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| Monday, November 03, 2008 |
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Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Hearings In Idaho Falls
By Liz Woodruff @ 1:30 PM :: 139 Views :: Reprocessing, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Action Alert!
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Idaho Falls will host one of the hearings related to the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) on Thursday, November 20th at 7 p.m. (Location TBA) Dr. Arjun Makhijani will testify in opposition to GNEP.
The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) is the federal government's ill-conceived attempt to jumpstart the stagnant nuclear power industry. It is essentially a global reprocessing program whereby supplier countries would provide nuclear reactors and fuel to user nations (some of which might not be able to safeguard such dangerous plants) and then take the irradiated fuel back to extract plutonium from it to use in nuclear reactors that won't be built for decades, if at all. GNEP would generate vast amounts of nuclear waste and pollution, cost a bailout-sized $700 billion, and make it possible for plutonium to get into the hands of potential enemies, thus reversing decades of nonproliferation work.
Idaho is one of four states that had reprocessing plants, and it polluted our air and water before. Don't let it happen again. Please see the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability website for information on how to submit comments.
Of Note: GNEP is not a recycling plan. Recycling is a benefit to the environment if it conserves resources and reduces waste. Reprocessing does the opposite. It uses and contaminates immense quantities of water, creates more nuclear waste, and is the single largest nuclear air pollution source.
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| Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
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| Thursday, March 29, 2007 |
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S.C. House says no to nuclear waste plan
By Shaun Stamper @ 4:01 PM :: 943 Views :: Reprocessing
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COLUMBIA -- A Utah company's push to dump more nuclear waste in Barnwell County suffered a crippling defeat Wednesday that some legislators called historic in its message to the nation: South Carolina wants out of the nuclear waste disposal business after three decades of owning a landfill for the country's radioactive garbage.
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| Tuesday, March 27, 2007 |
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Idaho's next nuclear opportunity
By Shaun Stamper @ 10:19 AM :: 912 Views :: Reprocessing
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America's best chance at a nuclear renaissance involves finding ways to efficiently recover spent fuel and reduce the waste headed to a repository. Idaho should be at the vanguard of that work, writes Mike Simpson.
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| Friday, March 16, 2007 |
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Nuke plan has key glitch
By Shaun Stamper @ 1:33 PM :: 734 Views :: Reprocessing
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IDAHO FALLS — Department of Energy officials acknowledged Thursday a proposed nuclear energy program could run contrary to a 12-year- old agreement banning the importation of spent nuclear fuel into Idaho.
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| Friday, March 16, 2007 |
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Nuclear hearing draws big crowd
By Shaun Stamper @ 1:23 PM :: 669 Views :: Reprocessing
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It's too early in the process to say how the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership is going to play out, but one thing resonated clearly at a hearing Thursday night in Idaho Falls: If the U.S. Department of Energy plans to get back into the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, eastern Idaho's leaders want the work done here.
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| Thursday, March 15, 2007 |
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Hanford proposal riles crowd
By Shaun Stamper @ 11:22 AM :: 485 Views :: Reprocessing
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Both sides claimed the moral imperative at an overflow hearing Tuesday night to discuss Hanford's possible role in a proposed new national nuclear energy program to reuse spent commercial reactor fuel.
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