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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Nuclear waste related news update


Murkowski presses Obama official on late nuclear waste plan
The Hill (blog)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) pressed an Energy Department (DOE) official Wednesday for answers on why the Obama administration missed a summer deadline for finalizing a nuclear waste storage plan. “The government's failure to address our nuclear ...
Nuclear Waste-Burning Technology Could Change the Face of Nuclear Energy
University of Texas at Austin News
Toxic nuclear waste is stored at sites around the U.S., and the need to store nuclear waste is widely considered to be a major disadvantage associated with nuclear energy. The physicists' invention could someday drastically decrease the need for any ...

Kudankulam live: 'If govt can't handle garbage, how will it handle nuclear waste?'
Firstpost
Our Government has shown itself incapable of even being able to dispose day to day garbage, leave alone industrial effluent or urban sewage. How does it dare to say that it knows how to deal with nuclear waste? And that nuclear reactors in India are safe?
Radioactive regulators criticised
ABC 4
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – An angry legislative committee is seeking the elimination of a state agency which oversees low-level radioactive waste. And at least one lawmaker is suggesting the head of Radiation Control be fired from his job. All this ..


Lepse nuclear waste storage ship endangering Murmansk for decades finally ...
Bellona
In the holds of the Lepse are filled with casks and caissons holding 639 spent nuclear fuel assemblies –equaling hundreds of tons of radioactive materials – a significant portion of which have been damaged, including assemblies that were damaged during ...

OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Senate goes nuclear Wednesday
The Hill (blog)
Senate lawmakers will also plunge into a topic that has vexed Congress and policymakers for decades: what to do with nuclear waste piling up at the nation's power plants. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will gather Wednesday to ...
NRC's inspector general probing Pa. dump cleanup
Sacramento Bee
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's inspector general is investigating the ongoing cleanup of a nuclear waste dump in western Pennsylvania. The Valley News Dispatch in Tarentum ( http://bit.ly/RIbLc6) reports Wednesday that the inspector general's ...

U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOUR : Sen ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today made the following opening statement during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on S. 3469, the Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2012: "Mr. Chairman, thank you ... 
 
Bingaman to Hold Energy Committee Hearing on Nuclear Waste Bill
WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman will hold an Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to examine legislation he ...
www.bingaman.senate.gov/news/20120910-01.cfm
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