Sunday, December 25, 2011

• Peninsula Daily – Nuclear sub narrowly avoided collision in Strait of Juan de Fuca, newspaper reports – Tom Callis
• Casper Star-Tribune – WY recovery uranium project on schedule
• KOAT Albuquerque – Congress Yanks Cash Away from Los Alamos Lab
• Duluth News Tribune – Northland rock considered for nuclear waste storage – John Myers
• Chillicothe Gazette – JSC, USEC sign uranium contract
• Europe: The Guardian – UK taxpayers face extra £250m bill for nuclear waste clean-up – Terry Macalister

Saturday, December 24, 2011

• Alaska Dispatch – Is radiation causing Arctic Alaska ringed-seal deaths? – Alex DeMarban
• Albuquerque Journal – LANL’s New Plutonium Lab Delayed – John Fleck
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – WIPP budget approved for 2013: $215 million
• Antigo Daily Journal – Department of Energy likely to be in area looking for nuke site
• Chillicothe Gazette – DOE exercises simulate accident
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Early, early nuclear weapons work – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Moving the special stuff at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Committed to restarting . . . nuclear industry’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 gets Safety Council award – Frank Munger
• Russia: Bellona – COMMENT: Russia’s infamous reprocessing plant Mayak never stopped illegal dumping of radioactive waste into nearby river, poisoning residents, newly disclosed court finding says – Vladimir Slivyak

Friday, December 23, 2011

• Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) – Reid Applauds President Obama for Signing Hoover Power Act into Law
• Lincoln County Record – Commissioners approve Yucca Mountain study – Dave Maxwell
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – Remote-handled waste arrives at WIPP
• Augusta Chronicle – Savannah River Site scientists plan to ‘harvest’ nuclear waste growths – Rob Pavey
• Environment News Service – First Mercury, Air Toxics Standards Imposed on U.S. Power Plants
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Nevada Pages 80354-80355 [FR DOC# 2011-32910]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings:Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Paducah Pages 80355-80356 [FR DOC# 2011-32913]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings:Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Advisory Committee (ERAC) Page 80355 [FR DOC# 2011-32912]
• Canada: La Ronge Northerner – Nuclear waste depository interest expands in Ontario – Valerie G. Barnes-Connell
• Europe: The Guardian – Sellafield gives nuclear workers £1,000 bonus – for attending meetings – Terry Macalister

Thursday, December 22, 2011

• Deseret News – Contract protests erupt over Moab tailings removal – Amy Joi O’Donoghue
• Tri-City Herald – New Hanford kickback, fraud indictments filed – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Senator asks who is paying defense bill in Hanford whistleblower case? – Annette Cary
• Augusta Chronicle – Savannah River Site scientists plan to ‘harvest’ nuclear waste growths – Rob Pavey
• Aiken Standard – SRS looks ahead to next year – Anna Dolianitis
• Danville Register & Bee – Letter: Do not heed the uranium prophets – Jesse Andrews
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Virginians split on uranium mining, poll shows – Wesley P. Hester
• Press of Atlantic City – Oyster Creek nuclear power plant gets new permit, agrees to close in 2019 – Caitlin Dineen
• Brattleboro Reformer – DOH discovers tritium in Connecticut River – Bob Audette
• DOE – 60 Years Since Nuclear Turned on the Lights
• DOE – Secretary Chu Statement on AP1000 Reactor Design Certification
• East Europe: Belarusian Telegraph Agency – Russia to recycle nuclear waste of Belarus’ NPP
• East Europe: Prague Post – Gov’t eyes increased uranium mining
• North Africa: Reuters – U.N. urges Libya to sell off uranium cache – Louis Charbonneau

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

• Hanford News – 5 violations reported during shutdown at Columbia Generating Station – Jacques Von Lunen
• Tri-City Herald – DOE on the right path with lab pilot program
• PoliticalNews – Sens. Portman, Brown Introduce Path Forward to Advance Piketon’s American Centrifuge Project
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – Tritium detected in Sequoyah groundwater – Pam Sohn
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Sherry leaving government, not Oak Ridge
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Editorial: DOE must continue to fund OR mercury cleanup
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – HFIR down until Jan. 9 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s Darrel Kohlhorst: ‘As of today, there are no layoffs planned’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NOAA’s petascale computer for climate research coming together at Oak Ridge lab – Frank Munger
• The Tennessean – TVA: Higher levels of tritium at Sequoyah
• Gazette Virginian – Locals react to uranium study
• Vermont Public Radio – Vt. Yankee: Radioactive Tritium That Reached Connecticut River Poses No Public Threat – John Dillon
• MIT News – Modeling the spread of radioactivity in seawater – Rachel VanCott
• DOE – Energy Department Awards Nearly $7 Million for Research to Reduce Costs of Electric Vehicle Chargers
• DOE:IG – Inspection Report: Waste Disposal and Recovery Act Efforts at the Oak Ridge Reservation (pdf-126K)
• Canada: Vancouver Sun – Controversial nuclear shipping plan remains on hold – Linda Nguyen
• Europe: Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear waste: UK launches hunt for new MOX plant design – Gail Rajgor
• Russia: Bellona – Russia’s plan to move spent nuclear fuel to Siberia raises safety concerns – and fails to solve the mounting waste problem

