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The Throng Song		13 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
The Throng Song Throngs of environmental activists are protesting a shipment of nuclear waste making its way by train from France to Germany, and at least 100 have been detained by the police. The six containers of radioactive waste originated at a reprocessing plant in La Hague, in northern France, and will be stored in Gorleben, Germany, 375 miles away. At least 5,000 protesters are staging actions al ...
Topics: France, Germany, Greenpeace, health, nuclear power (all these topics)

Hot Rods		05 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Hot Rods As U.S. officials scramble to improve security at the nation's 103 operating nuclear power plants, a new safety concern has emerged: stockpiles of spent nuclear fuel rods. Many authorities believe that an attack on the fuel -- which has been removed from reactors but is still radioactive -- could be even more disastrous than an attack on a nuclear plant, largely because storage sites for spent fue ...
Topics: nuclear power, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

No-fry Zone		02 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
No-fry Zone An unidentified plane flew close to the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station on Sep. 13, but fighter jets sent to track the plane down never found it, Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (D) said yesterday. Dean and other lawmakers across the country are calling on the Bush administration to create no-fly zones around all 103 nuclear plants in the U.S., fearing that the plants are easy ...
Topics: nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, United States, Vermont (all these topics)

Don't Come on In, the Water's Warm		26 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Don't Come on In, the Water's Warm A beachside nuclear reactor in Brazil leaked thousands of gallons of slightly radioactive water in May, but the public didn't learn about the problem until the Brazilian magazine Epoca broke the news earlier this week. Most of the water leaking from the Angra reactor was contained by an emergency tank, and the plant was shut down for a week. ...
Topics: Brazil, green living, Greenpeace, nuclear power, oceans, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Of Fuel Rods and Lightning Rods		24 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Of Fuel Rods and Lightning Rods Even before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, government inspectors had found security to be inadequate at the U.S.'s 103 nuclear plants. From 1991 to 2000, nearly half of the 68 plants tested showed "a potential vulnerability" to terrorists. Now, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has reversed claims it made right after the attacks that t ...
Topics: nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (all these topics)

Derailed		18 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Read more about: nuclear power Derailed As a consequence of last week's terrorist attacks, the U.S. Energy Department has cancelled a shipment of high-level nuclear waste that was scheduled to be transported from New York state to Idaho by train this summer. Anti-nuke activists had dubbed the shipment a "mobile Chernobyl" and were planning to raise a ruckus when the freight train came through. They argue that such shipments are vulnerable to accidents and attacks. straight to the sourc ...
Topics: nuclear power (all these topics)

Glow With the Flow		20 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Glow With the Flow Artificial lakes containing 50 years of radioactive waste could leak into the rivers of the Ural Mountains within a few years, according to a letter sent by the governor of Russia's Chelyabinsk region to Russia's prime minister last month. The area near the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant is known as one of the most radioactive places on the planet. Chelyabinsk's vice governor, Gennady ...
Topics: Asia, nuclear power, pollution and waste, Russia (all these topics)

Hodge Podge		14 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Hodge Podge South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges (D) said last week that he would do "whatever it takes" to keep plutonium shipments from coming to the Savannah River Site, a nuclear-processing complex run by the U.S. Energy Department near Aiken, S.C. Hodges says the Bush administration has gone back on a plan he worked out with the Clinto ...
Topics: nuclear power, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, South Carolina (all these topics)

Law and Disorder		30 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Law and Disorder At the same time it was hired by the U.S. Energy Department to help determine whether Yucca Mountain in Nevada would be a suitable site to store the country's nuclear waste, a Chicago-based law firm was taking money from the nuclear power industry to lobby Congress and the White House to get the site approved. Critics of the Yucca site are crying foul, saying the ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Fright Train		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Fright Train Sometime this summer, the feds are planning to transport nuclear waste from power plants via train from New York to a U.S. Energy Department reservation in southeastern Idaho. Dubbing the shipment a "mobile Chernobyl," anti-nuke advocates plan to raise a ruckus when the freight train comes through. Although the shipment a ...
Topics: energy, Idaho, New York, nuclear power, placemaking, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Czech Your Nukes at the Door		17 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Czech Your Nukes at the Door Germany has asked the Czech Republic to shut down the Temelin nuclear power plant near the borders of Germany and Austria. Austria became nuke-free in 1978, and German utilities agreed last month to close their 19 nuclear plants within 20 years. The Temelin plant, which began operating last fall, has provoked major protests from local enviros, as well a ...
Topics: Austria, Czech Republic, energy, European Union, Germany, nuclear power (all these topics)

Insane in the Ukraine	Suzy Becker	05 Mar 2001	Ha.

Topics: health, nuclear power, Ukraine (all these topics)

Hole Lotta Love		10 Jan 2001	Daily Grist
Hole Lotta Love Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said earlier this week that the feds would research new ways to dispose of nuclear waste instead of incinerating the waste in southeastern Idaho. He formally accepted the recommendations of a panel that was appointed a year ago to study the matter after enviro groups, ski bums, Harrison Ford, and others in Jackson Hole, Wyo., raised a stink about the incineration pla ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, energy, nuclear power (all these topics)

Yuck Is Mountin'		13 Dec 2000	Daily Grist
Yuck Is Mountin' Energy Secretary Bill Richardson called yesterday for an investigation into allegations that federal contractors compromised a scientific study to determine whether Yucca Mountain in Nevada would be a safe place to store all the country's high-level nuclear waste. The Las Vegas Sun last month obtained a 60-page draft report about the site and found a note attached to it suggesting the scientific stud ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Nevada, nuclear power (all these topics)

I've Got Good News, and I've Got Bad News	Donella H. Meadows	30 Jun 2000	Global Citizen
In the spirit of celebrating every success, but only to the extent the success deserves, I would like to celebrate something that is kind of hard to describe. The rate at which things are getting worse is slowing down. We're not going downhill as fast as we once were. The fever is high, but rising more slowly. We're still headed for the iceberg, but our speed is declining. The most striking example of this positive-ne ...
Topics: nuclear power, pollution and waste, population, water pollution (all these topics)

A Nuke Lease on Life Enviros try to put the R back in the NRC	Bruce Hamilton	06 Apr 2000	Main Dish
Watchdogs say the Nuclear Regulatory Commission compromised public safety with its decision late last month to grant long-term renewal of the operating licenses for the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in southern Maryland. Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant. Photo: Dan Hamilton. With the decision, the plant, tucked on a rural peninsula along the shore of the Chesapeake Bay, became the first of the nati ...
Topics: energy, Maryland, nuclear power (all these topics)

Playing Chicken in Kiev		07 Feb 2000	Daily Grist
Playing Chicken in Kiev Ukraine plans this year to shut down the Chernobyl nuclear plant, site of the world's worst nuclear accident, Ukranian Pres. Leonid Kuchma said Saturday. But Kuchma told U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, who was in Ukraine for a two-day visit, that the plant will close only after the U.S. and other industrialized nations hammer out a deal to h ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, energy, international politics, nuclear power, politics, Ukraine (all these topics)

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