CURRENT NEWS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS
WASTE CLEANUP
from 2003 on
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CURRENT NEWS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS WASTE CLEANUP from 2003 on |
| Nuclear News from the world's press on the internet. |
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| 12-22-06 | KNDO-KNDU | Plan
to Store Nuclear Waste in 25 States Until the ‘spent’ fuel can be recycled |
| 12-22-06 | Detroit Free Press | New
Congress may nix Yucca Mountain nuclear site Yucca Mountain, like it or not, is a political football. |
| 12-12-06 | UPI | Sustainable
nuclear energy moves closer Fortunately moving closer to Greenpeace’s headquarters! |
| 10-27-06 | Living on Earth - Science Note | Hurry
up Half-life That would be wonderful |
| 10-26-06 | CBC News | SRB
Technologies seeks approval from nuclear safety commission It is an area in which AECL has research facilities and the original Canadian reactor |
| 10-4-06 | MSN Money (AP) | Toshiba
to Finish Westinghouse and BNFL USA Takeover Who owns whom? |
| 9-8-06 | Forbes | US'
Energy Solutions may launch rival bid for British Nuclear Group The little fish is trying to eat it’s parent! |
| 9-5-06 | Manillan Standard Today | Philippines
President wants report on nuclear waste Waste from Palau! |
| 9-1-06 | Reuters | Tribe
sees riches in Utah nuclear waste storage It’s a rational objective and doesn’t have the nationalism of elsewhere. |
| 8-29-06 | AP | Power
company celebrates restoration of Big Rock Point site A BNFL Inc. project in part |
| 8-14-06 | Nebraska State Paper | Nebraska
PPD Cost Setting Up Nuclear Storage: $45 Million This is the cost of not having Yucca Mountain repository. |
| 8-14-06 | WLTV 8 (AP) | Second
Expansion of Oak Ridge Landfill Being Prepared Needs must … |
| 8-9-06 | The Salt Lake Herald Tribune | Governors
group attacks plan to keep nuclear waste in place They should be pushing for reprocessable storage. |
| 8-8-06 | Associated Press | Federal
appeals court rejects Nevada’s arguments over Yucca Mountain Nevada would do much for itself by helping and being constructive. |
| 8-7-06 | The Dominion | Report
recommends burying nuclear waste in Northern Ontario A very rational recommendation since much of the fundamental research has been completed. |
| 7-31-06 | AFX | UK
nuclear waste should be buried in underground bunkers - committee UPDATE It all depends what you mean by ‘deep’ … it sounds like the same conclusion. |
| 7-31-06 | Physics Web | A
cool solution to waste disposal We trust that it is verifiable and that what might work in a lab does not requires billions of dollars in the real world. |
| 7-27-06 | The Guardian | OUTLOOK
Nuclear Waste committee CoRWM set to report findings on Monday The conclusions of all national waste policy committees are identical. |
| 7-27-06 | Fox News | Libya
Returning Weapons-Grade Uranium to Russia If every state enters the modern world we’ll be OK … but … |
| 7-27-06 | The Christian Science Monitor | Spent
nuclear fuel edges closer to Yucca Progress is slow but sure. |
| 7-23-06 | Lancashire Evening Post | Tons
of nuclear waste go through our towns A Greenpeace scare tactic. |
| 7-20-06 | Wal;l Street Journal | A
Waste of Energy - Yucca Mountain hangs in nuclear limbo. Commentary |
| 7-19-06 | Planetsave.com | New
opening date for Yucca Mountain waste dump is 2017 Unfortunately, for those who have been part of the program, this date is no more likely than the last. |
| 7-18-06 | Associated Presss | Doubts
raised over nuclear waste plan It would be better to privatize waste storage and get the job done. |
| 7-12-06 | Energy Tribune | Yucca
Mountain Update The rest of this article is available through subscription to the Energy Tribune. |
| 7-11-06 | Physics Web | Through
a glass clearly – researchers shed new light on one of nature’s
mysteries Waste disposal research. |
| 7-11-06 | UPI | Russia
contracts for help to remediate naval waste Russia now has time and funds to clean up the effects of the cold war. |
| 7-10-06 | Rocky Mountain News (AP) | Rocky
Flats cleanup success with some flaws A persistent nagging task has been completed. |
| 7-2-06 | The Sunday Times | Nuclear
profits hit record high You must compare 208 million pounds ($330 billion) against the business standards of the day, which run to the billions. |
| 6-30-06 | Las Vegas News Channel 3 | Senate
committee cuts spending on Nevada nuclear waste dump The true funds for Yucca Mountain have already been collected from the public since 1982. |
