Sunday, February 05, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Yucca Mountain Groundhog Day – Sherman Frederick
• House Energy and Natural Resources Committee – Sen. Murkowski’s Opening Statement on Nuclear Fuel Storage Report
• Energy Central – Domenici Defends Nuclear Waste Crisis Study – Michael Coleman
• Northwest Herald – Letter: Buried nuclear story – Ed Sapeta
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Experiment to dispose of nuclear waste hits another roadblock – Jin Nishikawa
• Europe: Herald Scotland – MoD under fire for ‘Atomic Beach’ clean-up failure
• Europe: Herald Scotland – Nuclear waste plan abandoned – Rob Edwards

Saturday, February 04, 2012

• Environmental Law Prof Blog – Yucca Mountain: Whose Voice? – Emily Meazell
• SNL Financial – Senators take skeptical look at nuclear waste recommendations – Matthew Bandyk
• Middletown Journal – Plans for Piketon uranium plant meet new resistance – Jessica Wehrman
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – Delays and cost overruns hit Watts Bar work – Dave Flessner
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Cooking help in the developing world – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 adds members to its ‘community council’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What Kohlhorst said – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nice honor for ORNL’s Jerry Tuskan – Frank Munger
• Europe: AFP Google – US and Spain discuss cleanup of nuclear radiation

Friday, February 03, 2012

• The Hill blog – Blue Ribbon Commission: Disposing of our nuclear waste – Andrew Holland
• Press Action – Nuclear Waste Disposal: America’s Ultimate Shovel-Ready Job Scheme
• Sydney Morning Herald – Nuclear waste fracas that just won’t go away
• Hanford News – Senate panel urges handling Hanford waste – Annette Cary
• Hanford News – DOE taking further asbestos protection steps – Annette Cary
• Salt Lake Tribune – Utah Senate advances environmental boards revamp – Judy Fahys
• Salt Lake Tribune – Letter: A toxic blend – Robert J. Plachta
• ABQ Journal – Domenici Defends Nuclear Waste Crisis Study – Michael Coleman
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Editorial: ET congressmen must fight for OR cleanup dollars
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Final Memorandum of Agreement for historic preservation, K-25 mitigation plans; sets stage for demolishing North Tower – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Removing risks in the heart of Oak Ridge National Lab
• Aiken Standard – Take advantage of SRS strengths for waste storage – Clint Wolfe
• Aiken Standard – SRNS names director of strategic development – Anna Dolianitis
• Arms Control Association – Reprocessing Revisited: The International Dimensions of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership – Edwin Lyman and Frank N. von Hippel
• Recycling International – Editorial: Input from scrap experts on radiation code
• Canada: Owen Sound Sun Times – Deep Geologic Repository Joint Review Panel appointed – Troy Patterson
• Central Asia: Reuters – Kazakhs aim to grow 2012-15 uranium output to 25,000 T – Raushan Nurshayeva
• Central Asia: World Nuclear News – Kazakhstan continues front-end push

Thursday, February 02, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Key Senate leaders seek post-Yucca answer to nuke waste – Peter Urban
• KITV Honolulu – State Health Dept. Monitoring Shoreline For Radioactive Waste – Catherine Cruz
• Seattle Times – Letters: Yucca Mountain as a nuclear-waste site
• Boise Weekly – Otter Creates Commission to Boost INL ‘Leadership’ – George Prentice
• OnEarth blog – The Ghosts of Rocky Flats: A Meditation on Health, Regulation, and Radiation – David Gessner
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – Article highlights community role in WIPP site selection – Stella Davis
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – TDEC: no violations in chromium spill – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s ties to 4 firms in Innovator Challenge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORAU’s dose reconstruction contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – POGO slams cost of keeping B61s in Europe – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE advisory board Feb. 8 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Young physicists converge on Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – B&W confirms HEUMF lawsuit meetings – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE’s John Eschenberg more than satisifed with ’12 budget in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA releases more Q&A’s on Y-12/Pantex – Frank Munger
• UPI – Radium capsules found at waste station
• DC Bureau – Spencer Abraham Cashes In – Joseph Trento
• Energy Tribune – In The Head Of U.S. Energy Secretary Chu – Professor Ferdinand E. Banks
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Ultra-Deepwater Advisory Committee Page 5246 [FR DOC# 2012-2314]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Unconventional Resources Technology Advisory Committee Page 5246 [FR DOC# 2012-2316]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee Pages 5246-5247 [FR DOC# 2012-2315]
• Central Asia: Washington Post – Kyrgyz government says it will punish officials that allowed import of radioactive coal
• Europe: The Guardian – We cannot wish Britain’s nuclear waste away – George Monbiot
• Europe: The Guardian – New generation of nuclear reactors could consume radioactive waste as fuel – Duncan Clark
• Europe: Nature – Editorial: The low-level nuclear threat
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Letters: The Nuclear Waste Debate

