Sunday, September 25, 2011

• Temecula Patch – Photos: Radioactive Truck Passes Through Temecula
• Spokesman-Review – Editorial: Park idea for Hanford deserving of support
• Tri-City Herald – Radiological safety being improved at plutonium plant at Hanford – Annette Cary
• Corpus Christi Caller Times – Uranium permit delays are justifiable
• Fort Worth Star-Telegram – Perry critics say waste license is a case study in ‘crony capitalism’ – Dave Montgomery
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – City of Oak Ridge has a few suggestions for NNSA, beginning with ‘Don’t do it’ – Frank Munger
• Middle East: Emirates 24/7 – UAE nuclear fuel deal in early 2012
• North Africa: Daily Telegraph – Dumped in the desert … Gaddafi’s yellowcake stockpile – Richard Spencer

Saturday, September 24, 2011

• San Diego Union Tribune – Sewage spill signs posted at San Onofre
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Patrick O’Neill: Y-12 protestors’ sentences too harsh for the charges
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – State Rep. Turner cites UT-ORNL on jobs tour – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL Director Thom Mason: ‘My science output is not zero, but it’s awfully close’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – October events at Oak Ridge museum – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – U.S., China set intellectual property rules – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – Hearings on licensing new Plant Vogtle reactors begin Tuesday – Rob Pavey
• Danville Register & Bee – County official to go on Canada uranium trip – Tara Bozick

Friday, September 23, 2011

• Las Vegas Review-Journal blog – Pro-Yucca lawmaker tries new strategy – Steve Tetreault
• St. George Daily Spectrum – Southern Utah residents heard on nuclear test site – David DeMille
• Tri-City Herald – HANFORD: Contractor agrees to $1.5 million settlement
• Los Alamos Monitor – LANL Finishes Excavation of 1940s Waste Dump on DP Road
• University of Wisconsin-Madison – DOE upgrades UW-Madison nuclear facilities, funds new projects
• Knoxville Injury Blog – EEOICPA Claim Starts Clock Ticking on Workers Compensation Claim – Law Offices of Tony Farmer and John Dreiser
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Report assesses NRC oversight of making tritium
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Emergency Preparedness Fair – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – IG finds issues with Tennessee’s $99M Recovery Act-funded weatherization program – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Corporate loyalties at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Y-12 and environmental regulations — a way of life – D. Ray Smith
• DOE – Energy Department Finalizes $105 Million Loan Guarantee for First-of-its-Kind Cellulosic Bio-Refinery in Iowa
• DOE – Energy Department Finalizes Loan Guarantee for Ormat Geothermal Project in Nevada
• DOE – Department of Energy Finalizes Loan Guarantee of Nearly $170 Million to Granite Reliable Power
• DOE – U.S., China Reach Agreement on Intellectual Property Protections for U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center
• NRC – NRC Meetings in Maryland, Illinois and California to Discuss Long-Term Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
• Ria Novosti – Ukraine, US to sign memorandum on high enriched uranium on Sep. 26

Thursday, September 22, 2011

• San Diego Union Tribune – Gains in battle against Gulf War illness – Gretel C. Kovach
• UPI – Lawrence Livermore in licensing agreement
• AP Google – CH2M Hill to pay $1.5M in settlement with US
• Tri-City Herald – Sirens at Hanford to sound for drill today
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – WIPP announces layoffs to start in OctoberBy Tom Schneider
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – Letter: A response to WIPP layoffs – Dale Janway
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sandia project $5.5M under budget – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – SSAB elects new slate of officers – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Something else to forget about: NNSA’s construction management contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Climb every mountain, equip every border – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Annual poster session at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ambassador Linton Brooks analyzes the news: It’s like Dan Poneman being VP of Exxon – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – GAO: there could be efficiencies under existing contracts at Y-12, Pantex – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What’s going on, anyway? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Judge sets free Sister Mary Dennis Lentsch – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE gives $17M for nuclear R&D at universities; UT gets $250K for materials study – Frank Munger
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Uranium mining offers future for Southside – Roger Crews
• Reuters – Analysis: Fukushima to slow, not stop, nuclear growth – Fredrik Dahl
• DOE – Secretary Chu’s Nobel Prize Winning Research Unexpectedly Addressing Global Water Challenge
• DOE – Recovery Act Energy Jobs Bring New Era of Opportunity
• Europe: Herald Scotland – Seabed may never be free from nuclear plant waste – David Ross
• Russia: AP Google – Russian nuclear submarine hit by fishing trawler

