Sunday, July 01, 2012

• Tacoma News Tribune – Hanford tank work in high gear – Annette Cary
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Pakistan, Indonesia, Kazakhstan among countries at nuke security workshop at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 going gaga over cool roofs – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Lock out/tag out work resumes at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – WSI rated ‘good,’ gets $1.43M for Y-12 work – Frank Munger
• The State – NJ eyes SC site for radioactive dirt – Sammy Fretwell
• Richmond Times-Dispatch – Hinkle: Don’t judge uranium mining in a vacuum – A. Barton Hinkle
• Canada: Waterloo Record – Marchers protest nuclear waste plans

Saturday, June 30, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Ecology releases draft of Hanford waste permit
• Idaho Statesman – Nuke waste to stay in Idaho? – Rocky Barker
• Greenville News – State leaders want Nevada nuclear waste option back on table – Eric Connor
• Portsmouth Herald News – Letter: Spent Seabrook fuel rods need to be stored in casks – Bettina Fest
• Europe: The Independent – Nuclear waste to burn at Sellafield? – Mark Leftly

Friday, June 29, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Report: Nuclear safety chief bullied workers
• City Watch – A Radioactive Conflict of Interest Your Government is Trying to Keep from You – Robert Alvarez
• Energy Collective – Court’s Waste Confidence Ruling – Dan Yurman
• Idaho Statesman – Governors predict Idaho will be forced to keep nuclear waste after 2035 – Rocky Barker
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL preparing for plutonium project; target loading set July 30 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Colorado on fire – Frank Munger
• Newburyport Daily News – Feds need to rethink nuclear waste plans
• Hampton Union – Letter: For safety, nuclear plant must transfer spent fuel – Bettina Fest
• World Nuclear News – Fuel cycle roundup #1
• DOE – Expanded North Carolina Lithium Facility Opens, Boosting U.S. Production of a Key Manufacturing Material
• DOE – A Material Change: Bringing Lithium Production Back to America – Niketa Kumar
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – AEC chairman: major change needed in reprocessing nuclear fuel
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – ‘Sellafield offers us great opportunity’, claims shadow minister Caroline Flint – Alan Irving

Thursday, June 28, 2012

• Open Salon – After years and billions, Yucca Mountain about to close?
• Monroe Evening News – Fermi Fuel Storage Plan Delayed Again – Charles Slat
• Knoxville News Sentinel – ORNL’s new research center boosts battery manufacturing
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Weirdly wonderful: ORNL reactor’s role sometimes veers from the norm – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Kohlhorst: ‘I’m not ready to retire just yet’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – WSI: will work with DOE on TRU decision – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – WSI: will work with DOE on TRU decision – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Duke, ORNL to develop graduate program – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Two Knox small businesses get DOE grants – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Weird&wonderful: ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor sometimes attracts the unusual – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sen. Lamar Alexander’s statement on Manhattan Project National Historical Park – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – UPF: ‘Game changer for Oak Ridge’–Director tells City Council that $6.5 billion project likely largest, last fed investment in city – Beverly Majors
• Vero Beach Press-Journal – Kevin Doyle: Stop housing nuclear waste locally; support congressional plans to send it to consolidated storage areas – Kevin Doyle
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Casey wants nuke cleanup investigated – Mary Ann Thomas
• DOE – Energy Department Develops Tool with Industry to Help Utilities Strengthen Their Cybersecurity Capabilities
• Canada: Waterloo Record – Marchers to protest nuclear waste plans
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Multi-million pound deal to clean up storage pond – Alan Irving
• East Europe: Financial Times blog – Hungary prepares uranium mine – Kester Eddy

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

• Government Accountability Project – Whistleblower Concerns Prompt Hanford Plant Delay: Daily Whistleblower News – Hannah Johnson
• Northwest Public Radio – Hanford Safety Testing Will Cost ‘Tens-Of-Millions’ – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – DOE delays figuring vit plant cost, schedule – Annette Cary
• Washington Post – Energy Department delays new cost, schedule for Hanford plant amid technical problems
• Salt Lake Tribune – Letter: Store nuclear waste here – Bryce Shelley
• Cañon City Daily Record – Cotter Uranium Mill from Vice President of Milling John Hamrick updates group on clean-up – Rachel Alexander
• Los Alamos Daily Post – Celebrating Over 1,000 Shipments to WIPP – Greg Kendall
• Los Alamos Daily Post – Celebrating 1000+ Shipments to WIPP Gallery
• Knoxville News Sentinel – DOE removing guards at nuke waste facility – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Procurement status on UPF – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The Corps of Engineers role in UPF – Frank Munger
• Business Excellence Magazine – Savannah River Remediation–Taming the nuclear dragon – John O’Hanlon
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Monitoring uranium mines presents new issues – Jesse Andrews
• Gloucester Daily Times – Editorial: Nuclear waste on back burner?
• White House – Letter–Russian Highly Enriched Uranium
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation Page 38275 [FR 
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Pages 38275-38276 [FR DOC# 2012-15774]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Idaho National Laboratory Page 38276 [FR 
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Meeting Page 38277 [FR DOC# 2012
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Wind and Water Power Program Pages 38277-38278 [FR DOC# 2012-15772]
• Oceania: New Zealand Herald – Uranium weapons deal rejected after one MP down – Kate Shuttleworth
• Oceania: Scoop – Parliament Tied Over Depleted Uranium Ban
• Asia-Pacific: Radio Australia – Spent fuel pool in Japan’s Fukushima could spark nuclear fire
• Europe: IBTimes – Green Rust Could be Used to Remove Toxic and Radioactive Elements
• Europe: Power Engineering – Candu Energy, UK officials team to use MOX nuclear fuel
• Central Africa: UPI – Violent clash reported at uranium plant

