Sunday, November 13, 2011

• Las Vegas SUN – Monstrous nuclear waste dump just won’t die – Brian Greenspun
• Tri-City Herald – Bechtel launches vit plant website
• Tri-City Herald – Second Hanford vit plant official files whistleblower claim – Annette Cary
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Leadership change for B&W’s DOE/NNSA work; Dudich replaces Cochran – Frank Munger
• WSLS – Danville uranium meeting hears from experts on mining
• South Africa: Daily Nation – Major alert over illegal trade in nuclear materials – Zephania Ubwani

Saturday, November 12, 2011

• Tri-City Herald – Contractor sues Energy Northwest – Annette Cary
• KIFI Idaho Falls – INL Emergency Over, Investigation Ongoing–Unexpected Sodium Reaction Causes Evacuations – Marissa Bodnar
• Niagara Gazette – Radioactive site citizen board is back in action – Timothy Chipp
• Motherboard – Gulf War Syndrome and the Army’s Depleted Uranium Training Videos – DerekMead
• Europe: BBC News – Dalgety Bay beach: Gordon Brown calls for urgent action

Friday, November 11, 2011

• Nevada Appeal – Chuck Muth: Nevada residents should be ‘ashamed’ over this ‘abomination’ of a contract – Chuck Muth
• Fontana Herald-News – Fontana representatives seek more federal support in combating perchlorate contamination of underground water supplies
• Tri-City Herald – State poised to cut money to Hanford interest groups – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford official to lead DOE field office – Annette Cary
• AP Google – Sodium fire reported at Idaho National Lab site
• Reuters – Worker taken to hospital after nuclear lab incident – Laura Zuckerman
• Reuters – Worker burned in fire at nuclear research lab – Laura Zuckerman
• Bellona – Sixteen workers exposed to radiation at US DOE lab in Idaho – Charles Digges
• KIFI Idaho Falls – INL Employees Back At Work; Exposure Not Extremely Rare At Site – Caleb James
• Denver Post – Uranium sifted from groundwater piles up inside mine west of Denver – Bruce Finley
• Odessa American – Officials prepare for opening of radioactive waste facility – Jon Vanderlaan
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Contractors hot for Uranium Processing Facility
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – House Appropriations chief at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – B&W getting ready for UPF contracting – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Was Oak Ridge smarter than other DOE sites? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Companies salivating for UPF work – Frank Munger
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – Ten years after the all-clear, Maralinga is still toxic – Philip Dorling
• Europe: Galloway News – No depleted uranium tests planned for Dundrennan – Stuart Gillespie
• Europe: The Independent – Oh I do like to be beside the (radioactive) seaside… – Jonathan Brown
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Berkeley heat exchanger disposal contract
• Europe: Bloomberg – Germany to Resume Search for Nuclear Waste Site, Minister Says – Stefan Nicola

Thursday, November 10, 2011

• Las Vegas SUN – Fissure forming in Nevada delegation on Yucca Mountain – Karoun Demirjian
• New York Times blog – Nuclear Waste Is Likely to Come Up at Next Debate – Matthew W. Wald
• NewsMax – Nev. Lawmaker Open to Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Storage – Greg McDonald
• Palo Alto Online – Fueling nuclear power–Demand For Energy Spark Idea Of International Fuel Bank
• Honolulu Star-Advertiser – State, federal investigators check fish, food for radiation – June Watanabe
• Kingman Daily Miner – A possible lawsuit over uranium mining? – Suzanne Adams
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford subcontractor, DOE being sued by former vit plant executive – Annette Cary
• Boise State University Arbiter – Idaho Lab Sends Battery to Space – Kimberley O’Bryan
• Bellona – Sixteen workers exposed to radiation at US DOE lab in Idaho – Charles Digges
• Idaho Statesman – Idaho lab accident may stem from damaged container – John Miller
• Spokesman-Review – More tests in radiation leak; container blamed – John Miller
• Knoxville News Sentinel – NRC seeking more public comment on Watts Bar Unit 2
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Waiting, watching and spending $80M a month – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Chu to join Obama in Hawaii – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More info on Y-12/Pantex contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA starts blog – Frank Munger
• Chatham Star Tribune – A guide to uranium mining and public health – Steven Brown
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico Pages 70120-70121 [FR DOC# 2011-29143]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Portsmouth Page 70121 [FR DOC# 2011-29148]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Proposed Alternative Soils Standards for the Uravan, Colorado Uranium Mill Pages 70170-70173 [FR DOC# 2011-29129]
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Public get say on potential N-waste site ‘four times as big as Sellafield’ – Alan Irving

