Blogposts tagged 'Radioactive Waste'

Cost of nuclear waste could kill off plans for a new fleet

Posted by tracy - 27 March 2008 at 11:01am - 10 Comments

The government says the decision on building new nuclear reactors will be entirely up to the market and utility companies will have to pay their "full share" of decommissioning and waste management costs, but Gordon Brown is going to have to cook the books like a cordon bleu chef he if wants to attract new investment.

While Brown teams up with French president Nicholas Sarkozy at Emirates stadium today to push through his dream of a new nuclear era, a government advisor is publishing a new cost analysis that suggests energy companies cannot be charged a fully commercial price for waste disposal without "killing the prospect" of a new generation of nuclear reactors.

Article tagged as: climate change, decommissioning, nuclear, nuclear power, nuclear waste, radioactive waste

Japan's nuclear leak: earthquakes, fire and fault lines

Posted by bex - 19 July 2007 at 12:59pm - 0 Comments

On Monday, an earthquake hit Kashiwazaki in north-western Japan, killing nine people and injuring hundreds more. Already a disaster for the citizens of Kashiwazaki, thousands of whom are now living in shelters, things could have been much, much worse.

Kawashaki is the location of the world’s biggest nuclear power plant – the site of seven nuclear reactors. At first it was thought that the 6.8 magnitude earthquake had just caused a fire at the plant and Tepco – the nuclear company - initially said no radioactivity was released. "No harm" was done, said a spokesperson.

Then we were told that in fact there had been a leak, but it was only 1.5 gallons of radioactive water. On Tuesday, it emerged that just a smidgen more radioactive water might have leaked than 1.5 gallons. About 243 times more. And the water was 50 times more radioactive than had been stated.

Article tagged as: japan, nuclear accidents, nuclear power, radioactive waste

"Attention commuters! The next train to arrive will be a nuclear waste train"

Posted by bex - 26 July 2006 at 7:00am - 2 Comments
Greenpeace activists warn commuters about a nuclear waste train passing through Kensington Olympia

Greenpeace activists warn commuters about a nuclear waste train passing through Kensington Olympia

End of the line for nuclear transports

Megaphone mania has hit stations around London as Greenpeace activists took to giant megaphones to alert commuters to the hidden hazard in their midst: terror targets on wheels.

Article tagged as: direct actions, nuclear power, nuclear transports, radioactive waste, terrorist attack

Nuclear Power: the new threat

Publication date:  21 March, 2007

Publication date: August 2002

Summary
In May 2002, the government began a consultation process to decide how the UK's future energy needs could be met.

The nuclear industry are keen to build at least ten more nuclear power stations. And despite the apparent openness of the consultation process, government and nuclear industry lobbyists are already setting weak targets for renewable energy and undermining democracy.

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Article tagged as: nuclear power, radioactive waste, renewable energy, reports

The UK's most "challenging" radioactive wastes - the official documentation

Publication date:  21 March, 2007

Publication date: 1 July 2002

Summary

Almost 90 per cent of Britain's hazardous nuclear waste stockpile is so badly stored it could explode or leak with devastating results at any time, reported The Observer newspaper on Sunday 30th June 2002.

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Article tagged as: nuclear power, policy, radioactive waste, reports

Nuclear power and radioactive waste

Publication date:  9 November, 2001

Radioactive substances are produced at every stage of the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining, to the operation of reactors, to the reprocessing of spent fuel. These include plutonium, caesium, ruthenium, iodine, krypton and strontium. Most will remain hazardous for thousands, and in some cases millions, of years. Despite decades of discussion, the nuclear industry has failed to come up with a safe way of dealing with them. So, as they are released into the environment, building up in the food chain and human bodies, they leave a poisonous legacy to future generations.

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