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Chemistry World July 28, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
US government uncovers safety failings at nuclear lab Safety failings at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have been described as 'unsatisfactory' by the US government.  |
Chemistry World March 8, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Double whammy blow to US nuclear science Nuclear science in the US has been dealt a double blow with the announcement of huge budget cuts at the Los Alamos National Laboratory coming hard on the heels of the mothballing of a multi-billion dollar research facility at the lab.  |
Chemistry World November 20, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Nuclear waste research resurfaces The UK government's recent announcement of a significant expansion for nuclear power generation has rekindled the debate over the safe disposal of radioactive waste.  |
Geotimes December 2004 Laura Stafford |
Yucca on hold The Department of Energy likely will not meet its 2010 deadline to open up the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage site.  |
Chemistry World July 31, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Bury Radioactive Waste, UK Government Told Radioactive waste should be stored deep underground at sites where local communities have had the opportunity to participate in, and even withdraw from, the planning process.  |
Chemistry World September 2006 Neil Hyatt |
Comment: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? The recent recommendations from the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management should prompt a renewed research effort to tackle the problems of nuclear waste storage in the UK.  |
Chemistry World December 9, 2008 Rebecca Trager |
EPA tweaks hazardous waste rules for academic labs US chemistry laboratories have been freed from regulations on handling hazardous waste that lumped them under the same rules as industrial facilities.  |
Chemistry World February 6, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Nuclear Storage: Ready, Willing, Able, and Undecided A report into the UK's long term nuclear waste storage plans has concluded there are no insurmountable technical barriers to storing nuclear waste deep underground. Between a third and two-thirds of the UK is geologically suitable for storing waste.  |
Chemistry World October 8, 2015 Philippa Matthews |
EPA fines Mosaic Fertilizer over hazardous waste handling The EPA claims that Mosaic failed to appropriately store and dispose of waste from phosphoric and sulfuric acid production as part of fertilizer manufacture on several sites in Florida and Louisiana.  |
IEEE Spectrum July 2008 Sally Adee |
U.S. Critics Hope to Halt Nuclear-Waste Imports Utah firm wants Italian isotopes  |
Geotimes May 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Yucca Mountain e-Mails Reviewed The content of e-mails sent by U.S. Geological Survey employees that raised concern over work at Yucca Mountain -- site of the controversial future nuclear waste repository in Nevada -- should not affect the final scientific assessments of the site, according to an analysis.  |
Geotimes January 2005 Fred Schwab |
Mount Everest, Nevada The United States entered the nuclear age more than a half-century ago, but has not yet resolved what to do with nuclear waste.  |
Chemistry World February 15, 2008 Rebecca Trager |
Security of US Nuclear Research Facilities in Doubt Nuclear facilities at US universities and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have come under fire from a US congressional watchdog for lax security and breaches of safety rules.  |
Wired April 2003 David Ewing Duncan |
Do-or-Die at Yucca Mountain The regulatory tug-of-war over Nevada's nuclear waste dump has dragged on for decades. Meanwhile, temporary sites across the country are overflowing with radioactive fuel rods -- making them perfect targets for terror.  |
Mother Jones Jul/Aug 2001 Peter Klebnikov |
The Texas Solution The federal government is facing a glut of radioactive waste -- and a contract to bury some of it could be worth millions to one of George W. Bush's top fundraisers...  |
Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Falsification Alleged at Yucca Mountain E-mail exchanges sent between 1998 and 2000, by unnamed U.S. Geological Survey scientists, reveal possible data fabrications during the federal quality assurance procedure for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.  |
Geotimes July 2006 Linda Rowan |
Expanding Nuclear Options The Bush administration recently proposed significant changes to U.S. nuclear policy to resolve some of our current waste disposal problems and to accelerate the development of new nuclear power capacity.  |
The Motley Fool April 13, 2011 Michael Johnston |
Investing in Garbage: Global X Launches Waste Management ETF This trash is no garbage for investors.  |
Geotimes March 2007 Kathryn Hansen |
Mineral Crumbles Under Nuclear Heat When it comes to storing nuclear waste, it turns out that zircon can't take the heat. A new, high-resolution look at the mineral -- previously thought to be a model material for storing nuclear waste -- reveals that it is quick to succumb to radiation damage.  |
Chemistry World February 15, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
UK Nuclear Policy Setback UK government plans for a new generation of nuclear power stations have suffered a setback after a public consultation on nuclear power was condemned by a High Court judge as 'inadequate' and 'misleading'.  |
Wired April 21, 2008 Spencer Reiss |
WTF?! Yep, the Dutch Have Turned a Nuclear Dump Into Award-Winning Art Dutch hire artist William Verstraeten to decorate their Habog waste storage facility.  |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2011 Alyce Lomax |
Rising Star Buy: Waste Management This seemingly dirty business hides amazing, innovative green potential.  |
Mother Jones Jul/Aug 2002 Susan Q. Stranahan |
Radioactive Recycling If the Department of Energy has its way, the nation's nuclear garbage could end up in everyday items like bicycles, frying pans, and baby strollers.  |
