Special Reports

• NIRS Report:Radioactive Wreck: The Unfolding Disasters of U.S. Irradiated Nuclear Fuel Policies
• December 14, 2005 Changes to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982
• Skull Valley: Radioactive Waste and the American West
• Poisoned workers and communities USA Today
• Rocky Flats From Cold Wars to Hot Prosperity Part1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Nuclear Waste Media Articles

March 2006

• 3-31-06 Australia 'should take nuclear waste' News.com.au, Australia
• 3-30-06 Waste Costs Lay Bare Nuclear Folly Scottish National Party Press Release, Scotland
• 3-30-06 SRS to Make Case for Reusing Nuclear Fuel Augusta Chronicle, GA
• 3-29-06 EPA Recertifies Nuclear Waste Dump Near Carlsbad Santa Fe New Mexican, NM
• 3-29-06 Rokkashomura Gets Final Green Light The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan
• 3-29-06 Nuke Waste Disposal: 9-Year-Delay Unacceptable, Says CAG Rediff.com, India
• 3-29-06 New NIRS Report Challenges All U.S. Radioactive Policies All American Patriots, Sweden
• 3-28-06 Let's Not Chase the Atom Central Chronicle, India
• 3-28-06 Sellafield Awaits Nuclear Power's Rebirth BBC News, UK
• 3-27-06 Foreign Presence Common for SRS Augusta Chronicle, GA
• 3-26-06 Three Years on, Experts Fail to Agree on Nuclear Waste Independent, UK
• 3-25-06 Sizewell Nuclear Waste Pledge East Anglian Daily Times, UK
• 3-25-06 Government Set for £1 Billion BNG Sale The Telegraph, UK
• 3-24-06 Japan May Start Test Run of Nuke Fuel Reprocessing Plant Next Week TMCnet, US
• 3-24-06 Carlsbad, Hobbs Combine Efforts on Plant Officials Hope to Bring Nuclear Reprocessing Facility to Southeastern New Mexico Current- Argus, NM
• 3-22-06 City Hall Hosts Nuclear Waste Talk Mississauga News, Canada
• 3-22-06 France Proposes Draft Law on Nuclear Waste Houston Chronicle, TX
• 3-22-06 The Nuclear Madness of George Bush Green Left Weekly
• 3-20-06 Estonia, Lithuania Deny Nuclear Waste Storage Rumors Ria Novosti, Russia
• 3-20-06 Early Phase of Processing Nuclear Waste Rolls Along Knoxville News Sentinel, TN
• 3-20-06 Six Countries' Waste Dumped at Dounreay The Scotsman, Scotland
• 3-19-06 Dounreay Nuclear Store is Leaking Sunday Herald, Scotland
• 3-17-06 NRC Completes Minnesota Agreement to Regulate Use of Certain Radioactive Materials WebWire, US
• 3-16-06 Agency Takes Look at Second Waste Site Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 3-16-06 Caricom Objects to Nuclear Waste Shipment Government Information Service, Trinidad and Tobago
• 3-16-06 A Modern Philosopher's Stone The Economist, US
• 3-16-06 Terror Risks of Nuclear Fuel Christian Science Monitor, MA
• 3-14-06 "Critical" Levels of Nuclear Waste Need Storage Facilities St. Petersburg Times, Russia
• 3-14-06 Nuke Dump Rules: Base Classifications of Nuclear Waste on Risk Salt Lake Tribune, UT
• 3-12-06 Parks Dump Cleanup Delayed Until 2008 Valley News Dispatch, PA
• 3-11-06 Shed No Nuclear Tears Daily Times, Pakistan
• 3-11-06 It's a Waste Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
• 3-10-06 Recycling Nuclear Waste WBUR, MA
• 3-10-06 Lawmakers Snub Reprocessing Plans Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 3-10-06 Dispute May Aid Nuclear Dump Proponents ABC, Australia
• 3-10-06 Science Panel Urges Major Overhaul of Nuke-Waste Rules Salt Lake Tribune, UT
• 3-9-06 President Addresses Nuclear Waste Issue ForUm, Russia
• 3-9-06 "Ecodefense:" An Echelon with German Nuclear Waste is Coming to Russia Regnum, Russia
• 3-8-06 Land Council Relaxed About Nuclear Waste Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
• 3-8-06 Inquiry into Nuclear Trains Welcomed Bromley Times, UK
• 3-7-06 Clean Harbors Pursuing Nuclear Waste Option Deseret News, UT
• 3-7-06 Clean Harbors Seeks OK to Store Radioactive Waste Tooele Transcript-Bulletin, UT
• 3-6-06 UNLV Scientists Work on Nuclear Waste Reduction Las Vegas Business Press, NV
• 3-6-06 Tooele Turns Away Radioactive Waste Salt Lake Tribune, UT
• 3-5-06 US to Clean up on UK Nuclear Mess Observer, UK
• 3-5-06 Local Firm Ships 1,000th Container for Nuclear Waste Huntsville Times, AL
• 3-5-06 End the Taboo, But Proceed with Care Centre Daily, PA
• 3-5-06 Clean Harbors Wants to Allow Radioactive Waste into its Landfill Salt Lake Tribune, UT
• 3-4-06 Locals Call for Referendum on Rokkasho Nuclear Plant Test TMCnet, US
• 3-3-06 Greenpeace Wins Legal Ruling Against Areva's Cogema Over Nuclear Waste Forbes, US
