February 5, 2012: Decision allowing Transport of Radioactive Waste Condemned. Media Release.

November 15, 2010: Four groups charge that for steam generators slated for shipment from Canada to Sweden for “recycling”, radioactive cargo is mostly plutonium.

October 1, 2010: Seven U.S. Senators send letter raising serious questions about plan to ship radioactive steam generators from Canada through the Great Lakes to Sweden, for eventual “recycling” into consumer and industrial goods.

July 10, 2010: Resolution against shipment of highly radioactive reactor components through the Great Lakes to Sweden for processing and “recycling” into consumer goods.

May 12, 2010: US, Canadian and Northern European groups oppose radioactive steam generator shipments from Great Lakes to Baltic Sea and oppose processing and radioactive release into the marketplace. Hundreds sign resolution to stop Bruce Nuclear Power waste shipments and release by Swedish radioactive waste company, Studsvik, into everyday commerce. Press Release.

May 14, 2007: Major new report from NIRS finds that radioactive materials are being released from nuclear weapons facilities to regular landfills and into commercial recycling streams where they can be used to make everyday household items. Titled Out of Control—On Purpose: DOE’s Dispersal of Radioactive Waste into Landfills and Consumer Products, the report is available here.   Read press release here.

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Background information on radioactive waste deregulation and "recycling"

Tools - petitions, resolutions

NRC's involvement in Radioactive Waste Deregulation

DOT/NRC's involvement in Radioactive Waste Deregulation

EPA's involvement in Radioactive Waste Deregulation

DOE's involvement in Radioactive Waste Deregulation

NAS's involvement in Radioactive Waste Deregulation

International Organizations' and Agencies' Involvement in Radioactive Waste Deregulation