Sunday, March 25, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Hanford’s tank wastes disaster waiting to happen
• Knoxville News Sentinel – ORNL’s classified side moves into the spotlight – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Can ORNL’s White Oak Creek be a testbed for mercury problems at Y-12 and East Fork Poplar Creek? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Dealing with damage to SNS cryomodules – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Jay Searcy at his best – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – OK, these aren’t real men but they work for cheap – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE puts up $450M for small reactors – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR says no problems with respirators – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Training rad responders in Slovenia – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Another view of early, early Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NSA’s Cotter visited ORNL in 2004 – Frank Munger
• Danville Register&Bee – OpEd: Mining panel needs transparency – John R. Cannon
• Danville Register&Bee – ’70s lessons we could heed today
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Uranium study group: Transparent enough, or needlessly secret? – Rex Springston
• Washington Post – Time to better secure radioactive materials – Yukiya Amano
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – U.S., Japan to research uranium fuel swaps
• South Asia: Deccan Chronicle – Uranium from eight sites soon to fuel nuclear reactors – N. Arun Kumar
• North Europe: YLE News – Battle for nuclear waste disposal site
• East Europe: Reuters UK – Last enriched uranium rumbles out of Ukraine – Richard Balmforth

Saturday, March 24, 2012

• Seattle Times – The growing global threat of radioactive scrap metal – Jonathan Tirone and Andrew MacAskill
• Tri-City Herald – DOE says URS muddied Hanford investigation – Annette Cary
• Hanford News – Safety culture at Hanford vit plant called key – Annette Cary
• Hanford News – Youths enter Hanford’s B Reactor for first time – Ty Beaver
• Quad City Times – At a Glance: Exelon Nuclear’s refueling outage
• Quad City Times – Additional workers help with nuclear plant refueling, upgrades – Jennifer DeWitt
• Quad City Times – EPA grants Exelon variance on water temperature limits – Jennifer DeWitt
• HNN Huntingtonnews – DOE wants to Dispose of Contaminated Nickel in Portsmouth – Tony Rutherford
• Knoxville News Sentinel – ORNL workers ratify contract extension – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Chu heads to Nuclear Security Summit – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Spallation views – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nuclear safekeeping: a milestone – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Research instruments at HFIR – Frank Munger
• Utility Products – United States : NNSA Achieves Major Milestone in Radioactive Source Security

Friday, March 23, 2012

• Pahrump Valley Times – Hollis responds to governor’s letter on Yucca Mountain – Mark Waite
• Pahrump Valley Times – Yucca might be dead, but debate isn’t – Mark Waite
• OPB News – Hanford Treatment Plant Components Need To Be Reexamined For Safety – Anna King
• Seattle Times – Hanford contractors admit big safety problems remain – Craig Welch
• Seattle Times – Defense board holds public hearing about Hanford – Shannon Dininny
• Tri-City Herald – Youths enter Hanford’s B Reactor for first time – Ty Beaver
• Tri-City Herald – Safety culture at Hanford vit plant called key – Annette Cary
• Washington Post – Wash. nuclear safety worker files complaint, saying supervisors interfered with review
• Courthouse News Service – U.S. Dodges Suit Over Radioactive Navajo Land – Jamie Ross
• Grand Junction Free Press – Film shows impact of uranium mining on Navajo land – Sharon Sullivan
• KOB – Community bands together to head off LANL cuts – Chris Ramirez
• KRQE News 13 – Leaders fear lab losses, cleanup delay – Deanna Sauceda
• Austin American-Statesman – Texas officials OK radioactive waste dump – Jim Vertuno
• KLBJ AM – Texas officials set to vote on radioactive waste
• Monroe Evening News – Fermi fuel shift delayed again – Charles Slat
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Zacharia lauds union vote: ‘We have a collective destiny to move forward’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL workers ratify contract extension – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – $20M plutonium pilot project at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Yes Vermont Yankee – Dry Casks, the PSB, the Judge and My Useless Soundbite – Meredith Angwin
• DOE – A Basic, and Slightly Acidic, Solution to Hydrogen Storage – Charles Rousseaux
• DOE:HSS – Chronic Beryllium Disease (CBD) Awareness
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Panel sets standard for shipments of radiation-tainted stones
• South Asia: Chandigarh Tribune – More uranium trouble for Punjab – Vibha Sharma
• Europe: Scottish Daily Record – We predicted Dounreay would become dumping ground for nuclear waste 20 years ago, say campaigners – Magnus Gardham
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Oxford University group backs new Mox fuel plant – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Probe into Sellafield discharge – Alan Irving

