The website adds that mixed low-level radioactive waste can contain both hazardous waste and low-level radioactive waste.
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"As a result of the presence of the hazardous component, mixed low-level radioactive waste is regulated and managed separately from low-level radioactive waste," the site says.
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The explosion released around 2 million curies of radioactive waste.
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West Valley is an operation to dispose of radioactive waste.
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Now, communities are facing crop failure and even threats of radioactive waste.
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As energy secretary, Perry would oversee the nation's high-level radioactive waste.
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The Istanbul complex also handles spent fuel and its highly radioactive waste.
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Yet fear persists about safety and what to do with the radioactive waste.
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Lynas has said the low-level radioactive waste is not hazardous, Reuters reported.
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But his campaign has offered no alternative location for storing the radioactive waste.
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But the big problem is what to do with the radioactive waste left behind.
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LITTLE connects radioactive waste with LeBron James, Serena Williams and other contemporary sporting heroes.
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Tepco has yet to disclose how and where this radioactive waste will be stored.
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Nuclear plants—again belying the "clean energy" moniker—produce mountains of highly radioactive waste.
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Buried beneath the ground, in storage tanks, are 56 million gallons of radioactive waste.
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So for now the radioactive waste is either lying around or being moved around.
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The accident in 1957, which released radioactive waste, was kept under wraps for decades.
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A 2000 investigation by SF Weekly found "troubling evidence" that the Navy mishandled radioactive waste.
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Japan has struggled to deal with how to store radioactive waste from the 2011 disaster.
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What has two seven-foot arms and can bench press 1,000 lbs of radioactive waste?
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It could be radioactive waste, chemicals that have become radioactive during reprocessing, or fissile material.
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It's also the site of radioactive waste, an alleged cover up, and some criminal convictions.
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Crews lowered a camera in, and found eight inches of radioactive waste inside the hull.
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It's a costly, labor intensive process, and it produces an unholy amount of radioactive waste.
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He also confesses that he helped Aleksander bury radioactive waste in concrete at the plant.
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That same year, six tanks at the site were found to be leaking radioactive waste.
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That same year, six tanks at the site were found to be leaking radioactive waste.
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The NRC on Monday revised the agency's guidelines for radioactive waste from nuclear power plants.
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The fire is adjacent to another landfill, which contains radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project.
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The only problem was it left nuclear fallout and radioactive waste spread throughout the atmosphere.
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By last fall, there were more than 9 million one-ton bags of radioactive waste.
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"Some people want to make Texas the radioactive waste dumping ground of America," Texas Gov.
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The production of this energy would create no side-effects like pollution or radioactive waste.
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The result: an accumulation of eight inches of radioactive waste between the inner and outer hull.
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Several elderly residents were at the boardwalk gazing at hundreds of bags stuffed with radioactive waste.
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Russia has been producing electricity from an advanced reactor that burns up radioactive waste since 2016.
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ATOMIC HOMEFRONT Activists take on organizations that they say are polluting their communities with radioactive waste.
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United States, invalidating a federal plan to oblige the states to help dispose of radioactive waste.
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Radioactive waste is stored onsite at the nearly 100 reactors around the country, stoking fears and opposition.
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Maintaining America's nuclear arsenal, disposing of radioactive waste, and producing nuclear reactors would all fall under Perry.
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Charlotte tries to stop Clausen from having the radioactive waste opened, but he won't listen to her.
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In the 1970s, Germany began converting two old salt mines into storage sites for its radioactive waste.
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Can you imagine what would happen if terrorists hijacked a radioactive waste shipment in a large city?
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It's also found in low-level radioactive waste at hospitals and research facilities, according to the EPA.
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Buried beneath the complex is 56 million gallons of radioactive waste that need to be dealt with.
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Once the sarcophagus is torn down, workers will begin the gargantuan task of cleaning up radioactive waste.
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The state of South Australia, where Kimba is located, is no stranger to radiation and radioactive waste.
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Uncertainty over what to do with massive radioactive waste in the crowded island nation is another big concern.
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Producing less waste is a big plus because big disagreement persists on how best to store radioactive waste.
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It's all relative, said Kevin Kamps, a radioactive waste specialist at Beyond Nuclear, an anti-nuclear advocacy group.
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He notes that authorities are dealing with much larger amounts of radioactive waste than is usually the case.
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Advanced brakes for trains that carry flammable crude oil, which are already required for trains carrying radioactive waste.
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Think of nuclear power and you may imagine the worst — atomic bombs, reactors melting down and radioactive waste.
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In the 1970s, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission dabbled with shooting radioactive waste into the sun.
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This, ladies and gentlemen, is the current plan for dealing with the US's dangerous high-level radioactive waste.
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Among the disturbing conclusions: possible radioactive waste has in fact been found "off site" in the nearby foliage.
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Jane Sanders reported collecting $4,900 as a commissioner with the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission.
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Plus, there are thorny issues like how to dispose of radioactive waste and how to decommission old plants.
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Tepco engineers sealed it in a steel cask and interred it with other radioactive waste on the plant site.
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At first, the list of possible long-term repositories for highly radioactive waste was longer than just Yucca Mountain.
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MORE halted a plan to use the mountain as a permanent storage facility for nuclear and radioactive waste. Sen.
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Bernardi is promising to build a radioactive waste dump and to clear local regulatory hurdles stopping nuclear power generation.
