Nuclear Waste Policy The House is expected to vote on the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 21625 on Thursday.
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While planned nuclear waste repositories in salt deposits like WIPP are working just fine, Asse II wasn't designed to hold nuclear waste.
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Nuclear waste agency Andra's Cigeo deep geological storage project is designed to bury France's highly radioactive nuclear waste hundreds of metres underground for thousands of years.
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Nuclear waste agency Andra's Cigeo deep geological storage project is designed to bury France's highly radioactive nuclear waste hundreds of meters underground for thousands of years.
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BURYING NUCLEAR WASTE NEAR OR AT THE SURFACE While storing nuclear waste in specially designed containers at reactors isn't great, it beats the hell out of one previous plan for high-level nuclear waste disposal, which was to basically just toss the stuff into a ditch.
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Oliver called the nuclear waste "the worst type of garbage for raccoons to get into" but also went over the "serious health hazards" from living near nuclear waste.
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One area that isn't being cut: $120 million to restart licensing for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site, a controversial plan to store nuclear waste under Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
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STORING NUCLEAR WASTE AT A NUCLEAR REACTOR At the moment, this is the go-to plan when it comes storing nuclear waste, which sucks because it isn't really a plan at all.
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Illinois has more nuclear waste than any other state, and Shimkus is prepared to fire on members of his own party if it means winning the fight to get nuclear waste out.
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"You don't move nuclear waste in a race," he added.
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Canada is debating what to do with it nuclear waste.
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Sandoval, like Sisolak, opposed moving nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain.
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Politicians for years have been trying to figure out a better solution to store nuclear waste, but it's become a thorny issue, because after all, nobody wants a nuclear waste site in their backyard.
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AROUND THE WEB: A South Dakota test meant to evaluate burying nuclear waste deep underground will not actually use real nuclear waste, the Department of Energy is assuring locals, according to the Associated Press.
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The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 275 requires that the DOE dispose of nuclear waste being produced at civilian energy plants around the country, which in turn pay fees for a long-term storage facility.
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Although no nuclear waste would've actually be put into the hole, the plan was killed after protests from local residents who feared it would lead to the actual disposal of nuclear waste in the area.
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To complain about meltdown and nuclear waste today is akin to
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Want to know what it's like inside a nuclear waste facility?
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The land filled with Agent Orange, nuclear waste, and artillery shells.
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Trump is proposing to send our nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain.
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They didn't count nuclear waste, which is definitely a type of litter.
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States that currently store nuclear waste have also pushed for a resolution.
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Right now, Ontario's nuclear waste is waiting for a long-term plan.
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Tunnel collapseA tunnel at a nuclear waste site in Washington state collapsed.
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And the long-standing debate over nuclear waste must be successfully resolved.
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Biden's climate plan includes support for research into nuclear-waste disposal systems.
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Explain how your views have evolved in how we treat nuclear waste.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's plan to establish the world's first underground nuclear waste disposal tool a step forward on Tuesday when its builder Posiva announced a 500-million-euro ($569.55 million) investment in facilities needed for nuclear waste burial.
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Trump's request would also nix funding for the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository in Nevada, after he tweeted a promise last week to find a solution to long-term nuclear waste storage without moving forward with the permanent repository.
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Finland's nuclear-waste kitty, collected from the utilities, currently stands at €2.5bn ($2.7bn).
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Cleaning up Sellafield's decaying buildings and nuclear-waste storage facilities will take decades.
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He said he was more worried about the nuclear waste than the reactors.
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The nation's largest nuclear waste dump was almost ignited by wildfire this weekend.
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Some lethal isotopes in nuclear waste have half-lives of thousands of years.
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In 1988, during a dispute with the federal government over the storage of nuclear waste in Idaho, he won new supporters when he ordered state troopers to block a railroad car filled with nuclear waste from entering a storage site.
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The proposal would also restart the Nuclear Waste Fund fee program, which charges electricity users money to be funneled toward construction of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, with estimated revenues of about $3 billion over 10 years.
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The kingdom has mooted turning part of the border into a nuclear waste dump.
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That's roughly where the Mayak reprocessing plant, which deals with nuclear waste, is located.
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If language, like nuclear waste, has a half-life, it's a far shorter one.
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The agency manages the country's nuclear weapons stockpile and oversees cleanup of nuclear waste.
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Mr. Burns' technique for disposing of nuclear waste isn't the dumbest idea we've seen.
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The bid includes an option for hardware to convert the nuclear waste to energy.
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Second, nuclear waste is dangerous and long-lasting, and disposing of it is expensive.
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His palette was attuned to the era's anxieties about nuclear war and nuclear waste.
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There were two landfills, the operators insisted: one for nuclear waste, one for trash.
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To the Editor: I am surprised the authors downplayed the problem of nuclear waste.
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Nuclear energy opponents worry about its safety and what to do about nuclear waste.
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Mr. Perry has relationships with executives in the oil, gas and nuclear waste industries.
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In some designs, next-generation reactors can even use preexisting nuclear waste as fuel.
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We don't let citizens handle nuclear waste, or certain kinds of military grade weapons.
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The presence of nuclear waste on-site would only compound the fallout from these events.
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Finland is not alone in trying to solve the problem of its accumulating nuclear waste.
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Down the road, we may see reactors that can consume nuclear waste (see diagram here).
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Had the fire gotten to the nuclear waste, the consequences would have been far worse.
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The House voted to advance the nuclear waste storage project at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
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"No one in this country wants nuclear waste buried in his neighbor's garden," she said.
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Last year, the roof of a trench holding railroad wagons full of nuclear waste collapsed.
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While a major issue, nuclear waste is not the sole concern about nuclear power sources.
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He reiterated his stance at the CNN town hall, citing the problem of nuclear waste.
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There are 81,500 tons of nuclear waste from commercial power reactors in the United States.
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The spending bill also includes funding to establish an interim storage site for nuclear waste.
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The Obama administration halted plans for the disposal of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in 2010.
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As nuclear waste can last up to 100,000 years, it will be humanity's most enduring legacy.
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Radioactive material gets a bad rap, what with radiation and fallout and nuclear waste and all.
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Fear of an accident and how to handle nuclear waste are common factors among the public.
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He said China was likely to consider alternative solutions for nuclear waste, including dry cask storage.
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The problem of disposing of nuclear waste, which lasts for more than 200,000 years, remains unsolved.
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Nevertheless, the disposal of nuclear waste is necessary, and below ground seems to be the consensus.
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Most also said scientists either disagreed or were divided on the safety of storing nuclear waste.
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" Yucca: "The Senate is prepared to revive a fight over storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
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What happened: The tunnel that caved in was filled with radioactive trains that transported nuclear waste.
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Though the site is decommissioned, it still houses 56 million gallons of Cold War nuclear waste.
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Now, the town is bitterly split over a plan to host a medical nuclear waste site.
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It's good to keep your finger on the pulse of nuclear waste shipping; it's nasty stuff.
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Congress first mandated a nuclear waste repository in 1982, and the federal government considered numerous sites.
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He considers sinkholes in the Slovenian highlands, nuclear waste in Finland and global warming in Greenland.
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But the river is under threat from groundwater pumping and efforts to bury nuclear waste nearby.
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While it's unnerving to realise that toxic nuclear waste is passing right through some of the most populated areas of the UK, Allinson and Keir aren't doing this to make a political statement on nuclear waste, and are keen to point out it's not really that dangerous.
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A typo and a bag of kitty litter might cost US taxpayers billions in nuclear waste cleanup
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The companies held up their end, feeding about $1003 million into the Nuclear Waste Fund each year.
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None of these containers have leaked in over 40 years of transporting nuclear waste, the NRC says.
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Or we're going to have a nuclear waste exposure story, where he's radiated, and that explains it.
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There is no question that the federal government's position on nuclear waste disposal must be advanced soon.
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Harry Reid called Bush a "liar" with regard to a decision about storing nuclear waste in Nevada.
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The commission voted to dip into its $634,000 Nuclear Waste Fund to support the information gathering efforts.
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For the last 30 years, nuclear waste from Koeberg's reactor has been buried in the Namaqualand desert.
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On Thursday, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on storing nuclear waste.
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Oliver also showed footage of the U.S. military dumping nuclear waste off the coast of New Jersey.
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Despite no longer producing plutonium the surrounding areas continued to feel the effects of the nuclear waste.
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Four environmental and public policy groups are looking to block a proposed nuclear waste depository in Texas.
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Tribesmen pushed huge rocks into the sea to block the nuclear waste ship from entering the harbor.
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So-called dirty bombs can combine conventional explosives like dynamite with radioactive material such as nuclear waste.
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There's also no real plan to dispose of the toxic nuclear waste that lasts for 100,000 years.
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Anti-nuclear activists march through a field after a demonstration against nuclear waste in Dannenberg, Germany, Nov.
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He reiterated his stance at the CNN town hall in September, citing the problem of nuclear waste.
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Nuclear waste disposal is one of the top hurdles to growth in the U.S. nuclear power industry.
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Congress directed the U.S. Department of Energy to study Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository in 1987.
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It was built during the Cold War as a place to put rail cars contaminated with nuclear waste.
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Nuclear waste has been piling up in the U.S. for decades, but there's no permanent solution for it.
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A House Committee has reignited the congressional debate over a nuclear waste storage facility at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
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Taxpayers have spent billions of dollars investing in the build out of the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository.
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The plant is currently going through a massive decommissioning program, which includes dismantling infrastructure and decontaminating nuclear waste.
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There are also plans to use parts of the area to store nuclear waste and for solar power.
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They even went so far as to open some nuclear waste drums to look for the missing plutonium.
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Vanessa, whose work involves identifying locations for nuclear waste in Germany, loves learning about different foods and cultures.
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Dean Heller, a Republican, who has pledged that Nevada will never be the nation's nuclear waste dumping ground.
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Americans seldom encounter the scientists ensuring their water stays clean or that nuclear waste is properly disposed of.
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For example, we still need to find a long-term solution for the safe disposal of nuclear waste.
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Brian Sandoval (R) is not backing down from his opposition to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility.
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Nuclear waste is currently stored in cooling pools at reactor sites, but these are not foolproof, says Greenpeace.
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Meanwhile, ponder the lingering effects of nuclear waste or take in the beauty of Italy with Sophia Loren.
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Right now, all of Canada's high-level nuclear waste is sitting at the reactors where it was produced.
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The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) is responsible for figuring out what to do with this radioactive garbage.
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We Should Be Very Worried About That Leaky Nuclear Waste Facility in WashingtonEarlier this week, we heard alarming reports of a "significant" nuclear waste leak at Hanford, the…Read more ReadThe hope was that the double-shelled tanks would prove more robust, but in 2011, tank AY-1013 sprung a leak.
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Nuclear materiality concentrates in Taryn Simon's "Black Square XVII" (2006-ongoing) — a Malevichian square made from vitrified nuclear waste.
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Their 1982 song "French Letter" had charted well and a follow up single "Nuclear Waste" was released in 1985.
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Image: APA slow, ongoing nuclear waste leak at a storage facility in Washington State has escalated over the weekend.
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Perry pledged to solve the dilemma over what to do with America's nuclear waste, but offered few concrete solutions.
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One of these, Asse II, was filled with nuclear waste until 1995, and then filled with salt until 2004.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry visited the site of the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada on Monday.
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Andra, the French nuclear waste agency behind the project, opened an art competition last year to address this issue.
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She has investigated Chinese wedding photography, Sri Lankan war tourism, and a leaking nuclear waste site in the Pacific.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said it is considering a private company's application to build a nuclear waste site.
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Rising sea levels and temperatures are cracking open The Tomb, threatening to spill nuclear waste into the Pacific Ocean.
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Environment: The Washington Examiner — The House is expected to turn Thursday to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 2018.
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A House panel approved three environmental bills on Thursday, including controversial measures on nuclear waste storage and ozone pollution.
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Democrats also pushed back on a GOP bill to advance a nuclear waste depository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
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Because it was a new kind of science, much of the nuclear waste was mismanaged and improperly disposed of.
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PERRY VISITS YUCCA: Energy Secretary Rick Perry traveled Monday to the site of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
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With no long-term solution in sight for nuclear waste, accumulating more radioactive spent fuel aggravates the storage problem.
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Perry on Tuesday said lawmakers have a moral obligation to find a permanent solution for the country's nuclear waste.
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Trump's budget would also restart a nuclear waste fund that would bring in more than $3 billion by 2027.
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NT: There's a wonderful part of the book, where you talk about how we should deal with nuclear waste.
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The question of what to do with nuclear waste has long been a central problem for the Energy Department.
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They've made a lot of progress, and Finland will very likely have the world's first operating nuclear waste repository.
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Even though the plants produce nuclear waste, some environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council supported these plans.
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Countries that rely on nuclear power, including Canada and the US, will have to reckon with their nuclear waste.
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The Trump administration and Congress are working to restart moribund efforts to bury nuclear waste in the repository there.
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More than half of the department's $32.5 billion budget goes to maintaining nuclear weapons and cleaning up nuclear waste.
