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Radioactive waste resulting from decades of research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is being prepared for shipment to Utah for long-term storage. Heavily shielded rooms with robotic arms called “hot cells” are now at work sorting and packing the material into 55-gallon drums. Some waste dates to the World War II Manhattan Project.
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Special radioactive waste is proposed to be trucked from Oak Ridge across the country by way of interstates 75 and 24 through Chattanooga, and then through Birmingham, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The shipments could begin by the end of this year, if the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency permit them.
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Attention U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: You've got mail. And lots of it. Mailboxes at the federal agency have been stuffed with thousands of cards, letters and e-mails of late, as John and Jane Utahns sound off on a proposal by EnergySolutions Inc. to import low-level radioactive waste from Italy.
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ERWIN — As Nuclear Fuel Services proceeds with plans to improve safety, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has released previously withheld documents detailing incidents at the plant over a three-year period. Earlier this month, the NRC released 58 event notification reports between 2004 and 2007. Twenty-four of the documents pertain to NFS, and 34 were associated with BWXT in Lynchburg, Va.
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The Department of Energy has confirmed plans to rebid the Oak Ridge cleanup contract currently held by Bechtel Jacobs Co. Bechtel Jacobs has been DOE’s cleanup manager since 1998 and the current pact, originally scheduled to conclude this year, was extended through 2011 to make progress on the much-delayed dismantlement project at the K-25 and K-27 uranium-enrichment facilities.
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A push is on to try to stop a private firm from bringing waste from old Italian nuclear plants to Tennessee for processing. EnergySolutions of Utah has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for approval to haul up to 20,000 tons of the material to Oak Ridge, and a Rutherford County group has joined the fight to keep it out. Advertisement "If we don't act quickly, the application will be approved for this enormous shipment, and the doors will be open for all of Europe's nuclear waste to enter the U.S.," Kathy Ferris of Murfreesboro, with Citizens to End Nuclear Dumping in Tennessee, said in an e-mail.
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Tennessee’s Attorney General produced a mixed opinion on the constitutionality of bills concerning radioactive waste in the state’s landfills. State Rep. Frank Buck (D-Dowelltown) requested an opinion from the attorney general’s office questioning whether bills introduced to the General Assembly by state Rep. Donna Rowland (R-Murfreesboro) and Sen. Jim Tracy (R-Murfreesboro) violate the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause.
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A bid by some of Rutherford County's legislators to end all radioactive dumping in Tennessee has run into trouble. A bill, sponsored by state Sen. Jim Tracy, R-Shelbyville, and state Rep. Donna Rowland, R-Murfreesboro, which would prohibit the dumping of any radioactive waste in the state's landfills, is "constitutionally suspect," according to an April 21 opinion by Tennessee Attorney General Robert E. Cooper Jr. The House bill would prohibit the processing or disposal of any material greater than background radiation, except those materials accepted and processed onsite by the federal government. Background radiation is the base level of radiation found in the world.
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Uranium mining in Oak Ridge's Bear Creek Valley? That is an idea floating around as folks begin to ponder the cleanup of the Bear Creek Burial Grounds, a 350-acre swath of federal property historically used for waste disposal at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant. There's an estimated 41 million pounds of uranium buried in the Cold War landfills.
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Sixteen years ago, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was warned that if it allowed nuclear waste to be imported into the United States, this country could turn into the world's nuclear dumping ground. That warning went unheeded, and now, if the Congress doesn't act, it could prove true. In 1992, the Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Powers told the NRC that its proposed rule to license imports of low-level radioactive waste into the United States would allow "an essentially unrestricted flow … of radioactive wastes generated abroad into this country for 'disposal,' thereby turning our nation into an unlimited dumping ground for radioactive wastes produced worldwide."
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