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Twitter can be fun, but fun like sipping rosé on an inflatable swan in an infinity pool of radioactive waste.
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This radioactive waste is the kind of material that someone with a bad idea could use to make a bomb.
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Unlike conventional fission reactors, which produce large amounts of radioactive waste, the by-products from nuclear fusion are deemed safe.
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It's laced with an elixir of salts that form lumpy terrain reminiscent of a coral reef steeped in radioactive waste.
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Rumors are flying that a second of Hanford's 28 double-shelled radioactive waste tanks is exhibiting early signs of failure.
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It can also retreat historical radioactive waste, which can make the new technology potentially widely applicable beyond Kozloduy, it said.
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The company has been looking into ways to reduce its radioactive waste as well, a move the government audit recommended.
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The area contains about 56 million gallons of radioactive waste, most of which are stored in nearly 180 underground tanks.
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A tunnel full of radioactive waste has caved in at one of the most contaminated nuclear sites in the US
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They scooped up the contaminated soil, along with other radioactive waste materials such as military equipment, concrete, and scrap metal.
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Indian Point also has about 1,500 tons of radioactive waste in the form of spent fuel rods packed into pools.
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Sweat trickled down his brow as Dr. El Chaar, 46, wove through barrels of radioactive waste and into enemy territory.
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Nickel and other mothers are fearful about what health problem such close proximity to radioactive waste could cause their children.
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If that energy can be utilized, it will require only tiny amounts of fuel and create virtually no radioactive waste.
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In the days and weeks following the meltdown, waves and tides delivered this radioactive waste back onto the surrounding coastal beaches.
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Germany intends to take over the liabilities relating to management of radioactive waste and spent fuel from nuclear power plant operators.
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The mining process, which involves dissolving huge quantities of rock in powerful acids, poisons towns and generates lakes of radioactive waste.
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Instead I find a vast radioactive waste dump, half-hidden behind flimsy white panels decorated with pictures of birds and trees.
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Last year, Bulgaria started the construction of a national depot for long-term radioactive waste that should become operational in 2021.
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Most of Nevada's politicians question the long-term safety of the site and the transportation of radioactive waste through the state.
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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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Tamosaitis spent more than a decade at Hanford working on the technical design of the world's largest treatment plant for radioactive waste.
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When the project was done, engineers buried biological, chemical, and radioactive waste in the ice thinking it would be preserved for eternity.
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Six reactors at Fukushima Daiichi are being dismantled in a decades-long exercise that is fraught with technological challenges and radioactive waste.
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Nuclear power could help meet the targets, but the technology's history is fraught with safety concerns and disputes about radioactive waste disposal.
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Plan A was a geological repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, where radioactive waste could be entombed for at least 10,000 years.
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That law regulates what can be done with uranium and the radioactive waste it generates after it is extracted from the earth.
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Gail: If you're worried about solutions that create problems of their own, there's the one about getting rid of the radioactive waste.
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Radiation is leaking into the soil and ocean at Fukushima, and radioactive waste is deposited in trash bags left beside the road.
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The proposed dump for radioactive waste is political kryptonite for someone who might want the state's votes (Trump lost Nevada in 2016).
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It will eventually incinerate some of the soil, but that will only reduce the volume of the radioactive waste, not eliminate it.
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In 2012, a Nukem Technologies-led consortium built a dry spent fuel storage facility at Kozloduy that stored radioactive waste in dry casks.
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Radioactive waste, for instance — both high-level waste like spent fuel rods and low-level waste like tools used in radiologically controlled areas.
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Even so, it has the potential to reduce stockpiles of radioactive waste and make countries that use it less dependent on uranium imports.
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That decision struck down a federal law that required some states to take responsibility for low-level radioactive waste generated within their borders.
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Investors are also concerned at the potential costs of storing radioactive waste after the country's last nuclear power plants go offline in 2022.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Friday it had approved Germany's plan to create a public fund to deal with radioactive waste.
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But the most concerning is the highly radioactive waste that was stored in 177 storage tanks, each holding between 55,000 and 100,000 gallons.
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It also stressed on the importance of optimal utilization of natural resources from nuclear materials and applying best practices for radioactive waste management.
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Keeping radioactive waste in motion between provisional storage sites isn't a coherent nuclear policy; it's an elaborate dodge and a play for time.
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At a nuclear power plant outside Rockford, Illinois, Shimkus said his state of 13 million people shouldn't bear the risk of radioactive waste.
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The federal law regulates what can be done with uranium and the radioactive waste it generates after it is extracted from the earth.
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South Australia, which now draws much of its electricity from renewable sources, has previously debated building a radioactive waste "repository" within its borders.
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United States, the court struck down a law requiring states to regulate low-level radioactive waste disposal or accept ownership of that waste.
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Its $800 million plant, which produces low-level radioactive waste, began operations in 2012 after long delays caused by legal challenges and environmental disputes.
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In 2016, Ukrainian authorities installed a $1.6 billion sarcophagus around the plant to prevent further radioactive waste from leaking out of the damaged reactor.
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Five months later came the partial collapse of a tunnel storing radioactive waste, and the revelation that a nearby tunnel also had structural problems.
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The machine was deployed after a tunnel that stores rail cars filled with radioactive waste partially collapsed at Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state.
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A concrete dome, called 'The Tomb' by locals, caps radioactive waste from 1940s nuclear testing on low-lying Renit Island in the Marshall Islands.
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The regulator also told the miner to end all of its research and development efforts for processing its radioactive waste into agricultural soil conditioner.
