Sunday, April 08, 2012

• Idaho Press-Tribune – Radioactive particles found on INL debris
• Denver Post – Guest Commentary: Disallow uranium mining – Lee J. Alterdenverpost.com
• SouthtownStar – Why don’t nuclear plants pay their water debt? – Emily Briley
• Danville Register&Bee – Letter: Mining revenue’s a long way off – W. Fred Rieger
• EECAP – Energy Employees Claimant Assistance Project
• Fukushima Diary – Final disposal field can be chosen from everywhere in Japan – Iori Mochizuki
• Mainichi Daily News – Storage space to be built at 2 sites in Fukushima for tsunami debris
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Dounreay finishes destruction of major hazard

Saturday, April 07, 2012

• Knoxville News Sentinel – Oak Ridge mercury not just an East Fork problem – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Forget about East Fork for a moment; let’s talk about mercury in Oak Ridge’s Bear Creek – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE antes up $15M for ‘bio-oils’ – Frank Munger
• Canada: Chronicle Journal – Letter: Nuclear waste and the Adams Mine – Paul Filteau
• Enformable – March 29th, 2011 – Containment Damaged – Pu in soil from reactors – Unit 3 RB contains I-131
• Times of Assam – India dumping Nuclear waste In Bangladesh – Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

Friday, April 06, 2012

• Democratic Underground – Residents Rethink a Nuclear Neighbor
• KIFI Idaho Falls – Radioactive Particles Found At INL Facility – Jamie Ostroff
• Salon – The GOP’s nuke-dump donor – Mariah Blake
• CounterPunch – Fighting the Legacy of Enrico Fermi – Michael Leonardi
• WPSD – Troubled waters: DOE to clean up contaminated groundwater – Jason Hibbs
• Florence Times Daily – Watts Bar reactor delayed again – Dennis Sherer
• Knoxville News Sentinel – TVA says Watts Bar construction to cost more, take longer – Ed Marcum
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s mercury stockpile isn’t going away (at least not anytime soon) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Congressman Womack at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Apps for Energy’ contest – Frank Munger
• Danville Register & Bee – Governor mum on uranium – Rex Springston
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Governor mum on uranium – Rex Springston
• New York Times – Energy Dept. to Revitalize a Loan Guarantee Program – Matthew L. Wald
• Platts – More nuclear capacity to be out for refueling in 2012 than 2011: data – Tom Harrison, Wesley Becker
• Science and Technology – Improving Spent-Fuel Storage at Nuclear Reactors – Robert Alvarez
• Science and Technology – Forum(#2): How to store spent nuclear fuel – David Lochbaum
• Canada: Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre – More Interest in Nuclear Fuel – Dianne Colgan
• Oceania: ABC – Canberra approves NT nuclear waste dump
• Europe: BBC News – Toxic Dounreay liquid metals neutralised
• Europe: STV.tv – Dounreay workers destroy ‘major chemical hazard’ – Leanna MacLarty

Thursday, April 05, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Large Hanford building comes down – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Almost 200 are laid off at Hanford vit plant – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Adviser promotes modular reactors – Annette Cary
• Flagstaff Live – Fallout of empire–A new photo exhibit pays tribute to the nuclear age’s forgotten victims – Abbie Gripman
• Alamogordo Daily News – LANL makes environmental data public
• KASA – LANL posts millions of enviro records – Deanna Sauceda
• Los Alamos Monitor – Final workday at lab for 557
• Nuclear Watch New Mexico – NNSA Releases Performance Evaluation Reports in Response to Nuclear Watch FOIA Lawsuit
• Bloomberg – Is GOP Donor Emptying Pockets to Fill a Dump?
• Political Wire – GOP Donor Spends Big to Get Rules Changed
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – If the mall Santa thing didn’t work out, try getting the kids to sit on the Easter Bunny’s lap – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Duke & ORAU – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORAU gets $3.2M fee – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – An Oak Ridge surprise: 19 monoliths from the nuclear netherworld – Frank Munger
• Danville Register&Bee – McDonnell officials explain how uranium study group will operate – Rex Springston
• Martinsville Bulletin – Uranium group is at issue
• DOE – Update on the 1703 Loan Program – David G. Frantz
• NRC – NRC Schedules Meeting in Piketon to Discuss Lead Cascade Facility
• Europe: thisis Somerset – The nuclear negatives
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Millions for Dounreay’s nuclear waste? – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Bid to build fast reactor at Sellafield
• Europe: Bloomberg – Areva Predicts Uranium Demand Freeze Until 2014 – Francois de Beaupuy
• Russia: Al Jazeera – Russian villages in nuclear danger zone
• South Africa: Creamer’s Engineering News – Does thorium have a future as an alternative to uranium? – Saliem Fakir
• South Africa: Creamer’s Mining Weekly – Uranium-rich South Africa good environment for nuclear plants – Chantelle Kotzé

