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UK outlines latest nuclear waste storage plans
2014-07-24 13:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The government will spend two years looking for a new site to store nuclear waste from power stations, industry and submarines, it was announced today. A new long term plan to find a site to host a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) has been launched following a consultation on improving the controversial process of site identification, which previously failed to deliver a permanent storage site. Currently, nuclear waste is stored temporarily at secure nuclear sites across the country, but...
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A Nuclear Waste Dump on the Shore of the Great Lakes?
2014-07-16 14:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Is dilution really the solution to pollution--especially when its nuclear waste that can stay radioactive for 100,000 years? A four-member expert group told a federal joint review panel it is. The panel is examining an Ontario Power Generation proposal to bury low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste from the Darlington, Pickering and Bruce nuclear plants in limestone at the Bruce site in Kincardine, beside Lake Huron. According to the Toronto Star, the experts reported that 1,000 cubic meters...
Public debate set for Ontario's underground nuclear waste facility
2014-06-10 11:24:00| Solid Waste & Recycling magazine Headlines
The public and project proponents are getting a second chance to weigh-in on a proposal by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to build a facility that would store radioactive waste deep underground at its Bruce Nuclear site.
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German nuclear waste may be headed to South Carolina site
2014-06-04 23:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Department of Energy said on Wednesday it will study the environmental risk of importing spent nuclear fuel from Germany that contains highly enriched uranium, a move believed to be the first for the United States. The department said it is considering a plan to ship the nuclear waste from Germany to the Savannah River Site, a federal facility in South Carolina. The 310-acre site already holds millions of gallons of high-level nuclear waste in tanks. The waste came from reactors in South...
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US plants prepare long-term nuclear waste storage
2014-05-26 23:14:47| Energy - Topix.net
In this June 15, 2012 photo released by Dominion Resources, a spent fuel storage container is offloaded from a trailer into a horizontal storage module at the Millstone Power Station in Waterford, Conn.
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