Tag: nuclear waste
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Harper’s Magazine Reports on the Risky Resurgence of Nuclear Power
“Dwight Eisenhower’s ‘Atoms for Peace’ program, unveiled in 1953, set the optimistic tone for nuclear power: ‘The United States knows that peaceful power from atomic energy is no dream of...
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VICTORY—Nuclear Regulatory Commission Withdraws Widely Condemned Proposal to Deregulate Most Radioactive Waste
CBG, working closely with NRDC, PEER, NIRS, and PSR helped lead opposition to an extraordinary plan by NRC to allow virtually all radioactive waste from nuclear plants, other than spent...
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Environmentalists Fault Sending ‘Very Low Level’ Nuclear Waste to Landfills
Click here to read the article.
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Advocates raise questions about proposal to allow some nuclear waste to be disposed in landfills
Read the article here. “What they’re trying to do is prop up a failing industry so that the cost of decommissioning these [nuclear] reactors is reduced so you don’t have...
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Surfers Taking a Stand Against San Onofre’s Nuclear Waste Storage
Read the surfer.com report: If you surf along the coast of Southern California, you’re likely aware that Southern California Edison is working to transport large amounts of spent nuclear fuel...
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Santa Cruz Waves report: NUCLEAR BAGGAGE at San Onofre
Read the great report here, and watch the the video below.
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Public Comment on San Onofre Irradiated Nuclear Fuel Issue
Read a public comment by Sarah Brady regarding the storage of San Onofre’s nuclear waste. Click here: Public Comment on San Onofre Irradiated Nuclear Fuel Issue.
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San Onofre Update
On December 2, 1942, the first high level nuclear waste in the world was created. Three quarters of a century later there is still no permanent repository for such waste....