Sunday, May 06, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – What if Yucca Mountain becomes a repository for data? – Karoun Demirjian
• Las Vegas SUN – Editorial: Politics, the law and Yucca Mountain
• Tri-City Herald – DOE finds performance issues at Hanford vit plant, raising concerns about Bechtel management – Annette Cary
• Arizona Republic – Debate over continued incentives for energy companies – Ryan Randazzo
• Eastern Arizona Courier – State Legislature endorses Arizona as dumping ground for nuclear waste: Safford area one of five potential locations –
• Navajo Post – Nuclear Waste leaves Sandia Labs, Gov. praises effort
• Beatrice Daily Sun – UNL project maps Ogallala Aquifer to find uranium
• Columbia Daily Tribune – University of Missouri’s nuclear program to close due to lack of funding, infighting – Janese Silvey
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL chipping away at energy waste – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – USEC finds some good news – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – After the scrap is gone, the cleanup goes on – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Shrinking the size of Superfund in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 1951: A funky time when folks dressed up in unusual costumes to go bowling in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Two years at Y-12
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Thunder’ in Research Triangle – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA submits initial response to defense board on UPF safety issues; promises full report in 2 months – Frank
• Asia-Pacific: Bellona – Concerns mount over the growing threat from Fukushima’s spent fuel – will the experts’ warning call be heard? – Vladimir Slivyak
• East Asia: Korea Times – Uranium or plutonium? – Andrei Lankov
• South Asia: Economic Times – India’s first Nuclear-waste repository on anvil
• Europe: BBC News – Part from scrapped World War II ship ‘used in Dounreay lab’

Saturday, May 05, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – DOE finds performance issues at Hanford vit plant, raising concerns about Bechtel management – Annette Cary
• Walla Walla Union-Bulletin(sub) – Hauling tons of nuclear waste from Mexico is bad idea
• Missouri News Horizon – More Nuclear Waste Headed to Kansas? – Gene Meyer
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Feds address UPF safety issues, promise more later – Frank Munge
• Augusta Chronicle – NRC questions Savannah River Site radiation models – Rob Pavey
• Aiken Standard – NRC: SRS Saltstone facility’s radiation exposure may exceed limit in 10K years – Anna Dolianitis
• Greeneville Sun(sub) – Will Pilot Study of Cancer Risk Near Nuclear Facilities Be Made? Maybe – Ken Little
• WCBD – South Carolina suing federal goverment over $1.4 billion state paid for nuclear storage – Raymond Owens
• Canada: Reuters – SNC-Lavalin nuclear workers back strike mandate – Susan Taylor
• South Asia: Times of India – India to get first underground repository for n-waste – Rajeev Deshpande

Friday, May 04, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Spokesman changes his tune on Yucca Mountain — because he must – Karoun Demirjian
• NIRS – Ask Gov. Sandoval to stay firm against radwaste in Nevada
• OPB News – Hanford Whistleblower May Not Get Jury Trial – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – DOE wants dismissal from Hanford whistleblower case – Annette Cary
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The strategy for speeding up UPF – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The source of Argonne’s scientific talent? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Rotating site reps at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Wrapping up Oak Ridge landfill project – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Is it plutonium yet? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Alexander touts Oak Ridge projects in funding bill: mercury cleanup, supercomputer, UPF – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – NRC questions Savannah River Site radiation models – Rob Pavey
• Danville Register&Bee – Letter: -Will we be a radioactive dump site? – Bob Cleary
• Danville Register&Bee – Group against uranium mining holds meeting in Danville – Tara Boz
• Central Asia: Xinhua News – Kazakhstan to supply Japan with nuclear fuel elements in 2013