• 3-3-06 Japan to Launch Nuclear Reprocessing Plant Lateline, ABC, Australia
• 3-3-06 Nuclear Waste Plant Chief Dismissed Over Breach in Enviromental Safety in Central Russia Mosnews, Russia
• 3-3-06 Ukraine to up Nuclear Waste Storage Payments - Yuschenko Ria Novosti, Russia
• 3-2-06 NDA Concludes Thorp Should be Restarted on Costs Nuclear Engineering International, UK
• 3-2-06 U.S. Businessman to Discuss Construction of Nuclear Waste Storage Facility in Ukraine Kyiv Post, Ukraine
• 3-2-06 Discussion to Begin on High-Grade Nuke Waste JoongAng Daily, South Korea
• February 2006
• 2-28-06 Syria Accuses Israel of Dumping Nuclear Waste Jerusalem Post, Israel
• 2-28-06 More Hot Waste in Tooele County? Salt Lake Tribune, UT
• 2-28-06 N-Dump Seeks Hike in Pollution Permit Salt Lake Tribune, UT
• 2-26-06 Russian Prosecutors File Charges Against Nuclear Waste Plant Chief Planetsave.com, ME
• 2-26-06 Nuclear Sleight of Hand Las Vegas Sun, NV
• 2-26-06 Bomb Proof India Express, India
• 2-25-06 No Nuclear Waste Storage Facility for Ukraine - Lytvyn Ria Novosti, Russia
• 2-24-06 Ukraine Will Not Enrich Uranium : PM Turkish Press, MI
• 2-24-06 America's Answer to Nuclear Waste: Recycle it Environmental Data International, UK
• 2-24-06 Nuclear Waste Deadly in Case of Earthquake Daily News, New Zealand
• 2-22-06 Families Warned Landfill Site Will be Tested for Nuclear Waste The Herald, Scotland
• 2-22-06 US Nuclear Tech Plan has Promise, Risks ISN, Switzerland
• 2-21-06 Global Initiative Aims to Boost Nuclear Energy, Nonproliferation Washington File, D.C.
• 2-21-06 Recycling Nuclear Waste Getting Fresh Attention Asbury Park Press, NJ
• 2-20-06 Utah Lawmakers Explore Nuke Plant Possibilities Salt Lake Tribune, UT
• 2-20-06 A Dangerous Solution Baltimore Sun, MD
• 2-19-06 Nuclear Energy Initiative Holds Uncertainties Washington Post, D.C.
• 2-19-06 A Nuclear Traffic Solution Provo Daily Herald, UT
• 2-18-06 Reprocessing Nuclear Waste Grist, US
• 2-18-06 A Shift Based on Politics and Science New York Times, NY
• 2-18-06 Nuclear Waste Blunder Leeds Today, UK
• 2-18-06 Bush Promotes Nuclear Energy, Waste Plan Chicago Sun-Times, IL
• 2-16-06 Spent Fuel Likely to Stay Indefinitely Asbury Park Press, NJ
• 2-15-06 Nuclear Waste Storage in Monticello up for Public Discussion Grand Forks Herald, MN
• 2-13-06 Duma Committee Votes to Slash SNF Reprocessing - While Rosatom Gets Ready to Take on More Bellona, UK
• 2-13-06 Energoatom Initiated Round-Table Discussion on Nuclear Waste Storage Construction ForUm, Ukraine
• 2-11-06 Industry Critics Worry About Nuclear Waste From Additional Plant The State, SC
• 2-11-06 BLM Seeking Comment on Nuclear-Waste Plan Deseret News, UT
• 2-10-06 Contradicting Hill Testimony, DOE Data Shows Reprocessing Not Safe Yubanet, CA
• 2-10-06 Nuclear Safety Study Denied Data San Francisco Chronicle, CA
• 2-10-06 Bush Nuclear Plan Ignores West Valley Lesson Albany Times Union, NY
• 2-10-06 N-Waste May Move - But Take A Detour Deseret News, UT
• 2-10-06 Classified: The Study Didn't Consider the Possibility of a Terrorist Attack Because the Info Was Off-Limits Salt Lake Tribune, UT
• 2-9-06 Panel OKs Bill on Bonds for Those Seeking N-Stays Deseret News, UT
• 2-9-06 Science Panel Concludes Nuclear Waste Transport Generally Safe Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA
• 2-9-06 Public Input Again Sought on N-Waste Tooele Transcript-Bulletin, UT
• 2-8-06 Public Airs Views on Waste Storage Monticello Times, MN
• 2-8-06 BLM Calls for Comment on N-Dump Rail Line Salt Lake Tribune, UT
• 2-8-06 Warning on Waste The Advertiser, Australia
• 2-7-06 Bishop Lauds Accomplishments Over HAFB, Nuke-Waste Issue Deseret News, UT
• 2-7-06 Council Claims Budget Proposal to Clean Tailings Isn't Enough Salt Lake Tribune, UT
• 2-7-06 Russia and US as Global Nuclear Waste Collectors? Christian Science Monitor, MA
• 2-6-06 Bush Budget Proposal Increases Money for Hanford Cleanup Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA
• 2-6-06 Federal Trial Begins Over Nuclear Waste Dispute WBCI, ID
• 2-3-06 Train Derailed: Freight Line Was Slated to Carry Nuclear Waste This is Hertfordshire, UK
• 2-1-06 Waste Storage Meetings Convene Thursday Monticello Times, MN
• January 2006
• 1-31-06 Nuclear Information and Resource Service Press Release NIRS
• 1-31-06 Groups Push For Safest VY Storage Casks Brattleboro Reformer,VT
• 1-30-06 Feds Push for Reuse Of N-Waste Salt Lake Tribune, UT
• 1-30-06 A Plan For Nuclear Waste Washington Post, D.C.
