US is Ill-Prepared to Safely Manage its Nuclear Waste from Climate Threats More than 150 sites across the country have to be managed for radioactive waste for centuries or millennia. But there’s no plan in place for how this will be done, says GAO report. Charles Pekow
December 29, 2020
The Cold War never erupted into the nuclear nightmare that the world feared for decades. But the legacy of the never-used nuclear weapons remains a ticking time bomb that could endanger countless people and lead to environmental catastrophe any time.
A radiation warning sign on the fence outside the restricted area at the Maxey Flat Low Level Radioactive Waste site in Kentucky. The GAO report says there is no plan in place for nuclear waste sites that need to be safeguarded against increasingly frequent and severe rainfall, tornadoes, hurricanes and accompanying flooding and forest fires. Photo by RRJackson / Wikimedia Commons.
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NOIDA: Four persons in the city have allegedly committed suicide in separate incidents in the past 24 hours, the police said on Saturday. Two of the deceased were co-workers, they added.
On Saturday, a 30-year-old woman attempted suicide by jumping off the loop of an elevated road opposite Prakash Hospital in Sector 33 of the city.
The sector 24 SHO, Prabhat Dixit, said her co-workers have told the police that the incident happened at 2 pm when she had come out with them during lunch break.“They said she had tried to take the extreme step earlier as well. Her family said she was in a relationship with a man, who stays near her rented accommodation,” he said. Sources said the incident happened after she had a fight with her partner. She was first taken to Prakash hospital but then sent to the District Hospital.