Sunday, June 24, 2012

• Stockton Record – Former mine site cleanup to resume
• Tri-Valley CAREs – Livermore Lab’s Pipeline Extension Project Begins Without Radiation Detectors: Tri-Valley CAREs Responds with Community-based Monitoring and Reporting – Marylia Kelley
• Tacoma News Tribune – Highly radioactive underwater capsules at Hanford are moved – Annette Cary
• Denver Post – Colorado, EPA, Cotter call timeout over uranium mill cleanup – Bruce Finley
• Columbia Daily Tribune – Nuke license–Callaway project slow to hatch – Henry J. Waters III
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Atomic Heritage Foundation hails bipartisan support for Manhattan Project National Historical Park – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – When the Federal Building was brand new – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE’s mini-movement to ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Good news for Oak Ridge’s historic Jackson Square, but . . . – Frank Munger
• Danville Register&Bee – Pittsylvania board seeks public input on uranium mining – John Crane
• WSLS – Pittsylvania board seeks public input on uranium mining – John Crane
• Canada: Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre – Council supports Deep Geologic Repository in Kincardine – John Divinski
• Oceania: TVNZ – Kiwi soldiers tested for uranium poisoning

Saturday, June 23, 2012

• ENENews – RAND Sr. Scientist: Fukushima spent fuel might have been damaged (VIDEO) – Tom LaTourrette
• Huffington Post – Wasting Time With Nuclear Waste – Elliott Negin
• Law360 – Yucca Mountain Funding Is Tapped Out, DOJ Tells DC Circ. – Jeff Overley
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Cold War-era security guards amend appeal – Keith Rogers
• The Oregonian – ‘Full Body Burden’ review: Story of nuclear weapons plant astounds and horrifies – Cynthia Kirk
• NY Newsday – Editorial: The nuclear-waste hot potato
• Wicked Local Plymouth – The Fukushima Interviews: Part 2: Dry cask move not about safety – Frank Mand
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear fuel cycle essential to national energy strategy
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Policy of recycling all spent nuclear fuel may be axed

Friday, June 22, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Southbound lanes on I-15 reopened after accident, authorities report – Conor Shine
• Pahrump Valley Times – Money spigot still wide open for Yucca consultants – Mark Waite
• Pahrump Valley Times – Local crowd views exhibits on radioactive waste disposal – Mark Waite
• NEI Nuclear Notes – The U.S. Energy Department Should Consider Washington State for Small Reactors, Lawmakers Say
• Tri-City Herald – DOE releases new video looking at cleanup along the Columbia River
• Tri-City Herald – Hastings introduces Hanford B Reactor park bill – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Parsons to close Pasco shop, lay off 103 workers – Annette Cary and Michelle Dupler
• The Chattanoogan – “The 2 Daves” Present Views At UTC On June 28
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – John Eschenberg at ETEBA – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Dreaded emerald ash borer arrives on DOE’s Oak Ridge reservation – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Air samples indicate no asbestos exposure at Oak Ridge Federal Buidling; GSA plans to remove old insulation –
• Knoxville News Sentinel – DOE offers $17.57 M plan to offset loss of historic K-25 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s Zacharia on Michael Strayer: ‘It’s a human tragedy’; others express sadness at ex-DOE official’s death –
• Oak Ridge Today – NNSA sites, Y-12 earn dozen research, development awards – John Huotari
• Portsmouth Herald News – Nuke plant relicensing foes challenge NRC – Shir Haberman
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Stuxnet and the Bomb – Kennette Benedict
• DOE – Top Things You Didn’t Know About Solar Energy – Erin R. Pierce
• Canada: Bullet News Huron – Central Huron delegation tours spent nuclear fuel storage site
• Canada: CBC News – Nuclear watchdog unable to closely monitor Point Lepreau
• Canada: Meadow Lake Progress – Northern community divided over nuclear waste question – Richard McGuire
• Canada: Meadow Lake Progress – Nuclear infrastructure project could be worth $24 billion – Richard McGuire
• Asia-Pacific: World Nuclear News – Further protection for Fukushima fuel pool
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Delayed N-fuel recycling leads to policy change
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Policy of recycling all spent nuclear fuel may be axed
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – First nuclear fuel removed from old store ponds at Sellafield – Jenny Barwise

Thursday, June 21, 2012

• Christian Science Monitor – Nuclear waste: why environmentalists are pressing NRC on reactor licenses – Mark Clayton
• KPLU News – Washington’s poet laureate reflects on growing up near Hanford in new book – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – National park bill for Hanford’s B Reactor introduced in House – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Lawmakers push for small modular nuclear reactors in Tri-Cities – Annette Cary
• EIN Presswire – EM Press Release: Idaho waste treatment facility startup testing suspended to evaluate system response
• KRQE News 13 – LANL to let go of 80 contract workers
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 11 layoff notices at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORAU awards 5 Pollard Scholarships – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What’s up with DOE, barbecue and safety? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Prepping Gaea for its research potential – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – An interesting place to find Chicago Pile-1 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – SNS running out of space – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Moving equipment out of the Federal Building – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – D’Agostino, Gottemoeller, Creedon to testify before Senate Foreign Relations on New START, etc. – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL wins 9 R&D 100 Awards – Frank Munger
• Aiken Leader – MOX Completes Construction on Energy-Efficient Technical Support Building
• Portsmouth Herald News – Nuclear plant relicensing opponents challenge NRC – Shir Haberman
• DOE – United States, Canada Announce Next Phase of U.S.-Canada Clean Energy Dialogue
• DOE – Beyond Solyndra: How the Energy Department’s Loans are Accelerating America’s Transition to a Clean Energy Future – Dan Leistikow
• DOE – U.S. Department of Energy Projects Win 36 R&D 100 Awards for 2012
• NWTRB – NWTRB Calendar
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Portsmouth Page 37390 [FR DOC#
  