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The NNSA confirmed a project to help other countries with nuclear waste is underway but declined to provide details.
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Since 1989, the "cradle to grave" system has standardized cleanup for solid, non-nuclear waste from products like batteries.
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They say, Why not accept a little bit of asthma, or some nuclear waste, in exchange for a cheaper system?
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The decision to find a site and start disposing of nuclear waste in the 2020s was taken 40 years ago.
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The company and its investors are betting on a science that creates energy without environmentally harmful gases and nuclear waste.
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To annoy the Qataris even more, the Saudis would also turn part of the frontier into a nuclear-waste dump.
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It wasn't supposed to be like this: for decades, the plan has been to bury highly radioactive nuclear waste underground.
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Under a 1982 law, the federal government was supposed to begin moving nuclear waste to a permanent location by 1998.
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Perry offered pledges to solve the country's dilemma over what to do with nuclear waste, but few concrete solutions. Sen.
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A House committee will kick up a smoldering, years-long fight over a controversial nuclear waste storage facility next week.
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In theory, breeders could turn utility EDF's nuclear waste into fuel and make France self-sufficient in energy for decades.
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Federal officials have voted to begin "information gathering activities" related to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository site in Nevada.
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In Finland, workers are boring a tunnel 1,600 feet down into the granite bedrock of Scandinavia to store nuclear waste.
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A nuclear waste recycling center would provide Nevada with the foundation for establishing a national carbon-free energy security center.
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"I share a pipeline with them; I don't want to share a nuclear waste dump with them," Mr. Eatts said.
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His plan calls for a halt on nuclear construction and license renewals until a solution for nuclear waste is found.
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ON TAP THURSDAY II: A House Energy and Commerce Committee panel will meet to discuss the disposal of nuclear waste.
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While the politics of nuclear waste management have bogged down in the United States, it is a technically solvable challenge.
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We must stop building new nuclear power plants, and find a real solution to our existing nuclear waste problem. pic.twitter.
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Let's take a second to note that Clausen, who ordered the bins of nuclear waste to be opened, is the worst.
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ISU then interviewed staff and personnel, inspected waste transportation logs, and opened a few nuclear waste drums before contacting the NRC.
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Resembling polished glass, the square is currently undergoing the 1000-year vitrification process in a nuclear waste site outside of Moscow.
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But abandoning Yucca means nuclear waste will continue to pile up around the country, including in several other key electoral battlegrounds.
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In 2012 America had $27bn in its disposal fund, collected from ratepayers, none of which has gone towards nuclear-waste management.
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" She added a call for "a continuing science-based effort to try to figure out what to do about nuclear waste.
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ITER says nuclear fusion will not produce nuclear waste like traditional nuclear power plants and will be much safer to operate.
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In 1999, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico accepted its first deposit of mid-level nuclear waste.
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Occasionally, Burtynsky's camera ducks underground to take viewers into the dark labyrinths of Russia's potash mines and Nevada's nuclear waste repositories.
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Plus, there were supposed to be two repositories, so that one state wouldn't be stuck with an entire nation's nuclear waste.
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Most Nevadans oppose the plan, which would consolidate the U.S. nuclear waste load currently spread across the country in their state.
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Maybe the industry will come through with the long-rumored small, modular, meltdown-proof nuclear generators that consume spent nuclear waste.
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A contracting company called Clayton Industries submitted one idea that called for digging a trench and filling it with nuclear waste.
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Critics still raise this costly accident as a case-in-point of the inherent danger in storing nuclear waste deep underground.
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Based on ZIP codes, the study team also analyzed respondents' proximity to nuclear power plants, nuclear waste and nuclear research facilities.
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Now a new kind of radioactivity could head to her ancestral home in the remote Flinders Ranges - a nuclear waste dump.
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He said at a National Press Club event that local opposition in Nevada means the nuclear waste repository will never happen.
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A bipartisan group of senators has previously pushed legislation to help Yucca move forward and establish an interim nuclear waste site.
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A key provision of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act mandated that the U.S. government would take possession of spent nuclear fuel.
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The congressmen are challenging the administration's authority to implement its strategy, saying it contradicts congressional directives and law on nuclear waste.
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"A state without a single nuclear power plant should not have to shoulder the entire nation's nuclear waste burden," Heller said.
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Democrats said they want to address the issue of nuclear waste storage and find a long-term solution to the problem.
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That's when two local farming families offered their properties to the federal government as potential storage sites for Australia's nuclear waste.
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He said he was troubled by global issues including nuclear waste disposal, the regulation of weed killer, and carbon emission targets.
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But environmental activists point to the impact of nuclear waste and say the heaters are still a significant waste of energy.
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"I strongly believe that Yucca Mountain can and should be part of the solution to the nuclear waste stalemate," he said.
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As it turns out, a lot of people aren't thrilled by the idea of having nuclear waste buried in their backyards.
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"President Trump's decision to embrace alternatives to storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain is welcome news," Alexander said in a statement.
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" Speaking with Booker at the forum, moderator Amy Goodman pointed to low-income neighborhoods and communities of color that are located near nuclear waste reserves — from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to the proposed Yucca Mountain repository— and asked, "What is your answer to the fact that there is no solution to dealing with nuclear waste?
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It's also home to a radioactive waste facility called Sellafield, which houses one of the world's largest stockpiles of untreated nuclear waste.
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"Life will become unbearable here with the nuclear waste and all the demonstrators," said Bure mayor Gerard Antoine, who breeds beef cattle.
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No one was hurt but officials scrambled to fix that quickly because it's part of the Hanford Facility, a nuclear waste site.
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DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The one thing you need to know about nuclear waste is that it is incredibly difficult to store.
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But she did emphasize that this type of underground storage is generally the best option for long-term disposal of nuclear waste.
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Further down the line, Veolia aims to expand into plastic recycling in China, moving into nuclear waste treatment "one day", Frerot said.
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A combination of new legislation that spreads out the nuclear waste burden and perhaps new technology could offer a new way forward.
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"Washington needs to understand what Nevada has been saying for years: we will not be the nation's nuclear waste dump," he said.
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Russia is the only nation to have working breeder reactors, which can burn spent uranium fuel, plutonium and other nuclear waste products.
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The Pentagon buried not only the nuclear waste and byproduct of the Marshall Islands, but shipped in extra from out of town.
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He is co-leading a project at CISAC on public and policy-maker attitudes to the siting of nuclear waste disposal facilities.
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The incident required more than $600 million to clean up and delayed nuclear waste shipments from around the DOE complex to WIPP.
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FUSRAP is a nuclear waste cleanup program run by the Army Corps of Engineers for sites involved in early nuclear weapons production.
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Inslee's plan supported the use of nuclear power, an energy source hotly debated by environmentalists who worry about the resulting nuclear waste.
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When Hanford first produced nuclear waste, workers simply took contaminated clothes and tools and buried them in the desert, without recording where.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry visited the site of the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada Monday, according to several lawmakers.
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The proposed nuclear vault near Kincardine would hold OPG's low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste, stuff like irradiated mop heads and tools.
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Judge Kavanaugh, writing for the majority, said the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had wrongly delayed licensing a nuclear waste storage facility in Nevada.
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In the 1957 breach, a nuclear waste storage tank exploded, sending a radioactive cloud over an area estimated at 20,000 square miles.
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The United States' failure to establish a burial site for its most dangerous and long-lasting nuclear waste could have tragic consequences.
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We even tried to locate a small nuclear-waste facility just so we could capture the Geiger counter displaying a high number.
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The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site could have a "small" environmental impact on groundwater over a million-year timeframe, nuclear regulators predicted.
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Even in Finland, which has created a secure repository, there remains the problem that nuclear waste is a threat for many millenniums.
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Abandoned mines and nuclear waste litter the area's Indian reservation, yet only a fraction of the contaminated sites have proper warning signs.
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Either they're getting bitten by radioactive spiders or falling into some nuclear waste and coming out with superhuman strength or ultra speed.
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Sandoval said he reiterated his opposition to Yucca and urged Perry to explore a "realistic, safe alternative," to the U.S. nuclear waste problem.
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Simon mostly works with image and text—and sometimes even nuclear waste—and this is her first performance piece in a sculptural setting.
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On one hand, it's a convoluted five-section security system that includes a 100-foot-deep trench with nuclear waste at the bottom.
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Arsenic and lead in our drinking water, fracking chemicals deep below our feet, nuclear waste in our mountains: MOOP, MOOP, and more MOOP.
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LAUNCHING NUCLEAR WASTE INTO THE SUN How about launching it into the Sun, which is, after all, just a giant sustained nuclear reaction?
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DROPPING NUCLEAR WASTE INTO VOLCANOES Amazingly, volcanoes aren't hot enough to melt the zirconium encasing uranium fuel rods, much less the fuel itself.
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Soon, Kincardine could be known for something other than its quaint wooden lighthouse: a nuclear waste vault, buried 680 meters (2,21988 feet) underground.
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Canadian regulators, meanwhile, need to decide what to do with this country's nuclear waste, instead of just kicking the can down the road.
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And the nuclear power industry strongly backs Yucca, which would let companies stop storing nuclear waste at the sites of their power plants.
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Taylor leads SOS Great Lakes, a coalition against the burial of nuclear waste "anywhere in the Great Lakes basin," as she told me.
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Around 80 percent of Britain's nuclear waste is currently stored at the Sellafield nuclear plant site in Cumbria, in the northwest of England.
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Congress selected Yucca Mountain in 1987 to become the nation's permanent repository for nuclear waste generated by utility power plants and the military.
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A defense policy bill passed late last month by the House authorizes $30 million to store the military's nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
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And while nuclear plants may produce clean energy, disposing of nuclear waste and the prospects of catastrophic accidents or terrorist attacks, pose problems.
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Protests in the eastern coastal city of Lianyungang last month led to the cancellation of a proposed $15 billion nuclear waste processing plant.
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It also allows the Department of Energy (DOE) to permit an interim nuclear waste storage site before Yucca has its licensing process completed.
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An Africa-based Western diplomat, who asked to remain anonymous, doubted Russia's assurances it would collect nuclear waste from projects it helped establish.
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In another, a Phoenix jeweler used a captive to insure against damage caused by the radioactivity of a dirty bomb or nuclear waste.
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This reduces both nuclear waste and the risk of the proliferation of nuclear weapons by limiting the amount of enriched uranium in circulation.
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Next-generation fast breeder reactors can use nuclear waste as fuel and have sophisticated cooling mechanisms that limit the risks of a meltdown.
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A House committee voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to advance a bill meant to move along the stalled Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada.
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When a desert outpost — what Abby calls "the largest nuclear waste facility in the Southern Hemisphere" — ceases its communications, Abby volunteers to investigate.
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Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) tried to push Brouillette against the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, but he said he supports it.
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The U.S. government has studied Yucca since the 1970s as a potential dump for the nuclear waste from power plants and the military.
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Congress designated the site in 1987 to be the nation's sole repository for high-level nuclear waste, but it's never been fully developed.
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Critics say Japan should concede the plant will not solve the problem and start looking for a place to bury its nuclear waste.
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For example, Alan Moore's graphic novel The Swamp Thing, a story based on the consequences of mismanaged nuclear waste was published in 1971.
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Now, the Energy Department's budget is mainly devoted to maintaining the US nuclear weapons arsenal, cleaning up nuclear waste, and handling basic science research.
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And although we have no evidence that AY-102's outer shell has been breached, the annulus was never built to hold nuclear waste.
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At the same time, the country remains at an impasse over what to do about nuclear waste that is currently stored throughout the nation.
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The money would be used to restart the licensing process for the site, which Congress in 1987 designated the nation's sole nuclear waste repository.
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The debate over the fate of our nuclear waste comes at a critical time, when many governments are trying to wean off fossil fuels.
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The Double-Shell Tank AZ-101 contains 800,000 gallons of nuclear waste, according to the Washington Department of Ecology, which oversees the Hanford site.
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All operating nuclear power plants are generating large quantities of nuclear waste that will need to be stored for thousands of years to come.
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Would they start to dig and unearth barrel upon barrel of toxic nuclear waste, wrecking havoc on whatever civilization exists in this coming world?
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Trump said he is sympathetic to the objections of some Nevadans to Yucca, which Congress designated in the 1980s for a nuclear waste site.
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"Nuclear is quite an expensive energy source due to safety regulations and funding for long-term nuclear waste management among other things," she said.
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A complete cleanup of the nuclear waste site could cost $107 billion and take until 2060 to complete, according to the latest government estimate.
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"It is disconcerting that once again, forces outside Nevada are trying to pawn off their problems by dumping nuclear waste in our state," Rep.
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AROUND THE WEB: The Department of Energy is dropping plans to test whether nuclear waste can be buried far underground, the Associated Press reports.
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Holtec International wants a 40-year license to store up to 8,85033 metric tons of nuclear waste at a facility in southeastern New Mexico.
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The result: more than 81,000 metric tons of nuclear waste is now stored at 61 current and former reactor sites scattered across the country.
