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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
… millions of bundles of highly radioactive used nuclear fuel.
The search for a … Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has proposed building a deep geologic repository … , a 600-metre deep tomb that would see highly radioactive …
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Ignace nuclear-waste vote concludes
01 May 2024 19:59 GMT
… potential host for nuclear waste repository operations concluded Tuesday … said, and a repository “could potentially disrupt … geological repository for waste from Canada’s nuclear … nuclear fuel from Canada’s reactors.
The NWMO’s website says the repository …
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South Bruce votes on nuclear waste hosting agreement tonight
01 May 2024 17:07 GMT
… permanent nuclear waste facility. The proposed Deep Geological Repository … would house 5.6 million used nuclear fuel bundles, … house Canada’s used nuclear fuel near Teeswater, seen … ” to Canada’s most radioactive waste, they must not, …
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To find a place to store spent nuclear fuel, Congress needs to stop trying to revive Yucca Mountain
30 Apr 2024 14:42 GMT
… 's first repository for commercial spent nuclear fuel. The project has … WIPP—a geologic repository storing transuranic radioactive waste from nuclear weapons research and … commissions of experts.
For spent nuclear fuel policy to make progress, Congress …
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Indigenous leaders decry lack of consent for nuclear waste on their homelands
30 Apr 2024 13:14 GMT
… of proposed permanent repositories for nuclear waste on the … Point Lepreau site.
“The nuclear fuel chain – mining uranium, … fuel, fissioning uranium in a reactor creating toxic radioactive … for nuclear activities nor as disposal grounds for radioactive …
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Nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain could roil Nevada U.S. Senate race
30 Apr 2024 10:05 GMT
… 5 million pounds of highly radioactive nuclear waste is buried on …
Spent fuel rods from the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant … creation of long-term radioactive waste storage on federal … supported the creation of the repository for economic reasons.
A …
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Nuclear power called ‘an option of absolute last resort’
27 Apr 2024 14:51 GMT
… site selection for an underground nuclear waste repository.
The vote, open to … uranium mining to the spent fuel after power plants’ use.
“You … with Canada having a domestic fuel source.
The negatives he listed …
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Ignace voting on potential nuclear waste facility
26 Apr 2024 19:49 GMT
… potential host community for a nuclear waste repository.
Online and in-person … the deep geological repository being proposed by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization … repository would be situated hundreds of metres underground and store spent nuclear fuel …
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South Bruce signs $418 million hosting agreement with NWMO
01 May 2024 23:46 GMT
… ’s first deep geological repository (DGR).
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… a potential host for nuclear waste repository operations concluded in … to store used Canadian nuclear fuel from an emerging technology. … approximately 120,000 used fuel bundles would be processed …
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How attacks on energy substations play into the hands of extremists
01 May 2024 08:00 GMT
… of years from now. A nuclear repository, for example, might be … States to protest fossil fuel-burning utilities, convinced that … years from now. A nuclear repository, for example, might be … United States to protest fossil fuel-burning utilities, convinced that …