Sunday, January 29, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Final four GOP contenders address key Nevada issues – Laura Myers
• Daily Green – How to Win Friends, Influence People, and Bury Nuclear Waste – Jim DiPeso
• Los Alamos Monitor – DOE to Transfer Tracts to County – John Severance
• Daily Camera – Plutonium is forever – LeRoy Moore and Robert Del Tredici
• Atlanta Journal Constitution – What about radioactive waste? – Kristi E. Swartz
• Danville Register & Bee – Letter: ‘A legacy of death’ – Bob Cleary
• Oceania: The Bull – Uranium stocks hit hard but bulls are bellowing – Bob Kohut
• Russia: Bellona – Comment: Russia hits rock bottom on environmental protection – will it hear the impact? – Vladimir Slivyak

Saturday, January 28, 2012

• Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) – Feinstein Statement on Blue Ribbon Commission Report on Nuclear Future
• Reuters – Berkeley energy lab plans big expansion – Laird Harrison
• Tri-City Herald – PNNL technology honored
• Salt Lake Tribune – EnergySolutions’ end run – Steve Nelson
• PR-USA – former state Senator Pete Domenici and Dr. James Conca will be speaking at the National Nuclear Fuel Cycle Summit, April 2-5, 2012, Carlsbad, New Mexico
• Youngstown Vindicator – 2 trucks trying to enter Mahoning Landfill in Sept. had minuscule radiation amounts – Karl Henkel
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Success or failure? Postscript on mercury cleanup not clear – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sherry: ‘I think it’s going to be a lot of fun’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA/DOE appeal of Y-12 discharge permit – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Author Marianne Wiggins visits ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Foreign students getting their science doctorates in the U.S. are sticking around, especially those from China and India – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Bruce Darling named NAS executive officer – Frank Munger
• Aiken Standard – Forum meets to discuss SRS’ status, future – Anna Dolianitis
• Bennington Banner – Letter: Waste no more on Yankee case – Joe Benning, State Senator
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Famed Aomori fishing port lives in shadow of new MOX fuel nuclear plant
• Europe: Yorkshire Post – Augean’s nuclear waste focus
• North Europe: Washington Post blog – What Sweden can teach us about nuclear waste – Brad Plumer
• South Africa: IOL – A toxic delay – Sheree Bega

