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Lawmakers: Rail line will affect many WASHINGTON -- Federal lawmakers are calling for public hearings and a broader review of the government application to build a rail line across rural Nevada for nuclear waste shipments to Yucca Mountain. DOE plans for the 330-mile route "will have impacts far beyond Nevada's borders," the state's five members of Congress said in a letter to the chairman of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board, which is weighing the application. The board "has both a statutory and moral duty to comprehensively examine the full effects of the proposed nuclear waste line on the entire national rail transportation system before making any decision," they said.
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Reprocessing too dangerous, too expensive, too polluting, groups say Additional Download(s): Letter to Senator Akaka on Nuclear Reprocessing WASHINGTON (September 17, 2008)—Thirty science, nuclear security and environmental organizations today urged the Senate to reject a provision in pending energy legislation that would fund the construction of a nuclear waste reprocessing facility.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will conduct a public meeting in Nye County, Nev., on Tuesday, Sept. 23, to discuss how the agency will review the Department of Energy’s application to build and operate the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. DOE submitted its application June 3, and the NRC accepted the application for review on Sept 8. The meeting will provide an opportunity for residents of Nye County, where Yucca Mountain is located, to obtain information about how the NRC will decide whether to authorize construction of the proposed repository.
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will meet with Southern California Edison Co. officials on Sept. 23 to discuss the status of performance improvements and other issues at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. SCE operates the plant, located near San Clemente, Calif. The meeting, which will be open to public observation, will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn San Clemente Resort, 111 S. De La Estrella, San Clemente.
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Among the details to emerge from the meeting was acknowledgment by the NRC that, although ISL mine permits call for returning groundwater to its original condition when mining is done, some of the “baseline parameters” have proved unachievable by mining companies.
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The Gang of 10 (now Gang of 20) offshore oil drilling bill, as it has been characterized, appears headed for a Senate vote late next week. While the bill apparently isn’t damaging enough to our environment and future for the "Drill, Baby, Drill" crowd, who are going to try to expand areas allowed for drilling, I won’t go into the oil drilling issues here—they’ve been covered extensively on DK—except perhaps to borrow a phrase about how you can put lipstick on an offshore oil pig and, well, you get the idea.... But what most people—and certainly the mainstream media—haven’t yet realized is that the Gang of 20 bill would do much more than open up some of America’s coastlines to oil drilling. In fact, it is a major energy bill—the draft runs 233 pages—and delves into energy efficiency and conservation, renewables, coal-to-liquid, and so forth. And 18 of these pages would provide the most significant taxpayer-backed boost to nuclear power ever.
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the Department of the Navy (Navy) announces its intent to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) to evaluate the potential environmental consequences of the proposed disposal and reuse of the surplus portion of Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco, California. DATES AND ADDRESSES: A public scoping meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 23, 2008, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Southeast Community Facility, Alex L. Pitcher Community Room, 1800 Oakdale Avenue, San Francisco, California 94124. The purpose of the meeting will be to receive oral and written comments on environmental concerns that should be addressed in the SEIS.
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Two US communities are exploring the possibility of becoming the site of a commercial interim storage facility for utility spent nuclear fuel, according to the official leading the industry's site search. Officials from each of the small, rural communities wanted to continue looking at a commercial storage facility after touring dry storage installations at two nuclear plants in June, Marshall Cohen, the Nuclear Energy Institute's senior director of legislative programs, said in an interview Wednesday.
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The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission will receive comments until October 7 on a generic draft environmental impact statement for in-situ leach uranium recovery operations. NRC said it developed the draft EIS jointly with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. The draft EIS would apply to at least four western states -- Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska and New Mexico -- where NRC said uranium milling companies have indicated an interest in seeking NRC licenses.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking public comment on a draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) for in-situ leach uranium recovery operations in the western United States. The draft GEIS, developed with the cooperation of the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, identifies and evaluates potential environmental impacts common to the construction, operation, aquifer restoration and decommissioning of in-situ leach facilities in Western states. In-situ leach is a process in which local non-potable groundwater with added oxygen and sodium carbonate or bicarbonate is injected into an underground ore deposit to leach out (or dissolve) uranium, which is then pumped to the surface for additional processing.
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Ohio EPA will hold a public information session and hearing at 6:30 p.m., July 24, at Woodmore High School, 633 Fremont St., Elmore, to accept comments on a draft air pollution control permit for a primary beryllium production facility at the Brush Wellman plant in Elmore.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a public meeting in Lynchburg on July 24 to discuss Areva NP’s safety record. The meeting will begin at 10:30 a.m. at Areva’s headquarters at 3315 Old Forest Road. According to a letter posted on the commission’s Web site, the public meeting will focus on a performance review that occurred at Areva’s Mt. Athos Road plant in April.
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OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — The U.S. Department of Energy is accepting public comments on a draft environmental assessment to evaluate alternatives to safely dispose of approximately 15,300 tons of radiologically-contaminated nickel scrap recovered from uranium enrichment process equipment at the department's Oak Ridge and Paducah, Ky., facilities.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will hold two public meetings Wednesday, July 2, to discuss issues regarding the Diablo Canyon Power Plant near Avila Beach. Regulatory Commission staff will meet with Pacific Gas & Electric Co. officials at 2:30 p.m. to discuss the NRC’s annual assessment of safety performance at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant during 2007, then hold a town hall-style meeting beginning at 6:30 p.m.
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When: * June 25, 2008-- 11:30 am and 12:30 pm Where: * Dept of Labor's Cleveland District Office 1001 Lakeside Ave.; * Denver, Co District office 1999 Broadway; * Espanola, NM District office 412 Paseo De Onate, Suite D; * Oak Ridge, TN 800 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Suite C-103; * Las Vegas, NV--Flamingo Executive Park, 1050 E. Flamingo Rd, W-156 Contact:* Terrie Barrie, Alliance of Nuclear Workers Advocacy Groups, for more information 970-824-2260, tbarrie@yahoo.com
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With Wall Street unwilling to finance new nuclear plants, U.S. Senators Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and John Warner of Virginia have cooked up a scheme to provide $544 billion—yes, with a “b”—in subsidies for new nuclear power plant development.
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Two of the main architects of Senate global warming legislation today will unveil a section for the bill intended to promote nuclear energy, which could open the floodgates for a myriad of potentially controversial proposals from both parties when floor debate starts next month. Sens. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., and John Warner, R-Va., will unveil a new nuclear title that will be offered to a bill the two authored with Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, which is aimed at reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions through a cap-and-trade program. Lieberman and Warner will offer it as an amendment because Boxer has not favored language singling out nuclear energy. But all three senators suggested today they may not be at odds on at least this initial framework of a nuclear section. “We’re not going to lose Sen. Boxer,” Warner said to reporters after an event with Boxer, Lieberman and religious leaders promoting their bill, which will be on the Senate floor as early as June 2. “I think it will be relatively non controversial,” Lieberman added.
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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has issued its 'Draft Supplement Analysis for the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada Test Site and Off-Site Locations in the State of Nevada.' The document, released on April 17, is the NNSA’s periodic report on the Nevada Test Site’s Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that was completed in 1996.
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