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In 1957, a waste tank exploded at the Mayak nuclear facility in Russia, releasing around 2 million curies of radioactive waste into the air.
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But with the country awash in radioactive waste and plutonium stockpiled for warheads, the task of managing this atomic legacy grows ever more urgent.
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Sanders pointed to the risks associated with the radioactive waste nuclear energy leaves behind, which has a particularly sordid history contaminating Native American lands.
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MALAYSIA STATE OFFICIAL SAYS FEDERAL GOVT YET TO APPROVE SITE FOR LYNAS TO STORE LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE, A PRE-CONDITION FOR LICENCE RENEWAL
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A tunnel containing radioactive waste collapsed Tuesday morning at a facility in rural Washington state that for decades produced plutonium used in nuclear weapons.
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Each column represents one site of concrete-entombed radioactive waste; the numbers count the seconds remaining until it becomes safe for humans (a long time).
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The company says that the radioactive waste will be buried underneath the ground and encased in rock to prevent polluting the lake—sounds safe, right?
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Lynas and Malaysia have been locked in a dispute for nearly eight months over the removal of low-level radioactive waste produced by the company.
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The cracking and leaching process produces low-level radioactive waste that Lynas and Malaysia had been locked in dispute over for the last eight months.
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United States, a dispute between Albany and Washington over a federal law that required states to take legal responsibility for radioactive waste in certain circumstances.
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Lynas, the largest rare earths producer outside China that sells most of its products to China, says the low-level radioactive waste is not hazardous.
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Quitting Euratom could interrupt the flow of nuclear fuel and ores from Europe and leave the UK's nuclear power and radioactive waste management facilities largely unregulated.
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French nuclear regulator ASN has already said the plan is sound and deep geological storage is the safest way to protect future generations from radioactive waste.
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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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Radioactive waste would first be moved by truck, then by rail for a thousand miles, then loaded and moved again by truck, and lastly re-buried.
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SMR developers promise lowered costs, decreased production of radioactive waste, reduction or even elimination of the risk of severe accidents, and no contribution to nuclear proliferation.
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The site does contain radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project, but extensive government testing has shown that the waste is contained and safe for nearby residents.
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Both companies dispose of low level radioactive waste, or LLRW, and are each other's most significant competitor in 36 states and Washington, DC, the department said.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Sweden's radiation safety authority launched a tender on Monday for the design of a nuclear storage and processing plant for Georgia's Soviet-era radioactive waste.
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A "witch's brew" of pollution—mercury, chromium-6, lead, and radioactive waste—is contained within the soil there, Dan Hirsch told Motherboard on Tuesday over the phone.
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Last week, as the final drops of radioactive waste were being transferred from the busted tank into others, facility workers noticed that the leak had expanded substantially.
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However, it confirmed an incident in late 2016 - highlighted in the union note - in which several batches of highly radioactive waste were not properly processed during vitrification.
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Around 20 percent of Britain's electricity comes from nuclear plants, which produce radioactive waste that can remain harmful for thousands of years and must be stored safely.
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A disaster like that would send even more radioactive waste into the nearby ocean or lagoon, which could even force locals to leave the island once again.
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The point of the Colonies is twofold: Clean up radioactive waste and eliminate women who are no longer considered "useful" since they can't conform to a role.
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Take the case of a Canadian physics lab that realized the radioactive waste it had been stockpiling was actually a rare, expensive, potentially cancer-destroying medical isotope.
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Considering that nearly 12 million people live near the US-Mexico border, turning the region into a 3000-mile long radioactive waste storage facility probably wouldn't fly.
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American nuclear power plants produce a lot of radioactive waste, more than 2,000 tons each year, and there's a lot of controversy over where to put it.
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But nuclear has major drawbacks, not least of which are that it produces long-lived radioactive waste that has to be safely stored for thousands of years.
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And that is not even a long-term solution: The government says that after 30 years it will need another site — or sites — to store radioactive waste.
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The nation's ever-growing pile of radioactive waste from years of building nuclear weapons and producing electricity at nuclear power plants needs to be sequestered permanently somewhere.
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Nick Foles Brady: He was brought into existence in 22 when a scientist stuffed a football into a jar of mayonnaise and buried it in radioactive waste.
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Minister Yeo Bee Yin was due to meet Bill Johnston, Western Australia state's minister for mines, on Thursday to discuss the removal of the radioactive waste from Malaysia.
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The big picture: Nuclear power, which provides 30% of the world's zero-carbon electricity, is facing international skepticism over past accidents and public fear about its radioactive waste.
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What we are left with is the legacy of radioactive waste from half a century and a bit more of nuclear power and some of the military activities.
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It's got an easy-to-use interface, and an audio and vibration alarm that'll go off when you venture too close to an area bathing in radioactive waste.
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One is cleaning up radioactive waste, particularly when it is inside a nuclear power station—and especially if the power station in question has suffered a recent accident.
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So in 20193, when South Korea sought a storage site for low-level radioactive waste from its reactors but faced often violent protests from many communities, Yeongdeok volunteered.
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Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Thursday that the country is waiting for the company's plan for radioactive waste management ahead of a renewal deadline of Sept. 2.
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Dozens of nuclear startups are popping up around the country, aiming to solve the well-known problems with nuclear power — radioactive waste, meltdowns, weapons proliferation, and high costs.
