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Study Slams Nuclear Waste Practices at Hanford
2013-02-05 18:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Department of Energy Construction (and design) continue at the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeastern Washington State, where radioactive liquid waste from weapons processing is to be turned into a stable glass form suitable for disposal. Management and disposal of radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington State, marred by problems for more than two decades, is the focus of a harsh new assessment by the Government Accountability Office. "By just about any definition,"...
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VIDEO: Cumbria votes on nuclear waste store
2013-01-30 10:18:11| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Three councils in Cumbria are due to vote on whether to continue with plans for a 12bn underground storage facility for nuclear waste.
United Kingdom: Cumbria nuclear waste dump vote
2013-01-28 09:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Britain needs to find a site for the long-term underground storage of high-level radioactive waste. With some of it staying dangerous for up to 100,000 years, the government's agreed solution is to bury it - permanently. Three Cumbria councils are due to vote on Wednesday on whether to proceed to the next stage in the process of investigating whether such a facility would be possible - and safe - in the county. What does the government want to build? The underground storage facility would...
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Construction Week: NYC's Micro-Housing Prototypes; DOE's Nuclear Waste Storage Plan
2013-01-23 19:07:11| ENR.com: Headline News
New York City pushes plan for small unit housing, while the Dept. of Energy looks to open a nuclear waste storage facility by 2048.
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United Kingdom: Protests spread on Cumbria nuclear waste dump plan
2013-01-17 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Here's more on the growing concern that nuclear waste burial could be considered within the borders of the Lake District national park, following Cumbria Tourism's stand against the prospect earlier this week. A meeting in Keswick saw all but three of 500 present vote against the idea of pursuing research in Ennerdale and Eskdale, one of the few areas of stable geology in West Cumbria, the home of the Sellafield nuclear complex. As well as being in the national park, the lonely valley is the...
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