After over a decade of fracking, oversight of the industry's radioactive waste is still lacking, reports Sharon Kelly. Over half of the 280 billion gallons a year of radioactive waste water from fracking ends up in rivers and streams.
… Fracking's radwaste - supervision remains inadequate Sharon … oversight of the industry's radioactive waste is still lacking, reports Sharon Kelly. … the 280 billion gallons a year of radioactive waste water from fracking ends up in rivers …
Fracking operations produce radioactive waste derived from naturally occurring uranium and thorium - until now, safely buried deep underground. And right now the industry has neither a plan, nor the technology, to deal with it.
… Fracking operations produce radioactive waste derived from naturally occurring uranium … radioactive material that is found in the waste water, principally radium, is high … neither will it be possible to dispose of the waste water by injecting it back underground. …
The Scottish Executive has firmly refused to have nuclear waste buried north of the border, when asked as part of a new government consultation exercise.
… Scotland says no to nuclear waste 27th June 2007 News Nuclear Waste Nuclear Power Radioactive Radioactivity … Scotland Scottish Executive Nuclear Waste Power Plants Energy Politics And …
When the US's biggest ever coal ash spill buried 300 acres of waterfront property in a white, middle class suburb, the waste was treated as a toxic hazard. But by the time it reached Uniontown, a black community in Alabama, that was all forgotten. Now they are fighting back.
… Alabama - a community fights toxic waste, discrimination Oliver Tickell | 20th August 2014 News Waste Toxics USA Fossil Fuels Coal … property in a white, middle class suburb, the waste was treated as a toxic hazard. But by …
The 'advanced' nuclear power sector is dystopian because of its connections to fossil fuel mining and nuclear weapons proliferation.
… Transatomic Power that was developing a 'Waste-Annihilating Molten-Salt Reactor'. … Power gave up on its plan to use nuclear waste as reactor fuel after its theoretical … calculations were proven to be false, and the waste-annihilating reactor was reinvented as a …
Nuclear enthusiasts have been singing the praises of nuclear reactors that use thorium as their fuel instead of uranium. Jan Beránek analyses the claims - and finds that thorium is a mere distraction on the way to our renewable future.
… Comment Nuclear Power Renewables UK USA th-u-waste-lifetime.png Nuclear enthusiasts have … reactor safety, production of dangerous waste, and last but not least, nuclear weapons … and 'cheap as chips' - it's produced as a waste product of rare earth mining. But the …
Six environment heroes, one from each continent, are honoured for their work today - fighting threats from giant coal mines to forest destruction, fracking, high dams, illegal development and toxic waste dumps. Sophie Morlin-Yron reports.
… coal, dams, palm oil, fracking, toxic waste Sophie Morlin-Yron | 28th April 2014 News Fracking Fossil Fuels Waste Water Energy USA Indonesia Russia Peru … high dams, illegal development and toxic waste dumps. Sophie Morlin-Yron reports. San …
Nuclear energy is no solution to climate breakdown say 300 organisations internationally ahead of COP26.
… From nuclear weapons tests to radioactive waste facilities the nuclear industry has a … risk from the nuclear industry as mining and waste storage primarily affects their lands … carbon neutral and poses unique security and waste management risks. We do not have the …
We need to abandon Petropolis to prevent climate breakdown - and start building the ecomegacities of the future.
… of the land, only to deposit huge amounts of waste into landfill, into our seas and - in … London alone creates seven tonnes of waste every year. Just half of this is … The capacity of landfills accepting London’s waste is expected to run out by 2026 and …
As the European Commission considers the £100 billion subsidy package the UK has offered EDF to build and operate Hinkley C nuclear power station, Paul Dorfman explains why the 'deal' is illegal, anti-renewables, and ruinous to energy users and tax payers.
… any new reactors, together with radioactive waste stores including spent fuel, will be on … operation, plant decommissioning and waste management. Whilst the reported range of … a major nuclear accident in Europe. Nuclear waste - the million year question There are …
Moving away from fossil fuels will require transforming our technological, social, and economic systems, rather than focussing on individual consumption.
… natural world. Public revulsion at plastic waste was stoked by Blue Planet II , the UK’s … choked, enmeshed and tortured by plastic waste. It also had an international impact: … in parts of the global south too. Wasteful consumption Most plastics are used …
Gas flaring of natural at shale oil wells is carried out on such a scale in North Dakota and Texas that 'phantom cities' show up at night in satellite photos, writes Sharon Kelly. Billions of dollars worth of gas are going up in smoke, adding to CO2 emissions - but far worse for the climate is when the gas is 'vented'. Regulators are doing too little, too late.
