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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Nuclear Waste Update 2/7


What to do with nuclear waste
Washington Post
The Feb. 4 editorial “Where will the nuclear waste go?” mused on the need for a solution to the “not-in-my-back-yard nightmare” of the nation's unresolved nuclear waste supply. As it turns out, the nation already has one in southeastern New Mexico ...http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-to-do-with-nuclear-waste/2013/02/06/bf179132-6f1c-11e2-b35a-0ee56f0518d2_story.html
Sellafield to be prosecuted for sending radioactive waste to wrong disposal site
The Guardian
Ian Parker, nuclear regulation manager for the Environment Agency, said: "Our overriding aim in regulating the nuclear industry is to protect people and the environment from the release of radioactive wastes into the environment. "We have carried out a ...http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/07/sellafield-prosecuted-radioactive-waste-disposal

The Guardian
Cumbria nuclear waste: Councillors 'intimidated', says peer
BBC News
Allegations that Cumbria county councillors faced intimidation from anti-nuclear protesters may need to be looked at by police, energy minister Baroness Verma has said. Last week, the council voted against the latest stage in the development of the ...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21370919

BBC News
Northeast Utilities, others awarded $160 million damages in nuclear waste case
New Haven Register
The owners of three now-defunct nuclear power plants in New England, including the former Connecticut Yankee in Haddam, will receive nearly $160 million in damages from the federal government related to the failure to create a national repository for ...http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/02/07/news/doc511323473c8a2626026888.txt
LINE Commission: Nuclear waste presents opportunity for Idaho
LocalNews8.com
The governor's LINE Commission presented its report on the future of the nuclear industry in Idaho to the state Legislature on Wednesday, saying that it's to the state's advantage to help the federal government solve its nuclear waste storage problem.http://www.localnews8.com/news/LINE-Commission-Nuclear-waste-presents-opportunity-for-Idaho/-/308662/18439360/-/twswt6z/-/index.html

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Cold War artifact collection at SRS gains nuclear waste marker
The Augusta Chronicle
The stone marker, erected in 1997 after the closure of the nation's first Cold War era nuclear waste tank, was moved to the site's 27,000-square-foot “curation facility,” where relics of the nuclear age are preserved for future generations. Caroline ...http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-02-06/cold-war-artifact-collection-srs-gains-nuclear-waste-marker?v=1360197748
Commission sees opportunity in nuclear energy
Idaho State Journal
“Idahoans should read this report very carefully and ask themselves whether they believe, as this commission evidently does, that Idaho might somehow be able to cash in on our country's worsening nuclear waste fiasco.” The year-long review of the INL ...http://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/article_900c0ac6-7098-11e2-8a64-001a4bcf887a.html
States, Utilities Ask Fed. Court for Expedited Suspension of Nuclear Waste Fees
POWER magazine
In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, state utility regulators and nuclear utilities rejected claims in a recent Department of Energy (DOE) filing that Nuclear Waste Fund fees were necessary, and they called on the court to ...http://www.powermag.com/news/States-Utilities-Ask-Fed-Court-for-Expedited-Suspension-of-Nuclear-Waste-Fees_5369.html
Nuclear Waste, Agency Rulemaking Reform, Emergency Response Top Winter ...
Electric Light & Power
Nuclear waste, federal agency rulemaking reforms, and emergency response topped the agenda for National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' annual Winter Meeting. At the conclusion of the NARUC Board of Directors meeting here, the ...http://www.elp.com/news/2013/02/07/nuclear-waste-agency-rulemaking-reform-emergency-response-top-winter-meetings-agenda.html
CT Yankee receives $40M in nuclear waste settlement
Hartford Business
The owners of the former Connecticut Yankee nuclear power plant in Haddam have received a $39.7 million settlement from the U.S. Department of Energy over the federal government's failure to move nuclear waste to a permanent repository. In 1998, the ...http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130206/NEWS01/130209882

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