Category Archives: NWaste
With the closure of San Onofre, its time to celebrate one of the most important victories to date in the struggle to protect the environment in California’s long and prominent role on this issue. You wouldn’t know it by any … Continue reading
A matter of risk: Radiation, drinking water and deception | khou.com Houston A matter of risk: Radiation, drinking water and deception khou.com Posted on September 3, 2011 at 7:02 PM Updated yesterday at 12:24 PM It’s the water you drink, … Continue reading
The FORUM “A People’s History of Radioactive Waste” will teach the public about Radioactive Waste Problems and what can be done about them. It will convene at 12:30 on Saturday June 5 – and run through a Keynote (TBA) that … Continue reading
CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION! Local Citizens and organizations around the nation, including Rock the Reactors, Green Nuclear Butterfly, Fuse USA, and Citizens Opposing a Radioactive Environment (CORE) have united to immediately halt the ongoing dumping of 500,000 gallons of radioactive … Continue reading
All of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard should be cleaned to Residential Standards – Prop P. : Indybay All of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard should be cleaned to Residential Standards – Prop P. by Francisco Da Costa Sunday Jul 6th, 2008 … Continue reading
DOE is moving ahead to make the sacred Shoshone Yucca Mountain that is also leaky and geologically unstable the nation’s high-level nuclear waste dump (the vast majority of the waste that would go there is from making electric power East … Continue reading
POWER Magazine : DOE pushing to recycle closed plants’ spent fuel The Energy Department is planning to ask Congress in next year’s budget request for authority to take title to spent nuclear fuel stockpiled at closed U.S. nuclear plants … Continue reading
Over 50 years of exposure but still no comprehensive health studies on Navajo – Kathy Helms Gallup Independent By Kathy Helms Dine Bureau Thursday, November 15, 2007 WINDOW ROCK – No health studies, no problem. A burgeoning list of cancers, … Continue reading
http://socket.kongshem.com/2007/10/farallon-islands-nuclear-waste-dump.html#links The Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste Dump If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you may be surprised to learn that “more than 47,800 drums and other containers of low-level radioactive waste were dumped onto the ocean floor … Continue reading
TheStar.com | sciencetech | Port Hope radiation tests ‘alarming’ New tests that show radiation contamination in a few Port Hope residents should compel the federal government to put the town under a health microscope, local advocates say. The results, … Continue reading
Congo authorities find 17 tons of dumped radioactive material – International Herald Tribune The Associated Press Published: November 8, 2007 KINSHASA, Congo: About 17 tons of unidentified radioactive material have been found dumped in a river in southern Congo’s mining … Continue reading
Dear Colleagues opposing the Yucca Mountain dump, Â Judy Treichel with Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force has drafted a letter to the NRC’s Atomic Safety Licensing Board (ASLB)Â panel presiding over the Yucca Mountain dump proceeding. Her letter expresses support for … Continue reading
Dozens of Organizations Ask Congress To Eliminate Funding For Dangerous Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Program Letter to Congress regarding GNEP Funding National Academy of Sciences on GNEP More than 40 national and local environmental, science and national security organizations this week … Continue reading
Taipei Times – archives Potential nuclear waste sites to be revealed in list … Continue reading
Carlsbad Current-Argus – Errant drum stops many WIPP shipments Errant drum stops many WIPP shipments By Kyle Marksteiner Article Launched: 07/18/2007 09:30:34 PM MDT CARLSBAD — Many shipments of radioactive waste being sent to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near … Continue reading
‘We were lied to’ rallying cry on The Murfreesboro Post ‘We were lied to’ rallying cry By Michelle Willard, Post staff writer – July 17, 2007. 9:15 PM “We were lied to,†was the rallying cry at Tuesday night’s Solid … Continue reading
Oxford Research Group – Briefing papers – Too Hot to Handle? The Future of Civil Nuclear Power Too Hot to Handle? The Future of Civil Nuclear Power Frank Barnaby and James Kemp, with a foreword by David Howarth MP, July … Continue reading
San Jose Mercury News – Nuclear-power dilemma: It’s carbon-free, but comes with big questions Nuclear-power dilemma: It’s carbon-free, but comes with big questions By Sarah Jane Tribble Mercury News Article Launched: 06/10/2007 DIABLO CANYON – The nuclear power plant nestled … Continue reading
United Press International – Energy – Analysis Analysis: Nuclear waste terrorism debated Published: June 1, 2007 at 6:39 PM By BEN LANDO UPI Energy Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) — A court-mandated addition to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s environmental assessment … Continue reading
Arms Control Today: Faux Renaissance: Global Warming, Radioactive Waste Disposal, and the Nuclear Future Arms Control Today May 2007 Printer Friendly Faux Renaissance: Global Warming, Radioactive Waste Disposal, and the Nuclear Future Harold A. Feiveson Over the past 20 years, … Continue reading
THE MAZE MELTDOWN / SAFETY: Nuclear shipments questioned THE MAZE MELTDOWN SAFETY: Nuclear shipments questioned Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer Wednesday, May 2, 2007 * Sunday’s highway inferno in Oakland has sparked calls for federal officials to take another … Continue reading
Will Nuclear Waste be Shipped on Central Valley Rail Lines? : Indybay Will Nuclear Waste be Shipped on Central Valley Rail Lines? by Mike Rhodes Sunday Apr 22nd, 2007 8:14 PM Last week, in a presentation at CSU-Fresno about the … Continue reading
PG&E breaks ground on storage facility for spent nuclear fuel EUREKA Spent nuclear fuel rods currently resting in a decommissioned nuclear power facility in the King Salmon area appear to be destined for a safer location from the North Coast’s … Continue reading