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SANTA FE—An international company has been contracted to help the state Mining and Minerals Division with the cleanup of abandoned uranium mines around New Mexico. The agency says Golder Associates will conduct field assessments of more than a dozen abandoned mines northwest of Grants to measure the extent of contamination so cleanup plans can be developed for the sites.
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The cost of hauling away the Moab tailings by 2019 could exceed $1 billion, according to the latest estimate by the U.S. Energy Department, the agency managing the cleanup.
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WASHINGTON — The Energy Department estimates it could cost up to $1 billion to clean up the uranium mill tailings in Moab by 2019, based on an anticipated report issued to Congress late Tuesday. The 2019 deadline gets the project done faster than the 2028 deadline the department submitted to Congress last year but is still way beyond the 2012 deadline initially proposed when the department took over the project.
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RICHLAND, Wash.- The U.S. Department of Energy and its contractor are being hit again for a radioactive spill in Hanford's S-Farm in July 2007. DOE and contractor CH2M Hill Hanford Group have agreed on a proposed $30,000 settlement with the EPA.
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TALLEVAST -- Rep. Bill Galvano wants all parties involved in the Tallevast contamination dispute to talk, unencumbered by legal actions. "This matter has lingered for far too long despite everyone's efforts to bring it to some sort of resolution," Galvano wrote in a letter mailed Friday to attorneys representing Tallevast residents and Lockheed Martin Corp., responsible for cleaning up a toxic spill beneath the community.
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RIALTO - Since perchlorate was discovered in the local water supply in 1997, Rialto has spent $26 million on its effort to get the contamination cleaned up. Perchlorate and other chemicals are flowing through the water from industrial sites used to manufacture rockets and fireworks in the decades following World War II. The military moved munitions to the area after the attack on Pearl Harbor stoked fear about the consequences of leaving weaponry on the coast.
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A federal judge signed an order dismissing legal actions pertaining to water contamination in the Rialto-Colton Groundwater Basin while local governments continue their efforts to broker a settlement with the alleged polluters.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has granted Russia more than 70 million euros for disposing of scrapped nuclear ships and submarines moored at naval bases in Russia's northwest. Russia's state nuclear corporation -- Rosatom -- and the EBRD signed four relevant agreements on June 5.
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Perhaps the final chapter in Neutron Products’ decades-long battle with the state was closed last month when the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled that the company could be held in contempt for failing to make court-ordered shipments of radioactive waste from its Dickerson plant.
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MANATEE COUNTY — Buildings No. 4 and 5 at 1600 Tallevast Road were once a central part of the former American Beryllium Co. plant where local workers built parts that were used to make weapons. One building served as a wood-working shop and inspection room. The other housed a waste-water treatment system and was used to store hazardous materials.
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Federal regulators recently approved the final environmental impact statement submitted by Sequoyah Fuels Corp., which operated the plant until it shut down in 1993. Located about 75 miles southeast of Tulsa, the facility sits along the Arkansas River.
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Apparently the Senate actually accomplished something this week in the environmental realm: the 2009 federal budget resolution that passed 48-45 on Wednesday included $500 million for a Department of Energy environmental management program to clean up Hanford and other nuclear sites across the country.
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Paducah's gaseous diffusion plant could one day be home to a giant radioactive waste dump. It’s one of three plans being considered by the Department of Energy (D.O.E.) and local officials in anticipation of the plants closing over the next few years.
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Clean-up of radioactive waste from the former Naval Air Station-Alameda will enter a more intensive phase in coming weeks as workers under the auspices of the U.S. Navy begin excavating and removing soil and storm drains contaminated by decades of sloppy disposal of cadmium, radium-226, PCBs and other toxic compounds. Work is expected to commence in mid June.
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MOAB - A show of hands at the community center here confirmed Bette Stanton's view: The best way to haul the massive Atlas Corp. uranium tailings pile out of town is not by truck but by rail. "There's something about contaminated trucks on the highway that scares people," said Stanton, who has spent about 30 years in the redrock tourist town, which was a hot spot for a uranium boom about 50 years ago.
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TELLURIDE – With plans for a uranium mine in Paradox Valley looming on the horizon, the San Miguel County Commissioners gave the go-ahead to the Cyprus Amax Minerals Company to perform voluntary remedial cleanup work of radioactive material at the former Newmire Vanadium Mill site on Highway 145 near Silver Pick Road.
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Posted: 8:24 AM- MOAB - The U.S. Department of Energy wants to hear public opinion about the best way to move 16 million tons of uranium tailings. The agency is deciding whether the tailings should be taken by truck or by train 30 miles from a pile outside Moab to a more permanent repository at Crescent Junction.
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A multi-layered cap of soil and concrete will be used to cover radioactive waste at the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton. The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it decided a cap was the best method to prevent exposure of the waste. The agency first presented the idea at a public hearing on March 27.
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OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — Building the world's first full-scale uranium enrichment factory — a 45-acre monster that was the biggest industrial structure in the world at the time — took 18 months amid the race for the first atomic bomb. Six decades later, federal authorities think they finally have a handle on just how long it will take to clean up and tear down the long-shuttered relic of the Manhattan Project: About 15 years.
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Colorado's quarter-century-long legal tussle over groundwater pollution at the former Rocky Mountain Arsenal ended Thursday with the announcement of a historic $35 million settlement. Shell Oil Co. and the U.S. Army — which produced all manner of chemicals from 1942 to 1982 at the arsenal, northeast of downtown Denver — have agreed to pay the state $35 million in damages for polluting groundwater at the site, state Attorney General John Suthers said Thursday.
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