Sunday, September 16, 2012

• Pueblo Chieftain – Letters: WIPP works – John Waters
• Republican Eagle – Letter: Useful nuclear storage exists: Yucca Mountain – Rolf Westgard
• Oak Ridge Today – UT, ORNL lead national project to study nuclear fusion reactor materials – John Huotari
• Athens News Courier – Man: Burning plutonium at nuke plant is ‘compounded insanity’ – Jean Cole
• Beaver County Times – Shippingport nuclear plant expanding space to store spent fuel
• AFP Google – US ‘to modernize’ nuclear arsenal
• Atomic Insights – Plutonium power for the people – Rod Adams
• Forbes – Nuclear Power’s Long and Toxic Tail – William Pentland
• Oceania: Sky News Australia – NSW open to uranium exploration
• Asia-Pacific: NTI – Japan Slightly Reduces Plutonium Stockpile
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Passing the nuclear waste buck – Fred Alsdorf
• Asia-Pacific: Johannesburg Times – For Taiwan aborigines, nuclear waste is blessing and curse
• South Asia: The Hindu – Expert clears doubts about nuclear waste management
• South Asia: IBNLive – Uranium: Lok Adalat seeks public hearing
• South Asia: Colombo Page – Sri Lanka to return the radioactive shipment back

Saturday, September 15, 2012

• The Examiner – Aliens object to nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain – Johnny Vaughan
• Pahrump Valley Times – NNSA hosting groundwater open house in Amargosa
• Salt Lake Tribune – Pyle: In the wet firewood business – George Pyle
• Rock Hill Herald – Don’t bring high-level nuclear waste to SRS in South Carolina
• NCSU Technician – Hey kids, nuclear waste is fun – Heather Troutman
• Lower Hudson Journal – Entergy to move spent Indian Point fuel starting Sunday; extra steps needed – Michael Risinit
• Mid-Hudson News – Fuel from IP Unit 3 spent fuel pool to be removed
• Michele Kearney’s Nuclear blog – NEA / OECD: Nuclear Fuel Safety Criteria Technical Review – Second Edition
• POGO blog – ‘Extensive’ Oversight of Nuclear Weapons Facilities Not Such a Bad Idea, After All, Official Says – Mia Steinle
• Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Republican News – Sen. Murkowski: We Need to Act Soon on Nuclear Waste Issue
• Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Republican News – S. 3469, the Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2012
• Canada: Toronto Star – Letters: What to do with spent nuclear waste
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Insurance company “no coverage for damage caused by nuclear fuel material” – Iori Mochizuki
• South Asia: Pakistan News International – I transferred N-technology to two countries on Benazir’s orders: AQ Khan – Farooq Aqdas
• South Asia: Sri Lanka Observer – Container of radioactive goods seized at Colombo Port – Dhaneshi Yatawara
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Protesters condemn Dounreay N-fuel rail runs

