Sunday, June 03, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Sick former Area 51 worker writes Obama – Keith Rogers
• Tri-Valley CAREs – Your Chance to Get Inside the Fence with Tri-Valley CAREs at the Lab’s Site 300 High Explosives Testing Range – Marylia Kelley
• Idaho Statesman – Our View: Once again, Idaho is forced to just say no on nuclear waste
• Courthouse News Service – Activists Claim Texas Dump Too Soggy to Take Radioactive Waste – Erin McAuley
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s old poles get new life – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – JFK’s 1959 visit to ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Moving beyond Jaguar at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Greenville News – Political failure burdens region with nuclear waste – Eric Connor
• Oceania: Melbourne Indymedia – Muckaty nuclear waste dump update
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Japan’s plutonium plans stir up alarm

Saturday, June 02, 2012

• NewsMax – Congress Rips Obama Plan to Shut Nev. Nuclear Waste Site
• OPB News – Judge Drops Dept. of Energy From Hanford Whistleblower Case – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – Judge rules Hanford whistleblower can’t have a jury trial – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Bechtel faces $150,000 fine after Hanford worker loses toes – Annette Cary
• DeSoto Appeal – Radiation experts give all-clear to lab after blaze – Christopher Whitten
• FireEngineering – Laboratory burns; Site contains radioactive materials
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12/Pantex security bidders have questions – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – USEC gets $6M okie-dokie – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE’s next big prize – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Neutron-seeking bear trapped at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Kakadu victory as uranium mining battle ends – Emma Masters
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – TEPCO admits over half of Unit 2 thermometers faulty – Hosono postpones visit to push Ohi restart – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Radioactive particles circulate the world taking 40 days – Iori Mochizuki

Friday, June 01, 2012

• FoxReno – Yucca Mountain once again looked at to store nuclear waste
• The BLT – Judge Losing Patience with Government on Nuclear Waste Fees – Jenna Greene
• Bloomberg – U.S. Given Six Months to Justify Nuclear-Waste Fees – Tom Schoenberg and Jim Snyder
• E&E Daily – Court orders DOE to get its head out of the sand on waste fees – Lawrence Hurley and Hannah Northey
• The Hill – House members slam Obama on closing Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site – Pete Kasperowicz
• Huffington Post – Appeals court hits DOE over nuclear waste fee – Matthew Daly
• NEI – Court of Appeals Rebukes DOE on Nuclear Waste Fund Fee
• Power Engineering – Court rules on Nuclear Waste Fund payments
• KEPR 19 – DOE proposes $150,000 fine against Bechtel
• Tri-City Herald – DOE dismissed from Hanford whistleblower lawsuit – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Bechtel faces fine for safety incidents at Hanford vit plant – Annette Cary
• The Southern – Union claims Honeywell cutting corners on safety – Caleb Hale
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 suspends some work because of safety concerns – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA supports Y-12 suspension of activities – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR awards 24 mini-grants to local schools – Frank Munger
• Maine Public Broadcasting Network – Appeals Court Sides with Maine Yankee in Nuclear Waste Disposal Dispute – Tom Porter
• NEI – Nuclear Industry Encouraged by EPA Cooling Water Intake Proposal
• Phys.Org – Depleted uranium: could this reduce our dependency on crude oil? – Lindsay Brooke
• DOE – Working With Tribal Nations – A Geographic, Legal, and Economic Imperative – Dot Harris
• Canada: Hamilton Spectator – Burying nuclear waste in ‘god’s country’ – Wayne MacDonald
• Asia-Pacific: SFGate – Japan making more plutonium despite huge stockpile – Eric Talmadge and Mari Yamaguchi
• Asia-Pacific: Washington Post – Japan’s plutonium glut: Plan to make more raises red flag as country reassesses nuclear future

