Nuclear Weapons 372 - Department Of Energy Secretly Ships Weapons-Grade Plutonium From Georgia To Nevada

        Recently I blogged about costs related to the handling of nuclear materials left over from the development and manufacture of nuclear weapons. If such radioactive materials are not going to be permanently stored where they are created, then they will have to be transported to a permanent storage location which may be thousands of miles away.

Radioactive Waste 377 - Greenpeace Reports On Global Spent Nuclear Fuel Problem

        I often blog about nuclear waste. It is one of the major problems with the use of nuclear power to generate electricity and heat. Recently Greenpeace published a report on nuclear waste storage facility in seven countries including Belgium, Britain, Finland, France, Japan, Sweden, and the United States. Several of these countries have so much spent nuclear fuel that they are nearing the point of saturation for storage options.

Radioactive Waste 656 - Sharp Increase In Estimates Of DoE Nuclear Waste Cleanup Results From Increased Estimate For the Hanford Reservation

      One of the biggest problems with nuclear power in the U.S. is the disposal of the seventy thousand tons of spent nuclear fuel from the 98 operating commercial nuclear power reactors. In addition to having to deal with this huge problem, there is also the need to clean up nuclear waste created by the U.S. government in the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear research projects.

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