Mini nuclear power stations may produce more waste than large ones
New Scientist
MAY 30, 2022
Small modular reactors produce higher volumes and greater complexity of radioactive waste because they are naturally less efficient, researchers find
Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 30, 2024
Even casual followers of energy and climate issues have probably heard about the alleged wonders of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). The failure of these projects to come in on time and under budget undermines arguments that modern nuclear power plants can overcome the problems that have plagued the nuclear industry in the past.
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The Atomic Energy Advancement Act: Preparing the Way for Advanced Nuclear Power Plants
Cresforum
JANUARY 16, 2024
Introduction One of the main messages coming out of the recent COP28 meetings in the UAE concerns the role that nuclear power can play in the future of clean energy development around the world. The hope is that this encourages international financial institutions to include nuclear energy in loans for energy projects.
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Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 28, 2024
Forty-five years ago on March 28, 1979, Pennsylvanians woke up to a much different world -- the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County. commercial nuclear power industry. Nuclear power was touted as the safest form of supplying energy. Yes, this is a nuclear power plant."
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What’s Up With Water — June 7, 2022
Circle of Blue
JUNE 7, 2022
In France, May was unusually warm, and that could limit operations at some of its nuclear power facilities. Most inland facilities cool their power-generating equipment with river water. In recent years, several heat waves in France have affected nuclear power generation, forcing plants to cut back or shut down.
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Plan for microbes to eat Chernobyl's nuclear waste may be ruined
New Scientist
APRIL 22, 2022
Researchers hoping to identify bacteria capable of consuming radioactive waste at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant fear their work has been destroyed by Russian troops
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DEP Reports Shale Gas Operations Sent Over 138,000 Cubic Feet Of Radioactive TENORM Waste To Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities For Disposal In 2022 - Over 911,000 Cubic Feet Since 2017
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 9, 2023
On September 29, DEP told the Low-Level Waste Advisory Committee shale gas operations in Pennsylvania sent 138,336 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to the Waste Control Specialists low-level radioactive waste facility in Texas for disposal. Click Here for DEP table on TENORM waste. Read more here.
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DEP: PA Fracking Operations Sent Nearly 236,000 Cubic Feet Of Radioactive TENORM Waste To Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities For Disposal In 2021 - 811,070 since 2016
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 4, 2022
On September 30, DEP told the Low-Level Waste Advisory Committee shale gas fracking operations in Pennsylvania sent nearly 236,00 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to out-of-state low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal, more volume than all the industries combined in the four-state Appalachian Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact.
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Chernobyl power cut sparks fears of potential for radiation leaks
New Scientist
MARCH 9, 2022
Vital cooling systems for controlling nuclear waste at the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant are offline, leading to concerns that radioactive waste might escape
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Ohioans Stuck Burning Coal, Burning Cash
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 28, 2022
At the same time, an audit of the subsidies found that purchasing energy and capacity from regional wholesale markets is cheaper than power from the OVEC plants. In addition, FirstEnergy—owner of the two uneconomic nuclear power plants H.B.
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Oct. 19 To Hear Report On Radiation Decontamination Of Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Reactors, Waste Sites
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 8, 2021
DEP’s Citizens Advisory Council is scheduled to meet in-person and virtually on October 19 to hear a presentation from DEP on the decontamination and decommissioning of oil and gas wastewater treatment facilities, nuclear power plants, waste dump sites and other sites in Pennsylvania.
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Is It Finally Lights Out for the Incandescent Light Bulb?
Law and Environment
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Remember the historical claims that nuclear power was going to be too cheap to meter? For years, the incandescent bulb was too cheap for people to care how wasteful it was. Since the invention of the light bulb, we’ve been wasting huge amounts of electricity.
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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 9.26.24
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
DEP Low-Level Radioactive Waste Advisory Committee meeting. formal notice ) [ Note: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Decommissioning on the agenda.] Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. Visit the Committee webpage for options to join the meeting remotely.
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The Stream, March 1, 2023: Okefenokee Swamp, Among World’s Largest Freshwater Wetlands, Threatened by Proposed Mine
Circle of Blue
MARCH 1, 2023
Today the waters cool the nearby Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Russian forces currently occupy the location, which for 70 years has provided drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people and irrigation for 200,000 hectares of sunflowers, grains, and vegetables.
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Federal Water Tap, September 27: New Projections Show High Risks for Colorado River Reservoirs
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
86,000 Metric Tons : Amount of used nuclear fuel from U.S. commercial power reactors. The waste is stored at 75 nuclear power sites in the country. By the Numbers.
