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Down in the Dump Over Nevadan objections, Yucca Mountain repository inches forward		08 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 2:38 PM on 08 Sep 2008 Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump inched forward Monday as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission agreed to formally review the feds' license application for the site. It will likely take the NRC four years or so to peruse the Department of Energy's 8,600-page application and decide whether to give Yucca the go-ahead. Attorneys for the state of Nevada, which is highly disinter ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, Nevada, news, nuclear power, waste (all these topics)

Waste spending Nuclear storage spending at Yucca jumps 38 percent to $96 billion	Joseph Romm	08 Aug 2008	Gristmill
New nuclear power plants aren't cheap. Neither is storing their waste. E&E News ($ub. req'd) reports on at Yucca Mountain: DOE has spent $13.5 billion since 1983, and figures to spend $54.8 billion on construction, operation and decommissioning of the repository; $19.5 billion for transporting the waste -- including building the canisters for holding waste; and $8.4 billion for other program activities.The report notes that the expenses were based on a reposi ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, waste (all these topics)

Now Taking Reservations Feds can dump more waste at Wash. Superfund site, says court		22 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:26 PM on 22 May 2008 Washington State doesn't have the right to refuse more dumping of radioactive waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, an appeals court ruled Wednesday. In 2004, nearly 70 percent of Washingtonians voted to keep the federal government from disposing of more toxic waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation until the highly polluted Superfund site is cleaned up. The Bus ...
Topics: energy, litigation, news, nuclear power, Washington, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Mille grazie! Should we take Italian nuclear waste?	Joseph Romm	07 May 2008	Gristmill
So an industry CEO tells E&E News that nuclear is the only non-carbon baseload power (not!) and that therefore nuclear is our only future and since the United States does such a great job of dealing with low-level radioactive waste, we should become the world's repository. That would be the logic of one Steve Creamer, CEO of EnergySolutions, 'a full-service nuclear fuel cycle company' (in contrast to all of those 'partial-service nuclear fuel cycle companies,' so ...
Topics: energy, insanity, Italy, nuclear power, recycling, waste (all these topics)

Waste Not, Want Waste Not U.S. may import 20,000 tons of nuclear waste		28 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 5:08 PM on 28 Feb 2008 Know how the U.S. hasn't even figured out a long-term solution for its own nuclear waste? Perhaps importing 20,000 tons of radioactive material from Italy might not be the best idea. Not to mention that we don't want to do the Italians any favors until they decriminalize crotch-grabbing. From the Archives Ducking Donald. U.S. forest official will not be jailed over f ...
Topics: energy, Italy, news, nuclear power, United States, waste (all these topics)

Delay of the land Drastic delays proposed for Hanford Nuclear Reservation cleanup	Sarah K. Burkhalter	21 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest post from Gina Barteletti, publications and volunteer coordinator at Heart of America Northwest. ----- The U.S. Department of Energy is proposing to add more deadly, toxic waste to Washington State's Hanford Nuclear Reservation before existing waste is cleaned up. At the same time, DOE is proposing changes to the Tri-Party Agreement (TPA), also known as the Hanford Cleanup Agreement, which could add decades to cleanup. DOE has prop ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, Washington, waste (all these topics)

Oh, Sproat It All Yucca Mountain may be doubled in size, need more funding		05 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:04 PM on 05 Oct 2007 In a move sure to endear Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository to fiercely opposed Nevadans, the Department of Energy has proposed doubling its size. Nevada Rep. Shelley Berkley (D) concisely sums up the reaction of the sane: "Doubling the size of Yucca Mountain will only double the danger. This is not a bad dream; it's a nightmare." In addition, the DOE's Edward F. S ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, insanity, Nevada, news, nuclear power, politics, waste (all these topics)

Into the Breach DOE hasn't opened Yucca nuclear-waste dump, must pay millions for breach of contract		01 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 2:52 PM on 01 Oct 2007 As if the saga of Nevada's Yucca Mountain wasn't ridiculous enough, a court has ruled that the Department of Energy's failure to open the nuclear-waste repository on time will have a price tag of $116.5 million, payable to Xcel Energy for breach of contract. And just to remind you of the ridiculousness, in the words of Minnesota State Senator Ellen Anderson: &quo ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, litigation, Nevada, news, nuclear power, politics, waste (all these topics)

Not Our Fault Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump moves structures to account for fault line		25 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:46 PM on 25 Sep 2007 If falsified quality-assurance documents and vehement opposition from locals (among other things) aren't enough to put Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump on your list of Bad Places to Dump Nuclear Waste, may we offer you an inconveniently located underground fault line? From the Archives Brown Towns. British prime minister aims to build ev ...
Topics: energy, Nevada, news, nuclear power, waste (all these topics)

Hanford, we have a problem A leak, to be precise.	Sarah K. Burkhalter	14 Aug 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest post from Natalie Troyer, publications and volunteer coordinator at Heart of America Northwest. Read her previous posts here and here. I don't know if you've heard, but on Friday, July 27, a geyser from Hades erupted at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Yep, it's true. In the wee hours of that morning, a water line became clogged with radioactive sludge as thick as peanut butter, sending a big chunky mass of the hottest, most deadly ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, Washington, waste (all these topics)

Japan nuclear-site damage worse than reported Shocking	Joseph Romm	20 Jul 2007	Gristmill
I am shocked, shocked at the N.Y. Times report: The Japanese operator of a nuclear power plant stricken by an earthquake earlier this week said Wednesday that damage was worse than previously reported and that a leak of water was 50 percent more radioactive than initially announced. For the third time in three days, Tokyo Electric Power apologized for delays and errors in announcing the extent of damage at the plant in this northwestern coastal city, whi ...
Topics: energy, Japan, nuclear power, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Funny safety joke	David Roberts	16 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Have you heard the one about the Japanese nuclear reactor that caught fire and leaked radioactive waste into the ocean?
Topics: energy, nuclear power, waste (all these topics)

When is recycling not recycling? When it's the Bush administration talking about Hanford	Sarah K. Burkhalter	04 May 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest post from Natalie Troyer, publications and volunteer coordinator at Heart of America Northwest. ----- Sheryl Crow -- who was joking, people -- recently suggested that folks use 'only one square [of toilet paper] per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required.' A nice, but impractical, proposal -- much like the Department of Energy's imprudent pitch to 'recycle' nuclear waste ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, waste (all these topics)

You are positively glowing this evening, my dear Champagne vineyards threatened by radioactive contamination	Corey McKrill	05 Jun 2006	Gristmill
Global warming isn't the only thing threatening wine. In France, groundwater less than 10 km from the famous Champagne vineyards has tested positive for radioactive contamination, caused by a nearby leaking nuclear waste dump:'We have been told for decades that nuclear dumpsites will not leak and that the best standards are being applied. In reality the dumpsite in Normandy is a disaster, and radioactivity is already leaking from the dumpsite in Champagne,' said Shaun ...
Topics: agriculture, energy, food, France, nuclear power, waste (all these topics)

Waste	David Roberts	21 Mar 2005	Gristmill
On Energy Priorities, a short but interesting piece on France's struggles with nuclear waste. The good bit:Every day, about ten shipping containers arrive on trucks at the Soulaines-Dhuys storage facility outside Troyes, in the province of Ardennes, 180 kilometers east of Paris. On board are barrels of waste that isn't radioactive enough to be stored at Marcoule. Every year, 15,000 cubic meters of waste contaminated with uranium, plutonium and tritium arrive here. The ...
Topics: energy, France, nuclear power, waste (all these topics)

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