| 6-28-06 | The Korean Times | Korean
Nuclear Waste to Be Stored in Cave Openness is the best policy. Much of this waste is harmless. |
| 6-28-06 | Associated Press | Domenici
offers temporary nuclear waste storage proposal Senator Domenici works hard for rational programs and for them to continue. |
| 6-24-06 | Fox News | Utah
Tribe Divided Over Nuclear Waste The waste site is worth more money than any number of Casinos and would give the tribe a direct stake in society. |
| 6-23-06 | Las Vegas Sun | Yucca
bill stalls, at least for this session As noted, no one seems to understand national priorities. |
| 6-21-06 | Mansfield Today | Nuclear
Waste Alert Greenpeace activated local NIMBY characters with nothing else to do. |
| 6-20-06 | Nuclear Engineering | French
waste (real waste not spent fuel) to be stored in deep geologic repository A very late announcement following 15 years of committee meetings! |
| 6-12-06 | Channel 4 (AP) | Possible
Compromise Over Transportation of Nuclear Waste to Yucca Mountain Sensible people |
| 6-5-06 | Mteropolitan News - Enterprise | Court
Says Environmental Report for Nuclear Facility Must Assess Possibility of
Terrorist Attack It’s a lot easier to include this assessment than to argue about it especially since a security assessment is already done. |
| 6-2-06 | Canadian Press | Nuclear
agency to spend $520 million on cleaning up old sites That’s what happens if you leave these jobs all to be done at once. |
| 5-25-06 | Chennel 5 Cincinnatti | Last
Of Most Dangerous Waste To Leave Fernald About time … there have been some bad contractors at Fernald. |
| 5-24-06 | Chicago Business | Court
issues cleanup plans for Exelon after tritium leaks Exelon should have been more proactive despite the cost. |
| 5-23-06 | UPI | Japan
to swap nuclear waste with Britain Shipping waste around the world doesn’t make sense, whatever the waste is though high-level waste is very small volume. |
| 5-22-06 | Fox News | Cooling
Tower at Defunct Nuclear Plant Demolished Seems to have been a long time to get around to destroying the harmless symbol. |
| 5-18-06 | OPen Democracy | Nuclear-waste
politics A UK View by an environmental journalist. (I think that is one that doesn’t use paper!) |
| 5-18-06 | Tri-City Herald | DOE
to halt strontium leaking toward river The headline sounds like they are the heros rather than the villains! Read on. |
| 5-17-06 | Sydney Morning Herald | Prime
Minister rejects waste return Australia will not take waste from its fuel and rightly so. |
| 5-16-06 | Business Wire | Global
Matrechs, Inc. Announces Licensing Agreement for Radiation
Resistant Technology Targeting Environmental and Nuclear Waste Markets in
the European Community, China and India Getting in ahead of the crowd. |
| 5-16-06 | The Age | Nuclear
waste lease 'years away' Australia is too remote to contemplate hosting a global nuclear waste site but the granite Canadian Shield would be a different matter. |
| 5-10-06 | Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune | Waste
dump requires a warning for the ages Our arrogance assumes that future people are no brighter than ourselves – I suspect instead that any nuclear waste we bury will be a mother load for future populations. |
| 5-9-06 | Business Wire | Firm
Provides Update On NuCap (TM), Radiation- and Corrosion-Resistant Nuclear
Technology Waste is not an insolvable problem except to those who want it to be so. |
| 5-9-06 | The New Standard - an activist sheet | Nuke
Waste Site Calamity Reflects Industrial Crisis BEWARE. This is the type of pseudo-news, pseudo-respectable article that the public is likely to see. It is full of half-truths and downright lies attributed to Megan Tady, Susan Gold, Gerry Pollett, Arjun Makhijani, and their respective activist organizations. Each is a paid activist pretending to be respectable. For example, Arjun Makhijani supposedly heads the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, which is simply himself and his wife. They are all charlatans of the first order. |
| 5-6-06 | International Construction News | Hard
test for Bechtel on U.S. nuclear waste plant Unfortunately the regulators are not only non-progressive but they are really stupid! |
| 4-27-06 | BBC News | Finland
buries its nuclear waste. While in the US lawyers rule the roost, Finland is one of the first to actually get on with the simple job of disposal. |
| 4-26-06 | The Sydney Morning Herald | Fast-bake
fix straight from nuclear kitchen It might sell instead of vitrification when have post-reprocessing waste. |