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

• Huffington Post – Danger Signs: America’s So Nuclear Wasted – David Crosby
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Hearing focuses on former Nevada Test Site’s future – Keith Rogers
• Crosscut – Radioactive Ranch: How Hanford’s history reflects the West – Knute Berger
• KUOW NPR – GAO To Study Hanford Treatment Plant – Anna King
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – WIPP layoffs announced
• KASA – Former lab workers could be compensated–Certain workers with cancer – Scott Daniels
• KRQE News 13 – More job cuts coming at WIPP nuke site
• Knoxville News Sentinel – GAO: Y-12 contracting plan built on uncertainties – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Catholic nun, jailed in Y-12 protest, is freed – Jamie Satterfield
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Shrinking ORNL budgets to hit subcontractors, too
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Court reports from the peace camp – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Anderson to head DOE’s Asset Revitalization – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Renouncing the Queen – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – It happened in Vienna – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – GAO releases report on Y-12/Pantex contract merger, new construction mangement contract – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Out-of-box approach aids Y-12 cleanup
• DOE – Department of Energy Announces $17 Million to Bolster University-Led Nuclear Energy Research and Development
• DOE – DOE Highlights Clean Energy Jobs, Announces Major New Energy Efficiency Milestone
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Draft Policy Statement on Volume Reduction and Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management: Draft Policy Statement on Volume Reduction and Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Pages 58543-58544 [FR DOC# 2011-24226]
• Oceania: Adelaide Now – nuclear test compensation victory
• Europe: BBC News – ‘Pristine’ seabed effort off Dounreay ‘could do harm’
• Europe: The Guardian – Scottish nuclear leak ‘will never be completely cleaned up’ – Rob Edwards
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Protest at Dounreay nuclear waste ‘gamble’ – Iain Grant
• Europe: The Scotsman – Nuclear clean-up ‘harmful’ – John Ross

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

• Salt Lake City Weekly – Got Radiation? How contaminated is milk? – Cecil Adams
• High Country News – Feds find shortcuts in nuclear cleanup – Krissy Clark
• Tri-City Herald – Safety board warns of lethal risk of ammonia leak at vit plant – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hundreds learn they will lose jobs at Hanford – Annette Cary
• KIFI Idaho Falls – Workshops For Laid Off INL Employees – Kylie Bearse
• KWES NewsWest9 – State pushing for more LANL clean up
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – On Livermore – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Building for the future at SNS – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Will Y-12/Pantex savings cost 1,000 jobs? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Alexander stepping down Senate GOP post – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Stretching plans for Spallation Neutron Source – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Comments due on Y-12/Pantex draft RFP – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Secretary Chu’s speech at IAEA – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Tech transfer director at Friends of ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – K-33 waste shipments resume – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Oak Ridge protester draws prison sentence
• Connect Savannah – Could SRS be the new Yucca Mountain? – Jessica Leigh Lebos
• USW – United Steelworkers Letter to Congress, RE: Support for the Charlie Wolf Nuclear Workers Compensation Act of 2011 (H.R. 1828 and S. 757) (pdf-108K)
• DOE – The United States Releases its Open Government National Action Plan – Cammie Croft
• DOE – Technology Transfer: Triggering New Global Markets and Job Growth – Karina Edmonds
• DOE:IG – Inspection Report: Follow-up Review of Property Control and Accountability at the Idaho National Laboratory, INS-L-11-03 (pdf-126K)
• Canada: StarPhoenix – Nuclear waste opponent on hunger strike – Jason Warick
• Oceania: ABC – Atomic bomb survivors demand end to nuclear power – Mark Willacy
• Europe: News & Star – Dick Raaz steps down as Cumbria nuclear waste site boss
• Europe: Reuters – German Finmin-to appeal Hamburg court ruling on nuclear fuel tax – Matthias Sobolewski
• East Europe: Ahram Online – Chernobyl veterans storm Ukraine’s parliament over benefit cuts
• East Europe: Daily Telegraph – Chernobyl’s ‘illegal’ tours stopped – Andrew Osborn

Monday, September 19, 2011

• Las Vegas Review-Journal blog – Court urged to intervene in Yucca Mountain dispute – Steve Tetreault
• AOL Energy – Yucca Nuclear Waste Wars – Jon Hurdle
• Public News Service – Radioactive Disturbance is a Concern at Nevada Security Site
• KEPR 19 – Gregoire, Salazar Still Looking for Hanford Waste Solution – Melanie Tubbs
• Seattle Times – Salazar pushes Hanford reactor as national park
• Tri-City Herald – Interior secretary tours Hanford B Reactor – Annette Cary
• KIFI Idaho Falls – Hundreds of INL Workers Laid Off MondayBy Kylie Bearse
• Idaho Statesman Politics – Crapo continues push to expand compensation for those harmed by Cold War bomb program – Dan Popkey
• U.S. Senate – Senator address letter to Senate Judiciary Chair, Re: S.791, the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 2011 (pdf-24K)
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Nuclear protester sentenced in Y-12 trespassing case
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A big (9) new class for DOE advisory board – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Gary Gilmartin at ETEBA – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Beyond (and in addition to) the ORNL job cuts – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The strategy for securing HEU – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Environmental regulations at Y-12 surface in 1985 – D. Ray Smith
• GoDanRiver – Virginia legislators holding back on uranium mining
• Saratogian – New radioactive materials storage facility proposed for Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory’s Kesselring site in West Milton – Paul Post
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• POGO blog – U.S. Learns to Start Worrying and Love Nuclear Oversight – Dana Liebelson
• USA Today – Study links Gulf War vets’ illnesses to area of service – Kelly Kennedy
• DOE – U.S. Energy Secretary Addresses International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference
• DOE – Reaffirming America’s Commitment to the Peaceful Use of the Atom
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Nuclear waste shipment arrives safely in Japan
• Europe: UPI – French company reviews nuclear safety