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EPA Orders Barrier for Nuclear Waste at Missouri Landfill

2016-01-04 16:00:00| Waste Age

The Associated Press The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday ordered installation of an isolation barrier to make sure that an underground fire does not reach buried nuclear waste at a suburban St. Louis landfill. read more

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UK shuts down oldest nuclear unit Wylfa 1 in Wales

2016-01-04 01:00:00| Power Technology

The UK has shut down its oldest operational nuclear reactor, Wylfa 1, on 30 December last year.

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Republic Services ordered to build barrier protecting nuclear waste

2016-01-01 01:26:29| Waste Management - Topix.net

The EPA has ordered the building of an underground isolation barrier to protect buried nuclear waste from a smoldering underground fire in suburban St. Louis. Republic Services , which owns both landfills, will pay entirely for the construction, though it argues that there's no risk the fire will reach nuclear material.

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Japan Court Green Lights Restart of Two Nuclear Reactors

2015-12-24 14:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: A Japanese court gave the go-ahead for the restart of two nuclear reactors Thursday after its operator said in an appeal they were safe. The Fukui District Court in western Japan lifted an April injunction that was filed by a group of residents who said that a massive earthquake exceeding the facility's quake resistance could cause a disaster similar to the Fukushima crisis following the March 2011 quake and tsunami. The order paves the way for a resumption of the Takahama No. 3 and No. 4 reactors,...

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