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

• Oakland Tribune – Annual nuclear weapons protest at Livermore lab set for Friday – Robert Jordan
• Tri-City Herald – Group raises concerns about boxes storing waste at Hanford – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – $1.3M grant to benefit Hanford workers who were laid off – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Development council to discuss nuclear power
• Tri-City Herald – Flashback: Dealing with nuclear waste solved in 1954
• New York Times blog – Uranium, Cattle Grazing and Risks Unknown – Leslie Macmillan
• Bloomberg – Republican Donor Simmons Seeks Rule to Fill Texas Dump – Julie Bykowicz
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Smash ’em, bust ’em, that’s the custom – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA says some safety issues already incoporated into UPF design, promises ‘full set’ of safety controls – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – When ORNL was young and lab workers pitched horseshoes at lunch – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – WAI gets $1.2M for 6-month period – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Safety board raises issues with UPF; peace group says, ‘It’s time to put the brakes on . . . ‘ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – U-233 project on agenda for DOE advisory board – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – How is this stimulus money hanging around? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nine Recovery Act-funded science projects still in works at Oak Ridge National Lab – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA releases B&W Y-12 performance report; provides details of FY 2011 activities – Frank Munger
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Uranium taxes would support education – Dawn Snow
• Danville Register&Bee – McDonnell officials explain how uranium study group will operate – Rex Springston
• Danville Register&Bee – Local group wanted in on uranium meeting – Tara Bozick
• Danville Register & Bee – Va. officials to discuss uranium study group today
• Richmond Times Dispatch – McDonnell officials explain how uranium study group will operate – Rex Springston
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Va. officials to discuss uranium study group today
• Science Daily – New Options for Nuclear Waste? Crushing Pressure Surprisingly Opens Up Nanopores in Mineral
• DOE – Ames Lab Plays Elemental Role in New PBS Special – Charles Rousseaux
• Energy Department – NOTICES Determinations: Notice of Availability of Secretarial Determination and Basis for Determination Under Section 3116 of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (NDAA) for Closure of the F-Tank Farm at the Savannah River Site and Clarification for Its Record of Decision: Savannah River Site High-Level Waste Tank Closure Pages 20375-20376 [FR DOC# 2012-8075]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico Pages 20376-20377 [FR DOC# 2012-8074]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee Page 20377 [FR DOC# 2012-8090]
• Canada: Waterloo Record – Nuclear-waste dump proposal sparks protest in cottage country
• Oceania: The Australian – Nuclear facility in hot water – Leigh Dayton
• Oceania: Inner West Courier – Don’t dump waste in Lidcombe: residents
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Japan to Resume Talks on Radioactive Waste Facilities
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Japan Nuclear Fuel restarts reconstruction of MOX plant
• North Europe: Helsingin Sanomat – Uranium raises questions among Sotkamo residents
• Russia: Space Daily – Plutonium to Pluto: Russian nuclear space travel breakthrough
• Russia: Staple News – Siberian Village Exposed To Radiation

