Sunday, April 22, 2012

• San Francisco Chronicle – Navajo land tainted by abandoned uranium mines – Leslie Macmillan
• Epoch Times – Plutonium Vaults Demolished at Top-Secret US Facility – Michael Fitzgerald
• Canada: Chronicle Journal – Letter: Keep your nuclear waste to yourself – Jill Harju
• Oceania: Sydney Indymedia – Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump in NT, Australia
• Asia-Pacific: DBKP – Japan Chemical Plant Explosion: Radioactive Depleted Uranium on Site (Video)
• Asia-Pacific: Power Engineering Magazine – Japan utility group did not compile plan on reprocessed plutonium usage

Saturday, April 21, 2012

• KTVB – INL stops high-risk work after close call
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Protesters rally against new Y-12 uranium facility – Lance Coleman
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Ralph Hutchinson: Safety and cost should spur review of UPF – Ralph Hutchison
• Knoxville News Sentinel – DOE’s safety chief issues advisory on hot respirators – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Peace rally at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – URS/B&W team wins WIPP contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE’s safety chief issues special advisory on radioactive respirators – Frank Munger

Friday, April 20, 2012

• E&ETV – Why is DOE collecting fees for ‘program that isn’t doing very much’? — judge – Lawrence Hurley and Hannah Northey
• Platts – No US nuclear waste program, no fee, attorney tells court – Elaine Hiruo
• Tri-City Herald – Tri-Citians’ life spans shorter than average – Michelle Dupler
• KIFI Idaho Falls – Idaho Falls Parking Lot Evacuated
• World Nuclear News – Arizona: Lawsuit draws line in sand over mining ban
• Telluride Daily Planet – Regulatory meeting closed to public–Sheep Mountain Alliance, others, tried to get access – Katie Klingsporn
• Telluride Daily Planet – Energy Fuels announces merger with Denison Mines – Katie Klingsporn
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – WIPP gets new managment partnership (9:54 a.m.)
• KRQE News 13 – DOE awards management contract for WIPP
• Statesman Journal – Feds should utilize salt beds for waste – John C. Ringle
• World Nuclear News – Colorado: Community campaigns for Uranium Drive-In
• Chillicothe Gazette – USEC ready to start using uranium again at Centrifuge – Loren Genson
• Lakeland Times – Letter: Processing facility not safe – Don Timmerman
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Problem with dirty respirators prompts Y-12 to shift to disposables – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Letter: No more blank checks for NNSA – William Franklin Myers
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Radiation: a devilish issue in 1946 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA: respiratory protection will be ‘fully met’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Update on Y-12’s contaminated respirators; spokeswoman says contract comments ‘premature’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 6 named to ORAU’s Board of Directors – Frank Munger
• Aiken Standard – Project manager: Japan still needs help cleaning up Fukushima plant – Anna Dolianitis
• WRDW-TV – Local congressman calls for Yucca’s reopening, offshore drilling, end to ethanol mandate in new bill
• TIME blog – Depleted Uranium: Getting a 2nd Opinion – Mark Thompson
• Department of Defense – Laboratory Analyzes Shrapnel to Look for Uranium – Terri Moon Cronk
• Navy Department – NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Notice of Availability of the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Disposal and Reuse of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, CA Pages 23671-23673 [FR DOC# 2012-9575]
• Oceania: ABC – Union wants toxic dump inquiry expanded – Mark Colvin
• Oceania: The Australian – Radiation list to be expanded – Leigh Dayton
• Oceania: NSW Daily Telegraph – Buried fury at betrayal bubbles to the surface – Richard Noone
• Asia-Pacific: Denki Shimbun – Debris removal by remote operation at Fukushima I NPS
• South Asia: Asian Age – Uranium processing plant commissioned in Kadapa
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – Disposal of short-lived waste in France
• Russia: Nuclear Engineering – Optimizing monitoring of a legacy uranium processing site – By Oleg V. Voitsekhovych and Tatiana V. Lavrova

