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Bernie Sanders Strongly Supported Burying Vermont Nuclear Waste in Texas Despite Opposition; Poor Communities Beware (Includes Transcript)

February 19, 2020

Please read this post carefully. If you find this behavior reprehensible, we urge Bernie supporters to find another candidate before …

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Governor of New Mexico: Holtec Nuclear Waste Storage Bad for the Economy & Environment; Unacceptable Risk to Agriculture and Oil & Gas Industry

June 10, 2019

“The interim storage of high-level radioactive waste poses significant and unacceptable risks to New Mexicans, our environment and our economy… …

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Smoldering Nuclear Waste Barrel Fire At Idaho National Nuclear Lab

April 15, 2018

Photo of an apparently similar fire at WIPP in New Mexico in 2014. The INL (Idaho National [Nuclear] Lab) nuclear …

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Official US Citizens Advisory Board Recommends Against the Import of German High Level Nuclear Waste For Processing and Dumping

September 29, 2017

Germany needs to make up its mind. If it wants the US to become its nuclear dumping ground then it …

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As Environment Minister Merkel Knew That Nuclear Dumps in Salt Mines were Leaking, Dangerous, and Ignored It; Now Radioactive Waste Must Be Dug Up; Undaunted in Stupidity the US Continues Dumping Nuclear Waste in Salt Despite Accident

September 25, 2017

Angela Merkel was German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und …

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US Congressman Pearce Pushing More Fracking in New Mexico Despite Risk of Sinkhole Collapse; Destabilization of Nuclear Waste Disposal Site

June 30, 2017

WIPP was built in a salt bed. Proximity of injection wells to WIPP Nuclear Waste disposal site risks not only …

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On Monday Holtec-USNRC to Discuss Peening of Spent Nuclear Fuel Canister Welds – Apparently before Flipping Areva-NuHoms Canisters from Sideways to Upright to Move to Holtec Interim Storage

November 11, 2016

US NRC Meeting on Monday “To discuss Holtec International’s (Holtec) technical details and proposed plans to perform peening of dry …

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Intrepid Hurricane Nicole Still Deters German Nuclear Waste Path to America

October 15, 2016

Hurricane Nicole The German government wants to send 30 shipments of spent nuclear fuel from its Ahaus storage facility as …

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Shipments of Nuclear Waste Through Hurricane Prone Atlantic to Charleston SC Almost Monthly?

October 8, 2016

The German government wants to send 30 shipments of spent nuclear fuel from its Ahaus storage facility as well as …

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Beware: US Congress Trying to Run Thru Radioactive Riders; US Taxpayer Guaranteed Exim $9 Billion for Toshiba to Build Nuclear Reactors in India

September 27, 2016

One of the sneak through provisions that some members of Congress – both Dim-witted Dems and Republicans – want to …

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Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty for His Role in Conspiracy to Cheat US Emissions Tests

September 11, 2016

“According to the plea agreement, from 1983 until May 2008, Liang was an employee of Volkswagen AG (VW), working in …

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EU Investigating Unfair French State Subsidies to the Nuclear Sector – Areva’s 4 Billion Euro Bailout by French Taxpayers

August 11, 2016

Old Le Creusot Forge, predecessor to Areva-Le Creusot. The US NRC inspected Areva due to quality concerns years ago. The …

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South Korea Wants to Send Its Nuclear Waste to Someone Else! Who gives a Flying Fukushima about what they want?

July 30, 2016

South Korea has decided that they may want to give someone else their nuclear waste, according to Reuters (July 25, …

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Groups Slam Plan to Stack Shipping Containers of Nuclear Waste Ever Higher Beside the Irish Sea Near Drigg

July 13, 2016

Note stacking; proximity to the Irish Sea; rust; pooling water. It is in the rainiest part of England: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/the-northerner/2015/dec/09/cumbria-is-the-wettest-part-of-england-dont-scrimp-on-flood-defences This …

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What Radionuclides are at Drigg Nuclear Waste Dump Near the Irish Sea? Many Still Lethal After Natural Erosion Expected to Undermine It (Still Time to Oppose Drigg-Decision 15th July)

July 12, 2016

Information on how to oppose Drigg found here: https://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2016/07/03/lock-the-gate-on-drigg-nuclear-waste-site-15th-july-in-kendal/ For the LLWR-Drigg, “radionuclides included within the radiological assessment for the …

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Drigg Nuclear Waste Dump Menaced By Coastal Erosion: Foreign Companies Profit; UK Taxpayer Holds Liability (Still Time to Oppose-Decision 15th July)

