Nuclear Waste Storage
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine temporary and permanent storage options for nuclear waste. The hearing also considered the future of the Yucca Mou…
781 viewsThe Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine temporary and permanent storage options for nuclear waste. The hearing also considered the future of the Yucca Mou…
781 viewsEdwin Lyman, acting director of the Nuclear Safety Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists and author of “Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster,” discusses nuclear power safety and…
621 viewsMr. Walker talked about his book, Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective, published by University of California Press. This accident on March 28, 1979, remains the wo…
550 viewsThe House considered a bill advancing efforts to create a national nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
406 viewsSenator Dean Heller (R-NV) announced on the chamber floor that he would block the House bill to make Yucca Mountain the official storage site of nuclear waste in the U.S. The House approved …
144 viewsFormer Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz talked about the nuclear threats facing the U.S. and the world.
767 viewsThe chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and two NRC commissioners testified at an oversight hearing for their agency. The witnesses answered a variety of questions on topics inc…
973 viewsKathryn Miles talked about her recent Boston Globe Magazine article on the safety concerns surrounding the closing of a nuclear plant in Massachusetts.
383 viewsEnergy Secretary Rick Perry testified before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on his department’s fiscal year 2018 budget request. Topics included proposed cuts to the budge…
1,128 viewsEdwin Lyman talked about nuclear waste safety and security.
476 viewsJonathan Stayer showed items, housed at the Pennsylvania State Archives, related to the nuclear incident at Three Mile Island in 1979. Mr. Stayer shared his personal story as a college stude…
431 viewsCindy Sounders talked about the Rocky Flats nuclear site that operated from 1952 to 1994, the cleanup effort since its closing, and its transition into a national wildlife refuge. The plant …
408 viewsPresident Obama signed into law H.R. 2576, the “Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act,” which modernizes the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act. In remarks, President O…
1,918 viewsBenjamin Schwartz talked about his book, Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism, about what would happen if a nuclear bomb of unknown origin were to explode in Washington, D.C. He…
1,226 viewsEnergy Department officials and executives from URS Corporation and Bechtel National testified at a hearing assessing the safety concerns and recent reports of whistleblower retaliation at t…
1,012 viewsWhistleblowers who were fired after reporting nuclear safety issues at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant in Washington state told their personal stories to the chair and ranking member of a …
1,254 viewsWilliam Tobey talked about the work of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). NNSA is the lead agency charged with securing nuclear weapons, materials, and facilities.
648 viewsEnergy Secretary Ernest Moniz testified with other government officials and energy experts on S. 1240, the Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2013, which deals with the use of interim waste…
367 viewsKate Brown talked about her book, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters, in which she writes about the two cities, Richland, Washin…
1,268 viewsKaroun Demirjian talked a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that the Obama administration must continue a review of a potential nuclear waste dump under Yucca Mountain in Nevada, and he responded…
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