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Damage to the reactor head of the Davis-Besse power plant in Ohio ranks among the top five most serious nuclear plant accidents or near-accidents since Three Mile Island, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday.
The UK will fail to meet key objectives on reducing air pollution, resulting in further damage to human health, a leading expert has said.
Shell, the beleaguered oil giant, has been asked by Nigeria’s Senate to pay $1.5bn (£830m) compensation to communities affected by oil pollution in the country.
A multimillion-dollar effort to clean polluted water flowing underground from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to the Columbia River is largely ineffective, concludes a federal report released yesterday.
New Scientist reports in this pretty alarming article that there is a 50-50 chance of a major radiation or chemical accident during the cleanup of the dirtiest nuclear site in the U.S.
Extinction threat rises as creatures ingest ‘gender-bending’ chemicals from plastics and pesticides
Abandoning plans for a national radioactive waste dump could prevent a new nuclear reactor from being built at Lucas Heights in Sydney, federal Labor said today.
Prime Minister John Howard proposed Wednesday sending Australia’s low-level nuclear waste to an offshore island after being forced to abandon plans for a radioactive waste dump on a remote mainland site.
Thee radioactive material to be placed in Yukka Mountain is something that the National Academy of Sciences has told us can be dangerous for up to 300,000 years.
Claims that a “revolutionary nuclear reactor that can recycle its own waste is being studied by the Government as a future source of energy for Britain.”
The government’s 17-year effort to bury nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada suffered a significant setback today when a federal appeals court said that the rules on radiation leaks could not be limited to the site’s first 10,000 years, as the Environmental Protection Agency had decided
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers report concludes there is a significant risk of construction cost increases for the Hanford nuclear site’s waste treatment plant, the government’s largest construction project.