• 1-27-06 Xcel Seeks More Waste Storage St. Paul Pioneer Press, MN
• 1-27-06 State Report: Yankee Plan Could Violate Radiation Rule Rutland Herald, VT
• 1-26-06 No 'early nuclear waste solution' The Scotsman, Scotland
• 1-26-06 Plymouth Seeks $2m a Year for Pilgrim's Nuclear Waste Boston Globe, MA
• 1-26-06 Nuclear Waste Experts Quell Hopes Of Nuclear Revival By Friends Of The Earth Nieuwsbank, Netherlands
• 1-25-06 Opinion: Anyone Listening? MPG Newspapers, MA
• 1-24-06 Nuke Waste Panel Wants Delay on New Plants Washington Times, D.C.
• 1-24-06 Casella Waste is Safe Metro West Daily News, MA
• 1-24-06 Tackle Nuclear Waste Disposal First, Warn Advisors Independent, UK
• 1-24-06 The Power Struggle Daily Record, Scotland
• 1-24-06 Safety of the Nuclear Facilities of Iran: a 'Forgotten Dimension' Persian Journal, Iran
• 1-23-06 EdF Down on Fears of Nuclear Waste Provisions Dow Jones Newswires, NY
• 1-20-06 Nuclear Waste Haul Road Opens Knoxville News Sentinel, TN
• 1-19-06 Tax the Rods? MPG Newspapers, MA
• 1-19-06 Removal of Radioactive Waste Raising Concern The Herald, SC
• 1-17-06 Nuclear Waste Hurts Local Economy North County Times, CA
• 1-15-06 Fiasco of Secret Nuclear Waste Tips Herald, Scotland
• 1-15-06 What About Reprocessing? Raleigh News and Observer, NC
• 1-15-06 N-Plant Plans Revive Spent Fuel Concern Raleigh News and Observer, NC
• 1-15-06 Critics Want a Voice, and More Cash From Pilgrim Boston Globe, MA
• 1-13-06 'Smart' Use of Nuclear Waste Pahrump Valley Times, NV
• 1-13-06 Nuclear Waste Dump Plans are Refused News and Star, UK
• 1-13-06 Opinion: Drilling Deeper MPG Newspapers, MA
• 1-12-06 Radioactive Waste Recycling Criticized Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
• 1-11-06 Nuclear Waste Casks Hold Up in Accidents, Study Says Baltimore Sun, MD
• 1-11-06 Report: Nuclear Waste Cylinder Could Have Withstood Tunnel Fire WJLA, DC
• 1-11-06 Supervisors Will Send Letter Urging State to Study Nuclear Waste San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA
• 1-10-06 Dumping Ground Signature Magazine, Australia
• 1-10-06 Still No Answers to Question of Waste San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA
• 1-9-06 Ministers Warned of Huge Rise in Nuclear Waste Guardian, UK
• 1-9-06 Ukraine Names U.S. Company to Establish Spent-Fuel Engineering News-Record, US
• 1-8-06 The Nuclear Option whizbang.com, US
• 1-6-06 Blowing Away the Nuclear Argument Yorkshire Post, UK
• 1-5-06 High Risks if Nuclear Waste Stored Locally The Day, CT
• 1-5-06 Nuclear Waste a Hazard Forever Irish Examiner, Ireland
• 1-1-06 MillstoneWaste Storage Could Increase The Day, CT
• December 2005
• 12-29-05 SRS: Report Clears Cleanup Hurdle Augusta Chronicle, GA
• 12-29-05 Public Not Interested in Storing Nuclear Waste Here, Wall Says Canadian Broadcast Company, CAN
• 12-27-05 Piles of Nuclear Waste Worry Officials Patriot-News, PA
• 12-27-05 Old Idea is Back Again on N-Waste Deseret News, UT