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Regulating the Impossible Dream: NRC decision streamlines efforts to commercialize fusion
Law and Environment
APRIL 24, 2023
Because byproduct material generally poses lower hazards and national security risks, obtaining a byproduct material license is far easier than obtaining an approval to construct and operate a utilization facility (such as a nuclear power plant) from the NRC under Part 50.
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Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 26, 2022
Forty-three years ago on March 28, 1979, Pennsylvanians woke up to a much different world -- the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County. commercial nuclear power industry. Nuclear power was touted as the safest form of supplying energy. Yes, this is a nuclear power plant."
Green jobs for physics graduates: decarbonizing energy sources
Physics World
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Chohan believes accurate public communication about nuclear energy is essential. “In In fusion, unlike fission, there will be no high-level nuclear waste generated by the reaction itself, but there will still be a lower level of nuclear waste generated by the interaction of the neutrons with the reactor components,” he says.
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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 22, 2024
24-26 At Shale Insight Conference -- PA Resources Council, Partners Host 3 Electronic Waste Collection Events In Delaware, Montgomery Counties Starting Sept. Maybe [Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Restart] Background On Issues -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 26 [PaEN] -- Still Time To Register!
Nuclear data centres: Categorised
Green Bang
OCTOBER 22, 2024
We're building a new segmentation model of the different types of data centres vs the role of nuclear power in them for a report we're writing. Implementing heat-sharing schemes requires careful planning, infrastructure development, and collaboration with local communities and industries.
Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 10.22.24
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee holds a hearing on waste to fuels. House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Resolution 565 (Pielli-D-Chester) directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to do a study on wil native terrestrial invertebrate management ( sponsor summary ).
PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 14
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 14, 2023
PA Bulletin, page 6520 ) Waste Permits -- SWN Production Company, LLC - Warner Water Transfer Facility: DEP issued a determination of applicability for a WMGR123 General Waste Permit for the shale gas wastewater facility located in New Milford Twp., Centre County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Bradford County. (
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Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 10.4.24
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 4, 2024
10 Telephonic Hearing On PPL Proposal To Construct New Three Mile Island - Chanceford 500kV Transmission Line and Chanceford - Peach Bottom 500kV Transmission and Other Related Transmission Lines -- Washington Post: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Owner Seeks $1.6
Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 18 to 24; Continuing Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; 6 More New Well Abandonments
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 25, 2023
Equitrans Gas Storage Area On March 22, DEP did another inspection of access wells at the Equitrans Rager Mountain Natural Gas Storage Area and again found continuing environmental violations like failure to dispose of wastes and fluids on the site and discharging wastes into waters of the Commonwealth. 6 wells in Erie County).
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Opinion: What the gas crisis tells us
A Greener Life
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
This means that not only are huge quantities of heat and gas going to waste but people are paying a lot more on heating their homes than they would have been, were they insulated to a better standard. UK’s hugely inefficient housing stock means most homes and buildings do a very poor job of conserving heat.
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Penn State To Hold Cancer And The Environment Symposium Sept. 29; No Information Yet On Whether Oil & Gas Development Health Risks Will Be Included
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Muth Raises More Questions About NPDES Permit DEP Issued For Eureka Resources Drilling Wastewater Treatment Plant In Susquehanna County -- Health Department Distributing Free Potassium Iodide Tablets To Pennsylvanians Near State’s Four Active Nuclear Power Plants Sept. Why Does It Matter?
U.S. Senate Hearing: Energy, Environmental Impacts Of Cryptocurrency Mining In Pennsylvania
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 8, 2023
Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.
Earth911 Podcast: Can Nano Nuclear Energy’s Microreactors Deliver Equitable Electricity?
Earth 911
JANUARY 22, 2024
Despite its other environmental impacts, including toxic waste that requires centuries or millennia of storage. The post Earth911 Podcast: Can Nano Nuclear Energy’s Microreactors Deliver Equitable Electricity? appeared first on Earth911.
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We Remember Sept. 11, 2001 - DEP Responds To A National Tragedy
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
DEP and Pennsylvania offered staff and equipment support to New York City to help them deal with air quality, waste and other environmental issues in and around the World Trade Center site. It was from one of the passengers writing to a loved one for the last time.
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Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 3.21.23
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 21, 2023
. -- Shapiro Administration Announces Long-Term Presence In Beaver County To Assist Residents Affected By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment [PaEN] -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Western PA Residents Want More Testing- And Attention-- After Train Derailment -- PA Capital-Star: Norfolk Southern Will Be There ‘As Long As It Takes,’ CEO Tells PA (..)