Thursday, April 19, 2012

• State of Nevada – Counties Potentially Affected by High-level Nuclear Waste Shipments to Yucca Mountain, NV – Fred Dilger PhD. (pdf-798K)
• Tri-City Herald – DOE not ready to commit to expanding vit plant – Annette Cary
• Greenfield Daily Reporter – Idaho National Laboratory waste cleanup resumes after nearly 2-year hiatus
• KIFI Idaho Falls – DOE Resumes Radioactive Waste Removal At INL Site – Marissa Bodnar
• Salt Lake Tribune – Energy Fuels to buy Utah’s White Mesa uranium mill
• Des Moines Register – Letter: No more nukes until waste problem solved – Sandy Easter
• CBS News – Lawmaker wants papers on radioactive dump released
• Chillicothe Gazette – House panel approves $100 million for centrifuge project – Deirdre Shesgreen
• Dayton Daily News – Spending bill holds $100M for Piketon plant – Jack Torry
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR’s subcontractors and vendors (long list) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – POGO says leaked Defense Dept. memo reveals effort to expand work at DOE’s weapons labs – Frank Munger
• WDEF – 2 Y-12 employees honored by national nuclear group
• Aiken Standard – Energy bill would keep Yucca open – Anna Dolianitis
• Pottstown.Patch – Residents Question Geologic Fault At Limerick Nuke Plant – Teresa McMinn
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation Page 23470 [FR DOC# 2012-9427]
• Oceania: ABC – Inquiry into toxic roadside dump – Mark Colvin
• Oceania: ABC – Toxic find shows why waste dump is needed: professor – Carl Curtain
• Oceania: Melbourne Age – Soil, not radiation, made workers ill – Ben Cubby
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – Mystery illness recalls 1980 toxic spill – Ben Cubby, Nick Ralston
• Asia-Pacific: World Nuclear News – Fukushima fuel removal buildings
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel would cost more than burying part of it
• Asia-Pacific: Nikkei – Burying All Spent Fuel Poses Higher Costs: Nuclear Panel
• South Asia: Times of India – Canister storage gives N-capable Agni-V missile flexibility
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Letter: N-waste: to support or not to support? That is the question – Colin Wales
• South Africa: Creamer’s Engineering News – NNR suspends receipt of radioactive waste at Vaalputs – Idéle Esterhuizen

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Latest Hanford layoffs turn thoughts to the future
• Tri-City Herald – Vault complex torn down at Hanford – Annette Cary
• KUNC – Letter Urges Test of Rocky Flats Plutonium Dust – Nathan Heffel
• Elliot Lake Standard – Letter: Carlsbad, New Mexico a retirement community and nuclear waste repository – William Elliott
• Nuclear Watch of New Mexico – Defense Dept. Memo Criticizes Cost of Nuclear Weapons Labs While Los Alamos Director’s Salary Nearly Triples
• POGO blog – House Approps Subcommittee Bill Zeroes Out Funding for Wasteful Nuclear Project, CMRR-NF – Dana Liebelson
• Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal – New Mexico storage may have ‘WIPPed’ nuclear waste – CT Carley
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Not secret: microwaves still not ready at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Corker calls for hearing on Obama administration’s commitments on nuclear weapons complex – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – $44.5M worth of security stuff (weapons, etc.) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA releases draft RFP on protective force services for Pantex, Y-12 and other Oak Ridge facilities – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – No more recycled respirators at Y-12; plan is to use disposable equipment in future – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Prepping for Y-12/Pantex security contract – Frank Munger
• Democratic Underground – Spent Fuel Pools – RobertEarl
• Platts – US House subcommittee passes bill to cut DOE funding – Derek Sands
• POGO – POGO Releases Defense Dept. Memo that Points to Weaknesses of Energy Dept. Labs
• POGO blog – Stuck in the Past? DOE’s Cold War Mindset Leads to Blown Bucks on Nuclear Labs – Mia Steinle
• Canada: Vancouver Free Press . – Federal government not testing West Coast salmon for Fukushima radiation – Carlito Pablo
• Oceania: ABC – Sick workers reveal toxic highway dump – Bronwyn Herbert
• Oceania: Muswellbrook Chronicle – Mystery illness recalls 1980 toxic spill – Ben Cubby, Nick Ralston
• Oceania: Port Macquarie News – 1980 truck crash: The original Port News report
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – Mystery illness recalls 1980 toxic spill – Ben Cubby, Nick Ralston
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – Road workers ill after finding suspected radioactive waste
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – Radioactive waste not found on highway site: minister
• Asia-Pacific: World Nuclear News – Japanese nuclear fuel cycle under review
• Europe: BBC News – Dungeness nuclear power plant reaches decommissioning milestone
• Europe: Nuclear Energy Insider – Decommissioning Dounreay: how resourceful techniques saved the day – Peter Taberner
• North Europe: Baltic Times – Nuclear waste burial could be in the backyard – Linas Jegelevicius

