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Storage Of Nuclear Waste News

Debate continues over proposed nuclear waste facility - Eastern Arizona Courier

2012-05-12
Recently, the Republican-controlled Arizona State Legislature endorsed the state to become home to the nation's first permanent nuclear recycling and waste storage site, and there's a possibility it could be placed in the Gila Valley's back yard.

Petition calling for ban on nuclear waste storage tabled in Sask. legislature - Regina Leader-Post

2012-05-14
REGINA — Walkers who last year trekked 800 kilometres from Pinehouse Lake to Regina to protest against nuclear waste storage saw their petition presented Monday in the Saskatchewan legislature. The walkers and others are calling for the Saskatchewan ...

Finland's Crazy Plan to Make Nuclear Waste Disappear - Popular Mechanics

2012-05-11
Barring a disaster—or a miracle, depending on your viewpoint—the Finnish government later this year will begin the final licensing of the world's first permanent storage facility for high-level nuclear waste. Located on Olkiluoto Island ...

Door closed on revising Batt's 1995 nuclear waste agreement - Idaho Statesman

2012-05-24
He listed among his ideas, serving as an interim dry storage site for 3,000 tons of spent fuel, delaying the processing of partially processed nuclear waste at the INL until 2040 and an extention for other used fuel until 2050. The federal ...

Nuclear waste store gains public backing - BBC News

2012-05-21
The search for an underground storage site for high-level nuclear waste is likely to go ahead in Cumbria after a poll showed residents are in favour. In Copeland, the local authority area encapsulating Sellafield, 68% of people backed entering formal talks ...

Radioactive game of passing the parcel - The Canberra Times

2012-05-23
... and actinides of high-level waste. Storing the reprocessed nuclear fuel that is to come back from France at Lucas Heights seems the best of a poor set of alternatives. There are at least suitable storage facilities and chemists and physicists who know ...

Kevin Doyle: Nuclear waste costs Floridians millions - Sun Sentinel

2012-05-12
The Commission also recommends using the Nuclear Waste Fund to pay for consolidated storage and other waste management expenses so ratepayers and taxpayers will no longer have to pay for both onsite and consolidated storage. Finally, the ...

Fingerprint of radioactive plutonium is finally found - msnbc.com

2012-05-21
The researchers also suggest the findings may benefit more exotic undertakings, such as power generation for interplanetary exploration, and earthly ones, such as long-term storage of nuclear waste. Powerful plutonium Plutonium-239 was ...

Row over nuclear waste dump proposal in Kent - The Guardian

2012-05-17
A furious row has broken out among local politicians over a proposal to build a nuclear waste dump in Kent ... residents want to find out more about building this underground storage facility here and my view, and that of the Marsh's county ...

Plymouth police arrest 14 anti-nuke protestors; Released after Plymouth court appearance: Must return for trial on July 11 - Cape Cod Today

2012-05-19
Entergy is in the process of building an area for dry storage of nuclear fuel at Pilgrim Station ... a similar accident could happen here. The nuclear waste spent fuel pool was designed to hold 880 highly radioactive rods and currently holds ...