radioactive waste disposal News
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Scottish EPA seeks views on radioactive waste disposal guidance
The principles and requirements for near-surface disposal facilities dealing with radioactive waste have been set down in a new guidance document being consulted on by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). As Scotland’s environmental regulator, SEPA is responsible for ensuring that people and the environment are protected both now and in the future. The improved guidance is ...
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Consultations on guidance for radioactive waste disposal facilities opened in UK
Safe disposal of solid radioactive waste is at the heart of guidance being launched for consultation by the Environment Agency. Joe McHugh, Head of Radioactive Substances Regulation at the Environment Agency, said: “As an independent environmental regulator, we aim to ensure that people and the environment are protected now and in the future, both during operation of radioactive waste disposal ...
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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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Public event to discuss future disposal of waste at Drigg
The Environment Agency is holding a public event on Thursday (12th December) to discuss the future disposal of waste at the Low Level Waste repository near Drigg. The event forms part of a three month consultation on an application to vary the environmental permit at the site. If granted, this would allow the company that operates the repository to dispose of further waste into proposed new ...
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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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Safety key to UK nuclear expansion
Nuclear regulators in Britain - and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Environment Agency (EA) - have announced that the first step of ‘Generic Design Assessment’ (GDA) carried out on four designs submitted for new nuclear power stations had found shortfalls at this stage - in terms of safety, security or the environment - that would prevent any of them from ultimately ...
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How a Plant Manager’s HVAC Problems Can Spark Product Innovation
If you’re a plant operations or maintenance manager, then you’re inherently a problem solver too. So when a big problem comes along, it’s tempting to feel as if you have to figure it out on your own. This type of problem solving can be a relatively slow and stressful process when the equipment at risk is worth millions of dollars, and a trial and error approach is unacceptable. ...
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Tank Cleanup at Defense Sites Will Leave Radioactive Waste
Untitled Document WASHINGTON, DC, - High-level radioactive material will remain in nuclear waste the Department of Energy plans to dispose of at its Savannah River Site in South Carolina, warns a new report from the National Research Council on cleanup of waste in underground tanks at three defense sites. It is not practical to remove all of the waste from the tanks, the ...
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Monitors arrive after radioactive waste site fire in Nevada
Radiation wasn't immediately detected during fly-overs of a burned trench containing long-buried radioactive waste at a commercial disposal site in rural southern Nevada, state and federal officials said Monday. Ground testing was scheduled next, headed by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency radiological emergency team sent to the site about 115 miles northwest of Las Vegas, said Rusty ...
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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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Underground lab tackles Japan nuclear waste issue
Reindeer farms and grazing Holstein cows dot a vast stretch of rolling green pasture here on Japan's northern tip. Underground it's a different story. Workers and scientists have carved a sprawling laboratory deep below this sleep dairy town that, despite government reassurances, some of Horonobe's 2,500 residents fear could turn their neighborhood into a nuclear waste storage site. "I'm ...
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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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Sellafield fined £700,000 after incorrect disposal of radioactive waste
Sellafield Limited has today been fined £700,000 and ordered to pay £72,635.34 in costs at Carlisle Crown Court for sending several bags of radioactive waste to a landfill site in Cumbria. The bags should have been sent to a specialist facility that treats and stores low level radioactive waste. Carlisle Crown Court heard that a number of significant management and operational ...
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English EPA responds to radioactive disposal research
The Environment Agency has published a report scrutinising the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) research and development work on gas generation and migration from a geological disposal facility. The Environment Agency would be responsible for regulating disposal of radioactive waste to such a facility, and the NDA must satisfy the Environment Agency that people and the environment would ...
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The Eighth European Commission Conference on the Management of Radioactive Waste
The use of nuclear power for the generation of electricity is not the only producer of radioactive waste, it is also produced by many other applications such as industrial tests and radiotherapies. Research on radioactive waste has been a significant area of activity under the 7th Euratom Framework Programme (FP7, 2007-13). The Implementing Geological Disposal Technology Platform (IGD-TP) ...
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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 ...
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Feds reach settlement with New Mexico over Radiation Leak
The Energy Department will funnel more than $73 million toward road and water projects around New Mexico as part of a settlement over a radiation leak that forced the indefinite closure of a troubled nuclear waste dump. The agreement, announced by Republican Gov. Susana Martinez and state Environment Secretary Ryan Flynn, follows months of tense and slow negotiations. The settlement is the ...
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Report: Nuke dump radiation leak could have been prevented
A radiation leak that forced the indefinite closure of the federal government's only underground nuclear waste repository could have been prevented, a team of investigators said Thursday. A combination of poor management, lapses in safety and a lack of proper procedures were outlined in a final report released by the U.S. Department of Energy's Accident Investigation Board. Officials reviewed ...
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Westinghouse to Provide Significant Engineering Services for Centralized Waste Storage Facility in Spain
Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it has received a multi-million dollar contract from ENRESA (Empresa Nacional de Residuos Radiactivos), the Spanish agency responsible for radioactive waste management and nuclear plant decommissioning, to provide the main engineering services for the centralized high-level waste (HLW) and spent fuel interim storage facility (Almacén ...
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