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

• Reno Gazette-Journal – ‘Energy park’ is just a storage facility – Joe Strolin
• Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) – After Tour of Fukushima Nuclear Power Station, Wyden Says Situation Worse than Reported
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford Advisory Board calls for better budgets
• Tri-City Herald – DOE plans seismic analysis at Hanford – Annette Cary
• KBOI – INL Welding Fire
• Reuters – Fire prompts evacuation at nuclear research lab in Idaho – Laura Zuckerman
• CBS Dallas – Lawmaker Wants Papers On Radioactive Dump Released
• Lubbock Avalanche-Journal – Lawmaker wants papers on radioactive dump released – Will Weissert
• Society of Environmental Journalists – “Burnam: ‘Top Secret’ Documents Show Risks of Radioactive Waste Dump” – Forrest Wilder
• StateImpact Texas – Texas Rep. Adds New Twist to Radioactive Waste Dump Saga – David Barer
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 uranium archive to be used for nuclear forensics – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Oak Ridge Confidential’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Purdue, Syracuse, Utah State join ORAU – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The richest uranium ever produced – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Progress on hot cells cleanup at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Recent demolition makes ORNL cleaner, safer
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS cancer compensation briefing draws hopeful crowd – Rob Pavey
• Aiken Standard – DOE audit finds SRNS contract violations – Anna Dolianitis
• Danville Register&Bee – Letter: Who will decide the mining issue? – Anne Cockrell
• Platts – US House budget for DOE would boost fossil energy, cuts renewables R&D – Herman Wang
• DOE – Energy Department Report Finds Major Potential to Increase Clean Hydroelectric Power
• Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program – 2011 Annual Report to Congress (pdf-8.01M)
• Energy Department – NOTICES Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board Page 22772 [FR DOC# 2012-9180]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Sunshine Act Meeting Pages 22772-22773 [FR DOC# 2012-9275]
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Radioactive waste halts Pacific Hwy upgrade
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Osaka Mayor Makes N-Waste Facility Major Issue
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t seeks to accelerate disposal of debris from disaster-hit areas
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan Today – Taipower survey raises concerns about nuclear storage site – June Tsai
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – Babcock installs Sellafield fuel pond treatment plant
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – Urenco UK will run new Capenhurst tails facility

Monday, April 16, 2012

• The Hill – Romney, GOP don’t see eye to eye on Yucca Mountain – Ben Geman
• KNDO/KNDU – Occupy Portland protests Hanford clean-up
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford target of Occupy Portland protest – Annette Cary
• Reuters – Fire prompts evacuation at nuclear research lab in Idaho – Laura Zuckerman
• Mansfield News Journal – Lawmaker wants papers on radioactive dump released – Will Weissert
• Texas Observer – Burnam: ‘Top Secret’ Documents Show Risks of Radioactive Waste Dump – Forrest Wilder
• WFAA – Lawmaker wants documents on waste site made public
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ScienceCinema – Frank Munger
• Enformable – April 7th, 2011 – Conference call to discuss Radioactive Waste that may return to US from Japan
• NAS – Project Update: – Improving the Assessment of Proliferation Risk of Nuclear Fuel Cycles
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Portsmouth Page 22566 [FR DOC# 2012-9037]
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Activists mount court challenge to Olympic Dam mine – Renfrey Clarke
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Today – Fukushima damage leaves spent fuel at risk, says U.S. lawmaker