Friday, September 14, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Radioactive sludge from K Reactor basins at Hanford moved away from Columbia River – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – HAMMER Training Center gets new building – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Herald wins awards for Hanford series, photos
• Tri-City Herald – Separate Hanford, commercial waste, Cantwell tells U.S. commission – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Officials investigate cause of Areva fire
• Digital Journal – Carlsbad Department of Development Supports Thermal Testing at WIPP
• Bloomberg – Texas Posse Hunting for Halliburton’s Missing Radioactive Device – Kathy Warbelow and Brian Wingfield
• Chillicothe Gazette – House approves centrifuge funds; Senate expected to take up measure next week – Deirdre Shesgreen
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Government heaped praise on security contractor before Y-12 breach – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Rep. Blackburn’s comments on Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Is Y-12 security breach good news for Fluor? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – It was 1970 and DOE was still AEC – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Chu in Vienna – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Alice Williams, Thom Mason, John Eschenberg, etc. – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Early X-10/ORNL workers may get special status for sick workers compensation program – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Big milestone in K-25 demolition – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Tour wrap-up: 1,600 from 40 states – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL, Y-12 don’t fare so well in IG’s energy audit – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA touted Y-12’s security — until the breach – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Contractor completes K-25 east wing demolition, moves to north end – John Huotari
• Aiken Standard – SRR closes two liquid waste tanks
• Danville Register & Bee – Folks know what the stakes are
• Entergy Corporation – Entergy to Begin Removing Fuel from Unit 3 Spent Fuel Pool
• SNL Financial – Blue ribbon commission co-chair sees little action by Obama on nuclear waste – Kathleen Hart
• GAO – Spent Nuclear Fuel: Accumulating Quantities at Commercial Reactors Present Storage and Other Challenges, GAO-12-797
• Oceania: Aliran Monthly – Lynas left holding the baby
• Oceania: West Australian – Let’s talk about uranium mining: Qld govt
• Asia-Pacific: Power Engineering – Japan works on nuclear waste disposal
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Aomori Prefecture rejects nuclear waste, eyes continued reprocessing
• South Asia: Deccan Chronicle – Fuel loading yet to begin: AERB
• Europe: News & Star – Nuclear waste options still open – Julian Whittle
• Europe: Whitehaven News – People urged to say what they think about nuclear dump
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Nuclear waste options still open – Julian Whittle
• Russia: Barents Observer – Last voyage for nuclear waste hulk – Thomas Nilsen
• Russia: Bellona – Nuclear waste ship leaves Murmansk harbor for good after 20-years of politicking and environmental pressure – Charles Digges

Thursday, September 13, 2012

• Tri-Valley CAREs – The Government Accountability Office Issues a Report on NNSA’s Security, Oversight and Project Management Problems – Scott Yundt
• Tri-City Herald – Separate Hanford, commercial waste, Cantwell tells U.S. commission – Annette Cary
• Salt Lake Tribune – Who’s in charge? Regulators, waste firm too friendly
• Austin Business Journal – UT physicists patent technology to incinerate nuclear waste
• Phys.Org – Researchers awarded patent for tokamak device, would turn nuclear waste into fuel
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Protesters considered 3 weapons sites before choosing Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – U.S. House panel decries Y-12 lapses – Michael Collins
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – $4.1 million for UT-ORNL fusion research – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – America and uranium – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The search for Zacharia’s successor at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A good day for science in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Peace group says kill the NNSA – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – ORNL’s newly licensed neutron detector will advance research – John Huotari
• The Guardian – Benefits of thorium as alternative nuclear fuel are ‘overstated’ – Mark Halper
• Waste Management World – Nuclear Waste Administration Act; Committee: Senate Energy and Natural Resources: Statement of Peter Lyons Assistant Secretary, Nuclear Energy U.S. Department of Energy
• Waste Management World – Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board Meeting; October 17, 2012; Idaho Falls, ID
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Britain, France seek Japan’s promise to accept nuclear waste
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Key Word: Nuclear fuel cycle policy
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Govt to continue N-fuel recycling program
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Nuclear recycling program to continue amid looming storage crisis
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Europe Asks Japan to Accept Nuclear Waste as Planned
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Japan Govt Holds Talks on N-Fuel Cycle with Aomori
• Asia-Pacific: Kyodo News – Japan to maintain plan to seek spent fuel reprocessing at Rokkasho
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Fuel loading has not begun at KNPP: AERB chairman
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – SC refuses to stay fuel loading at Kudankulam nuclear plant
• Europe: ITV News – Nuclear waste debate
• Europe: News & Star – We have to say no to nuclear dump
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Why N-waste process must go on, by Copeland MP Jamie Reed – Copeland MP Jamie Reed
• Europe: Whitehaven News – But it’s one of worst places to bury it says professor – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – We have to say no to nuclear dump
• Europe: Whitehaven News – MP hits out as nuclear waste plan faces ‘no’ vote – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Vote on the issues, not on hidden agendas
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield to stage biggest ever decommissioning expo – Alan Irving
• Europe: Washington Post – Britain looks to China to fuel nuclear renaissance – Anthony Faiola

