Sunday, October 07, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Where I Stand: Is this the Romney we’d get if he wins? – Brian Greenspun
• Stockton Record – Radioactive work to take another year
• Summit Daily News – WOTR: Hanford’s history is messy, but worth preserving – Alex Ernst Roth
• Tri-City Herald – USS Enterprise reactors clear Hanford review – Annette Cary
• Motherboard – Hiking Up a Big Pile of Nuclear Waste in Weldon Springs, Missouri – Michael_Byrne
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Land Use Manager’ topic at DOE board – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Eschenberg: Confidence in UPF schedule ‘degraded’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL director to deliver community lecture – Frank Munger
• WATE-TV – ORNL briefly on lock down for security concern
• Yes Vermont Yankee – High Level Waste and Legal Wrangles at Vermont Yankee – Meredith Angwin
• Oceania: New Zealand Herald – High time nuclear weapons closeted – Gwynne Dyer
• Asia-Pacific: Tepco – White Smoke Coming Out from the Cesium Absorption Tower Temporary Storage Facility at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (pdf-184K)
• Europe: Daily Telegraph – Independent Scotland would ban nuclear weapons but join Nato – Simon Johnson
• Europe: East Lothian News – Torness warned over oil drums
• Europe: Herald Scotland – Scottish constitution would ban nuclear weapons
• Europe: Press Association – Constitution ‘to ban nuclear arms’
• Europe: SNP – Explicit ban on nuclear weapons in Scotland

Saturday, October 06, 2012

• Bay Citizen – Navy’s Treasure Island radiation report found wanting–State health officials call contamination explanations inadequate – Matt Sm
• Salt Lake Tribune – Herbert friendly to EnergySolutions – Christopher Thomas
• Boise Weekly – fire DEQ: Radiation from Mustang Complex Fire Posed Low Health Risk – Andrew Crisp
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – White Sands Missle Range to open Trinity Site where first atomic bomb was detonatedBy Jim Kalvelage
• Laramie Boomerang – BLM approves uranium mining plan in southwest Wyo.
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – John Krueger to talk on U-233 project – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A look at Oak Ridge during the Cold War – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More tweaks on Oak Ridge security contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ferrera to head CH2M HILL’s nuclear group – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sick worker advocates seek help from Congress – Frank Munger
• New York Times – Editorial: A Big Laser Runs Into Trouble
• POGO blog – Washington Post Series on U.S. Nuclear Arsenal Requires Closer Look – Peter Stockton and Lydia Dennett
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – 16,800 Bq/Kg of cesium was measured from sewage sludge ash in Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Europe: EAEM – The safest option for nuclear waste is to leave it where it is – David Thorpe
• Europe: News & Star – N-waste decision delay worries – Chris Story
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Worries nuclear repository decision delay may not be long enough – Chris Story

Friday, October 05, 2012

• Columbia Riverkeeper – Public Comment Period – Hanford’s Dangerous Waste Permit
• KPVI News 6 – INL Releases Information about November Industrial Exposure – Sasha Zimmerman
• KTVB – DOE fines INL contractor over $400K
• LocalNews8 – INL releases findings of radiation exposure; workers escorted from briefing – Caleb James
• Reuters – Idaho nuclear lab fined after workers exposed to radiation – Laura Zuckerman
• Snake River Alliance – Nuclear Waste and the Path Backwards – Beatrice Brailsford
• CopaNews – A salty tomb within an underground crystal
• Las Cruces Sun-News – Trinity Site to open on SaturdayJim Kalvelage
• Odessa American – Radioactive rod found in Reeves County
• Power Engineering – Contract renewed for nuclear waste research center
• Bloomberg – Illinois Swims in Atomic Waste With Dump Unbuilt: BGOV Barometer – Kasia Klimasinska
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Plowshares protesters vow not to plea-bargain; recommend putting Y-12 under UN control – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL gets ‘Sustainability Award’ from DOE – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA exec Don Cook describes impact of Y-12 security breach: ‘It’s been considerable’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – B&W Y-12 says most of the security transition will be done in ‘several weeks’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Plowshares protesters vow not to plea-bargain; recommend putting Y-12 under UN control – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – ORNL wins two DOE sustainability awards – John Huotari
• ENS – Unexploded Bombs Menace Busy Gulf of Mexico
• ThomasNet Industrial News Room – Vertical Cask Transporter safely moves spent nuclear fuel
• Canada: Shoreline Beacon – OPG deep geologic repository review panel to tour nuke waste repositories – Troy Patterson
• Canada: Toronto Star – Port Hope radiation: $464,615 spent to remediate $130,000 house – Raveena Aulakh
• Oceania: ABC – Waste dump to top agenda at anti-nuclear forum – Ruby Jones and Allyson Horn
• Asia-Pacific: Alexander Higgins Blog – Top Nuclear Experts: Technology Doesn’t Yet Exist to Clean Up Fukushima – Alexander Higgins
• Asia-Pacific: Denki Shimbun – Fuel being removed from reactor affected by earthquake and tsunami
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Cut on the cards in sweep for radioactive particles – Will Clark
• Europe: PR Web – Atos assumes responsibility for Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s IT Services
• Europe: Reuters – Column-UK limits nuclear waste disposal options – Gerard Wynn
• East Europe: EurActiv – Ukraine nuclear fuel plant to boost energy security [fr]
• East Europe: Kyiv Post – Moscow Times: Rosatom to build nuclear fuel plant in Ukraine
• East Europe: Ukrainian Journal – Ukraine begins construction of first nuclear fuel manufacturing plant

