Sunday, June 17, 2012

• Nevada Appeal – No one can force Nevadans to take toxic waste – Guy W. Farmer
• The Oregonian – Shut down the Northwest’s only nuclear power plant – John Howieson
• Twin Falls Times-News – Reader Comment: INL Neighbors Do Not Fear Nuclear Energy – Jared Fuhriman, Mayor
• Columbia Daily Tribune – Nuclear project a ‘game changer’ – Bob Roper
• HuntingtonNews – Mysterious Michigan/Indiana Radiation Suge
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Frozen mice: 40 years later, Peter Mazur’s remarkable achievement seems all the more remarkable – Frank
• News&Observer – Edwin R. Budd: Too much danger
• Danville Register&Bee – All the credible science says, ‘Keep the ban’ – Robert G. Burnley
• Martinsville Bulletin – Uranium panel to meet in Chatham
• Roanoke Times – An answer for Virginia’s nuclear waste – Jane Van Ryan
• Roanoke Times blog – An answer for Virginia’s nuclear waste – Jane Van Ryan
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Casey joins chorus of concern in nuke cleanup – Mary Ann Thomas
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Corps of Engineers ponders next step at nuke dump – Mary Ann Thomas
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Homeland Security guards nuke dump site – Mary Ann Thomas
• Gloucester County Times – Editorial: Feds must place this nuclear plant waste
• Gloucester County Times – Letter: Get rolling on nuclear waste plant storage site – Jim Sherman
• Washington Post – Letter: Finding a home for nuclear waste – David Wright

Saturday, June 16, 2012

• Northwest Public Radio – Energy Secretary Might Get Hands-On With Hanford Plant – Asahi Shimbun
• Spokesman-Review – Past nuclear sites could become parks – Richard Simon
• Tri-City Herald – With vit plant safety, Chu could get personal – Annette Cary
• Beyond Nuclear – Under the ‘nuclear shadow’ of Colorado’s Rocky Flats
• Los Angeles Times – Manhattan Project sites expected to become new national park – Richard Simon
• Wyoming Public Media – Wyoming Cleans Up After Uranium Boom Years – Rebecca Martinez
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Asbestos concern shuts down Federal Building while testing continues; employee meeting Monday – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Donating security: it’s an Oak Ridge thing – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Rad detection at Latvia’s capital – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Military addition at Pro2Serve – Frank Munger
• Aiken Standard – Last salt tank arrives at SRS; facility construction can proceed – Anna Dolianitis
• Danville Register&Bee – Va. uranium panel heading to mining ground zero in Chatham
• Europe: this is Nottingham – Radioactive waste under ex-RAF base where Notts homes could go up

Friday, June 15, 2012

• Daily Astorian – Editor’s Notebook: Hanford is a trip to midcentury craftsmanship – Matt Winters
• KNDO/KNDU – B-Reactor close to becoming National Historic Park – Bryant Maddrick
• OPB News – Energy Secretary Might Get Hands-On With Hanford Plant – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – Energy Secretary Steven Chu talks to Hanford workers – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Reactor’s license extension renews state’s focus on energy – Patrick Moore and Don Brunell
• Tri-City Herald – DOE approves of Bechtel safety culture improvement path – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford B Reactor park bill in Senate – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford’s N Reactor sealed – Annette Cary
• Salt Lake Tribune – Pyle: What EnergySolutions is for – George Pyle
• Denver Post – Colorado judge pulls materials license for planned uranium mill – Bruce Finley
• Kristen Iversen – What Really Happened at Rocky Flats? – Kristen Iversen
• Montrose Daily Press – Court overturns Piñon Ridge mill license – Dick Kamp
• Our Colorado News – Tour reveals a land in transition – Glenn Wallace
• Infowars – Breaking: Massive Nuclear Secret Uncovered In Austin, Texas
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sen. Alexander co-sponsors legislation for Manhattan Project National Park – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Evaluating risks of extending the life of Beta-2E and 9215 uranium facilities at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Rad exposures in Tank W-1A project – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Protective Force RFP within 3 weeks – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Y-12 Work for Others — a historical perspective, part 1 – D. Ray Smith
• Augusta Chronicle – Final tanks for radioactive waste installed at Savannah River Site
• NEI Nuclear Notes – Productively Discussing Used Nuclear Fuel

