Sunday, July 22, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – TRIDEC worried by DOE initiative – Annette Cary
• Yakima Herald-Republic – Trio of challengers seeks to unseat Hastings – Mike Faulk
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Uh-oh – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Hiroshima Day and other events – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Talk of the town: jobs – Frank Munger
• Spartanburg Herald Journal – Firm pursues plan to dump radioactive waste along I-20 in SC
• Lancaster Newspapers – Fallout over nuke plants’ shrinking evacuation zones – Jon Rutter
• Boston Globe – Coalition aims for nuclear waste safety – Christine Legere
• Europe: Green Party – Green Euro-MP says No Further Time should be Wasted On Romney Marsh Nuclear Waste Dump Plans
• Europe: Times&Star – Geology must be correct for underground nuclear store, says Copeland leader – Phil Coleman

Saturday, July 21, 2012

• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Clear skies – Frank Munger
• The State – NJ still targeting SC garbage dump for nuke waste disposal – Sammy Fretwell
• Keene Sentinel – Letter: Spent fuel storage problem speaks to government failure – Jim DeVincentis
• Europe: Kent Online – Kent County Council could hold referendum on plans for nuclear waste centre – Paul Francis
• Europe: News&Star – Correct geology for nuclear dump crucial – Phil Coleman
• Europe: Portsmouth News – ‘The radiation effects at Chernobyl will last 1,000 years…’ – Chris Owen
• Europe: Times&Star – Cumbrian councils to decide on whether to find nuclear waste store site – Alan Irving

Friday, July 20, 2012

• Seattle Times – Grass fire near Hanford disrupts traffic
• Spokesman-Review – Cleanup of radioactive liquid waste to miss date
• Tri-City Herald – PNNL to spend $1M grant on nuclear research
• Tri-City Herald – State fines DOE for failing to meet deadline related to Hanford vit plant – Annette Cary
• Idaho State Journal – DOE may miss deadline for Idaho waste cleanup
• PolicyMic – ALEC Has Now Lost 32 Members, As EnergySolutions Drops the Organization – Rebekah Wilce
• Montrose Daily Press – Company disputes analyst’s conclusions
• Montrose Daily Press – Analyst: Uranium prices too low to sustain mill – Katharhynn Heidelberg
• Pueblo Chieftain – Cotter cleanup road map revealed – Tracy Harmon
• WJBF-TV – NM fuel spill threatens Albuquerque water supply – Jeri Clausing
• Rockford Register Star – Honeywell to lay off 228 workers at Illinois plant
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Erhart: ‘working out the kinks’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sue Cange to speak at ETEBA – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Hoag to stay in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Dan Hoag to be deputy manager for NNSA’s Production Office, overseeing Y-12/Pantex – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – WSI confirms up to 51 security jobs to be cut at Oak Ridge sites: voluntary separation program offered – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s new Biomass Steam Plant is supposed to pay for itself — and then some – Frank Munger
• GPB – Testing Continues Of Polluted Wells – Josephine Bennett
• Aiken Standard – SRR pres.: Make technological advances and accelerate cleanup – Anna Dolianitis
• Enformable – March 18th, 2011 – NRC experts worried ground contamination and shine dose from steam plumes after water injection to SFP
• SNL Financial – Former senator, DOE official urge continued federal support for nuke sector – Jonathan Crawford
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Radioactive waste disposal outside Fukushima a vague vow
• Europe: BBC News – Report on high-level nuclear waste storage for Cumbria
• Europe: Cumberland News – Cumbrian councils to decide on whether to find nuclear waste store site – Alan Irving
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Campaigners slam West Cumbria nuclear dump talks
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Cumbrian councils to decide on whether to find nuclear waste store site – Alan Irving
• Europe: Peterborough Telegraph – Nuclear waste campaigners lobby councillors – Matthew Reville
• Russia: Moscow Times – Radioactive Blueberries Found in Moscow Region

