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Hot spots found at nuclear dump site - John O'Groat Journal and Caithness Courier - 0 views

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    A PROBE is under way after the discovery of radioactive contamination at the site earmarked for Dounreay's new low-level waste (LLW) dump. advertising Two hot spots were detected by a monitoring team in a field just over 200 metres from the perimeter fence to the east of the former experimental fast reactor complex. More finds could hit the schedule for the ?110 million dump which is designed to take all the LLW produced by the plant and the neighbouring MOD site at Vulcan. The hot spots also raise question marks about the possible spread inland of contamination from historic operations at Dounreay. The site's multi-million-pound drive to deal with off-site pollution is focused on the seabed immediately off the plant and stretches of the surrounding coastline. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) this week called on the site operators to review its monitoring regime in light of the latest finds. The contamination was picked up on Thursday of last week during a scheduled month-long survey of the 44-hectare site zoned for the LLW dump, which was given planning consent in April.
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Contract awarded for disposal facility in Texas - 0 views

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    Waste Control Specialists (WCS), a subsidiary of Valhi, has awarded a contract to URS to lead the design and construction of a new low-level radioactive waste (LLW) facility in Andrews County, Texas.
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Can anyone recall what we put in our nuclear dump? | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views

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    "We need your help," begins the plaintive ad on the front of the Whitehaven News. Did you work at Sellafield in the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s? Were you by chance in the job of disposing of radioactive material? If so, the owners of Britain's nuclear waste dump would very much like to hear from you: they want you to tell them what you dumped - and where you put it. The reason for the ad is simple: the Cumbrian facility's new operator, LLW Repository Ltd, has discovered that the historic records of disposal supposedly kept by the British state are far from complete.
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United Kingdom, Environmental & Energy, Consultation On The Disposal Of Low Level Radio... - 0 views

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    Article by Paul Sheridan, Tresna Tunbridge and Gemma Sainsbury On 5 June, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (the "NDA") published a consultation on its draft UK Strategy for the Management of Solid Low Level Radioactive Waste (the "LLW Strategy")....
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Radioactive waste plan for city dump - Lancashire Evening Post - 0 views

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    Waste bosses want to allow more companies to dump radioactive rubbish at a Lancashire landfill site, it emerged today. Currently, waste from the Springfields Fuels complex and the Capenhurst site in Cheshire is disposed of at Clifton Marsh, near Preston. But waste management company SITA UK wants permission to accept "very low level radioactive waste" (VLLW) and "low level radioactive waste" (LLW) from a "wider range of nuclear facilities".
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Platts: US Supreme Court looks at case involving states' nuke waste group - 0 views

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    "The US Supreme Court on Monday considered whether a non-state entity can sue a state and impose monetary sanctions as attorneys argued a case involving North Carolina's departure from a group of states trying to find a disposal site for low-level nuclear waste. North Carolina, part of the eight-member Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact, had been designated the host state for a low-level waste disposal facility. From 1988 to 1997, the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Commission, which administers the compact, provided North Carolina with close to $88 million. During that time, North Carolina spent about $34 million of its own funds but did not obtain a license for a new LLW disposal facility. The waste includes low-level radioactive waste generated by nuclear power plants and that generated by non-utility operations, such as hospitals. "
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Plan to dump radioactive waste in landfill rejected - National - Peterborough Today - 0 views

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    "Controversial plans to dump radioactive waste in a landfill site in Northamptonshire have been refused by a local council. Waste management company Augean Plc, which operates the East Northants Resource Management Facility (ENRMF) landfill, applied to store the low level radioactive waste (LLW) waste at the site in Kings Cliffe,. The site is already used to store hazardous waste but, if the plans were approved, would have become the first commercial landfill in the country to dispose of waste with this level of radioactivity. It could have seen as much as 250,000 tonnes of low-level radioactive waste dumped there each year until 2013, when its current planning permission expires."
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EnergySolutions CEO: Setting the record straight about ownership of Clive - Salt Lake T... - 0 views

