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US company seeks permit to import nuclear waste
Bart Gordon, the Tennessee Democrat who chairs the House Committee on Science and Technology, does not want the United States to receive low-level radioactive waste from Italy, process it in Tennessee and dispose of it in a Utah waste site. He says acceptance of the waste would put the U.S. on a path to becoming 'the world's nuclear garbage waste dump.' On Friday, Gordon asked the Northwest ...
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WCS begins construction of LLRW disposal facility
Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Valhi (Dallas, TX), announced that it has begun construction of a new facility for the near-surface disposal of Class A, B, and C low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) at WCS's treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) facility in Andrews County, Texas. The announcement came one day before the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal ...
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New guidance for landfill operators on low-level and very low-level radioactive waste
New guidance published this week by the Environment Agency for landfill operators on disposing very low and low level waste to landfill. New guidance has been published today (Wednesday) by the Environment Agency for landfill operators who may want to accept low-level and very low-level radioactive waste for disposal. Last year the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) ...
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State to investigate radioactive waste site fire in Nevada
Nevada state officials said Tuesday they don't know what sparked an apparent explosion and fire at a closed commercial radioactive waste dump in a predominantly rural county, but they vowed that the state will handle the investigation and cleanup. "We have the jurisdiction. We have the assets, and that's the course of action," James Wright, state Department of Public Safety chief, said after ...
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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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NRC Publishes Strategic Assessment Of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Regulatory Program
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published the staff’s strategic assessment of the agency’s low-level radioactive waste (LLW) regulatory program, proposing several initiatives to meet impending challenges such as decreased disposal capacity and increased production of LLW as new reactors and other nuclear facilities come online. Those challenges include the anticipated closure to most of ...
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