Sunday, July 08, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Lawmakers prod energy secretary on reactor project – Michelle Dupler
• New London Day – Don’t store N-waste at Millstone forever
• Asia-Pacific: ENENews – Remaining portion of Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 seen from Kyodo helicopter (PHOTOS)
• Europe: BBC News – Nuclear submarine fire figures revealed
• Europe: Daily Telegraph – Nuclear submarines hit by more than 200 fires in the past 25 years
• Europe: Rob Edwards – 30 fires on nuclear submarines in last three years, says MoD – Rob Edwards

Saturday, July 07, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Nevada faces devastating defense cuts, Heck warns – Keith Rogers
• CNET News – How Nevada became America’s nuclear age ground zero – Daniel Terdiman
• CNET News – Boom! Nevada’s nuclear legacy (pictures)
• Tri-City Herald – Sen. Maria Cantwell visits Richland to talk Hanford B Reactor park bill – Michelle Dupler
• Billings Gazette – NRC: Company to take steps after Wyoming yellowcake mishap
• Knoxville News Sentinel – ORNL to load targets July 30 for plutonium work – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nuclear nuns at ORNL: a 1955 thing – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ruling makes it easier for early Oak Ridge workers’ families to collect for exposures – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR gives $250K to support UT faculty – Frank Munger
• Wicked Local Duxbury – The Fukushima Interviews: Part 2: Dry cask move not about safety – Frank Mand
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – [Anon leaks] NRC “SFP4 crisis may happen at US nuclear plants too” – Iori Mochizuki
• South Asia: Punjab Newsline – Uranium contamination in Punjab water 50 % above limit: Ramesh – Sukhpal Kaur
• Europe: Herald Scotland – Dounreay waste to be stored in vaults – David Ross
• Europe: The Scotsman – Quick clean-up of Dounreay set to save taxpayers £1bn – Alistair Munro
• South Africa: IOL – Removal of mine dump halted – Sheree Bega

Friday, July 06, 2012

• Heritage Foundation blog – Hope Is Not Enough: The Path to Waste Confidence – Cornelius Milmoe
• Nevada Appeal – Everything’s on the table? Really? – Chuck Muth
• NEI Nuclear Notes – The States and the Blue Ribbon Commission – Mark Flanaga
• Tri-City Herald – Tank level mystery raises ante for vitrification plant
• Idaho Statesman – Absent partner, Areva could delay Idaho project – John Miller
• KCSG – Southern Utah Memories: The Atomic Test Named Dirty Harry – Loren R. Webb
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 resumes some activities after safety adjustments – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Thomas Zacharia: ‘Spectacular numbers’ out of ORNL’s hybrid test unit for Titan supercomputer – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Thom Mason’s corner office at ORNL – Frank Munger
• New Haven Advocate – Connecticut’s nuclear fuel storage issue heating up fast – Gregory B. Hladky
• Portsmouth Herald News – Plant tax abatement denied – Patrick Cronin
• NRC – NRC Issues Confirmatory Action Letter to Uranium One USA Following Uranium Release Event in Canada
• Canada: Elliot Lake Standard – Worker is fine after exposure to uranium dust – Shannon Quesnel
• South Asia: Indian Express – A first: Uranium traces found in Punjab water – Sukhdeep Kaur

Thursday, July 05, 2012

• New York Times – Editorial: Remember Yucca?
• Chillicothe Gazette – USEC begins hiring under new agreement
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Zacharia: Supercomputers come and go, but ORNL stays No. 1 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Higgs particle – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Summertime in ’59 — the living was easy – Frank Munger
• New Haven Register – Letter: Nuclear waste storage situation not so gloomy – Brian O’Connell
• Newburyport Daily News – Letter: No one wants nuclear waste – Bruce Skud
• DOE – Statement by U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on the Higgs Particle
• Europe: RT – Haz-mat burial: Swiss Alpine radioactive trash dump (PHOTOS)

