Sunday, September 30, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Nevadan at Work: Scientist works to share the stories in Nevada’s archaeology – Chris Sieroty
• redOrbit – Microbial Zoo Found At Contaminated Uranium Mill Could Help Toxic Cleanup – Brett Smith
• KSL-TV – Gov. Herbert weighing options after EnergySolutions controversy – Lisa Riley Roche
• Santa Fe New Mexican – Costly LANL project falling farther from realization – Roger Snodgrass
• Memphis Commercial Appeal – Nuclear power industry stalled by failure to address waste
• Aiken Leader – Senior Union Official Visits Shaw AREVA MOX Project
• Aiken Standard – Column: Reducing the risk at the Savannah River Site – Dave Olson – President of Savannah River Remediation at the Savannah River Site
• Aiken Standard – SRS closes first tanks in 15 years on Monday – Teddy Kulmala
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Indicator disordered in Monju, fast-breeder reactor – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – [NHK] Japan’s 1st recycled-fuel plant – Iori Mochizuki

Saturday, September 29, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Battelle fined for destroying bird nests, eggs – Annette Cary
• KETV Omaha – Highway 2 closed in Lincoln due medical waste spill
• WOWT – Mishap With Truck Carrying Radioactive Waste Closes Highway
• Cleveland Leader – Researcher Claims U.S. Army Sprayed Radioactive Particles Over St. Louis for Years to Test Chemical Warfare Technology
• Knoxville News Sentinel – DOE moves to terminate security contract with WSI-Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The U-233 concerns – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More lock out/tag out woes at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Are these early Oak Ridgers having fun? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – B&W Y-12 says transition from WSI will begin Oct. 1; bargaining agreement to be honored – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – New developments in Y-12 security saga – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A continuing message – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA delivered the news to B&W Y-12, says corrective actions at Y-12 not enough – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE moves to terminate WSI’s Y-12 contract; latest fallout from July 28 security breach – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The U-233 concerns – Frank Munger
• Reuters – US nuclear site ends security contract following nun’s break-in – Timothy Gardner
• Aiken Standard – SRS considers furloughs, week-long plant closure – Mike Gellatly
• New York Times – Uranium Plant Using Laser Technology Wins U.S. Approval
• Nuclear Engineering – Uranium supply-how has Fukushima changed the market – Steve Kidd
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Activists demand survey of Lanyu radiation levels – Loa Iok-sin
• Russia: Reuters blog – The Soviet ticking time bomb legacy – Vasily Fedosenko

Friday, September 28, 2012

• NTI – U.S. Completes 100th Trial With Nevada Nuke Stockpile Support System
• WarIsACrime – NNSA Keeps Conducting ‘Nuclear Tests’ and Mentioning Them Well After the Fact – Andrew Kishner
• Blog of Legal Times – DOJ Intervenes in Whistleblower Suit Involving Hanford Nuclear Site Cleanup
• Waste Management World – $730m Contract Extension at Radioactive Waste Cleanup Project in Idaho
• Cañon City Daily Record – Cotter Uranium Mill/Lincoln Park Superfund Site Community Advisory Group begins first step to reorganize CAG –
• Minneapolis Star Tribune – Tribe faces fight to make its case over nuclear storage – David Shaffer
• Forbes – Entergy Sues Feds Over Nuclear Waste – Jeff McMahon
• Platts – Entergy files suit seeking damages for spent fuel storage
• Vermont Journalism Trust – Vermont sends first shipments of radioactive waste to Texas – Andrew Stein
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Paducah
  
• Asia-Pacific: ENENews – Gundersen v. Tepco: Watch audience uproar after official says “there’s nothing in the fuel pool to burn” (VIDEO)
• Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – Japan 1st recycled-fuel plant
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Brand new waste crusher on its way to Dounreay
• Europe: Shields Gazette – A-bomb veterans take fight to Europe
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Repository decision ‘biggest county has faced’
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – German Chancellor challenged on nuclear policy
• Russia: Pravda – Is there a place for nuclear waste on Earth? – Igor Bukker