Friday, January 27, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Editorial: Nevadans know best
• Las Vegas SUN – Nevada lawmakers applaud panel’s nuclear-waste recommendations – Karoun Demirjian
• Reno Gazette-Journal – New approach to dealing with nuke waste welcome
• American Public Power Association – Blue ribbon panel calls for new approach to nuclear waste disposal; APPA, other industry stakeholders applaud – Robert Varela
• Bloomberg BNA – Final Blue Ribbon Commission Report Urges Cooperative Efforts in Siting Waste Facilities – Pat Ware
• Brookings Institution – Around the Halls: President Obama and America’s Nuclear Future – John P. Banks, Charles K. Ebinger
• Brookings Institution – What Does the State of the Union Mean for Energy Policy? – Charles K. Ebinger
• Daily Beast – Panel Highlights Alarming Lack of National Plan for U.S. Nuclear Waste – Daniel Stone
• eNews Park Forest – Radioactive Wastes From Nuclear Bomb Program Given Short Shrift in Blue Ribbon Commission Report .
• KQED – Requiem for Yucca Mountain: Federal Commission Says to Move On – Craig Miller
• MSNBC – Would your city want a nuclear waste site if the price was right? – Eric Niiler
• New York Times blog – Is Spent Nuclear Fuel Really Waste? – Matthew L. Wald
• NEI Nuclear Notes – Reporting on the BRC Report – Mark Flanagan
• NEI Nuclear Notes – US Panel Recommends New Strategies for Managing Used Nuclear Fuel – Eric McErlain
• NIRS – 88 organizations, 5400+ individuals tell Energy Secretary Steven Chu to reject Blue Ribbon Commission
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Communities core to US repository plans – Jason Deign
• Power Engineering Magazine – Nuclear Energy Stakeholders Welcome Blue Ribbon Commission Report to DOE
• Scientific American – Blue Ribbon Commissions Calls for New Home for Nuclear Waste – Peter Behr and ClimateWire
• YubaNet – Kevin Kamps: No viable solution for either the management or ‘disposal’ of radioactive waste
• KPBS – Nation Recognizes Nuclear Test Downwinders – Laurel Morales
• Lincoln Journal Star – Utah leaders honor victims of Nev. nuclear testing
• Public News Service – National Downwinders Day Vigil for Idaho Victims – Deb Courson Smith
• KNDO/KNDU – Energy Northwest must spend at least $30 million to meet new safety standards
• Sci-Tech Today – Safety at Wash. Nuclear-Waste Site Scrutinized – Peter Eisler
• Tri-City Herald – Blue Ribbon Commission says U.S. should start looking for Yucca alternative
• Arizona Republic – Senator suggests Ariz. as nuke dump – Howard Fischer
• Capital Press – Kansas residents oppose plans for federal lab – John Milburn
• Medill Reports – Nuclear worries abound in Great Lakes region. Do solutions? – Rory Keane
• Knoxville News Sentinel – ‘Dozing’ security guard resigns – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – More layoffs at USEC project in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Safety Partnership forum Feb. 1 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ted Sherry joins ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ed Westcott, Oak Ridge icon – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Dozing’ security officer admits violations, resigns; WSI says photos taken in unclassified area at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – Savannah River Site leaders predict bright nuclear future – Rob Pavey
• Augusta Chronicle – NRC plans Feb. 8 Plant Vogtle meeting in Atlanta
• Augusta Chronicle – Blue Ribbon Commission suggests nuclear waste program overhaul – Rob Pavey
• Augusta Chronicle – Cheap natural gas, not Japan crisis has more impact on new nuclear reactors, expert says – Sarita Chourey
• Aiken Standard – BRC’s report suggests changes about nuclear waste – Anna Dolianitis
• DOE – Tapping into Wave and Tidal Ocean Power: 15% Water Power by 2030 – Hoyt Battey
• DOE – Secretary Chu Highlights Innovation at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico – Ginny Simmons
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: TransCanada Alaska Company, LLC; Notice of Public Scoping Meeting for the Planned Alaska Pipeline Project Page 4290 [FR DOC# 2012-1732]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – RULES List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: MAGNASTOR® System, Revision 2 Page 4203 [FR DOC# 2012-1770]
• Asia-Pacific: Arirang News – Decontaminating Highly Radioactive Areas to Put on Hold
• Asia-Pacific: Denki Shimbun – Progress in Rokkasho reprocessing plant project
• Europe: Aberdeen Press and Journal – Probe after workers’ boots contaminated – Iain Grant
• Europe: BBC News – Traces of radiation found on Dounreay workers’ shoes
• Europe: Press Association – Contamination found at nuclear site
• The Scotsman – Probe into Dounreay contamination scare
• Europe: Westmorland Gazette – Should Cumbria hold on to nuclear waste? – Rachel Ryan

Thursday, January 26, 2012

• Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future – Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future Issues Final Report to Secretary of Energy
• Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future – BRC Report to the Secretary of Energy – January 2012 (pdf-4.84M)
• Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) – Reid Statement on Blue Ribbon Commisson’s Final Report
• Senator Dean Heller(D-NV) – Heller Statement on the Blue Ribbon Commission Report on America’s Nuclear Future
• Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV1) – Berkley Backs Blue Ribbon Commission Call for End of Yucca Mountain, Elimination of Laws Targeting Nevada as Nation’s Nuclear Garbage Dump
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Expert panel recommends new tack on nuclear waste – Steve Tetreault
• Las Vegas SUN – Commission: Store nuclear waste where it’s wanted – Karoun Demirjian
• Reno Gazette-Journal – Federal panel: Start now to replace Nevada nuke waste site
• AP Google – Panel: Start now to replace Nevada nuke site – Matthew Daly
• CNN – Panel: Search for nuclear waste dump could last up to 20 years – Mike M. Ahlers
• Discovery News – Wanna Nuke Waste Site? A panel suggests towns volunteer to host dumps that would last for generations.. – Eric Niiler
• Forbes – Obama’s Nuclear Commission Issues Final Report, Urges Immediate Action On Atomic Waste – Christopher Helman, Forbes Staff
• The Hill blog – Federal commission urges permanent nuclear waste storage strategy – Andrew Restuccia
• Huffington Post – Yucca Mountain Project: Failed Nuclear Waste Site Should Be Replaced, Panel Says
• New York Times – Revamped Search Urged For a Nuclear Waste Site – Matthew L. Wald
• NPR – How To Find A New Nuclear Waste Site? Woo A Town – Christopher Joyce
• Power Engineering Magazine – Blue Ribbon Commission issues report on used nuclear fuel
• Reuters – U.S. needs long-term site for nuclear wast: panel – Ayesha Rascoe
• Energy Collective – NRC’s Waste Confidence Update – Dan Yurman
• Seattle Times – Inslee should join fight to proceed with Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository – Bob Ferguson and Bill Lampson
• Tri-City Herald – New safety standards post Fukushima could cost $30M – Annette Cary
• Los Alamos Monitor – Meeting Update 01-26-12
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s Dyer, McGinty get NNSA honors – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – New preservation plan by week’s end – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – USEC layoffs in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – Blue Ribbon Commission suggests nuclear waste program overhaul – Rob Pavey
• Aiken Standard – Part 1: National Nuclear Science Week is reason to celebrate – MARC MILLER, Ph.D.
• Aiken Standard – Part 2: Local nuclear presence growing to meet energy needs – Mindy Mets
• Aiken Standard – Part 3: Career opportunities abound in nuclear technology – Anne Rice
• Aiken Standard – Part 4: SRS will continue to lead in nuclear technology – DAVID MOODY, Ph.D.
• Aiken Standard – Part 5: Commitment and partnership essential for future nuclear workforce – SUSAN WINSOR, Ph.D.
• Lynchburg News and Advance – Two counties offer differing views on uranium mining – Rex Springston
• Eurasia Review – How Sea Water Could Corrode Nuclear Fuel
• Truthout – Sickened and Still Waiting for Justice: 9/11 First Responders and Cold War Nuclear Weapons Workers Battle for Fair Compensation – Antoinette Bonsignore
• DOE – A Critical Step Toward Sustainable Nuclear Fuel Disposal
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: DOE/NSF High Energy Physics Advisory Panel Page 4027 [FR DOC# 2012-1671]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Nevada Pages 4027-4028 [FR DOC# 2012-1698]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee Page 4028 [FR DOC# 2012-1693]
• Asia-Pacific: ABC – Japan loses track of radioactive cows – Mark Willacy
• Russia: Moscow Times – 29 Fetuses Found at Uranium Site