Thursday, June 14, 2012

• Nevada Appeal – If not the trench, then the mountain – Bob Thomas
• Reno Gazette-Journal – Nicholas Tsoulfanidis: Project a model for repository
• The Verge – Wasteland: the 50-year battle to entomb our toxic nuclear remains – Matt Stroudon
• The Verge – Wasteland: The nuclear graveyard under New Mexico
• Daily Herald – Hanford workers mothball sixth nuclear reactor – Shannon Dininny
• KNDO/KNDU – Hanford’s N Reactor cocooned, no butterfly here though – Claire Graham
• Tri-City Herald – Senate bill to make B Reactor a national park to be introduced today – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Officials celebrate N Reactor cocooning
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford contractor wins DOE mentor award – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – N Reactor’s status to be announced Thursday
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford Employee Concerns Programs changing – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Ground water treatment resin at Hanford saves taxpayers money – Annette Cary
• Denver Business Journal – Judge sets aside Pinon Ridge uranium mill permit – Neil Westergaard
• Montrose Daily Press – Court invalidates uranium mill license
• Business Insider – The US Will Spend Millions Bailing Out A Failed Uranium Enrichment Company It Created In The 90s – Rob Wile
• Democratic Underground – If nuclear fuel is so cheap, why do we need to subsidize a failing enrichment company?
• Chillicothe Gazette – $280 million on its way to Piketon Centrifuge project – Gregory Korte
• Chillicothe Gazette – Real effect of Centrifuge news might be psychological for area
• Chillicothe Gazette – USEC news is good, but a lot more work is ahead
• World Nuclear News – Turning point for American Centrifuge
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Will DOE changes ease anxiety? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – USEC/DOE agreements may solidify Oak Ridge role – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More Q&A’s on Y-12/Pantex security contract, including info on collective bargaining agreements – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE takes ownership of centrifuge equipment as part of deal with USEC – Frank Munger
• Aiken Leader – Shaw AREVA MOX Services Achieves 10 Million Safe Work Hours Without a Lost Workday
• Essential Public Radio – Comments Accepted on Halted Nuclear Waste Cleanup Project
• Cherry Hill Courier Post – Permanent grave for nuclear waste needed
• Greenpeace International – Toxic Assets – Nuclear Reactors in the 21st Century
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – Punjab yet to give proposal on uranium menace: Ramesh
• Europe: this is Kent – Confusion amid split opinion on Romney Marsh nuclear waste plan

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

• Pahrump Valley Times – House passes Yucca Mountain funding – Steve Tetreault
• Courthouse News Service – Nuclear Waste Storage Rules Need Some Work – Travis Sanford
• Washington Post – Editorial: Nuclear waste need not be a radioactive debate
• Power Engineering – Questions on SONGS, storage of spent nuclear fuel fly at NRC confirmation hearing – Brian Wheeler and Sharryn Dotson
• Daily Astorian – Of Cabbages and Kings: Hanford boggles the mind
• WFSU – Under The ‘Nuclear Shadow’ of Colorado’s Rocky Flats
• Washington Post blog – What New Mexico can teach us about storing nuclear waste – Posted by Brad Plumer
• Chillicothe Gazette – Congressmen call for investigation of DOE’s support for Centrifuge – Chris Balusik
• Congressmen Edward J. Markey (D-MA) – Markey, Burgess Call For GAO Investigation of DOE Support for Near-Bankrupt USEC – .
• WKSU News – Ohio’s senators laud federal investment in research at Piketon–Project promises 1,000 jobs in southern Ohio – Simon Husted
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Having a state park all to yourself – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE antes up $54M for cost-sharing projects to boost efficiencies on U.S. manufacturing; ORNL partners with Dow – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – U.S. Reps. Markey, Burgess calls for GAO investigation of DOE’s support of USEC – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS waste plutonium to be sent to New Mexico – Rob Pavey
• Virginian-Pilot – Virginia Beach still opposed to uranium mining – Aaron Applegate
• New London Day – Letter: Keep up pressure on nuclear waste issue – John A. Alexander
• WBUR – Ruling Could Help Break The Nuclear-Waste Logjam – Christopher Joyce
• Wicked Local Plymouth – The Fukushima Interviews: Part 1: Dry cask questions – Frank Mand
• Yes Vermont Yankee – The Court Decision on Spent Fuel and Vermont Yankee
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear fuel cycles: to close or not to close? – Jason Deign
• WOUB – USEC Inks Agreement With Dept. Of Energy – Bethany Venable
• DOE:Hanford – Hanford Blog Archive
• DOE – Obama Administration Announces Major Step Forward for the American Centrifuge Plant
• DOE – Wall-E Is So Jealous Right Now: SRR Robots Help Clean Up SRS – Mekell Mikell
• NRC– NOTICES Alternative Uranium Milling Standards: Final Alternative Soils Standards for the Uravan, CO, Uranium Mill
• Europe: Reuters – Feature-Europe makes big bets on nuclear waste burial – Terhi Kinnunen and Muriel Boselli
• North Europe: PRNewswire – International Review – a Milestone in the Nuclear Waste Issue