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The licensing process stopped under former President Obama after the DOE committed to only building nuclear waste sites in areas that consented to it.
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The Obama administration cut off the licensing process in 2010, arguing that nuclear waste should be stored in a state that wants it there.
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The tunnel is only one structure among many at the vast array of deteriorating, Cold War-era nuclear waste dumps that Perry now oversees.
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The land is home to the indigenous Nama people who say they were never consulted on the decision to host the nuclear waste site.
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ON TAP WEDNESDAY II: A House Energy and Commerce Committee panel will hold a hearing on the proposed nuclear waste depository at Yucca Mountain.
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Ferguson told reporters that the settlement was a major victory on behalf of the workers tasked with cleaning up nuclear waste at the site.
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Once the nuclear drone bomber delivered its payload to targets, it would just fly around, dropping its nuclear waste on everyone it flew over.
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Two governors are urging the Trump administration to provide more funding for nuclear waste clean-up at a former weapons manufacturing facility in Washington.
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No. No. Concerns over nuclear waste, and investments should go into renewable energy infrastructure and creating new jobs in a truly green energy economy.
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Until now the nuclear waste at Westlake has been contained on site and the surrounding area has been routinely monitored for ground water contamination.
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Hanford's vast complex is undergoing the country's largest-ever environmental cleanup program for nuclear waste, with the eventual cost likely to exceed $21 billion.
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But that money would be specifically earmarked for construction of the nuclear waste repository, which has been mired in delays and disputes for decades.
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Unfortunately, the Obama administration has disregarded the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, leaving American taxpayers on the hook for billions of dollars in legal liability.
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The LCV applauds her stance against reopening the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility and cites her support for other pro-environment legislation as well.
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Nevada politicians have long sought to block the transfer of nuclear waste from across the country to the national security site, near Yucca Mountain.
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My then home state of North Carolina welshed on its agreement to take its turn as a depository in a multistate nuclear-waste compact.
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Buried in holes in the floor will be copper canisters, 5.2 metres long, containing the remains of some of the world's most radioactive nuclear waste.
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Bright green is ubiquitous with the Xbox brand, but it doesn't necessarily make for an approachable body wash, since it's most reminiscent of nuclear waste.
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"If you want nuclear waste in Nevada, the suggestion I would have is vote for the Trump/Heck ticket," Reid said in reference to Rep.
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"Yucca" references a controversial nuclear waste depository in Yucca Mountain, Nevada, roughly 90 miles outside of Las Vegas, another deeply important local issue for voters.
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Meanwhile, the La Hague reprocessing site acts as a de facto nuclear waste storage site as France has no permanent solution for deep geological storage.
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The White House's budget blueprint released Thursday seeks to revive spending for a hotly contested facility in Nevada that would store the nation's nuclear waste.
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Lewandowski, the Wood Mackenzie analyst, said that while nuclear is "clean-burning" and provides high-paying jobs, there are questions about safety and nuclear waste.
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DEEP GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES Finally, there is the deep geological repository, the only realistic plan for the long term storage of nuclear waste at the moment.
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The report notes that Perry, while governor of Texas, was behind the effort to bring a facility for nuclear waste to the Lone Star State.
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The DOE's 2018 budget plan is a 5.6 percent reduction from the 85033 budget but devotes $120 million to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
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"We're calling for an immediate investigation by US Department of Energy into contamination & potential leak in a Hanford nuclear waste tank," Bellon wrote on Twitter.
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Tunnel collapse Workers on May 9 noticed that a section of a tunnel at the nuclear waste site had collapsed, creating a 19433-foot hole.
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Beyond New Mexico, Jensen said Ontario's plan is comparable to the Konrad repository, in Germany, a former iron mine that's being repurposed for nuclear waste.
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Reid also wants to leave Washington ensuring that nuclear waste cannot be moved to Yucca Mountain in Nevada, a proposal he has fought for years.
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If built, the site would be the first nuclear waste storage facility in the United States other than the nuclear plants and other locations themselves.
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Waste Control Specialists applied in 2015 for its own nuclear waste site in western Texas, but suspended its application last year due to financial problems.
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Molten salt reactors also provide the country with an extraordinary opportunity to reduce its massive holdings of nuclear waste by reusing it as liquid fuel.
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"The materials that are being moved are risky materials, and you don't move nuclear waste in a race," he told a parliamentary committee last month.
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For decades, the United States has wrestled with the need to develop a long-term solution to the nuclear waste products created in our country.
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"Don't underestimate just how determined the public is in opposition to nuclear waste, which is far more dangerous than wastewater from any paper pulp mill."
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TUNNEL COLLAPSES AT NUCLEAR FACILITY: Officials say they have not detected any contamination after a tunnel collapsed at a nuclear waste site in Washington state.
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Today the site holds up to 56 million gallons of chemical and nuclear waste and the federal government is overseeing a decadeslong cleanup effort there.
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No final decision has been made, but Croatia needs to take over half of the nuclear waste from NEK, which lies in Slovenia, by 2023.
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"The Una Nature Park is yet another defense mechanism against Croatia's nuclear waste disposal plans," said Srebrenka Golic, the environment minister of Bosnia's Serb Republic.
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Though disposing of nuclear waste remains a concern, the state wants to subsidize nuclear plants upstate because of the steady, carbon-free power they provide.
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That represents all the nuclear waste from every commercial reactor in the United States since 1957 — no more than a football field 10 yards deep.
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Her shirt is a protest against a storage facility of nuclear waste on Lanyu, the land of the Tao — another subset of Taiwan's original population.
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Workers Have Found a &aposSignificant&apos Nuclear Waste Leak At a Washington Storage SiteA slow, ongoing nuclear waste leak at a storage facility in Washington State has escalated over the …Read more ReadKing-2101 News, which broke the story of the expanded waste leak at Hanford site's AY-226 storage tank, is now reporting evidence of a second tank breach, citing anonymous sources familiar with the situation.
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Jay InsleeJay Robert InsleeAndrew Yang promises mass pardon to those imprisoned for nonviolent marijuana offenses 13 states file lawsuit over Trump 'public charge' rule Harris unveils plan to combat domestic terrorism MORE (D-Wash.) and Kate Brown (D-Ore.) said the federal government should provide enough funding to "accelerate the safe and efficient cleanup of nuclear waste at Hanford," a nuclear waste site in southeast Washington.
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The Energy Department would like to move that nuclear waste to a facility near Carlsbad, N.M., where it would be stored deep underground in salt formations.
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But President Donald Trump's proposed 2018 budget provides $120 million to restart licensing and for development of interim nuclear waste sites until Yucca can be completed.
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It focuses on a security guard who's called into a nuclear-waste facility to investigate the death of a worker who suffered from unbelievable radiation burns.
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Trump is adopting President Barack Obama's approach to the politically tricky question of where to put the nuclear waste accumulating at power plants around the country.
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From systematically enslaving women to creating nuclear waste work camps, Fred (Joseph Fiennes) and Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) had a major hand in destroying the United States.
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The experimental fast-breeder reactor, once dubbed the "dream reactor," was designed to produce more plutonium than it consumes, thus minimizing the amount of nuclear waste.
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The Bure site is designed so that nuclear waste could be retrieved for the first 100 years if scientists find a better solution than burying it.
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Image: Ted Warren/APEarlier this week, we heard alarming reports of a "significant" nuclear waste leak at Hanford, the largest radioactive waste dumpsite in the country.
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While serving as governor of Texas, he said Nevadans shouldn't be forced to house the country's nuclear waste in their state if they don't want to.
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That being said, storing low-level nuclear waste at or near the surface has been okayed in many countries, including the US, UK, Netherlands and Japan.
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While much of the Australian outback might not be good for hosting (human) life, it could be a great place to dump the world's nuclear waste.
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Sweden has similar plans to store nuclear waste deep underground but the plan got postponed after an environmental court put its safety in question last year.
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With Reid out and Perry in under the next administration, we can expect to see a change in legislation regarding our national nuclear waste disposal plan.
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Trump's 2018 budget included $120 million for addressing nuclear waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain and other projects, but most of the state's politicians oppose that project.
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That has helped make Rosatom the world's most active nuclear supplier as it chases export deals by offering everything from financing help to nuclear waste disposal.
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House Republicans are trying to make sure the Obama administration doesn't completely close off the possibility of a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
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Energy Solutions' business — disposing of low-level nuclear waste in the Utah desert — led to people calling the arena the Dump, the Isotope and Radium Stadium.
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According to Reuters, the government is waiting on a report from nuclear experts before it decides what to do about its growing collection of nuclear waste.
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YUCCA MOUNTAIN FIGHT HEATS BACK UP: A House committee on Wednesday kicked off a fresh fight over the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility in Nevada.
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If there's one lesson to be learned here, it's that letting a nuclear waste plant sit in a tinder box seems like a really bad idea.
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However, it has support among many members of Congress eager to see nuclear waste shipped out of their states and stored at a secure, central facility.
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He takes us into caves in England, the catacombs of Paris, a nuclear-waste containment site in Finland and sea caves in Norway, among other places.
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The women also took trips, uninvited, to the state offices and asked for meetings so they explain why they believed the nuclear waste posed a threat.
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Even with these low-end estimates, We should be able to get 17 billion years of free power—without any carbon dioxide emissions or nuclear waste.
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That could pose a concern because Mr. Erdogan has not said how he would handle its nuclear waste, which could provide the fuel for a weapon.
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In June 2017, he testified at a House hearing that officials had a "moral obligation" to fund the site and continue with the nuclear waste proposal.
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The federal government has long had an eye on Yucca Mountain as a potential place to store nuclear waste; however, efforts have been continually held up.
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Politico reported that Conaway's wife purchased stock in a nuclear firm just after Conaway sponsored a bill to deal with nuclear waste storage in his district.
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The vast majority of those delays remain in place while the lawmakers demand concessions on issues such as ethanol regulations, marijuana, disaster funding and nuclear waste.
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And then there are ones that seem both straight-faced and terrible — like the nuclear waste obstacle course that could (but probably won't) line our southern border.
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It also recommended South Australia build a government-owned nuclear waste dump, saying the facility could generate A$100 ($73.5) billion for the state over 120 years.
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However, agency scientists also issued a report admitting that they didn't really know exactly what else was buried along with the nuclear waste all those decades ago.
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A study predicted that the flooding of the mine would increase in the future, leading to uncontrollable water that could potentially carry the nuclear waste with it.
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He added that there is a possibility that nuclear waste could be stored at a private storage facility while the construction on the Yucca site is finished.
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Although the thought of so much nuclear waste going into the planet is terrifying, any communication about that danger will need more than fear for its longevity.
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The nuclear waste measure, they said would fast-track permitting decisions for the Yucca Mountain waste repository in Nevada despite the state's longstanding objections to the project.
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Why it matters: Congress already decided, in 1987, that Yucca would be the nation's sole disposal site for high-level nuclear waste from energy and weapons activities.
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Striking a nuclear plant or the cooling ponds in which nuclear waste is stored wouldn't set off a mushroom cloud or kill hundreds of thousands of people.
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But opponents, including Nevada's two senators, already are mobilizing to halt the project's momentum, again casting doubts on the nation's efforts to establish a nuclear waste repository.
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House Republicans are asking Congress' watchdog agency to investigate whether the Energy Department has the ability to complete a key step toward establishing a nuclear waste facility.
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Since it won't have easy access to a nuclear-waste storage facility, plans call for the plant to keep spent fuel onboard for up to 12 years.
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Parts of WIPP were rendered unusable after a February 2014 explosion of a disposal drum containing a volatile mix of nuclear waste and carbon-based kitty litter.
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Yet there was one proposal in particular that defied easy categorization: a wall that consisted of a chain link fence and a trench filled with nuclear waste.
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In any case, we decided to take the proposal in good faith and investigated whether building a wall of nuclear waste is at all feasible or advisable.
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As governor, she has also been embroiled in the thorny issue of nuclear waste amid federal facilities in the state aimed at storing and converting such materials.
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Today, the facility houses 56 million gallons of chemical and nuclear waste, and the federal government is overseeing a clean-up effort there that could take decades.
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When it comes to nuclear waste we need to think about how we pass the knowledge, the story of what that waste is, onto generations to come.
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Detractors focus on the high costs of nuclear energy and point out that the US still doesn't exactly know what to do with all its nuclear waste.
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In the late 1970s and early 1980s, NASA explored ejecting nuclear waste into space and directing it towards the sun, but the move was considered too expensive.
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Dean Heller (R-Nev.), an opponent of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in his home state, is blocking a nominee to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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In the early-90s, for example, North Korea began refusing IAEA access to two nuclear waste disposal sites and threatened to ditch the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
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Workers Have Found a &aposSignificant&apos Nuclear Waste Leak At a Washington Storage SiteA slow, ongoing nuclear waste leak at a storage facility in Washington State has escalated over the …Read more ReadLocated just a few miles north of Richland in eastern Washington, the Hanford site houses 53 million gallons of some of the most toxic material on Earth—radioactive sludge leftover from the world's first full-scale plutonium reactor.
