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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

38 Drums of Radioactive Waste Unaccounted-For
By @ 4:27 PM :: 2009 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Nuclear Weapons

Los Alamos National Laboratory can't account for 38 containers of radioactive waste materials after completion of a four-month inventory conducted at its Area G nuclear dump site.

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Russian nuclear waste worries Norway
By @ 4:22 PM :: 1148 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination

OSLO, Norway, June 1 (UPI) -- Norwegian officials are worried about the safety of a giant nuclear waste facility near the Norwegian border with Russia.

Saturday, June 02, 2007

GNEP: Nuclear wolf in sheeps clothing (VIDEO)
By @ 9:52 AM :: 3495 Views :: Nuclear Power, Reprocessing, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Nuclear Weapons, Bruneau nuclear reactor

WATCH: an interview with experts addressing GNEP through the failed history of reprocessing in the US and abroad.

Friday, June 01, 2007

Uranium Mining in the Salmon-Challis National Forest?
By @ 2:35 PM :: 3005 Views :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination

Magnum Minerals USA, a subsidiary of Magnum Uranium of Vancouver, British Columbia, is seeking permission from the US Forest Service to search for uranium in the Salmon-Challis National Forest.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Nuclear mother lode? Company plans to drill for uranium near Stanley
By @ 4:31 PM :: 936 Views :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination

The Gem State has long been known for its abundance of mine-worthy minerals: silver, lead, cobalt. Now, a Canada-based company wants to add uranium to that list. Magnum Minerals USA, a subsidiary of Magnum Uranium of Vancouver, British Columbia, is seeking permission from the U.S. Forest Service to search for uranium in the Salmon-Challis National Forest.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

WIPP waste deliveries from Idaho on hold again
By @ 8:02 PM :: 987 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination

Free New Mexican, December 15, 2006...CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) - Shipments of certain radioactive waste from Idaho National Laboratory to the federal government's underground dump in southeastern New Mexico are again on hold.

Friday, December 15, 2006

Nuclear Waste Delivery on Hold
By @ 10:15 PM :: 1023 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination

Journal Staff Writer, December 15, 2006... Shipments from Idaho to New Mexico of a troubled batch of radioactive waste remain on hold while New Mexico state officials review the situation, an Energy Department official said Thursday afternoon.
The Energy Department announced late Tuesday that the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory had been given the green light to restart the shipments, which were halted in November after prohibited liquid waste was found in a New Mexico-bound drum of waste.

Thursday, November 30, 2006

DOE shuts down Idaho nuclear waste shipments to WIPP
By @ 5:58 PM :: 883 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Energy has halted some radioactive shipments to its underground nuclear waste dump near Carlsbad after liquid was found in a drum of what was supposed to be dry waste.

Monday, October 30, 2006

Return to Chelyabinsk
By @ 4:10 AM :: 946 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination

Aside from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the meltdown at Chernobyl is commonly regarded as the deadliest nuclear catastrophe in history. But in fact that unhappy distinction belongs to another place in the former Soviet Union, a place called Chelyabinsk. Tucked behind the Ural Mountains far from European invaders, the oblast of Chelyabinsk has provided armaments for Russian rulers since the time of the czars.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Radioactive snails lead to Spain-U.S. atomic probe
By @ 7:24 PM :: 939 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination

MADRID (Reuters) - The discovery of radioactive snails at a site in southeastern Spain where three U.S. hydrogen bombs fell by accident 40 years ago may trigger a new joint U.S.-Spanish clean-up operation, officials said on Wednesday.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Railroad route to nuclear dump in Nevada getting another look
By @ 6:52 PM :: 1024 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination

LAS VEGAS - The Energy Department is reconsidering building a rail line through western Nevada to the site of a proposed national nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, officials said.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

WIPP to Get Hot Waste; State Officials Set To Sign New Permit Today
By @ 6:58 PM :: 951 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination

With 83,258 drums of radioactive waste tucked into salt beds 2,150 feet beneath the southeast New Mexico desert and more arriving weekly, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant's operations have become humdrum.

Thursday, August 31, 2006

NRC postpones weapons nuke waste meeting
By @ 8:39 PM :: 1725 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination

U.S. nuclear regulators have postponed a Thursday meeting with the U.S. Energy Department in an ongoing dispute over the disposal of nuclear weapons waste. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission notified the Energy Department Wednesday that it would delay Thursday's meeting because it didn't meet the required 10-day public notification of open meetings.

Friday, June 30, 2006

Senator offers plan to store nuclear waste
By @ 5:29 PM :: 1043 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination

The government would store nuclear waste at temporary sites for as long as 25 years while it worked to overcome delays in the Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada under a plan offered by the chairman of the Senate Energy Committee.

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

WIPP truck involved in minor accident
By @ 8:17 PM :: 1099 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination

A Waste Isolation Pilot Plant truck loaded with three containers of transuranic waste was involved in a traffic crash in Idaho on Friday, WIPP officials said Saturday. "It's a traffic accident," said Kerry Watson, director for the office of characterization and transportation in Carlsbad's field office.

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