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Editorial: Nuclear waste
• Environment News Service – Court: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Must Assess Spent Fuel Storage Dangers
• LexisNexis – Feinstein: Court Ruling Reinforces Need for Action on Nuclear Waste Policy – Sen. Dianne Feinstein
• Tri-City Herald – DOE to announce Hanford’s N Reactor cocooned as cleanup chief Huizenga visits – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford Advisory Board questions cleanup technology – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – 58 Hanford workers laid off at CH2M Hill – Annette Cary
• Idaho Statesman – Idaho Falls mayor: ‘What is wrong’ with revisiting INL nuclear shipment agreement? – Kevin Richert
• Emery County Progress – Matheson fights to keep tailings clean-up funded
• Salt Lake Tribune – EnergySolutions shake-up brings new boss, new questions – Judy Fahys
• KUHF-FM – Under The ‘Nuclear Shadow’ Of Colorado’s Rocky Flats – Kristen Iversen
• Knoxville News Sentinel – ORNL’s Jaguar being phased out, but Titan could be No. 1 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Chu’s ‘Improving Mission Execution’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Will EnergySolutions troubles affect U-233? – Frank Munger
• Aiken Leader – SRNS Uses Innovative Technology to “Steam Clean” at SRS
• West Hartford News – Spent nuclear fuel storage decision praised? – Luther Turmelle
• Greenpeace International – Nuclear plants are toxic assets with no warning labels – Gyorgy Dallos
• IEER – IEER on “Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations near Nuclear Facilities, Phase I” – Arjun Makhijani
• Canada: World Nuclear News – Areva completes sale of Millennium stake
• Europe: Bourne Local – More radiation discovered on beach
• Europe: Enformable – Local residents most affected by open pools of radioactive materials at Sellafield complex – Lucas W Hixson
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Sellafield staff disappointed by plans for plant

Monday, June 11, 2012

• National Journal – Confronting America’s Nuclear-Waste Dilemma – Amy Harder
• New York Times – N.R.C. Nomination Shines Spotlight on Waste-Disposal Issue – Matthew L. Wald
• Nuclear Street – Court Issues NRC Another Rebuke on Spent Fuel Policies
• Knoxville News Sentinel – ORNL cooperated on federal probe that led to DOE official’s indictment; case has many Oak Ridge ties – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – EnergySolutions stock drop – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Chu implements Oak Ridge restructuring; eliminates layer of management – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Was PNNL a hero in Michael Strayer case? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Top-level shakeup at EnergySolutions; attempt to ‘increase stockholder value’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Occupational medical pact at Hanford – Frank Munger
• WAVY-TV – Uranium mining take aim at Va. panel
• CBS News – EnergySolutions names new CEO, CFO; cuts outlook
• NEI Nuclear Notes – NEI’s Marv Fertel on Where the Industry Stands on Used Nuclear Fuel
• World Nuclear News – Court rejects NRC used fuel ruling
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – RULES Advance Notification to Native American Tribes of Transportation of Certain Types of Nuclear Waste
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Canada: CTV – Alberta researchers claim isotope breakthrough
• Asia: World Nuclear News – Ribbon cut on zirconium sponge plant
• Southeast Asia: Malaysiakini – Lynas thorium waste : A real health threat – SM Mohd Idris
• South Asia: Rediff – Explained: Why Indo-US nuclear deal is in COLD STORAGE – Aziz Haniffa
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Radioactive mosquitoes blamed for contaminated bird droppings at Sellafield nuclear site – Victoria Brenan