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We Remember Sept. 11, 2001 - DEP Responds To A National Tragedy
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 3, 2023
DEP and Pennsylvania offered staff and equipment support to New York City to help them deal with air quality, waste and other environmental issues in and around the World Trade Center site. It was from one of the passengers writing to a loved one for the last time.
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House Environmental Committee Sets May 1 Hearing On Cryptocurrency And Climate Change
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 25, 2023
Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.
Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 10.17.24
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee holds a hearing on waste to fuels. October 23-- Agenda Posted. Room 8E-B East Wing Capitol Building. Million Payment For American Zinc & Chemical Site Natural Resource Damage In Washington County; Invites Comments On Settlement [PaEN] -- PennVEST Makes $216.3
October 16 PA Environment Digest Now Available
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 16, 2023
18 Webinar Launching 9th Compendium Of Scientific, Medical Findings Demonstrating Risks, Harms Of Natural Gas Development, Infrastructure Sierra Club's Delaware County Team Hosts Oct. 30; Will Schedule Additional Hearings EPA Awards Penn State Hershey Medical Center $1.19
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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 2, 2024
28 to Oct. 6 [PaEN] Background On Issues -- Lt.
Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 6.9.23
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 9, 2023
Third Annual Breeding Bird Blitz For Conservation - Donate To Your Favorite Team By June 19 [PaEN] -- DEP/EPA AirNOW Forecasts Code ORANGE Air Quality Action Day Friday, June 9 Across PA -- TribLive: Code ORANGE Air Quality Alert Issued For Region -- PA Capital-Star - John Micek: What The Wildfires Teach Us - We Might Not Survive Our Own Climate Foolishness, (..)
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US DOE, Treasury Release Proposed Regulations Implementing Clean Hydrogen Production Credit Setting A Sliding Scale For Credits
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 23, 2023
The draft guidance avoids wasting billions of tax dollars on subsidies for dirty hydrogen production projects that would spike climate and health-harming pollution.” Read more here.
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August 12 - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 12, 2024
16 In Montrose, Susquehanna County Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Aug. 22, 23, 24 PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Hosts Aug. 5 PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosts Aug. 21 Online Community Engagement And Climate Resilience Planning Workshop Penn State Extension Hosts Sept. 28 To Oct. 6 DCNR To Host Aug. 28 To Oct.
Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 7 to 13 - More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Spills; Venting Gas; Emergency Well Plugging
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 14, 2023
The operator, who accompanied DEP on the inspection, also failed to submit annual mechanical integrity and production and waste generation reports. and found they were both abandoned.
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 25
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 24, 2023
PA Bulletin, page 1753 ) Waste Permits -- EQT CHAP LLC - Herminie North Centralized Water Facility: DEP approved General Permit WMGR123 for the facility in Sewickley Twp., Greene County. ( Greene County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Westmoreland County. ( Greene County. ( Lycoming County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Berks County. ( Beaver County. (
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Electric Vehicles Combat Climate Change
Global Green
DECEMBER 3, 2020
That means much less waste and a better deal for the environment. Adding in the contributions of nuclear power plants could bring the total share of US electricity generated by “zero-carbon” sources up from 40 percent, where it is today, to almost 70 percent in 2030. Gasoline engines are riddled with inefficiencies.
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PJM Interconnection Formally Files Changes To Electric Capacity Market Rules With FERC Based Largely On Unreliability Of Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants During Winter Storm Elliot
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 15, 2023
14 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Energy Transfer Natural Gas Liquids Marcus Hook Terminal In An EJ Area, Delaware County [PaEN] -- Better Path Coalition: Oct. 16 Webinar On Lawsuit Challenging Law Preventing DEP From Protecting Public Health, Environment From Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells [PaEN] -- House Committee Meets Oct.
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House Committees Hold Hearings On Hydrogen Hubs, Appliance Energy Efficiency; Consider Bills Increasing Recycling Fee, Study Solar Energy On Farms
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
House Committee Meets On Recycling Fee, Farm Solar The House Local Government Committee is scheduled to hold a voting meeting on House Bill 223 (Isaacson-D-Philadelphia) increasing the recycling fee on municipal waste disposed in the state to $5/ton from $2/ton ( sponsor summary ).
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Regulating the Impossible Dream: NRC Decision Streamlines Efforts to Commercialize Fusion
Acoel
MAY 4, 2023
Because byproduct material generally poses lower hazards and national security risks, obtaining a byproduct material license is far easier than obtaining an approval to construct and operate a utilization facility (such as a nuclear power plant) from the NRC under Part 50.
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