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The new depot, with a capacity of 138,200 square metres, will be used to store long-term radioactive waste that has been initially safeguarded in reinforced concrete packages.
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But based on numerous reports, the WIPP functioned perfectly in the aftermath of the leak, and 99.97 percent of the radioactive waste was prevented from exiting the facility.
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Scotland is excluded from the consultation as its devolved government has a policy that radioactive waste should be stored in near-surface sites, rather than be buried underground.
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The cracking and leaching process produces the low-level radioactive waste that has angered residents near its Malaysian plant and led to the dispute with the Malaysian government.
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TODAY'S NUMBER 1 million years That's how long Germany has to keep the radioactive waste from all of its nuclear power plants buried for it to be safe.
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Most of the earnings came from Sanders' $174,000 Senate salary, though Jane Sanders reported collecting $383,900 as a commissioner with the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission.
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Beaufort's Dyke, 7 miles off the Scottish coastal village of Portpatrick, is the site of tonnes of rockets, metal drums, and radioactive waste dumped there following World War II.
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"The department is currently developing a consent-based siting process for storage and disposal of SNF [spent nuclear fuel] and HLW [high-level radioactive waste]," said the department spokesperson.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads BUFFALO, NY — Radioactive waste is embedded in New York's Niagara County, including driveways and parking lots where it was employed like ordinary gravel.
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Yucca has been studied by the U.S. government since the 1970s as a potential repository for the nation's radioactive waste and billions of dollars have been spent on it.
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A geological site would see radioactive waste buried at least 200 meters underground in a rock formation that protects it and acts as a barrier against the radioactivity escaping.
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Why is it that the person wearing a mask — practically full ninja, as if about to dispose of radioactive waste — is often the one who heads straight at you?
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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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Xenobots could be used to clean up radioactive waste, collect microplastics in the oceans, carry medicine inside human bodies, or even travel into our arteries to scrape out plaque.
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The proposed remedy would both remove a majority of the radioactive waste linked to the Manhattan Project at the West Lake Landfill and construct a cap over the area.
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This would in part reflect uncertainty over the level of liabilities related to the storage of radioactive waste as part of Germany's move to phase out nuclear by 2022.
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As part of this, the NWMO partnered with similar agencies that deal with radioactive waste in Sweden and Finland, two other nuclear-powered countries, on the Greenland Analogue Project.
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Lynas generates the low-level radioactive waste during the cracking and leaching process and that waste is what has caused most of the nearby residents' ire toward the facility.
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Cold War-era researchers invented a new production process that generates less radioactive waste, but McNutt said no one ever got it working seamlessly, let alone scaled it up.
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Many more people were exposed to radiation when Chernobyl's cloud of radioactive waste spread throughout Belarus, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation and well into Europe, stretching as far as Britain.
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But safety and radioactive waste handling have long been issues, and in recent years abundant, inexpensive natural gas has disrupted the economics of energy production, making some nuclear plants unprofitable.
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Still, maybe that's an easier job than finding a safe place to put all the radioactive waste that keeps piling up around Pilgrim and the nation's 97 other nuclear reactors.
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Most of these minerals are mined in China, where the millions of nearby residents are threatened by radioactive waste and other byproducts China's lax environmental laws have failed to police.
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A large robotic arm called the Mobile Arm Retrieval System (MARS) has been used in the past to scoop hundreds of gallons of radioactive waste from Hanford's underground storage tanks.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain wants to develop a geological storage site for high level radioactive waste and launched a public consultation on Thursday to solicit communities prepared to host the facility.
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Notably, it helped defeat a proposed reactor in Calvert Cliffs, Md.; a uranium processing plant in Louisiana; and legislation that would have lifted curbs on the transportation of radioactive waste.
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RWE also pointed to an increase in provisions for the storage of radioactive waste, money which it will transfer to a government-controlled fund on July 1, as another burden.
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Even the danger of a dirty bomb is limited, they said, because much radioactive waste is so toxic it would likely sicken or kill the people trying to steal it.
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Even so, OPG scientists say this would be the safest way to store radioactive waste in the long-term, and the plan is slowly working its way toward federal approval.
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Here's what you need to know: A tunnel containing radioactive waste collapsed Tuesday morning at a facility in rural Washington state that for decades produced plutonium used in nuclear weapons.
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Gilead's solution for the radioactive waste is more dire: Colony workers, aka women who are considered unfit for Gilead, spend their days toiling in the sun, trying to undo the damage.
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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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A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation to authorize the Department of Energy to enter into contracts to store high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel at temporary facilities.
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But Charles J. Cooper, a lawyer for the owners of the land containing the uranium, said the real purpose of state lawmakers in enacting the ban was to address radioactive waste.
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I prefer the offerings from Volvik and Bridgestone, whose soft matte covers don't reflect light but instead seem to produce it from within, as if they contained bits of radioactive waste.
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Yucca Mountain has been studied by the U.S. government since the 1970s as a potential repository for the nation's radioactive waste and billions of dollars have been spent on the project.
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That said, TEPCO still needs to produce an estimate showing how long it'll take to remove the melted fuel, and a plan showing how and where the radioactive waste will be stored.
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After the announcement, an anti-nuclear power group said the government should scrap its plan for building a high level radioactive waste facility, because it did not take public opinion into account.
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In 2015, along with two friends from Columbia, she won a GroundTruth Project grant and traveled to the Marshall Islands to report on a radioactive-waste site abandoned by the US government.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Thursday that "the system worked as it should and all are safe" at Hanford, where the roof of a tunnel filled with radioactive waste collapsed on Tuesday.
