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Postbulletin.com: Derailment is IC&E's third since May; Highway 26 partially reopened - Wed, Jul 30, 2008

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:30:59 -0000

The derailment of an Iowa, Chicago & Eastern railroad train near the small town of Reno early Tuesday is the railroad's third along the Mississippi River in far southeastern Minnesota or northeastern Iowa since May.

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Cold War-era nuclear waste set to roll through Georgia | ajc.com

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:37:45 -0000

Regular shipments of radioactive waste left over from the Cold War era may begin this fall with trucks moving through northwest Georgia en route to New Mexico.

The estimated 60 to 120 truckloads a year of waste from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee will be buried nearly a half-mile deep in an underground salt formation. The transports to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M., are expected to take three years, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The shipments are awaiting approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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The Associated Press: Bulgaria sends uranium fuel to Russia

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:53:05 -0000

Bulgaria has sent its remaining highly enriched uranium to Russia for safeguarding from terrorist or other potential misuse.

Nearly 14 pounds of the spent fuel were received Thursday at a Russian nuclear facility, the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration announced. A first shipment of 37.3 pounds of fresh uranium fuel was sent to Russia in December 2003.

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Cold War-era radioactive waste to go through Birmingham on way to salt mine- al.com

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:39:03 -0000

Birmingham is on a route for regular shipments of radioactive waste scheduled to begin this fall, with trucks moving from Oak Ridge, Tenn., along Interstates 59, 20 and 459 and on to Carlsbad, N.M.

In Carlsbad, the estimated 60 to 120 truckloads a year of waste from Tennessee will be buried a half-mile deep in containers in an old salt mine. The transports to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad are expected to take three years, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Nuclear Highway: Radioactive On The Road, Manhattan Project Nuclear Waste To Be Taken From Tennessee To New Mexico Via Truck - CBS News

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:56:30 -0000

Motorists across the South could soon be sharing the highway with nuclear waste generated decades ago in developing the first atomic bomb.

Tons of this so-called "transuranic waste" have been waiting for years to leave what is now the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a final home in New Mexico, where the government has built a permanent vault in salt beds nearly a half-mile deep.

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Alexander seeks ban on foreign nuclear waste - Oak Ridge, TN - The Oak Ridger

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:46:01 -0000

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander wants to ban processing and disposal of some foreign nuclear waste.

The Tennessee Republican and Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., said Tuesday they will introduce legislation barring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from allowing Utah-based EnergySolutions Inc. from importing 20,000 tons of nuclear waste from Italy for processing in Oak Ridge and disposal in Clive, Utah.

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Senators join effort to block EnergySolutions' nuke waste imports plan - Salt Lake Tribune

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:49:52 -0000

America's landfills for low-level nuclear waste should be conserved for America's waste, according to a new, bipartisan bill to be introduced next week in the U.S. Senate.
The bill targets efforts by Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions to use its Tooele County landfill for contaminated cleanup waste from Italy's defunct nuclear reactors and maybe other foreign waste in the future. And it echoes a bill proposed in the House of Representatives by U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, and two colleagues.

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Oak Ridge processing waste for disposal - Oak Ridge, TN - The Oak Ridger

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:01:22 -0000

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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‘Glow train’ goes national - Las Vegas Sun

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:44:04 -0000

Risks inherent in transporting nuclear waste are documented on The History Channel

A documentary that aired on The History Channel last week gave a national audience a glimpse into the concerns that Nevadans have had for years about the potential dangers of shipping high-level nuclear waste across the country on trains that would roll through hundreds of cities and towns.

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www.kansascity.com | Train carrying radioactive material derailed in Atchison

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:22:56 -0000

ATCHISON, Kan. | A train with cars containing radioactive material derailed in northwest Kansas on Friday evening, but authorities say no one was in danger.

Atchison Fire Chief Michael McDermed says about 25 to 30 cars were involved in the incident in Atchison, but no one was injured.

The train had three cars with radioactive material, but they did not appear to be damaged.

