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    A SMALL TWEAKING: While delays were likely for the fourth nuclear plant, the AEC said that more advanced technology would boost total output by 1.7 percent Taipower chairman Chen Kuei-ming told the legislature yesterday an additional NT$40 billion (US$1.15 billion) to NT$50 billion would be needed if the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant is to reach a stage where its two generator units can begin operations in 2011 and 2012. The additional funding would bring the construction costs at the Gongliao, Taipei County, plant to between NT$270 billion and NT$280 billion, Chen said.
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NT not able to cope with nuke accident, says Government | Northern Territory News | Dar... - 0 views

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    "MOST Territory hospitals and the Port of Darwin are not equipped to deal with a radioactive waste incident or interest from "sophisticated criminal groups", the NT Government has said. The Government has told a Senate inquiry into new laws for a nuclear waste dump there would be "negligible economic benefit from the facility" for the NT. Its submission to the inquiry also says the proposed site has an "unacceptably high" risk of earthquakes. The NT Government's 25-page submission is one of more than 225 received by the Senate inquiry into new laws which could see the waste facility established at Muckaty Station, 120km north of Tennant Creek. The submission is intensely critical of the choice of Muckaty and the overriding of Territory laws."
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OpEdNews » DOE saying it's protecting us is a hard pill to swallow - 0 views

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    You would think that after spending tens of millions of dollars on Environmental Impact Statements and Supplement Analyses that the DOE would be proud of its work. Yet so many documents relating to the Nevada Test Site (NTS) are missing online. This includes the 1996 NTS Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and the most recent Draft Supplement Analysis, or Draft SA, a document that is drawn up, and reviewed by the public, every five years per the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to see if the most recent EIS is still applicable, or adjustments need to be made. They appear to no longer exist online at the website of the DOE/NNSA/NSO (www.nv.doe.gov).*
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Ban lifted on Oak Ridge waste shipments to Nevada: Knoxville News Sentinel - 0 views

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    Perma-Fix Environmental has received the go-ahead to resume shipments of radioactive waste to the Nevada Test Site from its M&EC processing facility in Oak Ridge, but a temporary ban on shipments to NTS remains in effect for the company's facilities at Richland, Wash., and Gainesville, Fla. Larry McNamara, the chief operating officer of Perma-Fix, said today an audit last week at the Oak Ridge facility went well and satisified the previous concerns. M&EC was put on suspension following a September incident in which a container of waste leaked and had rad contamination on its exterior.
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MP vows to stand against NT nuclear dump (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - 0 views

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    A Federal MP says he does not want to see a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory. This week a Senate committee report recommended the Radioactive Waste Management Act be repealed. Damian Hale says he is pleased with the outcome and he will continue his opposition to any nuclear waste dump in the NT. The Northern Territory-based politician says he does not see any obstacle to the Act being repealed early next year.
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Students slime nuclear scumbags | Green Left Weekly - 0 views

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    "About 250 people attended the Students of Sustainability (SoS) conference at Flinders University in Adelaide over July 4-8. A highlight of the conference was the attendance of the Indegenous Solidarity Rides bus full of passengers on their way from Newcastle to the convergence at Alice Springs. They presented workshops on the NT intervention, its effects on Aboriginal communities and the struggle to repeal the racist laws. Another strong feature of the conference was the many workshops given by members of Aboriginal communities in South Australia about the disastrous effects the mining and uranium industries were having on their land and water."
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Uranium contamination concerns at Ranger (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - 0 views

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    The Australian Conservation Foundation says another contamination incident at the Ranger uranium mine should stop the Fed and NT Governments from allowing the operation to expand. Mining company, ERA has admitted several workers were contaminated clearing up a big yellow cake spill three weeks ago. Earlier this week, it announced a new possible 30,000 tonne deposit.
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Nuclear waste dump inquiry heads to Alice (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - 0 views

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    Anti-nuclear campaigners say they are pleased a Senate inquiry into a Northern Territory nuclear waste dump is coming to Alice Springs. The Senate's environment committee is investigating the possible repeal of the Howard government legislation that overrode NT laws against a dump. It will hold public hearings in Alice Springs next Monday and Tuesday.
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Lobby group fights against uranium (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - 0 views

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    An anti-nuclear campaigner says the Northern Territory Government is becoming increasingly nervous about a proposal for a uranium mine, 25 km south of Alice Springs. A public meeting in Alice Springs has called for the Mines Minister, Kon Vatskalis to come and address the town's concerns about the Angela Pamela prospect. The NT Government granted an exploration licence over the site to Cameco-Palladin last month.
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No NT nuclear waste dump, say Greens - Breaking News - 0 views

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    The Australian Greens are attempting to block plans to build a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory. Greens senator Scott Ludlam has tabled legislation which would give the territory greater powers to veto plans to build a dump at one of four outback sites. Australia does not have a remote dump for federal nuclear waste, which comes from sources like medical and defence products.
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Uranium mining won't affect Alice water: Henderson - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting ... - 0 views

