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Friday, September 14, 2012

Nuclear Waste News Update 9/14



Japan works on nuclear waste disposal
Power Engineering Magazine
The Science Council of Japan has expressed concerns about the country's nuclear waste disposal policies. The Science Council advocates keeping radioactive debris from the country's nuclear reactors in "temporary safe storage" sites. The problem within ...
Physicists patent nuclear waste-burning technology
R & D Magazine
Loading... University of Texas at Austin physicists have been awarded a U.S. patent for an invention that could someday be used to turn nuclear waste into fuel, thus removing the most dangerous forms of waste from the fuel cycle. The researchers—Mike ...
Nuclear waste options still open
News & Star
CUMBRIA County Council has moved to counter claims from Copeland MP Jamie Reed that it has ruled out having a nuclear-waste repository in the county. When the Government invited local authorities to 'express an interest' in hosting a repository, ...
Nuclear waste ship leaves Murmansk harbor for good after 20-years of ...
Bellona
If necessary, said Nikitin, this damaged spent fuel could, by special agreement, be stored at Sayda Bay, which traditionally houses irradiated reactor compartments – a very different sort of radioactive waste. The Lepse's bow section is also ...

People urged to say what they think about nuclear dump
News & Star
More than 170 people attended a meeting about plans for a underground radioactive waste repository in West Cumbria. They heard from two professors who have studied the county's geology and claim it is unsuitable for the underground dump. Steven Quas ...
EnergySolutions official bows out of bid for Radiation Control Board seat
Deseret News
This Feb. 8, 2007, file photo, shows a warning sign attached to rail cars containing low-level radioactive waste ready for processing at the EnergySolutions facility, in Clive, Utah. State regulators should stop relying solely on the honor system in ...

Nuclear marsh plan on agenda
Rye and Battle Today
CONTROVERSIAL plans to consider creating a nuclear waste dump under the fields of Rye are to be discussed next Wednesday (September 19) at a crunch meeting. Shepway District Council is currently exploring the possibility of a nuclear disposal facility ...
Lynas left holding the baby
Aliran Monthly
Lynas has now submitted an application to the regulator, the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), to import radioactive waste from Malaysia,” an Australian High Commission spokesman told The Malaysian Insider today.

County Taking Nuke Waste, State Get 1st Payments
CBS Local
Andrews County, Nuclear Waste, West Texas. ANDREWS, Texas (AP) — Andrews County and the state have gotten their first payments from the company operating a radioactive waste disposal site in West Texas. Waste Control Specialists spokesman Chuck ...

Nuclear power champions Japan and France turn away

euronews -
By Karolin Schaps and Henning Gloystein. LONDON (Reuters) – Two of nuclear power's greatest champions dealt the industry a heavy blow on Friday, with Japan deciding to phase out its plants and France confirming plans to cut its heavy reliance on the ...

Japan's 30-year plan to be nuclear-free

The Hindu - ‎‎
Japan has announced plans to end its reliance on nuclear power within 30 years, in a historic policy shift prompted by the triple meltdown at the Fukushima power plant. The move to close all 50 of the country's functioning reactors by around 2040 marks a ...

TEPCO removes lid from No. 4 reactor pressure vessel

The Daily Yomiuri -
TEPCO removes lid from No. 4 reactor pressure vessel. The Yomiuri Shimbun. FUKUSHIMA--Tokyo Electric Power Co. has removed the lid of the pressure vessel on the top floor of the five-story No. 4 reactor building at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ...

Future spacecraft could be powered by nuclear waste | TG Daily
The British government is reportedly looking for ways to offset the cost of cleaning up nuclear waste by finding commercial uses for what may be the world's ...
www.tgdaily.com/.../66147-future-spacecraft-could-be-power...
Last voyage for nuclear waste hulk | Barentsobserver
At that time, we were told about the plans to just dig a small ditch into the shores in a bay on Novaya Zemlya and bury the old nuclear waste vessel and just ...
barentsobserver.com/en/.../last-voyage-nuclear-waste-hulk-14-...







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