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Nuclear Waste and Contamination
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Tons of Waste Shipped to Idaho from Kuwait
By @ 11:25 AM :: 118 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
6,700 tons of contaminated sand with depleted uranium and lead from Kuwait will be coming to American Ecology in Idaho this month. American Ecology Idaho’s Grand View facility, located 70 miles southeast of Boise in the Owyhee Desert, treats and disposes hazardous waste and non-hazardous industrial wastes and low-activity radioactive material.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Appeals Court Supports Idaho in All Means All Case
By Beatrice Brailsford @ 3:15 PM :: 237 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination
The State of Idaho’s efforts to force the Department of Energy to dig up plutonium-contaminated waste buried above the Snake River Aquifer began 35 years ago. On March 17, 2008, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed a lower court decision that the DOE is obligated to remove that waste from Idaho. That decision is forcing the DOE and its regulators—the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency—to reassess the plan to dig up only 4.8 acres of the 36 acres that contain plutonium-contaminated waste, which is called “transuranic.”
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Idahoans Gather on April Fool’s Day to Say No to Areva, the French-based Nuclear Giant
By @ 12:39 PM :: 249 Views :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
BOISE, April 1, 2008—The Snake River Alliance, Idaho’s nuclear watchdog and advocate for clean energy, will be joined by other concerned Idahoans for a rally outside the state annex building on April Fool’s day at 12:30 pm to tell Areva, the French-based Nuclear giant that Idahoans do not want a uranium enrichment facility built outside Idaho Falls.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
More on Flawed Response to Radioactive Accident
By Beatrice Brailsford @ 2:17 PM :: 196 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination
Radioactive material is inherently dangerous. There are 266 licensed users of radioactive material in Idaho, including medical, commercial and industrial users. Eighty-two of those are commercial users. One commercial user is Sabia, a San Diego-based firm with a facility in Idaho Falls. It produces and services machines that use gamma rays to identify elements in coal so that it meets specifications for producing power. A Sabia worker was exposed to strontium-90 on Friday, February 29. The following wrap-up story and editorial from the Idaho Falls newspaper tell the tale.
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Friday, March 07, 2008
Alliance Commends Craig, Simpson on DOE Cleanup Funding
By @ 11:41 AM :: 227 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
The Snake River Alliance commends Senator Larry Craig and Representative Mike Simpson. Both signed letters to the leaders of the Senate and House Budget Committees objecting to the serious cuts in DOE cleanup funding proposed by the Bush Administration for next year.
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Friday, March 07, 2008
Say NO to Uranium Enrichment Plant
By @ 11:34 AM :: 249 Views :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Action Alert
Areva, a giant nuclear corporation controlled by the French government, first saw how compliant Idaho’s state and local governments can be when it came here to push the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership. Now it’s come back to eastern Idaho to look for a building site—and financial incentives—for a uranium enrichment plant.
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Monday, July 23, 2007
No to nukes
By @ 2:58 PM :: 553 Views :: Nuclear Power, Reprocessing, Clean and Renewable Energy, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Nuclear Weapons, Energy Intelligence News Releases
JAPAN SEES NUCLEAR POWER as a solution to global warming, but it's paying a price. Last week, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake caused dozens of problems at the world's biggest nuclear plant, leading to releases of radioactive elements into the air and ocean and an indefinite shutdown.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Japan Nuke Plant Leak Worse Than Thought
By @ 3:54 PM :: 444 Views :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination
An earthquake-wracked nuclear power plant was ordered closed indefinitely Wednesday amid growing anger over revelations that damage was much worse than initially announced and mounting international concern about Japan's nuclear stewardship.
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
38 Drums of Radioactive Waste Unaccounted-For
By Shaun Stamper @ 4:27 PM :: 440 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.
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Russian nuclear waste worries Norway
By Shaun Stamper @ 4:22 PM :: 323 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.
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Saturday, June 02, 2007
GNEP: Nuclear wolf in sheeps clothing (VIDEO)
By Jeremy Maxand @ 9:52 AM :: 684 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.
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Friday, June 01, 2007
Uranium Mining in the Salmon-Challis National Forest?
By Jeremy Maxand @ 2:35 PM :: 445 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.
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Friday, June 01, 2007
Still dirty, still dangerous: Reprocessing could be headed to Idaho
By Jeremy Maxand @ 2:31 PM :: 545 Views :: Nuclear Power, Reprocessing, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Nuclear Weapons, Action Alert
The Energy Department (DOE) announced funding for two proposals to study Idaho sites to host the costly, dirty, dangerous, and proliferating Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). Nine other proposals across the country got funding as well. Comment on GNEP by June 4, 2007
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
Nuclear mother lode? Company plans to drill for uranium near Stanley
By Shaun Stamper @ 4:31 PM :: 259 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.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
WIPP waste deliveries from Idaho on hold again
By Shaun Stamper @ 8:02 PM :: 368 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.
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