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Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick	Falsification Alleged at Yucca Mountain E-mail exchanges sent between 1998 and 2000, by unnamed U.S. Geological Survey scientists, reveal possible data fabrications during the federal quality assurance procedure for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
Geotimes December 2004 Laura Stafford	Yucca on hold The Department of Energy likely will not meet its 2010 deadline to open up the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage site.
Wired April 2003 David Ewing Duncan	Do-or-Die at Yucca Mountain The regulatory tug-of-war over Nevada's nuclear waste dump has dragged on for decades. Meanwhile, temporary sites across the country are overflowing with radioactive fuel rods -- making them perfect targets for terror.
Geotimes January 2005 Fred Schwab	Mount Everest, Nevada The United States entered the nuclear age more than a half-century ago, but has not yet resolved what to do with nuclear waste.
Geotimes August 2004 Megan Sever	A Loophole Threatens Yucca Mountain The House of Representatives recently passed its version of the energy and water bill, providing $749 million less than the Department of Energy says is necessary to push forward with the nation's nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, threatening to delay the projedt indefinitely.
Mother Jones Sep/Oct 2001 Jon Christensen	Yucca Mountain: Nuclear Roulette The government is relying on some Vegas-style oddsmaking as it moves ahead with plans to bury deadly radioactive waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain...
Chemistry World February 6, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Nuclear Storage: Ready, Willing, Able, and Undecided A report into the UK's long term nuclear waste storage plans has concluded there are no insurmountable technical barriers to storing nuclear waste deep underground. Between a third and two-thirds of the UK is geologically suitable for storing waste.
Geotimes March 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Mineral Crumbles Under Nuclear Heat When it comes to storing nuclear waste, it turns out that zircon can't take the heat. A new, high-resolution look at the mineral -- previously thought to be a model material for storing nuclear waste -- reveals that it is quick to succumb to radiation damage.
Chemistry World July 31, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Bury Radioactive Waste, UK Government Told Radioactive waste should be stored deep underground at sites where local communities have had the opportunity to participate in, and even withdraw from, the planning process.
Geotimes July 2006 Linda Rowan	Expanding Nuclear Options The Bush administration recently proposed significant changes to U.S. nuclear policy to resolve some of our current waste disposal problems and to accelerate the development of new nuclear power capacity.
Chemistry World September 2006 Neil Hyatt	Comment: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? The recent recommendations from the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management should prompt a renewed research effort to tackle the problems of nuclear waste storage in the UK.
Chemistry World October 7, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Los Alamos lab's safety lapses faulted for radioactive leak A radioactive material leak that affected 22 workers and closed the US's only permanent nuclear waste repository was likely the result of a failure to follow safety procedures.
Chemistry World November 2, 2007 Victoria Gill	UK Nuclear Waste Disposal Plans Too Soon and Too Scanty UK scientists have urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to amend its plans to ask the public to volunteer to host an underground nuclear waste store.
National Defense January 2009 Grace V. Jean	Future of Nuclear Energy Hinges on Recycling Technology The industry's Achilles' heel is the radioactive waste that is produced in the process of generating power, experts say.
Popular Mechanics February 27, 2008 Joanna Borns	Florida Outage Aside, New Plants Pave Clean Road for Nuke Power The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) just offered its annual outlook for the future of nuclear power, and it's optimistic.
Geotimes February 2005 Lubick & Sever	An Austere Budget for 2006 The overall winners in the Bush administration's budget proposal for next year were, once again, the departments of Defense and Homeland Security. For science agencies, it was a mixed bag, with global observation systems faring well, but with research in energy resources taking some hard hits.
Chemistry World January 10, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Atomic Inspection for Nuclear Waste Storage Scientists have announced a new way to assess the safety of storing nuclear waste. Already, the method has shown that the ceramic mineral zircon, a candidate for storing nuclear waste for over 250,000 years, would lose its ordered structure in a far shorter time.
Geotimes February 2006	Budget Blues and Bonuses In his State of the Union Address, President Bush gave the public a sneak-peak at his funding priorities for fiscal year 2007 in the sciences: In a nutshell... Renewable resources, alternative energy shifts... Other basic research... etc.
Chemistry World October 26, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Plutonium Hitchhikers Take the Fast Stream The radioactive element plutonium can travel through groundwater despite its low solubility: it hitches a ride on tiny colloid particles in the water.
Geotimes February 2007 Carolyn Gramling	USGS Says no Hush Orders Given The U.S. Geological Survey is not muzzling scientists, agency officials say.
Chemistry World November 20, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Nuclear waste research resurfaces The UK government's recent announcement of a significant expansion for nuclear power generation has rekindled the debate over the safe disposal of radioactive waste.
Geotimes August 2005 Katie Donnelly	The State of Nuclear Nonproliferation Several nuclear-related topics not only are important to the nation's security, but also are scientifically interesting.
IEEE Spectrum July 2008 Sally Adee	U.S. Critics Hope to Halt Nuclear-Waste Imports Utah firm wants Italian isotopes
Chemistry World February 15, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	UK Nuclear Policy Setback UK government plans for a new generation of nuclear power stations have suffered a setback after a public consultation on nuclear power was condemned by a High Court judge as 'inadequate' and 'misleading'.