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Nuclear waste hearing turns testy over Yucca Mountain – Steve Tetreault
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Nuclear panel says work should start now to find waste sites – Steve Tetreault
• Las Vegas SUN – Romney’s ideas are wrong for Nevada – Harry Reid, Bob Miller and Richard Bryan
• Las Vegas SUN – We must demand clear answer from Romney on Yucca Mountain – Brian Greenspun
• Las Vegas SUN – A guide to Nevada for presidential candidates – Jon Ralston
• Pahrump Valley Times – County official derides Blue Ribbon recommendations – Mark Waite
• House Committee on Energy and Commerce – Hearing: Recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future
• Bloomberg – Nuclear-Waste Overhaul by U.S. Will Take Years, Panel Chief Says – Brian Wingfield
• Citizens Against Government Waste – CAGW President Tom Schatz Testifies on Yucca Mountain
• The Hill blog – Official: Lack of nuclear waste dump is a ‘serious failure of the American government’ – Andrew Restuccia
• Huffington Post – Yucca Mountain Project Looms As Issue In Nevada Ahead Of 2012 Presidential Election – Ariel Edwards-Levy
• Huffington Post – A Democratic Solution to the Problem of Nuclear Waste – David Ropei
• Platts – Heads of US nuclear waste panel call for new approach to disposal – Elaine Hiruo, Derek Sands
• POWERnews – Blue Ribbon Commission: U.S. Nuclear Waste Policy “Completely Broken Down”
• Union of Concerned Scientists – UCS Physicist to Testify Today Before House Subcommittee on Nuclear Waste Blue Ribbon Commission Report
• Waste Management World – CQ Congressional Testimony
• Stanford Daily – SLAC announces first atomic X-ray laser – Alice Phillips
• Hanford News – Hanford burial ground cleanup coming near Columbia River – Annette Cary
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – LANL to speed up removal of radioactive waste – Stella Davis
• KRQE – Thousands claim LANL caused cancer – Nancy Laflin
• Rapid City Journal – Bill giving state a role in regulating uranium mining tabled – David Montgomery
• San Antonio Current – Nuclear waste dump push will likely put Texas back in federal sights – Greg Harman
• Chillicothe Gazette – Public comment sought on Piketon site waste – Loren Genson
• Politico – Whitfield’s plant in Ky. is hung out to dry – Darius Dixon
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Ted the fed tries life as a contractor – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Update on U-233 shipments to Nevada – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – So that’s what it’s called – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UT-Battelle’s $10K to Aid to Distressed Families – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Parsons wins NNSA’s construction management services contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Science & the nuclear stockpile – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A hint of progress in HEUMF squabble? – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Oak Ridge cleanup gains momentum
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Put uranium mining on ballot – Ray Hershman
• Berkeley-NJ.Patch – NRC Spent Fuel Report ‘Just Analytical’ Officials Say – Elaine Piniat
• Philadelphia Inquirer – Antique medical kit containing radium found in trash bin
• Philadelphia Inquirer blog – Radioactive trash like “100 CT scans at once” – William Bender
• Barnegat.Patch – NRC Spent Fuel Report ‘Just Analytical,’ Officials Say – Elaine Piniat
• The Atlantic – DOE Responds to Complaints About Its Commitment to Open Government – Alexis Madrigal
• POWERnews – The Big Picture: DOE Loan Guarantees – Sonal Patel
• Canada: Elliot Lake Standard – NWMO did not prove repository concept is safe, says Northwatch spokesperson – Kevin McSheffrey
• Canada: Elliot Lake Standard – Letter: Nuclear repository could result in exodus from Elliot Lake – Jim Lindamood
• Europe: BBC News – Lost false teeth claim by Dounreay nuclear plant worker
• Europe: Scottish Daily Record – Gordon Brown demands that MoD clean up radioactive Fife beach – Kevan Christie
• North Europe: Bellona – Small traces of Iodine-131 mysteriously appear throughout Barents Sea region

