Radioactive Waste

Information regarding proposed radioactive waste storage

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PFS/GOSHUTE HIGH-LEVEL STORAGE

 

"LOW-LEVEL" WASTE

 

RE-PROCESSING

Information regarding plans for re-processing nuclear waste in the US and regarding existing re-processing plants across the globe

Ukraine’s Yushchenko Mulls Chernobyl Dump for World’s Nuclear Waste

Sending the most deadly material on the planet to such an unstable part of the world??? This is why the Chernobyl events are so necessary next April. We cannot know about this travesty and not try to tell others.

REID, ENSIGN INTRODUCE NUCLEAR WASTE ON-SITE STORAGE LEGISLATION

Bill will eliminate need for central nuclear waste repository like proposed Yucca Mountain project

Interim nuclear waste site mulled

Bush may ask for temporary dump in State of Union tonight

pdf.drycaskstoragebill

Amends Title I of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 by adding:Subtitle I—Dry Cask Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Group wants board to reconsider waste storage OK

A group critical of nuclear power is asking the Public Service Board to reconsider its approval of expanded radioactive waste storage at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.

THE NUCLEAR WASTE PROBLEM: WHERE WILL WE ALL BE IN 100,000 YEARS?

Because nuclear power plants emit no carbon dioxide, the nuclear industry claims that nuclear power can help save the Earth from global warming. But the twin specters of nuclear waste and proliferation raise questions about whether nuclear power can fulfill this promise and what the price of trying might be.

Nuclear waste recycling is costly, foes say

Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods is being promoted as a better alternative to simply storing the highly radioactive waste from power plants in repositories.

Alerting future civilizations about nuclear waste

This is what we have to look forward to here on the Central Coast. How will we warn the 100th generation to stay away from the high-level radioactive waste dump at Diablo Canyon? At WIPP the waste is deep underground but here it will sit all nicely in rows right out in the open.

Radioactive Russian roulette

The nuclear power industry and its friends in Washington want to build the first new reactors in 30 years. But to do so, the illusion of a "solution" to the radioactive waste dilemma must be maintained. A growing mountain of lethal atomic waste - currently 55,000 tons - has piled up at scores of atomic power plants in dozens of states, with nowhere to go. It is stored in stopgap facilities such as indoor pools and outdoor silos. Last summer, the National Academies of Science (NAS) reported that the wastes are vulnerable to terrorists and are essentially radioactive bull's eyes risking catastrophic downwind releases if attacked. Expanding such targets undermines national security.

New NIRS Report Challenges All U.S. Radioactive Waste Policies

A new report from Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) finds that all of the stated U.S. radioactive waste policies have failed, and/or hold no potential for success. The group recommended—as it did 12 years ago—that an independent Blue-Ribbon Commission be established to start from ground zero and establish new, workable, scientifically-defensible radioactive waste policies. Had the U.S. done this 12 years ago, about seven billion dollars would have been saved that have been spent on a pyrrhic effort to open the proposed and unsuitable Yucca Mountain, Nevada nuclear waste dump.

Governors challenge nuke waste proposal

Gov. James Douglas and other leaders are taking issue with a proposed change in national energy policy that could leave the state, instead of the federal government, responsible for long term storage of nuclear waste from Vermont Yankee.

Interim Storage of Spent Fuel

There's a Senate bill calling for consolidated interim storage of spent fuel. Attached is a PowerPoint presentation recently developed on the subject by David Lochbaum, Union of Concerned Scientists

Maker of fuel rod storage casks cited

The maker of the casks that will hold spent fuel from the Limerick Nuclear Generating Station was cited last month for violating a manufacturing procedure. [Editors note: These are the type of casks to also be used at San Onofre]

N-fuel storage called 'disaster'

Environmentalists are worried about increased spent nuclear fuel stored at Tennessee Valley Authority power plants, calling the waste "a recipe for disaster."

100+ Groups Call on Congress to Oppose High-Level Radioactive Waste Dumping Plan in Ohio

In a letter delivered to congressional leaders, 106 national and grassroots organizations expressed opposition to any temporary centralization of irradiated fuel from commercial nuclear power operations in the United States , specifically focusing concern on the Piketon, Ohio site where apparently preparations are already underway for an “interim” dump.

Out of Control - On Purpose: DOE's Dispersal of Radioactive Waste into Landfills and Consumer Products

Radioactive materials are being released from nuclear weapons facilities to regular landfills and into commercial recycling streams where they can be used to make everyday household items.

Groups file appeal against Michigan nuclear power plant

Two nuclear energy watchdog groups have filed an action with a federal appeals court that says the storage pads where spent nuclear fuel is kept at the Palisades Nuclear Plant violate earthquake-safety regulations established by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Where There’s Smoke

Are Utah fires spreading Cold War fallout all over again?

California AG Challenges NRC's 'Waste Confidence' Determination

The nuclear energy industry and California officials are at odds over the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s waste-confidence ruling for the temporary storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) at the nation's reactors.

Firm wants to process overseas nuke waste in Tennessee

A company that disposes of radioactive nuclear waste by burying it wants to ship 20,000 tons of the material from overseas through ports in Charleston and New Orleans, raising fears because of the large amount. EnergySolutions Inc. wants to ship about 200,000 cubic feet of waste into the United States, process it in Tennessee before burying it at a site in Clive, Utah, where the company is based.

"You're voting for whether we're gonna live or die"

"You're voting for whether we're gonna live or die," an Aboriginal woman has told an anti-nuclear rally in Alice Springs, central Australia. With a federal election due on Saturday, one of the most burning issues for people living in the Northern Territory, which contains Alice Springs, is fear that the mainly desert land will become a dump for nuclear waste from all over the world. The incumbent right-of-centre government of Prime Minister John Howard has announced plans to nuclearise Australia, already the world’s biggest exporter of uranium. Howard wants a string of 25 nuclear power stations around the east Australian coast and has started buying Aboriginal land for waste dump sites.

"Waste Confidence and Waste Challenges: Managing Radioactive Materials"

Remarks Prepared for NRC Chairman Dale E. Klein - Waste Management Symposium - Phoenix, Arizona

BEYOND NUCLEAR - Nuclear Power and France: Setting the Record Straight

France gets nearly 80% of its electricity from its 58 nuclear reactors. However, such a heavy reliance on nuclear power brings with it many major, unresolved problems most especially that of radioactive waste. As a result, France has a hugely complex and unsolved radioactive waste problem.

JIM HIGHTOWER - THE TOXIC CORRUPTION OF OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM

EnergySolutions Inc. That name has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? But whose energy problems is this company trying to solve? Italy’s, for one. That country has 20,000 tons of nuclear waste that it wants to dump somewhere, so this Salt Lake City corporation says that, for several million dollars, it will gladly import Italy’s waste and bury it in Western Utah. Great. Our country can’t figure out what to do with our own nuclear nasties, yet this corporate huskster would throw open our borders to everyone's trash. Send us your tired, your poor… your nuclear waste!