Rocky Mountain News – By Laura Frank, Rocky Mountain News November 7, 2007 More than 800 people who worked in the top-secret Building 881 in the early years of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons site will now qualify for automatic … Continue reading
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Rocky Mountain News – Judy DeHaas The Rocky © Marlene Shannon’s husband, Mike Shannon, died more than four years ago from cancer. For years he worked in Rocky Flats Building 881 where, according to records, workers were exposed to neutron … 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
Catalyst: Beverly Uranium Mine – ABC TV Science Beverly Uranium Mine Reporter: Mark Horstman Producer: Mark Horstman, Paul Costello Researcher: Mark Horstman Camera: Susan Lumsdon Sound: Lauren Howard Editor: Chris Spurr Transcript Related Info 17 May 2007 Australia’s uranium reserves … Continue reading
The Coloradoan – www.coloradoan.com – Ft. Collins, CO. With all the progress and momentum being made in our state regarding renewable energy, I have been stunned by the plan to mine for uranium right here in Weld County, 11 miles … Continue reading
Court clears way for suit over uranium plant By Brett Barrouquere Associated Press A federal appeals court has ruled that a 10-year-old lawsuit alleging that water leaks from a Western Kentucky uranium enrichment plant hurt property values can go forward. … 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
Independent – November 2, 2007: Hardrock mining reform passes By Kathy Helms Diné Bureau WINDOW ROCK — Legislation which would reform the 1892 Mining Act passed received overwhelming support by the House of Representative Thursday — a move hailed by … Continue reading
barrow in furness Sweden halts nuke cargo Published on 02/11/2007 SWEDEN has slapped a ban on shipments of nuclear waste to Sellafield, losing the West Cumbria nuke site a lucrative storage contract. Minister of the Environment, Andreas Carlgren, told a … Continue reading
Tonawanda News – LANDFILL: Cleanup may become political issue By Dave Hill/hilld@gnnewspaper.com The Tonawanda News The Town of Tonawanda landfill runs along a number of homes in the City of Tonawanda, drastically affecting residents of Hackett Drive and Brookside Terrace, … Continue reading
Waxman sets stage for progress at Navajo uranium hearing : ICT [2007/11/02] Posted: November 02, 2007 by: Jerry Reynolds / Indian Country Today WASHINGTON – The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the House of Representatives held a hearing … Continue reading
Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free Jackson Hole Idaho National Lab By Noah Brenner November 3, 2007 Valley nuclear watchdog Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free lost a lawsuit against the federal government over its efforts to refurbish an aging nuclear reactor at the … Continue reading
Hanford News This story was published Friday, November 2nd, 2007 Seanna Adcox, Associated Press Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Starting next summer, many power plants, hospitals, universities and companies in 36 states will be forced to store low-level radioactive waste … Continue reading
Hanford News published Friday, November 2nd, 2007 The Associated Press A state-by-state breakdown of how much nuclear waste, in cubic feet, went to South Carolina’s low-level landfill in fiscal year 2006-07: Alabama: 3,855 Alaska: 0.5 Arizona: 545 Arkansas: 56 Army, … Continue reading
U.S. Nuclear Power Plants: Vulnerable To Earthquakes? NRC Affirms Safety, But Watchdog Raises Concerns Dan Shapley / News Editor The 6.3-magnitude earthquake that shook the largest power plant in the world to its knees this week in Japan has raised … Continue reading
Mining law overhaul has prospects – Los Angeles Times The House votes to add environmental protections as well as royalties on minerals taken from public land. By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer November 2, 2007 WASHINGTON — When … Continue reading
http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/a/144.html FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UN First Committee Passes Depleted Uranium Resolution in Landslide Vote Late last night the UN First Committee passed, by an overwhelming majority, a resolution highlighting concerns over the military use of uranium. The resolution entitled ‘Effects … Continue reading