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Kevin Kamps, a radioactive waste specialist at the anti-nuclear advocacy group Beyond Nuclear, said the gamma rays emitted by the Ir-192 can deliver fatal doses of radiation at close range.
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There have also been concerns about Malaysia's August decision to extend a license for Australia's Lynas Corp for processing rare earth minerals, due to worries about radioactive waste from the production process.
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In 2014, the NRC found the chance of a disaster caused by leaving radioactive waste in storage pools was too remote to warrant the cost of moving it to safer dry casks.
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Only 1 percent of solid radioactive waste was removed, according to Paul Robinson, the research director at the Southwest Research and Information Center, and no compensation for the nearby residents was provided.
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Those threats to the future are also compounded by nuclear energy, which generates radioactive waste we're manifestly unable to control, and by destabilizing the climate that has enabled and sustained human civilization.
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This documentary follows activists mothers in St. Louis as they pressure the Environmental Protection Agency and other government agencies to remove radioactive waste that was dumped in a nearby landfill decades earlier.
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Each year, the amount of low-level waste generated in Australia is smaller than one shipping container, according to government figures, along with intermediate-level radioactive waste the size of a Dumpster.
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If any one of them were to suffer a catastrophic problem, the radioactive waste would affect not only the countries nearby, but also spread around the world via the region's strong sea currents.
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Vast fields and mountainsides have been left largely untouched, save for large burial mounds of black plastic bags filled with low-level radioactive waste that metastasized across the landscape as the work progressed.
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Finland's government has already granted a construction license for the above-ground encapsulation plant and disposal facility Posiva needs to treat the highly radioactive waste before taking it to the underground waste repository.
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Why thorium is safer: When thorium gets transformed into U-233, it leaves fewer long-lived radioactive waste products than U-235 (which is usually what is now used in nuclear power plants).
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Not only would Russia earn cash for being a dumping ground for radioactive waste, Johnson wrote, but the consortium would purchase "Russian military hardware" to compensate Moscow for losing military sales to Iran.
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Now the two are working together, partly out of necessity—OPG wants to bury radioactive waste on SON lands, in an underground bunker where it could stay for up to a million years.
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It can carry sufficient enriched uranium to power the two reactors for 12 years, before having to be towed, with its spent fuel, back to Russia, where the radioactive waste will be processed.
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Given that the country remains divided over whether — and where — to create a long-term repository for nuclear's radioactive waste, this extension and others will also add to the waste stored on site.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea plans to select a site for permanent storage of its high level radioactive waste by 2503, and will also consider storing spent nuclear fuel overseas, the government said on Monday.
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Ostensibly, the woman are removing contaminated land from the site in order to make the land fit for growing crops again (though we don't know if cleaning up radioactive waste really works like that).
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Nobody can agree on a site because partly we're frightened of radioactive waste, understandably so, and partly the industry has just not organized itself to have a concerted effort to deal with the problem.
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Why it matters: Nuclear power, which provides about 60% of America's carbon-free electricity, is facing a series of economic challenges, along with persistent worries about safety and how to store its radioactive waste.
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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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At the core of their concern was a fear that states in the volatile Middle East would have inadequate security for the plants and safeguards for their radioactive waste—the stuff of nuclear bombs.
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Yes, the site contains radioactive waste, unfortunately — but there is tremendous uncertainty about its excavation, which would be more like taking the seeds out of a pomegranate than removing the pit from an avocado.
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Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada) asked Perry pointedly if he supported the current plan to house spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste in a massive federal repository underneath Yucca Mountain in Southern Nevada.
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Even if we used polluting and dangerous fuels more efficiently, damage from activities such as drilling, mining, pipeline construction, coal trains and the discharge of radioactive waste still do tremendous harm to our world.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's energy and environment minister has delayed a visit to Australia to discuss rare earth miner Lynas Corp's storage of radioactive waste in the Southeast Asian nation, according to a ministry spokeswoman.
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He mentioned a few threats to humanity after the blessing ceremony — the storage of radioactive waste under the Biscayne Aquifier, the zika virus, gentrification — and alluded to their systematic underpinnings, their roots in human actions.
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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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In exchange, Germany's "big four" energy firms - E.ON , RWE, EnBW and Vattenfall - will be able to shake off long-term liability for radioactive waste storage, the most complex, costly and timely aspect of nuclear decommissioning.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria has opened a new plasma melting plant that will treat and dispose of radioactive waste at its Kozloduy nuclear power plant, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on Tuesday.
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Even before Canberra settled on Wallerberdina for the repository, the state government moved in March to repeal legislation outlawing the storage of radioactive waste in South Australia, a legacy of past opposition to nuclear dumps.
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For example, the Department of Energy could save tens of billions of dollars by changing how it deals with low-activity radioactive waste, while the Defense Department could save $9.4 billion by consolidating its headquarters.
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Officials at the Ministry of the Environment have said up to 103 million tons of radioactive waste will eventually be moved to yet another, third-level interim storage facility near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant.
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Looking at a pile of documents about the proposed facility he had collected over the past year or so, he said he worried about the effect of the radioactive waste on the town's future generations.
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Thousands of former residents have been barred from the area around the plant for years as crews carried out a large-scale radioactive waste cleanup in the aftermath of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
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Meanwhile, Lynas Corp added 3.63% after it picked outback town Kalgoorlie as the site for a new initial ore processing plant, which could help the rare earths miner sooth Malaysian government concerns about radioactive waste.