Thursday, March 22, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Letter(#3):: Nuke dump – Walt Whittier
• The Guardian – Las Vegas bets on desert water pipeline as Nevada drinks itself dry – Suzanne Goldenberg
• Ventura County Reporter – Rocketdyne still hot – Michael Collins
• Herald Times Reporter – Defense board holds public hearing about Hanford – Shannon Dininny
• KNDO/KNDU – Nuclear facilities public hearing
• KVEW – DOE employees hold public hearing on vit plant – Josh Peterson
• Telluride Daily Planet – State rebukes Nuclear Commission’s Piñon Ridge letter – Katie Klingsporn
• Pueblo Chieftain – Cotter panel reorganizing – Tracy Harmon
• World Nuclear News – Major waste contract for US DoE site
• KOB-tv – Threat of nuclear waste lingers in home for 2 years – Peter St. Cyr
• WFPL – Kentucky Lawmakers Push Bill To Help Keep Paducah Uranium Plant Alive – Kenny Colston
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Getting rid of old RTGs at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s Marco Pigni – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Alvin Weinberg plaque at Graphite Reactor&nuclear’s ‘Faustian bargain’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Fish studies at ORNL’s environmental lab – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Young, smart and crazy about science – Frank Munger
• Greenville News – Rebating Yucca funds makes sense – [text]
• The State – Schwallie: The easy way out of energy, waste crises – Ambrose Schwallie
• Daily Progress – Other side of uranium controversy
• Danville Register&Bee – Letter: Lessons learned over a lifetime – Ben Davenport Jr.
• DOE – Obama Administration Announces $450 Million to Design and Commercialize U.S. Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
• DOE – Obama Administration Announces $14.2 Million in New Funding to Develop Lightweight Materials for Advanced Vehicles
• DOE – Obama Administration Announces New Funding for Biomass Research and Development Initiative
• DOE – Fact Sheet: Obama Administration Commitment to American Made Energy
• Oceania: ABC – Toro uranium project faces feasibility study
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Chloride ion detected at radioactive waste disposal site in Chiba Prefecture
• Europe: BBC News – Nuclear waste consultation closes – Richard Black
• Europe: Scottish Daily Record – Nuclear waste dumped at Dounreay must be sent back where it came from, says MSP – Magnus Gardham
• East Europe: Ukrainian Journal – Nuke fuel storage facility will save $100m/year, says EnergoAtom
• East Europe: Xinhua News – Ukraine transfers weapons-grade uranium to Russia

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

• Pahrump Valley Times – State Senator Horsford campaigns in Pahrump – Mark Waite
• KUOW NPR – Hanford Waste Plant Vessels May Have To Be Redesigned Says Energy Official – Anna King
• KUOW NPR – Hanford’s Work With Robotic Arm Slow and Haulting At Tank Farms – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – Audit finds DOE budgeting method OK at cleanup sites – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: Plenty of seats remain open for tours of B Reactor
• KIFI Idaho Falls – New INL Clean Up Facility Means 900,000 Gallons of Waste Gone By Dec. By Caleb James
• KUNC – Colorado Company Vows to Push Ahead with Uranium Mill – Kirk Siegler
• Telluride Daily Planet – NRC to CDPHE: Do it over
• Utility Products – State of Colorado Issues Strong Response to NRC Letters; Defends Energy Fuels’ Pinon Ridge Mill License
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Experimental journalist: Frank Munger blogging live Wednesday from OR lab
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Union workers to vote on contract extension at ORNL
• Knoxville News Sentinel – UT launches Nuclear Security Institute
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Report underscores seismic concerns at key Y-12 facility – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Cleaning up the hot cells – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Don’t get hot under the collar (or elsewhere) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘It’s hard to say anything bad’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Turtle time at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Kentucky juniors on ORNL field trip – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – HFIR restart on Monday – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – I’m here at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s classified computing program – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – New report reaffirms quake vulnerability at Y-12’s uranium processing hub – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – WSI says it’s following the labor contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s classified computing program – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – New report reaffirms quake vulnerability at Y-12’s uranium processing hub – Frank Munger
• UT Tennessee Today – UT Institute for Nuclear Security Hosts “Uranium Bowl”
• Augusta Chronicle – Turnover, flawed exams led to Plant Vogtle reactor licensee failures – Rob Pavey
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Uranium mine could be ‘pig in a poke’ – Robert Durr, M.D.
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Uranium taxes would bridge county shortfall – Joe Owen
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Don’t waste any more foundation money – Mark Edward
• Danville Register & Bee – Letter: Benefits outweigh mining’s risks – Mike Moser
• Environmental Expert – EnergySolutions Teams With Environmental Dimensions Inc. for $200M Waste Operations Contract
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Hanford Pages 16542-16543 [FR DOC# 2012-6789]
• Oceania: ABC – National radioactive waste dump faces resistance – Rebecca Baillie
• Southeast Asia: Yahoo! Malaysia – Urgent motion on excessive radiation in Bukit Merah
• Europe: BBC News – Dounreay in Caithness to store foreign nuclear waste
• Europe: Scottish Daily Record – Dounreay deal set to turn Scotland into world’s toxic waste dustbin, warn campaigners – Magnus Gardham
• Europe: Scientific American – Can Fast Reactors Speedily Solve Plutonium Problems? – David Biello
• East Europe: STA – Slovenska Tiskovna Agencija – N-Plant Decommissioning Fund Needs More Money