| 4-25-06 | AP | No
Criminal Charges in Yucca E-Mail Fight Stupidity among bored engineers, I suspect. |
| 4-23-06 | North Lake Tahoe Bonanza | Yucca
could hold up to 9 times more waste Absolutely true but it would delay this solution to the waste issue. Redesign the expansion instead. |
| 4-21-06 | BBC News | Inquiry
into nuclear flask fall A routine working incident but nothing to be scared about. |
| 4-20-06 | The Belfast Telegraph | Alert
over nuclear waste disposal The Irish look carefully across the Irish Sea but this seems fairly unbiased. |
| 4-20-06 | The New York Times | U.S.-Uzbek
cooperation on nuclear fuel removal A very comprehensive article on the subject |
| 4-6-06 | Environmental News Service | Tank
Cleanup at Defence Sites Will Leave Radioactive Waste True but is that of concern to people who cannot even keep their yards clean? |
| 3-31-06 | The Australian | Australia
'should take nuclear waste' What a wonderfully profitable idea … with huge profits for little work and no dangers. |
| 3-29-06 | The News and Observer | Utilities
push for Yucca's completion The utilities should have pushed back in 1987 when DOE selected Yucca Mountain on political grounds and later when Clinton stole from the Nuclear Waste Fund. |
| 3-29-06 | KRTV (Nevada) | Pro-Yucca
group presses for legislative fix to move dump forward Nothing new but visible support. |
| 3-29-06 | Stratfor | Japan:
Deal On Plutonium Resources The reporter who wrote this piece actually used the word ‘waste’ instead of ‘resources.’ He’s either ignorant or personally biased. |
| 3-27-06 | The New York Times | Sparing
No Expense to Hear a Nuclear Waste Disposal Case The NRC is not short of funds … they just charge everyone else whether they like it or not. |
| 3-27-06 | The Scotsman | Government
may unveil nuclear unit sell-off plan It’s a foolish strategy because everything will have to be replaced later if Britian is to remain a world power. (Former VP of BNFL Inc.) |
| 3-25-06 | East Abglian Times (UK) | Sizewell
nuclear waste pledge These simple meetings always provide platorfms for the paid activists in our midst. |
| 3-25-06 | Seattle Post Intelligence (AP) | Experts
list 28 problems to fix at Hanford waste plant - Study by 30 experts cost
$4 million The biggest problem – DOE Management – will not have been identified. It encompasses all 28 other problems. |
| 3-23-06 | Las Vegas Sun (AP) | GAO:
Quality assurance problems still hamper nuclear waste dump The GAO is a harsh critic but usually their announcements are based on elements of fact. |
| 3-22-06 | Financial Times | British
Energy and BNFL (BNG) and Urenco for sale When nuclear power supplies a large amount of British energy it is foolish to sell off its underpinnings. |
| 3-16-06 | Salt Lake Tribune (AP) | Yucca
Mountain may be too small when it finally opens So? What’s new … this has been known for years hence the reprocessing alternatives. |
| 3-16-06 | EuroActiv | NGOs
attack EU nuclear research funding The R&D aspect of energy policy is becoming a hot political topic as EU leaders prepare to agree on a common energy policy later this month. |
| 3-15-06 | International Herald Tribune | Is
big business coming clean? The main interest here is the reference to Areva and its plans. |
| 3-14-06 | IEEE Nuclear Science | Record-breaking
detector may aid nuclear inspections The danger with more accurate detectors is that they immediately become standards of detection by EPA whether they are needed or not. |
| 3-14-06 | CBS2 Chicago & others (Reuters & AP) | Exelon
Sued Over Radioactive Leaks It is so sad to see apparently responsible people, such as lawyers, lie through their teeth. |
| 3-14-06 | Latin Prensa | Traffic
of Radioactive Material Denounced Escoffery is portrayed here as an engineer and an ISCA expert. Instead he is a professional activist. plying his trade of intervention. He is probably paid by Greenpeace. |
| 3-14-06 | St. Petersburg Times | “Critical”
Levels of Nuclear Waste Need Storage Facilities Building waste dumps is no new thing. It has been done since antiquity and will be done into the future. |
| 3-13-06 | Macon Daily | Nuclear
waste: Bury it and forget? Publishers who are anti are more dangerous than the professionals from Greenpeace. Rge piece sounds balanced but it is not. |
| 3-13-06 | Advocate Tribune | Senator
Kubly tours Yucca Mountain site A trip to Nevada during the Minnesotan winter seems a good sue of public money! |
| 3-11-06 | The New Mexican | U.N.
