Sunday, March 04, 2012

• Reno Gazette-Journal – Catherine Cortez Masto: Fallacy of Yucca Mountain is more apparent than ever
• Reno Gazette-Journal – Tyrus W. Cobb: Commission shows Nevada road ahead on energy park
• Longview Daily News – Letter(#2): Yucca Mountain – Gary Hollis
• Tri-City Herald – DOE plans steel cocoon for Hanford’s K East Reactor – Annette Cary
• KASA – LANL buyout to pay up to 9 months – Crystal Gutierrez
• Iowa City Press Citizen – Letter: State nuclear bill is just plain wrong – Jim Baker
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Glenn Seaborg’s 1944 visit to Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Did that airplane swallow a nuclear reactor? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – It’s a rad, rad world – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Wanna have input on the 2014 budget? – Frank Munger
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Nuclear cleanup costs expected to skyrocket at Parks
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Proejct researching contents of Parks dump gets the ax – Mary Ann Thomas

Saturday, March 03, 2012

• Daily Herald – Workers exposed to radioactivity from exit sign near Hanford
• Cañon City Daily Record – Cotter holds long history in county – Rachel Alexander
• New York Times – Los Alamos Residents Brace for Layoffs at Lab – Dan Frosch
• Knoxville News Sentinel – High-security wireless being installed at Y-12 nukes plant – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE’s best estimate: 151,000 lbs of residual mercury in Y-12’s Alpha-4 building – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Update on radioactive respirators – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ARPA-E makes $150M available for ‘transformational’ energy technologies – Frank Munger
• The State – Deal could bring SRS mini-reactors – Kristy Eppley Rupon
• Yahoo! News – Energy Department Spurs Nuclear Technology – Susan Graybeal
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Disposal sites refuse to accept 140,000 tons of tainted waste
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Radioactive sewage sludge and incinerated ash stocked 100,000 tones in 12 prefectures – Iori Mochizuki
• East Asia: Mainichi Daily News – North Korea suspected of having more uranium enrichment plants: newspaper
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – THE Sellafield nuclear site in West Cumbria has split opinion for decades – John Simpson

Friday, March 02, 2012

• Seattle Times – Hanford-tour registration opens 12:01 a.m. Tuesday
• Tri-City Herald – Energy Northwest plant license renewal safety evaluation is done – Annette Cary
• KASA – NNSA approve LANL buyouts
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – TVA reports storm damage – Pam Sohn
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Security concerns resolved on wireless project at Y-12, Pantex; installation resumes – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Knox-based small biz wins $31.5M contract for DOE support services in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Bravo, Josh Flory – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Rx fires in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Mayor Rogero to speak at Federal Women’s Workshop in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – WSI says security checks not ‘retaliation’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More Q&A’s on the Y-12/Pantex contract – Frank Munger
• Platts – US DOE lays groundwork for SMR construction on agency site – Derek Sands
• Danville Register & Bee – Letter: Dangers of mining clear to all – Bob Cleary
• DOE – ARPA-E Issues Open Call for Transformational Energy Technologies
• DOE – Energy Department Announces Small Modular Reactor Technology Partnerships at Savannah River Site
• DOE – Energy Innovation Hubs: Achieving Our Energy Goals with Science – Michael Hess
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Toxic waste to be dumped in Sydney – Sean Berry
• South Africa: The Namibian – No waste nuclear reactors on the horizon

Thursday, March 01, 2012

• Santa Ynez Valley News – Weapon test successful; 15 protesters arrested
• Tri-City Herald – Board mulls building Hanford reach center in 2 pieces – Michelle Dupler
• Platts – Two New Mexico counties serious about storing spent fuel: ex-official – Elaine Hiruo
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – High-security wireless stalled at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 provided hardware for Minuteman III test – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Tennessee Science Bowl set March 3 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Eschenberg’s plan for cleaning up Y-12 mercury: characterization and tech development need to come before demolition – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – It’s 1944 in Oak Ridge, marked by the frenzied construction of Alpha-4 and Alpha-5 at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s Graham honored for tech transfer – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Union chief says Y-12 contract change could bring ‘perfect storm’ – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – DNA labs to tackle mystery growth on SRS nuclear waste – Rob Pavey
• Charlottesville Hook – Tritium leak: Post-quake radiation plume stokes concern – Courteney Stuart
• Nuclear Engineering – Step forward for laser enrichment
• World Nuclear News – Environmental OK for laser enrichment plant
• DOE – Energy Department Announces $180 Million for Ambitious New Initiative to Deploy U.S. Offshore Wind Projects
• DOE – Factsheet: Third Annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit
• DOE – Our Dependence on Foreign Oil Is Declining
• Canada: Northumberland Today – LLRW cleanup will close harbour temporarily – Valerie MacDonald
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Nuclear waste threatens our survival: Lanyu natives – Christie Chen
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Tao protest against nuclear waste – Loa Iok-sin
• East Asia: Washington Post – N. Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment, nuclear tests – William Wan
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Fears Raised Over Dump – Nicola Park
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Village joins no vote on waste
• Europe: Times & Star – Anti-nuclear dump crusaders seek compensation
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Waste repository plans discussed online – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Village joins no vote on waste
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Emergency exercise to put Sellafield procedures to the test – Margaret Crosby
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield lands huge £1.5bn deal covering next 15 years – Alan Irving
• North Europe: Reuters – Talvivaara Uranium Permitting Update: licence granted by Finnish Government to extract Uranium as a by-product
• North Europe: YLE News – Government green lights Talvivaara uranium extraction

