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Dilemma in the Marcellus Shale: How dispose of radioactive oil and gas waste?
2014-10-11 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A few months ago, a Marcellus Shale operator approached Leong Ying, business development manager at the radiation measurement division of Thermo Fisher Scientific, with a problem. The driller, whom Mr. Ying declined to name, was trying to dispose of oil and gas waste at area landfills but the trucks kept tripping radiation alarms. Rejected trucks had to be sent back to well pads or taken out of state, both costly options. It was happening enough that it started nudging the companys bottom line,...
Oil platform evacuated after ship carrying radioactive waste catches fire in North Sea
2014-10-09 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Dozens of people were evacuated from an oil rig in the North Sea after a ship carrying radioactive concrete waste caught fire and began drifting towards it.
Stericycle Linked to Burning of Radioactive Waste
2014-09-18 22:37:00| Waste Age
<a href="http://www.standard.net">Standard Examiner</a> A former employee of Stericycle claims the waste incineration company routinely burned radioactive waste and was haphazard in its oversight at the Davis County facility. Content Classification: Curated read more
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Fukushima accepts 'temporary' radioactive waste storage
2014-09-01 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The governor of disaster-struck Fukushima agreed Monday to accept the "temporary" storage of nuclear waste from the Japanese accident, paving the way for an end to a years-long standoff. Yuhei Sato has been cajoled and lavished with the promises of subsidies if he accepts a central government plan to build a depot on land near the battered Fukushima Daiichi plant. "I have made an agonising decision to accept plans to construct temporary storage facilities in order to achieve recovery in the...
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Amid Concerns, Gov. Snyder Wants Review Of Michigan Radioactive Waste Standards
2014-08-26 01:26:18| Waste Management - Topix.net
Gov. Rick Snyder ordered a review Monday of state standards for disposing certain types of radioactive waste in landfills, responding to public anger over the disclosure that material generated in Pennsylvania but rejected for storage there would be shipped to Michigan.
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