July 10, 2016

For information on how to oppose Drigg see: https://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2016/07/03/lock-the-gate-on-drigg-nuclear-waste-site-15th-july-in-kendal/ “The Low Level [Radioactive] Waste Repository (LLWR) is situated near to …

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US Ramping Up for Imminent Nuclear Accident: Wants Americans to Drink Radiation Contaminated Water – Comment Deadline 25 July 2016, 11.59 pm, DC Time

July 8, 2016

The US EPA proposes to increase the amount of radionuclides allowed in drinking water in the event of a nuclear …

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United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium

June 8, 2016

From DCBureau.org: “United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium, By Joseph Trento, on April 9th, 2012, …

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Microbial Transformations of Plutonium and Other Actinides in Radioactive (Transuranic-TRU) Wastes

May 8, 2016

“Microorganisms have been detected in TRU wastes, Pu-contaminated soils, low-level radioactive wastes, backfill materials, natural analog sites, and waste-repository sites …

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Sen. Crapo of Idaho Wants More Nuclear Pork Barrel Jobs But Not Nuclear Waste; Sponsors Nuclear Bills Endangering the Rest of the Country; the Ugly Underbelly of the US Senate System – Idaho’s Shakedown of America

May 6, 2016

Idaho [Nuclear] National Lab (INL) benefits from fat cat funding and salaries, and promotes new nuclear reactors and thus waste. …

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Methane Occurrence and Outbursts in Salt (and other) Mines: One More Reason that Deep Burial of Nuclear Waste is a Bad Idea

April 8, 2016

The WIPP Deep Nuclear Waste Facility, which is supposed to be for US Defense related plutonium and other transuranic waste, …

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Madmen HAVE Gotten Their Hands on Nuclear Materials: Burying Foreign Nuclear Waste at WIPP and Elsewhere, USA; Lethal Poison “Gift” Basket Diplomacy; Terrorists Within the US Government

April 2, 2016

[Note that this is April 2nd and this is still dead serious, as documented below and easy to verify online. …

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Treasonous Nuclear Security Hoax: US to Bury Foreign Plutonium at WIPP Site in New Mexico (Formally Approved ); Import of More Foreign Waste May Be Negotiated Today-Tomorrow Under Pretense of Nuclear Security; Obama Terrorizing America with Foreign Nuclear Waste

March 31, 2016

Obama’s “Nuclear Security Summits” have been a deadly hoax for America. It is wonderful for those many countries who literally …

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US DNFSB (Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Bd) Worries About WIPP Fire Safety-Repeat Thermal Event

January 5, 2016

On October 31, 2015 the DNFSB reported:”Surface Fire Water System. There have been eleven fire water loop failures since 2008 …

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Degraded Emergency Management-Response at Savannah River Nuclear Site – But You Can Go Deer Hunting There; And Almost One Ton of Japan’s Plutonium May Arrive There Soon

January 4, 2016

According to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board: “The SRS emergency management programs have degraded over the last few years …

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Japan to Dump 730 pounds (331 kg) of Plutonium on America

December 30, 2015

This is being orchestrated by the US DOE. It is notable that the head of the US DOE, Ernest Moniz, …

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Nevada Radioactive Waste Dump Fire: 47 Pounds of Plutonium Buried at the Beatty “Low Level” Waste Site; Foreshadow of Things to Come Due to Continued Burial of Radioactive Waste in N. America and Europe

October 26, 2015

“According to American Ecology, about 47 pounds of plutonium was disposed of at the Beatty, Nevada, facility. Also, US Ecology’s …

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High Cost of Nuclear Waste – Chickens Home to Roost; Squabbles over Who Pays

October 7, 2015

Sellafield B-29 Facility – The Ecologist Sellafield B 30 The Ecologist Google Aerial View of Sellafield Fuel Pool America’s most …

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Plan to Dilute, Dispose, Disperse US Plutonium by Cramming it into Collapsing WIPP

September 3, 2015

As despicable as US Dept. of Energy Secretary Moniz generally is, he actually asked for something intelligent: what are the …

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Oil Drilling Waste “Brine” (Includes Radioactive Materials) Disposal Well Operator Indicted on Multiple Felony Charges in North Dakota

August 28, 2015

The Felony charges are against a “brine” injection well operator in North Dakota. But, meanwhile, in Louisiana, the Texas Brine-Bayou …

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Pro-Nuclear? Think Radiation is Good for You? Time to Take up Nuclear Diving!