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal blog – President Obama comes to Las Vegas — shish, boom bah! – Sherman Frederick
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford truck crash spills soil, injures driver
• Messenger Index – photo: Haunting voices of the past
• Forbes – Nuke Us: Meet The Town That Wants America’s Worst Nuclear Waste – Christopher Helman
• KOAT Albuquerque – Los Alamos Lab Responds To Lujan’s Cancer Claims
• New Mexico Business Weekly – Technically speaking, nuclear engineers make the most in New Mexico
• The Republic – Lujan’s fight for sick Los Alamos lab workers becomes personal battle – Kate Nash
• Bismarck Tribune – State to start tracking radioactive oil waste – Lauren Donovan
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Y-12/Pantex HQ could go to Amarillo
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Editorial: TVA takes stand on safety by idling contract workers
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Was mercury project a success? Y-12 says it may take a year to answer that question
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Chu leads DOE’s post-SOTU road show
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE responds to security allegations, says it will monitor WSI’s investigation ‘very closely’
• Oak Ridger – ‘A Nuclear Family’ — New TV series about Y-12 plant begins Thursday
• Augusta Chronicle – Energy plan could boost small reactor research at SRS – Rob Pavey
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Uranium risks far outweigh benefits – Jesse Andrews
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Wealthy shouldn’t delay uranium project – Larry Roach
• Chatham Star Tribune – This week brought good news and bad – Sen. Frank Ruff/State Senate, 15th District
• Chatham Star Tribune – Second week of the 2012 session – Del. Matt Fariss/House of Delegates, 59th District
• Chatham Star Tribune – second week of the General Assembly session – Del. James E. Edmunds II/House of Delegates, 60th District
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: ‘Killing the goose to feed the gander’ – Michael Edwards
• Chatham Star Tribune – Del. Marshall’s General Assembly report – Del. Danny Marshall (R) 14th House District
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: ‘Uranium is economic game-changer – Kenneth O. Shelton
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Energy.gov: Where information goes to die – Dawn Stover
• Meri News – Intensive research needed for safer handling of nuclear waste – Vishnu Mohan
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Radioactive gravel tied to more prefabs
• Europe: News & Star – West Cumbria not committed to underground nuclear repository, meeting told – Caroline Ivison