Thursday, May 03, 2012

• KOLO – Appeals Court Hears Arguments Over Yucca Mountain
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Judges troubled by Yucca shutdown, uncertain on recourse – Steve Tetreault
• Las Vegas SUN – Federal appeals court hears arguments on Yucca Mountain project – Karoun Demirjian
• News 88.9 KNPR – Congressman Mark Amodei is looking for the middle ground on Yucca Mountain
• Nevada Appeal – Yucca backers pressing issue – Matthew Daly
• energybiz – Yucca Mountain May Get Second Life – Wayne Barber
• New York Times blog – Is Yucca Mountain Still Dead? – Matthew L. Wald
• New York Times – Court Urged to Order Decision on Nuclear Waste Site – Matthew L. Wald
• Nuclear Street – Appeals Court Hears Yucca Mountain Suit
• Portland Tribune – Keep nuclear waste off our highways – Jan Castle
• Bellingham Herald – Judges mull over nuclear waste storage: Panel hears arguments over sites
• Hanford News – Perma-Fix seeks OK to treat Mexican radioactive waste in Richland
• Hanford News – Court hears Yucca Mountain arguments
• Hanford News – Energy Northwest touts nuclear energy as clean
• Tri-City Herald – Atomic Energy Agency conference starts May 13
• Yakima Herald-Republic – More signs of trouble at Hanford vit plant
• KMVT, ID – Uncertain Future For Yucca Mountain – Paul Johnson
• Riverton Ranger – Raised uranium in reservation water samples – Martin Reed
• The Coloradoan – Company nixes plan to store radioactive materials, explosives in Windsor – Trevor Hughes
• Daily Camera – CU-Boulder researcher looks for radioactive dust in snow from San Miguel County – Laura Snider
• Las Cruces Sun-News – Sandia ships final barrels of TRU waste to WIPP
• New Mexico Business Weekly – Sandia sends last of its transuranic legacy waste to WIPP – Kevin Robinson-Avila
• Pueblo Chieftain – Report card readied on cleanup – Tracy Harmon
• UNM Daily Lobo – Letter: Sandia’ s shoddy nuclear landfill poisoning city – Samantha Warren
• Chillicothe Gazette – Centrifuge costs contribute to quarterly loss at USEC Inc.
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UPF leadership – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL reactor to restart Monday – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Retiree benefit changes at Savannah River – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE advisory board to meet May 9 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A different view of wartime Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Defense analyst joins POGO – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS emergency drill centers on earthquake scenario – Rob Pavey
• WRDW-TV – Congressman Wilson introduces bill to bring back Yucca, says project is “safe” – Chad Mills
• WRDW-TV – Only on 12: SC may sue Obama administration again if Aiken Co. lawsuit fails – Chad Mills
• Martinsville Bulletin – ‘Citizen-expert’ cautions against uranium mining – Paul Collins
• NRC – NRC to Hold May 17 Public Meeting, Open House in Tarrytown, N.Y., to Discuss Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant Annual Assessment
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico Page 26273 
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Pages 26273-26274
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee Pages 26274-26275 [FR DOC# 2012-10724]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Advisory Board Meeting Page 26275 [FR DOC# 2012-10681]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee Pages 26276-26277
  
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Exemption of Material; Proposed Disposal Procedures: Exemption of Material for Proposed Disposal Procedures for the Humboldt Bay Power Plant, Unit 3, Eureka, CA Pages 26317-26318 [FR DOC# 2012-10700]
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – India all set to tap thorium resources – Kalyan Ray
• Europe: BBC News – Chapelcross nuclear plant defuelling reaches milestone
• Europe: Grantham Journal – Probe urged on ‘radiation warning’
• Europe: Peterborough Evening Telegraph – Firm wants to expand landfill near village

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

• Pahrump Valley Times – $5 million would go to county if Yucca bill passes – Steve Tetreault
• KWES NewsWest9 – Appeals court hears arguments over Yucca Mountain – Matthew Daly
• Platts – Funding issues behind decision to end Yucca licensing: US NRC attorney
• NTI – Court to Weigh Challenge to Yucca Cancellation
• Muscatine Journal – US company aims to treat Mexican radioactive waste
• KUOW NPR – Hanford Managers and Contractors Disagree Over $15 Million Fee – Anna King
• The Oregonian – Critics say new Hanford Nuclear Reservation waste permit has big holes – Scott Learn
• Seattle Times – Wash. reissues draft Hanford permit for comment
• Tri-City Herald – Atomic Energy Agency conference starts May 13
• Tri-City Herald – Last irradiated fuel shipment leaves area near river at Hanord – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hastings worries about key DOE jobs being vacant – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Ecology releases draft of state permit for Hanford – Annette Cary
• UPI – Wash. nuclear cleanup plan criticized
• KMVT, ID – Uncertain Future For Yucca Mountain – Paul Johnson
• St. George Daily Spectrum – Washington County joins uranium mining lawsuit – Kevin Jenkins
• Casper Star-Tribune – Uranium mine proposed for Wyoming’s Red Desert – Mead Gruver
• Johnson City Press – Nuclear Fuel Services to receive annual Nuclear Regulatory Commission review – Brad Hicks
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: K-25 preservation could become battle royal – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – EEOICP Ombudsman’s Report – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Voice of an ORNL retiree – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – USEC chief: ‘We are quickly running out of time’ – Frank Munger
• Chatham Star Tribune – Uranium Watch founder to speak in Danville
• Asia-Pacific: Denki Shimbun – US firm EnergySolutions ready to advance into reactor decommissioning business in Japan
• South Asia: IBNLive – Uranium contamination in Punjab areas: Par Panel slams Centre
• Europe: BBC News – Radioactive beach risk from wartime dump ‘was ignored’
• Europe: The Guardian – Nuclear waste ‘may be blighting 1,000 UK sites’ – Rob Edwards
• Europe: The Observers – Greenpeace sneaks aerial shots of French radioactive waste site