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

• Las Vegas SUN – Editorial: Congressman’s claims about Yucca Mountain nothing but rubbish
• Las Vegas SUN – Nevada nuclear agency hires consultant – Cy Ryan
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – (#3): State returning $8.1 million in mining claims fees – Ed Vogel
• Hawaii Reporter – Nuclear Scientist and Hawaii Reporter Columnist Mike Fox Dies After Battle with Cancer – Malia Zimmerman \
• Honolulu Weekly – Nuclear Guinea Pigs – Beverly Ann Deepe Keever
• KUOW NPR – Hanford Whistleblower Launches New Lawsuit Over Safety Concerns – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: DOE and URS sued by whistleblower Tamosaitis in federal court – Annette Cary
• Idaho Mountain Express – Don’t bet the Grand Canyon on uranium mining
• AP Google – 17 Idaho National Lab workers exposed to radiation
• Reuters – More tests ordered for plutonium-exposed Idaho lab workers – Laura Zuckerman
• Reuters – Seventeen workers exposed to radiation at Idaho lab – Laura Zuckerman
• UPI – 17 exposed to radiation in Idaho
• Idaho Press-Tribune – Nuke lab workers get treatment to flush plutonium
• Idaho Press-Tribune – At least 17 INL employees exposed to radiation
• Idaho State Journal – INL accident may stem from damaged container – John Miller
• Idaho Statesman – Two Idaho lab workers inhale plutonium oxide from weapons-grade plutonium reactor – Rocky Barker
• Idaho Statesman – At least 17 INL employees exposed to radiation
• KPVI-TV – INL Holds Press Conference About Plutonium Accident
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: In rough fiscal times, is UPF still essential?
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 restarting uranium vacuum cleaner; system shut down since 2006 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sig Hecker at ORNL Nov. 18 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Managing nuclear materials at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Editorial: Oak Ridge remembers sick workers, advocates
• POGO blog – Pentagon Whistleblower Suffered Years of Retaliation, OSC Says – Nick Schwellenbach
• Canada: CBC – Is Canada doing enough to help its veterans?
• Canada: CTV – Veterans skeptical of pledge to examine uranium exposure
• Oceania: Penrith Star – Dumping opposed
• Europe: BBC News – Dounreay gets leak delayed honour
• Europe: The Independent – Radioactive beach faces closure – Jonathan Brown
• Europe: Manchester Evening News – Video: Nuclear bunker that had Trafford town hall chiefs at war is uncovered – Jennifer Williams
• Europe: New Civil Engineer – Dounreay radioactive leak proves value of environmental protections
• Europe: New Civil Engineer – Sellafield nuclear plant site investigations approved by council
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Green light for nuclear site tests
• Europe: Herald Scotland – Radioactive Scots beach could be shut – Gerry Braiden
• Europe: Scotland Courier – ‘The time for talking is over’ — yet more radioactive finds at Dalgety Bay

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

• Las Vegas Business Press – Yucca Mountain still a sticky political subject – Chuck Muth
• KTVN – Familiar face to return to Nevada nuclear agency
• Energy Collective – Jaczko Explains Yucca Shutdown and Discouraging License Applicant – Rod Adams
• KIFI Idaho Falls – Radiological Exposure Reported At INL
• KMVT – Radiological Exposure Reported At INL – Paul Johnson
• Reuters – Idaho nuclear lab says probing radiological exposure incident – Laura Zuckerman
• KOLD-TV – Summit focuses on uranium contamination on Navajo
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Photos capture sadness, courage of war – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE: no ‘signature’ rad across the Clinch River – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORAU employees honored by Energy Secretary – Frank Munger
• Staunton News Leader – State Farm Bureau seeking slowdown on uranium mining – Pierre Klochendler
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #65: Nature’s Cold Shoulder – Dave Lochbaum
• WBUR – The Plutonium Problem: Who Pays For Space Fuel? – Nell Greenfieldboyce
• NAS – Project Update: Analysis Of Cancer Risks in Populations Near Nuclear Facilities: Phase 1
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee Page 69252 [FR DOC# 2011-28923]
• Europe: BBC News – Radioactive source at Fife beach
• Europe: Press Association – Radiation sources found on beach
• Europe: STV Local – Radioactive particles found buried under Fife beach
• Europe: Cumberland News – Sellafield workers remove first spent fuel from Calder Hall reactor – Matthew Legg
• Europe: Reuters – A pyramid to warn of a French nuclear waste site? – Muriel Boselli

Monday, November 07, 2011

• Deseret News – Matheson questions new Moab tailings contract – Amy Joi O’Donoghue
• Standard-Examiner – Nuclear power plants can down-blend uranium in warheads – Gary M. Sandquist
• NEI – Arizona Uranium Mining Continuation Protects Environment and Promotes Energy Security
• Daily Astorian – $115B not enough at Hanford
• Tri-City Herald – Meeting set for Hanford public involvement plan
• Grand Junction Sentinel – New firm takes over cleanup of tailings pile – Gary Harmon
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Much of stimulus money spent under the radar – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Some not-so-well-known stimulus projects – Frank Munger
• House of Representatives – Congressional Record (H7266-November 3, 2011), Jeff Duncan(R-SC-3) on Yucca Mountain
• Europe: BBC News – ‘Old school’ engineers important to Dounreay, says boss
• Europe: Rutland and Stamford Mercury – Group lose nuclear waste challenge