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Mushroom Cloud		12 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Mushroom Cloud "There are practically no cases of radioactive watermelons this year," was the triumphant announcement of Andrei Buyanov, one of Moscow's corps of atomic food inspectors. Unfortunately for Muscovites, there were plenty of other radioactive fruits and vegetables. Moscow is 415 miles from Chernobyl, where an atomic reactor blew up in 1986; food found in the region can still be contaminated. Last year, inspectors ...
Topics: nuclear power, Russia (all these topics)

Industry, Agency Say Nuke Plants Are Safe From Terrorism		11 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: nuclear power Industry, Agency Say Nuke Plants Are Safe From Terrorism One year after the tragedies of Sept. 11, how safe is the U.S. from terrorist strikes against its water supply and nuclear power facilities? Quite safe, according to industry and government studies commissioned in the wake of last year's attacks. The Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group, found that a Boeing 757 would not be able to penetrate the 4-foot-thick concrete walls and steel bars protecting nuc ...
Topics: nuclear power (all these topics)

Don't Gag Me With a Heavy Metal Spoon		10 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Don't Gag Me With a Heavy Metal Spoon Despite taking an oath of secrecy regarding their jobs, employees at a nuclear weapons plant in Iowa will be allowed to talk to doctors and scientists about hazardous chemicals to which they may have been exposed, the Pentagon determined in a report issued yesterday. The oaths have posed problems for thousands of current or former employees of the Iowa Arm ...
Topics: Department of Defense, health, Iowa, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Gambling on the Courts		28 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Gambling on the Courts Armed with $4 million, the state of Nevada is preparing for the legal battle of a lifetime: the effort to keep the federal government from establishing a high-level radioactive waste dump at Yucca Mountain. Charles Cooper, one member of the high-profile legal team retained by the state, said yesterday that he was "very encouraged" about Nevada's prosp ...
Topics: Nevada, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Grim Jim		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Grim Jim Six tons of weapons-grade plutonium can continue on its way to South Carolina, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The decision, which upheld a lower court ruling, was a blow to Gov. Jim Hodges (D), who has vociferously protested storing the waste in his state. Hodges argued that the Department of Energy needed to conduct more thorough environmental stud ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, solid waste treatment and disposal, South Carolina (all these topics)

Hanford and Stuns		30 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Hanford and Stuns Oregon officials and anti-nuclear activists are taking aim at the draft assessment of the federal government's plan to ship thousands of truckloads of radioactive nuclear waste through Oregon to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state. The draft environmental impact statement by the U.S. Energy Department estimates that the environmental effects of transporting ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, Oregon, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Kenny Get Your Guinn		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Kenny Get Your Guinn President Bush signed into law yesterday the measure approving Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the nation's nuclear-waste burial ground, which was approved two weeks ago by Congress. The signing, closed to journalists and attended by only a handful of allies who were instrumental in brokering the bill's passage, marks the official end of Nevada's legislative fight to keep the highly r ...
Topics: environmental justice, Nevada, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

What About Tupperware?		16 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
What About Tupperware? Now that the U.S. Senate has given the go-ahead to store the nation's most highly radioactive nuclear waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, new questions loom: What kind of containers can protect the waste for 10,000 years, and who will provide them? Those are high-stakes issues, given that the Department of Energy plans to buy about 1 ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Nevada, nuclear power, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Lack of Response Ability		09 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Lack of Response Ability The U.S. EPA is "not fully prepared" to handle a large-scale nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack on the country, according to an internal assessment by the agency. The report was commissioned by EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman in response to the attacks of Sept. 11 and strongly suggests that if those attacks had involved nuclear, biological, or chemical weap ...
Topics: nuclear power, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Downwind for the Count		19 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Downwind for the Count Thousands of "downwinders" -- people living in the path of radiation releases from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation -- scored a legal victory yesterday when a federal appeals court ordered a lower court to reconsider two lawsuits against five former Hanford contractors. From 1944 to 1989, Hanford produced most of the nation's plutonium for warheads; research conducted ...
Topics: health, nuclear power, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

Star Wars		19 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Star Wars The stars are twinkling over Nevada's Yucca Mountain -- movie stars and pop stars, that is. In the battle over the Bush administration's proposal to bury high-level radioactive waste below the mountain, the glitterati are siding against the president. Barbra Streisand, Bonnie Raitt, Martin Sheen, Melissa Gilbert, Tim Robbins, Alec Baldwin, Morgan Freeman - ...
Topics: Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Double-blind Test		18 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Double-blind Test The threat of nuclear war between India and Pakistan seems to have abated slightly -- for the moment -- but what about the consequences of India's nuclear testing? Four years after the country exploded nuclear devices in underground tests in the Thar desert near the Pakistan border, villagers are questioning the government's pat assurance that no radioactivity was released. In Khetolai, ...
Topics: health, India, nuclear power, Pakistan, ranching (all these topics)

