Radioactive Waste
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CBG Statement on the Navy’s Airborne Plutonium-239 Detection at Hunters Point
Earlier this month, the Navy confirmed a detection of airborne plutonium-239, the same isotope used in nuclear weapons, at its Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco. The finding came...
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Cities must join Irvine’s push for safe storage of San Onofre waste (Times of San Diego)
“Sept. 30, 2025, may mark the day communities in Southern California first took initiative to protect themselves from deadly nuclear waste stranded indefinitely at the decommissioned San Onofre nuclear plant....
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Plans for nuclear waste storage facility scrapped (San Diego Union-Tribune)
“Holtec International confirmed the decision last week, following strong opposition from state lawmakers, including New Mexico’s governor. … “I’m glad that Holtec heard our strenuous objections and decided that fighting...
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Holtec walks away from nuclear waste project in New Mexico (Reuters)
“Private nuclear power company Holtec said this week it is walking away from a project to store nuclear waste in New Mexico, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June...
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U.S. Nuclear Energy Plans Could Proliferate Weapons (Scientific American)
“Most Americans probably don’t realize that nuclear reactors originally were invented not for electricity or research but to produce a new substance, plutonium, for nuclear weapons such as the one...
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‘We’ve been too patient’: Community, officials demand action on Santa Susana Field Lab cleanup (VC Reporter)
“An advocacy group founded by families of children diagnosed with rare cancers, Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab, recently staged a “10 Days of Action campaign,” to coincide with the...
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How a US health agency became a shield for polluters (Reuters)
A major new Reuters investigation details how the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) “regularly downplays and disregards neighbors’ health concerns” and “has helped polluters save at...
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Greenaction Files Lawsuit Against US Navy and EPA on Hunters Point Cleanup
“Representatives from Greenaction for Health Environmental Justice have told the Chronicle that the group plans to file a lawsuit in federal court on Friday naming the U.S. Navy, which is...
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5th Circuit vacates Holtec CISF license (Beyond Nuclear)
“The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, in New Orleans, on March 27, 2024 issued a ruling vacating the license, approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in...
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A warning about radioactive air pollution from Pilgrim (CommonWealth Beacon)
“Daniel Hirsch, retired director of the program on environmental and nuclear policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said ‘there is no credible expert who believes that [disposing of...
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Supervisors extend deadline to file suit on toxic site cleanup plan (Ojai Valley News)
“Ventura County Board of Supervisors announced Jan. 12 the signing of a legal “tolling agreement” that will extend a deadline to allow the filing of potential legal challenges to an...
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Radioactive objects turn up at S.F. site slated to become huge waterfront neighborhood — again (SF Chronicle)
“For the second time in five years, a massive retesting effort has turned up radioactive objects at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, in areas that were already swept of...
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More radioactive objects found in SF’s Hunters Point shipyard testing (NBC Bay Area)
“The ongoing testing on the old Hunters Point Naval shipyard has turned up a piece of radioactive glass and another radium deck marker.”
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Radioactive Objects Found at San Francisco’s Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Raise New Concerns (KQED)
“The discovery, announced this week, is the latest in a steady drip of troubling findings at one of the city’s most ambitious redevelopment projects.”
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Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Vacates Texas CIS License
In a victory for advocates of nuclear responsibility, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an opinion vacating the NRC license for the proposed consolidated interim storage...