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Contributing to Downwinders
Downwinders has actively opposed the efforts of Private Fuels Storage, a consortium of nuclear utilities including Northern States Power, to place the nation's commercial reactor waste ... of predatory corporations that seek to contaminate their sacred lands with nuclear waste. Telephone,computers and equipment, office and staff expenses. YOU CAN HELP DOWNWINDERS ...
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Living on Earth: International Proposals for Nuclear Waste Sites
Living on Earth's Daniel Grossman has our story. (Voice over loudspeaker, muted) GROSSMAN: You might expect nuclear-reactor waste to be sealed away in ... fuel and radioactive waste from nuclear power reactors. GROSSMAN: Georgetown University Professor Robert Gallucci says Pilgrim is only 1 of more than 400 reactors worldwide storing reactor waste indefinitely. Not a ...
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Nuclear Waste
High-level radioactive waste results primarily from the fuel used by reactors to produce electricity. Low-level radioactive waste results from reactor operations and from medical, ... Waste High-level radioactive waste is uranium fuel that has been used in a nuclear power reactor and is “spent” or is no longer efficient in generating power to the reactor ...
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Don't Waste Utah!
Spent reactor fuel is by far one of the most highly radioactive and dangerous of all nuclear waste. Under the government ... a nuclear reaction starts up again, as it does inside the reactor. This could produce a surge of heat and cause a steam ... proposed Prairie Island dry cask storage at the Prairie Island Nuclear Reactor in Minnesota. The facility was met with strong opposition, most ...
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Radioactive Mixed Waste | Wastes | US EPA
(MTRU) contains radioactive elements heavier than uranium and a hazardous waste component. MTRU is primarily generated from nuclear weapons fabrication, plutonium bearing reactor ...
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NRDC: Nuclear Weapons, Waste & Energy Links
Green Enterprise Nonprofits and Government Environmental Groups U.S. Government Reference/Links: Nuclear Weapons & Waste Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - News and resources related to weapons of mass destruction. ... . Meltdown at Three Mile Island - Step-by-step, PBS re-examines the national nuclear reactor disaster that dealt a crippling blow to the nuclear power industry and still haunts ...
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ECNT Current Campaigns Other Toxics & Waste - Nuclear Waste Dump
Katherine - will be the site of the controversial Commonwealth radioactive waste dump. Highly radioactive waste from the Lucas Heights reactor in Sydney is likely to be shipped to the NT via ... of-mind' so that the new Lucas Heights reactor can be approved without Sydney people having to worry about the reactor's dangerous radioactive waste. Many scientists, doctors and community groups have ...
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OCRWM - Nuclear Waste Explained
After three or four years in a reactor, however, the uranium pellets are no longer efficient for producing electricity and the assembly is removed from the reactor. After removal, the entire assembly (now called spent nuclear fuel) is ... reactor, fuel assemblies can be as long as 16 feet and can weigh up to 1,200 pounds each. High-level radioactive waste ...
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OCRWM - Current Storage Methods For Radioactive Waste
Nuclear Waste Explained :: History of the Nuclear Waste Program :: Why Yucca Mountain? :: Project Oversight :: Site Recommendation and Approval Current Storage Methods For Radioactive Waste Currently, every nuclear reactor site in ... waste. View waste locations by state Spent Fuel Pools After three to four years in a reactor, spent nuclear fuel is moved to a storage pool of water at the reactor ...
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waste | Greenpeace UK
Help Nuclear power - the problems Tags: nuclear power, climate change, waste, energy security, reactor safety, proliferation, reprocessing Read more Nuclear Transport Routes ... waste, press releases, sellafield, reprocessing Read more New nuclear reactors - more radioactive waste Posted by bex on 29 July 2002. Map of nuclear Britian Read more » Tags: nuclear power, waste, renewable energy, reactor ...
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