Sunday, November 20, 2011

• Las Vegas SUN – No need for discussion on Yucca Mountain – Judy Treichel
• Sen. Mark Steven Kirk (IL) – Kirk Leads Letter to Fund Yucca Mountain Nuclear Storage Facility
• The Examiner – Illinois’ Sen. Kirk’s Letter on Nuclear Spent Fuel at Yucca Mt. – Ellen Cannon
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL like you’ve never seen it before – Frank Munger
• Oceania: The Australian – Call for uranium deal to ease rules – Tim Boreham
• Oceania: The Australian – Uranium bombs despite India move – Robin Bromby
• South Asia: Economic Times – N-liability regime toughest, hope suppliers agree: Assocham
• Europe: BBC News – Views sought on possible nuclear waste dump for Cumbria

Saturday, November 19, 2011

• PoliticalNews – Senate Approves Risch-Crapo Resolution Recognizing Downwinders
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford finishing plant demolition under way – Annette Cary
• Oceania: ABC – Labor ‘selling out’ over uranium policy
• South Asia: The Hindu – Nuclear liability rules not in people’s interest: Yechury
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Plant’s £100m bill to decommission Mox

Friday, November 18, 2011

• Lincoln County Record – No Alternative to Yucca Mountain for Waste Found Yet – Dave Maxwell
• Ely Daily Times – Ely native figured prominently in atomic energy – Royce Feour
• The Examiner – House committee approves Baca’s bill to study perchlorate contamination – Amanda Getchel
• Tri-City Herald – Doc Hastings’ House bill would open Rattlesnake Mountain – Rob Hotakainen and Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Independent survey shows workers positive on vit plant – Annette Cary
• CNBC – Board questions adequacy of LANL seismic efforts
• Fremont News Messenger – Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station investigating cracks in concrete walls – James Proffitt
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – TVA CEO gives nuke program poor grade – Pam Sohn
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ted Sherry talks about his decision to leave Y-12, federal service – Frank Munger
• DOE – Chu: “We Can and Must Compete in Clean Energy – and I Believe We Can Win”
• Canada: Toronto Star – One more nuclear risk – the dwindling value of cleanup funds – John Spears
• Oceania: ABC – Promises and U-turns of the nuclear kind – Jim Green
• South Asia: Economic Times – US studying India’s new nuclear liability rules
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Banned driver was due to transport radioactive material from Dounreay
• East Europe: Bellona – Hungarian manufacturer could be behind mysterious radioactive leak blanketing Europe – Charles Digges

Thursday, November 17, 2011

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Yucca Mountain fight averted – Steve Tetreault
• Las Vegas SUN – Who gets credit for killing Yucca amendment? – Karoun Demirjian
• Reno News & Review – Disunified front–As national Republicans join Nevada on Yucca, local Republicans jump ship – Dennis Myers
• Reno News & Review – Bachmann on Yucca–Must be some powerful radicals – Dennis Myers
• Tri-City Herald – Congress: House panel votes to open Rattlesnake Mountain – Rob Hotakainen and Annette Cary
• Idaho Statesman – Senate approves Crapo’s day of remembrance for downwinders – Dan Popkey
• KTVB – Downwinders to get national day of remembrance
• KWES NewsWest9 – Oversight panel holds hearing on LANL safety
• The Republic – Oversight board questions adequacy of LANL efforts to protect against quake – Jeri Clausing
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – K-25 preservation perspectives; lots of opinions on Oak Ridge mitigation plans – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More on ORNL benefit changes – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge Safety Forum Nov. 30 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA’s Ted Sherry retiring – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – Plant Vogtle expansion will create jobs – Rob Pavey
• Aiken Standard – Review: Low-level MOX violation found – Anna Dolianitis
• NY Times blog – Thirsty Power Plants Threaten Watersheds, Study Finds – Felicity Barringer
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future Page 71334 [FR DOC# 2011-29712]
• Oceania: The Australian – Kevin Rudd not told, but backs uranium sale to India
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – Abbott earns reprimand for speaking out
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – Rudd not consulted on uranium ban policy
• South Asia: SME Times – ‘India caved in to foreign pressure on n-liability’
• South Asia: SME Times – Sharma hails Australian move to lift India uranium ban
• Europe: Bellona – Analysis: European radiation safety agencies detect traces of iodine-131 in air, source of leak unknown – Andrei Ozharovsky
• Europe: Bellona – New nuclear power plant to sprout at Sellfield site despite decades of cleanup work ahead – Charles Digges
• Europe: The Guardian – Plans to lift radioactive contamination controls on UK sheep farms – James Meikle
• Europe: Highland News – Banned nuclear load driver nabbed at Tore
• East Europe: Kyiv Post – Sellers of nuclear material sentenced in Ukraine
• East Europe: AFP Google – Hungary likely source of elevated radioactivity levels: IAEA
• East Europe: AP Google – Hungarian firm was likely radiation leak source
• East Europe: Reuters – Hungary isotope lab likely radioactive source: IAEA – Sylvia Westall, Fredrik Dahl and Gergely Szakacs
• East Europe: World Nuclear News – European Iodine mystery solved