Thursday, October 04, 2012

• Energy Daily – States to court: Budget proves Yucca should be restarted
• Las Vegas Weekly – cumentary by local teen looks at history of atomic testing in Nevada and in Kazakhstan – Kristen Peterson
• Las Vegas Weekly – Welcome to Doom Town: Stories and scars of nuclear Nevada – Kristen Peterson
• Crosscut Seattle – Is the Department of Energy trying to smother Hanford critique? – John Stang
• Missoula Independent – Atomic attraction–Hanford’s history is messy, but worth preserving – Alex Ernst Roth
• Northwest Public Radio – Flammable Gas In Hanford Waste Tanks Concerns Nuclear Watchdog – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – First radiation shield windows arrive at vit plant
• Tri-City Herald – Employees score Hanford well in organizational survey – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Battelle licenses batteries for clean energy to WA company
• Tri-City Herald – Presentation looks at key questions from Nuclear Age
• Rexburg Standard Journal – INL: Workers health not harmed by plutonium exposure – Alex Stuckey
• Utility Products – Idaho Falls Facility gets NRC license
• ABQ Journal – N.M. Coalition Wants High-Level N-Waste – John Fleck
• Albuquerque Journal – SE New Mexico pitches new nuclear waste site – John Fleck
• KKOB-Albuquerque – Nuclear Waste Storage Wanted in NM by Coalition
• KWES NewsWest9 – Nuclear Waste Storage Site Could Be Coming to New Mexico
• LAMonitor – LANL tops shipping record in first year
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge deer are beneficiaries of Y-12 security breach; TWRA cancels October hunt – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR cuts 91 more jobs – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – House Energy & Commerce staffers in town – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Security exercise at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sister Megan Rice healing ‘like a house on fire’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Layoffs at ORNL – Frank Munger
• WBIR-TV – Y-12 multi-billion dollar Uranium Processing Facility plans need redesign – Jim Matheny
• OilPrice – Nuclear Waste: A Valuable Source of Energy – Al Fin
• DOE – Department of Energy Cites Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Violations
• NWTRB – Agenda for Fall Board Meeting, October 17, 2012
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Savannah River Site Page 60688 [FR DOC#
  
• Canada: CBC News – Quebec nuclear reactor shutdown will cost $1.8 billion
• Canada: Downtown Toronto Bulletin – Ontario to waste $27 billions on electricity – Angela Bischoff
• Asia-Pacific: Power Engineering – U.S. urges Japan to keep plutonium minimum on proliferation fears
• Europe: Financial Times – Fukushima takes the shine off uranium – Emiko Terazono and Helen Thomas
• Europe: Rob Edwards – Sharp rise in nuclear transport accidents – Rob Edwards
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Strong – and conflicting – views on burial of N-waste – Alan Irving
• East Europe: ForUm – Ukraine starts building nuclear fuel plant
• East Europe: Prague Daily Monitor – Czech expert team to seek place for nuclear waste repository
• East Europe: World Nuclear News – Work starts on Ukrainian fuel plant

