Sunday, March 18, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Editorial: Five reasons why those who support Yucca Mountain are wrong
• KJCT8 – Five Million Tons of Uranium Tailing Disposed – Janelle Ericsson
• Montrose Daily Press – Letter: Details should have been thoroughly considered – Marv Ballantyne
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – Little Argus(#4): ANS presentation
• Santa Fe New Mexican – Nuclear-waste storage: Don’t believe all you read – Gerald B. Ansell, Ph.D.,
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – April 21 protest at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 works to ease employee concerns – Frank Munger
• Lynchburg News and Advance – Lessons learned from Superfund site – Tara Bozick
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Town asked to accept debris ash / Govt wants Tomioka to bury radioactive residue in private landfill
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Cement company in Okinawa will recycle radioactive debris – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Cesium measured from plankton 600km from Fukushima plants – Iori Mochizuki

Saturday, March 17, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Nye County, Sandoval clash over future of Yucca – Cy Ryan
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford Reach Interpretive Center officials try to ‘reintroduce’ project to Tri-Cities – Michelle Dupler
• Real Aspen – Battle over uranium mining brewing in Grand Canyon – Troy Hooper
• Cañon City Daily Record – Closing the Cotter Corp. plant a complex issue – Rachel Alexander
• Montrose Daily Press – Fallout over uranium mill letter – Katharhynn Heidelberg
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Hot respirators at Y-12 may date to 2009 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DeNuke gets Moab work – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – China ships first component for ITER – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The good life: Oak Ridge in 1951 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s problem with dirty respirators goes back to 2009, maybe earlier – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Hot shirt turns up at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• WTVC – Y-12 Contamination – Lindsay Jackson
• WTVC – Oak Ridge Contamination May Go Back Years
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Post-Fukushima Japan resumes work on nuclear fuel facility in Aomori Prefeture – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Toyama concludes cadmium cleanup
• Europe: Daily Mirror – Nuclear test veteran dies after years of suffering as MoD throw out his court claim
• Europe: Scottish Daily Record – Gordon Brown welcomes deal to clean up radioactive contamination at Dalgety Bay – Paul OHare

Friday, March 16, 2012

• Pahrump Valley Times – Governor: County doesn’t speak for state – Mark Waite
• KNDO/KNDU – Columbia Basin College hosting Nuclear Technology Open House – Brian Brennan
• Tri-City Herald – More money needed to stay on track at Hanford – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Umatilla Chemical Depot put to an official rest – Dori O’Neal
• KIFI Idaho Falls – INL Layoffs Fewer Than Expected – Marissa Bodnar
• Fox 13 Now – Opponents call for ban on blended nuclear waste in Utah – Brittany Green-Miner and Kimberly Houk
• KCPW – Last Day for Comment on Blended Nuclear Waste – Whittney Evans
• Grand Junction Sentinel – State official: NRC ‘flip-flopped’ on mill license issue – Dennis Webb
• NewsOK blog – Can radioactive waste ever be safe? – Dr. Robert Hayes
• Kansas City Star – Letter: Nuclear waste burial – Rodney Staab
• Nuclear Engineering – USEC reports huge loss for 2012
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Alexander prods energy secretary on Oak Ridge mercury cleanup – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What kind of science can be produced from extreme-scale hybrid supercomputers? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Something you don’t see every day: Defense board cites ‘laudable’ investigation by Y-12 contractor – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Little things mean a lot: Cleaning up DOE sites
• Times and Democrat – Yucca Mountain rebates to utilities a sound proposal
• Alliance for Nuclear Accountability – News Briefing to release Nuclear Budget-Busters: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Riskiest, Most Unaccountable Programs – Bob Schaeffer (pdf-197K)
• E&E TV – Nuclear Waste: Judges grill NRC over spent-fuel muddle – Lawrence Hurley
• NWTRB – Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request (pdf-122K)
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Marine contamination may have reached north to Hawaii – Iori Mochizuki
• Europe: Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser – Bay radiation clean-up plan agreed
• Europe: Bexhill Observer – Nuclear test veterans’ disgust at court ruling