Thursday, July 19, 2012

• KSNV MyNews3 – Kazakhstan, Vegas students study nuclear testing legacy – Elizabeth Donatelli
• DOE Hanford – First of Hanford’s Highly Radioactive Sludge Moved Away from River
• Tri-City Herald – WA state fines DOE over missed Hanford deadline
• Tri-City Herald – Vitrification company coming to Richland – Annette Cary
• Idaho State Journal – DOE may miss deadline for Idaho waste cleanup
• Salt Lake Tribune – Utahns join national debate about new radioactive waste rules – Judy Fahys
• Burlington Hawk Eye – Contamination of lake questioned – Christinia Crippes
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Larry Kelly named DOE’s Oak Ridge manager – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s new mentor-protege agreements – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Union of Concerned Scientists’ Lochbaum to testify – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Cool thing: ORNL’s Tim McKnight gets invited – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Chilly nukes: Radioactive response in the Arctic – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Steve Erhart OTJ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Will NNSA release a revised inventory of the nation’s highly enriched uranium? Maybe . . . – Frank Munger
• Suffolk News-Herald – Council talks uranium mining – Tracy Agnew
• Energy Central – Nuclear Waste Showdown Looms for N.J., Nation
• Riverhead Local – Decommissioning of nation’s first peacetime research reactor completed at BNL – Tom Burke
• Lower Hudson Journal – Indian Point readies shift of spent fuel: IP3 refueling requires transfer to IP2 pool; appproval took 3 years – Michael Risinit
• Enformable – March 16th, 2011 – USNRC rationale for deployment of the DOE aerial measurement system
• NEI – Nuclear Industry Advocates Flexibility on EPA Rule on Water Intake Systems
• POWERnews – Court Increases Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Award to Kansas Plant Owners
• POWERnews – DOE Announces $13 M in Nuclear Innovation Awards
• DOE – The Internet Café of the Nuclear World – Karina Edmonds
• Oceania: Radio New Zealand – French nuke test link findings welcomed by Tahiti veterans’ group
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – TEPCO removes 2 fuel rods from Fukushima nuclear plantBy Adam Westlake
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 2nd unused nuclear fuel assembly taken from Fukushima plant
• Asia-Pacific: National Journal – Taiwan Ready to Forgo Nuclear Fuel-Making in U.S. Trade Pact Renewal – Elaine M. Grossman
• South Asia: The Hindu – Court reassured on storage of spent fuel from reactors
• South Asia: IBNLive – NPCIL, DAE have adequate technology to transport spent fuel’
• Europe: Isle of Man Today – Radioactive fallout landed in the Isle of Man
• Europe: ITV News – Cumbria’s nuclear decision: The background
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Nuclear underground dump report to be debated at west Cumbria meeting – Victoria Brenan
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Only handful of councillors will make N-waste decision – Alan Irving
• Europe: Reuters – France’s 20th century radium craze still haunts Paris – Michel Rose and Marion Douet

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

• Santa Fe Reporter – Downwind–Living with a nuclear neighbor – Laura Paskus
• Tri-Valley CAREs – Citizen’s Watch Newsletter Summer 2012 – Scott Yundt
• Tri-City Herald – Umatilla Chemical Depot turns lights off – Annette Cary
• Appleton Post Crescent – Nuclear waste being hauled out of Wisconsin plant
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: More, bigger electronics jack up home energy costs – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More delays in the K-25 Memo of Agreement – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL alum Larry Robinson named interim president at troubled Florida A&M University – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – On the beat: Circa 1984 – Frank Munger
• Ellington-Somers.Patch – Letter: Remember the Defeat of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Dump – Jason Bowsza
• Enformable – Feds offer a pittance to 5 states for debris disposal – Lucas W Hixson
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Turning waste repositories into nuclear energy hubs – Jason Deign
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – N-rod taken from Fukushima plant
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Fuel rod removed from Fukushima plant pool
• Central Asia: CNN – Kazakhstan hopes uranium, oil and gas will fuel its future – Frederik Pleitgen
• Europe: Herald Series – Nuclear waste storage plans for Harwell go on show
• Europe: Londonderry Today – Arsenic and old waste at Fort George
• Europe: Climate Spectator – Germany’s pricey nuclear burial – Christoph Steitz and Tom Käckenhoff
• West Africa: Enformable – Nigeria’s plans for development of nuclear program still underdeveloped and unrealistic – Lucas W Hixson

