Sunday, July 15, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Hanford Reach’s future is now – Annette Cary
• Denver Post – Memoir describes growing up next to Rocky Flats – Kristen Iversendenverpost.com
• Summit County Citizens Voice – Colorado: Court upholds rules that protect water from uranium mining and protect right to public involvement
• La Crosse Tribune – A nuclear option: After 25 years, Genoa reactor’s waste gets new home – Chris Hubbuch
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Al Brooks, 1921-2012 – Frank Munger
• Aiken Leader blog – Troubled Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Program at Savannah River Site Draws Concern at Crosby, Stills&Nash Concert – Thomas Clements
• Roanoke Times – Metro columnist Dan Casey: Uranium session slated at Virginia Western Community College – Dan Casey
• Pottstown Mercury – Group seeks to have spent fuel a factor in re-licensing Limerick plant – Evan Brandt
• Pottstown Mercury – No excuse for NRC to ignore spent fuel rods in re-licensing nuke plants
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – No schedule in place to resume waste removal – Mary Ann Thomas
• CNN – Hypocrisy Reigns Over the World’s Nuclear Facilities Programs

Saturday, July 14, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – First batch of sludge from Hanford’s K West Basin removed – Annette Cary
• WTVQ – Honeywell plant in Illinois shut down for upgrades
• Knoxville News Sentinel – DOE approves $511M plan to dispose of U-233 – Frank Munger
• Mid-Hudson News – NRC grants Indian Point the okay to move spent fuel
• POGO blog – U.S. Contractor Held Liable for Scalding at Iraq Compound; Fluor Ordered to Pay $19 Million in Damages
• Oceania: YouTube – Muckaty nuclear dump protest grows

Friday, July 13, 2012

• KEPR 19 – First of Hanford’s highly radioactive sludge moved away from river – Tyler Slauson
• Tri-City Herald – Central Hanford cleanup leader to leave – Annette Cary
• Phys.Org – Idaho researcher building used nuclear fuel sensor – Kortny Rolston
• Paducah Sun – NRC: Honeywell not prepared for ‘significant seismic event’ – By Cori Egan
• Knoxville News Sentinel – DOE approves $511M plan to dispose of U-233 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – At home with Oak Ridge icon: Alexander Hollaender – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Bid vs. Reality – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Ultra-secure’ wireless at a nuclear weapons plant – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Manhattan Project Park to come before full House – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – Workforce reductions loom at MOX construction site – Rob Pavey
• Greenville News – Don’t punish Nevada by dumping nuclear waste – Randy Perry
• Trenton Times – Opinion: MOX fuel derived from weapons-grade plutonium is more sensible than it sounds – James McGovern
• Barre Montpelier Times Argus – Letter: Safety of spent fuel comes first – Jim DeVincentis
• DOE – 10 Questions for a Nuclear Engineer: Todd Allen – Steven Thai
• DOE – Open Data for a Clean, Secure Energy Future – Todd Park
• NRC – NRC Issues Confirmatory Action Letter to Honeywell
• South Asia: Times of India – Groundwater contaminated, Punjab battles uranium curse
• Europe: Platts – UK nuclear authority takes ownership of German plutonium – Alex Froley
• Europe: Reuters – UK’s atomic agency in German plutonium swap deal
• Europe: World Nuclear News – German plutonium stays in UK
• Europe: UPI – Nuclear waste in France set to double

Thursday, July 12, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Not all Hanford cleanup along river to be completed in 2015 – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – B Reactor bill goes to full U.S. House – Annette Cary
• AlterNet – Exposed: The Untold Legacy of a Secret Nuclear Weapons Plant Near a Major American City – Brad Jacobson
• Lubbock Avalanche-Journal – Federal oversight board questions radiation risk at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Santa Fe New Mexican – Oversight board questions Los Alamos lab radiation risk – Jeri Clausing
• UPI – Lockheed wants Sandia Labs management
• La Crosse Tribune – Nuke waste transfer begins today; Hwy. 35 to be closed – Chris Hubbuch
• Knoxville News Sentinel – DOE’s big bucks available for small businesses – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – U-233 math: DOE explains how revised approach will save half a billion dollars – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Will preservation groups ink the final K-25 pact? Signing deadline approaches – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Q&A’s on final RFP for security contracts – Frank Munger
• Macon Telegraph – Water testing for uranium expanding in Juliette – S. Heather Duncan
• HNN Huntingtonnews – 1981 Radiological Assessment of Huntington Site Tested for Uranium, Iodine, Beta-Gamma Emitters – Tony Rutherford
• DOE – Energy Department Announces New ARPA-E Projects to Advance Innovative Natural Gas Vehicle Technologies
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – PROPOSED RULES Decommissioning Planning During Operations Page 41107 [FR DOC# 2012-17014]
• Canada: CBC News – Workers sprayed with uranium dust at Cameco refinery
• Oceania: Ninemsn – Change NT nuke dump site: protesters – Xavier La Canna
• Oceania: Port Stephens Examiner – Protesters step up campaign against nuclear waste dump – Bianca Hall
• South Asia: IRNA – Australia working to ensure uranium supply to India
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield profits up – and so are directors’ pay packages – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Letters: The nuclear waste debate
• Europe: Focus News – Leakage of radioactive water in the Belgian Tihange NPP
• North Europe: Copenhagen Post – Councils team up to oppose radioactive depot – Peter Stanners