Workshop backs ‘green’ energy over nukes, fossil fuels: Rutland Herald Online November 1, 2007 By Susan Smallheer Herald Staff SPRINGFIELD — If the people in the cafeteria at Springfield High School were writing Vermont’s new energy policy, Vermonters would no … Continue reading
S.C. Nuclear-Waste Landfill Is Closing | World Latest | Guardian Unlimited Thursday November 1, 2007 6:31 PM By SEANNA ADCOX Associated Press Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Starting next summer, many power plants, hospitals, universities and companies in 36 states … Continue reading
Randall Forsberg, founder of the nuclear freeze movement, dies – Los Angeles Times By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer November 1, 2007 Randall Forsberg, who founded the nuclear freeze movement of the early 1980s and wrote its manifesto, … Continue reading
FR Doc E7-21604 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Revised Notice of Intent To Prepare a Generic Environmental Impact Statement for Uranium Milling Facilities AGENCY: United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). ACTION: Revised Notice of Intent (NOI). ———————————————————————– SUMMARY: This notice revises a … Continue reading
Floating a nuclear power plant in Yakutia 31 October 2007 A site selection process has been agreed for another floating nuclear power plant in Russia. A 26 October meeting between the Republic of Sakha and Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency … Continue reading
Study: Nuclear attack now could kill, injure 832,000 in Hiroshima : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri) The Yomiuri Shimbun HIROSHIMA–A nuclear attack against Hiroshima would kill or injure up to 832,000 people, a study group of the … Continue reading
Minnesota Indian Tribe Calls on Congress to Solve Nuclear Waste Crisis Before Embracing New Era of Nuclear Power Thousands of vulnerable communities located near temporary nuclear waste sites at risk WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A Minnesota Indian tribe today … Continue reading
Rocky Mountain News Federal officials did not systematically deny help for ill nuclear weapons workers such as those at Rocky Flats, a congressional investigation has found. But advocates for the ill workers said that investigators were too quick to accept … Continue reading
The Coloradoan – www.coloradoan.com – Ft. Collins, CO. Laws would increase public oversight of mining Lawmakers: Restore groundwater and make more information available State lawmakers from Northern Colorado are appropriately seeking to even the playing field for the public when … Continue reading
Industry’s plan for us | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist The many ways big money seeks to avoid reducing fossil fuel use Posted by David Roberts at 10:50 PM on 29 Oct 2007 Read more about: energy | … Continue reading
ReviewJournal.com – News – Downwinders can monitor radiation By KEITH ROGERS REVIEW-JOURNAL ON THE WEB Community Environmental Monitoring Program Science teacher Don Curry, left, and Community Environmental Monitoring Program Manager Ted Hartwell discuss the network’s capabilities Oct. 17 at the … Continue reading
Russia says radiation leak at Urals Mayak plant | Environment | Reuters By Natalya Shurmina YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Safety breaches have caused a radiation leak at a major nuclear reprocessing plant in the Ural mountains, Russia announced on Monday, … Continue reading
News & Star ‘Nuclear focus on Sellafield’ Published on 29/10/2007 Moveable priorities: Above left, Dungeness Nuclear Power Station in Kent. Above right, Sellafield, where union leaders are concerned work will be transferred from the south amid a funding crisis Moveable … Continue reading
The Calgary Sun – Nuke topic closed to public UPDATED: 2007-10-29 02:17:03 MST By CP OTTAWA — Last January, Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn gave a speech to the Economic Club of Toronto in which he touted the virtues of … Continue reading
The Buffalo News: Niagara County: Radioactive cleanup stage called critical By Aaron Besecker – Font LEWISTON — The investigation into contamination at the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works is entering an important phase that will impact cleanup plans that could … Continue reading
The Coloradoan – www.coloradoan.com – Ft. Collins, CO. Those of us who live in Northern Colorado have good reasons to be concerned about the potential for uranium mining in our area. There are now five uranium companies active here. One … Continue reading
