Radioactive Waste
Illinois reactors are a waste
Stop repeal of nuclear moratorium From Nuclear Energy Information Service: Illinois has more reactors and high-level radioactive waste than any other state. 11 reactors currently operate; 3 have been closed/decommissioned. To date, all of these reactors have created over 11,000 tons of highly radioactive and dangerous “spent-fuel” wastes, which are currently all stored onsite at the reactors.…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear on TV! A nuclear-free future chat
Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, is a frequent guest on “Nuclear-Free Future Conversation,” hosted by Margaret Harrington (photo above) on Burlington, Vermont’s Town Meeting TV at the Center for Media and Democracy. The program is celebrating its 15th year on the air. This interview, recorded January 20th, covers such wide ranging topics as:…
Read MoreUranium Atlas now in French
For our French and Francophone friends, the Uranium Atlas has now been published in French. The Uranium Atlas literally maps the use of uranium across the globe, from mining to its use for nuclear power and nuclear weapons as well as the lethal waste trail it has left behind. First published in German, the English…
Read MoreA bit of background on Yucca Mountain
Although the proposed high-level radioactive waste deep geological repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, remains canceled, it was never legal in the first place. It sits on Western Shoshone land, illegally seized by the U.S government, and breaking the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley which did not cede land claims to the federal government. As Ian…
Read MoreReprocessing– the dirty end of the nuclear fuel chain
Alongside uranium mining, reprocessing is considered the dirtiest phase of the uranium fuel chain. Reprocessing — the cutting up of irradiated reactor fuel rods in a chemical bath to extract plutonium and fissile uranium — releases larger volumes of radioactivity, typically by a factor of several thousand, than nuclear power plants. It also results in…
Read MoreMobile Chernobyl routes across the Lower 48, bound for proposed Southwest dump-sites
See your state in these 2017 documents from the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects: 2017 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects – Representative Transportation Routes to Yucca Mountain and Transportation Impacts (Cask Shipments by State) – Fred Dilger…
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