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September 20, 2011
By Jessica Leigh Lebos
From Connect Savannah
With its federally–funded clean–up projects coming to a close this month, the Savannah River Site (SRS) will send the last of 3000 stimulus–backed jobs packing.
In an effort to consolidate waste and operations at the Dept. of Energy’s (DOE) oldest weapons–grade plutonium plant, temporary workers contracted by the site’s managing entity, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), have spent the last two years sealing off old reactors, bringing down old buildings and shipping out contaminated waste accumulated during the Cold War.
“We’re kind of in celebration mode around here,” says Barbara Smoak, an SRNS spokesperson. “We were glad to be able to provide those jobs, even if some of them were temporary.”
Now that the clean–up is “complete” (while much radioactive debris has been removed from the property, only two of the site’s 49 tanks of high–level, radioactive liquid waste were filled with concrete) and $1.6 billion of taxpayer money has been spent, what’s next?
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Sept. 9, 2011
The Western Governors' Association (WGA) has compiled a white paper on nuclear waste transportation and storage. This white paper will be presented at the Sept. 13th Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future meeting in Denver, Co.
Highlights from the WGA white paper include:
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July 30, 2011
By Annette Cary
From the Tri-City Herald
The draft report making recommendations on the future of the nation's nuclear waste released Friday by the Blue Ribbon Commission was met with concerns and criticisms by those with Hanford interests.
They feared at best the draft report's recommendation could lead to high-level radioactive waste remaining at Hanford longer, and at worst that more waste could be shipped to Hanford or that Hanford's own waste would remain at the site indefinitely.
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May 18, 2011
By Annette Cary
From the Tri-City Herald
PASCO — The states of Washington and Oregon teamed up Tuesday night to
tell the Department of Energy that bringing more radioactive waste to
Hanford would be a bad idea.
"It is inconceivable to us that U.S. DOE would spend billions of dollars
to try to clean up the environmental damage at Hanford, yet ignore that
work by proposing to dispose of additional highly radioactive wastes on
the site," said Ron Skinnarland of the Washington State Department of
Ecology, reading from a joint Washington and Oregon state letter to DOE.
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February 05, 2011
By Bruce Krasnow From The Santa Fe New Mexican
The Carlsbad community in southeastern New
Mexico is admittedly attracted to nuclear waste. When it was virtually
the only community in the country willing to host the nation's first
nuclear waste repository almost 40 years ago, that interest may have
seemed a little desperate.
Now that the
federal government has canceled plans for its primary geological
repository at Yucca Mountain, and now that the Waste Isolation Pilot
Plant is still the only operating geological repository in the world,
WIPP's supporters in Carlsbad are calling their decision a success story
and looking at opportunities for taking it to the next level.
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January 26, 2011
Could N.M. Seek Nuke Waste?
By John Fleck
From the Albuquerque Journal
Our nation's struggle to find a way to dispose of its high-level
nuclear waste will descend on New Mexico this week in what could presage
a battle over bringing it here.
Boosters
from southeastern New Mexico hope to convince members of a federal
advisory panel that the region should be considered as a permanent
destination for the waste, left over from more than 50 years of U.S.
nuclear power generation. Critics say
any move in that direction would violate a deal made nearly two decades
ago when New Mexicans agreed to take modestly radioactive waste in
return for a federal commitment not to bring any of the high level stuff
here.
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Op-Ed from Dan Yoken
On February 4, 2010, Secretary of Energy Chu testified before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to discuss the President’s FY2011 budget request. While we agree with many of Chu’s commitments to clean energy and environmental cleanup, the focus on nuclear energy projects, the imbalance of the Nuclear Waste Panel and the hefty commitment to MOX in the Nonproliferation budget present problems that could lead to debilitating results in coming years.
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for further information, contact:
Susan Gordon 505-577-8438
or local contacts listed at end of advisory
for immediate release Friday, January 29, 2010
BLUE RIBBON NUCLEAR WASTE COMMISSION IS SERIOUSLY IMBALANCED
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) is disappointed that the Department of Energy did not follow our repeated requests to appoint a balanced Blue Ribbon Commission on nuclear wastes with a broad range of perspectives, including members from directly affected sites. “The Commission faces a huge credibility problem. It includes no one from communities downstream and downwind of major nuclear weapons sites,” said Susan Gordon, Director of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, “However, we are still hopeful that the Commission will find ways to consider a broad range of perspectives, including independent experts, public interest organizations, environmental and public health stakeholders, and impacted parties, including Native American Tribes.”
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December 2, 2009
Originally
appeared at
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/12/02/02climatewire-yucca-mountain-nuclear-disposal-site-is-dead-59660.html?pagewanted=print
By PETER BEHR of ClimateWire
Former
Sen. Pete Domenici, a longtime advocate of nuclear power, said
yesterday that it is time to give up attempts to create a permanent
disposal site for the nation's nuclear waste fuel at Yucca Mountain in
Nevada. He urged the Obama administration to move ahead with a planned
blue-ribbon commission to find an alternative.
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By Karen Dillon
The Kansas City Star
7/9/09
Kansas City is on the short list to become the Yucca Mountain for mercury.
And that’s not a list some officials want to be on.
A
new law requires that all of the nation’s waste mercury — now estimated
at about 10,000 tons — must be stored in one facility, or at most, just
a few facilities by 2013.
So the Department of Energy has
selected seven potential sites to be the national facility for mercury
just as Nevada’s Yucca Mountain was once designated to become the
storage location for radioactive waste.
The Energy Department
has pinpointed the Kansas City Plant, formerly AlliedSignal, on
Bannister Road. The massive plant, with its thick concrete walls and
floors and 500-year flood protections, has manufactured non-nuclear
components for nuclear weapons for half a century.
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