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

• CBS News – Powertech mulls whether to appeal Colorado ruling
• The Coloradoan – Powertech: Uranium mining still viable near Wellington despite tossed lawsuit – Bobby Magill
• Denver Post – Judge tosses uranium lawsuit that claimed Colorado rules were capricious – Monte Whaley
• Telluride Daily Planet – Uranium regulations lawsuit thrown out – Collin McRann
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – City streets may host WIPP nuclear truck traffic – Stella Davis
• WEAU-TV 13 – Highly radioactive material transferred to dry storage site
• Knoxville News Sentinel – ‘Ultra-secure’ wireless installed at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – RFP amendment on security competition – Frank Munger
• Aiken Leader blog – Faulty Piping Received at Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Plant Construction Project at the Savannah River Site, Unknown if Pipe has been Placed in MOX Plant – Thomas Clements
• Aiken Standard – Public meeting on MOX at SRS to provide updates – Anna Dolianitis
• HNN Huntingtonnews – COLD WAR SECRETS: Recycling Radionuclides Infused Spent Nuclear Fuel onto Machinery – Tony Rutherford
• NorthJersey – Opinion: Nuclear waste showdown looms for N.J., nation – James Ahearn
• PearlRiver.Patch – NRC Approves Entergy Plan for Spent Fuel–The plan addresses how Entergy Point will deal with Indian Point 3 spent fuel pool, which is virtually full. – Liz Giegerich
• Newburyport Daily News – Letter: Nuclear fuel still needs disposal – Robert Orem
• AllGov – Shipping Containers from Abroad Remain Unscanned for Radioactivity Despite Government Deadline
• Salem-News – Atom Bomb and the Era of Disinformation – Arun Shrivastava
• World Nuclear News – US details plutonium stocks
• DOE – Energy Department Announces New Nuclear Energy Innovation Investments
• Canada: Northern Life – Northern communities look to cash in on nuclear waste – Heidi Ulrichsen
• Oceania: ABC – Arrests made at outback mine protest – Kim Robertson
• Oceania: BigPond News – Thirteen arrested at SA mine protest
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – New Taipei opposes plan for dry cask storage of used nuclear rods
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan News – New Taipei opposes plan for dry cask storage of used nuclear rods – Lin Meng-ju and Jamie Wang
• Europe: BBC News – Dalgety Bay radiation monitoring to be ‘extended’
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Nuclear underground dump report to be debated at west Cumbria meeting – Victoria Brenan
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – EnergySolutions EU on the block
• Europe: France 24 – Victims of French nuclear tests see hope in cancer link finding – Andrea Davoust
• Europe: Reuters – Germany counts the costs as it buries nuclear past

Monday, July 16, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Letters reveal father’s secret past in atomic bomb tests – Keith Rogers
• Deseret News – This week in history: The beginning of the nuclear age – Cody Carlson
• Daily Astorian – Editorial: A major turning point, indeed
• Tri-City Herald – Licensing renewal a win for clean energy future – Mark Reddemann
• Idaho Press-Tribune – Idaho National Lab changing how explosives shipped
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Portsmouth “Classified” Materials Adequately Protected, but Incident Reporting Issues Found at Former Atomic Plant – Tony Rutherford
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – GSA seeking commercial space for DOE employees; looks like asbestos project at Federal Building is going to take a while – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR says staff augmentation saves $5M – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Neutron record at Los Alamos – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Meghan Millwood promoted at ORAU – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Letters from Bikini bomb tests – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Thom Mason talks about U.S. ITER: ‘When you’re running a project, you’ve got to go full steam ahead’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Inside the Nuclear Weapons Lobby’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – U.S. plutonium inventory: 95.4 metric tons – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR marks 10,000th waste shipment – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Discussing nuke safeguards in Hanoi – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Household energy costs up 11.8% – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 30 years of Frank Munger, etc., etc. – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Bid vs. Reality, II – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – MOX fuel plant meeting set for July 24
• Washington Post – Port security: U.S. fails to meet deadline for scanning of cargo containers – Douglas Frantz
• NRC – NRC Schedules Public Meeting to Discuss Mox Facility
• Energy Department – NOTICES Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.: Notice of Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the Construction and Operation of a Radiological Work and Storage Building Pages 41774-41776 [FR DOC# 2012-17230]
• Canada: DurhamRegion – Will wind turbines and low-level radioactive waste mix well in Port Granby? – Jennifer O’Meara
• Oceania: ABC – Researchers track radioactive fish
• Oceania: ABC – Town quiet as demonstrators protest – Laura Poole
• Oceania: Adelaide Now – Protesters storm BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam mine fence at Roxby Downs – Ben Hyde
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Activists break through gate at uranium mineBy Rebecca Brice
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Anti-nuclear protesters disperse after police stand-off
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Exporting uranium ‘worse than selling heroin’
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Decontamination by using bacteria failed – Iori Mochizuki
• Southeast Asia: Green Left Weekly – Malaysia: People’s ballot rejects Australian corporate polluter Lynas – Peter Boyle
• South Asia: Times of India – What about N-waste from Kudankulam, HC asks Centre
• South Africa: IPPmedia – Radioactive experts to train in `Orphan Source` recovery – Judica Tarimo