Thursday, March 15, 2012

• State of Nevada – Update on Activities of State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects – Presentation to Nevada Legislative Committee on High Level Radioactive Waste, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 16, 2012 (pdf-2.5M)
• Tri-City Herald – Sen. Murray presses Steven Chu about confidence in vit plant technical issues – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford Reach Interpretive Center pushes pushes to scale back project – John Trumbo
• Tri-City Herald – DOE fines chrome business for hazardous waste offenses
• The Coloradoan – Federal regulators say Colorado botched uranium hearings
• Telluride Daily Planet – Piñon Ridge uranium mill project under federal scrutiny – Benjamin Preston
• KRQE News 13 – Chemical reaction at LANL closes road
• Santa Fe New Mexican – Incident during LANL CleanupAnne Constable
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – How sad is the shape of K-27? Apparently it’s pretty doggone bad – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UPF guidance kept private – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Alexander to Air Force: keep Tullahoma ‘capable’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Science fair, circa 1959 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sen. Alexander prods Energy Secretary on mercury cleanup in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – About FACE: more results to come – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Protest on DOE support services contract – Frank Munger
• Tarentum Valley News Dispatch – Army Corps of Engineers revises plan for nuclear cleanup in Parks – Mary Ann Thomas
• Oceania: Business Spectator – NT Aboriginal elders send plea to GG
• Oceania: NSW Daily Telegraph – Veterans hit nuclear testing compensation roadblock – Ian McPhedran
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Maralinga veterans shocked by ‘cruel’ ruling
• Asia-Pacific: Nuclear Engineering – EnergySolutions to treat contaminated water at Fukushima
• Europe: The Guardian – Use nuclear waste to power UK, says top scientist – Fiona Harvey
• Europe: The Independent – No damages for nuclear test veterans
• Europe: This is Local London – Widow suffers set back in radiation poisoning case – Omar Oakes
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Community support a factor in siting of underground nuclear dump in Cumbria – Tim Sculthorpe

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Yucca isn’t dead yet – Steve Sebelius
• Reno Gazette-Journal – Letter: Only safe choice is to oppose proposal – Joseph Strolin
• Platts – USEC officials say 2012 will be key to company’s future – Herman Wang
• POWERnews – Graham’s Bill Seeks to Rebate Nuclear Waste Funds
• Hanford News – Settlement reached for 2 Fluor purchasers for alleged kickbacks – Annette Cary
• Hanford News – Hanford priorities topic of Thursday meeting
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: Learn about vit plant at Richland open house tonight
• Tri-City Herald – Letter: Give Reid his due – Martin Bensky
• Salt Lake Tribune – Utah’s EnergySolutions to help cleanup Japanese nuke
• The Coloradoan – State investigating radioactive sand dumping at Northern Colorado oil well site – Bobby Magill
• Montrose Daily Press – Mill license in limbo – Katharhynn Heidelberg
• KOB – LANL cuts expected to cost northern NM $30 million
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch – EPA weighs cleanup of nuclear waste at Bridgeton landfill – Jeffrey Tomich
• Chillicothe Gazette – American Centrifuge Project funding added to Senate transportation bill – Deirdre Shesgreen
• Columbus Dispatch – $150 million for Piketon project in Senate transportation bill – Jack Torry
• Platts – USEC officials say 2012 will be key to company’s future – Herman Wang
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Guards file suit against Oak Ridge contractor, seeking pay for ‘off-the-clock’ work – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – GAO: more actions needed to secure vulnerable nuclear materials – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – USEC reports year-end loss of $540M – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Working with Hanoi – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Excavating 400,00 cubic yards of dirt for UPF – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – Savannah River Site MOX project costs too high, environmentalists contend – Rob Pavey
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Foundation should stay out of uranium debate – Randy Jacobs
• Chatham Star Tribune – Uranium taxes could benefit schools
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: ‘Kick the ban’ and bring on uranium mining
• Danville Register & Bee – Mining would create better future – Alvin Wayne Roach Jr.
• Danville Register & Bee – Editorial: Panel’s work belongs in the open
• Wicked Local Concord – Designation would help former Nuclear Metals Inc. workers with cancer receive compensation – Kimberly A. Hooper
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Weapons labs and the inconvenient truth – Hugh Gusterson
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Social acceptance and the Blue Ribbon Commission: A positive experience in national nuclear waste discussions – Allison Macfarlane and John Kotek
• GAO – Nuclear Nonproliferation: Further Actions Needed by U.S. Agencies to Secure Vulnerable Nuclear and Radiological Materials, GAO-12-512T
• Asia-Pacific: The Guardian – EnergySolutions awarded Fukushima clean-up contract – Fiona Harvey
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Radioactive materials may have sunk 30 cm into ground
• Europe: BBC News – Highland councillors back rail for moving nuclear fuel
• Europe: BBC News – Veterans still hopeful for nuclear weapons tests damages
• North Europe: Helsingin Sanomat – Posiva not interested in nuclear waste working group

