GROVETOWN, Ga. - Entered into rest December 30, 2012 at University Hospital, Mr. Leonard Robert Alvarez, Sr., 79. Mr. Alvarez served more than twenty years of honorable service in the U. S. Army. He was a veteran of both Korea...

...as Plant Vogtle, according to a new analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies.The study, by senior scholar Robert Alvarez, found that U.S. reactors have generated about 65,000 metric tons of spent fuel, of which 75 percent remains...

...plants, private manufacturers and universities. "This stuff circulated much more widely than we'd thought," said Robert Alvarez, an official at the Energy Department when the new studies were started in 1999. USA Today said the latest studies...

...Apartment 10A Joseph Patten Niquette, 18, and Crystal Lee Vazquez-Figueroa, 18, both of Southbridge, Mass. Robert Alvarez Garay, 19, and Marcie Dawn Bowdish, 20, both of Fort Gordon Brian Scott Gamble, 22, and Tracy Ann Jack, 21...

...business. "To live here, you have to have two jobs. Or if you're married, your wife has to have a job," said Robert Alvarez, a 38year-old airport shuttle driver who makes $7 an hour. "The pay here isn't good enough for one job unless...

...official briefing reporters. Officials said the seawater will remain inside the unit, possibly for several months.Robert Alvarez, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and former senior policy adviser to the U.S. secretary of...

...spent fuel pool could drain enough water to cause a catastrophic radiological fire that cannot be extinguished," Robert Alvarez, a former Energy Department senior policy adviser, told a recent Senate hearing. He cited a 1997 analysis that...

...business. "To live here, you have to have two jobs. Or if you're married, your wife has to have a job," said Robert Alvarez, a 38year-old airport shuttle driver who makes $7 an hour. "The pay here isn't good enough for one job unless...

The push for new nuclear reactors became a top-tier issue in the presidential race. Yet one aspect of the debate has received little attention, though it provides an interesting insight into competing visions for America's energy future: reprocessing spent nuclear fuel.

AS THE horror of Sept. 11 unfolded, the nation's 103 commercial nuclear reactors, and dozens of federal nuclear weapons facilities were put on high security alert. The U.S. government has long considered them potential terrorist targets, implementing programs to protect nuclear facilities against these threats. But is enough being done?