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ScienceDaily (Nov. 2, 2011) — Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researchers have developed new technology capable of removing radioactive material from contaminated water and aiding clean-up efforts following nuclear disasters.
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Cotter Corp.'s uranium mill near Cañon City has the state's backing to permanently dispose of radioactive waste in its tailings ponds, despite state and independent reports over a 30-year period showing the ponds' liners leak.
A 2004 internal state health department memo went so far as to describe the site as "unusable" for hazardous- waste disposal under state regulations.
Allowing the radioactive waste to remain on site is just the latest chapter in a 50-year saga during which regulators for the state, which owned the land during 20 years that Cotter polluted it, ignored warnings from the Environmental Protection Agency, independent firms and their own engineers.
Read more: Cotter mill's ties to Colorado regulators may have become toxic - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19174721#ixzz1bu2qse4r
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Wearied by a two-year standoff, state mining regulators and Denver Water officials on Monday demanded that Cotter Corp. clean up a mine leaking uranium into a creek that reaches a drinking-water reservoir.
State officials also said a $1.2 million bond posted by Cotter is insufficient to clean up the Schwartzwalder mine should the company walk away.
"I want to get this remediated. If Cotter wants to continue to fight this in court, that's up to them," said Loretta Pineda, director of Colorado's Division of Mining Reclamation and Safety. "We're rapidly losing another construction season. ... Cotter could at least be doing work on a diversion."
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Renewable energy production in the United States has surpassed the production of nuclear power for the first time, a government study reports.
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Tokyo (CNN) -- Workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have discovered a radioactive hot spot far more lethal than anything previously recorded at the damaged facility, the plant's owner reported Tuesday.
The reading at the base of a ventilation tower between the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors Monday afternoon was 10,000 millisieverts per hour, the Tokyo Electric Power Company announced -- high enough that a 60-minute exposure could kill a man or woman within weeks. A U.S. expert told CNN that radioactive particles most likely concentrated in that area in the first days of the disaster, as plant operators tried to vent the damaged reactors.
By comparison, the average resident of an industrialized country receives 3 millisieverts of background radiation per year, while the highest level reported in the days following the disaster was about 400 millisieverts.
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WASHINGTON - Gregory Jaczko, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is urging his agency to decide within 90 days how to proceed with safety changes intended to improve the US nuclear industry’s response to catastrophic events such as the tsunami that crippled a nuclear plant in Japan.
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It’s been one of the mysteries of Japan’s ongoing nuclear disaster: How much of the damage did the March 11 earthquake inflict on Fukushima Daiichi’s reactors in the 40 minutes before the devastating tsunami arrived? The stakes are high: If the quake alone structurally compromised the plant and the safety of its nuclear fuel, then every other similar reactor in Japan is at risk.
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A hostile crowd of approximately 500, many holding signs decrying the safety of the Indian Point nuclear power plants in Buchanan, took over a meeting hosted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Cortlandt Thursday night.
The meeting started with a slide presentation by the federal agency, but quickly digressed into a question and answer session with the public, after officials were repeatedly interrupted and shouted at by the audience during the presentation. Cries of “lies,” and "double talk" and chants of “Close Indian Point" seemed to rattle NRC officials.
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A fire Thursday at an embattled Nebraska nuclear plant sent one worker to the hospital with severe burns, according to reports from local media. The Omaha World-Herald reported that the incident occurred around 2 p.m. outside a security building on the grounds of the Ft. Calhoun nuclear plant, but that it was not near any of the reactors. The worker was reportedly refueling a portable pump when it caught fire. He was airlifted to a nearby hospital with burns on his arms and face.
HIGHLIGHTS The pump he was refueling was to be used for removing water that seeps under the sandbag perimeter around the security building, which is currently helping hold out flood water from the Missouri river, which has crested well above the elevation of the plant.
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The Fort Calhoun nuclear power station, in Fort Calhoun, Neb., is surrounded by flood waters from the Missouri River on June 14, 2011. (Nati Harnik/AP Photo)
A special inspection of U.S. nuclear plants after the Fukushima disaster in Japan revealed problems with emergency equipment and disaster procedures that are far more pervasive than publicly described by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a review of inspection reports by ProPublica shows.
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LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Federal regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the nation's aging reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards, or simply failing to enforce them, an investigation by The Associated Press has found.
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RICHMOND — More than a dozen Virginia legislators are flying to France this month on all-expenses paid trips as part of an aggressive lobbying effort by a company pushing lawmakers to lift a ban on uranium mining in the state.
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