National Defense January 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Future of Nuclear Energy Hinges on Recycling Technology The industry's Achilles' heel is the radioactive waste that is produced in the process of generating power, experts say.  |
Food Processing November 2008 |
MRO Q&A: How to Properly Dispose of Oil Best way to dispose of used oil and other lubricants... Creating a plan to recycle oil waste... The benefits of recycling used oil...  |
InternetNews February 17, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Feds Fight to Plug Security Holes Breaches and computer losses continue where they shouldn't.  |
Salon.com July 21, 2000 Fiona Morgan |
Secret costs Scientists say the security crackdown at nuclear weapons labs is the real national security risk.  |
Popular Mechanics January 2007 Arianne Cohen |
North Carolina Chemical Fire: What Went Wrong When a building full of hazardous waste went up in flames, a noxious cloud forced the evacuation of nearly 17,000 and raised concerns about such facilities nationwide.  |
Chemistry World March 12, 2014 Maria Burke |
UK government urged to cash in on waste Rather than seeing waste as a problem, the government should consider it a valuable resource, says a report by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee.  |
CIO April 15, 2003 Megan Santosus |
Rising Costs of High-Tech Garbage Companies must comply with hazardous waste regulations when they get rid of old PCs and CRT monitors. For larger companies, sending old PCs off to a hazardous waste facility can become a legal nightmare.  |
Chemistry World January 10, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Atomic Inspection for Nuclear Waste Storage Scientists have announced a new way to assess the safety of storing nuclear waste. Already, the method has shown that the ceramic mineral zircon, a candidate for storing nuclear waste for over 250,000 years, would lose its ordered structure in a far shorter time.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2009 Sandra Upson |
Finland's Nuclear Waste Solution Scandinavians are leading the world in the disposal of spent nuclear fuel  |
Popular Mechanics February 27, 2008 Joanna Borns |
Florida Outage Aside, New Plants Pave Clean Road for Nuke Power The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) just offered its annual outlook for the future of nuclear power, and it's optimistic.  |
Chemistry World March 3, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Sulfide Sponge Could Clean up Nuclear Waste A new material that can extract radioactive strontium ions from solutions could help to clean up nuclear waste, according to researchers in the US.  |
The Motley Fool October 31, 2008 David Lee Smith |
Waste Management Cleans Up Waste Management outdid the economy to pick up a strong quarter.  |
Chemistry World October 26, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Plutonium Hitchhikers Take the Fast Stream The radioactive element plutonium can travel through groundwater despite its low solubility: it hitches a ride on tiny colloid particles in the water.  |
IndustryWeek January 19, 2011 |
Rooting Out Manufacturing Waste Hidden waste may not be visible, but ignoring it can be costly.  |
Chemistry World October 18, 2010 Sean Milmo |
Red mud could prompt chemical rule review The alumina waste sludge accident in Hungary shows that the the European Union needs to be more effective in its enforcement of legislation on waste containing dangerous chemicals, according to environmental lawyers.  |
Chemistry World June 15, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Bonding behavior unlocked for uranium -- arsenic complex The discovery may help to improve the performance of chemical treatments used to recycle nuclear waste.  |
The Motley Fool December 22, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer |
What's Ahead for Waste Management in 2012? Waste Management's stock didn't fare so well in 2011, but will the new year offer potential for a comeback?  |
InternetNews March 27, 2008 |
Trash Hauler Sues SAP Over Software Failure The No. 1. waste pickup company seeks compensation for failed computer system investment.  |
Chemistry World April 24, 2008 James Mitchell Crow |
Radiochemicals firm first to recycle tritium GE Healthcare's radiochemicals group has developed a way to turn all the radioactive tritium waste it produces back into material pure enough to be used again.  |
The Motley Fool November 6, 2006 Zoe Van Schyndel |
The Final ETF Frontier? A new investment idea in the environmental-services area. Although waste management and environmental services are a growing area of the economy, the returns generated by back-testing the index may not be indicative of the fund's future performance.  |
Chemistry World November 2, 2007 Victoria Gill |
UK Nuclear Waste Disposal Plans Too Soon and Too Scanty UK scientists have urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to amend its plans to ask the public to volunteer to host an underground nuclear waste store.  |
HBS Working Knowledge October 3, 2011 Michael Blanding |
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit Every manufacturing process leaves waste, but Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Deishin Lee believes much of this left-behind material can be put to productive and profitable use.  |
Wired February 2005 Schwartz & Reiss |
Nuclear Now! How clean, green atomic energy can stop global warming.  |
National Defense February 2004 Geoff S. Fein |
Energy Dept. Commandos: 'As Good as the Military' The Department of Energy is seeking to beef up its team of commandos, which is trained to help protect nuclear weapons facilities in the United States.  |
The Motley Fool July 15, 2008 David Lee Smith |
Maybe It's Time to Trash Your Portfolio What looked like a terrific combination of the second- and third-largest waste haulers, Allied Waste and Republic Services, may just have been trashed.  |
The Motley Fool November 13, 2007 Rich Smith |
Waste Management's No Litterbug Waste Management allocates another $300 million to its stock buyback program for the year.  |
IDB America September 2005 Daniel Drosdoff |
Landfill with a Conscience New investments in sanitation preserve the Bahamas' natural beauty and environmental health.  |