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Radioactive Waste Defined

A solid, liquid or gaseous material of negligible economic value that contains radionuclides in excess of threshold quantities except for radioactive material from post-weapons-test activities.

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SPIN CYCLE Pollution problems on the run

Published November 21, 2008, 1:19 pm, Elmira Independent

Every now and again I question the validity, and my wife says the sanity, of getting up before the sun rises for a morning run. And as fall gives way to winter, leaving the warmth of the duvet gets increasingly harder, especially when the furnace is cranked down for the night.

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Coalition Challenges Proposed 3rd Reactor

Published November 21, 2008, 12:31 pm, Washington Post

A coalition of environmental organizations filed legal challenges this week against the proposed third nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs.

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Humankind"™s push-pull approach to nuclear power controversy adds weight to proliferation menace

Published November 21, 2008, 9:28 am, Bellona Foundation

KALININGRAD/ST. PETERSBURG - Having put the frightening years of the Cold War behind it, the world has all but forgotten about the threat of nuclear proliferation – only to find itself staring right in the face of this ever escalating problem. While many politicians at least have the awareness to confront the issue and are finally advocating total nuclear disarmament, their noble goal may just ...

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Companies eyeing Kentucky for nuclear power plants

Published November 21, 2008, 7:29 am, Williamson Daily News

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) β€” Decades after closing the door to nuclear power, political leaders in Kentucky have begun a dialogue that could lift a legal ban on such generating plants.

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Companies eyeing Kentucky for nuclear power plants

Published November 20, 2008, 11:43 pm, Lexington Herald-Leader

Decades after closing the door to nuclear power, political leaders in Kentucky have begun a dialogue that could lift a legal ban on such generating plants. Gov. Steve Beshear opened the discussion Thursday by publicly releasing a 144-page plan that calls for the state to decide whether nuclear power will be part of a broad range of initiatives aimed at meeting Kentucky's energy needs. Coal ...

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Beshear opens up energy discussion

Published November 20, 2008, 9:26 pm, The Gleaner

FRANKFORT -- Decades after closing the door to nuclear power, political leaders in Kentucky have begun a dialogue that could lift a legal ban on such generating plants. Gov. Steve Beshear opened the discussion Thursday by publicly releasing a 144-page plan that calls for the state to decide whether nuclear power will be part of a broad range of initiatives aimed at meeting Kentucky's energy ...

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Artist Wants Nuke Waste Dump to Make New Universes

Published November 20, 2008, 4:50 pm, Wired News

Yucca Mountain can hold millions of pounds of nuclear waste, but if an artist gets his way, it would also be home to what he calls a quantum "universe generator."

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Top Scoops

Published November 20, 2008, 1:53 pm, Scoop.co.nz

For a downloadable MP3 copy of this commentary, visit the BA Radio archive page. "Foreign β€˜fish pirates' plunder Somali waters from about 700 vessels - an armada of commercial buccaneers."

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Manitoba/National News

Published November 20, 2008, 10:43 am, Central Plains Herald-Leader

OTTAWA β€” The federal government used the throne speech to promise it will switch Canadians on to clean energy by balancing the need for power with climate change.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Major Exercise Tests CTBT On-Site Inspections

Published November 18, 2008, 1:33 pm, Arms Control Association

SEMIPALATINSK, KAZAKHSTAN β€” It was a clear and sunny day when the earth shook in Arcania.

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  • OCRWM - Yucca Mountain Repository: The U.S. Department of Energy began studying Yucca Mountain, Nevada, in 1978 to determine whether it would be suitable for the nation's first long-term geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. Currently stored at 126 sites around the nation, these materials are a result of nuclear power generation and national defense programs. On July 23, 2002, President Bush signed House Joint Resolution 87, allowing the DOE to take the next step in establishing a safe repository in which to store our nation's nuclear waste. The Department of Energy is currently in the process of preparing an application to obtain the Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to proceed with construction of the repository. Yucca Mountain is located in a remote desert on federally protected land within the secure boundaries of the Nevada Test Site in Nye County, Nevada. It is approximately 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

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  • RussiaToday : SciTech : Safe nuclear dump discovered: Russian geologists have discovered a new mineral which absorbs radiation from liquid nuclear waste. They are now striving to chemically clone it, in the hope it may help solve the problem of radioactive waste disposal.

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