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- The low-level radioactive waste siting process in Connecticut: anatomy of a failure.
- The federal policy on the safe disposal of low-level radioactive waste LLRW produced by commercial nuclear power reactors and by research and medical institutions is a failure. The main cause of this failure is the Not In My Back Yard NIMBY syndrome. No new LLRW disposal sites have been constructed...
- Research articles 1994-12-22
- Policy gridlock in waste management: balancing federal and state concerns.
- Federal policies on hazardous and low-level radioactive waste management do not pay equal attention to the national government's concern for consistency and the state governments' concerns for equity, discretion and sufficient resources. To balance federal and state concerns, Congress should modify conjoint federalism so that the states would have the...
- Research articles 1994-12-22
- Low-level radioactive waste compacts: lessons learned from theory and practice.
- In 1980, the U.S. Congress, facing a thorny environmental issue, the disposal of low-level radioactive waste LLRW, adopted a solution embodying one of the nation's oldest policy tools - the interstate compact. Contrary to the popular image of national policymaking in which the federal government "imposes"...
- Research articles 1994-09-22
- Low-Level Radioactive Waste Crisis in the Making
- A new radioactive-waste crisis is about to go critical -- the scheduled closing of a commercial low-level radioactive waste LLRW processing facility in Barnwell, S.C., which is a landfill owned by the state and operated by Energy Solutions. The preferred method of disposal for LLRW is shallow...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
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- Two Waste Management Stocks to Consider
- Eric Frantz submits: American Ecology ECOL and Clean Harbors CLHB are in the business of waste management. They have contracts with big names such as Honeywell and Tyco International, respectively. American Ecology Corporation AEC provides radioactive, hazardous, Polychlorinated biphenyls PCB and industrial waste management services to commercial and government...
- External links 2008-08-22
- Battle over Control of Low-Level Radioactive Waste: Some States Are Overstepping Their Bounds
- I. INTRODUCTIONIn 1979, all existing nuclear power plants, government and private, disposed of their low-level radioactive waste LLRW1 at only three sites: one in Nevada, one in Washington, and one in South Carolina,2 The governors of two of the states threatened to block out-of-state waste from entering the sites in...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Low-level radioactive waste issues in Michigan: 1980-2000
- INTRODUCTION Michigan-based nuclear power companies, universities, and industries generate enough low-level radioactive wastes LLRW to qualify the state as a major producer. The volumes vary from year to year, but Michigan has ranked among the largest generating states since the 1980s and in the top ten all but one...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- California biotech industry unites in support of Ward Valley land transfer legislation; calls upon Congress to break federal road block
- SAN DIEGO--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 18, 1995--California's biotechnology industry is uniting forces in a statewide show of support for federal legislation to transfer federal property to California for development of the Ward Valley low-level radioactive waste LLRW disposal project.
- Research articles 1995-10-18
- Foster Wheeler Environmental awarded New York State Radioactive Waste Siting Commission contract
- CLINTON, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 2, 1995--Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation has been awarded a Professional Support Services Contract by the New York State Low-Level Radioactive Waste NYS LLRW Siting Commission. The value of the contract was not disclosed.This three-year contract calls for comprehensive analytical, scientific, and organizational services for the...
- Research articles 1970-01-01
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