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Australia could become the world's dumping ground for nuclear waste
For a long time one of the primary criticisms of nuclear power has revolved around the issue of what to do with nuclear waste.Effectively disposing of nuclear waste literally requires a plan that spans...
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Iran's supreme leader just added another obstacle to an Iran nuclear deal
ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Wednesday Tehran would not accept "unreasonable demands" by world powers over its disputed nuclear program and ruled out...
View ArticlePHOTO: These deformed daisies from Fukushima are blowing up the internet
A small patch of deformed daisies near the 2011 Fukushima disaster site have attracted global intrigue, after Japanese Twitter user @san_kaido posted a photo of the plant mutation in...
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The opening of an underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico just got...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Reuters) - The planned March 2016 reopening of an underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico has been pushed back indefinitely because of unanticipated challenges, U.S. officials...
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Russia is stalling an investigation into whether one of its capsized nuclear...
Russian customs has for the last 10 months held in impound samples from a sunken nuclear submarine that Russian scientists sent to their Norwegian counterparts to confirm whether the wreck poses any...
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Canada might start dumping nuclear waste near the US border
A Canadian plan to build an underground nuclear waste dump less than a mile from Lake Huron is getting unfriendly attention from US lawmakers, who are trying to force the Obama administration to invoke...
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Welcome to the most polluted place on Earth
Lake Karachay, located in the southern Ural Mountains in eastern Russia, is the most dangerous lake in the world.In less that an hour you can receive a lethal dose of radiation (600 roentgens). Back in...
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A plan to ship nuclear waste to Idaho just got scrapped
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - The U.S. Energy Department has canceled a plan to ship to the Idaho National Laboratory spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors out of state, a controversial proposal that...
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A nuclear waste deal between the US and UK is bringing up uncomfortable...
A very unusual exchange is about to take place over the Atlantic. The UK is sending some 700kg of highly enriched uranium to be disposed of in the US, the largest amount that has ever been moved out of...
View ArticleA nuclear waste leak in Washington State just got worse
Radioactive waste has been leaking from a storage tank at Hanford Site — a nuclear waste storage facility in Washington State — since at least 2011. In an effort to fix the problem, the U.S. Department...
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A typo and a bag of kitty litter might cost US taxpayers billions in nuclear...
A typo and a bag of organic kitty litter may end up costing United States taxpayers more than $2 billion in nuclear waste cleanup, according to a new report by Ralph Vartabedian at the Los Angeles...
View ArticleTrump's budget revives a controversial plan to store America's nuclear waste...
In 1987, Nevada's Yucca Mountain was designated as the place to store America's nuclear waste. Millions of dollars went into researching the mountain and developing facilities to hold nuclear waste for...
View ArticleA tunnel full of radioactive waste has caved in at one of the most...
The Hanford nuclear site in Washington state — one of the largest and most contaminated storehouses of radioactive waste in the US — is currently undergoing an emergency.The US Department of Energy...
View ArticleThis swimming robot is exploring a failed nuclear reactor in Fukushima
Toshiba has designed a swimming robot to make its way through deadly radiation in one of Fukushima's flooded and failed reactors. The radiation there is so powerful that a previous robot's camera shut...
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Hurricane Irma may plow into a site full of Cold War-era nuclear waste
Hurricane Irma, or what's left of it, may plow into the continental US over the weekend.There's a chance the damaging winds and heavy rainfall could affect Savannah River Site, a large Cold War-era...
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San Francisco's planned $8 billion neighborhood has a radioactive past, and...
A new report claims that the Navy's cleanup efforts at the site of San Francisco's new $8 billion neighborhood rely on outdated safety standards, equivalent to those used by the EPA in 1991. The...
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The Trump administration plans to reclassify nuclear waste, arguing it could...
The US Department of Energy wants a change in its legal definition of high-level radioactive waste stored at places such as Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state.Reclassifying waste as...
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The US is suing Lockheed and other companies over alleged kickbacks and lying...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sued Lockheed Martin Corp, Lockheed Martin Services Inc, and Mission Support Alliance LLC, as well as a Lockheed executive for alleged false claims and...
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Fukushima is running out of space to store contaminated water. Japan's...
Eight years after the nuclear disaster at Japan's Fukushima power plant, the facility contains more than 1 million tons of contaminated water.Japan's environment minister recently said the "the only...
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Inside America's most toxic nuclear waste dump, where 56 million gallons of...
Hanford Nuclear Reservation is the most polluted area in the United States. Buried beneath the complex is 56 million gallons of radioactive waste that need to be dealt with. The reservation produced...
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