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EPA's Yucca Mountain Radiation Standard Controversial

Article: EPA's Yucca Mountain Radiation Standard Controversial

Posted October 05th, 2008, 1:10 PM by

WASHINGTON, DC, October 3, 2008 (ENS) – Sixteen years after Congress first ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to establish radiation release standards for the proposed spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste disposal facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the agency has announced its final standards. The Yucca Mountain site is located 90 miles northwest…

U.S. Company Seeks Permit to Import Nuclear Waste

Article: U.S. Company Seeks Permit to Import Nuclear Waste

Posted February 02nd, 2008, 12:02 PM by

WASHINGTON, DC, February 2, 2008 (ENS) – Bart Gordon, the Tennessee Democrat who chairs the House Committee on Science and Technology, does not want the United States to receive low-level radioactive waste from Italy, process it in Tennessee and dispose of it in a Utah waste site. He says acceptance of the waste would put…