Sunday, March 11, 2012

• Louisville Courier-Journal – Lawmakers ask Chu to prevent plant closure
• Jackson Sun – Panel looks to revamp nuclear waste storage – Elizabeth Bewley
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Mercury (priority) rising in Oak Ridge, but cleanup won’t come anytime soon – Frank Munger
• Lower Hudson Journal – Indian Point invests in training, backups to guard spent fuel pools – Greg Clary
• Boston Globe – EPA cites gains on toxic site – Jennifer Fenn Lefferts
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t asks 3 Fukushima Pref. towns to temporarily store radioactive waste

Saturday, March 10, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Nuclear forensics taught at HAMMER near Richland – Annette Cary
• Deseret News – Editorial: ‘Dangerous opportunity’
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – If you still have nightmares of the Cold War nuclear threat, these photos won’t help – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – March madness: a real upset – Frank Munger
• The Tennessean – Alexander thinks incentives might spur communities to accept nuclear waste – Elizabeth Bewley
• Canada: Owen Sound Sun Times – Public needs to get educated on spent nuclear fuel storage plan – Phil Mcnichol
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Govt offers to build sites for N-soil
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Three towns near Fukushima No. 1 asked to store radioactive soil, waste
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – High radioiodine levels found in thyroids of Fukushima residents post-meltdown
• Europe: BBC News – Highland Council wants Dounreay ‘exotics’ moved by rail
• Europe: The Guardian – Sellafield: ‘It was all contaminated: milk, chickens, the golf course’ – John Vidal

Friday, March 09, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Nye County renews offer to host repository – Steve Tetreault
• Las Vegas SUN – Nye County to DOE: We’ll take the nuclear waste dump – Jon Ralston
• Pahrump Valley Times – Nye County tells DOE: ‘We want Yucca’ – Mark Waite
• Library of Congress – Sen Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduces bill to amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to require the President to certify that the Yucca Mountain site remains the designated site for the development of a repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste, and for other purposes.
• Mainichi Daily News – High levels of cesium found at former nuclear lab outside L.A.
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: B Reactor tours open to school children – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – DOE releases another part of ‘Hanford Story’
• Tri-City Herald – Energy secretary to look at Hanford land transfer
• Holland Sentinel – Palisades nuclear plant one of four not performing at high level – Jim Hayden
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Rumors of his age are premature – Sam Venable
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – How long, how long on Molten Salt? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 security technologies licensed – Frank Munger
• Albany Times Union – Low-level radioactive device found in home – Dennis Yusko
• Vermont Journalism Trust – Nestel: No safe levels of Strotium-90 – Hattie Nestel
• Marketwire – Nuclear Energy Support Growing — Uranium One and USEC Inc. to Benefit
• MSNBC – Mix seawater, nuclear fuel: Result is still an unknown – Jesse Emspak
• House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans – Members Press Secretary Chu on President’s Energy Policy
• NAS – Project Update: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities For Converting U.S. and Russian Research Reactors From Highly Enriched To Low Enriched Uranium Fuel
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Meetings: Subcommittee for Dose Reconstruction Reviews (SDRR), Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH or the Advisory Board), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Page 14377 [FR DOC# 2012-5792]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Leakage Tests on Packages for Shipment of Radioactive Material Page 14445 [FR DOC# 2012-5751]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Staff Guidance; Availability: Changes to the Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report Revision 2 AMP XI.M41, “Buried and Underground Piping and Tanks” Pages 14446-14447 [FR DOC# 2012-5743]
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – Uranium sector does it tough – Peter Ker
• Asia-Pacific: Xinhua News – Fears of radioactive contamination remain headache for Japan
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Debris overture is welcomed – Kazuaki Nagata
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Japan Govt Eyes Several Nuclear Waste Depots near Fukushima Plant
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – One year on, Chiba Prefecture faces mountain of problems including incinerated ash
• Southeast Asia: Bernama – Radioactive Wastes Not Covered Under Basel Convention – DOE?
• North Europe: World Nuclear News – No room at the repository