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

• KUOW NPR – Contaminated Hanford Machinery Mistakenly Sent Off Site – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – Site scores well in organizational survey – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Contaminated excavator mistakenly leaves Hanford site – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Defense safety board warns of flammable gas in Hanford tanks – Annette Cary
• Denver Post – Colorado makes legal peace with Cotter Corp. in push for mine cleanup – Bruce Finley
• LAMonitor – Lab marks 20 years without nuclear testing
• World Nuclear News – Licence to deconvert uranium
• Yahoo! News – Secret Cold War tests in St. Louis raise concerns – Jim Salter
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 uranium project’s safety, equipment issues force redesign; $500M already spent – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL Friends lecture Oct. 9 focuses on U-233 disposition – Bob Fowler
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Big issue with the UPF – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nixon & the atomic pioneers – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Jeff Binder promoted to associate lab director at ORNL, overseeing nuclear science and engineering – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More tweaking on Oak Ridge security contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UPF to be redesigned because equipment won’t fit; $500M already spent on Y-12 project – Frank Munger
• Orlando Sentinel – Nuclear fallout in Florida expensive – Beth Kassab
• Danville Register & Bee – Masters of inaction in Chatham
• Danville Register & Bee – At uranium forum, a lively discussion – Mary Beth Jackson
• Allentown Morning Call – Radium 226 from hockey arena demolition could be removed next week – Adam Clark
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Interim Staff Guidance; Issuances: Burnup Credit in the Criticality Safety Analyses of Pressurized Water Reactor Spent Fuel in Transportation and Storage Casks Pages 60479-60480 [FR DOC# 2012-24396]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Regulatory Guides; Withdrawals: Regulatory Guide 5.67, Material Control and Accounting for Uranium Enrichment Facilities Authorized To Produce Special Nuclear Material of Low Strategic Significance Page 60482 [FR DOC# 2012-24282]
• Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – TEPCO moves spent nuclear fuel to storage pool at Fukushima No. 2 plant
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Tepco removing fuel from reactor at Fukushima No. 2
• South Asia: India Today – Fuel loading completed at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, critiality processes commenced
• South Asia: Times of India – Spent nuclear fuel: A danger or resource? – Manoj Mitta
• Europe: BBC News – Cumbria councils defer nuclear waste storage search
• Europe: The Guardian – Cumbria delays nuclear burial decision amid rising worries about trust – Martin Wainwright
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Cumbria councils delay nuclear dump decision until new year

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Yucca nuclear waste site proponents push for final court decision – Steve Tetreault
• Tri-Valley CAREs – The De-Inventory of Special Nuclear Material at Livermore Lab is Complete, but Questions Remain
• Seattle Times – Radioactive Hanford excavator sent to Pasco shop
• Tri-City Herald – Radioactively contaminated excavator mistakenly sent to Pasco shop – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – PNNL operating under 5-year contract extension for Battelle – Annette Cary
• ABQ Journal – $425M Spent Trying To Design Lab’s Plutonium Site – Kiera Hay
• Ohio State College of Engineering – Frankel Appointed to U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Transition of Y-12 security contract begins; WSI issues parting statement – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – IG report: NNSA may not be able to meet W76 life-extension goals because of technical delays, cost-bound production rates, tight budgets – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Tweaking – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 security dog subcontractor agrees to pay more than $178K in back wages, benefits – Frank Munger
• Power Engineering – Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., Erwin, TN; Issuance of License Renewal
• OpEdNews – Depleted Uranium: The Toxic Wastelands with Dr. Doug Rokke
• ThomasNet News – Multi-Monitor System measures nuclear spent fuel pools.
• NRC – NRC Issues License to International Isotopes for Uranium Deconversion Facility in New Mexico
• Canada: Bullet News Huron – Letter: Open house short on open talks about storing high-level nuclear waste – Tony McQuail
• Canada: Hanover Post – No opposition over nuclear repository 0 – Mary Golem
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – J-Power to finish construction of first nuclear reactor designed to run exclusively on MOX fuel – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – Fukushima decontamination clean-up commences – Ida Torres
• Asia-Pacific: Kyodo News – TEPCO starts removing fuel from Fukushima Daini reactor
• Europe: BBC News – Cumbria councils block nuclear waste storage search
• Europe: Financial Times – Councils defer decision on nuclear waste – Andrew Bounds

Monday, October 01, 2012

• Elko Daily Free Press – What’s U-235? – Professor Gary Hanington
• Cal BLT – DOJ Intervenes in Whistleblower Suit Involving Hanford Nuclear Site Cleanup
• Columbia Daily Tribune – Nuclear waste: Still an issue? – Henry J. Waters III
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford contractor earns $3.1M for vit plant; lowest award payment yet – Annette Cary
• Beyond Nuclear – Deep Trouble — Nuclear Waste Burial in the Great Lakes Basin – Kay Cumbow
• UW Badger Herald – UW professor appointed to federal nuclear waste board – Allison Johnson
• Wisconsin State Journal – Brief: President appoints Bahr to nuclear waste board – Matthew Kleist
• AP Google – Security company fired after nuke plant break-in – Erik Schelzig
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Replacing Zacharia: an important hire for ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR cuts 21 more jobs – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Annual meeting for retired Oak Ridge workers – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Boertje-Obed became a pacifist in the military – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – WSI Oak Ridge pledges to help B&W Y-12 during security transition – John Huotari
• Augusta Chronicle – Work at SRS facility reduces much risk – Dave Olson
• The State – Olson: Reducing risk at Savannah River Site – David Olson
• Daily Tar Heel – State-of-the-art nuclear facility approved for NC – John Howell, Jr.
• Danville Register & Bee – Board at epicenter of uranium debate to vote on resolution
• Richmond Times Dispatch – GMU study touts potential benefits of uranium mining – Rex Springston
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Canada: Toronto Star – Nuclear waste: bury it deep, say the planners – John Spears
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Museum opposes decision on nuclear waste disposal
• Russia: Antinuclear – Nuclear waste dump under the Arctic sea