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BURE, France (Reuters) - The 82 residents of the French village of Bure lived a quiet life until the government began testing the feasibility of storing nuclear waste there.
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Shares in EDF had sunk to all-time lows earlier this week after the country's Andra nuclear waste agency warned storage costs could be higher than EDF's estimates.
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Due to the timescales involved when handling nuclear waste, designing deep geological repositories like WIPP is one of the most challenging engineering problems ever faced by our species.
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"We have 177 of these tanks, containing the bulk of America's high-level nuclear waste," Tom Carpenter, executive director of the environmental watchdog group Hanford Challenge, told Gizmodo.
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In a Swiss village, support for siting a nuclear-waste dump nearby fell when the residents were offered compensation; they did not like the idea of being bribed.
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But to keep the birds from getting too comfortable, fake coyotes stand guard amid the canisters of nuclear waste and snarl from the tops of plastic traffic cones.
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By then, Harry Reid (D-NV) was the Senate majority leader — and he opposed shoving "nuclear waste down a community's throat," he said in a statement in 2015.
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Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada questioned Perry about long-stalled plans to store the nation's nuclear waste at a facility in Yucca Mountain, located in her home state.
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The Democratic lawmaker has introduced legislation that would require states to consent to storing high levels of nuclear waste — giving them the ability to refuse to accept it.
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Perry said he would work closely with the committee to find a solution to storing nuclear waste, but did not offer specifics on how he would do that.
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High-level nuclear waste is kept in giant pools of water for a decade to allow it to cool off before being transferred to dry containers for storage.
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Not only is Yucca Mountain in a seismically and volcanically active region, Macfarlane told me, "it's an oxidizing environment," which would create potentially unstable conditions for nuclear waste.
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A small robot is roving around a massive U.S. nuclear waste site to gather critical samples of potential air and water contamination after an emergency was declared Tuesday.
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"The Great Lakes are the largest freshwater body on the planet," said Taylor, who thinks OPG should keep all of its nuclear waste away from the Great Lakes.
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Wallerberdina is co-leased by Grant Chapman, a retired Liberal Party lawmaker who in 1995 chaired a Senate committee that called for a central repository for nuclear waste.
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HBO host John Oliver used his Sunday show to highlight the way the United States disposes of nuclear waste, which he said could lead to "catastrophic" health concerns.
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The Trump administration believes that solution is a long-delayed plan to store all of the country's nuclear waste at a facility located deep inside Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
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Lewis believes that essential government functions like protecting nuclear waste (Department of Energy), food safety and feeding the poor (Agriculture) and predicting the weather (Commerce) are under threat.
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Episode 4 : A Nuclear Vault Motherboard visits a nuclear waste site near Kincardine, Ontario, on the shores of Lake Huron and a stone's throw from the Great Lakes.
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The country's plans to build a facility that recycles nuclear waste into fuel could finally come to fruition in a few years, said the company building the plant.
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Nuclear waste to be carted to Yucca Mountain for permanent storage would have to travel along the tracks, within a half-mile of the hotel, Mr. Heller said.
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In other words, the first person to get cancer due to the earliest likely loss of containment of nuclear waste at Yucca Flats has not yet been born.
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Under the plan, the utilities are to transfer 23.3 billion euros ($26.10 billion) in funds to the state, along with responsibility and liability for storing their nuclear waste.
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Supporters and opponents of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site in Nevada are ramping up their advocacy efforts in hopes of swaying Congress and the Trump administration.
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Underground disposal is considered to be the best solution for nuclear waste, as radioactive material takes thousands of years to decay, according to the World Nuclear Association (WNA).
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Kirk registers to lobby MORE (R-Ill.) is using the bill to try to stop a proposed Canadian nuclear waste site right on the shore of Lake Huron.
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Whatever deal moves forward, Congress must not pass up another opportunity to fund the completion of the permit review process for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.
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The candidates, though, largely still don't have an answer to the question of where to put the nation's over 20,23 tons of nuclear waste, if not under Yucca.
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Nuclear waste is compact — America's total from 60 years would fit in a Walmart — and is safely stored in concrete casks and pools, becoming less radioactive over time.
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The sources familiar with the NNSA's deliberations said there are three basic ways that the physical volume of nuclear waste can be reduced, all of which are costly.
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" How could land that was once leaking toxic nuclear waste—words that have become synonymous with "Do Not Enter"—now be described using words like "pristine" and "refuge?
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Sandia needed help developing a marking system to deter humans from entering America's only active nuclear waste repository, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) for the next 10,000 years.
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In particular, Reid said he was stunned Trump was unaware of the decades' long fight over nuclear waste storage in Yucca Mountain, a program Reid fought hard to kill.
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"We're not going to do deep burial of (nuclear) waste if we had any doubt that it would leak or contaminate the environment," said Andra spokesman Mathieu Saint Louis.
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Sandia needed help developing a marking system to deter humans from entering America's only active nuclear waste repository, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) for the next 21999,0003 years.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry was in the hot seat Wednesday as senators grilled him over his push to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Sen.
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The utilities need money as they must start contributing next year to a 23.6 billion euro fund in exchange for shifting liability for nuclear waste storage to the government.
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The only scenario in which putting nuclear waste near a river makes sense to us is if there's a possibility for gaining crime-fighting superpowers from drinking the water.
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After a decade, the first shipment of nuclear waste intended for permanent storage arrived from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the notorious design site for nuclear weapons in New Mexico.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee's environment panel will hold a hearing on Wednesday to consider a bill that would revive the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada.
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Yucca is the country's only long-term storage facility for nuclear waste -- a status enshrined in federal law -- but state officials have long opposed efforts to store waste there.
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Perry also said the administration wants funding for interim nuclear waste storage sites, although the government needs approval from Congress before it can start the process of establishing those.
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NEVADANS SLAM YUCCA PLAN: Trump's plan to restart the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site licensing process in his budget proposal got a bipartisan tongue-lashing by Nevada's lawmakers. Sen.
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But the Senate, like the House, has many lawmakers worried about the nuclear waste sitting in their states, and they want it taken out and put somewhere here safer.
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The House passed a bill Thursday that seeks to move forward a process toward building the Yucca Mountain facility in Nevada that would store the nation's radioactive nuclear waste.
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More than half of the department's $32.5 billion budget goes to maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal and cleaning up the country's nuclear waste legacy from the Cold War.
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The Trump administration favors storing the nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, and the president's proposed budget for the coming fiscal year includes $120 million to revive the stalled project.
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"An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar" (2007) was about secret sites in the United States, from a nuclear-waste facility to a deliberation room for jury simulations.
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Hanford is home to 177 of these decades-old tanks, and workers have been scrambling to shuffle nuclear waste from tank to tank as they become leaky with age.
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On Tuesday, Perry also raised the prospect of temporarily storing nuclear waste from around the country at the Nevada National Security Site, a former testing ground for nuclear devices.
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In the book's final sections (he calls them "chambers"), he visits a nuclear-waste containment site in Finland and sea caves in Norway, and considers global warming in Greenland.
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While that lawsuit does not address the threat of nuclear waste, it marked the first time that a government agency had taken aggressive action against landfill operator Republic Services.
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Most voters there oppose any plans to restart operations at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, a site first developed in 2002 to permanently house high-level radioactive waste.
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"No other state has licensed a nuclear waste facility like this, and it was all done on Governor Perry's watch," said Charles McDonald, a spokesman for Waste Control Specialists.
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The president, eyeing the battleground state of Nevada, has made clear he opposes a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain, reversing a policy that was made in his name.
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But Shimkus pointed out that his Energy panel spent five-plus hours this week marking up energy-related legislation focused on gas pipelines, storage of nuclear waste and hydropower.
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A site in Finland is set to use a labyrinth of underground tunnels for the storage of nuclear waste, in what could become a template for others to follow.
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His group supports establishing a federal geologic repository for nuclear waste but opposes Yucca due to Nevada's opposition, the federal environmental exemptions given to the project and other factors.
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While working on her thesis at M.I.T. (on designs for an international nuclear waste repository), Ms. Sablone took study breaks by skating the subterranean network of tunnels on campus.
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The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has pointed out that nuclear waste has been transported safely in the country for more than 40 years, which Yucca backers are quick to cite.
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EON, a German utility, registered an annual net loss of €16bn ($18bn) because of costs associated with spinning off its fossil-fuel assets and funding the storage of nuclear waste.
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Besides helping run nuclear power stations, all this will also assist with the growing need to clean up and recycle nuclear waste—and not just because of disasters like Fukushima.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese city has suspended preliminary work on a proposed 100 billion yuan ($20203 billion) nuclear waste processing plant following protests by local residents concerned about health risks.
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"These investments would accelerate progress on fulfilling the federal government's obligations to address nuclear waste, enhance national security, and reduce future taxpayer burden," according to a summary of the budget.
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"Nevada does not want to turn into a nuclear waste dump, and as long as I'm in the U.S. Senate, I'll make sure that Yucca Mountain remains dead," said Sen.
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He spoke of how the Yami had unsuccessfully resisted the use of their homeland, Orchid Island, southeast of Taiwan, as a depository for nuclear waste from power plants on Taiwan.
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According to OPG, which owns Ontario's four nuclear reactors, the safest place for nuclear waste is deep underground, where it can ideally remain undisturbed for hundreds of thousands of years.
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Coal plants and nuclear waste facilities are built in areas where developers expect little political will or power, and the carrot of jobs is usually dangled to sweeten the deal.
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The plan to store long-life nuclear waste 500 meters below ground in impermeable clay has not yet got government approval and is strongly opposed by local groups and environmentalists.
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Ages: Bernstein, 21; Segal, 22Industry: ScienceKnown for: The two are cofounders of Zeno Power Systems, a company that is developing a system to safely turn nuclear waste into clean energy.
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Ages: Bernstein, 21; Segal, 22Industry: ScienceKnown for: The two are cofounders of Zeno Power Systems, a company that is developing a system to safely turn nuclear waste into clean energy.
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The Energy Department controls an area around Yucca Mountain, which the Trump Administration is seeking to make the nation's permanent repository for nuclear waste, a long-disputed project in Nevada.
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Some reports indicate that Saudi Arabia would use the area along the canal as a place to store nuclear waste — just to rub some salt (or uranium) in the wound.
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Former President Jimmy Carter banned nuclear waste reprocessing in 1977 because it chemically unlocks purer streams of uranium and plutonium, both of which could be used to make nuclear bombs.
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The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant — a Department of Energy project on long-term solutions for nuclear waste storage — is now trying to design a warning that can last thousands of years.
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Rosatom is the world's only integrated nuclear firm, providing a one stop shop from uranium enrichment to handling nuclear waste, after its two biggest rivals Areva and Westinghouse hit financial troubles.
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The trailer opens with idyllic images bathed in golden light: newborn babies being cuddled by blue-draped Wives; Unwomen going to work in the nuclear waste fields: You know, the usual.
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Five years later, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant received its first shipment of nuclear waste, and will continue receiving shipments until the 2030s, at which point it will be permanently sealed.
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For instance, in a nuclear waste area, or in training for a war zone… any time you want to experience or manipulate the meatspace without actually being turned into ground beef.
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The future Cigeo site is designed to cover an area of 600 hectares and have 250 kilometers of underground galleries where nuclear waste would be buried in huge rust-proof cylinders.
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Another idea was simply to bury the waste and forget about it, which raises a significant ethical issue: Do we have an obligation to warn future generations about our nuclear waste?
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But the commission hasn't restarted the hearings necessary to weigh stakeholder concerns about the project — and it would need to, if Yucca Mountain were ever to become a nuclear waste repository.
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It has received more than 171,000 containers of nuclear waste to date, according to a WIPP spokesperson, and recently resumed operations after being closed for three years due to a leak.
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Since we've yet to come to an agreement as to the best way to store our nuclear waste, we've compiled a handy guide describing the best and worst nuclear storage methods.
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This was not because the feds were worried about the overnight rupture of a new continental margin, but because they were hoping to bury the nation's nuclear waste beneath Yucca Mountain.
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Officials cited a recent study that found global warming could eventually unearth millions of liters of sewage, chemicals and nuclear waste stored deep below the Greenland Ice Sheet at Camp Century.
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On Thursday senators tackled the radioactive question of the nation's nuclear waste, this time with a new plan to circumvent the hot-potato politics that doomed Yucca Mountain and other proposals.
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HOUSE VOTES TO ADVANCE YUCCA NUCLEAR SITE: The House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to pass a bill that seeks to move forward a process toward building the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility.
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With the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, the subject of creating a safe, secure, and permanent repository for handling the nation's high-level radioactive waste has been a divisive issue.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission greatly underestimated the risk and potential contamination of a nuclear waste fire triggered by a quake or a planned attack, experts writing in the journal "Science" said.
