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Russian Spent Nuclear Fuel
Feb. 1, 2003The Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy plans to commercially import, temporarily store, reprocess, and repatriate spent nuclear fuel.
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U.S. Nuclear Cooperation as Nonproliferation: Reforms, or the Devil You Know?
Nov. 27, 2012Several U.S. bilateral nuclear cooperation agreements are set to expire in the next four years, and a long list of nuclear newcomers are interested in concluding new agreements with the United States. Jessica C. Varnum examines the debate over whether stricter nonproliferation preconditions for concluding these new and renewal "123" nuclear cooperation agreements with the United States would enhance ...
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Laura S. H. Holgate testifies on G-8 pledges for threat reduction in Russia
Oct. 9, 2002In this testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Laura Holgate offers various approaches that could help the G-8 fulfill the promise of greater resources and more comprehensive, better coordinated world-wide commitment reflected in its June announcement of the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction.
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Spent Fuel Storage Sites
Oct. 1, 2009Primary Function: built for high-activity waste and reportedly meets international standards, has been reconstructed for the accommodation of sealed radioactive sources.
Spent, sealed radioactive sources from Kazakhstan were sent to Russia for storage until the Russian Constitution forbade the import of foreign radioactive waste. According to Director General of the Kazakhstan Atomic Energy Agency Timur Zhantikin ...
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IAEA Calls on Countries to Join Nuclear Waste Treaty
Nov. 5, 2003The International Atomic Energy Agency has called on countries to join an international treaty on the safe and secure handling of nuclear waste, Reuters reported today (see GSN, April 4).
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United States, Russia Near Agreement on Recovery of Spent Research Reactor Fuel
Nov. 5, 2003The United States and Russia are set to sign an agreement under which U.S. funding will be provided to help return spent nuclear fuel from research reactors in former Soviet republics and Eastern Europe to Russia, ITAR-Tass reported today (see GSN, Sept. 23).
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Congressional Committee Approves $580 Million for Yucca Mountain
Nov. 6, 2003House and Senate negotiators yesterday approved a compromise fiscal 2004 energy appropriations bill that provides $580 million for a planned nuclear waste repository to be built at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, according to Energy Daily (see GSN, Nov. 3).
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Russia Proposes Creating International Spent Nuclear Fuel Centers
Nov. 7, 2003WASHINGTON — Russian Atomic Energy Minister Alexander Rumyantsev Wednesday proposed a new international effort to help improve the security of spent nuclear fuel throughout the world, which could be attractive to terrorists seeking to build a “dirty bomb” (see related GSN story, today).
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Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Site Is on Schedule, Abraham Says
Nov. 12, 2003WASHINGTON — U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said Monday that he was “confident” that the Energy Department would meet a December 2004 deadline for the next stage in the department’s efforts to build a long-term nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada (see GSN, Nov. 6).
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New Findings Could Affect U.S. Nuclear Waste Facility Plan
Nov. 17, 2003Two teams of U.S. Energy Department-funded scientists have discovered that buried spent fuel rods could experience previously unknown chemical reactions — a finding that could affect the department’s plans to build a long-term nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, the San Francisco Chronicle reported today (see GSN, Nov. 12).
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U.S. Court to Hear Anti-Yucca Mountain Lawsuits
Dec. 9, 2003A U.S. federal court is scheduled next month to hear a number of lawsuits filed by opponents of a planned nuclear waste repository set to be built at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, USA Today reported today (see GSN, Nov. 17).
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Yucca Mountain Oversight Board Chairman Resigns
Jan. 6, 2004The head of an independent board of experts that provides oversight for the U.S. Energy Department’s plan to construct a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada resigned last week due to a dispute over alleged conflicts of interest, according to Energy Daily (see GSN, Dec. 9, 2003).
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