Headline News: “US Lab Is Turning Nuclear Waste Into Electricity” • Right now, untreated nuclear fuel stays radioactive for about 100,000 years. However, by using a process called transmutation, scientists can turn that waste into different materials that are much … Continue reading →
Headline News: “DOE Prepares To Send Nuclear Waste Cross-Country” • A rail journey years in the making will start from Dominion Energy’s North Anna nuclear plant in Virginia in the fall of 2027 bound for Idaho National Laboratory. A specially … Continue reading →
Vermont Public Service Department Announces November 20 Meeting of Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel. Montpelier, Vermont – The Public Service Department today announced that the next meeting of the Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel will be held on Thursday November 20, … Continue reading →
A world-class physicist and a high school student team up. By George Harvey Dr. Steve Reucroft is a group leader at CERN, the huge international particle physics laboratory in Switzerland. As such, we could say he is a world-class physicist. … Continue reading →
*Full Committee* “Nuclear Reactor Decommissioning: Stakeholder Views” BACKGROUND: Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, will convene a hearing to examine requirements and challenges associated with decommissioning nuclear reactors throughout the nation. WHEN: WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2014 10:00 … Continue reading →
Safe and Green is hosting a decommissioning panel on Tuesday Dec. 3, 6:30pm at SIT in Brattleboro. “Cleaning Up VT Yankee: Three Perspectives” Since Entergy announced that it would stop producing power (and radioactive waste) at the end of 2014, there … Continue reading →