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

• North County Times – FORUM: Alternative exists for nuclear waste storage – Edward (Ted) Quinn
• Hanford News – Vit plant tanks failed to meet quality assurance, contract requirements – Annette Cary
• Hanford News – States seek court action on Yucca nuclear-waste dump – James Rosen
• Hanford News – Yakima Herald-Republic: Hanford vessels fail to meet requirements – Shannon Dininny
• Riverton Ranger – Department of Energy hosts talks Wednesday on tailings – Martin Reed
• Rocky Mountain Collegian – Reviewing the Fukushima disaster and journalism – Thomas E. Johnson
• World Nuclear News – Texas waste facility gets to work
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Mark Whitney to be DOE’s environmental chief in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Bradshaw: ‘Now is not the time to start over’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 racks up P2 Awards – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UT’s Simberloff elected to National Academy – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Jesse Poore, former director of UT-ORNL Science Alliance, dies – Frank Munger
• Bloomberg – Anadarko Fights Ailing Preacher in $25 Billion EPA Toxic Lawsuit – Tiffany Kary
• Energy Collective – Competition heats up for DOE SMR funding – Dan Yurman
• Medical Xpress – Experts write on the risks of low-level radiation
• NRC – NRC Schedules Public Meeting to Discuss Proposed Global Laser Enrichment Facility
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management and Volume Reduction Pages 25760-25761
  
• Canada: Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre – Support for Nuclear Storage – John Divinski
• Canada: Yahoo!7 News – Radioactive waste to be stored at Lucas Heights – Kylie Simmonds
• Oceania: St George and Sutherland Shire Leader – ANSTO nuclear waste decision condemned – Kate Carr
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – No nuclear waste store for Shire, says mayor – Matthew Moore, David Wroe
• Oceania: West Australian – Locals angry over Sydney nuke waste plan – Lema Samandar and Miles Godfrey, AAP
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – In case coolant system stopped in any SFP, Tepco can’t measure temperture – Iori Mochizuki
• South Asia: The Hindu – No deadline for uranium sale to India, says Australia – Sujay Mehdudia
• Europe: BBC News – Seabed particle recovery off Dounreay in Caithness to resume
• Europe: STV.tv – Work resumes to remove nuclear fuel from seabed close to Dounreay
• North Europe: Copenhagen Post – Mayors up in arms over radioactive waste – Peter Stanners

Monday, April 30, 2012

• Seattle Weekly blog – Department of Energy Comes Down Hard on Bechtel and Hanford Cleanup – Joshua Frank
• Tacoma News Tribune – Report: Hanford vessels fail to meet requirements – Shannon Dininny
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: Audit criticizes vit plant tanks, wants money returned – Annette Cary
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – After Chu misspeaks, Y-12 goes mum; what’s the reality about Lake Reality? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Where did Los Alamos scientific staff get their PhDs? Illinois tops the list – Frank Munger
• TriCities – Nuclear Regulatory Commission to hold meeting, discuss NFS
• Reuters – Progress Florida Levy reactors closer to license – Scott DiSavino
• Augusta Chronicle – Senate follows House with more MOX cost questions – Rob Pavey
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Could less be more? – Fissile Materials Working Group
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• DOE:IG – The Department of Energy’s $12.2 Billion Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant – Quality Assurance Issues – Black Cell Vessels, IG-0863
• NRC – NRC to Discuss NFS Performance at Public Meeting in Erwin
• Canada: CNSC – Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission News Update
• Oceania: The Australian – Nuclear waste will be stored in Sydney at Lucas Heights – Imre Salusinszky
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – Areva regains contract for operation of French repository