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These bacteria clean up radioactive waste

    For decades, scientists suspected that bacteria known as Geobacter could clean up radioactive uranium waste, but it wasn’t clear how the microbes did…

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Zero waste Europe condemns neglect of incinerators from ETS revision

  Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) has condemned the European Commission’s (EC) decision to leave municipal waste to energy incinerators out of the scope of its…

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Croatia needs to correctly transpose EU radioactive waste management legislation – EC

  The European Commission (EC) said on Thursday it has decided to send a reasoned opinion to Croatia for failing to correctly transpose certain requirements…

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New roads to be built from fertilizer waste

For the first time since 1989, fertilizer manufacturers can sell their radioactive waste to governments for road projects. In mid-October, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…

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South Korea expresses ’serious concern’ over any Japanese radioactive water dump

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Critics alarmed by US nuclear agency’s bid to relax rules on radioactive waste

The federal agency providing oversight of the commercial nuclear sector is attempting to push through a rule change critics say could allow dangerous amounts of…

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