Sunday, August 26, 2012

• Telluride Daily Planet – Energy Fuels buys out uranium mine partner in Utah – Collin McRann
• Pueblo Chieftain – New Mexico repository a model for consent – Robert C. Amme
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Hints that rad waste may be moving under Clinch River, but tests not conclusive – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – High-rad surprises expand ORNL cleanup project, put other nuke cleanups on the shelf – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Mining nuclear fuel from the ocean may be approaching an economic reality – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DeNuke founder opens new consulting biz – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 protester Sister Megan Rice: ‘The last time I looked at my watch, it was a quarter to five’ – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – ORNL technology moves scientists closer to extracting uranium from seawater
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Incineration facility gets full of radioactive material, has to restart incineration – Iori Mochizuki

Saturday, August 25, 2012

• HNN Huntingtonnews – Hanford Nuclear Waste Leak
• Salt Lake Tribune – Letter: Fishy reasoning – Erin Wyatt
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Pudacah False Claims Act Settled, More Anticipated
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Fired Y-12 guard said he’s scapegoat for security breach – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Fired Y-12 guard claims he’s a scapegoat for embarrassing security breach; says there was no need to rough up peace protesters –
• First Coast News – Radioactive soil found in Ponte Vedra Beach neighborhood
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Ministry to amend law to bury nuclear waste without reprocessing – Toru Nakagawa
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Hosono denies nuke disposal report – Kazuaki Nagata

Friday, August 24, 2012

• Tri-Valley CAREs – Our 2012 Strategic Planning Retreat – Scott Yundt
• Northwest Public Radio – Hanford Expert: Possible Tank Leak Doesn’t Change Goal of Stabilizing Waste – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – EnergySolutions to dedicate Richland lab
• Tri-City Herald – Terranear gets N Reactor cleanup – Annette Cary
• Grand Junction Free Press – State continues to clean up mill tailings in the Grand Valley – Sharon Sullivan
• KIVI-TV – Feds release report on proposed NM uranium plant owned by Idaho company
• KUNM – Feds release report on proposed NM uranium plant
• KUNM – Court rules in uranium mine cleanup dispute
• Chillicothe Gazette – Feds settle radioactive waste disposal lawsuit – Brett Barrouquere
• Lexington Herald Leader – Feds settle claims over radioactive waste disposal–Bechtel Jacobs not required to admit fault – Brett Barrouquere
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Government stuck in the mud – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – War&Art – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Assigning blame for Y-12 security breach – Frank Munger
• Energy Collective – LWR SMRs have fuel advantages – Dan Yurman
• World Nuclear News – Fuel cycle roundup #3
• DOE – Top 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Energy: Back-to-School Edition – April Saylor
• Canada: Seaway News – Keep river free of planned nuclear waste transports: Akwesasne
• Oceania: Radio New Zealand – Advocate for Rongelap nuclear test victims in Marshalls dies – Giff Johnson
• Asia-Pacific: Kurashi – News From Japan – What To Do About Nuclear Waste? – Martin J Frid
• Europe: Brand Republic – Nuclear waste authority seeks help to engage public – Matt Cartmell
• Europe: Times&Star – Nuclear dump could be as big as Workington
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Nuclear waste disposal: The definitive report condensed – Ellis Butcher

Thursday, August 23, 2012

• CounterPunch – The Radioactive Waste Disaster – Kevin Kamps and Linda Gunter
• Ponte Vedra Recorder – Radiation removed from vacant Solana Road lot – Kelly Hould
• KUOW NPR – Possible Radioactive Tank Leak At Hanford Being Investigated – Anna King
• Albuquerque Journal – Activists Question Plutonium Plan – Jeri Clausing
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – Local leaders seek support for WIPP’s plutonium proposal – Stella Davis
• KWES NewsWest9 – Court rules in uranium mine cleanup dispute
• Lubbock Avalanche-Journal – Activists question plan to ship plutonium to New Mexico – Jeri Clausing
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – RSI making home in Horizon Center – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The A-bombs had been dropped and WWII was won, but Manhattan Project scientists weren’t sure what they could — or should — say – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE’s across-the-river project – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Yucca Mountain’s vanishing workforce – Frank Munger
• WSAV-TV – Public Service Commission: Settlement of Nuclear Waste Fee Case – JoAnn Merrigan
• The Examiner – Extracting Uranium from oceans offers a mixed bag of possibilities – David Herron
• Nuclear Engineering – US nuclear industry establishes formal programme to take on nuclear navy veterans
• Union of Concerned Scientists – Infographic: The Energy-Water Collision–Energy and Water Demands Clash During Hot, Dry Summers
• DOE – Energy Department’s Data Director named Presidential Innovation Fellow – John Chu
• NRC – NRC Issues Final Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed Uranium Deconversion Facility in New Mexico
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – Uranium 12 times the safe limit in Punjab ground water
• South Asia: Press Information Bureau – Repository for Storming Nuclear Waste
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Date set for councils’ decision on N-waste – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Nuclear waste disposal: The definitive report condensed – Ellis Butcher
• North Europe: YLE News – IAEA head visits Finnish nuclear cave

