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Officials face anger over radioactive site | thedailyjournal.com | The Daily Journal

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:56:40 -0000

Residents had their first shot in nearly two years Tuesday night to corner regulators about the future of the former Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corp.
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The issue is whether the radioactive residue of the former smelting facility goes away for disposal or becomes a 1,000-year environmental sore in eyesight of the downtown.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is overseeing the facility's decommissioning. It dispatched 12 officials, from groundwater specialists to legal counsel for an unusual meeting at Edgarton Memorial School on Catawba Avenue.

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Retest suburb for radiation, inquiry recommends - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:39:39 -0000

An Upper House inquiry into a former uranium smelter site at Hunters Hill in Sydney has recommended a thorough retesting of all properties on the site and a comprehensive remediation plan.

The smelter operated between 1911 and 1915 on what is now the location of four properties in Nelson Parade.

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FR: NRC: Completion of uranium cleanup stie in Idaho

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:38:42 -0000

Salmon River Uranium Development Site; Notice of Completion of Remediation at Salmon River Uranium Development Site, Near North Fork, ID ACTION: Notice of completion of remediation at the Salmon River Uranium Development Site, near North Fork, Idaho.

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GAO: NUCLEAR WASTEAction Needed to Improve Accountability and Management of DOE’s Major Cleanup Projects

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:34:53 -0000

DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) currently oversees more than 80 of these cleanup projects, primarily at government-owned, contractor-operated sites throughout the nation. Some of these highly complex projects have completion dates beyond 2050. Ten of these projects meet or nearly meet DOE’s definition of “major”: projects whose costs exceed $1 billion in the near-term—usually a 5-year window of the project’s total estimated life cycle.1,2 These 10 projects have combined estimated near-term costs of almost $19 billion and combined life cycle costs estimated to range between $115 billion and $143 billion, and they account for almost half of EM’s $5.5 billion fiscal year 2009 budget request.3 These 10 projects are described in detail in appendix II and include the remediation, decontamination, and decommissioning, or the stabilization and disposition of:

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RIA Novosti - World - Russia to contribute $17 mln to Chernobyl cleanup

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:39:50 -0000

Russia will provide $17 million to help improve safety at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the site of the world's worst civilian nuclear disaster, and fully decommission it, a top Russian nuclear official said on Monday.

Three reactors of the Chernobyl plant continued to operate for several years after reactor number four exploded in 1986, the last reactor shutting down in 2000. The reactors still contain nuclear fuel rods, and require constant monitoring. The fourth reactor is housed in a Soviet-era sarcophagus set to be replaced by a $1.4 bln metal structure.

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09/29/2008: Cleanup of historic Uravan uranium mill completed

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:35:05 -0000

A chapter in the history of the uranium industry in western Colorado closed today when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certified the completion of the 20-year cleanup of the Uravan Mill Superfund Site.

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Independent: Panel gets uranium cleanup update

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:17:12 -0000

A delegation from the Navajo Nation and officials from five federal agencies went before U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman’s committee Thursday in Washington to follow up on actions taken so far under a five-year plan to clean up Cold War uranium contamination on the Navajo Nation.

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HANFORD: Litigation still possible to enforce cleanup - Breaking News | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:12:02 -0000

The state of Washington will go to court to enforce Hanford cleanup requirements only if it’s a better way to serve the state’s interests than any agreement it can negotiate with the federal government.

That’s what state Attorney General Rob McKenna told the Tri-City Development Council and the Hanford Communities in a reply to their letter of concern over the renegotiation of the Tri-Party Agreement.

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FR: NRC: FONSI uranium mine cleanup by Cogema

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:37:32 -0000

Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for License Amendment Request To Revert to Operating Status From Restoration and Decommissioning Status, Cogema Mining Inc., Christensen and Irigaray Ranch Facilities, Johnson and Campbell Counties, WY

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Deseret News | Rail memo signed for Moab tailings

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:52:32 -0000

nergySolutions and Union Pacific Railroad struck an agreement Monday for rail services and upgrades to an existing line that will support moving about 16 million tons of uranium-mill tailings over the next 20 years away from their current location near the Colorado River and Moab.

