Sunday, December 18, 2011

• Las Vegas SUN – Letter from Washington: NRC flap a platform for Yucca noise – Karoun Demirjian
• San Francisco Chronicle – Nuclear waste site hunt could point to granite – Dave Gram
• Billings Gazette – Japanese nuclear power plant affects uranium stocks – Tom Mast
• Ashland Current – Lake Superior Region Candidate For Nuclear Waste
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Mercury veteran: Contaminated or not, glad to help my country – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 looks forward to day when it can clear huge mercury stockpile – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Despite repeated efforts, Y-12 building site still contaminated with mercury – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Sen. Lamar Alexander: Feds have ‘moral responsibility’ to clean up Y-12 mercury – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Cold War component remains messy, potentially dangerous and hugely expensive – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Secret Cold War project results in largest US environmental cleanup – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Frank Munger
• Danville Register & Bee – Rewards and risks of mining
• Roanoke Times – Studies on uranium mine pile up for lawmakers – Laurence Hammack
• Canada: Edmonton Journal – Canada’s earliest nuclear projects will haunt landscape for centuries – Ian MacLeod
• Canada: Herald Sun – Politics takes glow out of uranium – Olga Galacho
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – Man-made ‘vault’ to hold low-level waste – Ian MacLeod
• Canada: The Province – Post haste to host waste
• Europe: Scottish Daily Record – Gordon Brown backs MoD pledge to investigate radioactive Dalgety Bay beach – Paul Ward

Saturday, December 17, 2011

• Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) – Reid Blocks Efforts To Resurrect Yucca Mountain
• KSL-TV – Regulators want assessment for blended waste – Amy Joi O’Donoghue
• Tri-City Herald – Battelle scores high on annual DOE report card – Michelle Dupler
• Tri-City Herald – Senate deal includes Hanford cleanup money
• Cañon City Daily Record – Cotter seeks to terminate license – Rachel Alexander
• Pueblo Chieftain – Cotter to close uranium mill – Tracy Harmon
• Amarillo Globe-News – NNSA takes proposals for Tenn. plant, Pantex deal – Bobby Cervantes
• Knoxville News Sentinel – UT-Battelle draws praise, $10.5M for managing ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 ramping up W76 life-extension work; NNSA says costs going down – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s Mason: ‘It’s not enough to just make the pitch and get the funding’ – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – Strange nuclear waste lint might be “biological in nature” – Rob Pavey
• Lynchburg News and Advance – Report provides uranium discussion framework – Tara Bozick
• Canada: CanWest News – Closing Pandora’s Box: As radioactive fuel waste piles up, Canada searches for a solution – Ian MacLeod
• Canada: Montreal Gazette – Nuclear’s environmental costs – Ian MacLeod
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – Spent nuclear fuel a primer
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – Chalk River’s toxic legacy – Ian MacLeod
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – Types of nuclear waste at Chalk River
• Canada: Owen Sound Sun Times – Wind turbines are trouble but highly radioactive waste is OK? – Phil Mcnichol
• Europe: Scotland on Sunday – Gordon Brown welcomes action on radiation – Nicholas Christian
• North Europe: Local Sweden – ‘Uncertainty’ over Swedish nuke waste storage: experts

Friday, December 16, 2011

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Yucca funding remains zero in 2012 – Steve Tetreault
• Government Accountability Project (blog – Hanford Safety Problems Detailed: Daily Whistleblower News – Hannah Johnson
• Canon City Daily Record – Cotter seeking to terminate license
• Denver Post – Cotter Corp. won’t try to rebuild uranium milling program in Cañon City, must move toward final clean up – Bruce Finley
• KRQE News 13 – Budget deal whacks LANL nuke lab
• Pueblo Chieftain – Cotter decides to close Canon uranium mill – Tracy Harmon
• Columbus Dispatch – No money for Piketon uranium plant in spending bill – Jack Torry
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Government seeks bids on Y-12/Pantex contracts – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UT-Battelle earns $10.5M for FY ’11 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s Report Card for 2011 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – WMD . . . In the beginning – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Big Cat’s arrival is big bonus for cleanup – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Final RFP released for consolidated Y-12, Pantex contract
• Augusta Chronicle – Strange nuclear waste lint might be “biological in nature” – Rob Pavey
• The Examiner – McDonnell says that public safety trumps economics of uranium mining – Daniel Carawan
• Buffalo News – West Valley Project gets budget increase
• DOE – Ground Broken for New Job-Creating Accelerator Research Facility at DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois
• Energy Department – NOTICES Charter Renewals: Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee Page 78252 [FR DOC# 2011-32332]
• Canada: National Post – ‘Devil is in the details’ as Canada tackles growing stockpile of radioactive waste – Ian MacLeod
• Asia: Xinhua News – Mongolia expands uranium exploration, mining
• Europe: Agenzia Giornalistica Italia – Uranium: 98 Recognized Victims, Compensations Within 2012
• Russia: The Independent – Catastrophe looms as toxic 13-tonne Mars probe falls to Earth – Steve Connor

