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Nuclear waste burial debate produces odd alliances
2013-11-26 09:15:36| Energy - Topix.net
A proposal to bury nuclear waste deep underground near Lake Huron in the Canadian province of Ontario is creating some odd alliances.
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U.S. court orders government stop collecting nuclear waste fees
2013-11-19 17:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government can no longer require nuclear power plant operators to pay fees into a nuclear waste fund, a victory for the utilities that challenged the fees. The court in Washington said the fees could not currently be justified because the government's long-stalled plan to build a national waste facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada had not come to fruition. The fund is intended to cover the cost of storing the waste. President Barack Obama's administration...
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Energy Department Report Faults Procedures at Hanford Nuclear Waste Site
2013-10-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Bechtel, which is building a $12.2 billion waste-treatment plant at the federal government's decommissioned Hanford nuclear weapons site in Washington state, has been buying critically important parts without subjecting them to the required quality assurance regime, according to a new report by the Energy Department's inspector general. The department's inspector general, Gregory H. Friedman, said a sample of 235 design documents over a three-year period showed that Bechtel had failed to run more...
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Westinghouse wins contract for nuclear waste storage facility in Spain
2013-10-02 01:00:00| Power Technology
Westinghouse Electric has won a contract from the Spanish agency Empresa Nacional de Residuos Radiactivos (ENRESA) to provide main engineering services for the centralised high-level waste (HLW) and spent fuel interim storage facility, Almacen Tempor
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Nuclear waste can't wait
2013-08-25 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: In the 1957 Isaac Asimov short story "Silly Asses," Earthlings are added to a galactic book of planetary races that have reached maturity -- defined as those that have developed nuclear capability. But then the keeper of the book learns that atomic tests are being conducted on Earth and crosses the planet off the list. Asimov was writing during the A-bomb years, before the construction of nuclear power plants. How unacceptable would it seem to the fictional keeper of the book that we have been building...
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