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Ending the MSRE. A fabled reactor experiment’s cleanup project may be its crowning glory
It’s the final and somewhat ironic chapter of one of ORNL’s [Oak Ridge National Laboratory] largest and most storied projects. A successful but spurned and dormant experimental nuclear reactor is ending its days as a cleanup project. The Molten Salt Reactor Experiment’s fate is far from ignoble, however. The MSRE continues to teach, even in […]
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Refinery Reopening Plan Raises Concerns
For years, the Powerine oil refinery in Santa Fe Springs drew heavy fines from air pollution agencies and a litany of complaints from neighbors. Residents said that fumes from the 62-year-old plant burned their eyes and caused painful rashes. But since financial problems forced owners to wind down operations three years ago, neighbors say they […]
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Syntex S.A./Mario Palmeros/Villasana &Company fined for exporting hydrogen fluoride without export license
On September 3, 1998, the Commerce Department imposed a $65,000 civil penalty on Syntex S.A. de C.V., a Mexican chemical company, to settle allegations that it caused, aided, or abetted the export of U.S.-origin hydrogen fluoride from the United States to Mexico without the required Commerce Department licenses. Syntex will pay $32,500 of the penalty; […]
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Yuba City to fluoridate its water supply
After listening to 11 hours of public comment on the pros and cons of fluoridation, Yuba City’s City Council decided to move forward with its plans to fluoridate its water supply. The City Council voted 5-0 to adopt a resolution in support of fluoridation, thus ending a debate that started 35 years ago. Mayor Lee […]
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Davis County burn plant may escape fines for emission violations
LAYTON, Utah – A series of emissions violations at the Davis County burn plant will not result in any fines or penalties under a proposed settlement with the state. The agreement between Wasatch Energy Systems, which operates the burn plant, and the Utah Attorney General’s office still must be approved by the state’s air quality […]
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Chinese Steel Plant Belches Poison
A MAJOR steel plant in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region spews thousands of tons of fluoride every year, which has caused bone deformities among local herders and has killed thousands of sheep. The impact on livestock is so great that many herders have decided to leave their flocks, the only source of income in the […]
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Wells that bring nothing but ills
THE PUMP was installed in Shatap’s village of Hirapur, in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, during the United Nations’ International Water Decade of the 1980s. Its borehole was one of millions sunk throughout the world in a highly publicised race to provide the world’s poor with “safe” drinking water, planned and part-funded by aid […]
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US Congress Public Law 105–204: United States Enrichment Corporation
ENERGY ACTS Public Law 105–204 105th Congress An Act To require the Secretary of Energy to submit to Congress a plan to ensure that all amounts accrued on the books of the United States Enrichment Corporation for the disposition of depleted uranium hexafluoride will be used to treat and recycle depleted uranium hexafluoride. Be it […]
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Dartmouth Professor Sees Tie Between Lead, Fluoride, Juvenile Crime Rate
HANOVER – A Dartmouth College professor and his research partner believe there may be a link between chemicals used to fluoridate drinking water, the amount of lead absorbed by children and the rates of juvenile crime and special education. Officials at the national Centers for Disease Control defend the safety of fluoridation. Roger Masters, a […]
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Haifa Chemicals Sludge and Kishon River Mud Contaminated
Malta, 8 June 1998 – Sludge regularly dumped by the Israeli fertilizer producer Haifa Chemicals in the Mediterranean Sea is contaminated by a cocktail of toxic heavy metals and organic pollutants. This is the result of scientific test results carried out by the Greenpeace International Laboratory at Exeter University in England. A similar toxic cocktail […]
Israel Phosphate Industry