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Posts Tagged ‘nuclear waste’
Politics, Pollution, May 4th, 2012,
Up to one thousand locations in England and Wales may be contaminated with radioactive waste from military bases and factories. According to a new UK government report, a quarter of these places have been already confirmed to be contaminated. These figures surprised the British people, all the more, because only in December 2011, the Ministry of Defence cleared about 15 landfills of nuclear waste in the entire country. It leads the experts to one of two conclusions: either the authorities hid the real number of contaminated areas, or they did not realise the scale of the problem themselves. “In…
Tags: contamination, nuclear waste, radioactive
Green living, Pollution, Science & Technology, Nov 7th, 2010,
A CASTOR (cask for storage and transport of radioactive material) train transport of nuclear waste entering Germany from France caused massive protests and riots between German police and activists earlier today. The train is on its way to a nuclear waste plant in the northern part of Germany. The police reported that activists where trying to stop the train by blocking the station and train rails, and that it had to intervene, removing the activists by force. According to the police, at least 10.000 activists had gathered together in the town of Gorleben, in North Germany, where the train would…
Tags: activists, castor transport, Germany, Gorleben, nuclear energy, nuclear waste
Climate Change, Politics, Pollution, Jan 22nd, 2010,
On Wednesday the UK began repatriating nuclear waste by shipping 28 half-ton canisters to Japan. The canisters are the first shipment of a cache of 925 tons of foreign radioactive atomic waste that will be returned to various countries of origin from Sellafield nuclear processing site – formerly known as Windscale – in west Cumbria. Besides Japan – Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands will also be receiving shipments of the stuff during the ten-year repatriation process, according to an article in the London Times. A Greenpeace spokesperson pointed out the dilemma of the radioactive waste situation in the UK:…
Tags: Britain, foreign, london, nuclear, nuclear power, nuclear waste, radioactive, radioactive waste, shipment, storage, Times, UK, waste
Climate Change, Sep 16th, 2009,
With the advent of climate change and global warming, we are now forced to look into alternative sources of power that are both clean and efficient. Solar, wind, geothermal, are some of the words scientists throw around today. In some circles, however, nuclear energy is once again coming into vogue. France, for example, continues to be the champion of the nuclear age, with over 59 nuclear power plants in operation, making up over 85% of the country’s electrical needs. If countries such as France can make it work, should everyone follow suit ? Nuclear energy is supposedly clean, safe and…
Tags: chernobyl, nuclear energy, nuclear power, nuclear waste
