Radioactive Waste
No safe, permanent solution has yet been found anywhere in the world - and may never be found - for the nuclear waste problem. In the U.S., the only identified and flawed high-level radioactive waste deep repository site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada has been canceled. Beyond Nuclear advocates for an end to the production of nuclear waste and for securing the existing reactor waste in hardened on-site storage.
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A federal judge has ruled that a Utah company can dispose of foreign nuclear waste at its facility in the western Utah desert, the Associated Press reports. EnergySolutions Inc. wants to import up to 20,000 tons of low-level radioactive waste from Italy. After processing in Tennessee, about 1,600 tons would be disposed of in Utah.
Close to 15,000 protesters, including farmers on tractors, protested against a shipment of reprocessed nuclear waste on November 8 as the waste traveled by train from France to the Goerleben storage site in Germany. Opponents chained themselves to the railway tracks while farmers blocked the road to the storage site. The irradiated reactor fuel is sent to France or Britain for reprocessing then returned to Germany.
July 11, 2009