Thursday, March 08, 2012

• Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) – Reid: Senate Votes to Extend PILT, Secure Rural Schools Funding for Nevada
• Daily Caller – Fukushima disaster halts progress of nuclear power in the US – Michael Bastasch
• Platts – US DOE would resume Yucca work if court tells it to do so: Chu – Elaine Hiruo
• The Economist – Nuclear waste: Leave well alone–The best thing to do with nuclear waste is to stash it away, not reprocess it
• Hanford News – Panel: US should rethink nuclear emergency plans – Dina Cappiello and Matthew Daly
• KNDO/KNDU – DOE Releases Latest “Hanford Story” Video
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: Energy secretary will look at speeding land transfer (w/video)
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: Watch new DOE video on nuclear reservation’s future
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: Vit plant open house scheduled in Richland
• Tri-City Herald – Fluor purchasers agree to settlement for allegedly accepting kickbacks – Annette Cary
• Rep. Joe L. Barton (R-TX6) – Rep. Barton urges DOE to stop “risking billions of taxpayer dollars on unproven sources of energy”
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Another CERCLA landfill in Oak Ridge? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What constitutes a lot of waste? Sometimes it’s in the eye of the beholder – Frank Munger
• Duke University – Leading nuclear physicists to speak at Duke – Ashley Yeager
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Questions arise about transparency of uranium study – Rex Springston
• Albany Times Union – DEC: Radioactive material found in Halfmoon home – Dennis Yusko
• North Country Gazette – Radioactive Material Removed From Spa County Residence
• Energy Department – NOTICES Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.: Environmental Assessment for a Radiological Work and Storage Building at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory Kesselring Site Pages 14007-14008 [FR DOC# 2012-5659]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Guidance for Decommissioning Planning During Operations Page 14047 [FR DOC# 2012-5658]
• Asia-Pacific: Nature blog – Plutonium spotted far from Fukushima
• Asia-Pacific: New Straits Times – Japanese fishery products found to contain radioactive materials?
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – JP Gov distributes money for the local governments to accept radioactive debris – Iori Mochizuki
• Europe: NorthWest Evening Mail – Poll aims for views on waste dump
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announces new CEO
• Europe: pv magazine – Germany: TÜV finds rusted nuclear waste barrels – Shamsiah Ali-Oettinger
• North Europe: Nuclear Engineering – Finnish government gives go-ahead uranium extraction

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

• Nye County – Letter to DOE, Re: Consent to Host the Proposed Repository at Yucca Mountain (pdf-1.34M)
• Salt Lake Tribune – New nationwide poll shows wariness about nuclear power – Judy Fahys
• Tri-City Herald – Concerns raised about freezing waste in transfer lines at Hanford tank farms – Annette Cary
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Changes in warhead rehab could impact Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Letter: Alliance shouldn’t block nuclear plant – Raphael Ford Smith
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE advisory board meets March 14 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – No big impact on TDEC’s Oak Ridge office – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – David Keim moving from Y-12 to ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge contractor exec: ‘I hate REAs’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE outlines cleanup path in Oak Ridge with a look toward FY 2014 & beyond – Frank Munger
• Macon Telegraph – Public meeting on uranium contamination in Juliette to be held Thursday – S. Heather Duncan
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Superfund site offers lessons – Mark Edward
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Study group will take comments on uranium; no public meetings – Rex Springston
• NAS – Project Update: Improving the Assessment of Proliferation Risk of Nuclear Fuel Cycles
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – 130 million Bq of cesium has leaked to Tokyo bay in Yokohama – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Highly contaminated water still keeps leaking to the sea – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Tokyo Times – Fukushima toxic water could still be leaking into sea
• Europe: The Guardian – UK nuclear sites at risk of flooding, report shows – Rob Edwards
• Europe: The Guardian – UK nuclear sites at risk of flooding – map – Jenny Ridley

Tuesday, March 06, 2012

• Ventura County Star – Study finds contamination at Santa Susana Field Lab exceeds limits – Teresa Rochester
• Hanford News – Free Hanford reservation tours already booked
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: All tour seats claimed in record time this morning – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – First of sludge at Hanford K Basins to be removed – Annette Cary
• Salt Lake Tribune – EnergySolutions and Gonzales-Stoller lose bid to continue uranium cleanup – Judy Fahys
• Greeneville Sun – Public Meeting Slated In Erwin Wed. Night On NFS’s TDEC Permit
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – D’Agostino testifies before Energy & Water panel – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE/industry supercomputing summit – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Letter: Rein in nuclear facility spending – Carol E. Green
• Electric Light & Power – US nuclear waste policy has ‘completely broken down’.
• Europe: BBC News – Cardboard rolls aid Dounreay clean-up

Monday, March 05, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Hanford tour tickets go on sale tonight – Annette Cary
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Michael Collins: Alexander lauds new reactors, working on waste – Michael Collins
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Oak Ridge projects get high-level attention
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Making hoops and stirring interest in STEM – Lance Coleman
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Chu & the Hubs – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The ‘mysterious flash’ of Sept. 22, 1979 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Report on global fissile materials – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCS to release 1-yr Fukushima report – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE short on Homeland Security directive – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What’s impact of W76 slowdown on Y-12? – Frank Munger
• DOE – VIDEO: Bill Gates and Secretary Chu Chat on the Future of Energy – April Saylor
• DOE – Ask the Directors: Secretary Chu to Host Live Chat on the Energy Innovation Hubs – Michael Hess
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Savannah River Site Page 13104 [FR DOC# 2012-5273]
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan Today – Orchid Islanders’ health unaffected by nuke waste
• Europe: Gloucestershire Citizen – 300-tonne boilers go
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Nuclear waste dump to feature in webcast debate
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Stories have Emerged from Interviews of Sellafield