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Veolia, which also cleans up nuclear facilities and treats low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste, could also benefit from a 50-billion-euro ($57 billion) upgrade of French nuclear sites operated by energy provider EDF (EDF.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Global warming could release radioactive waste stored in an abandoned Cold War-era U.S. military camp deep under Greenland's ice caps if a thaw continues to spread in coming decades, scientists said on Friday.
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The two top energy sources besides coal are natural gas and nuclear, both of which are low GHG emissions but are still not great for people or the planet due to fracking, mining, and radioactive waste.
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Since the 1980s, the EPA has also worked with local authorities to clean up some of the most polluted sites in the US, from landfills that caught fire to radioactive waste housed close to residential areas.
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Since the 503s, the EPA has also worked with local authorities to clean up some of the most polluted sites in the US, from landfills that caught fire to radioactive waste housed close to residential areas.
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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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Even if Japan were to decommission all of its 56 reactors, as some people are advocating, doing so would generate about 500,000 cubic meters of lower-level radioactive waste, and that also has nowhere to go.
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Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's party had promised to halt the firm's operations when campaigning in the May 2018 election, after concerns were raised by politicians and activists about the production of radioactive waste from the process.
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Yucca Mountain, in the desert about 2016 miles northwest of Las Vegas, was conceived as a permanent storage place for the nation's radioactive waste, which is currently scattered across dozens of holding sites around the country.
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FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER STATION — Six years after the largest nuclear disaster in a quarter-century, Japanese officials have still not solved a basic problem: what to do with an ever-growing pile of radioactive waste.
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And all of the island&aposs occupants — current and future — will be residing atop what was once, and could still be, piles of radioactive waste and contaminants from a US Navy operation that shuttered decades ago.
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The facility, in remote Beishan, Gansu province, will be used by scientists and engineers to test the suitability of the area for the long-term storage of the highly radioactive waste generated by nuclear power plants.
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The Australian company has been running the plant in Malaysia since 2012 using rare earths mined from Mount Weld in Western Australia, despite a dispute over the removal of low-level radioactive waste produced by the plant.
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"I believe the situation described in the article is possible, but also that the likely exposures are very low," Chris Whipple, who previously chaired the National Academy of Sciences board on radioactive waste management, told BuzzFeed News.
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When explaining its decision the court referred to a ruling it gave in 1992 to strike down a federal proposal that would force states to dispose within their own borders of the radioactive waste that they generated.
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For the first time, the government says it has found a community — at least among non-Aboriginal people — willing to host a repository for the 40 cubic meters (125 square feet) of radioactive waste Australia generates annually.
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Under the conditions imposed by Malaysia, Lynas will have to identify a site for a permanent facility to store its low-level radioactive waste within six months or obtain consent from another country to take the waste.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia is waiting on Australian miner Lynas Corp's plan to manage low-level radioactive waste from its rare earths processing plant ahead of a license renewal, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday.
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When the base closed, key parts of the nuclear power plant were removed, but most of the base's infrastructure was left behind—the buildings, the railways, the sewage, the diesel fuel, and the low-level radioactive waste.
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The commission tasked with finding a solution for how to fund the storage of radioactive waste said in April it wanted utilities to pay 23.3 billion euros ($26.08 billion) into a state-fund to cover the costs.
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Fukushima has faced a long and painful aftermath from the 2011 disaster, with thousands of people evacuated for years, and the government and Tokyo Electric struggling to cope with a radioactive waste cleanup on an unprecedented scale.
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Lynas is in dispute with Malaysia over the removal of low-level radioactive waste produced by its processing plant in the country, but said last week it was confident of resolving issues around its license before a Sept.
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Those against the facility, like Peter Woolford, a third-generation Kimba farmer, and part of the No Radioactive Waste on Agricultural Land in Kimba or South Australia group, say it will hurt the prices of crops and farmland.
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The aggressive community lobbying appeared to pay off: the state health department agreed to test the site for evidence that the radioactive waste has spread, and late last year, the Missouri State Attorney general finally released the findings.
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In Carlsbad, where dozens of people gathered at a senior center on Wednesday evening, there were more questions about the removal of radioactive waste from a decommissioned nuclear plant up the coast than the removal of the president.
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At the Chernobyl plant, the computers affected by the attack collected data on radiation levels and were not connected to industrial systems at the site, where, although all reactors have been decommissioned, huge volumes of radioactive waste remain.
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Scientists in America, Russia and China believe that it is possible to run nuclear power plants on radioactive waste — which might solve the problem of how to store used fuel elements, one of the core arguments against nuclear.
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Why it matters: In a new report, the Union of Concerned Scientists is joining a growing number of environmental leaders to back existing nuclear power because of climate reasons, despite continued concerns about the technology's safety and radioactive waste.
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The video above was a collaboration with reporter Rachel Becker, who wrote both the video script and an in-depth report, which chronicled the nerve-wracking quantity of radioactive waste stranded at a decommissioned power plant near San Diego.
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The companies said the energy ministry had on Friday set the cost of the Cigeo project for the long-term management of high-level radioactive waste at 25 billion euros, above the companies' own estimate of 20.8 billion euros.
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The move, which left E.ON with its more profitable networks, renewable energy and retail operations, has failed to lift a discount on its stock, mainly because a capital increase is widely expected to fund the storage of radioactive waste.
