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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Nuclear waste nelated news update 8/30


 
CERAM Wins Contract to Evaluate Alternative Technologies for Nuclear Waste ...
Azom.com
The contract is with Sellafield Ltd - the company responsible for decommissioning the Sellafield nuclear site and processing waste on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. A spokesman for Sellafield Ltd said: "The FGMSP is one of Sellafield ...
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Questions linger over piping Hanford's nuclear waste to treatment plant
KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest
RICHLAND, Wash. -- This week we heard that yet another top-level government engineer has serious concerns about the design and construction of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation's waste treatment plant. If that wasn't enough of a headache for the U.S. ...
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Nuke waste rail shipment set for November
WLS
The first rail shipments of low-level radioactive waste to permanent storage in an EnergySolutions Inc. facility in Cline, Utah, are scheduled for November/December of this year. Construction of 15-foot-tall, 20-ton vertical concrete casks (VCC) for on ...
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Save the dates: "A Mountain of Radioactive Waste 70 Years High: Ending the ...
Democratic Underground
Diverse expert speakers will be featured, on a range of subject matter, including: radioactive waste; the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe; the inextricable link between nuclear weapons and nuclear power; degraded old and proposed new atomic reactor risks ...
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OriginOil: Algae harvester to clean radioactive sites in Japan. - Analyst Blog
NASDAQ
OriginOil ( OOIL ) has announced that its research partner in Japan has received government funding approval for a program to use the company's algae harvester to clean the radioactive waste from contaminated sites in Fukushima where the March 2011 ...
 
 Russians Dumped Old Nuclear Reactors and Radioactive Waste
By Kevin
Enormous quantities of decommissioned Russian nuclear reactors and radioactive waste were dumped into the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia over a course of decades, according to documents given to Norwegian officials by ...
cryptogon.com
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