building site waste News
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Nuclear waste problems start gold rush
There are not many jobs you could take on at the beginning of your working life and know they would still be nowhere near completed by the time you retired. But decommissioning the world’s nuclear power plants is one of them. The estimates of the amounts of money involved in keeping old nuclear plants safe and dismantling them are so large that they are almost beyond comprehension − ...
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Regulators issue final volumes in Nevada nuclear dump report
Findings released Thursday by analysts in the federal agency with the power to give the go-ahead for a proposed nationalnuclear waste dump in Nevada appear to provide wiggle room for adopting rules to open the repository, if decision-makers want to go forward. "Conditions (to open the repository) could be included," Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff said, "if there is a commission decision to ...
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Nuclear waste tank OK`d to keep leaking for 1 year
A new deal allows a radioactive waste storage tank to continue leaking for more than a year before its contents are pumped out at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the nation's most polluted nuclear site. The deal to pump nuclear waste tank AY-102, announced late Monday, is between the U.S. Department of Energy and the Washington State Department of Ecology. Under the deal, pumping of the ...
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Survey Probes Hanford Worker Dynamic
Few of the U.S. Department of Energy workers who are helping build a plant to treat the most dangerous radioactive wastes at a nuclear site in Washington state feel they can openly challenge management decisions, according to a report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. The survey conducted by the Energy Department shows only 30 percent of the agency's employees at the Hanford Nuclear ...
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Storied nuke plant becomes environmental wasteland
A stainless steel tank the size of a basketball court lies buried in the sandy soil of southeastern Washington state, an aging remnant of U.S. efforts to win World War II. The tank holds enough radioactive waste to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool. And it is leaking. For 42 years, tank AY-102 has stored some of the deadliest material at one of the most environmentally contaminated places in ...
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AECOM Launches New RACERTM Remediation Cost Estimating Tool
AECOM has released the newest version of its Remedial Action Cost Engineering and Requirements (RACERTM) software -- a widely-used cost estimating software developed for environmental remediation and restoration projects. An industry standard for environmental liability valuation and due diligence, RACER is used by corporations, consultants, government agencies ...
By AECOM
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EPA Endorses “Way Ahead” Plan for West Valley Demonstration Project; Agency on hand to recognize shipment of nearly 20,000 low-level radioactive waste drums
(Ashford, N.Y.) The people of West Valley, New York and Cattaraugus County celebrated an important milestone today at the West Valley Demonstration Project as they marked the safe shipment, in just over one year, of nearly 20,000 drums filled with low-level radioactive waste for off-site disposal. Alan J. Steinberg, EPA Regional Administrator joined James Rispoli, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) ...
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Weston Joint Venture Wins $303 Million DOE Remediation Contract
Untitled Document Weston Solutions, Inc. (WESTON®) announced today that its joint venture company, North Wind Paducah Cleanup Company LLC (North Wind Paducah), has been awarded the prime contract for cleanup of the DOE Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PGDP) by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). North Wind Paducah is an SBA-approved small business created ...
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