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Issues Mount at Hanford Site, Including Nuclear Waste Treatment Plant Design
2013-04-16 20:41:31| ENR.com: Headline News
Leaking waste storage tanks and a possible waste transfer from the Washington state site to New Mexico are top priorities for its new Senate overseer and the incoming Energy Secretary.
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Treatment Plant for Waste in Nuclear Cleanup Has Design Flaws, Panel Says
2013-04-03 05:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A treatment plant that the Energy Department is counting on to stabilize the radioactive waste at the nation's largest environmental cleanup project, at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State, has design problems that could lead to chemical explosions, inadvertent nuclear reactions and mechanical breakdowns, a federal advisory panel warned on Tuesday. The panel, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, said the waste was also not safe where it was now, in leaking tanks that have...
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U.S. Nuclear Plants Provide Market Niche for Waste Disposal System Providers
2013-03-27 20:50:40| ENR.com: Headline News
No central U.S. depository for radioactive waste from nuclear powerplants indicates a bright future for onsite storage firms.
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Nuclear Waste Seeping From Container In Hazardous Wash. State Facility
2013-02-16 16:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: They thought they'd managed this problem a few years ago. But Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee got a disturbing call Friday from Energy Secretary Steven Chu: Nuclear waste is leaking out of a tank in one of the most contaminated nuclear waste sites in the U.S. Inslee released a statement, saying a single shell tank at Hanford Nuclear Reservation is slowly losing between 150 and 300 gallons of radioactive waste each year. All of the liquid was removed from the tank in February 1995; what's left...
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United Kingdom: Cumbrian nuclear waste vote marred by allegations of scare tactics
2013-02-11 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The decision by Cumbria Council to block proposals for a new underground storage facility for the radioactive waste currently stored in the county is facing fresh questions, after allegations emerged of an organised campaign to "intimidate" councillors considering voting in favour of further investigation into the plan. Cumbria Council voted last month to block the next stage of work to assess whether a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) should be developed in the west of the county, despite a...
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