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US plants prepare long-term nuclear waste storage
2014-05-26 20:51:50| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
In this June 15, 2012 photo released by Dominion Resources, a spent fuel storage container is offloaded from a trailer into a horizontal storage module at the Millstone Power Station in Waterford, Conn.
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Tiny nuclear waste fee added up to billions
2014-05-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA imes: A charge for electricity that millions of Americans didn't even know they pay will suddenly disappear Friday, after the Energy Department this week quietly notified utilities across the country that it was suspending its fees for a future nuclear waste dump. The Energy Department has been collecting $750 million from electricity bills every year for such a dump since 1983, putting it into a trust fund that now contains $31 billion. The court-ordered suspension may be a modest victory for consumers,...
Britains nuclear waste site almost certain to leak
2014-04-22 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Environment Agency has admitted that it was a mistake to build the UKs nuclear waste dump on its current location on the West Cumbrian coast, warning it is almost certain to leak contaminated waste within "a few hundred to a few thousand years". According to an internal document published in January and recently obtained by the Guardian, erosion from storms and rising sea levels caused by climate change will almost certainly cause the Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR) to leak and contaminate...
Teams set to inspect New Mexico nuclear waste site after leak
2014-04-02 23:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Inspection teams were set to venture into an underground nuclear waste disposal vault in New Mexico on Wednesday to look for the source of a radiation leak nearly seven weeks ago that exposed 21 workers and forced a shutdown of the facility. The planned inspection would mark the first time since the mishap that workers have been sent deep into the salt caverns of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, where drums of plutonium-tainted refuse from nuclear weapons factories and laboratories are buried....
New Mexico nuclear repository mishap leaves Los Alamos waste quandary
2014-03-14 00:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Los Alamos National Laboratory is evaluating how to meet a June deadline to permanently discard plutonium-tainted junk in light of a prolonged shutdown of a New Mexico nuclear waste dump after an accident there last month, a lab official said. Los Alamos, one of the leading U.S. nuclear weapons labs, has been forced to halt shipments of its radioactive refuse some 300 miles across the state to the nation's only underground nuclear repository, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, near Carlsbad,...
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