radioactive waste disposal accidents

This group of experts has worked for last eight months in a report of about 500 pages. "With almost no resources," he laments. The government has pledged to have a climate change and energy transition law ready this year that will enable Spain to fulfil its European commitments and Paris agreement ...

Additional questions exist about the unsolved, 50-plus year problem of long-term storage of nuclear waste. When representatives for this project were asked, during a recent district/small modular reactor workshop, how they were addressing long-term disposal and storage of the radioactive hazardous ...

The earthquake and tsunami at Fukushima in 2011 showed that, within hours, a nuclear facility could transform from a $60B asset to a $700B, ... As another corporate subsidy, the government took on the responsibility for the disposal of the high level radioactive waste, charging a modest fee to the utilities.

Vast quantities of highly toxic, radioactive waste are a byproduct of the nuclear fission responsible for all that power. ... test like Sandia's triathlon will go a long way toward confirming that the accumulation of small shocks and vibrations throughout such a journey won't lead to a catastrophic nuclear accident.

“There are design flaws that the (Nuclear Regulatory Commission's) own analysis shows will lead to radioactive waste leaking into the water table and ... radioactive waste to be transported by truck and train across 22,000 of miles of railways and 7,000 miles of highways, raising the threat of an accident or ...

A decision about the disposal of radioactive waste from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has yet to be made, 7 years after an accident occurred at the plant in 2011. Japan's government plans to dispose of waste that contains more than 8,000 becquerels of radioactive substances per kilogram. Among ...

I was disturbed, but not surprised, when I read that the DOE now wants our state to become the transportation hub for highly radioactive nuclear waste from all around ... Andrus placed a blockade at the Idaho border to stop such shipments because of the extreme risk to the public should an accident occur.

But, in exchange for that aid, legislators should also demand that the utilities move their older radioactive waste from dangerous dense-packed pools to ... He was a member of the congressionally mandated National Academy of Sciences panel on lessons learned from the Fukushima nuclear accident.

It was 39 years ago Wednesday, March 28, that the historic accident at Three Mile Island occurred as Unit 2's reactor partially melted down. Despite the fact that the Unit 2 reactor coolant system is drained and its radioactive waste was shipped away long ago, the process of decommissioning Unit 2 has not ...