Sunday, January 15, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – We must demand clear answer from Romney on Yucca Mountain – Brian Greenspun
• Dayton Daily News – Uranium plant in Piketon receives new hope – Jessica Wehrman
• East Africa: East Africa News Post – Korea to invest $3.5m in Tanzania uranium project

Saturday, January 14, 2012

• Salt Lake Tribune – A Grand decision
• Salt Lake Tribune – Letter: The whole camel – Beth Malloy
• Tri-City Herald – Vit plant workers bite their tongues, assessment says – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford tank farms chief retiring – Annette Cary
• Tucson Citizen – Coverage of Atomic Al Melvin’s proposed nuclear waste dump – David Safier
• Denver Post – Cotter Corp. adds $6.8 million to uranium mill cleanup as Colorado accelerates timetable – Bruce Finley
• Pueblo Chieftain – Cotter Corp., state agree on cleanup – Tracy Harmon
• Chillicothe Gazette – Piketon centrifuge project offered short-term funding fix – Deirdre Shesgreen
• Washington Post – ‘Crunch time’ at troubled nuclear fuel plant – Steven Mufson
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – TVA plans more nuclear openness to counter worries – Pam Sohn
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More on DOE’s eco-penance – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Who’s getting pay raises at Y-12? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – USEC says there’s a path for ‘interim funding’ – Frank Munger
• NIRS – Radon in Natural from Marcellus Shale – Marvin Resnikoff, Ph.D.
• NEI Nuclear Notes – Taxing Fuel Rods: The Vermont Legislature Plans Another Law Which Will End Up in Court
• Canada: CBC – $1.28B for Port Hope radioactive cleanup
• Europe: BBC News – Council to be given Dounreay-Sellafield rail plan details

Friday, January 13, 2012

• State of Nevada – RFP for Nuclear Transportation Planning Advisor (pdf-34K)
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Editorial: Mining ban
• St. George Daily Spectrum – Energy policy
• ABC15 – State Senator wants to create nuclear waste site in Arizona – Angie Holdsworth
• Arizona Daily Sun – Senator: Send used nuclear fuel rods here – Howard Fischer
• KUOW NPR – Report Calls Hanford Safety Culture Into Question Again – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – Draft report: Problems with vit plant quality control, potential overpayment – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Historic Hanford guard tower demolished – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Draft report: Problems with vit plant quality control, potential overpayment – Annette Cary
• CBS Local – Dispute Resolved Over Uranium Mill Cleanup
• Denver Post – Cotter will add $6.8 million to insurance fund as state presses to accelerate cleanup of Cañon City uranium mill – Bruce Finley
• KRDO – Agreement Between State and Cotter Will Accelerate Mill Cleanup
• Pueblo Chieftain – Cotter, state reach accord on cleanup costs – Tracy Harmon
• Bismarck Tribune – Oil field waste water filters rejected at landfills for radioactivity – Lauren Donovan
• Huntington Herald Dispatch – U.S. offers help for uranium enrichment research in Ohio
• Paducah Sun – Whitfield: Federal re-enrichment bill hits snag – By Mallory Panuska
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Subcontractor layoffs at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE’s environmental penalties to support $150K wetlands projects – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The impact of DOE oversight cuts in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge environmental leader: ‘There’s been a lot of heavy-handedness’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Subcontractor layoffs at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – ORNL ‘No. 1’ for veteran legislator – Leean Tupper
• NTI – NTI Launches Nuclear Materials Security Index
• Canada: Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre – Nuclear Waste for South Bruce? – Kevin Bernard
• Canada: Globe and Mail – Towns vie to be the final resting spot for Canada’s nuclear garbage – Anna Mehler Paperny
• Canada: Montreal Gazette – The debate in Canada: What is a ‘safe’ level of radiation? – Alex Roslin
• Canada: Toronto Star – Port Hope radioactive cleanup gets $1.28B federal funding – Raveena Aulakh
• Canada: Wawatay News – NAN opposes nuclear waste sites
• Canada: Winnipeg Free Press – 10-year cleanup of radioactive waste in Port Hope, Ont., to cost $1.28 billion
• Europe: BBC News – Council to be given Dounreay-Sellafield rail plan details

Thursday, January 12, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – SC gov says Romney promised to bid out Yucca – Jon Ralston
• Daily Kos – Arizona’s Atomic Al loves him some nuke waste–It’s for the children – Mother Mags
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: Historic river guard tower leveled (w/ video, gallery) – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford contractor Mission Support Alliance OKs 12 voluntary layoffs – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – DOE meets cleanup deadlines for 77 Hanford sites – Annette Cary
• UPI – Lack of funds threatens nuclear lab
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Livermore’s new 20-petaflops supercomputer – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Highly enriched humor – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – TDEC accepts 10% cut in DOE oversight funding; new five-year agreement in place – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What will replace Y-12’s proposed CCC for upgrading emergency management? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Iwanski says post-LOC arrangement could include citzens panel – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ted Sherry receives multiple awards; NNSA’s Cook on hand for ceremony – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – TDEC accepts 10% cut in DOE oversight funding; new five-year agreement in place – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What will replace Y-12’s proposed CCC for upgrading emergency management? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Iwanski says post-LOC arrangement could include citzens panel – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ted Sherry receives multiple awards; NNSA’s Cook on hand for ceremony – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – ‘Largest source of ORNL groundwater contamination’ removed
• The Tennessean – U.S. nuclear waste storage is too risky – Dr. Jeffrey Patterson
• DOE – President Obama Names Scientists Mildred Dresselhaus and Burton Richter as the Enrico Fermi Award Winners
• DOE – Snowflake Science
• DOE – Secretary Chu Visits the 2012 North American International Auto Show
• DoL – US Department of Labor notifies workers of 17 facilities associated with Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act about potential eligibility under EEOICPA
• Canada: Owen Sound Sun Times – South Bruce adds name to nuclear storage list – Rob Gowan
• South Asia: Indian Express – High Court notice to Haryana on nuclear power project
• South Asia: Times of India – Can nuke waste burial ground withstand heat? Test will tell
• Europe: Whitehaven News – £30m Scottish N-waste on cards – Alan Irving
• Europe: Bloomberg – French Nuclear Dismantling Might Cost EU22 Bln, Tribune Says – Fabio Benedetti-Valentini

