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Los Alamos lab turns to Texas to temporarily store radioactive waste
2014-03-20 20:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Los Alamos National Laboratory has found a temporary home in Texas for roughly 1,000 barrels of radioactive junk left in limbo after a radiation leak led to a prolonged shutdown of New Mexico's only nuclear waste disposal facility. Los Alamos, one of the leading U.S. nuclear weapons labs, said earlier this month it had been forced to halt shipments of its radioactive refuse some 300 miles across the state to the nation's only underground nuclear repository, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, near...
Highly radioactive water leaks at Japan nuke plant
2014-02-20 12:09:46| Energy - Topix.net
The operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said Thursday that the leak involved partially treated water from early in the crisis, meaning it was more toxic than previous leaks.
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Cuadrilla Fracking Delays Over Radioactive Waste Water
2014-01-29 07:37:35| oilandgasonline News Articles
Energy company Cuadrilla has withdrawn applications for permits to frack in Lancashire after issues with radioactive waste.
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Caudrilla withdraws applications frack Lancashire encountering problems with radioactive waste disposal
2014-01-27 19:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Cuadrilla, the fracking company responsible for a series of earth tremors around Blackpool in 2011, has withdrawn applications for permits to frack in Lancashire after problems surfaced relating to the disposal of radioactive waste. Hydraulic fracturing or fracking releases gas or oil from shale by blasting a mixture of sand, chemicals and water into the rock. The process produces huge amounts of waste water that contains, among other things, low-level naturally-occurring radiation. Industry...
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Worlds Poorest Suffer From Radioactive Sickness as Areva Mines for Uranium
2014-01-24 22:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: More than 60 percent of Niger`s population lives on less than $1 per day, and even more have no electricity. Still, French company Areva keeps contaminating those residents and their environment while mining away for uranium--one of the few resources the world`s poorest country still has. Areva has operated in northern Niger for four decades, according to Keith Slack, the global program manager of Oxfam America`s Extractive Industries team. The French government owns about 80 percent of the...
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