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Where will Canada put its forever nuclear waste dump?
07 May 2024 19:06 GMT
7 hours ago
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Duration 10:20
Two Ontario towns are voting to decide whether to allow Canada's nuclear waste to be buried underneath them, forever. Andrew Chang explains how it would work, the risks and the big incentives the towns are being offered.
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Globe Climate: Can floating nuclear power plants serve remote Northern communities?
06 May 2024 18:22 GMT
… , but this overlooks their radioactive wastes: Being saddled with … a Northern community. If radioactive waste did become stranded in the … race to commercialize their transportable nuclear plant, a few Northern … photo in gallery:Workers dump blocks of ice into …
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Nevada can’t abide a senator who wants state to be nuclear waste dump
01 May 2024 09:22 GMT
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The federal government’s cavalier attitude toward the safe disposal of high-level nuclear waste created the current untenable situation in which an estimated 90,000 metric tons of nuclear waste are being stored at hundreds …
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Radioactive fallout: Sam Brown shows ignorance on Yucca Mountain fight
05 May 2024 09:41 GMT
… Mountain Project high-level nuclear waste repository. That was … known as America’s nuclear waste dumping ground.
Although Brown … Nuclear Projects. The agency, which has worked against the dump … country’s high-level radioactive waste, what most informed citizens …
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ESSO PLAN FOR TOXIC DUMP IN RAMSAR WETLAND
05 May 2024 04:13 GMT
… a massive, toxic, industrial dump in the middle of a … thousands of tonnes of hazardous radioactive waste, huge amounts of asbestos, … Esso’s plan to dump thousands of tonnes of … – Includes thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste, asbestos and other toxins
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Opinion: San Onofre May Be Shut Down, But There’s Still Danger from Nuclear Waste
04 May 2024 05:54 GMT
… 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste onsite.
The false hope in … a nuclear waste dump site for the foreseeable future. This waste is so highly radioactive … exclusion applies to “any nuclear reaction, radiation, or radioactive contamination, all whether …
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NY Advocates, Groups, and Experts Call For On-Site Radioactive Waste Storage at Decommissioning Indian Point Site
26 Apr 2024 14:28 GMT
… environment, communities and economy from radioactive waste
Cortlandt, NY — On Thursday, … using our rivers as toxic waste dumps.”
“The tritiated water at Indian … for the radioactive waste from decades of generation of electricity by nuclear power …
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Why Britain is building the world’s most expensive nuclear plant
02 May 2024 12:03 GMT
… than a 25th of the radioactive exposure that you get from … fact, it is so un-radioactive that it cannot legally be … as ‘radioactive’.
When they started work the plan was to dump it … spent fuel (otherwise known as nuclear waste). EDF initially planned to build …
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An Ontario farm town will vote in October on whether to become Canada's largest nuclear dump
02 May 2024 03:01 GMT
… nuclear waste, there's a broad scientific consensus the kind of nuclear dump … to do with radioactive waste.
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO … to the Ontario dump site through some … make the nuclear dump a reality, the nuclear industry …
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Canadian Indigenous leaders say Ottawa ignores their concerns over nuclear waste
01 May 2024 15:58 GMT
… of dangerous and long-lasting nuclear waste on their traditional territories.
The … expansion of nuclear energy and the production of more radioactive waste, violating the … the site for a permanent radioactive waste dump. Consultation was far too late …