Press release from STUK stating that it needs six months longer than originally planned to review Posiva's license application for a construction permit for disposal of spent nuclear fuel.
News article discussing the tender that Spain has issued for the contract to build the main civil works at the planned national high-level waste storage facility in central Spain.
Background The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) established medical screening
programs at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Oak Ridge Reservation, the Savannah
River Site, and the Amchitka site starting in 1996.Workers participating in these programs
have been followed to determine their vital status and mortality experience through
December 31, 2004.
Methods A cohort of 8,976 former construction workers from Hanford, Savannah River,
Oak Ridge, and Amchitka was followed using the National Death Index through December
