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House Clears Four-Year Chemical Security Extension; President Expected to Sign
A four-year reauthorization of a Department of Homeland Security chemical security program, meant to protect the nation's industrial facilities against the risk of terrorist attacks, cleared the House by voice vote Dec. 11, capping off a feverish push at the end of this Congress to get the legislation done. The bill (H.R. 4007) now heads to President Barack Obama. He is expected to sign the ...
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EPA approves new EGT permits with strict conditions
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved permit applications by Environmental Geo-Technologies LLC (EGT) to operate two hazardous waste injection wells in Romulus, Mich. The new permits contain stricter conditions to protect the environment than previous permits that were granted to prior operators of the facility. EPA will require EGT to: Increase site security. Increase the ...
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Accident at Sierra Chemical`s Sparks facility
Sierra Chemical Company, is deeply saddened to confirm a fatal accident has occurred at the company’s Sparks, NV facility at approximately 8am Pacific Daylight Time, April 25, 2014. The employee was performing a test operation on a 550 gallon bulk (tote) package using compressed air when the tote burst. No other injuries occurred, no material was released and the site has been secured. ...
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Erasing enterprise SAS hard drives
Erasing enterprise SAS hard drives Many data centers today are now using SAS hard drives as their main storage device. These SAS drives are very expensive so you can just imagine how valuable they would be for the secondary market. Here is a great example of a higher cost SAS drive by HP. Large enterprise companies and data centers are the ones buying these high valued drives. Once the drives ...
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Industrial Chemical Dealer in Chennai – Online
ABTRI Chemicals – A Wholesale Chemical Dealer in Chennai selling Industrial chemicals for the various formulations and treatment process. Abtri Chemicals is operating through its online portal www.abtri.in. ABTRI Chemical Online shopping sites is first of its kind selling through online portal in India. ABTRI Chemical is selling its bulk chemicals through online shopping site link ...
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Terra Sound Adds Alarmtek as Distributor to Bring Next-Gen Perimeter Security to Brazil
Terra Sound announced today a new strategic distributor, Alarmtek, to bring next-gen perimeter security solutions to Brazil. Terra Sound Technology provides reliable sensing solutions to secure, protect, and predict in an inconsistent world. We use new or existing fiber optic cable, centralized connection hardware, and our next-generation monitoring software to detect and accurately classify the ...
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Serbian nuclear site needs US$25m to clean up leaking waste
A global effort to remove dangerous spent fuel and decommission a Soviet-designed Serbian reactor on the outskirts of Belgrade has cleared the second of three major funding hurdles. As part of the Vinča Institute Nuclear Decommissioning (VIND) Programme, the Serbian government and the IAEA recently signed an $8.63 million (EUR 5.46 million) framework agreement with the European Commission to ...
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Waterfall Security and Dragos Form Partnership to Strengthen Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity
Waterfall Security Solutions recently (4/23) announced a global partnership with Dragos to protect critical industrial control systems (ICS) from the most advanced cyber threats. The joint solution integrates the Dragos Industrial Cybersecurity Platform with Waterfall Unidirectional Security Gateways to enable ICS operators to continuously monitor networks and process operations, while adding a ...
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Shredfast Unveils New Website
Shredfast, Inc., a leading manufacturer of mobile document destruction and collection equipment, unveils a new website designed to integrate with modern social networks. Located in Airway Heights, Washington, Shredfast designs and builds vehicles for the document shredding industry. These trucks are purpose-built to either shred documents on-site or securely deliver them to a plant-based ...
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Federal plan to bury nuke waste in Nevada drawing fire
Federal plans to truck radioactive material from a World War II-era plant in Tennessee to Nevada for burial in the desert are rekindling a long-running battle to prevent the Silver State from becoming the nation's nuclear dumping ground. U.S. Department of Energy officials told residents at a town hall meeting Wednesday in Las Vegas that the state doesn't have authority to prevent shipments of ...
