http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 14. http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.9/accidental-wilderness Washington's Hanford Site and New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range both hold deadly nuclear contamination – along with unspoiled landscapes rich in wildlife. No publisher David Wolman nuclear waste Patrick Morrow U.S. Department of Defense wildlife habitat environmental news Energy Department Heidi Newsome Trinity Site Hanford Nuclear Reservation atomic bomb White Sands Missile Range 2010-06-04T15:54:51Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.5/innovate-part-iii Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking, such as: Redefining rancher politics, A rediscovered renewable, Creating public nooks and crannies and more. No publisher Marty Durlin, Ray Ring, Sandra Tassel, Sarah Gilman, Terray Sylvester, Jennifer Anderson Bill Bullard ranchers mountain communities passive cooling artists nuclear power house calls Platte Valley Medical Clinic NuScale camping electricity urban youth hydropower alternative energy No Child Left Inside cattlemen's groups Mickey Fearn R-CALF microhydro power Diane Noton nuclear waste small-scale nuclear reactors rural health care Outdoor Opportunities Eric Jacobson urban parks Hyperion Power Generation doctors general practitioners corporate meatpackers outdoor recreation Green Justice big ag public art Portland City Repair Artists country of origin labeling Chris Radcliffe Marci Macfarlane 2010-02-05T09:12:51Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16147 The designation of a new wilderness area in Utah – the Cedar Mountain Wilderness -- may make it harder for nuclear power plant operators to ship radioactive waste to the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation No publisher Matt Jenkins Nuclear Waste Wilderness Areas Cedar Mountain Wilderness Area nuclear waste radioactive waste waste shipments hazardous waste disposal Goshute Reservation Skull Valley Goshutes Jim Hansen BLM Scott Groene Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance wilderness bills Rob Bishop Privat 2010-02-05T08:57:10Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/296/15434 Recently released e-mails show that federal employees falsified information about the safety of the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev. No publisher J.M. McCord Waste Yucca Mountain Nevada Department of Energy nuclear safety nuclear waste spent fuel rods George W. Bush hazardous waste nuclear repository scientists federal employees Kenny Guinn Jon Porter Ted Garrish criminal investigation e-mail U.S. Ge 2010-02-05T09:24:28Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/280/14931 Yucca Mountain’s 10,000-year safety standard is ruled arbitrary by a federal court, but the Energy Department remains determined to open the site as planned No publisher Ryan Slattery Waste Yucca Mountain Kevin Crowley nuclear waste radioactive waste spent fue rods nuclear power plants National Academy of Sciences Steve Frishman Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects Energy Department DOE Nuclear Energy Institute Steve Kraft Bob Lou 2010-02-05T09:20:45Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/268/14562 The European-owned company LES wants to produce nuclear fuel near Eunice, N.M., but has yet to come up with a plan for storing the highly toxic, radioactive byproduct No publisher Jodi Peterson Waste LES nuclear fuel Eunice New Mexico Hobbs N.M. radioactive waste toxic materials nuclear waste Cotter Corporation Nuclear Regulatory Commission Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center Gov. Bill Richardson Sen. Pete Dominici 2010-02-05T09:56:14Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/267/14525 The White Mesa Ute Reservation near Blanding, Utah, is fighting a nearby International Uranium Corporation mill that some say is really a poorly disguised hazardous waste dump No publisher Rosemary Winters Uranium White Mesa Ute Reservation Blanding Utah International Uranium Corporation alternate feed yellowcake nuclear power plants hazardous waste nuclear waste uranium tailings 2010-02-05T09:56:03Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/264/14426 In the face of noisy opposition, Envirocare of Utah pulls its federal application to dump high-level radioactive waste in the desert No publisher Tim Westby Waste Envirocare Salt Lake City Utah nuclear waste radioactive waste hazardous waste Gov. Olene Walker Sen. Bob Bennett Rep. Rob Bishop Sen. George Voinovich 2010-02-05T09:55:34Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/263/14393 Los Alamos National Laboratory is booming, revitalized by a new era of weapons development – but the state of New Mexico wants the lab to clean up its old Cold War-era messes before it starts making new ones No publisher Laura Paskus Weapons And Laboratories Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear weapons Manhattan Project nuclear laboratories Los Alamos lab atomic bomb nuclear waste arms race Cold War weapons manufacturing deterrence hazardous waste cleanup toxic waste water pollution Rio Gr 2010-02-05T09:55:20Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/257/14200 Three federal judges, ruling in three environmentalist lawsuits, tell the Department of Energy that it has to be more careful with nuclear waste No publisher Ray Ring Waste nuclear waste Hanford Nuclear Reservation INEEL Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Energy Department Spencer Abraham 2010-02-05T10:13:25Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/257/14192 The hardscrabble desert town of Carlsbad, N.M. – already home to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant – is brushing aside the fears of environmentalists and arms-control advocates in its eagerness to host the Bush administration’s planned new nuclear bomb fac No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Weapons And Laboratories Nuclear weapons plutonium pit production bomb trigger factory nuclear waste arms control Nuclear Posture Review Carlsbad N.M. modern pit facility the West’s New Nuclear Age 2010-02-05T10:13:20Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15343 Cape Cod’s opposition to a proposed offshore wind farm sounds crazy to Westerners, who would gladly exchange nuclear waste dumps, coal mines and gas wells for some renewable energy No publisher Joshua Zaffos nuclear waste coal mines environmental groups Renewable Energy Gregg Mountain oil and gas drilling Nantucket Island renewable energy Easterbrook Yucca Wind energy 2010-02-05T09:23:50Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/319/16208 The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico may begin taking hotter waste if the state carries out plans to relax regulations No publisher Laura Paskus Waste WIPP nuclear waste radioactive waste Hanford Nuclear Reservation Idaho National Laboratory Department of Energy Washington TRU Solutions New Mexico Environment Department Adam Rankin Don Hancock Southwest Research and Information Center nuclear 2011-10-27T21:29:27Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/332/16628 Louisiana Energy Services, a European-based company, breaks ground on the first uranium enrichment facility in the U.S. near Eunice, N.M. No publisher Laura Paskus nuclear waste National Enrichment Facility nuclear energy Pete Domenici radioactive waste storage uranium enrichment Nuclear Regulatory Commission weapons Nuclear Energy Patricia Bill Richardson Louisiana Energy Services Marshall Cohen Madrid URENCO nuclear Waste 2010-09-23T23:30:30Z News Article