(Envirobiz News, March 5, 1996)
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The report of the Senate Select Committee on the Dangers of Radioactive Waste was tabled this week. [...] Its main recommendations are that a "national above-ground storage facility be established which has the capacity to take low, intermediate and high level radioactive waste" (17), that this "be adequately engineered to withstand all possible climatic conditions, no matter how unlikely" (18).It also recommends that the "Government ascertain the extent to which the States and Territories could benefit from disposal of low-level wastes in uranium mines" (15) and that the feasibility of disposing of two particular categories of low-level waste thus be examined (13, 14).
The Senate inquiry cut across the process being conducted by Dept of Primary Industries and Energy which has short-listed eight potential sites for an underground national low-level waste repository. At present these wastes are mostly stored in a large shed (above ground) at Woomera. Report, Australian 30/4/96
(Excerpt from: Uranium Information Centre, 3 May 1996, Summary of the Week's Main News on Nuclear Energy)
[Federal Register: April 29, 1997 (Volume 62, Number 82)] [Notices] [Page 23282-23284]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 40-8905]Quivira Mining Company; Final Finding of No Significant Impact; Notice of Opportunity for Hearing
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proposes to amend NRC Source Material License SUA-1473 to authorize the licensee, Quivira Mining Company (QMC), to accept 11e.(2) material for disposal at its Ambrosia Lake uranium mill and tailings site, located near Grants, New Mexico. An Environmental Assessment was performed by the NRC staff in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR Part 51. The conclusion of the Environmental Assessment is a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the proposed licensing action.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Kenneth R. Hooks, Uranium Recovery Branch, Mail Stop TWFN 7-J9, Division of Waste Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555. Telephone 301/415-7777.
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Definition of byproduct material in Atomic Energy Act 11e (U.S. Code Title 42, Section 2014):
"(e) The term ''byproduct material'' means (1) any radioactive material (except special nuclear material) yielded in or made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incident to the process of producing or utilizing special nuclear material, and (2) the tailings or wastes produced by the extraction or concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for its source material content."
[Federal Register: September 11, 1996 (Volume 61, Number 177)] [Notices] [Page 47965-47966]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 40-8902]Atlantic Richfield Company
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Final Finding of no significant impact, Notice of opportunity for hearing.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proposes to amend NRC Source Material License SUA-1470 to allow the licensee, Atlantic Richfield Company, to dispose of mill waste contaminated by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at its Bluewater uranium mill and tailings site in Cibola County, New Mexico. An Environmental Assessment was performed by the NRC staff in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR Part 51. The conclusion of the Environmental Assessment is a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the proposed licensing action.
Dawn Plans To Turn Nuclear Waste Into a Landfill (Envirobiz News, March 5, 1996)
For details see: Dawn Mining Co. Ford (WA) Mill and Mill Tailings
> see Processing of alternate feed material at White Mesa uranium mill (Utah)
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