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Most of last jobs at Yucca Mountain project expire next month – Keith Rogers
• Nevada News Bureau – Legislative Panel Gets Update On Yucca Mountain, Takes No Action To Deviate From Long-Term Opposition To Project –
• Phys.Org – Leak brings safety of Hanford nuclear site into question – Kim Murphy
• Seattle Times – Big, radioactive lump in Hanford nuclear-waste tank: Is it leaking?
• Tri-City Herald – Terranear gets N Reactor cleanup – Annette Cary
• Twin Falls Times-News – New USGS Well improves Monitoring of Nuclear Waste in Water Supply. – Kimberlee Kruesi
• Albuquerque Journal – Hearing Held on Nuclear Fuel Disposal
• AP Google – Activists question plan to ship plutonium to NM – Jeri Clausing
• KUNM – The legacy of uranium on the Navajo reservation – Laura Paskus
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Cost disputes finally settled on Y-12 uranium storehouse – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Will Y-12 security breach undermine plans for UPF? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Federal safety board sets Knox hearing to review Y-12 operations – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Would-be contractors scramble to modify Y-12/Pantex proposals in wake of security breach – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Bob Van Hook: ‘It’s obviously a grim situation’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE issues RFP for Portsmouth environmental services; value up to $65M – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – After years-long cost dispute, Y-12 reaches settlement with HEUMF construction team; terms not disclosed –
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Savannah River’s MFFF: Turning the nuclear waste problem on its head? – Peter Taberner
• Industrial Safety and Security Source – Control Rod Falls into Core, Reactor Down
• Times and Democrat – Public hearing held on nuke fuel disposal
• Hartford Courant – Feds Stalled, Nuclear Waste Here Indefinitely – Robert M. Thorson
• BBC News – Uranium from seawater idea boosted with shrimp shells
• New York Times – Court Blocks E.P.A. Rule on Cross-State Pollution – Matthew L. Wald
• Phys.Org – Extracting uranium from seawater
• NRC – NRC Issues Final Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed Uranium Deconversion Facility in New Mexico
• South Asia: Press Information Bureau – Thorium Reserve in the Country
• Europe: The Engineer – Vitrification could improve safety of ILW treatment
• Europe: Herald Scotland – Crane to remove Dounreay pit waste
• Europe: PRWeek UK – Government body in comms hunt over radioactive waste – Matt Cartmell
• Europe: University of Sheffield News – Glass offers improved means of storing UK’s nuclear waste
• East Europe: NTI – Serbia Lacks Funds, Space to Secure Nuclear Waste Materials

