Last February's explosion at the WIPP dump for long-lived intermediate-level nuclear waste from the US's nuclear weapons program remains unexplained, writes Jim Green. But with the site's history of ignored warnings, 'missing' safety culture, lack of supervision and dubious contractor appointments, it surely came as no surprise - and further accidents appear inevitable.
… New Mexico nuclear waste accident a 'horrific comedy of errors' … ional_laboratory_celebrates_1000th_transuranic_waste_shipment-cut.jpg Last February's … for long-lived intermediate-level nuclear waste from the US's nuclear weapons program …
Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s, writes Jim Green. The same attitudes persist today with plans to dump over half a million tonnes of high and intermediate level nuclear waste on Aboriginal land, and open new uranium mines. But now Aboriginal peoples and traditional land owners are fighting back!
… Radioactive waste and the nuclear war on Australia's … Jim Green | 1st July 2016 News Australia Waste Pollution Nuclear Politics WMD … tonnes of high and intermediate level nuclear waste on Aboriginal land, and open new uranium …
An officially convened 350-strong Citizens' Jury has decisively rejected South Australia's plans to import over half a million tonnes of high and intermediate level nuclear waste for long term storage, writes Jim Green. This has dealt a powerful blow against the project from which it is unlikely to ever recover, and represents a major victory for campaigners, indigenous Australians and economic sanity.
… Australians reject international nuclear waste dump Jim Green | 9th November 2016 News Nuclear Waste Law Australia Indigenous Peoples lester … tonnes of high and intermediate level nuclear waste for long term storage, writes Jim Green. …
The rejection of a plan to import vast amounts of high-level nuclear waste from around the world for profit was a significant result for campaigners but that threat is still far from over, writes JIM GREEN
… hands Jim Green | 15th June 2017 News Nuclear Waste Australia Campaigning Citizens' Jury … to import vast amounts of high-level nuclear waste from around the world for profit was a … to import vast amounts of high-level nuclear waste from around the world as a money-making …
Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s, writes Jim Green. The same attitudes have been evident in recent debates over uranium mines and nuclear waste, but Aboriginal peoples are fighting back!
… recent debates over uranium mines and nuclear waste, but Aboriginal peoples are fighting … have been attempting to establish a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty, 110 km north of Tennant … trade-off of basic services for a radioactive waste dump has been part of this story from …
The UK's nuclear decommissioning authority has a problem - what to do with over 100 tonnes of plutonium. Jim Green evaluates the NDA's options, and sees another generation of nuclear white elephants in the making.
… with MOX has been disastrous - £1.4 billion wasted on a MOX fabrication plant at … into MOX would be immobilised and treated as waste for disposal." MOX amounts to an … in the US let alone any concrete pours. PRISM waste The NDA states that it has carried out a …
With the sixth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster falling tomorrow, nuclear lobbyists are arguing over solutions to the existential crisis facing nuclear power, writes Jim Green. Some favour a multinational consolidation of large conventional reactor designs, while others back technological innovation and 'small modular reactors'. But in truth, both approaches are doomed to failure.
… to cover reactor decommissioning and waste management costs in France - less than … and that decommissioning and waste management will likely take longer, be … more battles over proposals to impose nuclear waste repositories on unwilling or divided …
Nuclear power is suffering one of its worst ever years, writes JIM GREEN. Even nuclear enthusiasts agree that the industry is in crisis. The bankruptcy filing by US nuclear giant Westinghouse has sent a cold chill through the industry which elsewhere, is suffering from crippling economic problems, successful legal challenges, and public opposition
… fast breeder reactor ‒ successive governments wasted US$10.6 billion (€9.3 billion) on Monju … billion to cover reactor decommissioning and waste management costs in France ‒ just less … and that decommissioning and waste management will take longer, be more …
Four years ago today the world's biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl took place at Fukushima, Japan. Total clean-up costs are estimated around $0.5 trillion, writes Jim Green - but work to defuse the dangers has barely begun, the site is flooded with radioactive water making its way to the sea, and underpaid and illegally contracted workers are suffering a rising toll of death and injury.
… the long-term management of radioactive waste; and issues related to the removal of … the head by a piece of heavy equipment in a waste treatment facility. In March 2014, a … 15-year-old boy to help clean up radioactive waste outside the Fukushima plant. Japan's …
There's an Alice in Wonderland flavour to the nuclear power debate, writes Jim Green. Lobbyists are promoting all sorts of new reactor types - an implicit admission that existing reactors aren't up to the job. But the designs they are promoting have two severe problems. They don't exist. And they have no customers.
… have not been industrially demonstrated; waste disposal issues remain unresolved and … facing nuclear power today: costs, safety, waste, and proliferation. "Nuclear developers …
The nuclear industry has had a disappointing COP21, writes Jim Green. Lobbyists were there en masse desperately trying to get pro-nuclear wording into the Paris Agreement, and they failed. The word does not occur even once in the entire document. But we must prepare for the next battle: keeping nuclear power out of the $100 billion a year Green Climate Fund.
… One of its COP21 memes was: 'The radioactive waste are not good for the climate? Wrong!' So radioactive waste is good for the climate?! Has the …
Public opposition to nuclear power in Japan remains strong, writes Jim Green, but piece by piece, Shinzo Abe's right-wing government has been putting the country's infamous 'nuclear village' back in control - boosted by draconian press censorship laws, massive interest-free loans, and a determination to forget all the 'lessons' of Fukushima. Is another big accident inevitable?
… choice of a final disposal site for nuclear waste. Some experts who attended a ministry … billion) for interim storage facilities for waste from clean-up activities outside the …