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EPA and Partners Announce National Plan to Prevent Lung Cancer Deaths Due to Radon Exposure

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), American Lung Association, and other partners are announcing a strategy for preventing 3,200 lung cancer deaths annually by 2020 through radon exposure reduction strategies. Exposure to radioactive radon gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer in America. The goal to save these lives will be achieved by reducing high radon levels in ...

Nov. 10, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Debate resumes in Las Vegas about Nevada nuclear dump idea

The debate resumed Tuesday in Nevada about the possibility of radioactive contamination of the underground water supply from a proposed national nuclear waste repository in the desert near where nuclear weapons tests were conducted for decades. Familiar faces and arguments in the decades-long long battle over the Yucca Mountain repository turned out for a Nuclear Regulatory Commission meeting in ...

Sep. 16, 2015

By Associated Press

NPL launches new guide with Airborne Radioactivity Monitoring Users` Group

The guide, which was written in collaboration with the radiation user community, describes recommended procedures for the examination, testing and calibration of tritium-in-air monitoring equipment, to comply with the legal requirements set by the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999. Because some types of tritium-in-air monitors are either installed or not readily transportable, it is necessary ...

Aug. 3, 2015

By National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

Deep Geologic Repository Project: Joint Review Panel Environmental Assessment Report Released Publicly

Today (May 6, 2015), the Minister of the Environment, Leona Aglukkaq, received the Report of the Joint Review Panel for the proposed Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste project in Ontario. Under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, the federal government will now review the Panel’s report before issuing a decision statement on whether ...

May 6, 2015

By The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency

Report: Feds to exceed costs for cleaning up nuke waste

The cost of cleaning up radioactive waste at one of the federal government's premier nuclear laboratories has already exceeded expectations and more cost overruns are expected, according to a report released Mondayby a government watchdog. The National Nuclear Security Administration spent about $931 million as of the end of the last fiscal year to remove contaminated rags, tools, equipment and ...

Mar. 23, 2015

By Associated Press

Nuclear Waste Storage Decision Poses Long-Term Public Health Risks

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today approved a controversial new rule and Environmental Impact Statement regarding nuclear waste that could pose long-term risks to public health and the environment. The NRC’s new rule and EIS could allow utilities to keep dangerous radioactive spent fuel in temporary storage at their reactors indefinitely and bar any waste-related licensing challenges. ...

Aug. 26, 2014

By Natural Resources Defense Council

NRC Renews Contract for SwRI to Continue Operating CNWRA

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has renewed its contract with Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®) for the fifth time to operate the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses (CNWRA®). The five-year contract, valued at almost $76 million, assures continuing technical assistance and research support to NRC activities related to storage, transportation, possible ...

Oct. 4, 2012

By Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)

Ed Alperin Joins EOS Remediation, LLC

Raleigh, NC – EOS Remediation is pleased to announce the addition of Ed Alperin to the company’s growing team of environmental professionals and industry experts. Mr. Alperin has more than 35 years of experience in the development and commercialization of environmental technologies for the treatment of hazardous, toxic and radioactive waste. Prior to joining EOS Remediation, Ed was ...

May 19, 2011

By EOS Remediation, LLC

EPA monitoring continues to confirm that no radiation levels of concern have reached the united states

During detailed filter analyses from 12 RadNet air monitor locations across the nation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identified trace amounts of radioactive isotopes consistent with the Japanese nuclear incident. Some of the filter results show levels slightly higher than those found by EPA monitors last week and a Department of Energy monitor the week before. These types of ...

Mar. 28, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Radiation monitors continue to confirm that no radiation levels of concern have reached the united states

During a detailed analysis of four west coast RadNet air monitor filters, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identified trace amounts of radioactive iodine, cesium, and tellurium consistent with the Japanese nuclear incident. These levels are consistent with the levels found by a Department of Energy monitor last week and are to be expected in the coming days. EPA’s samples ...

Mar. 22, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Reappointments to the committee on radioactive waste management

The Chair and twelve members of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) have recently been reappointed for a second term of office by sponsor Ministers from the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the devolved administrations for, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Committee plays a key role in providing independent scrutiny and advice to UK Government and devolved ...

Jan. 6, 2011

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

Jordan steps into nuclear future

Jordan is to enter the nuclear age with the announcement on 9 December that construction of its first nuclear research and training reactor will begin by February next year. The Jordan Centre for Nuclear Research, which will host the reactor, will be built at the Jordan University of Science and Technology, about 70 kilometres north of Amman. Nedal Xoubi, nuclear fuel cycle commissioner of the ...

Dec. 28, 2010

By SciDev.Net

Department of Energy reaches an agreement in principle on the cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Lab site in Simi Valley

The Department of Energy announced today that it has reached an agreement in principle with California's Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and NASA on the cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL) site in Simi Valley. "The Department is pleased that we have achieved a conceptual agreement for cleanup of the DOE portion of the Santa Susana Field Lab site," said Dr. Ines Triay, DOE ...

Sep. 7, 2010

By US Department of Energy

Nuclear waste dumps threaten environment

'I carry clean [drinking] water with my truck to the villages upstream almost on a daily basis. I was born here and I remember that in the past the road on this side of the river was closed to traffic. They say that was because of some mines and radioactive waste tailings,' Bakyt told IRIN in Kairygach, about 10-15 minutes' drive from Mailuu-Suu. There are some signs warning about radioactivity ...

Sep. 10, 2008

By IRIN Association

Two million at risk of radiation cancer, say UN

Nigerian environmental and health officials warn that slightly radioactive tailings found in abandoned mines in central Nigeria’s Plateau state poses a health risk to around two million inhabitants. Laboratory analysis conducted earlier this year by officials from Nigeria’s nuclear research agency of 1,100 abandoned mines where tin and a mineral called columbite had been mined showed levels of ...

Jul. 7, 2008

By IRIN Association

EU reaches agreement on Directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law

Within the EU Council and under the co-decision procedure with the European Parliament, the Slovenian Presidency has succeeded in reaching agreement at first reading on the Directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law. “The adoption of the Directive is a great success for the Slovenian Presidency, as well as for the Member States and the European Parliament. Consensus on ...

May 22, 2008

By Slovenian Presidency of the EU 2008

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