By FRANK MUNGER, Scripps Howard News Service

Allegations: Security guards at Tenn. nuclear weapons plant on steroids

The government is taking a closer look at steroid use in the nuclear weapons complex because of recent incidents involving security guards in Oak Ridge. Two guards quit and two others were fired at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant after testing positive for anabolic steroids.

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Hundreds line up for nuclear-waste processing jobs

Not everyone would consider processing some of the hottest radioactive waste around to be a desirable job.
Try telling that to the hundreds of folks who turned out for a recent Jobs Fair hosted by EnergX, the company that operates the U.S. Department of Energy's Transuranic Waste Processing Center in Oak Ridge.

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Sick nuclear workers say government isn't helping

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- Sick nuclear workers, angered by rejected claims for financial help, are calling for congressional reform.About 60 ailing workers and their advocates rallied this week at Oak Ridge's Jackson Plaza, as injured workers demonstrated at other nuclear facilities around the nation.

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Oak Ridge researchers find promise in nuclear recycling

Research engineers at Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have successfully recycled pieces of old nuclear fuel to produce new fuel pellets for nuclear reactors -- demonstrating techniques considered important to the expansion of nuclear power.

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