Sunday, April 15, 2012

• Fort Worth Star-Telegram – Radioactive waste may soon travel on DFW highways – Anna M. Tinsley
• NBC Dallas-Fort Worth – Rep. Wants Radioactive Waste Documents Released Publicly
• Texas Tribune – Texas Sees Renewed Push for Uranium Mining – Kate Galbraith
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Uranium: Unedifying report meets inept questions – Andrea Jennetta

Saturday, April 14, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Panel OKs renewal for Energy Northwest power plant
• Tri-City Herald – DOE optimistic that eighth tank emptied at Hanford – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – USS WASHINGTON: New Navy attack submarine named after state
• KABB Fox San Antonio – State rep wants documents released
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Activist group ramps up campaign against costly UPF – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Good gracious, somebody has to dress those nuclear mannequins, don’t they? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Cold War legacy: Alpha-4 still loaded – Frank Munger
• Relevant Science blog – U.S. Will Pay a Settlement of $1 Billion to 41 Tribes – Timothy Williams
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Australia’s ugly history of nuclear racism – Jim Green
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Machine fell into MOX spent-fuel pool: Tepco
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – 17 prefectures may accept debris
• Central Asia: Central Asia Online – Tajiks seek international aid to clean up radioactive waste

Friday, April 13, 2012

• Free Speech Radio News – Communities along Columbia River raise concerns about clean up at Hanford nuclear waste site
• Tri-City Herald – 2 DOE offices at Hanford reorganize to improve efficiency
• Tri-City Herald – CH2M Hill plans up to 400 job cuts before late September – Annette Cary
• KSL-TV – Lack of funding to slow cleanup of uranium tailings – Geoff Liesik
• Yahoo! News – NRC Confirms it Has No Authority on Colorado Uranium Mill – Susan Graybeal
• Abilene Reporter-News – Letter: Dumping on Texas – Lottie Moore
• Hazelwood.Patch – Second Coldwater Creek Lawsuit Filed Against Hazelwood-Based Covidien and Its Mallinckrodt Division
• Hazelwood.Patch – Patch Poll: Do You Know Someone Affected By Coldwater Creek Contamination? – Candace Jarrett
• Maryland Business Gazette – USEC struggles to regain footing – Kevin James Shay
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sen. Alexander on UPF concerns: ‘I expect any safety issues to be addressed’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – OREPA ramps up campaign against UPF, cites cost and safety issues in letter to Alexander – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – IG: not enough competition at Savannah River – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – High-level appointment at Y-12: Jim Haynes – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – When men and women wore the same shoes – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Setback in Y-12’s microwave project; could delay introduction of technology to uranium processing – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – $15.5M in Oak Ridge ‘Pereptual Care’ Fund – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS contractor earns most of its 2011 performance fees – Rob Pavey
• Danville Register&Bee – Letter: Non-existent regulations – Danielle Simms
• DOE – Energy Department Announces Selections for U.S.-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center
• DOE:IG – Audit Report: Use of Noncompetitive Procurements to Obtain Services at the Savannah River Site (pdf-444K)
• NAS – Project Update: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities For Converting U.S. and Russian Research Reactors From Highly Enriched To Low Enriched Uranium Fuel
• Canada: Owen Sound Sun Times – My visit to a nuclear dump. – Sharen Skelly
• Asia-Pacific: JapanToday – 35-ton device found in spent fuel pool at Fukushima reactor

Thursday, April 12, 2012

• American Scientist – Trouble at the Back End – Allison Macfarlane
• Denver Post – Cotter completes pipeline to protect Ralston Creek
• Telluride Watch – County Unhappy With State Response to Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Gus Jarvis
• Aiken Standard – Former SRS workers ill due to job may qualify for benefits – Anna Dolianitis
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Villages say no to N-waste – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Nuclear waste cannot be swept under the carpet

