Sunday, February 19, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Editorial: We won’t do that–Talk of negotiating for benefits in return for nuke waste is laughable
• Prescott Daily Courier – Chino Valley entrepreneur still fighting uranium-mining ban – Mark Duncan
• Greater Milwaukee Today – The radiation rundown – Joann Petaschnick
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Nuclear power faces headwinds – Thomas Content
• Galesburg Register-Mail – Pass depleted uranium training bill – Bobby Schilling
• Daily News Journal – TDEC firings a bad omen for TN oversight
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The Dept. of Energy’s Oak Ridge office named three new members to its environmental advisory board, bringing the total to 20. – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Here’s the latest news on ORNL’s Jaguar (soon-to-be-Titan) supercomputer – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Energy Secretary goes ‘virtual’ at nuclear-themed visit to ORNL
• Augusta Chronicle – Missed MOX deadline costly unless federal law is changed – Rob Pavey
• Danville Register & Bee – A daughter of Elliot Lake remembers – Inka Milewski
• New Haven Register – Yale summit warns of growing nuclear dangers – Randall Beach
• WCAX – Sanders supporting Yankee appeal – Kyle Midura
• Forbes – How Many Lives Does Nuclear Energy Have? – Ken Silverstein
• Mother Jones – Nuclear Weapons on a Highway Near You – —By Adam Weinstein
• UN: IAEA – Japan, IAEA to Hold Fukushima Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety
• UN: IAEA – IAEA Team Concludes Peer Review of Sweden’s Nuclear Regulatory Framework

Friday, February 17, 2012

• State of Nevada – State of Nevada Comments on NRC’s Draft Report: Background and Preliminary Assumptions for an Environmental Impact Statement -Long-Term Waste Confidence Update (pdf-50K)
• NEI – DOE Loan Guarantee for Plant Vogtle Expansion on Sound Financial Footing
• NEI – Nuclear Industry Opposes Latest DOE Bid to Re-Impose Cleanup Tax in FY 2013 Budget
• NEI Nuclear Notes – A Preview of CNN’s Report on Vermont Yankee
• NEI Nuclear Notes – How Safe is Vermont Yankee? Ask the NRC, Not CNN.
• NEI Nuclear Notes – You Say Tomato, I Say Tow-MAH-toe
• NEI Nuclear Notes – Nuclear Fact Check: Jamie Reno and the Daily Beast
• DOE – New Licensing Agreement Opens Energy Patents to NGOs, Non-Profits – Michael Hess
• NAS – Project Update: Review of the Department of Labor’s Site Exposure Matrix (SEM) Database
• NRC – NRC Requests Information from 11 Nuclear Plants Regarding Fuel Performance During Accidents
• Environmental Protection Agency – NOTICES Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans: Environmental Impacts Statements; Notice of Availability Page 9652 [FR DOC# 2012-3801]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Meetings: Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Power Uprates; Revision to February 23, 2012, ACRS Meeting Federal Register Notice Page 9707 [FR DOC# 2012-3840]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Meetings:Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Thermal-Hydraulics Phenomena; Revision to February 22, 2012, ACRS Meeting Federal Register Notice Page 9707 [FR DOC# 2012-3842]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – PROPOSED RULES List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: HI-STORM 100, Revision 8 Pages 9591-9592 [FR DOC# 2012-3682]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – RULES List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: HI-STORM 100, Revision 8 Pages 9515-9518 [FR DOC# 2012-3678]
• UN: IAEA – Japan, IAEA to Hold Fukushima Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety
• UN: IAEA – Latin American and Caribbean Nuclear-Weapons-Free-Zone Treaty Nears Half-Century

Thursday, February 16, 2012

• DOE – Tribal Clean Energy Projects Awarded $6.5 Million from U.S. Energy Department
• DOE – Secretary Chu Highlights All-of-the-Above Energy Strategy in Senate Budget Testimony
• DOE – Energy Department and Department of Commerce Announce $1.3 Million for Clean Energy Workforce
• DOE – Chu Visits Site of America’s First New Nuclear Reactor in Three Decades
• DOE – Leaders of the Fuel Cell Pack – Sunita Satyapal
• GAO – Observations on NNSA’s Management and Oversight of the Nuclear Security Enterprise, GAO-12-473T
• NRC – NRC Approves Exelon-Constellation Merger, Indirect Transfer of Five Nuclear Power Plant Licenses
• NRC – Media Advisory: Regulatory Information Conference (RIC) March 13-15 at the Bethesda North Marriott, 5701 Marinelli Rd. in Bethesda, Md. (pdf-213K)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – NOTICES Meetings: Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH or Advisory Board), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Pages 9254-9255 [FR DOC# 2012-3587]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee Page 9219 [FR DOC# 2012-3652]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation Pages 9219-9220 [FR DOC# 2012-3647]
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Designation of a Class of Employees for Addition to the Special Exposure Cohort, Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina, Pages 9250-9251 [FR DOC# 2012-3645]
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Designation of a Class of Employees for Addition to the Special Exposure Cohort, Linde Ceramics Plant in Tonawanda, New York, Page 9251 [FR DOC# 2012-3646]
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Determination Concerning a Petition To Add a Class of Employees to the Special Exposure Cohort, Hooker Electrochemical Company in Niagara Falls, New York, Page 9251 [FR DOC# 2012-3644]
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Solicitation of Nominations for Membership on the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections Pages 9251-9252 [FR DOC# 2012-3625]
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Meetings: Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH or Advisory Board), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Pages 9254-9255 [FR DOC# 2012-3587]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Meetings: Workshop Sponsored by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Electric Power Research Institute on the Treatment of Probabilistic Risk Assessment Uncertainties: Public Meeting Page 9273 [FR DOC# 2012-3677]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Orders Extending Date by which Direct Transfer of Licenses is to be Completed: USEC Inc. (American Centrifuge Lead Cascade Facility and American Centrifuge Plant); Direct Transfer of Licenses Pages 9273-9274 [FR DOC# 2012-3675]