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

• KLAS-TV – Sandoval Says no way to Yucca Mountain
• KTNV Las Vegas – Nevadans Surveyed About Yucca Mountain – Samantha Szesciorka
• Reno Gazette-Journal – Letter: Hypocrisy in state’s rejection of project – A.R. Givens
• The Hill blog – Senate GOP to Obama: Accept Yucca Mountain or return Yucca development money – Pete Kasperowicz
• DOE:Hanford – The Hanford Story
• Seattle Times – Nobel winner Caldicott here for Japan nuclear crisis anniversary – Carol M. Ostrom
• Seattle Weekly blog – The Stories Kids Touring Hanford’s Nuclear Plant Won’t
• Hanford News – Warning leads to safeguards for asbestos removal at Hanford – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Crane slows ‘pencil tank’ removal at Hanford plant – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Michael Johnson named head of Hanford tank farm – Annette Cary
• Colorado Independent – Conservation groups, tribe defend feds in Grand Canyon uranium mining lawsuit – Troy Hooper
• The Coloradoan – State investigating radioactive sand dumping related to fracking – Bobby Magill
• KWES NewsWest9 – Former NM uranium mine proposed as Superfund site
• New Mexico Business Weekly – Closed Laguna uranium mine added to Superfund list – Megan Kamerick
• Los Alamos Monitor – Town hall meeting
• MyHighPlains – Preview: US Department of Labor Hosting Town Hall Meetings to Assist Nuclear Weapons Workers – Karl Wehmhoener
• Chillicothe Gazette – Report lists possible uses for DOE site
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Mercury’s priority rising, but cleanup years away – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 300+ Oak Ridge security guards file federal lawsuit suit against G4S, seeking compensation for ‘off-the-clock’ work – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Averting 400 layoffs at K-25; UCOR boss says delegation has supported Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘2027 is going to be a historic year’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Armed Services subcommittee staff at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – John Eschenberg to be NNSA’s project director at Uranium Processing Facility in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Eschenberg to lead billion-dollar UPF initiative – Darrell Richardson
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS discloses secret visit from Fukushima nuclear delegation – Rob Pavey
• Augusta Chronicle – DOE federal loan guarantee improvements needed, Government Accountability Office report says – Rob Pavey
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS modular reactor research partner changes name
• Aiken Standard – U.S. Senate bill: President must allow the Yucca Mountain repository or give rebates – Anna Dolianitis
• Aiken Standard – OpEd: Use Yucca or give our money back
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Uranium Studies: More sun
• Boston Globe – EPA cites gains on toxic site – Jennifer Fenn Lefferts
• Platts – Spot uranium price continues its slide, downside seen limited though – Mike Knapik
• USA Today – Report: DOE not following its own standards in loan process – Gregory Korte
• DOE – Applying for Energy Department Jobs Just Got Easier
• DOE – Energy Innovator Drops Costs for Titanium Metalwork
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Draft Regulatory Guides: Bioassay at Uranium Mills Page 14837 [FR DOC# 2012-6001]
• Oceania: ABC – NT step closer to nuclear waste dump – Jano Gibson
• Oceania: ABC – Senate passes Australian nuclear waste storage bill
• Oceania: ABC – Nuclear dump protesters disrupt Parliament
• Oceania: Australian Financial Review – Nation needs NT nuclear waste facility – Martin Ferguson
• Oceania: Cumberland Courier Newspapers – We’re filthy over Kemps Creek soil scheme
• Oceania: The Guardian – Australia passes controversial nuclear waste bill – Oliver Milman
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Muckaty community defiant, determined to stop nuclear dump
• Oceania: SBS – Nuclear waste dump plans pass Senate
• Oceania: World Nuclear News – Australian radioactive waste bill passed
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 474,000 tons of disaster rubble remains piled up in nuke crisis no-go zone
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Mainichi scoop on Mongolia’s nuclear plans highlights problems in dealing with waste
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Shizuoka’s Shimada city to accept disaster debris from Iwate
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to hold ministerial meeting on disaster debris disposal Tues.
• Europe: News & Star – Community’s role in radioactive waste process – Tim Sculthorpe