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Hanford vit plant earns national safety award
• Salt Lake City Weekly – C’mon, You’ll Like It – Katharine Biele
• Grand Junction Sentinel – Judge mostly stands by uranium leasing ruling – Dennis Webb
• SurfKY – GAO Finding Supports Re-enrichment of Uranium Tails
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – Group grouses over TVA’s grades – Pam Sohn
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Supercomputing is as simple as 3, 2, 1 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA’s Tom D’Agostino testifies on FY 2013 budget request – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – GAO looks at how the Dept. of Energy’s Office of Science sets priorities – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ex-security supervisors file suit against WSI – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – K-1070B cleanup also near end – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Tank W-1A now a Nevada resident – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – VIP guest at Y-12’s Ed Westcott Gallery – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Best workforce I’ve ever seen in my life’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The company you keep: Haslam joins counterparts in NNSA visit – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Random acts of science – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More on early reactor model at Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Newswise – ORNL Completes First Phase of Titan Supercomputer Transition
• Augusta Chronicle – MOX fuel suitable for U.S. power reactors, NRC told – Rob Pavey
• WWAY NewsChannel 3 – NRC says building uranium enrichment plant in Wilmington safe
• Huffington Post – The Unfathomable Cost of the United States Nuclear Program – William Rose
• NEI – NEI Files Lawsuit to Reverse Interior’s Withdrawal of Land From Uranium Mining
• DOE – Investing in Our Energy Future: The Story of General Compression
• DOE:IG – Idaho’s Radiological and Environmental Sciences Laboratory , OAS-L-12-02
• DOE:IG – The Management of Post-Recovery Act Workforce Transition at Office of Environmental Management Sites, OAS-RA-12-06
• NRC – NRC Issues Final Safety Evaluation Report and Environmental Impact Statement on Proposed N.C. Uranium Enrichment Plant
• South Asia: Deccan Chronicle – Uranium traces in Punjab ground water
• North Europe: Helsingin Sanomat – Government wants end to nuclear waste storage dispute

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Hanford layoff policy would have saved DOE $7.7 million – Annette Cary
• Indiana University – IU course about geologic time featured in the Journal of College Science Teaching
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Siting power generation in the U.S.; ORNL develops a tool to help – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nuclear reactor modeling and simulation (the old-fashioned way) at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Melding the federal team for Y-12/Pantex – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCS to release nuke safety report – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – EnergySolutions wins waste work abroad – Frank Munger
• Atlanta Journal Constitution – Vogtle nuclear project tracking under budget, report says – Kristi E. Swartz
• Roanoke Times – State moves ahead on uranium study – Julian Walker
• University of Pennsylvania Law School RegBlog – Commission Blasts Outdated Nuclear Waste Management Policy – Vanessa Kurzweil
• Natural Resources Defense Council blog – DOE FY2013 Nuclear Energy Budget Request Makes Some Tough Calls, Not All of Them Good – Jordan Weaver
• Nuclear Street – Oak Ridge Maps Every Potential Nuclear Plant Site in Contiguous US
• Rocky Mountain Institute – $8.3 B: A Big Price Tag For a DOE Dice Roll – Kelly Vaughn
• DOE – Wondering What All the “Innovation” Buzz is About This Week? – April Saylor
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Nevada Page 12044 [FR DOC# 2012-4629]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico Pages 12044-12045 [FR DOC# 2012-4641]
• Europe: Plymouth Herald – Mum demands answers over radioactive waste in Plymouth river after daughter’s cancer
• Europe: World Nuclear News – First of Sellafield’s super-contracts
• South Africa: Reuters – S.Africa plans more funding for nuclear plants – Wendell Roelf

Monday, February 27, 2012

• State of Nevada – WM2012 Conference: Getting Beyond Yucca Mountain – Robert J. Halstead and James M. Williams (pdf-219K)
• State of Nevada – Slides: Getting Beyond Yucca Mountain – Robert J. Halstead and James M. Williams (pdf-1.53M)
• Reno Gazette-Journal – Poll: Should Nevada stick to its opposition to using Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste storage facility?
• Bloomberg – Nuclear Energy Group Sues to End U.S. Uranium Mining Ban Near Grand Canyon – Edvard Pettersson
• Salt Lake Tribune – Atlas cleanup near Moab reaches 5 million-ton mark – Judy Fahys
• Salt Lake Tribune – Real money? Blue Castle defends Utah reactor financing – Judy Fahys and Steven Oberbeck
• Standard-Examiner – Rep. Mike Noel’s take on Utah’s federal land lawsuit – Charles F. Trentelman
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford contractor has plan for difficult work (w/ video) – Annette Cary
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Elevated mercury found in fish in Poplar Creek, Clinch River – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s champion in absentia – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ethan Brady overall grand prize winner at Oak Ridge Science Fair – Frank Munger
• Appleton Post Crescent – Audit: SRS workers overpaid by nearly $8 million – Meg Kinnard
• Energy Department – NOTICES Applications: Bryant Mountain, LLC; Notice of Intent To File License Application, Filing of Pre-Application Document (PAD), and Commencement of Pre-Filing Process; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and Conduct Scoping; Request for Comments on the PAD and Scoping Document, and Identification of Issues and Associated Study Requests Pages 11523-11524 [FR DOC# 2012-4412]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Paducah Pages 11516-11517 [FR DOC# 2012-4461]
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Fertilizer mixed with potassium helps cut down amount of cesium in brown rice
• South Asia: Outlook – DU Radiation Leak Case: Court Summons 6 Professors
• Europe: Manchester Evening News – Sellafield hands out decommissioning contracts worth £1.5bn
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield announce £1.5bn contract
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Multi-billion pound deal for Sellafield – Alan Irving