Saturday, March 03, 2012

• UN: IAEA – Board of Governors Opens March Deliberations

Friday, March 02, 2012

• 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
• NAS – Project Update: Review of the Department of Labor’s Site Exposure Matrix (SEM) Database
• NAS – Project Update: Gulf War and Health: Treatment of Chronic Multisymptom Illness
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee Page 12823 [FR DOC# 2012-5147]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Exemptions: Millstone Power Station, Units 1, 2 and 3, Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc.; Exemption Pages 12885-12887 [FR DOC# 2012-5148]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Requests for Action: Virgina Electric and Power Company; Receipt of Request for Action Pages 12887-12888 [FR DOC# 2012-5150]
• UN: IAEA – Statement by Director General Yukiya Amano on DPRK

Thursday, March 01, 2012

• State of Nevada – WM2012 Symposia–Physical Protection of Spent Fuel Shipments: Resolution of Stakeholder Concerns through Rulemaking-12284 – Fred Dilger, James D. Ballard, PhD, Robert J. Halstead (pdf-770K)
• State of Nevada – WM2012 Symposia–Full-Scale Cask Testing and Public Acceptance of Spent Nuclear Fuel Shipments Abstract # 12254 – Fred Dilger, Robert J. Halstead, James D. Ballard, PhD (pdf-641K)
• 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
• NRC – NRC Issues Final Safety Evaluation Report for Columbia Nuclear Power Plant License Renewal
• Defense Department – NOTICES Meetings: Veterans’ Advisory Board on Dose Reconstruction; Meeting Pages 12576-12577 [FR DOC# 2012-4898]
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Evaluations of Petitions to Designate a Class of Employees for Inclusion in the Special Exposure Cohort: Decision To Evaluate a Petition To Designate a Class of Employees From the Ventron Corporation Site in Beverly, MA, To Be Included in the Special Exposure Cohort Pages 12593-12594 [FR DOC# 2012-4953]
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Evaluations of Petitions to Designate a Class of Employees for Inclusion in the Special Exposure Cohort: Decision To Evaluate a Petition To Designate a Class of Employees From the Rocky Flats Plant in Golden, CO, To Be Included in the Special Exposure Cohort Page 12594 [FR DOC# 2012-4961]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Review; Comment Request Page 12624 [FR DOC# 2012-4968]
• UN: Global Research – VIDEO: “IAEA Works With Spies”- Former IAEA Chief

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

• 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
• NRC – “Safety Culture Begins with Safety” Prepared Remarks by NRC Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko, National Association of Employee Concerns Professionals, Feb. 29
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Combined Licenses, Limited Work Authorizations and Records of Decisions: Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 3 and 4; Issuance of Combined Licenses and Limited Work Authorizations and Record of Decision Page 12332 [FR DOC# 2012-4824]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.: Special Nuclear Material License Amendment From Louisiana Energy Services, LLC, for the National Enrichment Facility, Hobbs, NM Pages 12333-12335 [FR DOC# 2012-4823]

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

• DOE – Wondering What All the “Innovation” Buzz is About This Week? – April Saylor
• NAS – Project Update: Review of the Department of Labor’s Site Exposure Matrix (SEM) Database
• NRC – NRC Begins Review of FENOC’S Root Cause Analysis of Davis-Besse Shield Building Cracks
• 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]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Final Staff Guidances: Final Staff Guidance, Revision 4 to Standard Review Plan; Section 8.1 on Electric Power-Introduction Pages 12086-12087 [FR DOC# 2012-4651]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Hearings: Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel; Strata Energy, Inc.; Memorandum and Order (Notice of Hearing) Pages 12087-12088 [FR DOC# 2012-4621]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Meetings: Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS); Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Reliability and PRA; Notice of Meeting Page 12088 [FR DOC# 2012-4653]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Meetings: Sunshine Act Meeting Notice Pages 12088-12089 [FR DOC# 2012-4814]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Proposed Generic Communications: Proposed Generic Communication; Regulatory Issue Summary 2012-XX: Developing Inservice Testing and Inservice Inspection Programs Pages 12089-12092 [FR DOC# 2012-4647]
• Canada: Nuclear Engineering – Canadian nuclear plants improve cyber security

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)
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• NRC – “Strengthening Safety through Managing Knowledge” Prepared Remarks by NRC Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko, The South Texas Project Leadership Conference, Bay City, TX, Feb. 24 (pdf-234K)
• Defense Department – NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement for Military Readiness Activities in the Northwest Training and Testing Study Area and To Announce Public Scoping Meetings Pages 11497-11499 [FR DOC# 2012-4458]
• 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]
• 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) Page 11547 [FR DOC# 2012-4569]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Applications Regarding Proposed Acquisitions: Central Vermont Public Service Corporation, Millstone Power Station, Unit 3; Notice of Consideration of Approval of Application Regarding Proposed Acquisition and Opportunity for a Hearing Pages 11596-11598 [FR DOC# 2012-4559]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Thermal Overload Protection for Electric Motors on Motor-Operated Valves Pages 11598-11599 [FR DOC# 2012-4552]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – RULES Removal of Oman from the Restricted Destinations List Pages 11384-11385 [FR DOC# 2012-4556]
• Canada: CNSC – Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission News Update