From San Francisco Chronicle --Waste Control Specialists LLC, based in Dallas, received a license this year from state regulators to accept commercial waste from Texas, Vermont and from U.S. Department of Energy sites. But it also wants to dispose commercial waste from other states at the site near the New Mexico line.

“ "The material is there. It needs to be moved to a secure, licensed facility and we believe that our site can provide that need," he said. ”

From Monsters and Critics --After researching ice formation and melting on the Siberian coast, German report that regular ships might be able to sail through the North-East Passage between Europe and Asia in the next 10 to 15 years.  Early estimates that the Passage would open up around the year 2050 -- linking the Atlantic and Pacific --   did not take into account the rapid pace of climate change and melting of the ice cover. 

“ 'The ice cover on the sea is melting faster than our models forecast,' Kassens said, adding that Siberia's permafrost was thawing too. The expedition saw buildings on the permafrost cracked and in danger of collapse. ”

From Planetsave --More than 15,000 anti-nuclear protesters turned out along a train route in Germany to protest the annual convoy carrying tons of nuclear waste from France to a storage facility in northeastern Germany. The train was carrying spent nuclear fuel that was originally used in German power stations, turned into pellets at a factory in France and then returned to Germany for long-term storage. Several protesters and police were injured in the confrontation, but police gave no reports about the number of victims.

Thousands of anti-nuclear campaigners have assembled along a train route in Germany to protest the annual convoy carrying tons of nuclear waste from France to a storage facility in northeastern Germany.

From Planetsave -- More than 15,000 anti-nuclear protesters turned out along a train route in Germany to protest the annual convoy carrying tons of nuclear waste from France to a storage facility in northeastern Germany. The train was carrying spent nuclear fuel that was originally used in German power stations, turned into pellets at a factory in France and then returned to Germany for long-term storage. Several protesters and police were injured in the confrontation, but police gave no reports about the number of victims.

“ In what is becoming an annual ritual of civil resistance and direct action in Germany, more than 15,000 anti-nuclear protesters turned out along the route to Gorleben on Sunday—twice the number at a similar protest at the site two years ago—in the largest and most violent anti-nuclear protest in Germany since 2001. ”

From AFP --Environmentalists trying to block a train carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste from western France to a dump in Germany were beat by police in the largest and most violent anti-nuclear protests since 2001 in Germany. Activists set fire to barricades on the tracks in the north of the country, which police extinguished with water cannon.

“ "This is a strong sign of the renaissance of the anti-nuclear movement," group spokesman Jochen Stay said of the weekend protests. ”

From World Nuclear Association --The radioactivity of used fuel and all nuclear wastes diminishes with time. Safe methods for the final disposal of high-level wastes are technically proven; the international consensus is that this should be deep geological disposal. Wastes from the nuclear fuel cycle are categorized as high-, medium- or low-level wastes by the amount of radiation that they emit and come from a variety of sources.

“ Nuclear power is the only energy-producing technology which takes full responsibility for all its wastes and fully costs this into the product. ”

From the U.S. Department of Energy --This site details the plans for Yucca Mountain, the site of America's first repository for spent nuclear fuel rods and solidified high-level radioactive waste. The material would be stored in tunnels deep underground after a complex of buildings would receive, package, and prepare the material for disposal underground.

“ Yucca Mountain is the site of America's first planned repository for spent nuclear fuel rods and solidified high-level radioactive waste. ”

From United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission --Low-level waste disposal occurs at commercially operated low-level waste disposal facilities that must be licensed by either NRC or Agreement States. And there are three existing low-level waste disposal facilities in the United States that accept various types of low-level waste, all of which are in Agreement States.

“ NRC and the Agreement States regulate low-level waste disposal through a combination of regulatory requirements, licensing, and safety oversight. ”

From ThinkQuest --
This overview explains the details of nuclear waste, including the definition of radioactivity, how nuclear waste travels, what can be done about nuclear waste, the various forms of radioactive wastes, and solutions for the future.

From Nuclear Threat Initiative --

China's current spent fuel management policy is the interim storage of spent fuel, either at or away from the reactors. This article describes various facilities, including the Gobi Desert and the Lanzhou Nuclear Fuel Complex, which are authorized and selected by the China National Nuclear Corporation.