Wednesday, July 04, 2012

• New London Day – Millstone wants to keep more nuclear waste on-site – Judy Benson
• Nature – Laser plant offers cheap way to make nuclear fuel – Sharon Weinberger
• Oceania: ABC – Muckaty nuclear dump shows Mabo still matters – George Newhouse
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – U.S., French firms vie for N-cleanup work
• Asia-Pacific: Kyodo News – Mayors call on gov’t to stick to nuclear fuel cycle policy
• North Europe: Copenhagen Post – Greenland split over uranium mining – Ray Weaver

Tuesday, July 03, 2012

• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – IG report: high-security nuke shipments likely to increase ‘significantly,’ but armored fleet getting old – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Robert McGreevy returning to ISIS – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Jack Hanley to speak on mercury exposures study – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Thomas Zacharia boldly proclaims ORNL’s place in scientific computing – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Wackenhut gets another ‘good’ rating – Frank Munger
• The State – S.C. landfill won’t accept radioactive N.J. dirt – Randy Burns
• Wilmington Star-News – Safety violations reported at Castle Hayne nuclear facility – Jim Brumm
• Chatham Star Tribune – Regulations offer little comfort on uranium mining – Keith Shelton
• Richmond Times-Dispatch – Whitehead: Uranium regulatory hurdles: Looking isn’t leaping – Katie Whitehead
• Hartford Advocate – How much spent nuclear fuel is there in Connecticut? – Gregory B. Hladky
• Canada: Waterloo Record – Nuclear waste issue divides tourist town – Frances Barrick
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Muckaty traditional owners fight Ferguson’s nuclear dump – Jim Green
• Asia-Pacific: Bellona – Collapse of spent fuel storage pool at Fukushima Daiichi could be worse than initial accident, says new report – Charles Digges
• Asia-Pacific: Denki Shimbun – Survey in progress for removing fuel debris from Fukushima I reactors
• Europe: Academy FM Folkestone – Criticism over nuclear waste proposal by Shepway Council

Monday, July 02, 2012

• EnergyGuardian – Analysis: Macfarlane’s NRC honeymoon to be short as Yucca, San Onofre loom – Edward Felker
• San Diego Reader blog – Scientists Want Dry Storage for Nuclear Waste – Dave Rice
• CultureMob – Interview: ‘Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Shadow of Rocky Flats’ by Kristen Iversen – Ally Harris
• Nuclear Engineering – US plutonium inventory decreases thanks to disposal at WIPP
• Observer&Eccentric – Michigan nuclear waste meeting topic
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A declaration of Independence: no sirens – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA releases final Request for Proposals on protective force security contracts – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Eugene Wigner, Alvin Weinberg and . . . – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – B&W gets $82M in Naval Reactor contracts – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Oak Ridge Mayor’s testimony in D.C. on Manhattan Project park – Tom Beehan
• Chatham Star Tribune – Supervisors to hold forum on uranium
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Residents near nuke site due payments – Mary Ann Thomas
• EIN Presswire – EM Press Release: West Valley Seeks Comment on Draft Waste Evaluation
• Foster’s Daily Democrat – Nuclear waste on the back burner?
• Eagle Tribune – Editorial: Seabrook shows need for nuclear waste solution
• DOE – Obama Administration Announces New Investments to Advance Biofuels Industry and Enhance America’s Energy Security
• DOE – Made Famous By Erin Brockovich: A Potent Pollutant and its Nemesis Bacterium – Charles Rousseaux
• NAS – Project Update: Improving the Assessment of Proliferation Risk of Nuclear Fuel Cycles
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico Page 39234 [FR DOC# 2012-16169]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Nevada Pages 39234-39235 [FR DOC# 2012-16170]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Savannah River Site Page 39235 [FR DOC# 2012-16126]
• East Europe: BBJ – Gov’t considers restarting uranium mining
• South Africa: Times LIVE – High court halts Mogale City toxic soil removal