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Brinton was raised in Perry, Iowa, and is the child of two Southern Baptist missionaries. Brinton came out as bisexual to their parents in the early 2000s. [8] According to Brinton, their parents disapproved of Brinton's attraction to a male friend from school and sent the then-middle school student for conversion therapy, an experience Brinton later described as "barbaric" and "painful" in a ...
Transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste is sent from across the country to the WIPP site for disposal in a 2,000-foot-deep underground salt deposit, mostly made up of clothing, equipment and other ...
The NRC has issued licenses like the one at issue in this case for the temporary storage of spent fuel produced by nuclear reactors since 1980 in recognition that the nuclear-power industry would ...
Oil and gas industry groups also voiced concerns to the proposal, worried nuclear waste storage could impede fossil fuel drilling in the Permian Basin, known as the U.S.’ busiest shale region.
Also in 1983, the first radioactive waste was processed through the aqueous recovery system, creating a plutonium button. [citation needed] A plant safety official, Jim Stone, warned Rockwell that their employees were being exposed to unsafe levels of beryllium in 1984. He was fired in 1986 for whistle blowing.
On June 23, a federal judge approved, with WA State Department of Ecology’s agreement, a request to push the deadline back 20 months for beginning nuclear waste treatment, at the $17 billion ...
NextEra Energy sought to deduct payments made between 2003 and 2010 for "the disposal of radioactive waste produced by nuclear power plants". [37] In August 2018, NextEra Energy received a cease and desist order by Oklahoma state officials concerning the construction of wind turbines violating a state law intended to protect open air space.
TRU nuclear waste in need of disposal could increase at Los Alamos as it was planned to generate 30 pits a year, combined with 50 a year by 2030 at the DOE’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina.