Nuclear Power & Radiation

Navajo people are fighting the return of uranium mining they say threatens to despoil their lands and health.

"The companies that own almost half the nation's nuclear reactors are not setting aside enough money to dismantle them, and many may sit idle for decades and pose safety and security risks as a result, an Associated Press investigation has found."

While the Senate Energy Committee has so far resisted counting nuclear power in mandated "renewables" quotas, it adopted an amendment allowing nuclear plants to up their output.

"Thousands of everyday products and materials containing radioactive metals are surfacing across the United States and around the world."

A power plant under construction on a Finnish island was supposed to be the showpiece of a nuclear renaissance. But it is way behind schedule and over budget.

The economic stimulus will bring another $2 billion in cleanup funds to the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.

"A Salt Lake City-based company can import Italian nuclear waste for disposal in Utah, a federal judge ruled Friday."

A flood of new stimulus money going into nuclear cleanup problems is raising issues of abuse.