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Where does Romney stand on Yucca, online poker? Doesn’t matter to Sandoval – Cy Ryan
• Reno Gazette-Journal – Bio: Mitt Romney on Nevada issues
• The Hill blog – Murkowski presses Obama official on late nuclear waste plan – Zack Colman
• Nuclear Energy Institute – Nuclear Industry Encourages Changes to Nuclear Waste Reform Proposals
• OilPrice – 6 Things to do with Nuclear Waste: None of them Ideal – Jen Alic
• Tri-City Herald – 3 hourly Hanford workers plead guilty to overtime fraud – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford board has safety ideas – Annette Cary
• Deseret News – Radiation oversight audit prompts Gov. Gary Herbert to reconsider board appointment – Amy Joi O’Donoghue
• Salt Lake Tribune – Guv rethinks naming EnergySolutions exec to waste oversight board – Judy Fahys
• Texas Tribune – Harold Simmons’ Waste Company Pays County, State – Nick Swartsell
• University of Texas at Austin – Nuclear Waste-Burning Technology Could Change the Face of Nuclear Energy
• Minneapolis Star Tribune – What to do with mounting nuclear waste? – Julie Maxson
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – Chattanooga meeting on MOX fuel draws a crowd – Pam Sohn
• Evansville Courier & Press – Number of warheads dismantled under Lugar program tops 7,600
• Huffington Post – Megan Rice: How Did An 82-Year-Old Nun Get Past A Nuclear Facility’s Security?
• Knoxville News Sentinel – B&W Y-12 makes ‘compelling case’ in effort to keep contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – NFS exec returns to Y-12 to bolster operations – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Boertje-Obed says Y-12 protesters considered three weapons sites for Plowshares intrusion – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – B&W says it has ‘compelling case’ to keep Y-12 contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nun gets a nod from Texas congressman – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Fleischmann, Turner & Poneman: A meeting in the wake of Y-12 security mess, in advance of congressional hearing – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Reducing the IMPACT wasteload – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Roundup on no comments – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – B&W Y-12 says it has made compelling case to keep contract – John Huotari
• Oak Ridge Today – U.S. House subcommittee grills federal officials on Y-12 security breach – John Huotari
• The Tennessean – Rep. Marsha Blackburn says Y-12 incident shows lack of Energy Dept. accountability – Paul C. Barton
• Reuters – RPT-After ‘Fort Knox’ break-in, US nuclear stockpile security in focus – Roberta Rampton
• Washington Post – Security lapses at nuclear complex identified two years before break-in – Dana Priest
• Danville Register & Bee – Anti-uranium fundraiser planned Saturday in Halifax
• York Daily Record – About 50 workers at Peach Bottom nuclear plant exposed to low levels of radiation – Sean Adkins
• Youngstown Vindicator – NRC’s inspector general probing W. Pa. dump cleanup
• WTXX-TV – Connecticut Attorney General Likes What the Feds Are Doing on Nuke Waste – Gregory B. Hladky
• Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board – NOTICES Meetings: Board Meeting; October 17, 2012; Idaho Falls, ID Pages 56241-56242 [FR DOC#
  
• Oceania: NSW Daily Telegraph – Uranium explorer pushes nuclear power
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Many difficulties lie ahead in decommissioning work after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
• South Asia: The Hindu – Canada optimistic on uranium deal with India – Sandeep Dikshit
• Europe: Kent Online – Two-thirds against plans for underground nuclear waste dump on Romney Marsh
• Europe: Washington Post – Britain looks to China to fuel nuclear renaissance – Anthony Faiola
• Europe: Equities – Netherlands : Next arrival of used nuclear fuel from the Netherlands for recycling
• Russia: Bellona – Lepse nuclear waste storage ship endangering Murmansk for decades finally headed for dismantlement

