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Nuclear Waste Repository Set to Reopen After Leak

2014-02-26 02:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Almost two weeks after an unexplained puff of radioactive materials forced the closing of a salt mine in New Mexico that is used to bury nuclear bomb wastes, managers of the mine are planning to send workers back in and are telling nearby residents that their health is safe. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, 28 miles east of Carlsbad, has been in operation for 15 years, burying wastes in an ancient salt bed deep beneath the desert, mostly without incident, and some experts have said that the site...

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Nuclear Waste Solution Seen in Desert Salt Beds

2014-02-09 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York times: Half a mile beneath the desert surface, in thick salt beds left behind by seas that dried up hundreds of millions of years ago, the Department of Energy is carving out rooms as long as football fields and cramming them floor to ceiling with barrels and boxes of nuclear waste. The salt beds, which have the consistency of crumbly rock so far down in the earth, are what the federal government sees as a natural sealant for the radioactive material left over from making nuclear weapons. The process...

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Magnox signs 200m contract with nuclear waste container suppliers

2014-01-20 01:00:00| Power Technology

Magnox has signed a 200m six-year contract with Croft Associates, Chester-Simplex, and Siempelkamp Nukleartechnik for the supply of waste containers to store waste generated from nuclear power stations in the UK.

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United Kingdom: Nuclear waste site consultation was rigged to favour Sellafield, say experts

2014-01-18 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The government stands accused of drafting the consultation process to select the site of a multibillion-pound nuclear waste storage facility to favour a location that some geologists claim is unsuitable for burying radioactive material. Two leading geologists told the Observer that they believed the government was keen to push through Sellafield as the site of the facility, a subterranean tunnel network that would be the size of Carlisle, despite an official inquiry demonstrating that its geology...

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