The Department of Energy announced Tuesday that the two sides signed a memorandum of understanding to ready a rail line between the tailings pile and the new 250-acre disposal site at Crescent Junction 30 miles away in time to start moving the waste next spring.

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FR: NAVY: SEIS cleanup of SF Hunters Pt Shipyard

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:39:57 -0000

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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Buried barrels in Ephrata leak toxic goo

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:08:16 -0000

In August 1975, somebody scored a sweet deal.

That summer, a transport company paid $2 a barrel to dump 2,353 drums into a Ephrata landfill. There were no records of what was in the barrels, which since then have rotted and leaked toxic chemicals into an underlying aquifer, according to this story by Michelle McNiel in the Wenatchee World .

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Drive to clear Dounreay of radioactive hazards goes under the sea - The Scotsman

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:08:47 -0000

WORK to remove one of the most persistent problems affecting the clean-up of the Dounreay nuclear site has begun beneath the waves off Caithness.
A remotely operated vehicle is combing the seabed to find the worst of the radioactive particles that have caused concern for more than quarter of a century.

Up to £25 million will be spent on covering an area the size of 60 football pitches and on monitoring up to the 2020s.

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Parks nuke dump site to be cleaned in one-foot layers - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:04:43 -0000

Although the Army Corps of Engineers is still working out the details for removal of 50,000 tons of radioactive debris from a dump along Route 66, they will do so one foot at a time.

The nuclear burial grounds, technically known as the Shallow Land Disposal Area (SLDA), were established in the late 1950s as a dump for radioactive and toxic chemical waste from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp., or NUMEC, with facilities in Apollo and Parks.

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Hanford News: Areva to add uranium recovery operation

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:31:41 -0000

Areva plans to add newly developed technology to its Richland plant to remove valuable enriched uranium from waste produced there and from waste shipped from other nuclear producers to the plant.

The new technology to recover enriched uranium is a "green process" that relies on a form of carbon dioxide, Areva said.

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timestranscript.com - Gov't must fix uranium damage: Opposition

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:22:56 -0000

The Department of Natural Resources is giving a mining company the benefit of the doubt that it will fill holes it left uncovered while drilling for uranium in the Moncton area, says a department spokeswoman.

But Kent South Conservative MLA Claude Williams is calling on government to fix the situation immediately, especially given that a local resident's well is now full of murky water.

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Lockheed's Tallevast plans fall on angry ears - Top Stories - Bradenton.com

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:49:31 -0000

Anger and frustration erupted at Mount Tabor Church Thursday night as residents demanded Lockheed Martin Corp. stop work on the Tallevast pollution plume until the community is moved out of harm's way.

But relocation was not on the agenda of the meeting Lockheed called to brief the community on its final plan to clean up the 200-acre plume of toxic waste.

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The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) Blog: Moab Uranium Riding the Rails

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:16:53 -0000

Yesterday, the Department of Energy (DOE) reaffirmed its prior decision to relocate the uranium mill tailings predominantly by rail from Moab, Utah. The tailings will be trained from the banks of the Colorado River 30 miles north to Crescent Junction, Utah. DOE may still consider using truck transport under certain circumstances, but it won't be the primary mode of transportation for the contaminated pile.

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Amarillo.com | Local News: Pantex, Xcel water deal flushed 08/04/08

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:33:07 -0000

The plant is adding a second system in September to remove groundwater from a shallow aquifer and filter it to remove high explosives and chromium from earlier work there. With two systems in place, the plant will be pumping 850,000 gallons per day from 76 wells, said Dennis Huddleston, division manager of the projects division of Pantex.

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San Bernardino County gets EPA bill for radium cleanup at Chino Airport | Inland News | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern California

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:32:08 -0000

he U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is billing San Bernardino County nearly a half-million dollars to pay for removing vintage aircraft gauges adorned with radioactive-laced paint from a hangar at Chino Airport.

The county, which owns and operates the airport, and the federal agency made the agreement official last week although the cleanup was conducted in 2005, said Taly Jolish, assistant regional counsel for the EPA.

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