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

• Bay Citizen – SF wants state to conduct new study of Treasure Island cleanup – Matt Smith and Katharine Mieszkowski
• Kitsap Sun – Navy gets go-ahead for plan to dispose of Enterprise reactor compartments – Ed Friedrich
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford State of the Site meetings should resume, advisory board says – Annette Cary
• ABC 4 – Radioactive regulators criticised – Marcos Ortiz
• Deseret News – Michael Waddoups fumes over lack of radioactive waste oversight – Amy Joi O’Donoghue
• Salt Lake Tribune – Utah Senate leader rages at lax nuke waste oversight – Judy Fahys
• Standard-Examiner – Lawmaker criticizes Utah radioactive waste oversight
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Judge frees third Y-12 protester from jail – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sleeping guards, etc., etc. – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DNFSB cuts its Y-12 hearing in half – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Judge releases third protester from jail, pending trial; Boertje-Obed to reside in Duluth, Minn. – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – B&W Y-12 submits ‘show cause’ response; contractor says excerpts may be released – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s NPDES permit still in dispute – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Tom D’Agostino’s message: ‘We cannot let anything like this happen again. Our work is too important and too necessary’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Third protester reportedly seeks release – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge prepares for 70th birthday – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Square dancing in the Manhattan Project – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Classified, radioactive and ‘unusual’ waste shipped to Nevada for disposal – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Judge releases third Y-12 protester – John Huotari
• Oak Ridge Today – B&W Y-12 considering what information to release from ‘show cause’ response – John Huotari
• WBIR-TV – UT, ORNL working to make nuclear fusion possible
• Danville Register & Bee – Uranium forum to be held Oct. 2
• CleanTechnica – Why Thorium Nuclear Isn’t Featured on CleanTechnica – Zachary Shahan
• Platts – Uranium spot price lingers near $48/lb U3O8 on ‘sporadic’ supply, demand – Mike Knapik
• Washington Post – ‘Dirty bomb’ threat at hospitals remains, GAO report says – Anne Gearan
• Energy Department – NOTICES Transition of DOE-ID Public Reading Room Pages 55813-55814 [FR DOC# 2012-22318]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board Chairs Page 55813 [FR DOC# 2012-22311]
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – N-waste disposal needs review / Nation’s top scientists call for new policy in light of Fukushima crisis
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Scientists sound alarm on plan to bury nuclear waste
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Nuke waste plan scares scientists
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Japan Scientists Call for Full Review of Nuclear Waste Disposal Policy – Reason Magazine
• South Asia: Hindu Business Line – Scientists calls for review of nuclear waste disposal method
• South Asia: IBNLive – Stop fuel loading at Kudankulam nuclear power plant, Prashant Bhus
• Europe: BBC News – Romney Marsh nuclear waste plan opposed by 63%
• Europe: Coastal Scene – Sizewell: EDF under fire over waste store site survey – David Green
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Radiation device proving successful
• Russia: CounterCurrents – The Soviet Union Dumped Enormous Quantities of Nuclear Waste In Kara Sea In The Arctic Ocean – Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere (Retd)

Monday, September 10, 2012

• Platts – Bingaman nuclear bill could be vehicle to modify US waste act: NARUC
• Daily Astorian – Editorial: Energy secretary must dissect Bechtel
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – Hearing set on MOX use in TVA plants – Pam Sohn
• Energy Collective – Calling Out Red Herrings about MOX Fuel for TVA – Dan Yurman
• Knoxville News Sentinel – More reshuffling at post-security breach Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NFS President Joe Henry returns to Y-12 as chief operating officer; assignment seen as temporary
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sept. 11, 1957: Fire & plutonium at Rocky Flats – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge security RFP delayed – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Will Y-12 security bungle hurt mercury cleanup? – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Former nuclear safety chief back at Y-12 as temporary COO – John Huotari
• Enformable – Scientists baffled by discovery that “cobwebs” on spent nuclear fuel is actually bacteria – Lucas W Hixson
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Cesium from incineration ash of normal garbage is not decreasing in Tochigi – Iori Mochizuki
• South Asia: Daily Pioneer – Thorium holds key to India’s energy security – Sandhya Jain
• Russia: Enformable – Russia starts full-scale production of anti-radiation missile