Monday, March 12, 2012

• State of Nevada – Letter from Governor Brian Sandoval to Energy Secretary Steven Chu Re: No State Consent for Yucca Mountain (pdf-33K)
• Carson Now – Gov. Sandoval Says Nevada Does Not Want Nuclear Waste, But New Poll Shows Support For Research Facility – Sean Whaley
• KTNV Las Vegas – Brian Sandoval says no way to Yucca Mountain – Molly Waldron
• Las Vegas SUN – Gov. Sandoval: Nye County may want a nuke dump but it doesn’t speak for Nevada – Cy Ryan
• Las Vegas SUN – Sandoval says no way to Yucca Mountain
• Las Vegas SUN – Governor responds to Nye County bid to take the nuclear waste dump – Jon Ralston
• Las Vegas SUN – Advocates for Yucca facility cheer poll results – Jon Ralston
• Nevada News Bureau – Gov. Sandoval Says Nevada Does Not Want Nuclear Waste, But New Poll Shows Support For Research Facility – Sean Whaley
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: New leader named for tank farms contractor – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – New tool to empty Hanford tanks working – Annette Cary
• Vancouver Free Press – Seattle doctor raises serious concerns about nuclear reactor near Hanford, Washington – Charlie Smith
• Fox 31 KDVR – Rocky Flats remembered on anniversary of Japan disaster – Greg Nieto
• Chillicothe Gazette – Students list possible uses for DOE site
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Eschenberg tapped for UPF leadership role – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 17 layoffs at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Lowery to be NNSA deputy for nuke security – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Chopping down FACE adds to CO2 results, confirms increased storage in soil – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Science education shindig at ORAU – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – If you want to provide budget input to DOE . . . – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s ongoing problems with lock out/tag out – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – E-tracking hazardous waste in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Top science writer to give Hill Lecture – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Mercury (priority) rising in Oak Ridge, but cleanup won’t come anytime soon – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Preserving the ‘unique’ history of Oak Ridge – Beverly Majors
• Europe: The Guardian – Sellafield: ‘It was all contaminated: milk, chickens, the golf course’ – John Vidal
• Europe: The Guardian – The story of Sellafield nuclear power station – in pictures
• Europe: The Guardian – Windscale nuclear accident contaminates cows’ milk – 1957 British Pathé video
• South Africa: iAfrica – Is Koeberg leaking radiation?