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The facility is being redesigned to ensure it will not produce weapons-grade plutonium, and all spent fuel produced by the facility will be sent out of the country to prevent Iran from obtaining plutonium from the radioactive waste.
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Under current plans, radioactive waste from around the country would be dumped on largely Hispanic communities in the West Texas-New Mexico border region, where the voices of opponents go unheard and people lack the resources to fight back.
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They are exposed to radiation, long term and short term radiation In the beginning—and they're doing it still—they were dumping their radioactive waste into the environment, whether it was the lakes, the ground and into the air.
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"Nobody believes an island is a suitable site to store radioactive waste," said Eric Epstein, the chairman of Three Mile Island Alert, a nuclear watchdog group based in Harrisburg, Pa., that was founded two years before the 1979 accident.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Malaysia's federal government has yet to approve a site for Australian rare earths miner Lynas to store low-level radioactive waste, a condition for renewing its operating licence, a state official said on Thursday.
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There is no risk of a runaway reaction and meltdown as with nuclear fission and, while radioactive waste is produced, it is not nearly as long-lived as the spent fuel rods and irradiated components of a fission reactor.
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While there is concern that someday — centuries or millenniums in the future — radioactive waste could contaminate the water in the Amargosa watershed, the more immediate threat is the need to pump enough groundwater to support the huge repository infrastructure.
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SOFIA, July 7 (Reuters) - Bulgaria has signed a 72 million euro ($13 million) deal with a consortium to build a radioactive waste depot for its Kozloduy nuclear plant that should become operational in 2021, the energy ministry said on Thursday.
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It's a much safer alternative to the fission process, which involves splitting atoms apart, because unlike in fission—which is used in nuclear power plants to produce energy—there's no risk of meltdowns and it produces far less radioactive waste.
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BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German power firms will have to pay less for the storage of radioactive waste than investors had feared if the government accepts a recommendation from a panel that announced its decision on Wednesday after months of wrangling.
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"I still believe that Lynas should not be allowed to operate and continue to generate radioactive waste that will have long-term negative effects," member of parliament and opponent of Lynas' plans, Fuziah Salleh, said in a statement on Sunday.
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The food group holds its annual shareholders meeting A government ministry has determined it will cost an anticipated 24.6 billion Swiss francs ($25.64 billion) to decommission nuclear power plants and dispose of radioactive waste, 1.1 billion francs more than previously requested.
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According to KING-5 News, when workers lowered a camera into the tank's annulus, they discovered that the leak had expanded substantially, resulting in the accumulation of more than eight inches of radioactive waste between the inner and outer shell.
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This hidden pollution, and the fact that the country still has no longterm plan for radioactive waste storage, inspired Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape at UB Art Galleries in the Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo.
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Nuclear technology firm Westinghouse Electric Co's plan for emerging from bankruptcy could raise serious public safety and health issues if it intends to reject a contract for handling radioactive waste, according to the company that hired Westinghouse for the work.
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"In a breakthrough in the treatment and disposal of radioactive waste a plasma melting plant has started operations at the site of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant in Bulgaria," the EBRD, which manages the Kozloduy International Decommissioning Support Fund, said.
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France's EDF fell 4.4 percent to a record low after Exane and Deutsche Bank cut price targets and brokerage Bryan Garnier flagged concerns over future cash flows after a report by French agency Andra about the costs of managing radioactive waste.
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Bottom line: Worries about nuclear safety and the storage of radioactive waste, in addition to economic challenges and the plummeting prices of wind and solar has much of the world looking past nuclear energy as a solution to climate change.
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Texas-based CG Environmental is making millions from a dangerous and dirty job — cleaning up everything from crime scenes to chemical spills and dealing with all manner of scary substances, like radioactive waste, toxic sewage and and infectious bodily fluids.
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France's EDF fell 3 percent to a fresh record low after Exane and Deutsche Bank cut price targets and Bryan Garnier flagged concerns over future cash flows after a report by French agency Andra about the costs of managing radioactive waste.
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By July 2011, the NRC released its new recommendations, which resulted in a three-tiered program for updating the US nuclear safety regulations, such as making it easier to add more water to spent fuel pools, where radioactive waste is stored.
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) - One of Bosnia's two regional governments on Thursday designated the Una river a nature park, seeking to head off plans being considered by Croatia to build a landfill site for radioactive waste near the border between the two countries.
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Although the proposal would preserve some basic lab research into advanced nuclear fuels, it would cancel cost-sharing agreements with firms like TerraPower and X-energy working on new designs for reactors that might produce less radioactive waste than today's models.
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France's EDF fell 4 percent to a fresh record low following after Exane and Deutsche Bank cut their price targets while Bryan Garnier cited concerns over future cash flows sparked by a report from French agency Andra over costs to manage radioactive waste.
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Chernobyl&aposs Gigantic Radiation Shield Is Now Being Moved Into PlaceA giant metal shield designed to contain radioactive waste at Chernobyl's damaged nuclear reactor…Read more ReadThe new solar plant, though currently limited in its power production, could eventually become something far grander.
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The moon has key resources such as iron ore, water, rare Earth minerals and precious metals, as well as carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen and helium-3, a gas that can be used in future fusion reactors to provide nuclear power without radioactive waste.