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

• Crosscut Seattle – Hanford’s “safe” storage tanks: Leaking again? – John Stang
• Tri-City Herald – Salty tomb within underground crystal – E. Kirsten Peters
• EIN Presswire – EM Press Release: DOE Seeks Proposals for Portsmouth Plant Technical Services
• Johnson City Press – License renewal will be topic at NRC public meeting – Brad Hicks
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Federal safety board to hold Oct. 2 field hearing in Knoxville on Y-12 operations – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 security subcontractor says there could be more disciplinary actions – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Federal safety board to hold Oct. 2 field hearing in Knoxville on Y-12 operations, issues related to UPF
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Limits of DOE involvement in contractor personnel matters – Frank Munger
• The Southern – Nuclear commission calls meeting with Honeywell over Metropolis plant
• Post and Courier – Down on the dumps: Keep your nuclear dirt to yourself, New Jersey – Phil Leventis
• Post and Courier – Ban radioactive waste from S.C. dumps
• Today’s Sunbeam – Letter: Keep working for solution on for nuclear waste problem – Jim Sherman
• Earth Times – Nuclear power from uranium in seawater gets closer – Adrian Bishop
• EurekAlert – Advances in decades-old dream of mining seawater for uranium
• POGO blog – Spending Billions on B-61 Nuclear Bomb Upgrades Doesn’t Make Sense – Mia Steinle
• DOE – Solar Energy for All: How-To Guides Encourage Growth of Solar Communities – Rachel Tronstein
• DOE:IG – Alleged Ethical and Procurement Concerns at the Office of Nuclear Energy, INS-L-12-05
• DoL – Reply from DoL Rachel P. Leiton, Director, Division, Occupational Illness Compensation to ANWAG Re: Suggestions to improve DEEOIC claims handling. (pdf-128K)
• NRC – NRC Seeks Public Input on Considering Economic Consequences; Meeting Aug. 29 in Rockville, Md.
• NRC – NRC Schedules Public Meeting to Discuss Approval of NFS License Renewal Application
• NRC – NRC Schedules Enforcement Conference and Meeting with Honeywell Metropolis Works for Aug. 27
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Portsmouth Page 50488 [FR DOC# 2012-20492]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical Advisory Committee Pages 50488-50489 [FR DOC# 2012-20494]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Page 50489 [FR DOC# 2012-20486]
• Oceania: ABC – Red Centre protest against nuclear waste plans – Allyson Horn
• Asia-Pacific: Fairewinds Energy Education – Can Spent Fuel Pools Catch Fire? – Arnie Gundersen
• South Asia: IBNLive – Uranium mining in Vemula a curse on farmers
• Europe: BBC News – Robotic crane to extract waste from Dounreay’s Shaft
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Anti-nuclear group in demo over Cumbria dump

Monday, August 20, 2012

• Io9 – Photos of Mushroom Clouds as Seen from 1950s Las Vegas – Lauren Davis
• ENS – Hanford Double-Shell Tank Leaks Nuclear Waste
• Tacoma News Tribune – Hanford’s B Reactor: A park haunted by the 20th century
• Idaho Statesman – West Views: Gov. Otter might not be up to the task on nuke waste
• Salt Lake Tribune – International experts explore rad-waste sites in Utah, Colorado – Judy Fahys
• LAMonitor – Plutomium hearings begin this week in LA
• CBS2 Chicago – Environmental Group Wary Of Allowing Power Plants To Dump Hotter Water – John Cody
• Chicago Tribune – Power plants releasing hotter water–State issues exemptions; environmentalists worry about fish
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – High Flux Isotope Reactor to shut down Friday for extended fall outage; test targets for Pu-238 production now in reactor – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR’s Vince Maivelett to speak at ETEBA – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Pentagon’s support of NNSA projects: Is fiscal responsibility on the horizon? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Washington Post editorial: ‘Who will be deterred by the refurbished B-61?’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Will Y-12 security issues undercut UPF? – Frank Munger
• Charleston Post&Courier – Editorial: Restart Yucca Mountain project
• Waterford Patch – Daily Five: Who Pays For Yucca Mountain?
• ANWAG – A Look at What’s New with EEIOCPA
• ANWAG Blog – Is using co-worker dose falsifying records? – Terrie Barrie
• Alice Spring News – Has civic duty ever been mentioned in the nuke dump debate? Tomorrow’s protest in Alice may be a good opportunity. – Erwin
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Mayors divided over proposed sites to store radioactive waste
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Sites for contaminated soil unveiled / Government proposes building 12 facilities to store Fukushima’s radioactive waste
• Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – Gov expects more Fukushima nuclear waste
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Today – 3 Fukushima towns selected for 12 storage sites of radioactive debris
• Europe: BBC News – Dounreay radioactive waste storage vaults constructed
• Europe: The Ecologist – Underwater nuclear power stations destined for the English Channel? – Robert Williams
• Europe: STV.tv – Giant holes dug to contain nuclear waste from former power station