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

• Kitsap Sun – Rainwater exposes waste chemicals at Hanford
• The Oregonian – Occupy Portland takes aim at Hanford nuclear plant with April 15 rally in Richland, Wash. – Anne Saker
• The Oregonian – Hanford rally will challenge cleanup work, call for more funding and transparency – Eric Mortenson, The Oregonian The Oregonian
• Tacoma News Tribune – Senators announce grant to help Hanford workers
• Tri-City Herald – Workers dig deep to clean up contaminated soil at Hanford – Annette Cary
• Snowshoe Magazine – Hanford Reach, the Monument, the River and the Region – Nigel Boney
• Carlsbad Current Argus – Martinez addresses Nuclear Summit – Matlin Smith
• Las Cruces Sun-News – NM Gov. Susana Martinez to speak at nuclear fuel summit in Carlsbad today
• New Mexico Business Weekly – Uranium deconversion plant gets New Mexico air permit – Kevin Robinson-Avila
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA says it’s a done deal – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More changes at USEC – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s moon-box mystery solved – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Connecting the dots: Austria, Taiwan, Vietnam and South Africa – Frank Munger
• NRC – NRC to Discuss Urenco USA Performance at Meeting in Eunice
• NWTRB – Board letter to the Honorable Peter Lyons with comments from the January 2012 Board Meeting (pdf-53K)
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Paducah, KY Page 20014 [FR DOC# 2012-7953]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Sunshine Federal Register Notice Page 20077 [FR DOC# 2012-8077]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Request for a License To Export Radioactive Waste Pages 20077-20078 [FR DOC# 2012-7946]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Request for a License To Import Radioactive Waste Pages 20078-20079 [FR DOC# 2012-7945]
• Asia-Pacific: Huffington Post – Fukushima Radiation Moving Across Pacific Ocean – Jesse Emspak
• Asia-Pacific: International Business Times – Radioactive ‘Hotspots’ Found Far From Fukushima Disaster – Roxanne Palmer
• Southeast Asia: Malaysian Insider – MCA: No to Lynas licence if waste not sent abroad – Yow Hong Chieh
• South Asia: Ria Novosti – India to Induct Russia’s Nerpa Nuclear Sub on Wed.
• South Asia: Deccan Chronicle – Recycling extends uranium life by 10k years – Syed Akbar
• Europe: Aberdeen Press and Journal – Dounreay clean-up ‘will be quicker and £1bn cheaper’ – Iain Grant
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Spanish uranium projects in arbitration
• North Europe: Reuters – Update 1-Finnish miner Talvivaara uranium permit delayed – Terhi Kinnunen
• Russia: Gazeta.Ru – Commander steals $6 mln meant for nuclear development
• Russia: RIA Novosti – Three Charged in $6.3 Mln Nuclear Arms Complex Fraud
• Russia: RT – Plutonium to Pluto: Russian nuclear space travel breakthrough

Monday, April 02, 2012

• Deseret News – Nuclear waste is safe – David R. Shorten
• Santa Fe New Mexican – LANL launches new public data siteStaci Matlock
• Morning Sun – Breckenridge site cleanup is complete – Linda Gittleman
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 ships highly enriched uranium to France – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA says shipment of highly potent uranium to France should be the last one – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Back when nuclear was still sort of new (and so were the facilities) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Four DOE appointments confirmed – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 in 1959: Management hanging out by the Buick, talking Cold War stuff – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA says shipment of highly potent uranium to France should be the last one – Frank Munger
• WRDW-TV – Grouting begins on first SRS Waste Tanks Since 1997
• AllGov – Radioactive Water in Philadelphia Linked to Urine of Thyroid Patients
• Vermont Public Radio – Lawmaker To Visit New Mexico Waste Site
• WCAX – Vt lawmaker travels to see New Mexico waste site
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Disposal field of highly radioactive waste is in the river-head area of Minami soma – Iori Mochizuki
• Europe: BBC News – Babcock Dounreay Partnership awarded demolition contract
• Europe: Linlithgow Journal&Gazette – Dounreay clean-up ‘to come sooner’
• Europe: The Scotsman – New Dounreay team aims to knock £1bn off site clean-up bill – Frank Urquhart
• South Africa: Enformable – South Africa to consider restarting uranium enrichment program – Lucas W Hixson
• South Africa: Reuters – S.Africa considers nuclear fuel cycle facilities – Wendell Roelf