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

• Forbes – Nuclear Waste Issue Searing American Landscape – Ken Silverstein
• Santa Maria Times – Letter: Protesting nuke waste – Bill Denneen
• Tri-City Herald – Chief science officer named at Richland lab
• Lewiston Morning Tribune – Idaho’s nuclear stockpile hasn’t found a home – Marty Trillhaase
• Alamogordo Daily News – Oversight board questions radiation risk at LANL – Jeri Clausing
• POGO blog – Nuclear Weapons Lab Underestimates Risk of Radiation Leak, Study Finds – Mia Steinle
• Pueblo Chieftain – Cotter cleanup plan to be aired July 19 – Tracy Harmon
• KPLR 11 – Declassified Document Blows Lid Off Burn Pit Hazards – Chris Hayes
• Reuters – Honeywell evaluates upgrades at nuclear conversion plant
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Piketon at Center of DOE Radmetal Ban Reversal Attempt – Pat Marida
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Ruling could help early Oak Ridge workers collect $$$ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Wartime warnings in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A monolithic accomplishment – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge gets DOE’s go-ahead for second phase of U-233 disposition project; big savings cited – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A nuclear stat I’ve never heard before – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s ancient Greek city – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More UCOR layoffs – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘This is encouraging’ – Frank Munger
• Altavista Journal – Uranium regulatory hurdles: Looking isn’t leaping – Katie Whitehead
• Chatham Star Tribune – Supervisors listen during uranium forum – Tim Davis
• Virginia Connection Newspapers – Column: Uranium Mining in Virginia – Kenneth R. “Ken” Plum/State Delegate (D-36)
• Wheeling Intelligencer – Storing Radioactive Waste a Critical Task
• GSA Business – SCE&G backing bolsters NuScale’s bid for DOE grant, exec says – Chuck Crumbo
• NWTRB – Vacancy Announcements for NWTRB Positions
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Regulatory Guides: Communication With Transport Vehicles Page 40921 [FR DOC# 2012-16906]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES PROPOSED RULES Low-Level Radioactive Waste Regulatory Management Issues Pages 
• Canada: CNN – Pressurized drums create yellowcake uranium hazard, NRC saysBy Todd Sperry
• Canada: Yahoo! Finance – Nuclear Experts Hold Rally at the AECL’s Chalk River Laboratories – Pierre Villon
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – TEPCO completes debris removal operations at Reactor 4 and releases new photos of operating floor of Reactor 3
• Southeast Asia: Manila Bulletin – Nuclear Waste – Romeo V. Pefianco

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

• Cibola County Beacon – Who’s to Blame? – Donald Jaramillo
• Rapid City Journal – NRC predicts Crow Butte decision by year’s end – Kerri Rempp
• St. Cloud Times – Letter: Waste must be part of nuclear equation – Karen Kudrna
• Kansas City Star – Gov. Nixon signs bills to lower fees on radioactive shipments – Jason Hancock
• Knoxville News Sentinel – State prepping to remove rad waste from bankrupt firm – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Those Chevy warheads – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR: nearing the end of K-25’s East Wing – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Mason on the supercomputer rankings: ‘People like to latch on to a horse race’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Going, going, gone: 450 tons of Russian HEU – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Mason: ORNL positioning for uncertainty – Frank Munger
• Memphis Commercial Appeal – University of Memphis teacher’s memoir recalls fearful legacies – Tina LoTufo
• WTVC – Radioactive waste being removed in Oak Ridge
• Aiken Leader – Bulk Grouting on 2 SRS Waste Tanks Complete; Final Tank Capping Expected Later This Summer
• Reuters – Duke CEO: Board lost confidence in Progress CEO – Wade Rawlins and Ernest Scheyder
• Lynchburg News and Advance – Uranium forum draws a crowd in Pittsylvania County – Denice Thibodeau
• Wilmington Star-News – Uranium enrichment plant meeting to be closed to public – Wayne Faulkner
• WSLS – Uranium forum draws a crowd in Pittsylvania County – Denice Thibodeau
• EmpireStateNews – AG argues NRC must review risks of storing nuclear waste at Indian Point
• Epoch Times – Nuclear Waste Storage Risks – Zachary Stieber
• Power Engineering – Solution for nuclear waste stockpiles in the offing – Diarmaid Williams
• Canada: Northumberland Today – Proposed nuclear waste documentary draws strong reaction – Valerie MacDonald
• Europe: Business Green – Study finds waste-fuelled nuclear reactor “feasible” for UK
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – The tale of Peter Rabbit’s nuclear waste protest…
• Europe: RT – Sellafield: The dangers of Britain’s nuclear dustbin
• Europe: Cordis News – EU-funded project helping keep radioactive waste safely stored

Monday, July 09, 2012

• Virginian Pilot – Uranium mining focus of Southside, Va. forum
• Phys.Org – Bacteria a potential threat to nuclear waste repositories – Jan Overney
• Asia: SlashGear – China planning a nuclear-powered mobile deep-sea mining platform – Shane McGlaun