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Perry has championed efforts to have his home state of Texas store both low- and high-level nuclear waste, something that could bode well for his support of the nuclear sector.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French police launched a surprise operation at dawn on Thursday to evict protesters from a site earmarked for storage of nuclear waste in the Bure area of eastern France.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Tuesday warned that the United States could suffer a nuclear disaster like Japan's Fukushima catastrophe if it does not find a solution for its nuclear waste.
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The state agreed to let the company expand a nuclear waste storage site in return for a promise by the utility to generate or purchase power from wind and biomass plants.
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Experts in nuclear waste management say the success of the Finnish project is due in part to how it was presented to the people who would be most affected by it.
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"Clean air and clean water and getting the nuclear waste off our coast ... are not partisan issues," said Levin, who also opposes the Trump administration's plan to rollback environmental emission regulations.
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"These investments would accelerate progress on fulfilling the federal government's obligations to address nuclear waste, enhance national security, and reduce future taxpayer burden," according to a summary of the budget proposal.
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The Data Store was the cybersecurity equivalent of nuclear waste—a vast repository of personal, financial, and corporate information, sensitive government records, and whatever else had been exposed on the Deep Web.
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The Obama administration -- and Reid -- have stopped any progress, but given that there is still no solution to the nuclear waste issue, there is no guarantee a Yucca closure will be permanent.
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"I have decided cases for Native Americans seeking to protect tribal lands, for class actions like one that ensured compensation for victims of nuclear waste pollution by corporations in Colorado," he said.
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Researchers sent a nuclear waste container on a 14,500-mile odyssey by truck, barge, cargo ship, and train in an effort to understand how well radioactive fuel would stand up to travel.
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"I am committed to modernizing our nuclear stockpile, promoting and developing American energy in all forms, advancing the department's critical science and technology mission, and carefully disposing of nuclear waste," he said.
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Among the challenges would be physically dismantling and decontaminating the plutonium and uranium enrichment plants and the 5MWe reactor, and safely disposing of the radioactive fuel and nuclear waste, the report said.
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"I am committed to modernizing our nuclear stockpile, promoting and developing American energy in all forms, advancing the department's critical science and technology mission, and carefully disposing of nuclear waste," he said.Sen.
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To them, the chance of nuclear meltdowns or other disasters, combined with the nuclear waste that plants produce, precludes giving nuclear the environmentally friendly label that wind, solar and other renewables enjoy.
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A third of Americans live within 50 miles of significant nuclear waste, Oliver said on "Last Week Tonight," joking that there is not a "nuclear toilet" to appropriately dispose of the materials.
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STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - One person died and another was injured in a tunnel collapse at France's future nuclear waste storage site in the northeast of the country, local authorities said on Tuesday.
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She also said the government would provide compensation to the Yami before a decision was made on where to store the nuclear waste deposited on Orchid Island for the past 30 years.
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Some of her past pieces include a feature story on a massive dome of nuclear waste on an island in the Pacific and in-depth reportage on a nascent Cuban internet culture.
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"I am committed to modernizing our nuclear stockpile, promoting and developing American energy in all forms, advancing the department's critical science and technology mission and carefully disposing of nuclear waste," he said.
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In the aftermath of this catastrophic event, which displaced some 174,000 locals, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) decided it was time to update the national protocols for storing spent nuclear waste.
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If commercialized, the benefits would be tremendous: plentiful power without carbon emissions or long-lived nuclear waste, all running on deuterium and tritium, which can be found in water and lithium, respectively.
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While a nuclear waste expert told Business Insider that visitors can expect "very minimal" radiation exposure, they are still advised not to touch any dogs, artifacts, trees, or building walls during tours.
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The Department of Energy's main concern is managing and securing the country's stockpile of nuclear weapons and, to a lesser degree, managing the nation's nuclear power plants and cleaning up nuclear waste.
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Past heads of the U.S. Department of Energy, which is charged with advancing U.S. energy security and technology and dealing with nuclear waste disposal, have typically boasted a political or academic background.
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It had another Finland-like recommendation as well: that responsibility for nuclear waste be taken from the Energy Department and put in the hands of an organization created solely for that purpose.
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A government-appointed commission chaired by Green ex-environment minister Juergen Trittin is trying to decide how to apportion the costs for the decommissioning of plants and the storage of nuclear waste.
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This type of citizen participation was also realized in South Australia to decide on the disposition of nuclear waste, a topic too toxic for party politics and too divisive for a referendum.
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Professor Rod Ewing is the co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and led a recent initiative – Reset of America's Nuclear Waste Management Strategy and Policy.
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The combination of rare and high-profile events like Chernobyl and Fukushima along with growing stockpiles of nuclear waste means that nuclear energy is still shunned by many voters and politicians. Sen.
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Before even one case of cancer due to loss of nuclear waste containment can be anticipated, the direct and indirect death toll from climate change globally likely will be in the millions.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The German cabinet is due to take a decision on final funding from Germany's top utilities in return for handing over responsibility for the storage of nuclear waste on Oct.
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ROKKASHO, Japan — More than 21 years ago, when its economy seemed invincible and the Sony Walkman was ubiquitous, Japan decided to build a recycling plant to turn nuclear waste into nuclear fuel.
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The cleanup effort at the facility still generates huge amounts of nuclear waste, and Tokyo Electric doesn't expect to begin clearing fuel debris from the destroyed reactor cores until into the next decade.
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Kate Lunau is a force in Canada, regularly writing or pulling in stories about weird holes, strange whales, prospective nuclear waste sites, and shotgun-wielding guards who protect Arctic bases from polar bears.
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Society will need to know long into the future—even hundreds or thousands of years hence—where nuclear waste has been stored, what it consists of, when it was deposited and so on.
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Leslie Dewan, a nuclear engineer who founded a company that is trying to generate cheap electricity from nuclear waste, also had a brief conversation with Mr. Page at the Solve For X conference.
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Belgian media reported this week that Brussels attackers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui had video recordings of the home of a senior official at the Mol nuclear waste facility in the Flanders region.
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Catherine Cortez Masto, who now holds Reid's seat, has introduced legislation that would require states to consent to storing high levels of nuclear waste — giving Nevada the ability to refuse to accept it.
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Any major incident—a meltdown, a radioactive leak, nuclear waste getting into the groundwater—would have devastating consequences for much of New York State and for a certain metropolis that abuts the Hudson.
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But at some not-too-distant point, when conservatives capture the entire government, they'll be able to implement this blueprint, the Ryan budget, that should have been made into nuclear waste long ago.
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"I could imagine that the government will set up a fund to deal with all the issues at once, including the funding of nuclear waste," said Michael Bormann of law firm Simmons & Simmons.
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The same report said it would cost billions of dollars to transport the waste to another site, and raised the spectre of traffic accidents involving nuclear waste on the highway if it's moved.
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PARIS, March 23 (Reuters) - Redundancies and cost savings are compromising safety at French nuclear group Areva's nuclear waste recyling facility at La Hague in Normandy, the firm's unions say in an internal document.
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Examples abound of cost overruns and long delays with government contracts under prevailing wage rules, from transit projects to nuclear waste facilities to veterans' hospitals — these laws provide no guarantee of improved quality.
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The court's objections to SKB's application, otherwise supported by Sweden's radiation safety authority, were due to concerns over the ability of the designed capsules to contain the nuclear waste in the long term.
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In February 2014, a waste drum overheated and ruptured, causing a fire and releasing plutonium and americium at the DOE's underground nuclear waste repository, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico.
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STUK said Olkiluoto 1 and 2 met the safety and legal requirements that have been set for their lifetimes to be extended and approved the nuclear waste management procedures set out by TVO.
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Notwithstanding the family drama, Reid and Sandoval have often been allies on Nevada-specific issues, fighting against nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain and for the construction of Tesla's Gigafactory battery manufacturing facilities.
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So the idea that we can transmit a message by leaving some sort of monument on the landscape to people in the future to tell them about nuclear waste sites is ludicrous, right?
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Mr. Heller appears to be running for re-election on a dogged effort to prevent the Trump administration from restarting licensing activities at the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump outside of Las Vegas.
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PARIS, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Shares in French utility EDF sank to all-time lows on Tuesday after the country's Andra nuclear waste agency said that storage costs could be higher than EDF's estimates.
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Since the spin-off announcement, shares in E.ON have fallen by 43 percent, with investors pointing to substantial liabilities in relation to the storage of Germany's nuclear waste, which will remain with the company.
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Related: These Works Made from Human Hair Explore the Art of Grief Nuclear Waste Is Art in the Work of Taryn Simon Swim With Balloons and Watch People Puke at the Park Avenue Armory
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Even among the less obviously satirical selections, it's a little hard to tell who's being serious, because a wall of hammocks is only slightly more ridiculous than a 100-foot trench of nuclear waste.
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So far, the US is the only country to commission panels devoted to designing warning messages for the future of nuclear waste dumps, and other countries don't seem to interested in pursuing this problem.
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A massive network of tunnels extending nearly a quarter of a mile into the Earth, WIPP is tasked with safely storing the United States' growing stockpile of nuclear waste for the next million years.
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Why it matters: Based on the results from the study regarding how hydrothermal minerals have strengthened Surtsey's rock, engineers might be able to create stronger concrete that could be used for nuclear-waste containers.
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NEI is working on various major policy priorities, like getting a tax credit renewed for newly built plants, trying to get the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site built and reforming the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Trump's budget includes money to restart licensing to store nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain after Obama halted a plan to use the mountain as a permanent storage facility for nuclear and radioactive waste. Sen.
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Troops scooped up 20013,300 barrels of soil from the most radioactive areas near the craters and loaded the barrels on ships to be buried in a secure nuclear waste storage site in South Carolina.
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Nationwide, part of the risk comes from having to maintain and safeguard so many sites with different types of nuclear waste, said Frank Wolak, head of Stanford University's Program on Energy and Sustainable Development.
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In the meantime, they're grilling Moniz on the administration's policies regarding nuclear waste, including the strategy of planning for interim storage sites and seeking out places that would consent to hosting a waste site.
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The letters, also co-signed by other Democratic senators, ask the GAO to look into how climate change might affect energy infrastructure, nuclear waste storage, flood risk management, Superfund sites and chemical facilities. Sens.
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Yang has previously said he supports the idea of storing nuclear waste at the hotly debated Yucca Mountain site in Nevada, a position not typically well-received by residents in the presidential battleground state.
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Trump already seemed to be making an appeal to Nevada voters when he announced earlier this month his opposition to the decades-delayed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, a reversal of earlier administration policy.
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The study found that this dwarfs the cost of keeping nuclear power plants online by billions of dollars, even when the risks of a meltdown and the cost of nuclear waste storage are considered.
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For Bridgeton, Mo., residents who have been fighting to have the nuclear waste removed since the site was identified in 1970, the decision will be a welcome relief amidst public health and safety concerns.
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Perry fielded questions about his position on climate change, Trump's vision for the coal industry, the agency's focus on nuclear waste and the vulnerability of the electric grid in the face of cyber attacks.
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Congress first approved of using Yucca as a nuclear waste repository back in the 1980s, but Nevada lawmakers — most notably former Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D) — made careers out of stalling the project.
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The White House sought $120 million in Trump's first budget request to restart the licensing process for Yucca Mountain, which Congress designated in 1987 to be the nation's sole repository for high-level nuclear waste.
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The White House sought $120 million in Trump's first budget request to restart the licensing process for Yucca Mountain, which Congress designated in 1987 to be the nation's sole repository for high-level nuclear waste.
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For the past 20 years, French nuclear waste agency Andra has tested the stability of the clay of the northeastern village to see if it could hold radioactive waste for hundreds of thousands of years.
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Why it matters: Nuclear fusion, the process of combining hydrogen atoms rather than splitting them, has long been the clean energy industry's holy grail, promising unlimited output without creating any carbon emissions or nuclear waste.
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Image: US Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board 2011Ultimately, the goal is to remove the waste from the the tanks, encase it in solid glass (a process called vitrification), and bury it deep in the ground.
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Although this hasn't happened yet, based on the reports from a 2016 royal commission in Australia, creating a nuclear storage facility for the world's nuclear waste could bring in some $50 billion for the country.
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Washington River Protection Solutions, a contractor working at the site, on Thursday detected high readings of radiation on a robotic device known as a crawler that workers were pulling out of a nuclear waste tank.
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"We are not aware of any nuclear waste leaking outside the AZ-101 double-shelled tank, but we expect the US Department of Energy to immediately investigate and report on the source of contamination," Gov.
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"From slashing funding for important public lands programs to its renewed effort to revive the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, the President's budget request contains several anti-Nevada provisions," he said in a statement. Sen.
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Certainly, the facts of this case should first be revisited by the EPA, the Department of Energy (because the site contains nuclear waste, DOE is a responsible party in the cleanup), and the White House.
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Investors are considering several truly revolutionary reactor concepts, including molten-salt and metallic-fuel reactors, which will dramatically improve safety, consume existing nuclear waste and cost much less to build than conventional heavy-water reactors.
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"After the transition to renewable energy, the real breakthrough technologically is nuclear fusion," Casula said, adding the process involved recreating the physics of the sun, producing heat but no emissions and very limited nuclear waste.
