High-Level Radioactive Waste
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High Level Nuclear Waste: Proposed Transportation Routes
Presented by Mary Olson
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Reducing the Risks of “Spent” Fuel Storage, by Robert Alvarez, Sr. Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies 5/5/2012
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Grandmothers for Peace/Healing Ourselves & Mother Earth:
The People’s Policy on Radioactive Waste -
The Nuclear Guardianship Project
An Ethic of Nuclear Guardianship
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High and ‘Regular’ “Burn Up” Fuel, Aging fuel, Characteristics and Dangers of Pools and Dry Casks, Hardened On-Site Storage (HOSS), Reprocessing.
Presented Thurs, Nov. 17, 2016 8pm -9:30pm Eastern by Gordon Thompson, Institute for Resource and Security Studies; Donna Gilmore, San Onofre Safety
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Presented Thurs, Nov. 10, 2016 8 pm to 9:30pm Eastern by Karen Hadden, SEED Coalition TX, Arjun Makhijani, IEER, & Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear.
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An overview of the Nuclear Fuel Chain: uranium mining, milling, conversion, "enrichment" (concentrating U- 235), fuel fabrication, nuclear power reactors, waste and routine radioactive emissions, nuclear transportation, storage and "disposal."
Presented Thurs, Nov. 3, 2016 8pm to 9:30pm Eastern by Mary Olson, NIRS.
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NIRS statement on NRC vote on radioactive waste "continued storage" rule and resumption of reactor licensing activities."For two years we had hoped that logic would prevail: but no such luck. An irrational, industry-dominated NRC has affirmed carte blanche to dirty energy corporations: ‘go ahead, produce as much highly radioactive waste as you want; tell us it is safe and we, the NRC, will believe you.’
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Amended petition for rulemaking first filed by 34 organizations February 18 calling for suspension of all licensing activity until NRC addresses new findings on nuclear reactor fuel pools fire risks and costs. Amended petition takes into account opinion from NRC Chair Allison Macfarlane, who dissented from NRC decision against the petition.
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NRC votes 4-1 to reject expedited movement of high-level radwaste from dangerous, overcrowded and poorly-protected fuel pools to dry casks. NRC Chair Allison Macfarlane writes stinging dissent. Take action here: Urge President Obama to support his chair and fill two upcoming open seats at NRC with strong nuclear safety advocates.
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