Diane D’Arrigo, NIRS Radioactive Waste Project Director, presents on so-called "low-level" waste at NRC meeting. View PowerPoint presentation.
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Despite overwhelming scientific evidence, NRC declares depleted uranium to be Class A "low-level" radioactive waste: Press release from Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. NRC decision. Dissenting comments from NRC Commissioner Greg Jaczko.
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State of Nevada challenges EPA radiation standards for Yucca Mountain. Read Attorney General's press release here. Read Nevada's petition to the U.S. Court of Appeal for the DC Circuit here.
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New EPA rule on Yucca Mountain would produce 1 cancer per 125 people exposed. Press release from Committee to Bridge the Gap.
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Should the U.S. be a dump for foreign nuclear waste? Factsheet from HEAL Utah on EnergySolutions’ proposed import of 20,000 tons of radioactive waste from Italy.
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A major new report on the French reprocessing program from the International Panel on Fissile Materials finds that it does not reduce volume of radioactive waste and would have to be half its current cost to be economically competitive with storage of the waste, thus undercutting the Bush administration’s major arguments for reprocessing.
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