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"Recycled Radioactive Metal Contaminates Consumer Products"
Scripps, 06/04/2009"Thousands of everyday products and materials containing radioactive metals are surfacing across the United States and around the world."
"In Finland, Nuclear Renaissance Runs Into Trouble"
NYTimes, 05/29/2009A power plant under construction on a Finnish island was supposed to be the showpiece of a nuclear renaissance. But it is way behind schedule and over budget.
"Feds Ready to Spend $2 Billion on Hanford Cleanup"
AP, 05/28/2009The economic stimulus will bring another $2 billion in cleanup funds to the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.
"Court Allows Foreign Nuclear Waste Shipment to Utah"
NYTimes, 05/19/2009"A Salt Lake City-based company can import Italian nuclear waste for disposal in Utah, a federal judge ruled Friday."
"Nuclear Cleanup Awards Questioned"
WashPost, 05/18/2009A flood of new stimulus money going into nuclear cleanup problems is raising issues of abuse.
"Obama to Name Reid Ally as NRC Chairman"
AP, 05/14/2009"President Barack Obama on Wednesday named a former adviser to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to head the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, giving opponents of a nuclear waste repository in Reid's home state of Nevada another well-placed ally."
Yucca Mtn Cost Soars
Reuters, 08/06/2008The planned U.S. nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada will cost billions more than previously estimated.<
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