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Letter: Fear-mongering drives Yucca fight – Richard Rychtarik
• Tri-City Herald – PNNL to lay off 45 this week – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Defense board plans hearing on vit plant – Annette Cary
• Longview News-Journal – Nuclear waste transport across Texas likely to begin in April
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ANA honors Rep. Markey, three others – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UT Nuclear Security Institute – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Mercury, mercury everywhere — not just at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Nuclear Budget Busters’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Blogging at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Union workers to vote on contract extension at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Respirator contamination at Y-12 goes back to 2009
• Hilton Head Island Packet – Nuclear waste surcharge should go away for now
• Danville Register&Bee – Letter: Mining not suitable to our region – Bob Cleary
• New London Day – Dominion considers fuel modifications at Millstone
• DOE – Lab Game-Changers in Our Past and Future – Kate Bannan
• DOE:IG – The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management’s Budget Allocation Plan, OAS-L-12-03
• DOE:IG – Performance Audit of the Department of Energy’s Improper Payment Reporting in the Fiscal Year 2011 Agency Financial Report, OAS-FS-12-07
• Oceania: ABC – Top End protest keeps nuclear waste issue fizzing – Carolyn Herbert
• Oceania: Ninemsn – Darwin protest against Muckaty waste dump
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Japan contamination records rising – contaminated soil in Iitate over limits for burning – Lucas W Hixson
• Europe: BBC News – Work starts on new freight terminal for Dounreay nuclear material
• Europe: Scotland Courier – Gordon Brown says MoD has ‘moral responsibility’ to spare Dalgety Bay from ‘contaminated’ status
• Europe: Spalding Guardian – Fight is ‘not over’ for nuclear test veterans
• Europe: STV.tv – Work begins on railway link to transport nuclear fuel
• Europe: thisis Gloucestershire – Squeezy does it for 300-tonne nuclear boilers
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Bon voyage to Berkeley boilers
• Europe: Bloomberg – French Chemicals Makers Seek Support on Shale Gas, Nuclear Power – Francois de Beaupuy
• Europe: Deutsche Local – Most fertilizers ‘contain too much uranium’
• East Europe: Ukrainian Journal – Ukraine eliminating its uranium stockpile
• South Africa: IOL Mercury – Radiation fear over plan to build homes – Tony Carnie

Monday, March 19, 2012

• Tri-Valley CAREs – New Tri-Valley CAREs’ Report, “Fewer Warheads, More Spending: An Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request for Nuclear Weapons” – Marylia Kelley
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: Registration for B Reactor tours opens tonight
• Arizona Daily Sun – Study: Uranium pollution elusive – Cyndy Cole
• Dallas Morning News – Texas company could bury 1st nuke waste in April – Betsy Blaney
• WTAW – Radioactive Waste Headed for West Texas
• La Crosse Tribune – Al Gedicks: Dangers of nuclear waste are real
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Activists do ‘D.C. Days’ this week – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A paper problem at Y-12’s warehouse? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR mantra: ‘Pack as you go’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The many colors of uranium – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – March 1943: X-10 prepares 1st budget (on pencil and paper) for Manhattan Project work – Frank Munger
• Danville Register & Bee – June’s uranium workgroup meeting in Chatham
• Bennington Banner – Judge: Vt. can’t shut nuke down over waste issue
• BurlingtonFreePress – Judge: State can’t shut down Vermont Yankee over waste issue – Dave Gram
• Alliance for Nuclear Accountability – Media advisorry: Awards reception honoring individuals who have been leaders (pdf-176K)
• Alliance for Nuclear Accountability – Nuclear Budget Busters: The U.S. Department of Energy’s–Riskiest, Most Unaccountable Projects (pdf-472K)
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – An elemental force: Uranium production in Africa, and what it means to be nuclear – Gabrielle Hecht
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Open secret – Francesco Calogero and Giorgio La Malfa
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• NEI – Document Library
• DOE – United States Announces New Bilateral Partnership with Ghana
• DOE – The Rest of the Story: What Critics Aren’t Telling You About Two Innovative Solar Projects
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Nevada Page 16021 [FR DOC# 2012-6548]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Portsmouth Pages 16021-16022 [FR DOC# 2012-6549]
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – 1.5 tons of water leak from storage tank at Tokai reactor – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Low-level radioactive water leaks at Tokai nuclear plant
• Europe: The Independent – Massive boilers stop traffic