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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.

A group of 15 cancer victims, survivors, relatives and friends who worked or who are still working at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) were expecting to see Senator Chuck Schumer at their meeting held last Friday. But Susanne Klein, whose husband died of cancer at age 54 after working for 18 years in the warehouse, explained that an earlier phone call said neither he nor a representative would be attending, but that they could send him the minutes.

The chairman of Marathon Resources has made a formal apology to the owners of Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary for his company's misconduct at the site in outback South Australia. The company dumped thousands of uranium drill samples in plastic and calico bags in two large trenches in the sanctuary last year.

A crack found in a nuclear reactor's primary coolant pipe here is at least five times deeper than originally believed, and experts say if it widens it could cause a serious accident. The crack was found on the inside of a weld in the primary cooling water pipe during an inspection on the No. 3 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co. (KEPCO) Oi Nuclear Power Plant in early April. Engineers initially believed it was less than 3 millimeters deep, but later realized that it was over 15 millimeters deep. The pipe walls are 74.6 millimeters thick.

In 2005 two 11-year-old girls from Belarus came to stay in rural Ireland with Philip Watson, as part of a scheme that runs recuperative breaks for children affected by the fallout from Chernobyl. Three years on, Watson tracked them down to see if their lives had changed It's four o'clock on a fine spring afternoon and my girlfriend, Jacqueline, and I have driven for five hours to meet two 14-year-old girls. We are on the other side of Europe, in remote, secretive Belarus, a country ruled by such an authoritarian, old-style Soviet president that it has been described by the US administration as the continent's 'last dictatorship' and only remaining 'outpost of tyranny'.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Navajo EPA, along with four federal agencies, outlined a five-year plan Wednesday to clean up 50 years of uranium contamination on the Navajo Nation.

On September 20th 2008 the Uranium Action Day is announced. One year after the big Uranium Conference in Germany it is planned to do activities in many places in different countries to refer to the bad consequences of uranium mining and the dangers of transport of such material.

San Onofre nuclear plant managers are scrambling to avoid stepped-up oversight from regulators and to resolve worker safety and operational problems that have put the facility's industry ratings significantly below its peers. The twin-reactor facility ranks among the bottom 25% in overall performance when measured against the nation's other nuclear reactors, according to e-mailed newsletters distributed to plant employees.

Nuke plant leak leads to indefinite shutdown of Miami reactor Turkey_point One of the two nuclear reactors at Florida Power & Light's Turkey Point plant near Miami has been taken off-line because of a leak, according to the Miami Herald.

Greenpeace's 44-metre anti-nukes blimp was put into the air over Olkiluoto in June. The balloon has been taken all over the world to Areva nuclear reactor sites.

The construction site at the Olkiluoto III nuclear reactor.

While state and county health officials said a chemically contaminated site in southeast Richmond poses no dangers to their current users, concerns remain about past users and those to come. They also acknowledge that their findings don't include the possible interactions between the more than 100 toxic metals and chemicals found at the site.

Bidding farewell to 36-year New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, Alamogordo's Committee of 50 had some kind words and gifts for the senator as he moves into retirement. During a luncheon event Friday, multiple community members stepped up to thank Domenici for the work he has done on behalf of Alamogordo and New Mexico.

At Cameco Inc.'s Smith Ranch-Highland in-situ leach uranium mine, a typical barrel holds about 883 pounds of "yellowcake," which is 83 percent U308, the foundation of nuclear fuel that has sparked a mining rush in Wyoming. Price-wise, it's worth about $64 per pound on the spot market, and about $45 on contract -- the equivalent of about 450 barrels of oil.

The industry is on an unprecedented uptick as the world tries to lessen its reliance on globe-warming fossil fuels. In the United States, applications for new reactors and extended licenses are soaring. In Florida, which has five nuclear reactors, preliminary approval has been granted for four more.

Environmental, safety and economic themes dominated questions that citizens posed about DTE Energy's plans for a new nuclear power plant near Newport during a public meeting with federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials in Monroe Wednesday night. More than 200 area residents, including some from Ohio and Canada, showed up at Monroe County Community College to voice concerns, lend support or just get information about the utility's intent to build a 1,560-megawatt Fermi 3 reactor near its existing Fermi 2 plant.

The first visual inspection of the damaged areas of the Windscale 1 reactor core has been carried out, over 50 years since a fire ruined the military unit. The extra information should help workers dismantle it more quickly.

The president of Switzerland stepped to a podium in Bern last May and read a statement confirming rumors that had swirled through the capital for months. The government, he acknowledged, had indeed destroyed a huge trove of computer files and other material documenting the business dealings of a family of Swiss engineers suspected of helping smuggle nuclear technology to Libya and Iran.

Thousands of containers of lethal nuclear waste are likely to fail before being safely sealed away underground, a devastating official report concludes. The unpublicised report is by the Environment Agency, which has to approve any proposals for getting rid of the waste that remains deadly for tens of thousands of years.

About nine months ago we reported on a portable nuclear power generator made by Hyperion Power Generation which we dubbed a "nuclear hot tub" because of it's size. We weren't overly keen on the idea and comments ranged from incredulous to defensive. The executive director of the Los Alamos Study Group wasn't exactly supportive either: "The whole idea is loony and not worthy of much attention. Of course, factoring in enough cronyism, corruption and official ignorance and boosterism, it's possible the principals could make some money during the initial stages, before the crows come home to roost."