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Nuclear Roulette
Laguna Beach Independent
We are very fortunate to have our Laguna Beach City Council voting to send a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission asking that Edison remove the growing pools of radioactive waste from San Onofre. Of all 104 nuclear reactors in the United States ...

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The Gauntlet
MUNICIPAL WASTE: 'The Fatal Feast' Lyric Video Posted Online - Feb. 22, 2012
Blabbermouth.net
"The Fatal Feast" features guest appearances by John Connelly (guitarist and vocalist for NUCLEAR ASSAULT), Steve Moore (who plays bass and synthesizers for ZOMBI), and vocalist Tim Barry (ex-AVAIL). MUNICIPAL WASTE will film a video for "The Fatal ...
MUNICIPAL WASTE Post Lyric VideoThe Gauntlet

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The Hindu
Fukushima Disaster Left US NRC Confused, Documents Show
BusinessWeek
NRC officials have said the Nuclear Energy Institute-designed plan may speed the regulatory process. Reports from Tokyo Electric and Japan's government had indicated the cooling pool to store atomic waste at Fukushima's Unit 4 reactor was dry, ...
Call for re-think on nuclear plantsThe Hindu
Fukushima disaster left U.S. agency in confusionFuelFix (blog)
'Shadowlands' photographs highlight human cost of Fukushima nuclear disasterYubaNet (press release)

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Radiation levels higher but safe off Fukushima Daiichi, scientists say
CNN International
Levels of the long-lived nuclear waste cesium-137 were 1000 times higher in seawater samples taken three months after the accident than they were before the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi, said Nicholas Fisher, a marine science professor at New York's ...

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Latin America Needs To Address Transport Of Nuclear Weapons
Eurasia Review
Under this additional protocol, the nuclear powers pledged “not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons” against the countries of the region. But the transport through the region of nuclear weapons and radioactive waste was not contemplated in the ...

The Guardian
Rethinking the Nuclear Energy Renaissance
Energy Collective
Exploration, Uranium mining & milling, transport, enrichment, construction of the reactors, managing the radioactive waste both as a byproduct of the mining process and power generation process all have environmental consequences.
Call for re-think on nuclear plantsThe Hindu
Overheard on CNN.com: Taking another look at nuclear power plant safetyCNN (blog)
Why we must phase out nuclear powerThe Guardian
YubaNet (press release) -Washington Post
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Former Nevada Gov. Bryan Calls Amodei's Remarks On Yucca Mountain “Unfortunate"
Lahontan Valley News
Mark Amodei's recent comments about Yucca Mountain not being dead as a site to dispose of the nation's nuclear waste was as “unfortunate.” “The great majority of Nevadans, dating back more than 30 years ago when I was governor, have taken a position ...

The Foreigner
Chernobyl still affects Norway
The Foreigner
Norway is also at risk from accidents at nuclear-powered Russia's Kola and St Petersburg reactors, as well as Murmansk's Andreyeva Bay nuclear waste storage facility 45 kilometres from the Norwegian border. Last year's Roslyakovo dry dock Delta-IV ...

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Finland joins eastern bloc of energy supply
Barents Observer
At the same time Rosatom, the Russian state nuclear energy company, announced that it intends to dig a tunnel for nuclear waste on the shore of the Gulf of Finland at Sosnovyi Bor. Although representatives of environmental associations, such as Green ...

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Energy agency seeks dismissal of Hanford whistle-blower lawsuit
The Seattle Times
Walter Tamosaitis says he was removed from a project for raising technical concerns that could affect the safe operation of a plant that will process high-level radioactive waste for disposal. By Annette Cary Walter Tamosaitis sued after he was removed ...
Hanford's Toxic AvengersSeattle Weekly

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Toronto Star
Nuclear waste storage depot attracts southern Ontario towns
Toronto Star
John Spears Business Reporter You can call it a repository for used nuclear fuel in an adaptive phased management program. You can call it a nuclear waste site. Either way, a surprising cluster of municipalities in south-western Ontario's rural ...

Taiwan Today
Tao protest against nuclear facility
Taipei Times
By Loa Iok-sin / Staff Reporter, in Lanyu Tao Aborigines protest in front of a nuclear waste storage facility on Lanyu, also known as Orchid Island, yesterday. Hundreds of Tao Aborigines living on Lanyu (蘭嶼), also known as Orchid Island, ...
Lanyu natives rally against nuclear waste storageFocus Taiwan News Channel
Nuclear safety inspections uncover no major hazards: AECChina Post

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Lanyu natives rally against nuclear waste storage
Focus Taiwan News Channel
20 (CNA) Nearly 500 natives from all six tribes on the offshore island of Lanyu staged an angry protest Monday, demanding that the government immediately remove all the life threatening waste from the nation's nuclear power plants that is being stored ...
Tao protest against nuclear facilityTaipei Times

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The Guardian
Call for re-think on nuclear plants
The Hindu
He also quoted newspaper reports from the 'Japan Times' that reported that Japan had not disclosed information on the unaccounted plutonium or uranium stored in its nuclear waste dump. Corinne Kumar, founder director, CIEDS Collective, said that the ...
Overheard on CNN.com: Taking another look at nuclear power plant safetyCNN (blog)
Why we must phase out nuclear powerThe Guardian
AP Interview: Japan woefully unprepared for nuclear disaster, ex-prime ...Washington Post
EurActiv -Houston Chronicle
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We won't do that
Las Vegas Sun
In an interview with our Washington correspondent, Karoun Demirjian, Quasniki took on the Yucca Mountain project, the plan to put the nation's nuclear waste in a volcanic ridge 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. “Basically, Nevada, you've got a problem ...

Obama's budget protects funding for Parks cleanup, river locks
Tarentum Valley News Dispatch
President Obama's fiscal year 2013 budget stays the course for paying for the cleanup of the nuclear waste dump in Parks Township and maintenance for the eight locks and dams on the Allegheny River. The president's new budget includes $133 million in ...

Have say on nuclear waste site
NW Evening Mail
PEOPLE all over Cumbria have been having their say on the pros and cons of having an underground nuclear waste repository in the county. Copeland is seen as the most likely location if anywhere geologically suitable can be found for investigation – but ...
Seeking answers on search for radioactive waste siteTimes & Star

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Islamic Republic News Agency
India scouting for sites to store nuclear waste
Islamic Republic News Agency
As a first step, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) will set up an underground laboratory in one of its uranium mines to study qualities of the rock at the mine bottom to decide whether it can be used to store nuclear waste.

New Plant Vogtle reactors praised despite unresolved nuclear waste plan
The Augusta Chronicle
Those pools will be full in 2014, however, and the cancellation of the government's Yucca Mountain waste repository in Nevada has left the fate of spent fuel from all 104 US reactors in limbo. Under the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act, the Department of ...

The Guardian
Overheard on CNN.com: Taking another look at nuclear power plant safety
CNN (blog)
And considering that the quantity of waste by-product is significantly less than any other type of power generation, including natural gas, how can people be so adamant against nuclear power?" There were many who responded in turn to Jack Baker's ...
Why we must phase out nuclear powerThe Guardian
AP Interview: Japan woefully unprepared for nuclear disaster, ex-prime ...Washington Post
Nuclear industry seen emerging from Fukushima shockEurActiv
Houston Chronicle
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