Information Today April 26, 2010	DOE Launches Free Portal for Green Energy Research The free public portal was launched on the 40 th Anniversary of Earth Day by theU.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information within the Office of Science.
Information Today July 9, 2007	OSTI Partners with Internet Archive The Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) recently partnered with the Internet Archive to ensure uninterrupted access to more than 1 million online research papers from the E-print Network.
Geotimes February 2004 Lubick & Sever	Homeland security tops Bush budget, again As the pundits decry President Bush's latest deficit spending, the geosciences have taken a hit.
Mother Jones Jul/Aug 2001 Peter Klebnikov	The Texas Solution The federal government is facing a glut of radioactive waste -- and a contract to bury some of it could be worth millions to one of George W. Bush's top fundraisers...
Salon.com May 10, 2002 Douglas Cruickshank	How do you design a "Keep Out!" sign to last 10,000 years? The Department of Energy is creating a vast monument to scare future trespassers away from radioactive waste sites. Their plan: A granite Stonehenge thing with warnings in Navajo...
CIO January 1, 2002 Scott Berinato	A Third Nuclear Age? The technology has improved so much, IT has the potential to make the benefits of new nuclear plants outweigh the disadvantages.
Geotimes May 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Bush to Nominate New Director for U.S. Geological Survey Dirk Kempthorne was nominated as Secretary of the Interior, after Gale Norton resigned from the position March 10. Now, in the latest shakeup in the U.S. Department of the Interior, the USGS might soon be under new leadership.
Geotimes November 2004 Megan Sever	Fusion Stalemate Fusion as a viable energy source for the future... A "Takeout" nuclear plant...
Information Today June 13, 2011	Speech-Indexed Multimedia in Scientific Search Portals To this point, online searches for scientific information have been limited to text, such as within scientific papers.
Geotimes April 2006 Naomi Lubick	Minerals Cut Again Again, the President's proposed budget for 2007 scuttled the USGS's Mineral Resources Program. The requested cuts affect the collection of data on everything from mineral formation to the extent of worldwide deposits of economic commodities.
Salon.com December 10, 2001 Damien Cave	Nukes now! Post-Sept. 11, isn't it time to get off our fossil fuel fixation and take another look at nuclear power?
BusinessWeek September 5, 2005 John Carey	Maybe In My Backyard High fuel prices and global warming are making nuclear power an easier sell.
Popular Mechanics October 2006 Moore & Aurilio	The Great Nuclear Debate Here are some compelling arguments both for and against pursuing nuclear power as an answer to the country's energy problems.
Geotimes August 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker	Open house informs public, cheers scientists Amid downsizing and a threatened budget cut, the mood has been dim at the U.S. Geological Survey. Since the early 1990s, its staff has dwindled from as many as 2,500 to 600. But, from May 30 to June 1, the office flung open its doors to the public and let some light in, lifting the spirits of its scientists.
Wired February 2005 Schwartz & Reiss	Nuclear Now! How clean, green atomic energy can stop global warming.
IndustryWeek July 22, 2009 Peter Alpern	MIT Nanocomposite Material Holds Promise for Energy MIT scientist creates a model to design radiation-resistant materials.
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick	Patrick Leahy: Traversing Boundaries Since he stepped into the position of acting director of the USGS, Leahy has traveled widely and visited a variety of sites across the US and abroad, addressing the survey's many and varied activities. That variety reflects the evolving interests and career of this hydrologist-turned-manager.
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Geotimes October 2004 Megan Sever	Mount St. Helens Alert Level Lowered On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey lowered the alert level for Mount St. Helens in Washington from a Level 3 Volcano Alert to a Level 2 Volcano Advisory.
BusinessWeek July 8, 2010 Charlie Rose	Charlie Rose Talks to Anne Lauvergeon A conversation with Anne Lauvergeon; the French call the CEO of the largely state-owned nuclear power company Areva "Atomic Annie."
Salon.com May 16, 2001 Fiona Morgan	"A dangerous step backwards" Why has President Bush cut funding to combat nuclear proliferation in Russia, and will Congress be able to bring it back?
Mother Jones Jul/Aug 2002 Susan Q. Stranahan	Radioactive Recycling If the Department of Energy has its way, the nation's nuclear garbage could end up in everyday items like bicycles, frying pans, and baby strollers.
Chemistry World January 10, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Green Light for UK Nuclear Power The UK government has formally announced its long-awaited decision to support a new generation of nuclear power stations. Scientists, while welcoming the government's decision, also warned that plenty of detailed decisions remained.
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Prachi Patel	The Aging Nuclear Workforce A third of all workers in U.S. nuclear plants will be eligible to retire in the next five years.
National Defense April 2009	Nuke Recycling Nuclear power is stymied in this country from unnatural fear.
Information Today October 1, 2007	U.S. Department of Energy Launches New Patent Web Site The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the launch of a Web site, DOepatents, which allows search and retrieval of information from a collection of more than 20,000 patent records.