More than a million tons of radioactive water is currently being stored at the plant's power station in 900 tanks, and officials aren't sure how to dispose of it. Waste continues to accumulate at the plant at a rate of 150 tons a day. Theweathernetwork.com Bangladesh will move a step closer to becoming the 33rd nuclear power-generating country tomorrow when construction starts on the main phase of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant – seven years after the framework agreement was signed with Russia. Dhakatribune.com Seth Grae, CEO of Lightbridge Corporation, a nuclear fuel technology company, said today that the speed and scope of innovations will determine the global market prospects for nuclear energy at the Future of Energy Summit in Shanghai hosted by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Lightbridge is making steady progress in developing an advanced fuel technology to improve the efficiency and cost-competitiveness of both existing and new nuclear power plants. Globenewswire.com Yakama Indian elder Russell Jim, long regarded as a man with a deep understanding of his tribe’s culture, the environment and Hanford’s production of plutonium, is retiring at 81. He led a charge to prevent the Hanford nuclear reservation along the banks of the Columbia River from becoming a nuclear waste depository and was instrumental in giving Native American tribes a voice at the congressional table on nuclear waste cleanup. After devising his tribe’s Environmental Restoration and Waste Management program, he spent 37 years managing it. Yakimaherald.com