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal blog – Nuke waste panel steered clear of Nevada race – Steve Tetreault
• Daily Kos – Campaign Memo to Newt: Nevada is Next – TRPChicago
• Electric Co-op Today – NRECA Backs New Nuclear Waste Plan – Steven Johnson
• Energy Central – Nuclear Waste Still Troubles Industry – Ken Silverstein
• Platts – More than one permanent US nuclear repository likely needed: Chu – Derek Sands
• Washington Times – Editorial: Sins of commission on Yucca Mountain–Political infighting results in lost billions
• Seattle Times – Letter: Efforts to proceed with Yucca Mountain N-waste site – Gary R. Petersen
• Kingman Daily Miner – Downwinders’ exhibit in need of a home in Mohave County
• Albuquerque Journal – State denies permission for WIPP to use new shielded containers for more highly radiaoctive waste – John Fleck
• Battle Creek Enquirer – U.S. needs to heed report on nuclear waste issue – Editorials
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Ed Westcott, famed Oak Ridge photographer, turns 90 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – GAO looks at NNSA/DOE support costs – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Miss High Flux Isotope Reactor – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE to begin manager’s search ‘soon’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ed Westcott celebrates 90th – Frank Munger
• DOE – Secretary Chu Announces Second Round of “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” on One Year Anniversary of the White House Startup America Initiative
• NWTRB – DOE to Present Work on Generic Geologic Repository Criteria and Models at NWTRB March Meeting (pdf-52K)
• UN: Platts – IAEA plans code to track radioactive contamination in scrap: BIR
• Europe: BBC News – Solution for radioactive Dalgety Bay beach ‘no closer’
• Europe: BBC News – Leiston residents angered by Sizewell B compensation scheme
• Europe: BBC News – MoD experts to visit radioactive Dalgety Bay beach
• Europe: BBC News – Sepa to consult on waste for Dounreay store
• Russia: RT – Nuclear unclarity: Russia’s Baltic energy expansion in doubt – Vitaly Belousov

Monday, January 30, 2012

• Legal Documents
• Aiken County; Robert L. Ferguson, William Lampson, and Gary Petersen; State of South Carolina; State of Washington; NARUC; Nye County; – Reply Brief of Petitioners (pdf-915K)
• The Hill blog – House Yucca advocate won’t target GOP candidates for opposing the waste dump – Andrew Restuccia
• PennEnergy – BRC report urges separate agency to manage nuclear waste, immediate replacement for Yucca Mountain
• Care2 – Hanford Site: Radiation Levels High, Plant Progress Slow – Joel Boyce
• Idaho Statesman – Rocky Barker: INL and Lucky Friday mine accident responses illustrate two sides of Idaho
• Chillicothe Gazette – Legislators speak up in opposition to USEC’s American Centrifuge Project – Loren Genson
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Crackdown on security costs? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Construction of first calutron building at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Good use of a bad accident at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Some leaders at the Y-12 plant in the 1980s, Part 3 – D. Ray Smith
• Oak Ridger – League to hear about cleanup issues in Oak Ridge Feb. 7
• Augusta Chronicle – Energy Department rejects SRS advisory board request for nuclear waste inventory – Rob Pavey
• Augusta Chronicle – 2012 nuclear waste milesone reached at Savannah River Site
• IEER – Radioactive Wastes from Nuclear Bomb Program Given Short Shrift in Blue Ribbon Commission Report (pdf-172K)
• NWTRB – Board comments and recommendations related to work sponsored by NE-53 (pdf-73K)
• Energy Department – NOTICES Environmental Management Advisory Board Page 4556 [FR DOC# 2012-1911]
• Canada: Nuclear Engineering – Westinghouse sets up Canadian arm
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Peter Watts: Uranium should stay in the ground
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – JNFL to resume vitrification tests shortly / 1st tests in 3 years; outcome to have significant impact on policy regarding nuclear fuel cycle – Yuta Moriyama and Yohei Odakura
• Russia: World Nuclear News – Russia commissions fuel storage facility