panel backs Shoshone in dispute over rights to land The Shoshone are in the right in this instance although it is not a matter of racial discrimination. The Federal Government is just trying to steal land. It is theft, plain and simple. |
| 3-10-06 | Bellona (St. Petersburg) | Nuclear
experts discuss radioactive waste repository options for Russia’s Northwest It is time to remediate waste sites in the old Soviet complexes but perhaps with less expense and bureaucracy than has been present in the US. |
| 3-9-06 | KGW News (AP) | PGE
to take down Trojan nuclear cooling tower It’s taken twelve years to get to this decommissioning task … that’s shameful |
| 3-8-06 | Pacific Magazine, HI | President
of Marshall Islands Calls For Full U.S. Settlement He’s correct but it should be subtracted from the Pentagon budget. They are not doing much with their funding. |
| 3-8-06 | Wembley and Kingsbury Times and many local newspapers | Trains
'vulnerable to attack' Chicken Littles at work. |
| 3-6-06 | The Knoxville News | Government
is spending millions on special cartons for storing nuclear material at
Y-12 That’s nothing comparable to the waste of Government money at all the other remediation sites across the country … and of course, in Washington. |
| 3-3-06 | The People's Daily (Xinhua) | Ukraine
to select site for nuclear waste storage facility Ukraine nuclear news in China is news in itself. |
| 3-3-06 | Forbes | Greenpeace
wins legal ruling against Areva's Cogema over nuclear waste A persistent lunatic nuisance with no societal benefit … Greenpeace attracts lawyers. |
| 3-2-06 | Daily News, Red Bluff, CA | County
selling radioactive equipment The operative words are that the buyer must have a license. |
| 3-2-06 | PressZoom | Management
of UK low level radioactive waste Drigg is a fine and well-protected site. This consultation of politicians and activists will hardly select a better option. It will simply expand NIMBY. |
| 3-2-06 | TV Outlets (AP) | EPA:
Yucca radiation standards to be finalized by year's end Let me see … how long have they had to do this? 1982 was it or perhaps 1985? Still this is a lethargic non-progressive government agency so 20-years is about right. |
| 3-2-06 | Joong Ang Daily | Discussion
to begin on high-grade nuke waste It is about time after the disastrous arrogance of fifteen years ago and the deaths that occurred then then. |
| 3-1-06 | Washington Post | Government
plans steps to advance Nevada nuclear dump We need to get on with the job and stop fiddling. Mrc needs to be given an injection of process and progress. |
| 3-1-06 | Alert Net (IRIN) | Informal
mining of radioactive dumps linked to cancer rise (Kyrgystan) That is a real danger when people haven’t enough to ignore garbage dumps. |
| 2-28-06 | NBC News | Nuclear
Cleanup Project States will try and get every penny they can from the Government. |
| 2-27-06 | Planet Save (AP) | Russian
prosecutors file charges against nuclear waste plant chief Mayak – Russia’s Hanford - continues to generate a black history |
| 2-25-06 | Novosti | No
nuclear waste storage facility for Ukraine - Lytvyn There are some stupid politicians that will say anything for short term popularity |
| 2-23-06 | M&C Science News | Liquid
nuclear waste disposal studied -- Penn State Sounds a reasonable idea for low level liquids |
| 2-23-06 | The Christian Science Monitor | Nuclear
Waste Headed To NRC approved Reservation Moving right along! |
| 2-23-06 | Google (Reuters) | US
nuclear industry wants no Yucca waste dump limit It would certainly save the problem of adding a further nuclear disposal site somewhere but it would still be better to recycle the partially used fuel. |
| 2-20-06 | Denver Business Journal | Rocky
Flats plutonium-site workers look ahead to the end About time … these people have had a sinecure for far too long. They need to do real work. |
| 2-19-06 | WebIndia.com | Chirac
interacts with India-based French CEOs All instigated by Greenpeace who have nothing better to do. |
| 2-16-06 | INS Business News | Foster
Wheeler and U.S. DOE Agree on Final Modification of Contract for Idaho National Business proceeds |
| 2-13-06 | ZeeNews (Bureau Report) | Fire
breaks out at Japanese nuclear facility In the interests of full reporting: the item has no nuclear connection because there is no nuclear waste present. |
| 2-12-08 | Kidder Nespapers | Brazil
poised to join nuclear elite The more the merrier. |
| 2-7-06 | Chennai | Review
Indo-US nuclear agreement: Ex PM Absolutely … the US refused help to India for decades. |