Hodging His Bets		14 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Hodging His Bets The U.S. government could begin moving radioactive plutonium from Colorado into South Carolina's Savannah River nuclear complex as soon as this weekend, following a federal judge's refusal yesterday afternoon to block the shipments. Gov. Jim Hodges (D) has vowed to appeal the ruling, and maintains that he won't allow the plutonium into South Carolina until he has a legal guaran ...
Topics: Colorado, nuclear power, pollution and waste, South Carolina (all these topics)

Boxer Rebellion		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Boxer Rebellion President Bush scored a victory yesterday when the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved his plan to store highly radioactive nuclear waste beneath Nevada's Yucca Mountain, but he was challenged by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on other environmental ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, Jay Inslee, logging, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Grading, Nuclear-Plant Style	Suzy Becker	03 Jun 2002	Ha.

Topics: nuclear power (all these topics)

The Little Solar Station That Could		29 May 2002	Daily Grist
The Little Solar Station That Could The Columbia Generating Station, a nuclear power plant at Washington state's Hanford nuclear reservation, sits just one mile from the White Bluffs Solar Station. For the past three weeks, Energy Northwest, the Pacific Northwest's nuclear power producer, has been generating a tiny amount of electricity from solar panels at White Bluffs and ...
Topics: energy, news, nuclear power, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, Washington (all these topics)

Nuclear Power As Fossil Fuel		17 May 2002	Daily Grist
Nuclear Power As Fossil Fuel The Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest public power producer, decided yesterday to restart a troubled nuclear reactor at its Browns Ferry plant in northern Alabama. The reactor has been out of use since 1985, when all three of the plant's reactors were shut down after engineers discovered that the reactors did not match their blueprints. Two of the three reactors were res ...
Topics: Alabama, energy, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Watch 'Em Blow, See 'Em Glow!	Suzy Becker	13 May 2002	Ha.

Topics: nuclear power, oceans (all these topics)

Mr. Yucca		09 May 2002	Daily Grist
Mr. Yucca The U.S. House voted 306 to 117 yesterday to move forward with the Bush administration's plan to store the nation's nuclear waste under Nevada's Yucca Mountain. The overwhelming vote -- which overrode the veto of the plan by Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn (R) -- was expected. Now the battle moves to the Senate, where Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and Majority Whip Harry Reid (D-Nev.) have prom ...
Topics: Harry Reid, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, waste (all these topics)

Cherignoble		26 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Cherignoble Sixteen years ago today, a nuclear reactor in Chernobyl exploded, resulting in the worst atomic accident in the history of the world. The explosion affected 3.3 million Ukrainians as well as untold numbers of other people, and sent a radioactive cloud drifting over much of Europe. All of the area within 18 miles of the plant has been a no-man's-land since the accident, but last year, under urging from the U.N. to ...
Topics: health, nuclear power, Ukraine (all these topics)

Let It Allard Hang Out		17 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Let It Allard Hang Out The plot thickens in the controversy over the federal government's decision to ship weapons-grade plutonium from Colorado to South Carolina for temporary storage. Arms-control advocates and Democratic politicians in South Carolina allege that the Bush administration is backing a shipment plan in order to improve the re-election prospects of Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo ...
Topics: Colorado, North Carolina, nuclear power, politics, South Carolina (all these topics)

Guinn-ess Record		09 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Guinn-ess Record In the first-ever gubernatorial veto of a presidential decision, Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn (R) yesterday rejected George Bush's proposal to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Federal lawmakers granted the state veto power over any presidential decision related to Yucca Mountain in 1982; now, two decades later, Congress has 90 working day ...
Topics: Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Finnish Line		05 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
The Finnish Line From the department of creative activism: You've heard of hunger strikes, but what about baby strikes? Hundreds of Finnish women have signed a petition declaring that they will not bear children for the next four years unless the country's Parliament scraps plans to build a fifth nuclear reactor in their homeland. The protest has a precedent: In 1986, following the Chernobyl disaster, some 4,000 Finns signed a simila ...
Topics: Finland, nuclear power (all these topics)

Safety Dance, Part Two Is the U.S. nuclear industry writing its own ticket on security?	Shelley Smithson	28 Mar 2002	Main Dish
Over the last 15 years, the nuclear power industry has lobbied the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Congress to weaken security requirements at atomic plants, even as the threat of terrorism has grown. But in reality, as Shelley Smithson shows in Part I of this series, nuclear energy security is already poor. In drills conducted by the NRC over the last decade, guards at nearl ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, politics, United States (all these topics)

You Got to Know When to Hold 'Em		28 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
You Got to Know When to Hold 'Em Betting comes naturally to Nevadans, but the stakes are high and the odds are poor for a last-ditch effort to keep 77,000 tons of nuclear waste out of a proposed high-level radioactive waste facility in Yucca Mountain. The state's U.S. senators are about to unveil a multi-million dollar media blitz aimed at swaying the votes of key Republican lawmakers -- largely by ...
Topics: green living, Nevada, nuclear power, pollution and waste (all these topics)

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