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    "Safely disposing of low-level radioactive waste is serious business and should lead to serious policy discussions. Unfortunately, The Salt Lake Tribune is less interested in getting its facts straight than using its Opinion page to take cheap shots at EnergySolutions. I do appreciate The Tribune 's willingness to let me set the record straight in response to its editorial of June 8. Anyone reading The Tribune editorial could conclude that EnergySolutions and the Department of Energy are in discussions about a DOE takeover of the company's Clive waste disposal site, which is simply not factual or even possible. "
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Nuclear Agency Weighs a Plan to Dilute Waste - CNBC - 0 views

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    "A competition between nuclear waste dumps has pulled the Nuclear Regulatory Commission into an unusual reconsideration of its rules to allow moderately radioactive materials to be diluted into a milder category that is easier to bury. At issue is whether a site in Utah that is licensed to accept only the mildest category of radioactive waste, called Class A, could accept far more potent materials, known as Class B and C wastes, by blending the three together. Even low-level radioactive waste is a growing problem, with few licensed repositories to dispose of it. The problem dates from the early 1980s, when Congress said that the federal government would take care of high-level waste, like spent fuel from nuclear power plants, but that the states would have to find sites for low-level material, like the radiation sources used in cancer treatments and industrial X-rays, and filters used in nuclear plants."
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Texas commission to retool nuclear waste plan | AP Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chr... - 0 views

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    "A commission overseeing low-level radioactive waste disposal in Texas has withdrawn and will revise proposed rules that could allow 36 other states to send nuclear waste for burial near the New Mexico line. Bob Gregory of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission said Monday the panel voted unanimously Saturday to pull the proposed rules as initially published and repost them with some amendments and revisions. A representative from the Texas Attorney General's Office told the commission during a Saturday meeting it could not change the rules then because there was nothing on the agenda to allow it, said Chuck McDonald, spokesman for Waste Control Specialists, the company that operates the waste site about 30 miles west of Andrews in West Texas."
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Radioactive blending could send waste to Utah - Salt Lake Tribune - 0 views

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    "Utah, say federal regulators, can help solve a big problem for the nuclear industry: the pileup of low-level radioactive waste at many of the nation's reactors. Much of the hottest low-level waste -- though far less radioactive than used fuel rods -- is stored at 90 power plants because nuclear companies have nowhere to dispose of it. So, staff at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed changing federal rules to make that waste permissible at the EnergySolutions Inc. disposal site in Utah through "blending." By allowing more hazardous "Class B and C waste" to be mixed with lower-hazard "Class A" waste, regulators would make the blend legal for disposal at EnergySolutions, the only commercial site open to low-level radioactive waste from 36 states. The blending proposal reflects a big shift in NRC policy, and it directly contradicts the public positions of Gov. Gary Herbert, the Utah Division of Radiation Control and the state's Radiation Control Board. The Utahns object to blending "when the intent is to alter the waste classification for the purposes of disposal site access." Five years ago, Utah banned "Class B and Class C" low-level radioactive waste. "
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Joseph DiCamillo: Obama Administration Should Say "No" to Blending Radioactive Waste - 0 views

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    "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will consider whether to allow for the first time nuclear waste processors to "blend" higher level radioactive waste with the lowest level radioactive waste at a hearing on June 17. Low-level radioactive waste is generated by universities, hospitals, and commercial nuclear power plants, and is classified as Class A, B. or C depending on the concentration of the waste's radioactivity (with Class A having the lowest concentration). The proposal before the Commission would allow Class A waste to be mixed with more radioactive Class B and C waste and still be classified as Class A. If the proposal goes through, "blending" would allow utilities, processors, and waste disposal sites to avoid existing environmental and safety requirements for how they dispose of the hotter waste."
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Texas regulators OK low-level radioactive disposal - Houston Chronicle - 0 views

