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State Rep. John Galloway, D-140, has demanded that Waste Management “suspend indefinitely” any plans for radioactive waste at the local landfills and condemned the company for “seemingly deceptive” public notices about the project. Officials in Tullytown and Falls Supervisor Dorothy Vislosky also joined Galloway in objecting to Waste Management’s plan to import 750 tons of radioactive sludge at landfills along the Delaware River.
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Waste Management has “suspended” plans to dump 750 tons of radioactive sludge at its landfills in Falls and Tullytown after news reports in the Courier Times. The landfill operator said it received a “surprising” public response to the project, which was authorized by both the state Department of Environmental Protection and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The radiated material originated at the Limerick Nuclear Power Plant.
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Federal regulators, who have done much to beef up security at commercial nuclear power plants in the last seven years, are stopping short of requiring armed guards at the front door. That decision should be left to plant owners, according to a 548-page U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission document that recommends several new security enhancements and would make permanent policies implemented in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
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"I feel that former President Jimmy Carter should come forth with all of the facts surrounding the Three Mile Island Accident, especially those which involved the radiation release and the dose to the public. This disclosure should, moreover, be in language which can be easily and correctly understood by the public, and not massaged to hide the truth. After the accident, for example, I found that the dose officially assigned to the public, was called: "measured dose to the public from the accident" - where "measured" meant it only included the dose after the rate matres were in place the third day after the accident began; "accident" meant that the radiation dose received during the same time period in 1978 when the TMI reactors were all operating and there was Chinese nuclear test fallout, could be subtracted.
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Eric Epstein, the anti-nuclear activist who devoted much of his life to trying to shut down the Three Mile Island nuclear station, has agreed not to oppose a 20-year extension of the plant's operating license. Change of position? No, Epstein said. It's about being realistic.
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BERWICK – The public will be able to comment at a May 28 meeting in Berwick on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s finding that renewing the Susquehanna nuclear plant’s license for 20 years will not have an environmental impact, the NRC has announced. PPL Corp., the majority owner of the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station in Salem Township, has filed a license extension for both reactors, which, if approved, would allow reactors Unit 1 and Unit 2 to remain open until 2042 and 2044, respectively.
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The nuclear plant at Three Mile Island will get closer scrutiny from federal regulators for the next 12 months, following a lapse in security procedures that occurred last summer. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission concluded that the security issue was of moderate to serious significance. The problem was discovered and reported by AmerGen Energy, the operator of the plant,
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