… a process known in the industry as 'flaring'. Wasteful and destructive - $854 million up in smoke It's a process so wasteful that it's sparked class action … was responsible for two thirds of the state's wasted gas in 2012, totaling 21 billion feet …
A Spending Bill now under debate in Congress would cut over $100 million from renewable energy, grant extra funds for dumping nuclear waste and fossil fuel research, exempt 'mountain top removal' coal from regulation, and limit the EPA's power to enforce clean water laws.
… energy, grant extra funds for dumping nuclear waste and fossil fuel research, exempt … designate money to everything from nuclear waste cleanup to renewable energy investments, … bill provides $150 million for nuclear waste disposal at the proposed Yucca Mountain …
The next Chernobyl scale nuclear disaster could happen in Chernobyl as the Ukraine conflict intensifies.
… – would remain vulnerable, as would nuclear waste stores. Spent fuel cooling ponds and dry … on one warring nation's nuclear reactors or waste stores could result in like-for-like … an inadvertent attack on reactors or nuclear waste stores is somewhat higher than a …
America's coal-fired power plants produce 140 million tons of ash a year, reports Ben Whitford, most of it dumped in open storage ponds that contaminate drinking water with arsenic and heavy metals. And now Presidential candidate Jeb Bush is promising to scrap 'new and costly' (actually feeble) EPA regulations before they have even been implemented.
… September 2015 News Fossil Fuels Energy Coal Waste Regulation Politics … than four billion gallons of ash slurry - the waste from years of coal-fired energy … it the country's second-largest industrial waste stream. The vast majority of that ash is …
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 …
Irresponsible tactics are being used to bury social and environmental problems associated with the Fukushima nuclear disaster as Olympics approach in Japan.
… Fukushima Radiation Nuclear Power Nuclear Waste Editor’s Picks Thought Leaders … About 17 million cubic metres of contaminated waste material has accumulated during … facility ' for some of the contaminated waste. Contamination Decontamination work …
The UK government is planning 75GW of new nuclear power, Jamie Doward reports - equivalent to 50 1.5GW reactors, or 25 dual-reactor Hinkley C's - enough to supply 86% of the UK's energy demand.
… a submission to a consultation on geological waste disposal, the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management has said an upper limit of … facilities that might be required for the waste that will be produced by new nuclear …
Several nuclear facilities in Ukraine have been attacked by the Russian military over the past fortnight.
… research facility at Kharkiv; two radioactive waste storage sites; the Chernobyl nuclear … Russian missiles hit a radioactive waste storage site near Kyiv on February 27. … 1 update: "SNRIU said that all radioactive waste disposal facilities of the State …
As plans go ahead for the UK’s first new nuclear plant in twenty years, Edgar Vaid reviews a film that takes a look at the issues surrounding the use of nuclear power by our neighbours across the Channel ...
… November 2013 Reviews Nuclear Power Nuclear Waste Film Reviews welcome to nuclear land.jpg … campaigner comments that although the nuclear waste is discharged from the pipeline quite … stance. Significantly, whilst German nuclear waste was sent to La Hague for re-processing, …
The Gulf faces unique challenges when it comes to nuclear power - yet four reactors are under construction at Barakah.
… or intercept enriched uranium fuel or waste transfers nationally or regionally. Such … through to finished fuel rods, radioactive waste, and irradiated nuclear fuel (INF). High level waste (HLW) and INF cargo will travel out of …
An unexpected outcome of the Fukushima nuclear disaster is that the UK's Sellafield nuclear site - already the world's biggest plutonium repository - is set to store even more of the radioactive, fissionable metal.
… were produced from the UK's own nuclear waste, while 17 tonnes come from Japan and the … Oxide Reprocessing Plant), Britain's nuclear waste reprocessing plant at the 6-square … reprocesses Japan's large stocks of nuclear waste. In principle Japan wants to use that …
Think nuclear power and you probably thing of small amounts of highly radioactive material, safely encased in vast concrete bunkers, generating an endless and constant supply of clean electricity. Yes it's expensive and clearly there is a problem with nuclear waste, but if it is the answer to climate change then why not?
… Climate Change Uranium Nuclear Power Plants Waste Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate … and clearly there is a problem with nuclear waste, but if it is the answer to climate … emissions and controlled releases Nuclear waste Decommissioning A nuclear future? This …
The Government’s ongoing consultation on nuclear power, which late last week was described as ‘a sham’ by environmental groups, has recorded preliminary results of 46 per cent in favour of nuclear power.
… News Nuclear Power Nuclear Energy Nuclear Waste Nuclear Power Plants Waste Energy News web pic 2_257.jpg The … worried about the creation of new nuclear waste. In what may seem like a premonition of …