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Missouri Senate advances KC weapons facility tax break

The Independence Examiner 26 Apr 2024
Louis area residents affected by radioactive waste ...
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Town assembly in Saga approves petition for nuclear waste site survey

Japan Times 26 Apr 2024
The assembly of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, approved a petition Friday to accept a "literature survey" to examine the town's suitability for hosting a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear plants ... .
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The former rail chief now minding the (construction) gap at Sizewell

The Times/The Sunday Times 26 Apr 2024
Good projects start well and get better; bad projects start badly and get worse,” Holden, the chairman of Sizewell C, says ... Related articles. ANALYSIS. Hinkley Point C ... January 27 2024, 6.00pm ... ... Growing mountain of wasted money is a radioactive prospect.
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It Could Be Oil Field Waste Making You Sick

Truth Dig 25 Apr 2024
Every day across the U.S., billions of pounds of toxic and radioactive waste is produced by oil and gas wells ... oil and gas industry’s shadow network of radioactive waste workers have often been told.
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Town committee OKs request to host final site for nuclear waste

Asahi News 25 Apr 2024
Those pushing the idea as well as assembly members in favor of the move said it was the responsibility of a municipality hosting a nuclear plant to also serve as the final disposal site for highly radioactive nuclear waste.
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Saga town committee to OK petition to accept nuclear waste survey

Japan Times 25 Apr 2024
A special committee of a Saga Prefecture town assembly is expected to approve a petition to accept a "literature survey" for a possible final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear plants ... .
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Japanese citizens petition against ocean discharge of Fukushima nuclear-tainted wastewater

People Daily 25 Apr 2024
... Liquid Processing System (ALPS), citing accidents such as staff being splashed with waste liquid during the cleaning of ALPS pipelines and leaks from exhaust outlets containing radioactive substances.
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Panevezio statybos trestas AB Has Signed 156 mln. Eur Contract with Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant for Construction of Repository for Radioactive Waste (PST - Panevezio Statybos Trestas AB)

Public Technologies 23 Apr 2024
Eur Contract with Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant for Construction of Repository for Radioactive Waste ... The repository will be built at the Stabatiskes site in the Visaginas Municipality near other radioactive waste management facilities of the INPP.
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Earth Talk: Nuclear fusion

San Francisco Chronicle 23 Apr 2024
Dear EarthTalk. Why are Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, among others, so bullish on developing nuclear fusion as a power source? -- Mark P., Newton, Massachusetts. Answer ... And unlike fission, there is no radioactive waste as a result ... .
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Nuclear fusion scientists hail 'low-cost' 37 million Celsius breakthrough

The National 23 Apr 2024
Read more. UAE and UK join forces to seize nuclear power's moment ... Compared to existing nuclear power plants, fusion wouldn't generate long-term radioactive waste requiring storage for thousands of years ... April 23, 2024, 3.22 PM ... The Climate Edit.
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Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back

The Conversation 23 Apr 2024
Another ongoing political headache is where to store the country’s nuclear waste, an issue Germany has never managed to solve ... Instead, radioactive waste has been stored in temporary facilities close to existing reactors – no long-term solution ... .
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Transporting hazardous materials across the country isn't easy—that's why there's a host of regulations in place

Phys Dot Org 23 Apr 2024
Ever wonder what those colorful signs with symbols and numbers on the backs of trucks mean? They're just one visible part of a web of regulations that aim to keep workers and the environment safe while shipping hazardous waste.
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