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    The Northern Territory Chief Minister has guaranteed there will be no impact on the Alice Springs water supply as a result of a uranium mine proposal. The NT Government has granted Cameco Australia and Paladin Energy Minerals the right to explore the Angela and Pamela deposits 25 kilometres south of the town. The decision prompted two protests over the weekend involving hundreds of people. Paul Henderson says he understands uranium mining is a contentious issue but he will ensure the environment will not be harmed.
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Govt urged to scrap nuclear dump legislation (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - 0 views

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    An anti-nuclear group say the Federal Government needs to come clean about whether it will build a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory. Yesterday, the Government scuttled a bill in the Senate that would have overturned legislation that allows for a waste dump in the NT. Natalie Wasley from the Beyond Nuclear Initiative says the Prime Minister needs to honour his commitment to scrap the legislation. "Not even different ministers and senators within the party can get an answer from [Resources Minister Martin] ... Ferguson, so really it's up to Prime Minister Rudd to call him out on his silence and his secrecy and expose what the Government is intending to do to the community," she said.
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Taipei Times - Tribes protest nuclear waste plan - 0 views

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    CONTAMINATED: The chief of Daren Township welcomed the proposal to build a nuclear waste facility because of the NT$5 billion in promised compensation Led by a royal descendant of an ancient line of Aboriginal Paiwan kings, residents and environmentalists yesterday staged a parade in Daren Township (達仁), Taitung County, to protest Taiwan Power Co's (Taipower) plan to build a storage facility for nuclear waste there. Taipower announced in March that Daren Township and Wangan Township, Penghu County, were the two candidate sites for the nuclear waste dumping ground. Opposed to the plan, more than 100 Paiwan and Puyuma Aborigines and environmentalists rallied outside a local elementary school yesterday morning, where they were blessed by Paiwan elders in a traditional ritual before they departed. The demonstrators then carried a cross on a two-hour march to the site selected for the facility.
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Green Left - AUSTRALIA: Campaign for a nuclear-free future - 0 views

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    A public meeting on April 21 organised by the Beyond Nuclear Initiative and the Sydney Nuclear Free Coalition, at the University of Sydney, attracted 100 people. Traditional owners Diane Stokes, Mark Lane and Mark Chungaloo from Muckaty, near Tennant Creek, explained their opposition to federal government plans to build a nuclear waste dump on their lands. Stokes said the community wanted "no waste dump on our beautiful land… We are the traditional owners. We want to let them know that we will challenge them." The Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act was passed into law in 2005 under the government of former PM John Howard. The act overrides NT laws banning nuclear waste dumps in the Territory.
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Australia: Fallout over NT nuclear dump site - 0 views

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    "Dianne Stokes says the Rudd government's decision to push ahead with plans to dump nuclear waste on the red-soil land north of Tennant Creek has caused trouble in her Warlmanpa tribe. ''People have given away land that doesn't belong to them … now there is big trouble among us,'' she said. For centuries, Aboriginal clans followed their dreaming across the low scrub land that became known last century by white people as Muckaty cattle station. Now, some members of one of those clans have agreed to allow Australia's first national waste dump to be established on 1.5 square kilometres of land they claim is theirs in return for $12 million, most of it in cash."
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NT nuclear waste plan a terror risk: expert - 0 views

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    "A LEADING nuclear-risk expert has warned that terrorists could target radioactive waste being transported across Australia to a proposed waste dump in the Northern Territory. John Large, who advises governments, companies and non-government agencies and is based in Britain, says waste that will be taken to disused Muckaty cattle station is suitable for a ''dirty'' radioactive bomb. Experts acknowledge a home-made radioactive bomb is the most likely nuclear terrorist threat, he said. Mr Large told The Age that land transport of waste was prone to accident, open to malicious acts and required extra handling for transportation and packaging."
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Oasis Near Death Valley Fed By Ancient Aquifer Under Nevada Test Site - Science News - ... - 0 views

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    "Every minute, 10,000 gallons of water mysteriously gush out of the desert floor at a place called Ash Meadows, an oasis that is home to 24 plant and animal species found nowhere else in the world. A new Brigham Young University study indicates that the water arriving at Ash Meadows is completing a 15,000-year journey, flowing slowly underground from what is now the Nevada Test Site. The U.S. government tested nuclear bombs there for four decades, and a crack in the Earth's crust known as the "Gravity Fault" connects its aquifer with Ash Meadows."
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Las Vegas Weekly : - Local scientist tries to revive conversation on nukes - 0 views

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    About a thousand feet below the desert at the Nevada Test site are some two kilometers of tunnels, labs, plutonium and scientists. Often among them is the president of National Security Technologies, Stephen Younger. "I feel perfectly safe there," says Younger, a Las Vegan since taking over the subcontractor NST in 2006. "The Test Site is pristine." Although there have been no nuclear tests since the 1992 Nuclear Testing and Comprehensive Test Ban, a lot still goes on at the Test Site, and a lot goes on in the mind of Younger, who is on a mission to educate people about nuclear weapons and nuclear politics.
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New NT uranium project 'could rival Ranger' (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - 0 views

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    An exploration company searching for uranium in the Northern Territory has signed a joint-venture agreement worth $3 million with the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation. Bondi Mining operates the Murphy uranium project about a 1,000 south-west of Darwin. Managing director Rick Valenta says the agreement is a strong vote of confidence in the project, which could be as uranium rich as the Ranger mine, near Jabiru.
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