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

• Tehachapi News – Tehachapi’s nuclear connection – Ed Gordon
• Business Week – Ohio lawmakers plan bill to keep uranium plant – Lisa Cornwell
• Knoxville News Sentinel – ORNL research could advance understanding of mercury, Y-12 impacts – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Mercury’s health effects on workers, OR public still under scrutiny – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s Thom Mason: ‘To be honest, I expect there will be some impacts’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Setting cleanup priorities in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Aiken Standard – Spending bill will benefit state, SRS – Anna Dolianitis
• Danville Register & Bee – Dan River Region lawmakers want to push uranium debate to 2013 – Tara Bozick
• Environment News Service – Virginia Considers Lifting Uranium Mining Ban Over ‘Steep Hurdles’
• Lynchburg News and Advance – “Steep hurdles” to overcome to lift Virginia’s uranium mining moratorium – Ray Reed
• Roanoke Times – Research calculates uranium mining hazards – Laurence Hammack
• World Nuclear News – Report gives pointers for Virginia mining
• Co.Exist – A New Use For Nuclear Waste: Nuclear Power – Michael J. Coren
• POGO blog – POGO Submits Recommendations for Improving DOE Scientific Integrity – Dana Liebelson
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation Pages 78908-78909 [FR DOC# 2011-32505]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico Page 78909 [FR DOC# 2011-32535]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Portsmouth Pages 78909-78910 [FR DOC# 2011-32539]
• Canada: Nuclear Engineering – Labrador ends Inuit land uranium mining moratorium
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – The global nuclear waste race – Ian MacLeod
• Europe: BBC News – Credenhill SAS base ‘contaminated with radioactive material’
• Europe: Burnham-On-Sea – NHS disputes new Burnham-On-Sea breast cancer mortality figures?
• Europe: The Guardian – MoD reveals 15 radioactive UK sites – Rob Edwards

Monday, December 19, 2011

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Granite areas eyed for nuclear waste sites – Dave Gram
• Salt Lake Tribune – Letter: Waste cart before horse – Caleb Morris
• KNDO/KNDU – Company Builds Tools for Hanford Workers
• Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal – Feds put Minnesota on short list for nuclear-waste storage – Ed Stych
• Columbus Dispatch – Piketon plant is a political football – Jack Torry
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12’s needs create topsy-turvy existence for little OR creek – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Thanks in part to mercury, Y-12 plant has most studied creek in Tennessee – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – DOE chafes under state efforts to leverage mercury cleanup through discharge permit – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Sen. Lamar Alexander: Feds have ‘moral responsibility’ to clean up Y-12 mercury – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – America’s Next Top . . . – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Don’t let Santa take my apple’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 squeezes benefits to save money – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Mercury: Y-12’s Cold War legacy – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS tritium program included in contract RFP for Pantex, Y-12 – Rob Pavey
• Chatham Star Tribune – Virginia faces challenges with uranium mining, study says – Tim Davis
• Lynchburg News and Advance – Study finds ‘steep hurdles’ to uranium mining in Virginia
• New York Times – Uranium Mining Debate in Virginia Takes a Step – Theo Emery
• Platts – Virginia not yet ready for uranium mining: study – Yanmei Xie
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Report cites ‘steep hurdles’ for uranium mining in Va. – Rex Springston
• Virginian Pilot – Uranium mining report finds risks, benefits for Virginia – Bill Bartel
• Washington Post – Study warns of health and environment hurdles to uranium mining in Virginia – Anita Kumar
• DOE – Who Will Be America’s Next Top Energy Innovator?
• Canada: Montreal Gazette – 1952 Chalk River meltdown still reverberates – Ian Macleod
• Canada: Montreal Gazette – A FISST-ful of danger–Chalk River keeps wary eye on deadly radioactive stockpile – Ian MacLeod
• Canada: Montreal Gazette – Waste yes, want yes – Tom Spears
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – Atomic Wasteland series: Why Canada’s nuclear cleanup will cost billions and take decades – Ian MacLeod
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – Interactive map: Chalk River’s toxic legacy
• Europe: BBC News – Former SAS base ‘contaminated with radioactive material’
• Europe: BBC News – King’s Cliffe nuclear waste campaigners drop injunction
• Europe: British Forces News – MOD to tackle radiation at Dalgety Bay