Panel urges end to nuke waste proposal
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A panel of the National Academy of Sciences urged President Bush on Monday to abandon an ambitious plan to resume nuclear waste reprocessing that is the heart of the administration's push to expand the civilian use of nuclear power.
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By Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Feb. 1--The state of Washington is warning the Department of Energy that it could issue fines after DOE failed to have enough Hanford waste approved for shipment to a national repository in 2006.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. senators from coastal states introduced legislation Thursday calling for removal of the thousands of tons of ocean debris that wash up on U.S. shores each year.
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Researchers at a Department of Energy lab are developing fuel rods that could halve the amount of nuclear waste produced. That's good news for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, where 40 years' worth of radioactive material is slated to be stored. By John Gartner.
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North Korea offered to meet a U.S. request that it declare and disable its nuclear programs by the end of the year, South Korea said Wednesday, indicating its will to comply with a disarmament pledge after shutting down its sole operating reactor.
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By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 18--The U.S. energy secretary made an alarming statement earlier this month. Secretary Samuel Bodman said at a congressional hearing that the plan to clean up a radioactive uranium dump that threatens the Colorado River may be delayed by 16 years.
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The leaders of the United States and Poland have urged &amp;quot;responsible states&amp;quot; to join forces and halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction, as a meeting began here of the US-led Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).
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Critics of the U.S.-India civil nuclear agreement on Wednesday urged two international groups whose approval is vital to the deal to take steps to ensure it does not undermine global nonproliferation efforts.
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Japan's defense minister said Saturday that the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States during World War II was an inevitable way to end the war, drawing criticism from atomic bomb survivors.
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Nuclear regulators are considering tightening security on polonium 210 in case terrorists seek the material for so-called dirty bombs.
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Proposals for a global nuclear fuel bank   meant to boost economic development while stemming the spread   of atom bomb know-how are to be put to a U.N. watchdog's   decision-making board in 2007, officials say.
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Lawmakers agreed Friday to allow tons of radioactive sludge from Cold War bomb-making to be left in underground tanks at federal facilities in South Carolina and Idaho instead of being shipped to a central repository.
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The House yesterday approved plans to halt funding for the development of a new generation of nuclear warheads as House leaders called on the Bush administration to provide a post-Cold War nuclear strategy that would detail the future size of the U.S. nuclear stockpile.
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The chairmen of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group today urged President Bush to follow their full slate of recommendations, as one key Senator criticized the panel's report as a recipe for defeat.
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By Wayne Washington, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Mar. 4--Democratic candidates need more than quarters to play the political slot machine that is Nevada's January 2008 caucus.   They need to oppose opening a nuclear waste repository in the state.
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A bipartisan commission that includes energy industry executives, environmentalists and academics will issue a report today that calls on the nation to adopt mandatory limits
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The United States, the EU and Russia urged Iran Monday to comply with the U.N. nuclear watchdog's demand that it halt all activities linked to uranium enrichment, a process that can be used to build an atom bomb.