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Court: Vt. can't use law to close nuclear plant
2013-08-15 18:49:08| Energy - Topix.net
Vermont's attempts to close its lone nuclear power plant were deceptive and misleading, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in largely upholding a lower-court ruling against the state.
Australia: Northern Territory nuclear waste dump 'contravenes UN declaration'
2013-08-14 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The government risks breaching an international agreement if it goes ahead with a controversial nuclear waste dump in a remote part of the Northern Territory, conservationists say, with Labor Senate candidate Nova Peris calling for the plan to be dropped. Conservationists claim that the Muckaty dump, near Tennant Creek, would be in contravention of the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, which states that nations must "ensure that no storage or disposal of hazardous materials shall...
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Insight: After disaster, the deadliest part of Japan's nuclear clean-up
2013-08-14 03:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is preparing to remove 400 tons of highly irradiated spent fuel from a damaged reactor building, a dangerous operation that has never been attempted before on this scale. Containing radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 68 years ago, more than 1,300 used fuel rod assemblies packed tightly together need to be removed from a building that is vulnerable to collapse, should another large...
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Picking up the nuclear energy bill divides the EU
2013-08-14 01:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: European Union rules to be published over the coming weeks could make it easier to justify using taxpayers' money to fund new nuclear power, which would pitch major EU powers against each other. The European Commission, the EU executive, says its mind is still open on the topic, but it is under pressure to set a legal framework for state aid to nuclear projects after several member states, including Britain, sought its guidance. Whatever it lays down, as part of a wider modernization of state...
Court Forces Yucca Mtn. Decision on U.S. Nuclear Regulators
2013-08-13 21:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: A federal appeals court ruled today that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission can no longer delay a decision on whether or not to grant a permit to the stalled nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the NRC to make up its mind promptly. "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission must promptly continue with the legally mandated licensing process," wrote Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the...
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