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Should The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump Be Revisited?
Yucca Mountain, long touted as the answer to the nation’s nuclear waste problem, was canceled by the Obama administration in 2009. But now the country’s leading group of nuclear scientists and...
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Did Rick Perry Try To Sideline State Commissioner Who Got In The Way Of...
On the heels of today's Washington Post analysis of Rick Perry's politically-connected donor network comes a new Reuters report suggesting Perry may have tried to sideline a state commissioner who was...
View ArticleA Georgia Nuclear Plant Is Leaking Radioactive Tritium
ATLANTA (AP) — Workers have identified an underground pipe leaking radioactive water beneath a nuclear power plant in Georgia.Southern Co. spokeswoman Amoi Geter said Monday that workers were in the...
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The Czech Republic Is Fighting To Double Its Nuclear Energy Program
Surrounded by corn fields, bicycle routes and a nature reserve, the eight huge cooling towers of the Dukovany nuclear power plant have dominated the Czech countryside near the Austrian border for...
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Tons Of Radioactive Waste Are Piling Up In Japan As Number Of Reported...
There was an earthquake, that caused a wave, that wiped out the power, that kept the Fukushima nuclear plant from cooling its core.Looking back at the string of events that brought Japan to its current...
View ArticleChaos As Russian Nuclear Sub Catches Fire
Russian authorities were forced to submerge a nuclear submarine after firefighters struggled to control a blaze on the vessel, Reuters reports.The submarine had been docked for repairs in the Murmansk...
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How To Make A Hard Drive That Lasts 1 Million Years
Science Magazine reports that the secret to making your data last a million years is to use a drive that's made out of sapphire.It might seem like a silly pursuit, but the project was born when nuclear...
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Now 6 Tanks Are Leaking Radioactive Waste At America's Most Contaminated Site
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says six underground tanks at the Hanford Nuclear reservation are leaking, the Associated Press reports.The problem, which Inslee called "disturbing," has been brewing for a...
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The Hanford Nuclear Fiasco Shows The Fundamental Problem Of The Nuclear Age
Engineers around the world have done a great job developing nuclear technologies to serve mankind’s many endeavors: medical devices, power generators, naval propulsion systems, or the most formidable...
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Possible Radiation Leak At New Mexico Military Nuclear Waste Site After...
Unusually high levels of radioactive particles were found at an underground nuclear waste site in New Mexico on Saturday in what a spokesman said looked like the first real alarm since the plant opened...
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Australia Has Nowhere To Put Its Shipment Of French Nuclear Waste
In the second half of next year France will be sending nuclear waste to Australia for permanent storage. The waste comes from uranium and plutonium exported to France between 1999 and 2004 to run its...
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Discarded Russian submarines could cause a nuclear disaster in the Arctic
The Arctic could become a site of future turmoil, and not just because of the emerging geopolitical tensions and militarization in the region. Beyond concerns of a frozen conflict in the icy north,...
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Idaho: The US wants us to be 'a nuclear waste dump'
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Former Idaho Governors Cecil Andrus and Phil Batt threatened on Thursday to sue the U.S. Energy Department to prevent what they said was its efforts to turn the state into "a...
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5 surprising health facts from the fallout of the Fukushima nuclear disaster
Four years ago a large earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast Japan. More than 15,000 people were killed. A subsequent nuclear meltdown added fear to grief. As terrible as the meltdown was, the...
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Kitty litter led to radiation leak at New Mexico nuke waste dump
(Reuters) - A radiation leak at an underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico was caused by "chemically incompatible" contents, including kitty litter, that reacted inside a barrel of waste causing...
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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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