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"I am committed to modernizing our nuclear stockpile, promoting and developing American energy in all forms, advancing the department's critical science and technology mission, and carefully disposing of nuclear waste," he said during his hearing.
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But, a smaller reactor, at least the water-cooled reactors that are most likely to be built earliest, will produce more, not less, nuclear waste per unit of electricity they generate because of lower efficiencies.
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Related: It Is About Leaving a Mark: A First Look Inside Russia's New Contemporary Art Museum Ping Pong, Dumplings, and DIY T-Shirts as Art Nuclear Waste Is Art in the Work of Taryn Simon
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But that project — the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository — has been tied up in permitting red-tape and politics, as Nevada's elected leaders have aimed to protect their state from catastrophe if something goes wrong.
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The program is part of a theme week on PBS that also includes "Containment," an "Independent Lens" film about nuclear waste, on Monday; and "The Nuclear Option," a "Nova" episode about nuclear power, on Wednesday.
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His proposal to restart licensing for a nuclear waste repository in Yucca Mountain, in Nevada, creates a headache for Senator Dean Heller, a Republican who is up for re-election in that state next year.
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It's around 2025, and Abby Dixon (Sarah Habel) is a loyal engineer for the Auxilisun company, whose tri-fission engine saved the world from a fossil-fuel crisis by converting nuclear waste into usable energy.
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Other reports, from Saudi's Al-Riyadh newspaper, suggest the kingdom would construct a military base on one part of the border, while the other portion would be used as a dumping ground for nuclear waste.
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The United States produces some 2,000 metric tons of nuclear waste each year, which is currently stored in pools or in steel casks at the nation's roughly 60 commercial nuclear power plants across 30 states.
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Just nine months away from the 2020 election, Trump tweeted that he opposed the nuclear waste repository in the remote highlands of Nevada, a state Republicans hope to turn red after years of trending toward Democrats.
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In practice, though, the department's main responsibilities are overseeing the US nuclear weapons program, handling nuclear waste, running a set of national laboratories that conduct science and technological research, and funding R&D related to energy.
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DUMPING NUCLEAR WASTE INTO THE OCEAN I feel as though I probably don't have to explain to you why dumping the most toxic materials on Earth into the source of all life is a bad idea.
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As the name suggests, DGRs involve burying the nuclear waste in vast networks of tunnels about a half of a mile beneath the Earth's surface, and then backfilling these tunnels with concrete, salt and other materials.
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Ruben Kihuen, Dina Titus and Jacky Rosen would introduce a bill requiring states, local governments and tribes to sign off on a long-term host site for nuclear waste before allowing construction on such a facility.
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A commission recommended in April that Germany's "big four" power firms - E.ON, RWE, EnBW and Vattenfall - pay a total 23.3 billion euros ($26 billion) to remove unwanted long-term liability for the storage of nuclear waste.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted 2-1 to begin holding "virtual meetings" and hear from the public about reconstructing a database of documents related to the proposed plan to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
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The writer is executive director of Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED Coalition) and a member of No Nuclear Waste Aqui, a group that opposes radioactive waste storage or disposal in the Texas/New Mexico region.
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He's setting out this November to teach a duo of Marshallese citizen scientists how to test for the presence of two key radioactive rare earth elements, by collecting sea water from a single nuclear waste site.
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Heller has introduced legislation that would permit the construction of a nuclear waste repository only if the Energy secretary receives written consent from the governor of the host state, affected local officials and affected Indian tribes.
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"It's so crazy that a [toxic] site can be listed like ours, and then overnight we lose contact with the federal agency responsible for overseeing it," said one activist who lives near a nuclear waste site.
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Ruben Kihuen, Dina Titus and Jacky Rosen would introduce a bill requiring states, local governments and tribes to all agree on a long-term host site for nuclear waste before allowing construction on such a facility.
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We take you to the incinerators that turn waste into ash, and go inside glowing white rooms where row upon row of massive containers hold high-level nuclear waste—these containers are warm to the touch.
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He explores an underground laboratory in Yorkshire where scientists attempt to study the dark matter formed at the universe's birth, and an icy hiding place in Olkiluoto, Finland, where preparations are underway to store nuclear waste.
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Most people think of Homer Simpson when they think of nuclear power, but the truth is that we have much safer nuclear technology that doesn't result in unmanageable nuclear waste or a significant threat of meltdown.
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Congress designated Yucca Mountain in 1987 to be the eventual home for all U.S. high-level nuclear waste, and in 2002, President George W. Bush approved a measure for the Energy Department to proceed on construction.
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It also contains $150 million to kickstart the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, a priority for Trump and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, but one that has garnered opposition from Nevada officials and lawmakers.
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Steve Sisolak (D) will not attend meetings at the White House this week in protest of the Trump administration's decision to secretly ship 1,85033 pounds of plutonium to a nuclear waste facility outside of Las Vegas.
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"It's not the volume of the nuclear waste that's the issue, but the radioactivity and heat it gives off as well as the fact that it remains dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years," he said.
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Giving up on the plant means the administration will abandon plans to turn the weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors, and will instead switch to a process that dilutes the plutonium into nuclear waste.
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Washington (CNN)The incredible saga of the controversial nuclear waste depository in Yucca Mountain, Nevada, roughly 90 miles outside of Las Vegas, was rekindled Wednesday when Donald Trump twice ducked the issue during a local TV interview.
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On a smaller scale, Erich Berger and Mari Keto's "Open Care" (2016) imagines nuclear waste passed down through heirloom objects — bronze disks pocked with steel pellets — through which each person would take responsibility for monitoring its storage.
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The company is currently working to develop a waste-annihilating molten salt reactor, a reactor that converts high-level nuclear waste into clean, carbon-free electric power that eliminates the awful waste generated by most nuclear reactors.
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But I sure wish someone would have told this to the 2503 countries that used the ocean as a dumping ground for nuclear waste from 1946 until 1993, when the practice was finally banned by international treaties.
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"No other state has licensed a nuclear waste facility like this, and it was all done on Governor Perry's watch," Charles McDonald, a spokesman for the private company that was to run the facility, told the newspaper.
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Other countries, including the United States have plans to reduce the physical volume of their mounting nuclear waste but a decades-old U.S. plan to bury waste in Nevada's Yucca Mountain has been stopped by local opposition.
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The industry's congressional allies are expected next year to make a new push to enact nuclear waste legislation that could lead to construction of the Yucca Mountain waste site in Nevada, along with short-term disposal areas.
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Still, it only resumed operations this February after nearly three years of cleanup, with an estimated cost of about $1003 billion after everything's said and done, and left many people understandably skittish about nuclear waste storage underground.
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A two-year initiative to "Reset Nuclear Waste Policy" conducted by Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) went even further: recommending that the process be moved to a private corporation or non-profit organization.
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In 2012, Pete Wells delivered a now infamous scathing New York Times review of Guy's American Kitchen & Bar—in which he compared a blue drink to "nuclear waste" and gave the restaurant 0 out of 4 stars.
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Technical advancements in the science of reprocessing nuclear waste has now made it possible to reuse much of the material that would have gone into storage and, in fact, reprocess for use by the nuclear power industry.
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"Back in 2008, drug applications that involved substances which could conceivably cause cancer were treated like nuclear waste by the FDA," H.C. Wainwright analyst Raghuram Selvaraju, who had expected an approval, told Reuters ahead of the decision.
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In 2013, Judge Kavanaugh and Merrick Garland, the appellate judge President Barack Obama unsuccessfully nominated to the Supreme Court in 2016, were on opposite sides of a case over the federal government's procedures for storing nuclear waste.
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The public battle over where to store Australia's growing pile of medical nuclear waste — including low- and intermediate-level waste like contaminated plastic containers and protective clothing from nuclear research — stretches back years, and several aborted sites.
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It would be the first of its kind in Canada if it goes ahead, and in this video, we travel to Kincardine and ask the mayor and local residents their thoughts on hosting a nuclear waste dump.
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Senator Dean Heller of Nevada, perhaps the most endangered Republican up for re-election in 2018, has decided to wage his campaign solely on opposing Mr. Trump's efforts to revive a nuclear waste dump in his state.
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And Trump did not include funding for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, yielding to the preference of local officials there after including funding for the site in each of his past three budgets.
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The federal government designated Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the sole permanent U.S. nuclear waste repository decades ago to solve the problem, spending about $13 billion on the project, but it has never opened due to local opposition.
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If you want to do well in the West, you have to come to Nevada because we educate people in public lands, we advise them on renewable energy, we educate on nuclear waste, how bad it is.
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Other agencies that primarily have appointments without Senate approval include the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, the Commission on Civil Rights, the Arctic Research Commission, and the Committee for Purchase from People who are Blind or Severely Disabled.
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It would be an intimidating scene for anyone who doesn't endorse those views, but Cortez Masto, a Democrat, seems energized; even after a busy morning taking Rick Perry to task over nuclear waste in his Senate confirmation hearing.
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Read More: The Plan to Build a Million-Year Nuclear Waste Dump on the Great Lakes Since the concept was first developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1960s, it's been touted as a safer alternative.
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"We have to be satisfied that the plans they are putting in place will, in fact, do a better job of controlling contamination," Alex Smith, nuclear waste program manager at Washington state's Department of Ecology, told BuzzFeed News.
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Video: YouTube GIVE ALL THE NUCLEAR WASTE TO AUSTRALIA The world's largest trailer park, sometimes called Australia, is known for many things, including poor decision making, kangaroos, and the fact that 70 percent of the country is desert.
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"The idea that Nevada should be used as nothing more than a dumping ground for the rest of the country's nuclear waste is opposed by most Nevadans, Democrat and Republican alike," Kihuen, whose district hosts Yucca Mountain, said.
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Nuclear waste can be couched in clay kitty litter for transport and storage to absorb liquid residue, but organic litter contains plant material, and this created a chemical reaction that caused the waste's storage container to burst open.
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"A geological disposal facility is widely accepted as the only realistic way to dispose of higher activity nuclear waste for the long term," Iain Stewart, director of the Sustainable Earth Institute, Plymouth University said in the BEIS statement.
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And in the Marshall Islands, where the United States detonated more than a hundred tests in a span of 15 years, rising tides due to climate change are threatening to flood nuclear waste sites and former testing grounds.
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The panel's other energy and environment priorities include potentially reauthorizing the legislation for the Department of Energy, amending the Clean Air Act and working to restart planning and construction of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site in Nevada.
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Among the unsuccessful bidders was Clayton Industries, a Pittsburgh-based outfit that envisioned a 30-foot wall reinforced by sensors, an electrified chain-link fence and a railroad track dumping nuclear waste into a 100-foot deep moat.
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OLKILUOTO ISLAND, Finland — Beneath a forested patch of land on the Gulf of Bothnia, at the bottom of a steep tunnel that winds for three miles through granite bedrock, Finland is getting ready to entomb its nuclear waste.
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The record loss and expectations the energy group will soon make a decision on whether to sell new shares to raise money for nuclear waste provisions hit its stock price, which was down 20.30 percent by 22017 GMT.
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From ferrying people to and from their place of work to transporting nuclear waste and coal, railways are not only an integral part of 21st century life but have played a crucial role in shaping the modern world.
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The natural background risk of radiation increases with altitude such that just two round trips by plane from the East to the West coast exceeds the risk level of protection used as a ceiling for nuclear waste risk.
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If the legislation becomes law, it would bring Yucca closer to reality, 85033 years after Congress decided — over the objections of the state of Nevada — to designate the site as the nation's repository for high-level nuclear waste.
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"Obviously, if the science is so definitive as to show that the site is unsafe, I don't think it's in the interest of anyone to dispose of nuclear waste and endanger the lives of Americans anywhere," he said.
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She's fairly certain her mother was sent to the so-called Colonies to clean up nuclear waste in what was essentially a death sentence, which is Gilead's preferred means for dealing with radicals, but she can't be certain.
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The firm's assurance to future generations is that if, in tens of thousands of years, a future Finn digs a 1003-metre-deep well and draws water contaminated with 21st-century nuclear waste, it will be safe to drink.
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As Mr Pearce observes, similar attention is rarely given to various studies demonstrating that no link exists between nuclear plants and local cancer rates, nor the painstaking schemes, such as those in Germany, to safely dispose of nuclear waste.
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France has a project to store long-life nuclear waste 500 metres below ground in impermeable clay in Bure, eastern France, but the plan has not yet received government approval and is strongly opposed by local groups and environmentalists.
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When Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, declared last spring that no presidential candidates "in their right mind" would support opening the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste depository, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, one of the Republican candidates, seemed unmoved.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will ship 700 kilograms of nuclear waste to the United States under a deal to be announced by Prime Minister David Cameron at a nuclear security summit in Washington on Thursday, a British government source said.
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In return for the shipment, the largest ever movement of highly enriched uranium, the United States will send Europe a different type of nuclear waste that can be used to produce medical isotopes for the treatment of some cancers.