Thursday, September 27, 2012

• San Francisco Chronicle – Treasure Island health study planned – Matt Smith
• Enformable – Hawaii employing radiation detector at debris landing sites – Lucas W Hixson
• Tri-City Herald – CH2M-WG Idaho gets nuclear cleanup contract extension
• Casper Star-Tribune – Federal uranium stockpile sales still spark concern – Laura Hancock
• Phys.Org – Uranium-contaminated site yields wealth of information on underground microbe community
• Westword – Twenty years later, there’s still much we don’t know about Rocky Flats – Patricia Calhoun
• Houston Chronicle – Vt. begins shipping radioactive waste to Texas – Dave Gram
• University of Wisconsin-Madison – Hydrogeologist appointed to federal nuclear waste board – Jill Sakai
• Knoxville News Sentinel – FBI gets information on cars stopped at Y-12
• Knoxville News Sentinel – 229 cars turned back, reported to FBI in six months at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Rad training in Qinhuangdao – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE and the states: National Governors Association takes a 20-year look back on nuclear cleanup – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UT gets $3.5M grant from DOE nuclear program – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE amends security RFP; proposals due Oct. 19 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Make a wrong turn at Y-12, and the FBI will know – Frank Munger
• AllGov – Government Tries to Bury almost 2 Tons of Useless, but Still Dangerous, Man-Made Uranium
• Bloomberg – Entergy Sues U.S. for Failure to Dispose of Nuclear Waste – Tom Schoenberg and Julie Johnsson
• DOE – Energy Department Announces New Investments in University-Led Nuclear Energy Innovation
• Oceania: St George & Sutherland Shire Leader – ANSTO investment a boost but nuclear waste storage at Lucas Heights ”not the answer’ says council
• Asia-Pacific: Cutting Edge – Japan Plans Restart of Controversial Reactor – Steve Herman
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Japan’s government stymied by persistent resistance to disposal site selection process – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Japan to restart fast breeder program at Monju in order to ‘achieve something significant for humanity’
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Ministry selects 2nd N-waste candidate site
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Japan Picks N-Waste Disposal Candidate Site for Ibaraki
• Europe: this is Bath – Nuclear power protest
• Europe: Whitehaven News – West Cumbria nuclear store decision may be stalled until 2013 – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Kicking the can down the road
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Letters: Vote postponed but opinions still divided on nuclear waste
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Nuclear waste vote faces three-month delay – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – West Cumbria’s future hinges on nuclear waste decision – MP
• Europe: Deutsche Local – Merkel: I didn’t cut corners on nuke waste
• Europe: Europe Online Magazine – Merkel denies making nuclear waste errors in 1990s at inquiry
• Europe: Getty Images – Merkel Testifies In Gorleben Hearings – Sean Gallup
• Europe: Reuters – Germany’s Merkel denies misleading public over nuclear dump – Erik Kirschbaum
• North Europe: Copenhagen Post – Nuclear waste set to stay put – Christian Wenande
• North Europe: YouTube – The Place You Must Always Remember to Forget – Nuclear Waste the film – MrJmccammon

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

• Pahrump Valley Times – Yucca Mountain: Another Chance? – Bob McCracken
• ND Report – Marv Fertel Dicusses Yucca Mountain’s Future at the Idaho Leadership in Nuclear Energy Commission Meeting – Mark Mendiola
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – ‘Milestone experiment’ measures safety of aging nuclear stockpile – Keith Rogers
• Tri-City Herald – Former DOE official would abolish agency, he says in new book – Annette Cary
• Yahoo! Finance – DOE Extends CH2M HILL’s Idaho Cleanup Project Contract for 3 Years
• Deseret News – In our opinion: Tooele County chemical hazards ripple outside the county
• Albuquerque Journal – Feds Reviewing N.M. Uranium Project
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Y-12 security breach heard ’round the world
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Moving HEU out of Poland – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Warning: Y-12 to test new sirens today – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Neutron detector developed for use at SNS licensed to Indiana firm; specially adapted for biological studies – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Law professor joins Y-12 protester’s team – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – One month – Frank Munger
• Danville Register & Bee – River group releases list of potential uranium sites – Mary Beth Jackson
• Allentown Morning Call – DEP concerned about radioactive material from Allentown hockey arena site – Adam Clark
• Wayne Patch – Superfund Site Removed from National List – Daniel Hubbard
• Foster’s Daily Democrat – Vt. begins shipping radioactive waste to Texas
• Waxahachie Daily Light – Vt. begins shipping radioactive waste to Texas
• AllGov – Government Tries to Bury almost 2 Tons of Useless, but Still Dangerous, Man-Made Uranium
• energybiz – Nuclear Waste Will Remain Buried Until 2012 Election is Decided – Ken Silverstein
• DOE:IG – Inquiry into the De-Inventory of Special Nuclear Material at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, OAS-L-12-11
• The White House – President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Unconventional Resources Technology Advisory Committee Page 59182 [FR DOC# 2012-23700]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Ultra-Deepwater Advisory Committee Pages 59182-59183 [FR DOC# 2012-23701]
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – U.S. approves Hitachi-GE uranium enrichment plant
• Europe: Bloomberg – Biggest English Polluter Spends $1 Billion to Burn Wood: Energy – Kari Lundgren and Alex Morales
• Europe: News & Star – Future hinges on waste decision, says MP
• Russia: Bellona – Dumped Russian nuclear sub shows no radioactive leaks, but still presents chain reaction dangers, research says
• Russia: CNBC – Exxon, Rosneft to Drill in Soviet Nuclear Dump – James Burgess
• Russia: Euronews – Nuclear danger grows from dumped Soviet subs