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Illinois senator drops amendment to revive Yucca Mountain – Steve Tetreault
• Las Vegas SUN – Heller and Kirk in an amendment-off over Yucca mountain – Karoun Demirjian
• Tri-City Herald – Report suggests triaging system for cleanup work at DOE sites – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – DOE solicits bids for occupational medicine services contract at Hanford – Annette Cary
• Kansas City Business Journal – Striking workers pressure Honeywell for info on water main break – Suzanna Stagemeyer
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Timing is right for technology transfers, DOE official says – Hugh G. Willett
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A single federal site manager for Y-12/Pantex contract; location is TBD
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Hecker to speak at Baker Center on the challenges posed by Iran, North Korea – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORAU hires lawyer/epidemiologist – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Jaguar #3, Kraken #11, Gaea #20 on TOP500 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Employee benefit cuts at ORNL; no word yet on voluntary departures – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA makes changes in Y-12/Pantex RFP, says final RFP to be issued by end of month – Frank Munger
• WREG – Are You Safe From Nuclear Material on I-40? – Adam Hammond
• WREG – Truck With Uranium Fuel Rods Wrecks on I-40
• Ocala Star-Banner – PSC to review fuel cost request from Progress Energy – Fred Hiers
• Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-MA) – Markey: “Nuclear Recycling” is an Oxymoron
• NY Times blog – A Long, Long Road to Recycling Nuclear Fuel – Matthew L. Wald
• DOE – DOE and EPA Release 2012 Annual Fuel Economy Guide
• DOE – Energy Department Recognizes Nation’s Top Green Power Programs
• DOE – Energy Department Announces $7 Million to Reduce Non-Hardware Costs of Solar Energy Systems
• DOE – Secretary Chu: My Testimony to the House Energy and Commerce Committee
• GAO – Nuclear Fuel Cycle Options: DOE Needs to Enhance Planning for Technology Assessment and Collaboration with Industry and Other Countries
• Canada: BBC News – Australia’s uranium industry poised for growth
• Canada: Daily Gleaner – Nuclear station clears another hurdle in long-delayed project – Shawn Berry
• Oceania: The Australian – Uranium plan ‘smart and legal foreign policy’ by: Sue Dunlevy and Sarah-Jane Tasker
• Europe: BBC News – Chapelcross nuclear plant defuelling reaches halfway
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Nuclear a pawn in Belgian politics
• Europe: Swissinfo – Russian nuclear site fuels controversy

