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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

WIPP waste deliveries from Idaho on hold again
By Shaun Stamper @ 8:02 PM :: 381 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 Shaun Stamper @ 10:15 PM :: 412 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 Shaun Stamper @ 5:58 PM :: 371 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 Shaun Stamper @ 4:10 AM :: 400 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 Shaun Stamper @ 7:24 PM :: 412 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 Shaun Stamper @ 6:52 PM :: 486 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 Shaun Stamper @ 6:58 PM :: 391 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 Shaun Stamper @ 8:39 PM :: 675 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 Shaun Stamper @ 5:29 PM :: 536 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 Jeremy Maxand @ 8:17 PM :: 619 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.

Friday, May 26, 2006

Judge: Feds must obey nuke agreement with Idaho
By Jeremy Maxand @ 7:44 PM :: 377 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination

A federal judge ruled Thursday the U.S. Energy Department must abide by a 1995 agreement with Idaho to remove all high-level radioactive waste stored at the Idaho National Laboratory and ship it out of state for disposal by 2018, regardless of whether it is buried or stored above ground.

Friday, May 19, 2006

Federal, state agencies discuss INL cleanup efforts
By Jeremy Maxand @ 5:57 PM :: 511 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination

The Department of Energy and the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality held a joint open house for the public Tuesday evening in Twin Falls to share information about Idaho Cleanup Project efforts at the Idaho National Laboratory.

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