Smoldering Nuclear Waste Barrel Fire At Idaho National Nuclear Lab
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
Germany needs to make up its mind. If it wants the US to become its nuclear dumping ground then it …
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
Angela Merkel was German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und …
US Congressman Pearce Pushing More Fracking in New Mexico Despite Risk of Sinkhole Collapse; Destabilization of Nuclear Waste Disposal Site
WIPP was built in a salt bed. Proximity of injection wells to WIPP Nuclear Waste disposal site risks not only …
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
US NRC Meeting on Monday “To discuss Holtec International’s (Holtec) technical details and proposed plans to perform peening of dry …
Intrepid Hurricane Nicole Still Deters German Nuclear Waste Path to America
Hurricane Nicole The German government wants to send 30 shipments of spent nuclear fuel from its Ahaus storage facility as …
Shipments of Nuclear Waste Through Hurricane Prone Atlantic to Charleston SC Almost Monthly?
The German government wants to send 30 shipments of spent nuclear fuel from its Ahaus storage facility as well as …
Beware: US Congress Trying to Run Thru Radioactive Riders; US Taxpayer Guaranteed Exim $9 Billion for Toshiba to Build Nuclear Reactors in India
One of the sneak through provisions that some members of Congress – both Dim-witted Dems and Republicans – want to …
Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty for His Role in Conspiracy to Cheat US Emissions Tests
“According to the plea agreement, from 1983 until May 2008, Liang was an employee of Volkswagen AG (VW), working in …
EU Investigating Unfair French State Subsidies to the Nuclear Sector – Areva’s 4 Billion Euro Bailout by French Taxpayers
Old Le Creusot Forge, predecessor to Areva-Le Creusot. The US NRC inspected Areva due to quality concerns years ago. The …
South Korea Wants to Send Its Nuclear Waste to Someone Else! Who gives a Flying Fukushima about what they want?
South Korea has decided that they may want to give someone else their nuclear waste, according to Reuters (July 25, …
Groups Slam Plan to Stack Shipping Containers of Nuclear Waste Ever Higher Beside the Irish Sea Near Drigg
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 …
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)
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 …
Drigg Nuclear Waste Dump Menaced By Coastal Erosion: Foreign Companies Profit; UK Taxpayer Holds Liability (Still Time to Oppose-Decision 15th July)
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 …
US Ramping Up for Imminent Nuclear Accident: Wants Americans to Drink Radiation Contaminated Water – Comment Deadline 25 July 2016, 11.59 pm, DC Time
The US EPA proposes to increase the amount of radionuclides allowed in drinking water in the event of a nuclear …
United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium
From DCBureau.org: “United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium, By Joseph Trento, on April 9th, 2012, …
Microbial Transformations of Plutonium and Other Actinides in Radioactive (Transuranic-TRU) Wastes
“Microorganisms have been detected in TRU wastes, Pu-contaminated soils, low-level radioactive wastes, backfill materials, natural analog sites, and waste-repository sites …
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
Idaho [Nuclear] National Lab (INL) benefits from fat cat funding and salaries, and promotes new nuclear reactors and thus waste. …
Methane Occurrence and Outbursts in Salt (and other) Mines: One More Reason that Deep Burial of Nuclear Waste is a Bad Idea
The WIPP Deep Nuclear Waste Facility, which is supposed to be for US Defense related plutonium and other transuranic waste, …
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
[Note that this is April 2nd and this is still dead serious, as documented below and easy to verify online. …
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
Obama’s “Nuclear Security Summits” have been a deadly hoax for America. It is wonderful for those many countries who literally …
US DNFSB (Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Bd) Worries About WIPP Fire Safety-Repeat Thermal Event
On October 31, 2015 the DNFSB reported:”Surface Fire Water System. There have been eleven fire water loop failures since 2008 …
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
According to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board: “The SRS emergency management programs have degraded over the last few years …
Japan to Dump 730 pounds (331 kg) of Plutonium on America
This is being orchestrated by the US DOE. It is notable that the head of the US DOE, Ernest Moniz, …
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
“According to American Ecology, about 47 pounds of plutonium was disposed of at the Beatty, Nevada, facility. Also, US Ecology’s …
High Cost of Nuclear Waste – Chickens Home to Roost; Squabbles over Who Pays
Sellafield B-29 Facility – The Ecologist Sellafield B 30 The Ecologist Google Aerial View of Sellafield Fuel Pool America’s most …
Plan to Dilute, Dispose, Disperse US Plutonium by Cramming it into Collapsing WIPP
As despicable as US Dept. of Energy Secretary Moniz generally is, he actually asked for something intelligent: what are the …
Oil Drilling Waste “Brine” (Includes Radioactive Materials) Disposal Well Operator Indicted on Multiple Felony Charges in North Dakota
The Felony charges are against a “brine” injection well operator in North Dakota. But, meanwhile, in Louisiana, the Texas Brine-Bayou …
Pro-Nuclear? Think Radiation is Good for You? Time to Take up Nuclear Diving!
