Highly radioactive nuclear waste begins its secret journey to Japan
Nuclear waste shipment leaves Britain for Japan Telegraph.co By Julian Ryall in Tokyo 21 Jan 2010 Environmentalists in Japan have expressed concern about the first shipment of highly radioactive waste to leave britain under a controversial repatriation scheme, saying any accident to befall the ship transporting the waste would result in an “environmental disaster”. Continue reading
There’s money in nuclear waste, (never mind the danger)
A French state-controlled company, Areva, is now the world’s largest processor
of nuclear waste and is keen to secure a bigger share as countries such as China and India expand their nuclear activities rapidly.
Where there’s nuclear muck there’s a growing opportunity for brass TIMESONLINE Robin Pagnamenta: January 21, 2010
“…………Only a handful of countries have the expertise and technology for nuclear reprocessing, in which spent nuclear fuel rods from power stations are chopped up and boiled in acid to extract uranium and plutonium for reuse in a reactor. The by-product is a concentrated form of vitrified nuclear waste that is as nasty as it sounds. Continue reading
Where to store Nuclear Waste for hundreds of thousands of years?
politics, and not the welfare of future generations, is at the center of the nuclear waste issue. To protect those generations, a site must be found where radioactive waste can be allowed to slowly decay over hundreds of thousands of years, far away from any living creatures
Germany’s Endless Search for a Nuclear Waste Dump SPIEGELONLINE 15 Jan 2010 Germany has been looking for a permanent storage site for its nuclear waste for over 30 years. The history of the Gorleben salt dome, a potential nuclear repository, is one full of deception and political maneuvering. And if opponents to the plans have their way, the search might even have to start again from scratch………….. Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
$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
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
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.
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