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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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The 31 million euros ($36 million) facility will significantly reduce the volume of low and intermediate-level radioactive waste from Kozloduy's two Soviet-made 1,000 megawatt units as well as from the four smaller reactors that have been shut between 2002 and 2006.
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Bigger picture: This move would help the companies behind the project, but the broader nuclear energy industry is still facing broader challenges, like cheap natural gas and concerns about radioactive waste, that will make it hard for the sector to keep growing.
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In interview after interview at a United Nations climate conference in Bonn, Germany, I noticed a trend: Politicians would cite the many challenges facing nuclear power, such as safety, how to store radioactive waste and the economics, as reasons their positions didn't matter.
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Yeo told CNBC that Lynas' license was extended to the company with tougher terms attached and that the Australian company will have to manage their production process and waste disposal to ensure that there will be no radioactive waste in four years.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - The collapse of a tunnel used to store radioactive waste at one of the most contaminated U.S. nuclear sites has raised concerns among watchdog groups and others who study the country's nuclear facilities because many are aging and fraught with problems.
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Incoming Hawks general manager Travis Schlenk—a respected basketball nomad who helped build the two-time champion Golden State Warriors—treated the three-time Defensive Player of the Year like radioactive waste, an act that didn't surprise anyone who's followed Howard's career.
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ROSATOM's solutions for managing spent fuel and radioactive waste vary from country to country, but are normally worked out at the later stages of a nuclear new-build program "in the strictest compliance with international law", a spokeswoman told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Lynas added the licence was also subject to it building an operational cracking and leaching facility outside the country by July 2023 and developing a permanent disposal facility for low-level radioactive waste within the first year from the date of approval.
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With well over a third of the country's power reactors over 2000 years old, the questions now are how long the accountants will allow them to keep going and what we will do with these power plants and the radioactive waste they produced.
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The DOE "put a five-mile tunnel through the mountain, and did the science, and concluded this is a good place," says Lake Barrett, who headed up the Department of Energy's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management at the time, and is now retired.
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Lynas will also have to identify a specific location with approval from local authorities for a permanent disposal facility to store its low-level radioactive waste, or it must secure official written approval from a recipient country that will take the waste, the regulator said.
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Lynas is required to identify a specific location with approval from local authorities for a permanent disposal facility to store its low-level radioactive waste, or it must secure official written approval from a recipient country that will take the waste, the regulator said.
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MOSCOW — When a container of radioactive waste exploded at the Mayak factory 21 years ago, in one of the worst accidents of the nuclear age, the episode was so shrouded in secrecy that even residents of nearby towns had little clue of the danger.
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They also ignore the danger of nuclear power despite the very real risk of a huge release of deadly radiation from Fukushima-type accidents and the highly radioactive waste that they generate, for which there is no safe resting place after a 50-year search.
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Even if no humans are around in tens of thousands of years to see the next Ice Age—or maybe no humans as we'd recognize them—scientists still have to take this into account when they plan deep geological repositories to house radioactive waste.
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Huge concrete boxes holding the drums are lined up in vast dugouts on the grounds of the plant, and canisters holding highly radioactive waste are stacked nine deep in a cavernous underground room where only their bright orange lids poke out of the floor.
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The amount of radioactive waste detected by the researchers in the adjoining water is roughly equal to the amounts drifting in from the other two known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the plant itself, and overflow from rivers that carry cesium from the fallout on land.
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Why it matters: This group's report, which also includes policy proposals, represents a growing urgency among some environmentalists that carbon-free nuclear power should be part of the equation addressing climate change despite other big concerns, such as upfront costs and what to do with radioactive waste.
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Berkeley had said on Tuesday it was still confident it would obtain the last two major permits needed for the mine to start operating - a local building license and an authorization given by the government to handle radioactive waste - though it would also scale down its existing local corporate operations.
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Rare earths miner Lynas Corp was set for its worst session in five weeks on reports of new hurdles to obtaining a license permit for its Malaysian plant, its latest in a long-running tussle with the Southeast Asia country over how to deal with radioactive waste at the plant.
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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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"We owe it to future generations to take action now to find a suitable permanent site for the safe disposal of our radioactive waste... Planning consent will only be given to sites which have local support," Richard Harrington, a minister at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), said in a statement.
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We would need to know the scale of their nuclear and missile facilities, all buildings and sites associated with the programs, the number of scientists it involves, the amount of nuclear material they have on hand, the number of warheads in their arsenal, amount of radioactive waste and even a full accounting of all their research files.
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As executive director and president of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service in Takoma Park, Md., for three decades, Mr. Mariotte was at the forefront of two successful landmark efforts: to prevent the repeal of a federal ban on interstate shipment of radioactive waste, and to bar the construction of new nuclear plants in Maryland and Louisiana.
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A resolution by Greenland's parliament, due to be adopted next month, would instruct the government to ensure that "the U.S. and Denmark, without further delay, ensure clean-up of the more than 30 different U.S. military installations," it said In August, a scientific study said global warming might in future decades unlock radioactive waste stored at Camp Century, an abandoned military camp built in 1959 deep under Greenland's ice sheet.
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There, an octogenarian lifelong employee of the federal government named Ernie—who'd gone from being a nuclear technician in the Air Force to working for the Atomic Energy Commission and DOE—led us around on a bus (with windows that could black out, should something classified fly overhead) to various unclassified sites of interest: the Sedan Crater, the Teapot Apple 3003 houses, and the low-level radioactive waste disposal area—where Jimmy Hoffa was buried, the area manager joked.
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