Tagged: Nuclear Plant

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9:53am

Fri February 4, 2011
Nuclear Waste Clean-up

A new generation begins taking the reins at Hanford

What do you do when you have a huge dilemma, and the number of people who can solve it is dwindling? That's the problem at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation -- one of the largest environmental cleanup projects in the world.

About 12,000 people are working on it right now. But the vast majority of Hanford's top experts are nearing retirement age. That leaves this complex cleanup task to the next generation.

The stakes are high: one wrong move could mean an environmental disaster, or a contaminated worker.

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5:22am

Thu December 23, 2010
Nuclear Energy

Rezone plans for commercial nuke plant halted

Credit AEHI

Rezone plans for a commercial nuclear plant near the Oregon-Idaho border are on hold. Payette County, Idaho Commissioners took the action after the plant’s developer was accused of running a stock scam.

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3:44pm

Fri December 17, 2010
Satsop Nuclear Plant

Acoustic lab is right at home in a former nuclear reactor

Most drivers passing by the twin cooling towers looming over the forest near Elma, Washington probably don’t think to themselves, when can I move in?  But that was exactly the thought audio engineer Ron Sauro had.

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