| 2-7-06 | TMC Net | Japan
hails U.S. initiative to expand nuclear energy worldwide We see any nuclear initiative as a domestic issue, the world sees it as global. |
| 2-7-06 | The Independent | British
Nuclear Group's £300m privatisation delayed over dowry BNG is expected to go to an American buyer thous eradicting the old BNFL plc. |
| 2-7-06 | Planet Ark | Bush
Budget Seeks to Recycle Spent Nuclear Fuel It’s taken 30 years to get over the disaster of Jimmy Carter and his licentious successor Bill Clinton. |
| 2-7-06 | The Christian Science Montior | Russia
and US as global nuclear waste collectors? Putin’s initiative bears fruit. |
| 2-2-06 | Knoxville News Sentinel | Plans
change for ORNL nuclear material Short-sightedness again abounds in the Department of Energy … throwing away valuable medical isotopes. We can only hope that some of those policy makers are struck down with cancer. |
| 1-31-06 | Sun Washington | Bush
may ask an interim storage facility in State of Union tonight This seems an excellent idea … including the idea of keeping Yucca Mountain “off-budget” this year. Read on. |
| 1-30-06 | News and Star | Sellafield
clean-up completed It’s niot really clear which building has been remediated: MAC? |
| 1-29-06 | The Sunday Times | BNG
sale is held up by chiefs’ bitter row With Westinghouse sold to Toshiba only the clean-up firm is left. All it took was a little arrogant management in the nineties for the collapse. |
| 1-27-06 | San Diego Tribune | Nuclear
Waste storage on the California's Central Coast You need energy then you store your own waste. |
| 1-26-06 | TMC Net | Six
U.S. Democrats urge Japan to halt plan to reprocess spent nuclear fuel Would you vote for these ignorant interfering boondoggers? |
| 1-26-06 | Associated Press | Bush
plans $250M for nuclear waste project Bush needs to spend time pushing matters important to the country and less time on his personal extreme right religious agenda. |
| 1-17-06 | County Times | Nuclear
waste hurts local economy Comment by local California lunatic fringe – name protected! It shows how these people think … until they get cancer and need a nuclear medicine procedure or cannot heat their swimming pools. |
| 1-16-06 | Sunday Herald | ‘Fiasco’
of secret nuclear waste tips Britain was no better managed years ago than the US and it comes back to fuel activists. |
| 1-14-06 | News Observer | What
about reprocessing? These are the most dangerous ’news’ items apparently positive but really negative. This one relates Yucca Mountain deep disposal to minor events in spent fuel pools/ |
| 1-13-06 | News and Star | Nuclear
waste dump plans are refused (UK) This is stupid. BNFL shouldbe allowed continue to use Drigg as the permanent stor for the foreseeable future. A small expansion would give it a new life. |
| 1-12-06 | Baltimore Sun | Nuclear
waste casks hold up in accidents, study says Antis are not scared of uttering bare-faced lies … see Halted’s statements here. |
| 1-12-06 | Vermont Guardian | Department
of Energy pauses the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project The antis are a continued harassment in their losing mission. They just cost us money. |
| 1-12-06 | Hartford Courant | NRC
Studied Possible Contamination From Spent Nuclear Fuel Pool Leak The same results would arise from samples of “clean’ soil in a ‘pristine’ environment |
| 12-28-05 | New York Times via Brattleboro Reformer | Nuclear
waste reprocessing gets another look by Congress Good … now all we need to do is call it by its real name: partially-used fuel. |
| 12-12-05 | Weapons Complex Monitor | DOE released a redacted version of a long-secret report on the cost and schedule of the troubled Waste Treatment (VIT)Plant at HanfordCosts increased from $5.8 to $10 billion and operating schedule moves from 2011 to 2015. This is the money machine which BNFL missed out on. |
| 12-9-05 | BBC | Trawsfynydd
nuclear reactor towers downsized (made smaller!) When this site is turned into green-field quality it will be superior to the site before nuclear power arrived since it was an old army bomb-disposal site. |
| 8-29-05 | Yahoo News (Reuters) | Unsecured
Asian radioactive waste risks dirty bomb You have to be careful who you speak too. Spreading fear through Reuters is not a good idea. |
| 7-18-05 | The Japan Times | Japan
to help build sub reactor graveyard in Vladivostok Good idea – since Japan is just on the other side of a small strip of water – the Japan Sea. |
