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Nuclear Waste and Contamination
Friday, March 07, 2008
Say NO to Uranium Enrichment Plant
By @ 11:34 AM :: 621 Views :: 1 Comments :: :: 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 :: 785 Views :: 2 Comments :: :: 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 :: 610 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: 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 sstamper @ 4:27 PM :: 621 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: 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 sstamper @ 4:22 PM :: 442 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: 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 jmaxand @ 9:52 AM :: 1612 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: 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 jmaxand @ 2:35 PM :: 693 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: 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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Thursday, May 31, 2007
Nuclear mother lode? Company plans to drill for uranium near Stanley
By sstamper @ 4:31 PM :: 362 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: 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 sstamper @ 8:02 PM :: 453 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: 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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Friday, December 15, 2006
Nuclear Waste Delivery on Hold
By sstamper @ 10:15 PM :: 479 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: 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.
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