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

• KNDO/KNDU – Hanford plant sees new costs & delays
• OPB News – Hanford Safety Testing Will Cost ‘Tens-Of-Millions’ – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – Waste level rising in 52 Hanford tanks – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford board seeks Grant County member
• Tri-City Herald – Power restored to vit plant after storm
• Denver Westword blog – Rocky Flats property owners won’t get their $924 million, Supreme Court says – Patricia Calhoun
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – Dept. of Energy considers WIPP, Eddy County for mercury storage
• KUNM – Industry plans for uranium deconversion plant near Hobbs – Laura Paskus
• KUNM – DOE proposes storing tons of mercury near WIPP site – Megan Kamerick
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Guard contract negotiations in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE removing security guards at TRU waste plant; says it will save $500K annually – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 Historian Ray Smith to testify on proposed Manhattan Project National Historical Park – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nuclear physics in the USA: What’s the outlook, what are the priorities? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Cost breakdown for UPF’s four phases – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Spring cleanup at X-10, 1949 – Frank Munger
• Aiken Standard – DOE talks with SRS on waste storage, disposal – Anna Dolianitis
• Smith Mountain Eagle – Uranium Working Group meets – Tim Davis
• Portsmouth Herald News – Huge shipment for nuclear plant – Nancy Rineman
• Portsmouth Herald News – Editorial: Nuke plant’s safety woes shake our confidence
• DOE – Lab Breakthrough: Fusion Research Leads to Antiterrorism Device – Michael Hess
• DOE – Sequoia Ranked as Fastest Supercomputer in the World – Michael Hess
• Canada: Toronto Star – U.S. residents protest Bruce nuclear waste proposal – John Spears

Monday, June 25, 2012

• Reno Gazette-Journal – Letter: With Yucca, Nevada gets other states’ trash – Art O’Connor
• Electric Co-op Today – Court: Nuclear Waste Fee Review Due – Todd H. Cunningham
• Union Democrat – Uranium pit mine cleanup resumes
• KEPR 19 – 100 losing jobs as Hanford business closing – Tyler Slauson
• Tri-City Herald – Power outage cancels work at Hanford vit plant today
• Tri-City Herald – Power outage may delay or cancel work at vit plant Monday
• Tri-City Herald – Highly radioactive underwater capsules at Hanford are moved – Annette Cary
• Bloomberg – Rocky Flats Suit Back to Square One in 22-Year Dispute – Bob Drummond
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – HFIR update – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Getting a charge out of battery R&D – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – As the deadline nears for ORNL retirees . . . – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nuclear war ranks No. 2 on Doomsday Dashboard – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Tom Wantland promoted to ES&H director at ORAU – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Dreaded emerald ash borer arrives on government’s Oak Ridge reservation – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 providing 3.7 metric tons of uranium per year for the U.S. Nuclear Navy – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE hooks up with National Parks – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – GAO: Isotope program needs help – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge mayor invited to testify before Senate panel on proposed Manhattan Project Natl Park – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS awaits Energy Department nuclear waste strategy – Rob Pavey
• Anderson Independent Mail – SRS shipping plutonium from S.C. to New Mexico
• Danville Register & Bee – Letter: State can’t afford uranium mining – Jesse Andrews
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Stability sought in nuke dump cleanup – Mary Ann Thomas
• New Haven Register – Editorial: Dilemma remains on fuel rod storage
• Phys.Org – Nuclear fuel recycling could offer plentiful energy (w/ Video)
• GAO – DOE’s Isotope Program Needs Better Planning for Setting Prices and Managing Production Risks, GAO-12-591, May 23, 2012
• Oceania: Brisbane Times – Nuclear dump court battle begins – Farah Farouque
• Oceania: SBS – Muckaty nuclear waste case adjourned
• Europe: ITV News – Nuclear storage in west Cumbria, final report drafted
• Europe: ITV News – Does nuclear waste have a a future in west Cumbria?
• Central Africa: Radio Netherlands – Central Africa gunmen ‘attack French uranium plant’