| 3-17-05 | The New York Times | Falsified
Work Is Suspected at Nuclear Site There are always stupid employees in every organization. Unfortunately this damages everyone’s credibility even though it might have no meaning to the Yucca Mountain site. |
| 3-12-05 | The Japan Times | JNC
fails to remove tainted soil, starts paying fine 750,000 ¥ is $7,206 per day for soil that is probably of no harm to anyone except regulators. |
| 1-29-05 | The Japan Times | JNC
names sites put on nuke waste list in 1980s Bite the bullet. |
| 12-9-04 | The Lompoc Record | Diablo
waste storage project appeal denied One problem is that ‘terrorism’ gets in the path of real issues. |
| 12-8-04 | Las Vegas Sun | Panel
recommends nuclear storage areas (Yucca Mountain ‘back-up’ sites)
near Mississippi River Another deep repository is needed too without fast reactor technology in the mix. |
| 12-5-04 | The Lompoc Record | Coastal
Commission to hear Diablo appeal The Commission is poised between doing the rational thing and the lunatic fringe. |
| 12-1-04 | SNP Organization | European
Commission to investigate British nuclear bail out European countries haven’t yet realized the problems that can be developed by minor politicians in the European Union |
| 9-28-04 | Sun Washingvton Desk | Trips
to Yucca rank high among lawmakers The amounts wasted are shameful but not surprising. These are politicians. |
| 9-22-04 | Yahoo Alerts (AFP) | French
ecology activists call demos to protest plutonium shipments The King Canutes of the world are trying to stop the tide of nuclear benefits. |
| 7-15-04 | The Japan Times (Kyodo) | KEPCO
cool to nuclear storage facility invite It sounds odd but the prefecture government probably holds sway over local interests. |
| 7-9-04 | Yahoo News (Associated Press) | Nevada
Loses Yucca Mt. Waste Site Appeal A lot of money is being wasted on the courts. |
| 7-8-04 | The Japan Times | Electric
Federation admits concealing cost of burying spent fuel Rough data taken out of context |
| 7-7-04 | The Japan Times | Atomic
commission buried cost estimates Direct cost estimates are not relevant. What matters are estimates of future demand of resources. |
| 4-7-04 | Yahoo News (Associated Press) | Energy
Dept. Threatens No Nuclear Cleanup DOE is an anachronism in today’s world but beware of advice from outsiders who may have other agendas in mind. |
| 3-5-04 | The Japan Times | Nuclear
waste shipment arrives Normal business of returning vitrified waste from Cogema by a BNFL vessel – this time without Greenpeace interference. |
| 2-19-04 | The Japan Times | TEPCO
chief seeks OK to store nuke waste in Mutsu Japanese mayors seem to be coming to the side of nuclear endeavors even for TEPCO. |
| 1-21-04 | The Japan Times | Nuclear
waste leaves France for Japan Business as usual … get used to it! |
| 12-27-03 | Yahoo -- Reuters | Countries
Undecided on How to Store Nuclear Waste The article, in mentioning cost, does not explain that the US electricity user has already paid through the nose for waste disposal in the National Waste Fund. |
| 9-19-03 | The Japan Times | City
tax on spent nuclear fuel OK'd This is the wave of the future and while tax is received and spent communities may not want the tax removed if the money is spent for the community rather than to “increase nuclear safety measures.” |
| 9-15-03 | The Japan Times | Local
nuclear fuel taxes to win OK This is not a bad ploy to force the utilities and the government to open a central spent fuel storage location rapidly although it didn't do the trick in the US. Clinton just used the tax money!. |
| 7-8-03 | The Japan Times | Revenue
to fund pro-nuclear campaigns -- Another city to tax stored nuclear fuel An excellent way to approve safe storage and wage anti-anti-campaigns. |
| 6-27-03 | The Japan Times | Aomori
town to invite spent nuclear fuel facility A very rational way to acquire good funding for their citizens. |
| 6-17-03 | The Japan Times | Kagoshima
city may tax nuclear fuel stored at plant This seems a good idea … to tax waste, but at the same time to agree to its storage. |
| 4-12-03 | The Japan Times | Mutsu
asked to store nuclear waste Someone though to ask the public at last … NIREX should learn a lesson. |
| 2-22-03 | The Japan Times | KEPCO
looks at Wakayama for spent nuclear fuel storage This is for an interim dry storage site prior to reprocessing the fuel. |
| 2-15-03 | The Japan Times | 40
Sites were chosen as Nuclear Dumps The antis are looking for things to oppose. |