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

• The Examiner – HEAL Utah and supporters oppose EnergySolutions subversion of 2005 waste ban – Shad Engkilterra
• Tri-City Herald – 154 construction workers laid off at Hanford vit plant – Annette Cary
• 9news – Colorado uranium workers may get compensation
• The Republic – NRC seeks comments on environmental review of proposed NM uranium deconversion plant
• Johnson City Press – NFS given OK to resume operations – Brad Hicks
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Texas congressman Ralph Hall visits ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Local committee overseeing OR environmental activities dissolved – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Dresselhaus, Richter win Fermi Award – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Brenda Hunter has new role as liaison between U.S./U.K. nuclear weapons facilities – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Doomsday Clock – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Lab still assessing budget impacts – Frank Munger
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Schapiro: Uranium battle is Super Bowl of lobbying – Jeff E. Schapiro
• NWTRB – Board comments and recommendations related to work sponsored by NE-53 (pdf-72K)
• South Asia: Times of India – Can nuke waste burial ground withstand heat? Test will tell – Pratiksha Ramkumar
• Europe: Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear decommissioning and new build: can the UK do both? – Jason Deign
• Europe: Reuters – Child leukaemia doubles near French nuclear plants-study – Muriel Boselli
• Europe: Straits Times – Mixed data on child cancer rates near French nuke sites

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

• Tri-Valley CAREs – November/December 2011 Citizen’s Watch Newsletter – Marylia Kelley
• Deseret News – Critics blast state regulator’s decision to allow blended N-waste at EnergySolutions’ Tooele County site – Amy Joi O’Donoghue
• Emery County Progress – Is there enough water for the nuclear power plant near Green River?
• Salt Lake Tribune – Protesters assail, state defends blended radioactive waste – Judy Fahys
• Environment News Service – Grand Canyon Protected From New Uranium Mines
• Corvallis Gazette Times – Low-enriched nuclear fuels topic of two-day meeting at Oregon State
• Tri-City Herald – Judge says he will rule later on Hanford whistleblower case – Annette Cary
• Carlsbad Current Argus – Need to fine real nuclear solutions has become critical – Jody Knox
• Nuclear Watch of New Mexico – New Defense Guidance Undermines Need for New Nuclear – Weapons Plutonium Facility at Los Alamos
• Erwin Record – Acid leak spurs ‘safe shutdown’ at NFS
• Kingsport Times News – Nuclear Fuel Services at Erwin contains acid leak
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Rep. Ralph Hall visits Oak Ridge; science chair, oldest member of Congress – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Reeling in a nuclear whopper – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – TRU waste truckers win again – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL restarts research reactor – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Tank W-1A is out of the ground! Radioactive saga at ORNL approaches an end – Frank Munger
• Canada: Owen Sound Sun Times – Brockton steps up to next phase in nuclear waste storage project – Rob Gowan
• South Asia: Times of India – Uraniam found in 241 water samples, Punjab tells HC
• Europe: The Scotsman – Nuclear clean-up nears end at Dounreay
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – First contract for French repository
• Middle East: Tehran Times – ‘Enrichment in Fordo meant to produce radioisotopes for patients’

Monday, January 09, 2012

• Salt Lake City Weekly – Stop Blended Nuclear Waste Rally Tuesday! – Eric Peterson
• Salt Lake Tribune – Grand Canyon uranium ban draws cheer, jeers – Brandon Loomis
• Salt Lake Tribune – Letter: Blended waste – Sherman Bloom, M.D.
• Utah Pulse – Hatch, Lee, Matheson, Bishop Denounce Uranium Mining Ban
• AP Google – US bans mining claims near Grand Canyon – Matthew Daly
• Platts – US Interior Secretary announces ban on new mining near Grand Canyon – Nick Juliano
• KOB – Feds seek comments on proposed NM uranium plant
• Omaha World-Herald – Nuclear plant’s external alerts OK – Nancy Gaarder
• Greeneville Sun – NFS Facility In ‘Safe Shutdown’ After Nitric Acid Leak
• The Republic – Nuclear Fuel Services in East Tenn. contains nitric acid leak with no injuries reported
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Herrera on detail to Y-12 as NNSA’s acting deputy manager – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – LOC dissolved – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Labor Dept.’s Jan. 18 session to explain expanded ‘Special Exposure Cohort’ for Y-12 workers, help file compensation claims – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Carbon fiber the topic at Jan. 18 FORNL lunch – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Chromium contamination at ETTP – Frank Munger
• NRC – NRC Seeks Public Comment on Draft Environmental Report for Proposed Uranium Deconversion Facility in New Mexico
• Canada: Chronicle Journal – Nuclear waste-free zones promoted
• Europe: BBC News – Kings Cliffe protest as nuclear waste arrives
• Europe: Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph – Villagers united as first waste arrives