Sunday, February 26, 2012

• Kansas City Star – NRC to give public report on Kansas nuclear plant
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – How did they get 860 tons of graphite for the world’s first continuously operated nuclear reactor? February 1943 memo sheds light – Frank Munger
• Oceania: ABC – Questions asked over radioactive mine waste

Saturday, February 25, 2012

• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Extending the Y-12 security contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 6 months, 5,000 shipments from K-25 – Frank Munger
• Europe: St George and Sutherland Shire Leader – We’ll take waste
• North Europe: SteelGuru – Radioactive steel scrap contaminates furnace of Outokumpu Tornio

Friday, February 24, 2012

• Times Press Recorder – Weapon test set to launch – Janene Scully
• Tri-City Herald – Idaho lab to use Pacific Northwest National Laboratory equipment in Richland – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford workers leap on the (computing) cloud – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Idaho lab to use Pacific Northwest National Laboratory equipment in Richland – Annette Cary
• Care2 – Former Colorado Nuclear Weapons Plant Just As Contaminated 40 Years Later – Julie Rodriguez
• Las Cruces Sun-News – LANL beefing up security
• New Mexico Business Weekly – Nuclear projects advance in NM – Kevin Robinson-Avila
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – TVA President and CEO Tom Kilgore defends nuclear power record – Pam Sohn
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A special experience at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – So cool — ORNL supercomputing, 1960s – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – But, Mr. Secretary . . . – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – National labs’ new agreements for commercialization supposed to cut red tape – Frank Munger
• WVEC – TVA head predicts future use of spent fuel
• DOE – Transphorm Takes Energy Efficiency to a New Level – Michael Hess
• DOE – President Highlights Smart Energy Training at U. of Miami – Ginny Simmons
• DOE:IG – Idaho’s Radiological and Environmental Sciences Laboratory, OAS-L-12-02
• GAO – The Department of Energy’s Office of Science Uses a Multilayered Process for Prioritizing Research – Gao-12-410r
• Environmental Protection Agency – NOTICES Proposed Approvals of Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste Characterization Programs; Availability: Proposed Approval of the Central Characterization Project’s Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste Characterization Program at the Savannah River Site Pages 11112-11115 [FR DOC# 2012-4318]
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Fast-breeder said realistic no more

Thursday, February 23, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Letter: Yucca as dumpsite might make sense – Tom Keller
• Salt Lake Tribune – Letter: EnergySolutions’ fate – Merlin Ross
• Arizona Daily Sun – Editorial: Uranium mines haven’t gone away in Canyon Country
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – Carlsbad native heads DOE field office – Stella Davis
• Whitehaven News – The mining area that went nuclear
• KMOX – Debate Heats Up Over St. Louis County’s Westlake Landfill – Michael Calhoun
• San Antonio Express – CEO resigns at South Texas Project – Vicki Vaughan
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Editorial: Obama’s budget proposal positive for Oak Ridge
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge Science Fair – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Cray opens subsidiary in China – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – How much mercury is left in Alpha-4? A lot – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – OREPA’s case against UPF – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – New research instrument at SNS; called ‘vibrational spectrometer’ – Frank Munger
• DOE – President Obama Announces Funding for Breakthroughs in Natural Gas and Biofuels as Alternative Fuels for Vehicles
• DOE – President Obama Highlights Energy Department Efficiency Training Centers That Save U.S. Manufacturers $5.6 Billion
• DOE – Eight National Labs Offer Streamlined Partnership Agreements to Help Industry Bring New Technologies to Market
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Direct Disposal of Spent N-Fuel Less Costly: Japan Panel
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – New uranium mines to be operational within a month – Kalyan Ray
• South Asia: The Hindu – Three more nuclear fuel complexes to be set up
• South Asia: The Hindu – Use of enriched uranium in PHWRs proposed – R. Ramachandran
• South Asia: The Hindu – Centre for radioisotopes, radiation technology to be launched today
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – ‘Significant’ radioactive particle found on beach near Dounreay
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Would N-waste hit our image? – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – ‘Promote Cumbria’ campaign plan if underground nuclear dump goes ahead – Victoria Brenan
• North Europe: World Nuclear News – Russian fuel for Ringhals
• Russia: Nuclear Engineering – TVEL wins its first fuel supply contract for a Western PWR