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Utilities were also firmer with Germany's E.ON, RWE up 4.7 percent and 7.9 percent respectively, reversing initial weakness after news that German utilities will be asked to pay 23.3 billion euros to cover the costs of nuclear waste storage.
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The German government could ask its utilities to make an additional payment of 6-18 billion euros in order to avoid long-term liability for the storage of nuclear waste from decommissioned plants, three sources told Reuters on Tuesday.
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SKB's application for the nuclear waste repository, needed to replace an interim storage facility it is currently using, was dealt a blow earlier this year when an environmental court said it was not sure of the proposed plan's safety.
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I have also encouraged the development of a nuclear waste processing facility collocated with the storage facility to provide an ongoing method to reuse the waste and provide a long-term energy source for the nation's growing energy needs.
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EnBW had suspended its dividend for 2016, the first time it did so in 13 years, blaming a deep net loss caused by the transfer of cash for the handling of nuclear waste storage to a state-run fund.
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It points to the immense technical and ethical difficulties involved with the proper storage and disposal of nuclear waste, another reminder that when it comes to nuclear energy and weapons, there is no such thing as a free lunch.
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It was in the last year, and after Mr. Trump's understanding of the potential proximity of nuclear waste to his property, that the president focused on ensuring that everyone in his administration got the message about where he stood.
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Hiatt also faults Sanders' aim to eliminate nuclear energy, which currently powers around 20 percent of the country without emitting any heat-trapping carbon dioxide (Sanders has long-despised nuclear waste — whose deadly byproducts are amassing around the nation).
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The United States is also struggling to support its own nuclear industry at home, with aging reactors shuttering, new projects elusive due to soaring costs, and an ongoing political stalemate over a permanent solution for mounting nuclear waste stockpiles.
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The history of nuclear waste in the St. Louis area dates back to the U.S. atomic bomb program from World War Two and spans an array of nuclear processing facilities, storage sites, material transfers and suspected leaks along the way.
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Wealth Matters SHOULD a Phoenix-area jeweler be able to create his own private insurance company to cover his jewelry stores against possible terrorist attacks, specifically those "relating to radioactivity from a 'dirty' bomb or from nuclear fuel or nuclear waste"?
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Image: A view of the landfill burning in February 2014 / KqueirolomceFor six years, an underground garbage fire has been steadily burning outside of Saint Louis, Missouri, right next to a landfill filled with nuclear waste buried in the mid-70s.
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Another opportunity lies in contracts to take apart nuclear-power stations, notably in Germany, and eventually in France (where ageing plants are scheduled to begin closing in the 2020s), and to manage spent nuclear waste once the plants have shut.
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So to find out what happens to the fuel inside all that packaging, scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, teamed up with the organizations in South Korea and Spain that are tasked with managing their country's nuclear waste.
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Salt deposits have long been considered an ideal place to store nuclear waste due to their stability, ability to contain heat released by radioactive materials, and—in the case of WIPP—a total lack of water flow in the region.
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Water safety is on the rocks: A Canadian energy company is flipping the bird to 200 concerned communities in both Canada and the US by refusing to abort plans to dump nuclear waste on the shores of the Lake Huron.
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"It does not get better than the Bruce site," Earth scientist Mark Jensen, who's been involved in this project since 215, and is now director of DGR Geoscience and Research for Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization, told me in an interview.
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The reality television personality and current US president has revived a controversial plan to bury high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, in Nevada, despite massive local opposition and concern from scientists—including Macfarlane—who say the site is unsuitable.
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STRASBOURG, France, Jan 26 (Reuters) - One person died and another was trapped 500 metres underground when a building structure partially collapsed at France's future nuclear waste storage site in Bure, in northeastern France, the local fire service said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House's 2018 budget plan for the U.S. Department of Energy includes $120 million for nuclear waste programs including the restart of licensing for Nevada's Yucca Mountain, a project stalled for years by lawsuits and local opposition.
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The move signals that President Donald Trump may consider that nuclear waste solutions could extend the lives of existing U.S. nuclear power plants and speed up innovations in next- generation nuclear plants that backers say are safer than previous reactors.
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For example, E.ON had wanted to move its atomic reactor business along with billions of euros in liabilities for cleaning up nuclear waste to Uniper, but was forced by the government to leave them with the business areas it is keeping.
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And Saudi neighbor Qatar was bothered by news reports last year that not only would a canal be dug to separate it from the kingdom but the area between the two countries would be used as a nuclear waste dump.
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It is almost a rite of passage for contenders visiting Iowa for the first time to extol the virtues of ethanol or those visiting Nevada to pledge an end to a federal proposal to store nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain.
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E.ON indicated 0.2 percent higher RWE indicated 0.4 percent higher Uniper indicated unchanged The German government is due to sign the contract for the financing of a nuclear waste fund with power utilities on Monday, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Saturday.
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So he was a little out of his element when Sagan tapped him to create a marking system to deter humans from entering America's only active nuclear waste repository, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), for the next 10,000 years.
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Just last year, local news outlets reported a "leak in a massive nuclear waste storage tank" at Hanford, which some workers called "catastrophic," although the DOE said the leak had been anticipated and the waste had not entered the surrounding environment.
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The move to shut the Monju prototype fast breeder reactor in Fukui prefecture west of Tokyo adds to a list of failed attempts around the world to make the technology commercially viable and potentially cut stockpiles of dangerous nuclear waste.
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The U.S.-backed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty media outlet also published a report concluding that the explosion occurred during a missile-recovery operation, basing its findings on an analysis of photographs of nuclear waste containers and barges at the site.
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Created by scientists Matt Allinson and Keir Little, the bot live tweets Britain's radiated slurry moving to and from nuclear waste storage facility Sellafield using data drawn from RealTimeTrains—a website that displays live running information for the British railway network.
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Republicans on Capitol Hill parted ways with the president not only on many of his deepest cuts but also on some of his smaller proposals, like resurrecting a national nuclear waste repository in Nevada and ending the Great Lakes cleanup program.
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While even Mr. Perry's supporters concede that he has no experience making high-level decisions on nuclear weapons policy, he has had some dealings with the problem of nuclear waste, which also falls under the purview of the Energy Department.
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As governor, Mr. Perry pushed a plan to create a low-level nuclear waste repository in Texas, to be privately run by a Dallas-based company, Waste Control Specialists, which was also a contributor to Mr. Perry's re-election campaigns.
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For the first time in at least seven years, the proposed repository for high-level nuclear waste is on the political agenda in Washington, D.C., and lobbyists are dusting off their playbooks to once again advocate for or against the site.
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"The bill we've negotiated invests in waterways; puts us one step closer to doubling our basic energy research; helps to resolve the nuclear waste stalemate; cleans up hazardous materials at Cold War sites, and maintains our nuclear weapons stockpile," said Sen.
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"NARUC has, for years, been at the forefront advocating for Congress to use the funds collected from ratepayers in the Nuclear Waste Fund to complete a permanent repository and start accepting civilian waste," said James Bradford Ramsay, the group's general counsel.
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Giving up on the recycling plant, though, would be politically difficult, not least because Aomori Prefecture, where it is, has threatened to send the 3,000 metric tons of nuclear waste stored here back to communities around the country with nuclear plants.
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"He may yet yield to enormous pressure from his own party, trade his vote for Yucca Mountain and call it a win," Axelrod said, referencing longtime efforts by Nevada political leaders to block a nuclear waste site in their state.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The German cabinet approved a deal on Wednesday for its top utilities to start paying into a 23.6-billion-euro ($25.9 billion) fund next year in return for shifting liability for nuclear waste storage to the government, a source said.
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The government-appointed commission agreed to ask the power firms to pay 23.3 billion euros ($26.4 billion) into a state fund to cover the costs of nuclear waste storage — close to the minimum sum in a range that had been previously discussed.
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SHANGHAI/PARIS (Reuters) - A deal long sought by French company Areva to build a $12-billion nuclear waste reprocessing plant in China looks increasingly unlikely to go ahead despite a visit to Beijing by President Emmanuel Macron meant to drum up business.
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Although the plan is far from perfect (as a 2014 leak at WIPP goes to show), it's the best we've got for figuring out a way to handle the approximately 250,000 tons of nuclear waste that has been generated around the globe.
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Unlike nuclear fission, which involves splitting heavier atoms to create lighter ones and can produce radioactive waste, fusion produces no environmentally harmful gases, no nuclear waste, it can't be made into a weapon, and it will never cause a power plant meltdown.
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That is a key step in dealing with all the nuclear waste across the complex, from millions of gallons of radioactive liquids in potentially explosive tanks to tons of plutonium oxide sitting in shipping casks that were not designed to store it.
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The House voted 340-303 last month to direct the Department of Energy to resume the licensing process for a nuclear waste facility in Yucca Mountain, a remote section of the Mojave Desert that sits about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
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From rural communities to urban areas to seaports and government installations, railroads not only serve as the primary mode of transport for an array of key products and commodities, but they also regularly transport U.S. military equipment, hazardous nuclear waste and toxic chemicals.
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According to Victor Baker, a professor of planetary surfaces at the University of Arizona who has made a career out of studying nuclear waste storage and disposal, some of the most important factors to consider are proximity to humans and local geology.
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Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.) to send a letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, opposing a provision in Trump's budget that would restart licensing to store nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain.
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" How, Macfarlane asks, do we reckon with the fact that "over a quarter of a million tons of high-level nuclear waste in need of final storage is presently thought to exist globally, with around 12,000 tons being added to the figure annually?
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Importance of stress tolerance: 70Average annual salary: $110,790What they do, according to O*NET: Conduct research on nuclear engineering projects or apply principles and theory of nuclear science to problems concerned with release, control, and use of nuclear energy and nuclear waste disposal.
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Indicated 20.6 percent higher Indicated 0.83 percent higher Nuclear power firms have written a letter to Germany's parliamentarians saying they are prepared to drop some of their numerous legal claims in exchange for handing the bill for nuclear waste storage to the government.
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Energy Minister Segolene Royal's decision on the 10 billion euro gap in estimates could have a huge impact on the already stretched balance sheet of EDF, which operates 58 nuclear plants in France and generates the bulk of the country's nuclear waste.
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President Donald Trump is seeking to woo Nevada voters by abandoning the GOP's decades of support for storing the nation's nuclear waste under a mountain northwest of Las Vegas — a move that could drag the White House into an unsolvable political stalemate.
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WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - The White House's fiscal 2018 budget plan for the U.S. Department of Energy includes $120 million to restart licensing for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a project stalled for years by lawsuits and local opposition.
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In a 85033-page analysis of the proposed nuclear waste repository, staff from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said the Department of Energy (DOE) did not properly account for radioactive contamination of groundwater and the impact if that groundwater reaches the surface.
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Perry said he was generally supportive of a state's right to block the siting of nuclear waste dumps, like Yucca Mountain in Nevada, but fell short of ruling out the federal government's power to impose them over state objections in some cases.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy's nuclear security office is developing a project to help other countries handle nuclear waste, an effort to keep the United States competitive against global rivals in disposal technology, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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The first, called consolidation, reduces the volume of nuclear waste by taking apart spent fuel assemblies and crunching the waste down to two times smaller than the original volume – an approach that is considered costly but which doesn't add much security risk.
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Indeed, nothing about the USFWS mission statement brings nuclear waste monitoring to mind: "Our Mission is to work with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people," it reads.
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Obviously it's not the same as a widespread nuclear waste accident, but I think it's the most widespread, and I would definitely call this the most high-profile and prolonged period I've seen waste in the global press in many, many years.
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Looking around the room, there are photo booths that trick users into silly poses, chances to operate simple robotic arms to pluck fake nuclear waste from chests, and a pachinko machine rebuilt as a Small Hadron Collider which distributes its own Nobel prizes.
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Whether it's the exceptional destructiveness of uranium mining, the fact that there's no good way to store nuclear waste or the lingering risk of a tragedy like Fukushima or Chernobyl in the U.S., the truth is: nuclear power is a cure worse than the disease.
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At a nuclear security summit last week, word leaked of a perplexing deal: The British will send 1,500 pounds of "nuclear waste" to the US, who in turn will give France and Belgium useful nuclear material to make into medical isotopes for diagnosing cancer. Huh?
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RWE, E.ON, EnBW and Vattenfall agreed with the government in October to start contributing this year to a 23.6 billion euro ($24.7 billion) fund in exchange for shifting liability for nuclear waste storage to the state, giving investors greater clarity over the companies' future finances.
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A barricade covered in solar panels, a wall topped by a monorail and an obstacle course in which one of the barriers is a 100-foot ditch full of nuclear waste are just some of the hundreds of proposals the department will choose from.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he opposes the long-delayed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, reversing his policy on a project on which the United States has spent billions of dollars over decades but never opened.
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BERLIN, April 27 (Reuters) - German utilities will be asked to pay 23.3 billion euros ($26.4 billion) into a state fund to cover the costs of nuclear waste storage, members of a nuclear commission tasked with securing funds for the country's nuclear exit said on Wednesday.
