[Federal Register: April 28, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 81)] [Notices] [Page 22368-22369] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr28ap03-41] ======================================================================= ———————————————————————– DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Notice of Change in National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Compliance Approach for the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Facilities Project AGENCY: Department of Energy. ACTION: Notice of revised […]
WASHINGTON — President Bush’s new budget will include money to build a uranium waste processing center in Piketon that could bring hundreds of new jobs to the area, Sen. George Voinovich, R-Cleveland, said Wednesday. The uranium waste processing plant will hire up to 200 permanent workers and 300 construction workers, Voinovich said. “Together with Piketon […]
PADUCAH, Ky.–Uranium Disposition Services says its new recycling facility should prevent additional buildup of about 38,000 uranium waste cylinders stored at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, create at least 150 permanent jobs and produce material that can be sold to help the federal government recoup costs. Starting in 2005, the facility will annually convert 1,500 […]
Ottawa – The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) today released the results of a study entitled “Cancer and General Mortality in Port Hope, 1956 – 1997”. The study, carried out by Health Canada and subjected to a scientific peer review by independent scientists, found that the overall cancer mortality rates in the town of Port […]
Prepared by Surveillance and Risk Assessment Division Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada June, 2002 Abstract This Health Canada (HC) report responds to public health concerns over environmental exposure to radioactive and other materials in Port Hope that were by-products of radium and uranium processing activities in […]
Following a hearing on November 15, 2001 and January 17, 2002, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) today announced its decision to renew the Nuclear Fuel Facility Operating Licence for Cameco Corporation, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, for its uranium conversion facility located in Port Hope, Ontario. The licence is valid until February 28, 2007. With that decision, […]
Joette Nanney and her family got used to friends teasing them about living next to a nuclear-fuel plant. But in the 22 years that she and her husband and their three children lived across from the Westinghouse nuclear-fuel-rod processing plant in Hem atite, Nanney says none of them ever glowed in the dark. The facility […]
WILLOWBROOK — Margaret Dennison was stonewalled before she even got started. But others with the same concerns weren’t. Dennison, of Plainfield, was upset officials would not let her read a statement at a public information session set up Wednesday night to offer claim forms for those who may be eligible for federal compensation because they, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some children of nuclear weapons plants workers who died from exposure to radiation and other harmful substances during the Cold War may not be eligible for survivor benefits. Some members of Congress said Thursday that they never meant to exclude some children when they came up with a plan to compensate the […]
JOLIET – Larry Kelman of Naperville knew for the 45 years he worked at the University of Chicago and later Argonne National Laboratory that the dust swirling around him and other employees probably was not a good thing. But he didn’t know it would cost him the use of his lungs. Barbara Bush of Joliet […]
