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What New Mexico can teach us about storing nuclear waste
Carlsbad :: CA :: USA | 12 months ago
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The proposed storage site at Nevada's Yucca Mountain has been nixed possibly for good. And the problem is only growing more acute: On Friday, a D.C. federal appeals court ruled that the current strategy of keeping waste on-site at power plants around
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DOE not ready to commit to expanding vit plant
Pasco :: WA :: USA | 1 year ago
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DOE will not choose a preferred method for treating all Hanford tank waste in a massive environmental study about to be completed, officials said. "To say that we are exceedingly disappointed is an understatement," said Suzanne Dahl, tank treatment
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Nuclear waste: Keep out – for 100,000 years
Dubai :: United Arab Emirates | 2 years ago
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Keep out for 100,000 years Few architects have to design anything to last more than 100 years, so how do you build a nuclear waste facility to last for millennia?...Workers dig the 5km-long Onkalo nuclear waste tunnels in Finland Photograph: Jussi
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State casts wary eye at using steam for Hanford cleanup
Hanford :: CA :: USA | 2 years ago
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DOE has proposed steam reforming as one technology in a suite of technologies new to Hanford that it believes has the potential to reduce the cost of environmental cleanup of Hanford tank waste by billions of dollars and accelerate cleanup. Hanford
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Search continues for nuclear waste depots
Zurich :: Switzerland | over 2 years ago
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Not many sites were proposed but six candidates are currently under consideration. Just a few steps from the Gosgen nuclear power plant in canton Solothurn, some 250 people gathered on Monday night to learn more about the issue. The Jura-Sudfuss
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Leaders voice frustration over Hanford waste disposal to Blue Ribbon Commission
Hanford :: CA :: USA | almost 3 years ago
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The commission, appointed to recommend a path forward for the nation's high-level radioactive defense waste and used commercial nuclear power fuel, visited the Tri-Cities for two days to learn how a large nuclear facility affects a community. "The
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Europe eyes underground nuclear waste repositories!
Stockholm :: Sweden | over 3 years ago
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Sweden will follow three years after its Nordic neighbour, and "France plans to start operating a deep geological repository for vitrified high-level waste from reprocessing in 2025," Roland Schenkel, deputy director general of the European
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