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

• DOE – Chu Visits Site of America’s First New Nuclear Reactor in Three Decades – Nas
• NAS – Project Update: Gulf War and Health: Treatment of Chronic Multisymptom Illness
• NRC – NRC Issues Summary of Agency Performance and Financial Information for 2011
• USGS – Nationwide Radium Testing of Groundwater Shows Most Susceptible Regions are Central U.S. and East Coast
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Draft Regulatory Guides; Availability: Draft Regulatory Guide: Issuance, Availability Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Reactors Pages 8902-8903 [FR DOC# 2012-3377]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.: Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact; Carolina Power and Light Company Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 1 Pages 8903-8904 [FR DOC# 2012-3521]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Exemptions: Entergy Nuclear Indian Point 3, LLC.; Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit 3; Exemption Pages 8904-8926 [FR DOC# 2012-3122]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES PROPOSED RULES Guidance for Decommissioning Planning During Operations Page 8751 [FR DOC# 2012-3522]
• Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board – NOTICES Meetings: Board Meeting: March 7, 2012-Albuquerque, NM; The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board Will Meet To Discuss DOE Work on Criteria and Modeling for Generic Repository Geologies Page 8926 [FR DOC# 2012-3463]

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

• DOE – What Would the President’s Proposed 2013 Budget Mean to the Energy Department? – Ginny Simmons
• DOE:IG – Alleged Misuse of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Grant Funds by the Western Arizona Council of Governments
• NNSA – FY 2013 Budget Request Seeks $11.5 Billion to Achieve President Obama’s Nuclear Security Objectives, Shape Future of Nuclear Security
• NRC – NRC Schedules Conference with FPL for Feb. 21 to Discuss Apparent Violations
• NRC – NRC Cites Palisades for Three Violations; Public Meeting Scheduled
• NWTRB – Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request (pdf-122K)
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses Involving Proposed No Significant Hazards Considerations and Containing Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information Pages 8288-8296 [FR DOC# 2012-2865]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Notice of Sunshine Act Meeting Pages 8296-8297 [FR DOC# 2012-3527]
• Tennessee Valley Authority – NOTICES Sunshine Act Meeting Notice, February 16, 2012 Page 8324 [FR DOC# 2012-3482]

Monday, February 13, 2012

• Legal Documents
• DC Court of Appeals – Order Granting Nevada Motion to Supplement Appendix (pdf-37K)
• NRC – FINAL BRIEF FOR THE RESPONDENTS–On Petition for Writ of Mandamus (Agency Action Unreasonably Withheld) (pdf-1.2M)
• Aiken County et al. – BRIEF OF PETITIONERS–On Petition For Writ Of Mandamus (Agency Action Unreasonably Withheld) (pdf-559K)
• Aiken County et al. – ADDENDUM TO BRIEF OF PETITIONERS–On Petition For Writ Of Mandamus (Agency Action Unreasonably Withheld) (pdf-127K)
• Aiken County et al. – REPLY BRIEF OF PETITIONERS–On Petition For Writ Of Mandamus (Agency Action Unreasonably Withheld) (pdf-619K)
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• DOE – Chu: President’s 2013 Energy Budget Makes Critical Investments in Innovation, Clean Energy, and National Security
• NRC – NRC Proposes FY 2013 Budget To Congress; Detailed Budget Justification Report Available
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Environmental Assessments; Availability: Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for License Renewal for University of California, Irvine Nuclear Reactor Facility Pages 7610-7613 [FR DOC# 2012-3298]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Facility Operating Licenses: Dow Chemical Company; Dow Chemical TRIGA Research Reactor; Facility Operating License No. R-108 Pages 7613-7618 [FR DOC# 2012-3246]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Meetings: Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Regulatory Policies and Practices; Notice of Meeting Page 7618 [FR DOC# 2012-3295]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Meetings: Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Reliability and PRA; Notice of Meeting Page 7618 [FR DOC# 2012-3297]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Meetings: Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Planning and Procedures; Notice of Meeting Pages 7618-7619 [FR DOC# 2012-3270]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – PROPOSED RULES REGULATORY AGENDA Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions Pages 8078-8080 [FR DOC# 2012-1668]
• Canada: CNSC – Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission News Update