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Hundreds of shipments of nuclear waste were buried at a facility nearCarlsbad in 2024, and the federal government was poised to send even morewaste to the site in 2024. For that work, the Department of Energy’scontractor Salado Isolation Mining Contractors (SIMCO) earned about $11.5million or about 89% of its available $13 million fee between Feb.…
Https://www.youtube.com/embed/cZcg409HYIc?si=IkgL_SeEZ7F-ndtm Youtube clip above is from My Informant, not from the BBC A new BBC Panorama documentary is set to look into the ongoing saga aroundnuclear weapons potentially being stored at RAF Lakenheath. Fears have beenmounting that the north Suffolk airbase is set to host nuclear weapons forthe first time in 16 years. The first…
In Phase 1, Community Investment Funding of up to £1 million per annum ismade available by Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) to each of the threeCommunity Partnerships currently engaged in the siting process for aGeological Disposal Facility (GDF). Where a Community Partnership / SearchArea is taken forward into Phase 2, involving the commencement of boreholeinvestigations, this…
Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), the division of the taxpayer-funded NuclearDecommissioning Authority, charged with identifying a location for aGeological Disposal Facility (GDF) into which Britain’s legacy and futurehigh-level radioactive waste will be deposited, has stated that the twocriteria that will determine the location are – the availability ofsufficient ‘suitable’ geology and the consent of a ‘willingcommunity’.…
Given the serious cost, scheduling, and scientific questions about the US government's program for producing new plutonium cores (or pits) for nuclear warheads, the authors recommend the program be scaled back to manufacture 10 to 20 pits per year. Such a demonstration production line would establish the capacity to produce pits, if further research shows they are needed.