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

• Santa Clarita Valley Signal – Whittaker-Bermite site cleanup plan due tomorrow – Natalie Everett
• Bellona – Sodium burn sends Idaho National Lab worker to hospital in second accident in a week – Charles Digges
• Tri-City Herald – Nuclear: Dept. of Energy investigators arrive in Idaho
• Jackson Hole Weekly – Separate incidents at Idaho nuke facility wake-up calls for downwind Wyoming – Jake Nichols
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Employee benefits cut at ORNL; no word yet on voluntary departures – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA makes changes in Y-12/Pantex RFP, says final RFP to be issued by end of month – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL demos super-speed network at SC11 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What a double at ORNL! Maksymovych wins Young Scientist & Top Scientist awards – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – ‘Remembering’ DOE? Does Perry even know what he’s abolishing – Darrell Richardson
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Public Square: The debate over nuclear energy in Va.
• NationalJournal – Chu: Will He Stay or Will He Go? – Coral Davenport and Amy Harder
• New York Times – Report Calls for Changes in the Energy Department – Matthew L. Wald
• Nuclear Green – The Future of Nuclear Power: Getting Rid of Nuclear Waste
• Oceania: ABC – Council airs uranium mining fears
• Oceania: Adelaide Now – Determined push for uranium sales by: Catherine Hockley
• Oceania: Adelaide Now – Editorial: Uranium sales the right path for friends
• Oceania: Bloomberg – Gillard Calls for Uranium Exports to India in Policy Shift – Phoebe Sedgman
• Oceania: Radio Australia – Backstory: The India uranium conundrum
• Oceania: Radio Australia – Australia uranium sales to India will boost ties: business council
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – Gillard’s uranium backflip ‘to appease big miners’
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – ‘Nuclear apartheid’ will end after bid to drop uranium ban on India Matt Wade.
• Oceania: UPI – Australia to sell uranium to India?
• Europe: BBC News – Somerset councils approve EDF’s Hinkley consultation
• Europe: Burnham-On-Sea – Burnham councillors express fears over Hinkley sea discharge plans
• Europe: ICBUW – UK minister misled parliamentarians over depleted uranium legal review – Rob Edwards
• Europe: Jarrow & Hebburn Gazette – A-bomb veterans hope for ‘right result’ – Terry Kelly
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – Magnox awards demolition framework
• Europe: Times & Star – Recycling firm wins nuke clean-up deal – Matthew Legg
• Europe: Reuters – Belgian parties agree on raised nuclear levy – Philip Blenkinsop
• Russia: Bellona – Swiss nuclear firm embargos uranium from Russia’s Mayak Chemical Combine over environmental mistrust – Charles Digges
• South Africa: Platinum Weekly – Radioactive mine sludge compared to Chernobyl

Monday, November 14, 2011

• KNPR – Could Rep Mark Amodei Revive Yucca Mountain
• Roll Call – Final Showdown on Spending – Humberto Sanchez and Jonathan Strong
• Bend Bulletin – Hanford workers mulling future as cleanup slows – Shannon Dininny
• Idaho Statesman – Pressing for downwinder compensation, Idaho’s Crapo seeks national day of remembrance – Dan Popkey
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Call me Mr. Zero – Frank Munger
• Greenville News – Letter: Move forward on Yucca Mountain – Ben Crosland
• The State – SRS advisory group holding meeting in Aiken
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Canada: Chronicle Journal – Town asks for fuel bundle screening – Carl Clutchey
• Canada: Regina Leader-Post – MNS favours nuclear waste ban – Jason Warick
• Oceania: ABC – Greens concerned by uranium push – Alexandra Kirk
• Oceania: ABC – Bligh against uranium mining despite Gillard push – Melinda Howells and Chrissy Arthur
• Oceania: The Australian – PM shifts on uranium to India – James Massola
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – PM says time to change uranium policy
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – PM’s uranium move makes sense for her Analysis Michelle Grattan.
• South Asia: AFP Google – Australia moves to lift India uranium ban
• South Asia: IBNLive – Idea of fuel switch at Koodankulam unheard of
• Europe: The Guardian – Armed forces minister sorry for misleading MPs over depleted uranium – Rob Edwards
• Europe: Financial Times – EDF searches for reactor suppliers – Ed Crooks
• Europe: Gloucestershire Gazette – Decommissioning picks up pace in Berkeley – Marion Sauvebois »
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – Studsvik signs Berkeley waste treatment contract
• Europe: Local Switzerland – Swiss energy firm shuns Russian nuclear fuel
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Axpo says no to uranium from Mayak
• Russia: Financial Times – Rosatom firm on expansion plan – Isabel Gorst