Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization recommended that the country dispose of intermediate-level and non-fuel, high-level radioactive waste in a deep geologic repository, according to a press release from the non-profit corporation, which at the Canadian federal government’s direction was founded in 2002 by Canada’s utilities to deal with the nation’s radioactive waste.
Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources in 2020 directed the organization to study options for disposal of this type of waste, the group said in the release. Canada is considering two sites in the province of Ontario for a deep geologic repository to store spent nuclear fuel and possibly other radioactive waste: one in South Bruce near the shores of Lake Huron, about 110 from Toronto, and one in the more remote Ignace, a little more than 135 miles as the crow flies from the northwestern shore of Lake Superior.
Hong Kong planned to ban seafood products from certain Japanese prefectures if the Japanese government discharges irradiated wastewater from cleanup of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the Japanese-owned, English-language newspaper the Japan Times reported this week.
Countries neighboring Japan, including those friendly and unfriendly to the U.S., have publicly expressed concerns about the planned discharge, though the International Atomic Energy Agency at the U.N. last week said the discharge would have a negligible effect on people and the environment.
Twitter messaging accounts friendly to Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump, the former president, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, traded barbs recently about Nevada’s Yucca Mountain, the mothballed radioactive waste repository that each man supported during his term in federal office. The DeSantis-friendly tweets came from the handle @DeSantisWarRoom. The Trump tweets from the handle @MAGAIncWarRoom.
The two, as Twitter users pointed out, ripped each other over proposals to fund Yucca that Trump made as President and DeSantis supported as a congressman. Politicians of each major party routinely play for votes in Nevada by painting themselves as anti-Yucca. During his time in office, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who died in 2021, became an unbending opponent of Yucca. Federal officeholders from the state have since clung to his stance without many exceptions.
The United Kingdom’s Nuclear Waste Services said it is preparing to place 260 containers of nuclear waste in disposal vaults in the Kingdom-owned disposal site in Cumbria county in north west England, the group announced this week in a press release.
The work will take about five months to complete said Nuclear Waste Services, a part of the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The authority is a non-departmental agency of the kingdom’s government funded by multiple public agencies.
The former chairman of Ohio’s Republican party got five years for his role in a 2019 bribery ring involving the state legislature, financial bailouts for struggling nuclear power plants, and the former speaker of the Ohio House, who got an even more severe sentence for his role in the scandal.
Matt Borges was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on July 1. He and Householder were convicted of racketeering in March. The two were part of a scheme in which FirstEnergy Corp. funneled $60 million in campaign funding to elect legislators who would go on to pass a $1 billion bailout for power plants owned by what is now a former FirstEnergy subsidiary.