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

• New York Times – Letter: A Nuclear Repository – Richard Stewart, Jane Stewart
• Deseret News – New study finds mild contamination outside controversial uranium mill – John Hollenhorst
• High Country News blog – Risks remain from uranium mining near the Grand Canyon – Heather Hansen
• Tri-City Herald – Vit plant budget request deserves state’s scrutiny
• Omaha World-Herald – OPPD: No excuses for nuclear plant problems – Joseph Morton
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: When Jaguar becomes Titan, how fast will it be? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – IG looks at Recovery Act lessons learned – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Contractor performance reports, etc. – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 400-800 layoffs at Los Alamos – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Lee McGetrick to talk at ETEBA – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Bland in name only – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Some GREAT things that happened in OR in 2011, part 4 – D. Ray Smith
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Elevated radioactivity levels found in North Anna well – Peter Bacqué
• WSET – Radioactive groundwater detected at Va power plant
• DOE – Energy Storage: The Key to a Reliable, Clean Electricity Supply – Matthew Loveless
• DOE:IG – Property Accountability and Protection of Federal Sensitive Unclassified Information Under the Cooperative Agreement with the Incorporated County of Los Alamos, IG-0859
• GAO – Departments of Defense and Energy Need to Address Potentially Duplicative Investments, GAO-12-241
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meeting: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Idaho National Laboratory Page 10485 [FR DOC# 2012-4061]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Issues: Sunshine Act Meetings Pages 10575-10576 [FR DOC# 2012-4226]
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Hottest radiocactive spot so far turns up at Sandside
• Europe: Utility Week – Fuel tax twist to nuclear row – David Stellfox

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

• Seattle Weekly – Hanford’s Toxic Avengers–The Department of Energy is accused of suppressing deadly nuclear-cleanup flaws. – Joshua Frank
• Tri-City Herald – Nuclear society meeting to feature professor today
• Denver Post – Group wants air near Rocky Flats tested for plutonium
• Westword blog – Rocky Flats critics want radioactive material testing before Jefferson Parkway construction – Patricia Calhoun
• KRQE News 13 – LANL proposes cutting up to 800 jobs – Jessica Garate
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Debate growing fierce on high-dollar, high-stakes UPF – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL licenses tech for sniffing out human remains; Knox firm develops LABRADOR – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 400 teen-age girls (future engineers?) at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ATLC chief: ‘Our main concern is the health and safety of our members right now’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL 1959: the way it was – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR says new subcontracting strategy will get more cleanup for the money – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 1st meeting of new LOC-replacement group – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Another ugly view of 9212 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – All-hands meeting set at Los Alamos – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Escalating spin wars on UPF – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – NRC inspection finds no violations at MOX plant – Rob Pavey
• Aiken Standard – Review: No violations at MOX facility in 4th quarter – Anna Dolianitis
• IEER – Reprocessing: Mythology versus Reality, Science for Democratic Action vol. 16 no. 2 (February 2012) (pdf-)
• IEER – Long-Term Waste Confidence and Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: Comments to the NRC from IEER, BREDL, Riverkeeper, SACE, and NRDC. (February 17, 2012) (pdf-)
• The Ecologist – Nuclear special Links between childhood leukaemia and nuclear power plant radiation – Matilda Lee
• The Guardian – From Rocky Flats to Fukushima: this nuclear folly – Naomi Wolf
• Nuclear Engineering – NRC requests fuel performance info from 11 nuclear plants
• Washington Post – Nuclear power entrepreneurs push thorium as a fuel – Eric Niiler
• NWTRB – Draft Spring 2012 Board Meeting Agenda
• Canada: Toronto Star – Nuclear waste storage depot attracts southern Ontario towns – John Spears
• Oceania: ABC – Japanese farmers use Qld soil to grow rice
• Oceania: Cumberland Courier – Rally against uranium mining in NSW Wednesday
• Europe: The Scotsman – Major radioactive find at Dounreay beach
• East Europe: Radio Prague – Radioactive Waste Depository Authority launches multi-million-crown incentive to win over municipalities for possible nuclear waste sites – Sarah Borufka

Monday, February 20, 2012

• Arizona Capitol Times – Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon region is unwise – Carl Taylor
• Tri-City Herald – DOE wants whistleblower lawsuit dismissed – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford Tours: Registration to begin March 6
• Longmont Daily Times-Call – Editorial: What a Difference A Year Made for LANL?
• Chillicothe Gazette – Pact at Piketon site expands options for education
• Mansfield News Journal – Letter: Centrifuge plant is a waste of taxpayer dollars – Lee Blackburn
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Updated risk reviews planned for Beta-2E and Bldg. 9215 at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Top review of Oak Ridge cleanup projects – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Parties move toward consensus on K-25 preservation/mitigation plan – Frank Munger
• Canada: CNSC – Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission News Update
• Canada: Nuclear Engineering – Regulator renews operating licence for Point Lepreau
• Canada: Toronto Star – Nuclear waste storage depot attracts southern Ontario towns – John Spears
• Europe: BBC News – ‘Most radioactive’ particle found on beach near Dounreay
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Dounreay informs SEPA of potentially ‘significant’ particle find
• Europe: STV.tv – ‘Significant’ radioactive particle found on beach near Dounreay
• North Africa: Daily News Egypt – Radioactive material with low level radiation stolen from plant, says minister – Heba Fahmy