Thursday, December 15, 2011

• Las Vegas SUN – Letter: Leaders must hold firm in Yucca fight – Judy Treichel
• Reno News & Review – Illinois wants its waste gone – Dennis Myers
• Tri-City Herald – Design for facility at Hanford vit plant completed
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Government seeks bids on Y-12/Panext contracts – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Are former X-10 workers getting the shaft? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – GAO looks at foreign contributions to nuclear nonproliferation programs and other issues – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – When will Y-12/Pantex contract be awarded? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Game is on – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The Alpha calutrons at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Davis to head NNSA’s site office at Livermore – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA releases final RFP on Y-12/Pantex – Frank Munger
• NEI Nuclear Notes – Need A Little Soap To Clean Off the “Dirt”
• DOE – Deputy Secretary Poneman Delivers Remarks on Nuclear Power at Tokyo American Center in Japan
• Canada: CBC News – Nuclear cleanup crew stuck in spill site
• Canada: Vancouver Sun – Atomic vets can finally tell their chilling story – Chris Vaughn
• Canada: World Nuclear News – Labrador uranium moratorium lifted

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

• Las Vegas SUN – NRC infighting ignited by Japanese nuke disaster, not Yucca Mountain standoff – Karoun Demirjian
• Las Vegas SUN – New report says Yucca Mountain at the root of Nuclear Regulatory Commission tensions – Karoun Demirjian
• Las Vegas SUN – Editorial: Amodei, Heck need to make it clear they are against Yucca Mountain
• Salt Lake Tribune – Editorial: EnergySolutions blended waste ruling makes no sense … – George Pyle
• Amarillo Globe-News – Joint contract eyed for Pantex, Tenn. plant – Bobby Cervantes
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Haul road not hot despite rad traffic
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Hight named to newly created role at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Colonel Sanders meets Santa Claus (sort of) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA features Y-12 sub CTI – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12, Pantex contracts extended – Frank Munger
• Aiken Standard – Public meeting being held for MOX fuel facility review – Anna Dolianitis
• Augusta Chronicle – MOX facility scores highly – Clint Wolfe
• Chatham Star Tribune – Foundation uranium study to be released Thursday – Tim Davis
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Who will pay long-term costs of uranium mining? – Kay Patrick
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Mine will generate billions in lifetime revenue – Randy Jacobs
• Gazette Virginian – Ruff, Edmunds looking for delay in uranium vote – Doug Ford
• Richmond Times Dispatch – McDonnell says safety comes first on uranium mining – Jim Nolan
• Washington Post blog – Virginia uranium company lobbies legislators – Anita Kumar
• Central Asia: Business Week – Kazakhstan to Raise Uranium Output to 21,346 Tons Next Year – Nariman Gizitdinov
• Europe: BBC News – Iter: The world’s most expensive scientific gamble? – Paul Henley
• Europe: Business Week – Swiss charge 3 men in nuclear smuggling case – Frank Jordans

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

• Deseret News – Utah regulators say new assessment needed for blended waste – Amy Joi O’Donoghue
• Idaho Press-Tribune – Otter says planning jobs to remain at Idaho site
• Idaho State Journal – Areva to delay Idaho Uranium Factory
• Idaho Statesman – Areva suspends plans for $3 billion Idaho uranium plant – Rocky Barker
• Columbia Daily Tribune – Used nuclear fuel is a good energy source – William H. Miller
• FairWarning blog – Problems Mushroom for Hanford Nuclear Waste Plant
• Amarillo Globe-News – Federal officials extend B&W Pantex agreement – Bobby Cervantes
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge’s 2011 deer harvest: 321 taken (3 too hot to take home) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A Carbide Christmas – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Young receives NNSA’s Linton Brooks Medal – Frank Munger
• LexisNexis – NRC’s Report on List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks Sent to Senate
• Oceania: Herald Sun – NSW goverment to consider uranium exploration
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – Dirty power plant rules abandoned – Tom Arup and Adam Morton
• Europe: Rutland Times – Arrests after radioactive waste protest
• Europe: Swissinfo – Family charged with aiding nuclear smuggling

Monday, December 12, 2011

• Salt Lake Tribune – Radioactive waste blending needs more study, state says – Judy Fahys
• Seattle Post Intelligencer – New concerns about Hanford nuclear waste plant – Shannon Dininny
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford tank farm project singled out for excellence
• Quad-Cities Online – Exelon completes maintenance work at nuclear plant near Cordova
• Quad City Times – Nuclear plant returns to full service
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Cold and dark’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A counter-nuke first at Chinese port – Frank Munger
• Free Lance-Star – No RUsh–The legislature should go slow on uranium
• Roanoke Times – Uranium in Pittsylvania County: buried treasure or threat? – Laurence Hammack and Michael Sluss
• DOE – Energy Department Awards More Than $7 Million for Innovative Hydrogen Storage Technologies in Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles
• DOE – Secretary Chu Statement on Stockholm Nobel Prize Events, Winners from DOE Laboratories
• Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board – NOTICES Board Meeting; January 9, 2012, Arlington, VA Page 77270 [FR DOC# 2011-31351]
• Canada: Montreal Gazette – Walkerton cautiously mulls becoming repository for spent uranium – Tom Spears
• Canada: Owen Sound Sun Times – More local communities to look at nuclear waste – Don Crosby
• Canada: UPI – Ontario site offered for nuke wastes
• Oceania: SBS – After Fukushima – what’s next for the nuclear industry?
• South Africa: World Nuclear News – Kalahari agrees CGNPC buyout