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Radioactive waste could travel through Tenn. on way to N.M. | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:58:52 -0000

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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Highway shut down; homes evacuated after rollover - NewburyportNews.com, Newburyport, MA

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:19:22 -0000

AMESBURY — All four northbound lanes of Interstate 495 were shut down, and residents on nearby Hunt Road were evacuated early yesterday morning when a pickup truck carrying radioactive medical materials rolled over on the highway.

About 4:40 a.m., a Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck carrying a medical grade, radioactive isotope used in diagnostic imaging and treatment of diseases such as cancer, crashed near Route 150 (exit 54). The material was being transported in small packages in the back of the truck when the truck rolled over and the packages spilled onto the roadway.

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NRC expects 4,000 comments on nuke waste proposal on The Murfreesboro Post

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:31:15 -0000

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission expects to receive more than 4,000 comments from individuals and organizations regarding a company’s proposal to import 20,000 tons of nuclear waste from Italy, process and incinerate the material in Tennessee and dispose the remainder in Utah.

“The sheer volume of comments indicates there is serious concern about this proposal,” said U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon, who opposes the plan. “When we accept foreign waste, we limit space for our domestic waste, and we also accept the responsibility of monitoring it for generations to come.

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Groups rally opposition to importing nuclear waste - Oak Ridge, TN - The Oak Ridger

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:20:37 -0000

A company's bid for a license to import 20,000 tons of nuclear waste from Italy drew nearly 4,000 public comments by Tuesday's deadline, as environmental groups, lawmakers and Utah's governor seek to derail the plan.

EnergySolutions Inc. is seeking to import the low-level radioactive waste through the ports of Charleston, S.C., or New Orleans. If approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, it would be the largest amount of nuclear waste ever allowed into the country.

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Radioactive Waste Poses a Serious Threat to California :: LAVoice.org :: LOS ANGELES SPEAKS HERE :: A public-access blog

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:09:52 -0000

According to a recent LA Times headline, the “Yucca Mountain safety plan is doomed.” If Yucca Mountain is “doomed,” what does this mean for the hundreds of tons of highly radioactive waste located on California’s fragile coast?

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Radioactive containers fall from truck Uptown; no spill reported - Breaking News from New Orleans - Times-Picayune - NOLA.com

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:54:17 -0000

Containers of radioactive isotopes used for nuclear stress tests and x-rays tumbled from a medical transport vehicle this morning during a three-vehicle accident near South Claiborne Avenue and Toledano Street, according to a spokesman for the New Orleans Fire Department.

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The Daily News Online > Last of contaminated Kuwaiti sand headed for Idaho by rail

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:33:11 -0000

The last containers of 6,700 tons of Kuwaiti sand at the Port of Longview contaminated with low levels of depleted uranium have been loaded onto trains bound for Idaho, said Chad Hyslop, spokesman for the disposal company American Ecology.

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edmontonsun.com - Alberta- Concerns raised over waste transportation for proposed nuclear power station in Peace Country

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:49:43 -0000

Albertans could face a significantly higher risk of radioactive exposure due to storage transportation, say opponents of a proposal to build nuclear power station in the Peace Country.

Canada is still 20 to 30 years away from completing a national storage facility project, which according to the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) would see spent fuel rods from across Canada being shipped to one central underground storage location.

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Whitehaven News: Secret plutonium shipments begin

Fri, 23 May 2008 19:50:29 -0000

THE first of a number of shipments of Sellafield plutonium sailed from the Port of Workington last weekend on board the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s ship Atlantic Osprey.

The secretive night shipment, already delayed by two months because its original departure date was leaked in advance to the press, was accompanied by what one local resident described as ‘over the top, wall-to-wall security’ which sealed off the docks.

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Casper Star-Tribune: Group questions waste shipments

Fri, 23 May 2008 19:27:32 -0000

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- An Idaho nuclear watchdog group has asked the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct more environmental studies before going ahead with a plan that would increase the amount of nuclear waste being sent to eastern Idaho for processing.

The Snake River Alliance, in a May 14 letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, asked that more analysis be done before going through with the plan that makes the Idaho National Laboratory the nation's primary processing center for transuranic waste from nuclear sites that don't have their own processing capabilities.

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