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Hanford Nuclear Leak Worsens Dramatically, Waste Elimination Needed
2016-04-22 11:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Nuclear waste leak at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is said to have worsened dramatically, as proven by leaking between the two underground tanks which displayed an unusual amount of increase on Sunday. Union Bulletin reported that the amount of radioactive waste leak rose up eight inches more than usual and later decreased by one half. Jerry Holloway of Washington River Protection Solutions, a company managing the underground tanks for the U.S. Department of Energy said that they are checking...
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Australia: Feuds and infighting as nuclear waste dump plan tears communities apart
2016-03-01 07:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Peter and Sue Woolford were born and bred in the small rural community of Kimba in South Australias Eyre Peninsula. The 1,000-strong town rallied behind the couple when their teenage son, Matthew, died in a farming accident 12 years ago. The comfort provided by the practical and emotional support offered by friends and neighbours during this time of grief was immeasurable, Sue tells Guardian Australia, which makes it all the more difficult to see the community turning against each other now....
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EPA Orders Barrier for Nuclear Waste at Missouri Landfill
2016-01-04 16:00:00| Waste Age
The Associated Press The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday ordered installation of an isolation barrier to make sure that an underground fire does not reach buried nuclear waste at a suburban St. Louis landfill. read more
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Finland approves underground nuclear waste storage plan
2015-11-12 17:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Finland has become the first country in the world to give a construction license for a permanent underground nuclear waste repository, the center-right government said on Thursday. It approved Posiva Oy's plan to construct a spent nuclear fuel encapsulation plant and disposal facility at the island of Olkiluoto, western Finland. Local people have accepted the plan. Up to 6,500 tonnes of uranium may be deposited in the facility, some 450 meters (490 yards) below the surface in the granite bedrock....
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EU regulators wave through UK nuclear waste clean-up price plan
2015-10-09 22:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Britain won EU regulatory approval on Friday for a pricing model to set the cost of disposing of nuclear waste that environmentalists say is too generous to nuclear power plant operators and punishing for taxpayers. Nuclear energy is a sensitive political issue in Europe that pits the European Union's biggest economy Germany - and its plans to phase out atomic energy and pin costs on its utilities - against supporters of the energy source, such as Britain and France. Britain wants to build a facility...
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