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CSP Today Secures Site Visit to NREL For CSP Project Development & CSP Yield Optimization Conference Delegates
CSP Today is delighted to announce the organization of an exclusive site visit to the CSP facility at NREL on October 27th and 29th in Denver. This will immediately follow and only be open to delegates of the CSP Project Development Conference and the CSP Yield Optimization Conference (Denver, October 25-28), and registration is now open. CSP Today’s recent USA conference attracted 500 top ...
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CSP Today secures site visit to NREL for CSP Project Development & CSP Yield Optimization Conference delegates
CSP Today is delighted to announce the organization of an exclusive site visit to the CSP facility at NREL on October 27th and 29th in Denver. This will immediately follow and only be open to delegates of the CSP Project Development Conference and the CSP Yield Optimization Conference (Denver, October 25-28), and registration is now open. CSP Today’s recent USA conference attracted 500 top ...
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Extended scope contract secures improved fire protection at the Royal Mint
The Rotork Site Services contract to install an automated shutdown system on the gas main has secured improved safety and fire protection for the Royal Mint, at Llantrisant in South Wales. The gas main serves the annealing and pickling plant at the site, where, following a fire, an investigation by Safety, Health and Environmental Services recommended improvements. These involved the ...
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UK waste cheats get clear warning
Illegal waste operators were sent a clear warning on this week after prison sentences were handed down to two men who had operated a highly organised criminal illegal waste dumping operation. Patrick Joseph Anderson, 51, of Ireland, and James Gerard Kelleher, 39, from Dagenham, pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiring to unlawfully deposit controlled waste on land. Anderson was sentenced to 22 ...
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Agreement ensures removing contaminated buildings from nuclear metals superfund site in Concord, Mass.
A new agreement will set the stage for more work to occur at a Concord, Mass. Superfund site, including the demolition of contaminated buildings which are unsound and need to be removed. The agreement, an Administrative Settlement Agreement between EPA, U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Energy, Textron, Inc. and Whittaker Corporation, outlines responsibilities for $70 million for performance of a ...
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Seeing no levels of concern, EPA curtails emergency air monitoring at BP refinery fire site near Bellingham, Washington
As cleanup begins in earnest at the BP refinery fire site, 20 miles northwest of Bellingham, Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's air monitoring team is standing down after seeing no measurable threats to public health from airborne pollutants related to the fire. As EPA responders arrived at the scene last night, a team of four EPA contractors, accompanied by a BP Industrial ...
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Nuclear Performance Expert Tom Houghton Joins Certrec’s Office of Performance Improvement
Certrec, a leading regulatory licensing and compliance solutions provider, is pleased to announce that noted performance improvement expert, Tom Houghton has joined Certrec’s Office of Performance Improvement. Certrec’s Office of Performance Improvement (OPI) provides Chief Nuclear Officers with Problem Identification, Corrective Action, Safety Culture Assessment, Regulatory Strategy, ...
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House committee holds hearing on the chemical facility antiterrorism act of 2009
The U.S. House of Representatives Homeland SecurityCommittee held a hearing entitled “The Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Act of 2009.” Theproposed legislation would establish permanent regulations for chemical facilities, impose newrequirements on those facilities, and regulate wastewater treatment plants. Witnesses gavetestimony from two panels, one made up of federal officials and the other ...
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NDA sets out clean-up priorities for Dounreay
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s annual business plan, published today, sets out the key activities it expects to see carried out at Dounreay over the next 12 months. These range from destroying 50 per cent of the liquid metal still inside the Dounreay Fast Reactor to targets for solidifying more of the liquid waste from historical fuel reprocessing and progress towards a new disposal ...
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Work to begin this week on removal and replacement of security fencing at Carter Carburetor Site in St. Louis, Mo.
A construction crew is expected to begin work this week on removing old security fencing from the Carter Carburetor Site in St. Louis, Mo., so that it can be replaced with a more secure fence designed to keep children, vagrants and vandals off the 10-acre polluted industrial property. ACF Industries, Inc., (ACF), whose subsidiaries Carter Carburetor Corporation and Carter Automotive Products ...
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