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

• New York Times blog – Wanted: Parking Space for Nuclear Waste – Matthew L. Wald
• Longview Daily News – Editorial: Yucca Mountain on the horizon for GOP candidates
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: Truck hauling waste tips over – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Study to look at putting natural gas pipeline under Columbia River – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Board raises issue about corrosion at vit plant – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Change to state radioactive waste permit system proposed – Annette Cary
• Emmett Messenger-Index – Janet: Will the downwinders finally be heard?
• Grand Junction Sentinel – Water deal big win for nuke plant – Gary Harmon
• Salt Lake Tribune – A mountain of nuclear waste – Linda Pentz Gunter
• Salt Lake Tribune – Nuclear testing fallout victims recognized this week – Judy Fahys
• St. George Daily Spectrum – Downwinders hope Day of Remembrance spurs change – David DeMille
• Blog For Arizona – A layman’s rebuttal of Al Melvin’s “Nuclear waste recycling is wonderful” argument – David Safier
• White Mountain Independent – Legislators blast decision to close lands to uranium mining
• truthout – Why Spend Billions on an Unnecessary Nuclear Weapons Facility? – Dana Liebelson
• Minot Daily News – Officials to test Minot proppant after oilfield waste found radioactive – Dave Caldwell
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Guard allegedly found asleep at Oak Ridge nuke facility – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – So, how’s business at the ORNL hotel? Not so good, actually . . . at least not yet – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sieminski to head Energy Info Administration; Jones to oversee toxic substances at EPA – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Govt’s Oak Ridge security contractor probes sleeping guard, other allegations at high-stakes nuclear facility – Frank Munger
• The BLT – Lynch Named Energy Department’s Acting General Counsel – Jenna Greene
• Nuclear Engineering – DOE announces funding plan for small modular reactors
• PhysOrg – Chemists find new material to remove radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel
• U.S. PIRG – Nuclear Power Plants Threaten Drinking Water for 49 Million Americans
• DOE – Secretary Chu and Energy Department Officials to Travel Across America to Discuss the Obama Administration’s Commitment to Energy Innovation and Manufacturing
• DOE – President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
• Energy Department – NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Cancellation of the Environmental Impact Statement for the Mountaineer Commercial Scale Carbon Capture and Storage Project, Mason County, WV Pages 3459-3460 [FR DOC# 2012-1351]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Reimbursement for Costs of Remedial Action at Active Uranium and Thorium Processing Sites Pages 3460-3461 [FR DOC# 2012-1352]
• Canada: Montreal Gazette – Feds exploring plans to bury nuclear waste in Ontario – Ian MacLeod
• Canada: Owen Sound Sun Times – Radiation monitor goes off at nuclear plant
• Oceania: The Australian – Labor policy shift on uranium favours Toro – Andrew Burrell
• Europe: The Guardian – Plans for Sellafield plutonium reactor rejected – Rob Edwards
• Europe: News & Star – Underground nuclear dump would change Lake District forever – claim
• Europe: Reuters UK – UK nuclear watchdog toughens stance on waste reuse – Oleg Vukmanovic
• North Europe: YLE News – Posiva: No room for Fennovoima waste in nuclear cave – Wif Stenger

Monday, January 23, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal blog – Illinois senator, Yucca Mountain proponent, suffers stroke – Steve Tetreault
• Las Vegas SUN – Q+A: Marvin E. Quasniki, puppet presidential candidate – Karoun Demirjian
• Idaho Statesman – Sobering report places responsibility for plutonium contamination on Idaho lab managers – Rocky Barker
• Deseret News – Panel: U.S. nuclear waste problem can be managed – Amy Joi O’Donoghue
• Insciences – Sandia chemists find new material to remove radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel
• Santa Fe New Mexican – Luján’s fight for sick LANL workers becomes a personal battle – Kate Nash
• Amarillo Globe-News – B&W Pantex got $33.4M from fedsto run plant – Bobby Cervantes
• Kansas City Business Journal – Firms win $80M in contracts to help with NNSA plant move – Brenna Hawley
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Help for sick nuclear workers (and their families) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – HEU reactor fuel – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE promoting modular nuclear reactors – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Tennessee Science Bowl set for March 3 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Changes at NNSA’s Sandia site office – Frank Munger
• Lynchburg News and Advance – Southside split on uranium-mining proposal – Rex Springston
• Virginian Pilot – Necessary delay on uranium decision
• Energy Department – NOTICES Boundary Revisions: Notice of 229 Boundary Revision at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Page 3255 [FR DOC# 2012-1214]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Acquisition of a Natural Gas Pipeline and Natural Gas Utility Service at the Hanford Site, Richland, WA, and Notice of Floodplains and Wetlands Involvement (DOE/EIS-0467) Pages 3255-3257 [FR DOC# 2012-1139]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Disposition of the Bannister Federal Complex, Kansas City, MO, and Notice of Wetlands Involvement Pages 3259-3261 [FR DOC# 2012-1207]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Transfers of Land Tracts: Transfer of Land Tracts Located at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico Pages 3257-3259 [FR DOC# 2012-1208]
• Canada: Sault Star – Cameco’s requests to nuclear commission opposed by Northwatch – Dan Bellerose
• Oceania: ABC – New WA Labor leader stirs up uranium debate
• Oceania: The Australian – Chinese one step closer to uranium buyout
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Radioactive crushed stone used in around 60 Fukushima buildings
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – West Lakes ‘faces being ruined by nuclear dump’