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Radioactive Water Leaks From Japans Damaged Nuclear Plant
2013-04-10 03:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The Government of Japan has ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to fix fresh radioactive water leaks at its damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Leaks in three underground storage pits at Fukushima Daiichi have released an estimated 32,000 gallons of radioactive water since Friday, TEPCO officials report. The underground tanks contain water that became radioactive when it was sprayed into the Fukushima Daiichi reactors continuously for months to cool the nuclear fuel after the earthquake...
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Ban on Radioactive Fracking Waste Passed by Putnam County, NY Legislators
2013-03-07 16:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A coalition of health and environmental groups gathered in Carmel, New York yesterday following the meeting of the Putnam County Board of Legislators to congratulate the legislators for voting to prohibit the sale, application and disposal of waste products in the County from natural gas drilling operations. Advocates working together with Putnam County legislators to address the dangerous exposures associated with radioactive toxic waste pause for a photo with Putnam County legislators who unanimously...
Radioactive waste leaking from tanks at Washington state nuclear site
2013-02-23 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Six underground storage tanks at a nuclear facility in Washington state are leaking radioactive waste, but there is no immediate risk to human health, officials say. The newly discovered leaks, at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, come one week after the US energy department revealed that radioactive waste was found to be escaping from one tank at Hanford. The seeping waste adds to decades of soil contamination caused by past storage tank leaks at Hanford and threatens to further taint groundwater...
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United Kingdom: Sellafield to be prosecuted for sending radioactive waste to wrong disposal site
2013-02-07 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: Sellafield has pleaded guilty to sending several bags of radioactive waste to the wrong facility, according to the Office for Nuclear Regulation. The nuclear power company admitted sending four bags of mixed general waste to the Lillyhall landfill site in Workington, Cumbria, in April 2010. The bags, which contained waste such as plastic, tissues and clothing, should have gone to the low level waste repository, at Drigg. Sellafield Limited said the error was caused by a new monitor which...
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