Thursday, May 31, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – New federal grant bolsters UNLV research on nuclear waste storage – Conor Shine
• Livermore.Patch – It’s Official – Livermorium, Flerovium on Periodic Table of Elements
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford vit plant receives new trolley
• New Mexico Business Weekly – Uranium deconversion plant passes NRC review – Kevin Robinson-Avila
• Chillicothe Gazette – USEC in last-minute talks to extend creditors’ deadline – Chris Balusik
• Clean Energy blog – The Political Hypocrisy of Uranium Enrichment – Sara Barczak
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – USEC faces another deadline; seeks short-term credit extension to continue work – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 suspends lock out/tag out activities following series of incidents and continuing safety concerns – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Revisiting Rickover – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ATSDR issues final Y-12 mercury report, the last of its Oak Ridge public health assessments – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – State monitors stored radioactive scrap material in Oak Ridge
• WATE News – State monitors 1 million pounds of scrap radioactive material
• CBS News – Virginia Beach final stop for NAS uranium report
• The Examiner – McDonnell’s uranium mining study a subversion of the democratic process in VA – Daniel Carawan
• NowPublic – Dumping Radioactive Waste at Sea – proves how stupid humans are
• DOE – Department of Energy Cites Bechtel National, Inc. for Worker Safety and Health Violations
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Safety Evaluation Reports; Fluorine Extraction Process and Depleted Uranium Deconversion Plan: Safety Evaluation Report, International Isotopes Fluorine Products, Inc., Fluorine Extraction Process and Depleted Uranium Deconversion Plan, Lea County, NM Page 32146 [FR DOC# 2012-13183]
• Canada: CBC News – Uranium decision could cost Saskatchewan millions
• Oceania: ABC – Work resumes on contaminated Pacific Highway site
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Back ground:Incineration of Radioactive and Mixed Waste – Iori Mochizuki
• Europe: The Economist – Nuclear waste: Researchers are devising new ways to deal with the byproducts of nuclear power. But it is not just a technological problem
• Europe: this is Somerset – Letter: Waste issue – Tim Woolmington

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

• Legal Documents
• CADC – 2012 05 02 Transcript – Oral Argument Court of Appeals Mandamus (pdf-204K)
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Politics could slow Y-12/Pantex contract
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE board to hear Y-12 cleanup update – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – New research instrument at SNS – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL halfway on retiree signups – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – B&W, the omission – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 guards have these weapons – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More Q&A on security contracts – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s 4-part documentary now online – Frank Munger
• DOE – #LabChat: Market Potential of Energy Efficient Technology, May 31 at 2 pm EDT – Michael Hess
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Paducah Pages 31837-31838 [FR DOC# 2012-13067]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Wind and Water Power Program Pages 31839-31840 [FR DOC# 2012-13102]
• Environmental Protection Agency – NOTICES Meetings: Notification of a Public Meeting and Public Teleconference of the Science Advisory Board (SAB); Perchlorate Advisory Panel Pages 31847-31848 [FR DOC# 2012-13073]
• Canada: Great Lakes Echo – Canadians consider nuclear waste storage near Lake Huron – Andrew Atwal
• Oceania: ABC – Green light for yellowcake still some time off – Tara De Landgrafft
• East Asia: Korea Times – ‘Radioactive materials removed in Gori without safety measures’ – Yi Whan-woo
• Central Asia: Enformable – Kazakhstan to work towards launch of international fuel bank in 2013 at Ulba Metallurgic plant – Lucas W Hixson
• Europe: New Scientist – Nuclear transmutation is a cool idea for a hot problem

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

• Idaho Statesman – Rocky Barker: Flap clarifies Idaho’s nuclear waste stand
• Denver Post – Guest Commentary: End the uranium industry’s free ride with regulators – Hilary White and Sharyn Cunninghamdenverpost.com
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What do the B61, B53 and B83 nuclear bombs have in common? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nature walks in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – K-25 demolition – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 18 layoffs at UCOR – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Senate Armed Services markup & DOE – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The prophet of Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Dismantling nuclear bomb parts reportedly getting better all the time: B83&B53 ongoing at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA plans to award Y-12/Pantex M&O and security services contracts at the same time; September at the earliest – Frank Munger
• GAO – Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Natural Hazard Assessments Could Be More Risk-Informed, GAO-12-465, Apr 26, 2012
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Nature:The total amounts of radioactively contaminated materials in forests in Fukushima, Japan – Iori Mochizuki

Monday, May 28, 2012

• Business Week – Bankrupt Nuclear Waste Firm Impact Services Gets Deadline – Phil Milford
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Two Knoxville firms get clean energy grants – Ed Marcum
• Oceania: West Australian – Activists advised on uranium site
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan News – Nuclear waste dump site on isolated island ‘impossible’: councilor
• Middle East: Bloomberg – Israel Daybook: Iran Increased Output of Enriched Uranium – David Wainer