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

• NTI – U.S. Completes Sixth Nonexplosive Plutonium Trial
• Redlands Daily Facts – Longtime activists worry California government is softening on Santa Susana Field Lab cleanup – Susan Abram
• Tri-City Herald – DOE study looks at industrial developmentat Hanford – Annette Cary
• Truth-out – Debate on Proposed Alaska Mine Waste Storage Facility Spreads the Myth of “Monitoring in Perpetuity” – Donald G. Schweitzer
• Telluride Daily Planet – Five entities granted party status in uranium hearing – Heather Sackett
• Albuquerque Journal – No Funds for Lab Project in Senate Bill – Michael Coleman
• CBS News – Feds in NM for review of proposed uranium project
• Minnesota Daily – Prof named to waste agency–Efi Foufoula-Georgiou was nominated for the government board. – Cody Nelson
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Legislation would turn nuke security over to military – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Management changeover continues at Y-12; Richardson to be deputy GM for operations – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Here’s what Fleischmann had to say on Turner bill – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s Arakawa gets Secretarial Award – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Linzau to be DNFSB site rep at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Taking a break – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Report takes critical look at U-233 management – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Long hours for Y-12 security police – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More from UCOR on job cuts – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Roth: ‘This bill has a lot of problems’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More reductions on Savannah River horizon – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Rep. Turner pushes for military security at Y-12, other nukes facilities – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – B&W Y-12 names new deputy general manager for operations – John Huotari
• Atlanta Journal Constitution – Nuclear industry slowed by its own waste – Kristi Swartz
• Virginian-Pilot – Hampton Roads panel backs uranium mining ban
• NTI – U.S. Could Bury Bomb-Sensitive Uranium
• NRC – NRC Issues License to GE-Hitachi for Laser Uranium Enrichment Plant in North Carolina
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO: No damage to N-fuel from steel beam
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Locations for disposal of nuclear fuel lacking / New proposal calls for temporary storage while studying stability of permanent underground sites – Koichi Yasuda and Takashi Hagihara
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – [Reactor3] Underwater video, “Two steel beams were found in the pool” – Iori Mochizuki
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Debate to be held on West Cumbria nuclear waste dump report
• Europe: Reuters – Areva, EDF sign long-term uranium contract – James Regan
• Europe: Nuclear Heritage – Nuclear Waste Disposal Disaster in Germany (pdf-1.7M)

Monday, September 24, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Hanford commuter bus put up for sale – Annette Cary
• Deseret News – Toxic challenges in Tooele County – Amy Joi O’Donoghue
• Salt Lake Tribune – Letter: Like Monopoly – Dave Moore
• LANL – Removing nuclear waste, one shipment at a time
• Chillicothe Gazette – Congress OKs $100M for Piketon plant
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Target vessel fails prematurely; SNS down for a couple of weeks – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – No, ACTC is not a vintage rock group – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 20 years since U.S. stopped underground tests – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Spacewalker talks science at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Special nuke materials removed from Livermore – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – McMillan named federal project chief for ORNL cleanup
• WCHL Chapel Hill – Common Science: Nuclear Power Part II: Waste, No Solution So Far – Jeff Danner
• about.com – Spent Nuclear Fuel a Growing Concern, GAO Reports – Robert Longley
• Forbes – Nuclear Energy’s Limp Causing Uranium Prices to Stumble – Ken Silverstein
• New York Times – Books of The Times: An Old Warrior With No Taste for Nuclear War – Janet Maslin
• Power Engineering – Growth slowed by waste
• Common Dreams – Expert: US Plan for Uranium-233 Disposal “Shocking”
• IPS – Managing the Uranium-233 Stockpile of the United States – Robert Alvarez
• New York Times – Uranium Substitute Is No Longer Needed, but Its Disposal May Pose Security Risk – Matthew L. Wald
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – TEPCO releases video and photos of Unit 3 spent fuel pool after steel frame accident – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Locations for disposal of nuclear fuel lacking / New proposal calls for temporary storage while studying stability of permanent underground sites – Koichi Yasuda and Takashi Hagihara
• Europe: this is Kent – Shepway council ‘dodged tendering rules’ over nuclear waste dump
• Europe: Times & Star – Nuclear dump up for debate – Victoria Brenan
• Europe: Deutsche Local – British nuclear fuel rods arrive from Sellafield