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News for July 21, 2010
Radioactive Waste
Radioactive Material Missing in Kankakee (MyFox Chicago)
Landfill operators in the southern suburbs are looking for a missing lead-lined safe filled with radioactive materials.
TENORM
Mine describes how it will protect local water supply (TriValley Central)
Curis Resources can expect to handle radioactive particles or “radionuclides” as part of the copper mining process off Hunt Highway, but the company has “multiple and redundant” safety features to keep this material from leaching off site and affecting public health, company scientists said in a statement this week
Cleanup
Murray adds $50M for Hanford (Bellingham Herald)
The additional $50 million for Hanford cleanup in the proposed budget is in addition to an increase in the Obama administration's budget proposal for Hanford for fiscal 2011.
Safety and Security
Legacy of nuke drilling site in Colorado lingers (WP)
It may go down as one of the most bizarre nuclear experiments ever tried.
Post Tech : Cell phone safety advocates call on FCC, FDA to update rules, radiation standards (WP)
As concerns rise over the potential health risks posed by cellphone radiation, advocates of cell phone safety are urging federal regulators to do more to protect users of wireless gadgets.
Health
Cordless phones emit as much radiation as cell phones (Environmental Health News)(Israel)
Cordless telephones emit as much radiation as cell phones, the Health Ministry stated yesterday in a warning to the general public. The radiation emitted by cordless phones is non-ionizing, the same as cell phones. Still, the ministry says it's better to use regular landline telephones.
BioLabs' radiation drug on fast track (Bizjournals.com)
A drug developed in Buffalo to treat Acute Radiation Syndrome has been granted Fast Track status by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Nuclear Power
US to hit NKorea with more sanctions in August (WP)
Tightening the screws on North Korea, the Obama administration said Wednesday it would expand and strengthen sanctions against the isolated regime and its nuclear weapons program, a tactic which in the past has been undercut by North Korea's knack for finding loopholes and escape hatches.
Nuclear Weapons
U.S. Wants Myanmar Transparency After Nuclear Program Reports (SFC)
The U.S. called on Myanmar to disclose its relationship with North Korea amid concerns Kim Jong Il 's regime is helping the military-run Southeast Asian nation pursue a nuclear weapons program.
Science
CMU experts to study radiation for clues to universe's expansion (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
A Carnegie Mellon University physicist and a team of scientists hope to use the glow from radiation emitted by hydrogen gas 7 billion light years away to understand why the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
Space/Cosmic Radiation
Heftiest star discovery shatters cosmic record (msnbc.com)
"Its high mass would reduce the length of the Earth's year to three weeks, and it would bathe the Earth in incredibly intense ultraviolet radiation, rendering life on our planet impossible," said Raphael Hirschi, a research team member from Keele University in Staffordshire, England.
Other
Iran says scientist provided information on CIA (WP)
An Iranian nuclear scientist who returned home last week from the United States provided valuable information about the CIA, a semiofficial news agency reported Wednesday, adding that his spy's tale would be made into a TV movie.
EPA takes new look at gas drilling, water issues (AP)
Each frack job uses an average of 4 million gallons of water, delivered to a well site by hundreds of tanker trucks. Some of the "produced" wastewater remains in the well — estimates range from 20 percent to 90 percent. What comes back up the well — briny, chemical-laden and possibly radioactive from exposure to naturally existing radon underground — is usually stored in open pits until it's trucked to treatment plants or underground injection wells.
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