels of depleted uranium from South Carolina to see how radioactive it is. Continue reading →

January 14, 2010 Posted by | USA, wastes | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Court to hear Hawaiian challenge against depleted uranium storage

Hearing next week on challenge to Army license for depleted uranium I Lind.net, Ian Lind,  January 6th, 2010

The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, an agency of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will hold a hearing next week on challenges filed by four Hawaii residents to an Army license to possess depleted uranium at Schofield Barracks on Oahu and the Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island. Continue reading →

January 8, 2010 Posted by | USA, wastes | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Norway and other countries dumping nuclear waste off Somalia?

The barrels
had been dumped in the sea, a UN spokesman said, for one obvious
reason: it cost European companies around $2.50 a tonne to dispose of
the waste this way, while dealing with them properly would have cost
“something like $1,000 a tonne.”

Copenhagen Days 6-7 (“ANuclear Renaissance”  Ethiopian Review, by Carly Queen January 7th, 2010 . Mr. Monbiot told us the news of how a shipwreck containing nuclear waste was discovered off the coast of Italy. Continue reading →

January 8, 2010 Posted by | EUROPE, secrets,lies and civil liberties, wastes | Leave a comment

Depleted uranium in Utah brings regulation problem

depleted uranium, a by-product of nuclear fuel enrichment and bomb-making that has the unusual quality of becoming more hazardous over time.

Depleted uranium train arrives at Utah site/ OPEN YOUR EYES NEWS Salt Lake Tribune 29 Dec 09 – EnergySolutions Inc. opened its gates Sunday night to the latest shipment of depleted uranium from the Savannah River cleanup site in South Carolina. But the waste won’t be buried just yet, under an agreement between Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and the U.S. Energy Department. Continue reading →

December 29, 2009 Posted by | USA, wastes | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Unique problem in managing depleted uranium wastes

At issue is the unique composition of depleted uraniumm — a byproduct of the process that enriches uranium, in this case from weapons production — that results in the material becoming more radioactive over time.

Weather slows unloading of depleted uranium at EnergySolution By Arthur RaymondDeseret News , Dec. 22, 2009 Continue reading →

December 23, 2009 Posted by | USA, wastes | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Import of radioactive waste opposed

Group rallies against nuclear waste headed to Utah   ksl.com 19th Dec , 2009  By John Hollenhors SALT LAKE CITY — A group rallied Saturday against a trainload of nuclear waste on its way to Utah, demanding Gov. Gary Herbert send the trains back immediately………… Continue reading →

December 21, 2009 Posted by | USA, wastes | Leave a comment

Utah doesn’t want depleted uranium wastes

Utah gov to DOE: Halt depleted uranium shipment By BROCK VERGAKIS (AP) 16 Dec 09 SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert sent Energy Secretary Steven Chu a letter Tuesday asking him to halt the shipment of nearly 15,000 drums of low-level radioactive waste from South Carolina for disposal in Utah.Herbert’s letter was released hours before the DOE was scheduled to begin the first of three shipments from the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C………… Continue reading →

December 16, 2009 Posted by | USA, wastes | , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

California doesn’t want radioactive dirt

Dispute over radioactive dirt going to Calif site Mercury News By NOAKI SCHWARTZ Associated Press Writer  12/11/2009 LOS ANGELES—Boeing Co. and NASA have applied to the state to haul tainted soil from a partial nuclear meltdown at a former rocket test lab to a San Joaquin Valley dump that’s not licensed to accept radioactive waste. Continue reading →

December 11, 2009 Posted by | USA, wastes | , , , , | Leave a comment

$225 billion could be the cost of U.S. nuke waste storage

Report: Spent fuel storage costs may run $225B By BOB AUDETTE BRATTLEBORO REFORMER 9 Dec 09 — If no federal repository for spent nuclear fuel is opened in the next 100 years, the nation’s taxpayers could be on the hook to pay for on-site storage, such as the dry casks at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. Continue reading →

December 10, 2009 Posted by | 1, USA, wastes | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Angst in Canada over nuclear waste dumping

No one will be forced to accept nuke waste: group By Angela Hall, Leader-Post December 8, 2009 No community will be forced into becoming the site for a nuclear waste repository, Continue reading →

December 10, 2009 Posted by | 1, Canada, wastes | , , , , | Leave a comment

Where to put 15,000 drums of depleted uranium?

DOE: Nevada not an option for SC depleted uranium

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A U.S. Department of Energy spokeswoman says Nevada has been ruled out as an alternative disposal site for nearly 15,000 drums of depleted uranium from South Carolina currently scheduled to come to Utah.

DOE spokeswoman Lauren Milone says the Nevada Test Site is being excluded from discussions about the waste because the DOE has agreed to conduct a statewide environmental impact statement before accepting any new waste there.

Milone says doing that would probably take at least a year.

DOE: Nevada not an option for SC depleted uranium – WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC-

December 10, 2009 Posted by | 1, USA, wastes | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Pressure for radioactive waste dump in Northern Territory

Nuclear is cleanest power source- senator ABC Alice Springs By Aislin O’Connor and Kirsty Nancarrow 4 Dec 09 -…….. an anti-nuclear group in Alice Springs says this week’s change in the Liberal Party leadership makes it even more likely that a nuclear waste facility will be forced on the Territory. Continue reading →

December 8, 2009 Posted by | 1, wastes | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Fears over nuclear waste dumping in UK

New fears over nuclear waste site LEP.co.uk  04 December 2009

Concerns have been raised that radioactive rubbish from across the UK will be dumped on the outskirts of a Lancashire city. Continue reading →

December 5, 2009 Posted by | 1, UK, wastes | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear waste dumping leads to development of Somali piracy

Who Are the Real Pirates in Somali Waters?

Islam Online.net By  Abdulkarim Mohamed Jimale 3 Dec 09 When will Somali piracy problem come to an end? When will the world really care for Somalia’s unprotected waters, stop the illegal fishing and the dumping of toxic waste? Continue reading →

December 4, 2009 Posted by | Somalia, wastes | , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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