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Cleanup to begin in May on former Niagara Falls TNT plant, radioactive waste storage site
26 Apr 2024 16:13 GMT
… former TNT plant and radioactive waste storage site in the … diseases – perhaps from the radioactive waste stored just yards away … foundations, contaminated soil and polluted groundwater in various spots on … 4,000 gallons of polluted groundwater are expected to …
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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, environmental … has inherited guardianship for the radioactive waste from decades of generation of … have both.
Become a plastic pollution fighter this Earth~ Day and …
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Russian Atomic Agency faces accusations of covering up Tobol River radioactive pollution
27 Apr 2024 01:07 GMT
… to concerns about potential radioactive pollution of the Tobol River waters … also produces large amounts of radioactive waste.
“Thousands of wells are drilled …
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Toxic sewage discharged at Chalk River nuclear lab
02 May 2024 18:09 GMT
… nor Environment Canada said what pollutants were in the effluent, … said it "takes pollution incidents and threats to the … plan to build a radioactive waste landfill at the Chalk … largely bacteria, that reduce pollutants in wastewater.
A civil engineering …
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has left the entire region at a heightened risk of radioactive pollution
24 Apr 2024 18:28 GMT
… by the ongoing war.
Radioactive pollution from nuclear reactors
Ukraine is … or mishandled.
Such sites include radioactive waste storage facilities, uranium mines and … may already be spilling radioactive pollution.
In 1979, Soviet authorities carried …
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Uranium-immobilizing bacteria in clay rock: Exploring how microorganisms can influence the behavior of radioactive waste
16 Apr 2024 19:45 GMT
… designing repositories for high-level radioactive waste in deep geological layers, various … permanently safe storage of highly radioactive waste in a repository—so-called … for the removal of radioactive pollutants from contaminated waters and thus …
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Government awards $45B to company treating over 50M gallons of leaking radioactive waste: 'One of our nation's most important environmental challenges'
12 Apr 2024 04:24 GMT
56 million gallons of radioactive and hazardous waste were stored underground in tanks, raising fears of future contamination.
by Susan Elizabeth TurekApril 12, 2024
Photo Credit: Getty Images
A 10-year contract has been re-awarded to a Virginia company …
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How Fracking Is Making Some U.S. Communities More Radioactive Than Chernobyl
02 May 2024 11:58 GMT
… billions of gallons of radioactive waste each day, and it … who’ve experienced fracking pollution firsthand in their communities, … brunt of all this radioactive waste?
JN: One community … they had oil waste and radioactive waste somewhere in their operations. …
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Inside Chernobyl exclusion zone around deadly Elephant Foot radioactive waste…amid threat to Europe’s biggest nuke plant
08 Apr 2024 14:52 GMT
AT the heart of the Chernobyl exclusion zone is a deadly radioactive object which can kill within seconds.
Elephant's Foot is a highly dangerous mass of toxic material formed in the aftermath of the 1986 nuclear disaster.
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The Elephant's Foot is a …
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How We Organize: Saving the Hudson River from Radioactive Waste
01 Apr 2024 15:33 GMT
… to fight corporate greed and pollution, while also moving the … an outrageous proposal to dump radioactive waste in the Hudson River. … dumping the plant’s radioactive waste in the already-burdened … we had to stop radioactive waste from getting dumped in …