Health & Safety Newsletter
January 07, 2010

This Week´s Featured News Stories
No let-up for holidays in hazard reduction at Dounreay
There was no let-up during Christmas and New Year in the drive to rid Dounreay of two of its most hazardous legacies. Teams worked around the clock during the holidays to treat more of the toxic liquors left over from the site’s research programme. They kept two of the site’s most important clean-up plants running 24 hours a day throughout Christmas and New Year. At the Dounreay Fast Reactor, more than half a tonne of liquid metal was removed from the primary cooling circuits and destroyed. In the Fuel Cycle Area, teams worked on shifts to process more than a tonne of hazardous waste liquor left ...
EPA announces action plans for existing chemicals
True to her word, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced action plans on phthalates, long-chain perfluorinated chemicals (PFC), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) in products, and short-chainchlorinated paraffins (SCCP). This EPA initiative announces actions that are almost breathtaking in scope, and its development and implementation of the action plan items will set a number of new precedents -- and possibly shape future legislative proposals -- that industry will need to participate in and monitor closely. EPA has never previously announced so ...
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