The Associated Press: Panel Urges End to Nuke Waste Proposal By H. JOSEF HEBERT – 10 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — A panel of the National Academy of Sciences urged President Bush on Monday to abandon an ambitious plan to … Continue reading
Salt Lake Tribune – Deadly dirt: Navajos in fight for their lives Tribune Editorial Article Last Updated: 10/29/2007 07:34:24 AM MDT If a picture speaks a thousand words, a small container of contaminated soil and a Geiger counter speak … Continue reading
5280 Magazine — Out in the Cold They are America’s Cold War veterans, who forged weapons from a fearsome energy source and bravely endured years of radiation for a country that pledged to take care of them. Instead, government loopholes … Continue reading
Seacoastonline.com: Power plants get little-known subsidies By Chris Dornin October 28, 2007 6:00 AM While paper mills close and Cabletron spins off its remnants out of state, power plants from the Seacoast to Whitefield enjoy the perks of a … Continue reading
Independent – October 27-28, 2007: Panel rips into feds; Tells them they’ve had 30 years to cleanup uranium waste and have done nothing By Kathy Helms Diné Bureau WINDOW ROCK — The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee plans … Continue reading
newsobserver.com | Shearon Harris: Train derailed at plant By John Murawski, Staff Writer Rail cars on a train carrying spent radioactive nuclear fuel derailed at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant in Wake County Thursday at 6:57 p.m. But the nuclear … Continue reading
Independent – October 24, 2007: Uranium legacy outrages Congress; Waxman: ‘The primary responsibility for this tragedy rests with the federal government’ Everytt Begay walks past a row of signs leaning against a fence that keeps people out of the proposed … Continue reading
The Navajo Nation has requested the federal government: * Establish a moratorium on uranium mining and processing in Navajo Indian Country that mirrors the Natural Resources Protection Act of 2005 passed by the Navajo Nation Council banning the same activities; … Continue reading
IT’S GOING TO TAKE ABOUT 3 STORIES TO GET ALL OF THIS HEARING. IT ROCKED! By Kathy Helms Dine Bureau WINDOW ROCK – A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the sound of an instrument used to detect … Continue reading
Uranium Free BC and Uranium Free Kootenay Boundary NEWS RELEASE FROM URANIUM FREE B.C. COALITION (UFBCC) Penticton, B.C. October 04, 2007 Okanagans Support Algonquins on Uranium Blockade Thirty delegates to the Uranium Free B.C. Coalition ( UFBCC.) met September 29th … Continue reading
FT.com / World – Nuclear plans face fresh challenge By Fiona Harvey and Rebecca Bream Published: October 24 2007 20:04 | Last updated: October 24 2007 20:04 Fresh legal challenges are expected to hamper plans to build new nuclear power … Continue reading
Salt Lake Tribune – Navajos: Old uranium tailings leave land radioactive, people sick By Thomas Burr The Salt Lake Tribune Article Last Updated: 10/24/2007 06:52:39 AM MDT WASHINGTON – The Navajo Nation representative waved an instrument over the small pile … Continue reading
Salt Lake Tribune – Utah lawmakers seek faster tailings cleanup By Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Article Last Updated: 10/24/2007 12:58:35 AM MDT Utah lawmakers continue to push in Congress for speedy cleanup of the Atlas uranium tailings pile … Continue reading
Navajos seek funds to clear uranium contamination – Los Angeles Times Tribal officials ask Congress for $500 million to deal with wastes left by mining for bombs, nuclear power plants. By Judy Pasternak, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer October 24, … Continue reading
Contamination From Depleted Uranium Found In Urine 20 Years Later ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2007) — Inhaled depleted uranium (DU) oxide aerosols are recognised as a distinct human health hazard and DU has been suggested to be responsible in part for … Continue reading
Rocky Mountain News – Senators vow action on aid program for nuke workers S By Laura Frank, Rocky Mountain News October 24, 2007 WASHINGTON – Members of a power-packed U.S. Senate committee said Tuesday that they would find ways to … Continue reading
Brenda Norrell: Indigenous Peoples Call for Global Ban on Uranium Mining “Leave It in the Ground!” Indigeneous Peoples Call for Global Ban on Uranium Mining By BRENDA NORRELL Indigenous peoples from around the world, victims of uranium mining, nuclear testing, … Continue reading