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Come find us at the Nuclear Waste Manage Symposia 2023
Come find us at the Nuclear Waste Manage Symposia 2023, Booth #945, kindly hosted by Atkins SNC-Lavalin! WM Symposia, Inc. ...
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Air quality concerns prompt safety pause at nuke dump
The manager of the federal government's nuclear waste repository in New Mexico has halted work because of poor air quality in parts of the underground facility. Officials with Nuclear Waste Partnership announced the "safety pause" late Monday after monitoring instruments carried by workers detected elevated levels of carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds. Work won't resume until a plan ...
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Appeals court suspends DOE collection of nuke fees
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Energy Department to suspend collection of about $750 million in fees annually for the permanent disposal of nuclear waste because the agency had no plans to use the money. In a sharply worded opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said the Obama administration failed to provide a good reason why money for the federal ...
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NRC says it will resume study of Nevada nuke site
Responding to a court order, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has directed its staff to complete work on a key safety report related to a never-completed nuclear waste dump in Nevada. The commission order, issued Monday, follows an August ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which said the nuclear agency violated federal law by abruptly abandoning review of the ...
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Nuclear waste in my backward? Fine
Gender and economics effects on nuclear acceptance and awareness Researchers in Finland have found that acceptance of the site of a spent nuclear fuel repository can depend on gender and economic background. Writing in the International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, the team reports that affluent men more often have a positive opinion on the location of such facilities than ...
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Commissioner Piebalgs underlines role of nuclear energy in transition towards a low carbon economy
Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs reiterated today the importance of nuclear energy for the reduction of CO2 emissions in a speech at a European Nuclear Assembly conference in Brussels. The conference was dedicated to the development of Europe's low carbon economy and organised by Foratom. 'Nuclear energy makes an important contribution to our fight against climate change and our security of ...
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Metal sulfides could help clean up nuclear waste
A number of materials and methods are available to dispose of harmful nuclear waste, but scientists continue to search for improved storage options. New research has identified materials, known as layered metal sulfides, that could help clean up liquid nuclear waste. These materials have unique properties, making them stable and useful over a wide range of conditions with considerable ...
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Clinton Urges Congressional Hearings on Yucca Mountain
WASHINGTON, DC, July 23, 2007 (ENS) - Senator Hillary Clinton of New York Friday called for congressional hearings on Yucca Mountain, the proposed geologic repository for the nation's nuclear waste about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. The Democratic presidential hopeful says she wants the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, on which she serves, to pressure the U.S. ...
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No relief from constant nuclear headache
A private consortium formed to deal with Europe’s most difficult nuclear waste at a site in Britain’s beautiful Lake District has been sacked by the British government because not sufficient progress has been made in making it safe. It is the latest setback for an industry that claims nuclear power is the low-carbon answer to climate change, but has not yet found a safe resting place ...
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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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Cameras penetrate underground nuclear waste store
Two remotely-operated cameras have sent back video and photos of the intermediate-level radioactive waste stored in Dounreay’s wet silo. The images will give the silo decommissioning team a better idea of the condition of the silo and its cargo of waste. The silo is an underground concrete-lined, two-compartment vault where approximately 500 cubic metres of active waste was sent for storage ...
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NRDC Expert: Nuclear waste bill Risks “Another dead end”
A new legislative proposal to deal with the decades-old problem of disposing of tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste “risks sending the nation down another dead-end road” on the radioactive waste issue and should not be approved in its current form, a nuclear policy expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council said today. In written testimony for a hearing Tuesday before the ...
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Perma-Fix Announces Its 12th Annual Nuclear Waste Management Forum
Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: PESI) today announced it will host its 12th Annual Nuclear Waste Management Forum December 10-13, 2012 in Nashville, TN. This year's forum theme is "U.S. Waste Management Innovation Applied at Home and Abroad." The forum will feature waste management experts who will highlight the significant progress made in cleaning up some of the most ...
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Sweco commissioned by Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company to participate in planning and designing of encapsulation plant Clink
SKB is currently undergoing authorising according to the Act on Nuclear Activities and Swedish Environmental Code for KBS-3, the Swedish system for disposal of nuclear waste. A part of the application concerns the construction of Clink, an integrated facility for interim storage and encapsulation of spent nuclear fuel in Oskarshamn, consisting of the current facility Clab and a new facility for ...
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New Mexico lobbying to be storage site for nuclear waste
New Mexico is touting a rural area in the southeastern part of the state as an interim storage site for the country's high-level nuclear waste, according to a letter issued by Gov. Susana Martinez earlier this month. The governor reached out to the Obama administration in a letter to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. In the April 10 letter, which was obtained by the Santa Fe New Mexican ...
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Developing a new solution for Nuclear Waste Disposal
Two Carbolite Gero MTT furnaces specially designed for extracting carbon-14 and fixed tritium are being used by the Nuclear Graphite Research Group (NGRG) at the University of Manchester in a project to develop new nuclear waste disposal procedures. If the UK's current nuclear reactors operate to their proposed shutdown dates, approximately 100,000 tonnes of nuclear grade graphite will require ...
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Re-entry to nuke waste dump postponed
The U.S. Department of Energy has postponed plans to get a crew underground to begin investigating a radiation leak from the federal government's nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico. Officials on Monday said a crew of eight would enter the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant on Tuesday. But spokesman Ben Williams said that has been postponed until later this week because the real-time ...
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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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EC Commissioner Piebalgs underlines the need to reinforce rules on nuclear safety
At the fifth meeting of the High Level Group (HLG) on Nuclear Safety and Waste Management, Andris Piebalgs, Energy Commissioner highlighted the need for a higher level of nuclear safety. 'While we can see a potential rise in the use of nuclear energy around the globe as well as in the EU, European citizens call for a strong European role in the field of nuclear safety', said the Commissioner. ...
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Appeals court: Obama violating law on nuke site
In a rebuke to the Obama administration, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been violating federal law by delaying a decision on a proposed nuclear waste dump in Nevada. By a 2-1 vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ordered the commission to complete the licensing process and approve or reject the Energy Department's ...
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