August 5, 2015

Isn’t that a tantalizing blue to go swimming in? Pro-nuclear? Think Nuclear Energy is good for the environment and climate …

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Reclassifying Nuclear Waste to Dump on States; Bury – US NRC Comment Deadline Friday 24 July, 11.59 pm NYC-DC (ET)

July 21, 2015

USNRC Comment: Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal ID: NRC-2011-0012-0077 Due Jul 24 2015, at 11:59 PM ET http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=NRC-2011-0012-0077 Info on the …

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US Sec. of Energy Moniz Volunteers to Help Scoop out Fukushima Melted Fuel and Clean-up WIPP: “The Japanese people are not alone in this time of great trial and sorrow”

April 1, 2015

While it is true that on November 1, 2013, Moniz really said “The words of President Obama following the incident …

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WIPP: Halite (NaCl) Stalactites from Brine Water in Nuclear Waste Dump – No Joke!

March 28, 2015

A 1987 USDOE Study about Brine (salt water) in WIPP states: “The inflow, coupled with the normally high evaporation rate …

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The Weeping WIPP Road: WIPP Leaking from the Get-Go

March 27, 2015

“If we contaminate our water supply, what is the meaning of national security, Dr. Maurice Weisberg, Radiologist, The WIPP Trail, …

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WIPP: Homeless Plutonium Waste Tour in Idaho, March 2nd, 4th, & 5th

March 2, 2015

Flyer from: http://www.srswatch.org/ If Hanford and the Columbia Generating Station weren’t enough, here is more risk for the Columbia River …

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Plutonium Trojan Horse in the Body

February 26, 2015

Plutonium shares some important similarities with biologically important trivalent transition metals, especially iron. This could have importance from a material …

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Deteriorated Concrete in WIPP Waste Shaft due to Brine-Water, already in 1992

February 25, 2015

That WIPP is not a dry environment has been known for over a quarter of a century. This should come …

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WIPP Radiation Leak: the USW had to test its own workers for radiation contamination

February 21, 2015

The United Steelworkers Union (United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International), which now …

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One Minute ’til Midnight: 70+ Years is Enough!

January 27, 2015

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board recently updated their clock to reflect the dangers facing the world. …

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Roof Fall in WIPP; Problems Just Beginning: This is What Happens When you put Waste in Salt! And, this is Nuclear Waste!

January 26, 2015

The roof has recently collapsed in Panel 3 of the WIPP Nuclear Waste Facility in New Mexico. “Installation of Roof …

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Private Contractors for Nuclear Waste : Taxpayer Rip-Off; Dangerous for People & the Environment. Did the UK Figure out the Obvious? Will the US?

January 13, 2015

Sellafield: Most Dangerous Nuclear Facility in Europe; Densest Concentration of Plutonium in the World. More pictures here: http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2611216/leaked_sellafield_photos_reveal_massive_radioactive_release_threat.html Wow…! Wow…! …

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When “Investment” Bankers Deal in Nuclear Waste for Investment-Profit, We Need to Be Very Scared

January 5, 2015

When “Investment” Bankers Deal in Nuclear Waste for Investment-Profit, we need to be very scared. Or, what do the WIPP, …

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The Dangerous US NRC Typo Making “Low Level” Radioactive Waste More Radioactive than Allowed at WIPP

December 8, 2014

Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
WIPP waste dump, 22 May 2014 As you will see, an error in the US NRC…

Nuclear France: Permanent Worldwide Danger

October 13, 2014

We hear much of the importance of nuclear energy in France. What does it look like? France is paying a …

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The Ongoing Saga 36: News, Updates, Tidbits & Trivia

September 27, 2014

This is a continuation of: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/the-ongoing-saga-35-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ It continues here: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/the-ongoing-saga-37-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ This post ran from 27 Sept. to 7 Oct. 2014. …

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The Dangerous US NRC Typo Making “Low Level” Radioactive Waste More Radioactive than Allowed at WIPP

September 4, 2014

WIPP waste dump, 22 May 2014 As you will see, an error in the US NRC “library” about the “Licensing …

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Lazy, Well Paid US EPA: Always on Holiday? Corrupt? Or Both?

August 14, 2014

Saturday, 16 Aug. 2014 update: Suddenly, as of Friday, there are 24,067 comments received (not posted) on the radiation rules …

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Let Germany Keep Its High Level Nuclear Balls, Along with its WC Golden Ball!

July 15, 2014

Having heard on the news how much Merkel has always loved ball – we suggest that she keep her millions …

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The Ongoing Saga 30: News, Updates, Tidbits & Trivia

July 11, 2014

This post continues here: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/the-ongoing-saga-31-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ The last update is on top. This is a continuation of: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/the-ongoing-saga-29-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ Friday, 18 July …

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