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    Texas environmental regulators approved a plan Wednesday to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from around the country at a remote site near the New Mexico border. Commissioners with the state's environmental agency voted 2-0 to grant two licenses that will allow Dallas-based Waste Control Specialists to dispose of waste from Texas and Vermont and from sites run by the federal government. One commissioner on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Larry R. Soward, abstained. The license will be issued and disposal of the waste can begin after the company completes condemnation of land and obtains mineral rights at the West Texas disposal site about 370 miles from Dallas.
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BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Nuclear waste dump wins approval - 0 views

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    Plans for a dump to store low-level radioactive waste in Caithness has won conditional approval from a Highland Council planning committee. The application to build the £110m facility to handle waste from the Dounreay complex will now be considered by Scottish ministers. People living close to the proposed site on a former military airfield have raised concerns.
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Truck Carrying Radioactive Load Crashes - KPTV Portland - 0 views

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    A semitrailer that was carrying a low-level radiation load jackknifed and crashed on Interstate 84 Monday afternoon. No one was hurt when the commercial semitrailer lost control, jackknifed, went off the road and collided with a rock wall, Oregon State Police said. Oregon troopers, ODOT workers and the La Grande Fire Department's Regional Hazmat Team responded to the scene, police said. The Hazmat team found that there had been no breach of the container with the unidentified load.
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Low-level nuclear waste, high-level problems - Carlsbad Current-Argus - 0 views

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    Most of the nation has nowhere to send its low-level nuclear waste. It can't stop producing this waste. It's necessary for diagnosing and treating cancer and other diseases, and for research. But because there is no-where to send the waste, it piles up in hospitals, other medical facilities and research centers. It's an illustration of our nation's inability to deal realistically with nuclear issues. Most of this waste used to be sent to South Carolina to the Barnwell Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility. It was the first such facility in the country when it began receiving radioactive waste in 1971. It is just one of three in the nation today. On July 1, a new policy took effect: The Barnwell facility takes waste only from South Carolina, Connecticut and New Jersey.
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8-state panel to take on EnergySolutions' loophole - Salt Lake Tribune - 0 views

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    Nuclear regulators from eight states, including Utah, meet today to look for a way to close a loophole that has allowed low-level radioactive waste from foreign nations to be buried in U.S. landfills. The Northwest Interstate Compact on Radioactive Waste wants to address the loophole in Tennessee regulations that allows such waste to be imported to the United States. EnergySolutions Inc., a Salt Lake City nuclear-waste company, has raised awareness about foreign waste in the past year, with a request to import waste from Italy's decommissioned nuclear power plants, process it at the company's Tennessee plant and dispose of a small portion of it in the company's Tooele County specialized landfill.
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Deseret News | Utah officials say Italy's N-waste bid subject to compact - 0 views

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    State officials contend in federal-court documents filed Tuesday that the Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management has authority over EnergySolutions Inc.'s Clive facility in Tooele County, where the company wants to store low-level nuclear waste from Italy. In a motion for summary judgment filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Utah assistant attorney general Fred Nelson said the Northwest Compact has had authority over the Clive facility since 1991, when Envirocare, which later became EnergySolutions, asked the compact to store low-level radioactive waste. Since that time, the compact has responded to similar requests based on language in a 1985 federal act that created the compact.
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Dealing with nuclear waste | Spartanburg Herald-Journal - 0 views

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    Most of the nation has nowhere to send its low-level nuclear waste. It can't stop producing this waste. It's necessary for diagnosing and treating cancer and other diseases and for research. But because there is nowhere to send the waste, it piles up in hospitals, other medical facilities and research centers.
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At a nuclear waste industry meeting, officials say the regional compact needs revamp - ... - 0 views

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    Utah has long been the safety valve for states without disposal for radiation-tainted waste. Railroad cars hauled all but 5 percent of the nation's low-level radioactive waste last year to the EnergySolutions Inc. disposal site in Tooele County. But hospitals, universities and nuclear plants that generate low-level waste are beginning to worry about the long-term outlook for a small fraction of the waste they generate, material that has been outlawed in Utah because it is too radiologically hot.
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