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Britain's position on everything from mackerel stocks to nuclear waste is being worked out by a civil service whose headcount has fallen by nearly a quarter in the past decade and which has not negotiated a trade deal of its own in a generation.
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Following the initial call for ideas, a poll was conducted by the German Journal of Semiotics between 1982 and 1983 that asked for proposals addressing the question of how to communicate the dangers of a nuclear waste repository to people 10,000 years in the future.
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Few readers will be aware—so vastly accommodating and patient is the Earth—that at Olkiluoto in Finland, down a road through birch woods and saltmarsh, a "tomb" is being built to hold 6,500 tonnes of nuclear waste with a half-life of 4.46bn years.
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While exposure to this deadly material would undoubtedly be a strong deterrent for many immigrants, it's unlikely that any of the 12 million people along the border on the US side would be gung-ho about living next to a moat filled with nuclear waste.
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In 2014, The Daily Signal highlighted seven instances Obama ignored the law—three of them ignoring ACA—drawing from an extensive Heritage Foundation report detailing Obama's refusal to enforce laws governing labor, welfare work requirements, nuclear waste, appointments, education, voter fraud, immigration, and drugs.
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"It is important that we get a solution in place for the permanent storage of nuclear waste as soon as possible .... Expediting this matter must be prioritised to prevent the process from becoming drawn-out and costly," Vattenfall chief executive Magnus Hall said in April.
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Areva is virtually bankrupt after years of losses wiped out its capital, while EDF needs to find funds to take over Areva's reactor arm, upgrade its own nuclear fleet, build new nuclear plants in Britain, and generate provisions for decommissioning and nuclear waste storage.
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An initial recommendation from an expert commission in April was for Germany's power firms, led by industry leaders E.ON and RWE, to pay a total 23.3 billion euros to remove unwanted long-term liability for the underground storage of nuclear waste from power plants.
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Indicated unchanged RWE will be able to pay the 08553 billion euros ($7.15 billion) requested by the government to fund the costs of storing nuclear waste in one lump sum by the middle of 2017, newspaper Die Welt reported, citing the firm's chief executive.
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Wood has also vowed to steer clear of cases involving the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan and any matter connected to the Energy Department's compliance with laws related to disposing nuclear waste, including issues involving the disposal of nuclear material at Yucca mountain.
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Either it takes the exceedingly unpopular step of imposing a more secure facility on one or more unwilling communities, or it must acknowledge the obvious, which is that the core of Fukushima's exclusion zone will become a gigantic de facto nuclear waste dump indefinitely.
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As head of the department, and chief of the nuclear program, part of Perry's job would be to grapple with long lasting nuclear waste storage—a problem that has plagued the country for decades and has rankled states across the Union with unwanted repositories.
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They've gotten all these people together to brainstorm—archaeologists and linguists and artists—how do you put a sign on nuclear waste sites, so that you can warn people hundreds of thousands or a million years in the future that this is a dangerous site.
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"When you look at the Finnish repository, it's natural to admire the technical accomplishment," said Rodney C. Ewing, a professor at Stanford and former chairman of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, an independent federal agency that reviews Energy Department programs, including Yucca Mountain.
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On Thursday, Mr. Trump tweeted that he was looking to move away from a proposal pushed by his former energy secretary, Rick Perry: storing nuclear waste in Nevada's Yucca Mountain, an effort his two top political advisers, Bill Stepien and Justin Clark, opposed for years.
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But the conversation appears to have helped focus Mr. Trump, who in recent weeks seemed to end his administration's support for moving nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain, a proposal that had been embraced by his appointees for three years despite his own lack of interest.
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Peter Galison and Robb Moss, filmmakers and Harvard professors, examine the long-term effects of nuclear waste, with stops at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico and the Daicchi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan.
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That is because only four of Japan's working reactors are technically capable of using the new fuel, and at least a dozen more would need to be upgraded and operating to consume the plutonium that the recycling plant would extract each year from nuclear waste.
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Many of the challenges indigenous people now face, such as forced land evictions, tourist development, and dumping of nuclear waste, "are all related and congregate on land issues," said Chun-chieh Chi, professor in ethnic relations at the National Dong-Hwa University in Taiwan.
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A chain-link fence on the Mexican border, backed by a sensor-filled buffer zone, a 100-foot-deep trench housing storage facilities for nuclear waste, a railroad, and a 30-foot wall that would draw power from a plant that converted the waste into energy.
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FRANKFURT, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Germany is close to an agreement with its utilities that will see the government assume the risks and liabilities of storing private-sector nuclear waste in return for a 26.4 billion euro ($29.6 billion) cash payment, daily Boersen-Zeitung reported on Saturday.
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Not only would the House-passed bill resume the licensing process, it would for the first time set in motion a plan for developing a temporary, private storage site in New Mexico or Texas for tons of nuclear waste now stored at nuclear facilities across the country.
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Holtec has applied for a license to operate a nuclear waste storage facility in New Mexico to accept spent nuclear fuel from Oyster Creek and all other nuclear plants in the U.S. It is estimated that it will cost approximately $1.4 billion to shut down the plant.
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But it has yet to build any permanent or semipermanent storage facility for any kind of nuclear waste: No one wants radioactive material in their backyard, perhaps especially not the Japanese, after their experiences of the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and then the Fukushima meltdowns.
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The Corps have successfully removed illegally dumped nuclear waste from other sites across the nation but because this particular site, West Lake Landfill, is under the control of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Corps does not have the authority or funding to conduct a clean-up here.
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Trump's remarks featured many of the hallmarks of his jam-packed campaign rallies, but the president made a point to tout his recent 2021 budget proposal, which cut funding to the long-delayed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, in a reversal from his past budgets.
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In the late 2900tth century, expert committees were told to evaluate geological factors that would affect nuclear waste containment up to 220006 million years from now, but not to consider biological factors such as the impact of radiation-induced mutation on the risk of clinical cancer.
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This secretary is in charge of a department that has responsibility for the handling of nuclear waste, providing security for the nation's nuclear weapons, ensuring that our grid is secure and that our energy at home and at the office is accessible, affordable and always on.
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The push comes as the United States struggles to find a solution for its own mounting nuclear waste inventories amid political opposition to a permanent dump site in Nevada, proposed decades ago, and concerns about the cost and security of recycling the waste back into fuel.
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As 2011 Wipe reminds me, this is the year US forces hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden, the debt crisis ravages the eurozone and tears Greece a new asshole, and the Tohoku Earthquake and its ensuing tsunami kill more than 15,000 people, causing a nuclear waste leak.
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"This proposal was thoughtfully developed through an extensive record of hearings and other oversight over the past six years to identify what may be needed to strengthen the Nuclear Waste Policy Act," Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and John Shimkus (R-Ill.), the subcommittee chair, said.
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" Alexander, who chairs the Senate's Energy and Water Development appropriations subcommittee, praised the House for recognizing that "moving ahead with private interim storage is an important way to address nuclear waste and (that) we should move ahead as quickly as possible on any solution that gets a result.
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"The NRC's approach is wrong and illegal, and I will continue to fight to ensure that our communities receive the full and detailed accounting of the risks of long-term, on-site nuclear waste storage that they deserve," New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said at the time.
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Most nuclear waste produced by the 99 nuclear power reactors in the US is temporarily stored in facilities that are far away from human populations, and any proposal to open permanent underground storage facilities even remotely close to human populations have historically been met with strong political resistance.
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Read More: The Plan to Build a Million-Year Nuclear Waste Dump on the Great Lakes It's this incredible sense of time and the magnitude that is so beautifully captured in Into Eternity, a 2010 documentary by Michael Madsen that chronicles the excavation of Onkalo, which began in 2004.
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Emperor X: Oversleepers International (Tiny Engines) Pushing 40 now, Berlin-based Jacksonville native Chad Matheny makes his living as a musician on tours that I assume include residencies—among his many Bandcamp wares is a commissioned work entitled 10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Habitation Near Nuclear Waste Depositories.
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ENERGY AND COMMERCE ACTION: In a marathon session Wednesday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed a handful of energy and environment bills, including one to move along construction of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site and one to delay the Environmental Protection Agency's 2015 ozone standard.
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The meltdown at Three Mile Island and the decades-long debate about storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain have made people skittish about the prospects of this carbon-free energy source, but the UN and many experts say fission energy will be key to hitting our climate goals.
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Having boundaries with other people means anticipating that they're either not listening to what you say you need from them, or not understanding and not asking you (why!) or they don't care—which all adds up to the same barrel of nuclear waste—and establishing, in advance, some kind of response.
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A wall of pipe organs is no more absurd an idea than some of the sincere submissions (take, for instance, the proposal that stores nuclear waste); the collective's joyful designs, which encourage creativity and inclusivity, explore what motivates people to endorse the erection of a border wall in the first place.
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EDF, whose 58 nuclear power plants produce the bulk of France's nuclear waste, would already need to borrow money to pay its dividend and is set to spend tens of billions of euros upgrading its ageing reactors, building new ones at Hinkley Point in Britain and buying Areva's reactor arm.
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At the recommendation of the administration's Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC), the department is now pursuing a "consent-based" approach, meaning that the DOE will seek the approval of relevant communities before construction, rather than trying to force all of the country's spent nuclear waste on a pre-decided site in Nevada.
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The scientists also encouraged people to demand their governments reenergize the nuclear disarmament process, engage with reclusive North Korea to reduce its nuclear risk, follow up on the Paris accord to end climate change, deal with commercial nuclear waste programs and create institutions to explore catastrophic use of new technologies.
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A few years back, Dan Kahan of Yale Law School, Hank Jenkins-Smith of the University of Oklahoma and Donald Braman of George Washington University Law School performed experiments testing how values affected people's agreement with scientists about climate change, the disposal of nuclear waste and allowing concealed possession of handguns.
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Wearing nothing more protective than cotton coveralls and sometimes a paper dust mask, they cut down contaminated crops, scooped up contaminated soil, and packed the material in 5,20163 steel barrels that were shipped back to the United States to be buried in a secure nuclear waste storage site in South Carolina.
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Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who respectively chair the Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee and the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, argue that Trump's tweet may provide a jolt to efforts to move bipartisan legislation that would establish a consent-based process for siting nuclear waste facilities.
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But the Japanese plan faces a daunting set of practical and political challenges, and if it does not work, the nation will be left with another problem: about 18,000 metric tons of nuclear waste in the form of spent fuel rods that it has accumulated and stored all these years.
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We hijacked a train carrying nuclear waste through the center of London in order to reveal the weaknesses in the system on behalf of an antinuclear faction of the Occupy Earth group, and that was the point at which I felt like we'd peaked in our straightforward political high jinks.
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Attended by two robotic arms that mix cocktails amid an array of flashing lights and thumping techno music, patrons sit a few feet away from the bar and order from a menu of available drinks, many of them coming in bright neon colors that evoked thoughts of nuclear waste, on a tablet computer.
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File photo of the Secretary of Energy, Rick PerryPhoto: APThe Department of Energy shipped half a ton of weapons-grade plutonium across the country from South Carolina to Nevada, despite concerns raised by state officials in Nevada about safety and worries that the state would become a dumping ground for nuclear waste.
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"Because the United States has no facility available to receive spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, it has been unable to begin disposal of SNF from utilities as required by the standard contract with utilities," said a DOE spokesperson in an email.
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MAKE PEOPLE EAT IT Although no one is seriously advancing this as a nuclear waste storage solution, the US government was covertly feeding cereal with radioactive tracers to "mentally feeble" children that had joined the MIT's "Science Club" for a few years during the 1940s to see how it would affect them.
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By investing in the education of the nation, this path also offers a way for the nuclear power industry to shore up confidence in local communities, investors, and developers that there is a clear and defined path forward for the nuclear power industry, including the safe and responsible disposition of nuclear waste.
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This year, Mr. Obama proposed canceling the program in the 2017 budget and sending the plutonium for long-term storage at a nuclear waste site in Carlsbad, N.M. The State Department has said the move complies with the treaty, but the Russians have said it does not, as Mr. Putin reaffirmed on Monday.
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"Hopefully this is the beginning of seeing real movement, real management of an issue that I think no longer can sit and be used as a political football, one that must be addressed, and I think we can find a solution both in the interim and the long term of our nuclear waste," he said.
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Putting aside the significant external costs of defending these plants against attacks, the costs of developing sufficient electrical distribution systems to support such large generators (which can easily equal or exceed the cost of the reactors), and the costs of nuclear waste management and decommissioning, nuclear power plants themselves cannot compete against their alternatives.
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This year, Mr. Obama proposed canceling the program in the 2017 budget and instead sending the plutonium for long-term storage at a nuclear waste site in Carlsbad, N.M. The State Department has said the move complies with the treaty, but the Russians have said it does not, as Mr. Putin reaffirmed on Monday.
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Der Spiegel said this year's projected surplus would allow the government to cover 7 billion euros in projected costs associated with a landmark nuclear waste deal and 6.7 billion euros in costs for migrants, without dipping into a 20-billion-euro reserve account set up at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015.
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