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NDA chief sees toxic hazard disappear
The new man in charge of Britain’s nuclear clean-up has seen one of the country’s biggest hazards being destroyed at Dounreay. Tony Fountain, the newly-appointed chief executive of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, donned hard hat and protective clothing to step inside the world’s biggest liquid metal destruction project. Almost 1700 tonnes of toxic liquid metal flowed through the circuits ...
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World`s deepest clean-up job wins fourth top award
The world's deepest nuclear clean-up job has won another top award for engineering excellence. Judges in this year’s Scottish Saltire Awards named the shaft isolation project at Dounreay as one of the country’s best examples of civil engineering. It was second only to the construction of a new road bridge across the River Forth at Kincardine. And it takes to four the number of top awards won ...
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World`s deepest clean-up job wins fourth top award
The world's deepest nuclear clean-up job has won another top award for engineering excellence. Judges in this year’s Scottish Saltire Awards named the shaft isolation project at Dounreay as one of the country’s best examples of civil engineering. It was second only to the construction of a new road bridge across the River Forth at Kincardine. And it takes to four the number of top awards won ...
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Milestone in hazard reduction as liquid metal is destroyed at Dounreay
A clean-up team has safely destroyed the first of the major hazards from the experimental fast reactor programme at Dounreay, Scotland. They took more than 1500 tonnes of radioactive liquid metal from the Prototype Fast Reactor and turned it into harmless salt water. It is a milestone in the site clean-up, representing the first of the major hazards to be cleared since the decision was taken a ...
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Tests underway to retrieve underground hazardous waste at Dounreay
One of the most demanding clean-up jobs ever undertaken in the history of nuclear energy is gathering pace. It involves the recovery and packaging of more than 1500 tonnes of radioactive waste that has lain submerged for up to 50 years in the ground beneath Britain’s abandoned experiment with fast reactors at Dounreay. Tests are underway in Scotland, Germany and the USA to develop the ...
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Government consults on nuclear waste policy
Decommissioning Dounreay generates a variety of different wastes that need to be managed carefully to protect the public and environment from harm. Some of this waste is radioactive. The most hazardous form of radioactive waste generated at Dounreay is known as intermediate-level waste and comes from a variety of redundant plant such as nuclear reactors, fuel reprocessing and laboratories. A ...
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No let-up for holidays in hazard reduction at Dounreay
There was no let-up during Christmas and New Year in the drive to rid Dounreay of two of its most hazardous legacies. Teams worked around the clock during the holidays to treat more of the toxic liquors left over from the site’s research programme. They kept two of the site’s most important clean-up plants running 24 hours a day throughout Christmas and New Year. At the Dounreay Fast Reactor, ...
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Weston wins contract for Sandia National Labortories’ New Mexico radioactive waste management facility
Weston Solutions, Inc. (WESTON®) is pleased to announce that its New Mexico Operations Office has been awarded a US$16 million cost plus award fee contract to manage and operate the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories’ Radioactive and Mixed Waste Management Facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Following a 12-month competitive procurement process, WESTON ...
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European Commission sends final warning to Spain over illegal landfills
The European Commission has sent Spain a final written warning for poor application of EU legislation on the treatment of waste. Spain still needs to close and restore 87 illegal landfills which are receiving 660,000 tonnes of waste per year. In addition, a large number of illegal landfills that have been closed need to be restored. This final warning follows an initial warning sent in March last ...
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St. Louis Community College to Receive $192,300 from EPA to Recruit, Train and Place Workers in Green Environmental Jobs
St. Louis Community College (STLCC) has been selected to receive a $192,300 grant from EPA to recruit, train and place local unemployed and underemployed individuals in full-time sustainable green jobs in a range of environmental fields. The grant comes from EPA’s Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) program. Announcement of the grant was made this morning in St. ...
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Great Lakes Acquires Terra Contracting, LLC
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ:GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of commercial and industrial demolition and remediation services, today announced it has acquired the assets of Terra Contracting, LLC (“Terra”), one of the nation’s premier providers of a wide variety of essential services for ...
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EPA removes over 18,000 tons of contaminated soil in Newark
It took less than six months for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to turn an abandoned piece of property, located just across the street from private homes in the Ironbound section of Newark, into a parcel of land that no longer poses a threat to the surrounding community. EPA’s Regional Administrator, Alan J. Steinberg, was joined by City of Newark Mayor Cory Booker, as well as City ...
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EPA Obtains Warrant to Address Over 1000 Drums and Containers at New Jersey Facility
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has obtained a federal warrant to do the necessary cleanup work at the Superior Barrel & Drum company facility in Elk Township, New Jersey, where more than a thousand unlabeled or improperly labeled drums and other containers have been left in a state of disrepair. Many of the drums are leaking their contents onto the ground and are exposed to wind and ...
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EPA issues order for cleanup of oil spill near lockport, Illinois (IL)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has issued an order setting deadlines for completion of cleanup and restoration work at a site near Lockport, Illinois, where an oil pipeline spill was discovered Tuesday. The pipeline is owned by West Shore Pipe Line Co., and is operated by Buckeye Pipe Line Co., L.P. Approximately 21,000 gallons of oil were released in the vicinity of New Avenue in ...
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EPA issues proposed cleanup plan for Woonasquatucket River
EPA has issued its Proposed Plan for the cleanup of the Centredale Manor Restoration Project Superfund Site in North Providence, R.I. The Proposed Plan presents multiple long-term cleanup alternatives for the cleanup of sediment, soil, surface water and groundwater contamination. EPA’s preferred cleanup alternative generally includes: Removing buried waste material from Source Area ...
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Settlement For $8.75 Million Reached at Centredale Manor Restoration Project Superfund Site in North Providence, R.I.
EPA and the U.S. Department of Justice have reached a settlement with New England Container Company, Inc. (NECC) relating to the Centredale Manor Restoration Project Superfund Site, located in North Providence, R.I. Under the terms of a Consent Decree lodged on April 10 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, NECC will make a payment of $8.75 million to resolve its liability ...
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EPA Reaches $1.6 Million Settlement at Operating Industries Superfund Site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a $1.62 million settlement with 47 parties for contamination at the Operating Industries, Inc. (OII) Superfund Site in Monterey Park, Calif. Each of these parties was responsible for sending a relatively small volume, between 4,200 and 110,000 gallons, of liquid hazardous waste to the OII landfill during decades of operation. This is the last ...
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EPA update on Yellowstone River oil spill (Silvertip Pipeline), July 18, 2011
Over the weekend, EPA, State and federal partners oversaw ExxonMobil Pipeline Co.’s removal of all the residual oil and oily water mixture from the two segments of pipeline on either side of the break location. The threat of secondary releases from the ruptured portion of the pipeline has been eliminated. Going forward, the pipeline break site is under the jurisdiction of DOT’s ...
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W.R. Grace Pays Over $63 Million Toward Cleanup and Restoration of Hazardous Waste Sites in Communities Across the Country
Today, Columbia, Md.-based W.R. Grace & Co. under its bankruptcy plan of reorganization, paid over $63 million to the U.S. government to resolve claims for environmental cleanups at approximately 39 sites in 21 states, the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. “Communities across the United States will benefit from this payment of ...
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Grants for Green Projects Available Through California American Water’s 2013 Environmental Grant Program
California American Water announced today that applications are now being accepted for its 2013 Environmental Grant Program. The company will award several grants for a combined total of $10,000 to innovative community-based environmental projects that improve, restore or protect watersheds and drinking water supplies within the state. A wide variety of conservation ...
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