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

• The Coloradoan – Decision to store radioactive, explosive materials in Windsor area delayed – Ashley Keesis-Wood
• Denver Post – Feds irked by Colorado permit process but will let courts rule on uranium mill hearing – Bruce Finley
• Rochester Post-Bulletin – Red Wing goes it alone in debate over nuclear waste storage – Brett Boese
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch – N. County group files second suit, alleging nuclear waste caused illnesses – Blythe Bernhard
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Tom Wilbanks: ORNL standard-bearer – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge safety forum May 9 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Vintage Weinberg – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – $30M energy storage research competition for military applications, etc. – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 2,200 feet of gloveboxes – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s strategic reserve assemblies – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – From bags to riches at ORNL? – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS retirees air concerns over planned benefit changes – Rob Pavey
• Danville Register&Bee – Letter: Impact of mining on agriculture – Susan Stilwell
• Danville Register&Bee – Editorial: ‘Silent Bob’ and future of mining
• Lynchburg News and Advance – Mining Panel Transparence Found Lacking
• Windham County Commons – Letter: Pressure Congress to get nuclear waste out of Vermont – Harriet Green
• Foreign Policy Journal – Nuclear Weapons are Not Instruments of Peace! – Richard Falk
• DOE – Secretary Chu Announces $30 Million for Research Competition to Develop Next Generation Energy Storage Technologies
• NAS – Project Update: Improving the Assessment of Proliferation Risk of Nuclear Fuel Cycles
• US Dept of State – Key Accomplishments of the Stockpile Stewardship Program
• Canada: Kawartha Media Group – Tritium license draws criticism
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Kyoto unable to dispose of firewood from Iwate
• Southwest Asia: Today’s Zaman – Gendarmes seize smuggled radioactive substance in Ankara

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

• Platts – US NRC should consider work on new repository regulation: chairman – Elaine Hiruo
• Reno Gazette-Journal – Gene Humphrey: Energy park would create thousands of jobs
• Tri-City Herald – More vit plant layoffs coming during 2012 – Annette Cary
• Denver Post – Federal regulators still irked by Colorado’s permit process, but will let courts rule on uranium mill hearing – Bruce Finley
• KKCO-TV – Feds clarify comments on Pinon Ridge uranium mill
• Chillicothe Gazette – Tours of Cold War Piketon plant available
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE window closes, wait begins for naming of the new Oak Ridge manager – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 still leads in internal rad doses – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Larry Kelly to head DOE’s Oak Ridge office – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Preparing for terror in Thailand – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Revving up for Glovebox City at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – EPRI releases analysis on Fukushima – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Kent Williams to talk fuel cycle at FORNL – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS retirees air concerns over planned benefit changes – Rob Pavey
• Augusta Chronicle – Savannah River National Laboratory to access research computers
• Augusta Chronicle – Meetings planned to assist cancer-stricken SRS workers – Rob Pavey
• WJBF-TV – SRS Working To Seal 2 of 47 Remaining Nuclear Waste Tanks – Brett Buffington
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Uranium: Silent
• WSLS – Proposed uranium mine backer: “we’re in it for the long haul” – Tim Ciesco
• Washington Post – Fine Print: A disconnect in evaluating the nuclear weapons labs – Walter Pincus
• NRC – Opening Remarks of NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko at the Briefing on the Final Report of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, April 10, 2012
• Europe: The Independent – Sellafield owner tried to cover up £300m error – Steve Connor
• Europe: Times&Star – Nuclear waste cannot be swept under the carpet – Ashley Tiffen

Monday, April 09, 2012

• Crosscut Seattle – Hanford: Can’t anybody here clean up a mess? – John Stang
• Tri-City Herald – Vit plant adds risk – Robert L. Benedetti
• NPR – Investigators Search For Source of Radioactive Particles On INL Grounds – Adam Cotterell
• Gillette News Record – Uranium construction could start soon in NE Wyo.
• FOX Toledo – Tours offered at Cold War plant in Ohio
• LEX18 – Feds Cleaning Up Soil Near Paducah Nuclear Plant
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 stuck with mercury stockpile — for now – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Shake, rattle and roll in Tennessee – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – Meetings planned to assist cancer stricken SRS workers – Rob Pavey
• Asia-Pacific: Global Research – The Fuel Pools of Fukushima: The Greatest Short-Term Threat to Humanity – Michel Chossudovsky
• Asia-Pacific: HNN Huntingtonnews – United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium
• Asia-Pacific: Zero Hedge – Japan is Poisoning Other Countries By Burning Highly-Radioactive Debris – George Washington
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Workers collect radioactive leaves and branches in Fukushima park