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg Businessweek – Japan to make more plutonium despite big stockpile – Eric Talmadgemari
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Japan speeds up spent fuel removal plans from Fukushima Reactor 4
• Europe: Whitehaven News – N-waste opinion poll criticised – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Moorside work unlocks N-site – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Poll reveals support for waste repository plans
• North Europe: Bellona – Norwegian parlimentarians say dialogue over stopping Russian pollution must become demands – Ruth Lothe

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

• Institute for Energy Research – Yucca Mountain: The Safe Future for Nuclear Energy – Nuclear
• OpEdNews – Wake Up and Smell the Radioactive Waste – Abby Luby
• Crosscut Seattle – Is Hanford stuck with the hot waste? – Daniel Jack Chasan
• Spokesman-Review – More ill Hanford workers could get compensation
• Tri-City Herald – Modular reactor concept perfect for Hanford site
• Tri-City Herald – More ill Hanford, PNNL workers may be paid – Annette Cary
• Idaho Statesman Blogs – Crapo: Feds must honor commitments to remove nuke waste from Idaho – Kevin Richert
• Denver Post – Colorado regulators promise do over hearing for new uranium mill – Bruce Finley
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Feds beat the rush, combine oversight for Y-12 and Pantex
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – EnergySolutions: German waste still coming to Oak Ridge for incineration, volume reduction – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE issues final Memorandum for K-25 historical plan; wants signatures by July 13 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Rory Rauch to join DNFSB staff at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Energy, Commerce Depts. to support 3 ‘Centers for Building Operations Excellence’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The Way We Were, Vol. 89, Issue 103 – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – DOE drafts $17.5M plan to preserve K-25 history – John Huotari
• WBIR-TV – Agreement for future of K-25 site on the table
• Greenville News – Solution to nuclear waste remains in limbo – Eric Connor
• Homeland Security Newswire – Nuclear waste repositories in suburbia?
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Poll reveals support for waste repository plans

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

• Business Insider – A Federal Court May Have Finally Ended The Nuclear Waste Storage Fight – Rob Wile
• St. George Daily Spectrum – Radiation exposure screening is available – Kristy Ann Pike
• Cañon City Daily Record – Editorial: Moving forward on Colorado uranium mill
• Denver Westword blog – Rocky Flats Cold War Museum heats up with open hours — and glowing souvenirs! – Patricia Calhoun
• Knoxville News Sentinel – NRC won’t penalize TVA over falsified Watts Bar records – Ed Marcum
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Feds ramp up, celebrate Y-12/Pantex oversight office; it’s kind of a virtual thing – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Michael Strayer’s death ruled suicide – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – New federal office oversees Y-12, Pantex work – Dawn Huotari
• Virginian-Pilot – Uranium mining panel in Chatham draws criticism – Steve Szkotak
• Huffington Post – Has The Energy Department Gone Completely Off The Rails? – Raymond J. Learsy
• PR Newswire – NRC Petitioned To Stop Final Licensing Decisions For Nearly Three Dozen Nuclear Reactors In Wake of Waste Confidence Ruling
• Energy Department – NOTICES Sunshine Act Meeting Pages 36530-36531 [FR DOC# 2012-15040]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Amended Notice of Intent Modifying the Scope of the Environmental Impact Statement for the Hydrogen Energy California’s Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Project, Kern County, CA 
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Bid to vitrify liquid radioactive waste resumes at Rokkasho
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Experts at secret meeting decided to cover up scenario for dealing with spent nuclear fuel
• Europe: Herald Scotland – Radioactive national treasure escapes Glasgow University ‘vandals’
• North Europe: Eureka! Science News – Where to put nuclear waste?

Monday, June 18, 2012

• Forbes – Radioactive Power Politics: New Court Decision Lays Waste To U.S. Nuclear Power Development – Larry Bell
• Dallas Morning News – NRC Petitioned To Stop Final Licensing Decisions For Nearly Three Dozen Nuclear Reactors In Wake Of Waste Confidence Ruling
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE looks for temporary office space while addressing asbestos at Federal Building – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Livermore’s IBM ‘Sequoia’ tops supercomputer list; Jaguar now No. 6 in the world – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Cray to upgrade Defense Dept. supercomputers – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE/NNSA Small Biz Summit July 9-11 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Northwestern wins energy-biz competition; followed by Utah, Central Florida, MIT, Stanford and Columbia
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Plutonium waste shipments from Savannah River to WIPP to begin before month’s end – Frank Munger
• Danville Register&Bee – Uranium debate still fierce – Rex Springston
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Uranium mining opponents object to cost of state study – Rex Springston
• Richmond Times-Dispatch – Uranium debate still fierce – Rex Springston
• Roanoke Times – Uranium mining panel meeting in Pittsylvania County tonight
• Clean Energy News – NRC Petitioned to Halt Decisions Post-Waste Ruling – Ailis Aaron Wolf
• DOE – United States Regains Lead with World’s Fastest Supercomputer
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: International Energy Agency Meetings Pages 36271-36272 [FR DOC# 2012-14765]
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Test Spent N-Fuel Reprocessing Resumes at Rokkasho Village
• Southeast Asia: Malaysian Star – Ongkili: ARE site in Perak to be monitored for 300 years
• Russia: Power Engineering – Russia’s nuclear sector in precarious state – Diarmaid Williams