Isn’t that a tantalizing blue to go swimming in? Pro-nuclear? Think Nuclear Energy is good for the environment and climate …
Reclassifying Nuclear Waste to Dump on States; Bury – US NRC Comment Deadline Friday 24 July, 11.59 pm NYC-DC (ET)
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 …
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”
While it is true that on November 1, 2013, Moniz really said “The words of President Obama following the incident …
WIPP: Halite (NaCl) Stalactites from Brine Water in Nuclear Waste Dump – No Joke!
A 1987 USDOE Study about Brine (salt water) in WIPP states: “The inflow, coupled with the normally high evaporation rate …
The Weeping WIPP Road: WIPP Leaking from the Get-Go
“If we contaminate our water supply, what is the meaning of national security, Dr. Maurice Weisberg, Radiologist, The WIPP Trail, …
WIPP: Homeless Plutonium Waste Tour in Idaho, March 2nd, 4th, & 5th
Flyer from: http://www.srswatch.org/ If Hanford and the Columbia Generating Station weren’t enough, here is more risk for the Columbia River …
Plutonium Trojan Horse in the Body
Plutonium shares some important similarities with biologically important trivalent transition metals, especially iron. This could have importance from a material …
Deteriorated Concrete in WIPP Waste Shaft due to Brine-Water, already in 1992
That WIPP is not a dry environment has been known for over a quarter of a century. This should come …
WIPP Radiation Leak: the USW had to test its own workers for radiation contamination
The United Steelworkers Union (United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International), which now …
One Minute ’til Midnight: 70+ Years is Enough!
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board recently updated their clock to reflect the dangers facing the world. …
Roof Fall in WIPP; Problems Just Beginning: This is What Happens When you put Waste in Salt! And, this is Nuclear Waste!
The roof has recently collapsed in Panel 3 of the WIPP Nuclear Waste Facility in New Mexico. “Installation of Roof …
Private Contractors for Nuclear Waste : Taxpayer Rip-Off; Dangerous for People & the Environment. Did the UK Figure out the Obvious? Will the US?
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…! …
When “Investment” Bankers Deal in Nuclear Waste for Investment-Profit, We Need to Be Very Scared
When “Investment” Bankers Deal in Nuclear Waste for Investment-Profit, we need to be very scared. Or, what do the WIPP, …
The Dangerous US NRC Typo Making “Low Level” Radioactive Waste More Radioactive than Allowed at WIPP
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
We hear much of the importance of nuclear energy in France. What does it look like? France is paying a …
The Ongoing Saga 36: News, Updates, Tidbits & Trivia
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. …
The Dangerous US NRC Typo Making “Low Level” Radioactive Waste More Radioactive than Allowed at WIPP
WIPP waste dump, 22 May 2014 As you will see, an error in the US NRC “library” about the “Licensing …
Lazy, Well Paid US EPA: Always on Holiday? Corrupt? Or Both?
Saturday, 16 Aug. 2014 update: Suddenly, as of Friday, there are 24,067 comments received (not posted) on the radiation rules …
Let Germany Keep Its High Level Nuclear Balls, Along with its WC Golden Ball!
Having heard on the news how much Merkel has always loved ball – we suggest that she keep her millions …
The Ongoing Saga 30: News, Updates, Tidbits & Trivia
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 …
Nuclear Return to Sender: Will Germany Take ITS Uranium Back or Simply Dump on the USA?
In the nuclear return to sender game, Germany had better watch its step! It is trying to send almost a …
US States Sue & Fine Over Old Nuclear Waste Clean-up, while US Tries to Import Nuclear Waste from Germany and Make More!
While US States such as Washington State (http://www.atg.wa.gov/divisions/ecology/hanford.aspx) and now South Carolina, are forced to threaten, fine, or even sue …
