Sunday, October 14, 2012

• This is Reno – Sierra Club opposes turning Nevada into a nuclear dumping ground
• Idyllopus Press – The Little Red Plutonium-Porting Wagons of the Hanford Project – Juli Kearns
• Twin Falls Times-News – Twin Falls Man Wants Congress to Remember Idaho’s Downwinders – Blair Koch
• Telluride Daily Planet – Telluride, San Miguel County sign Piñon Ridge settlement – Katie Klingsporn
• Albuquerque Journal – WIPP, LANL Spending Had Different Outcomes – Colleen Heild
• Albuquerque Journal – Editorial: Nuke Arsenal Essential
• Minnesota Public Radio – NRC to weigh Indian views on nuclear waste – Rupa Sheno
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UPF’s deferred scope – Frank Munger
• Danville Register & Bee – Letter: No reason to be rude in Chatham – Mark Edward
• Danville Register & Bee – N.C. mayor wants uranium ban – Mary Beth Jackson
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Nuclear waste site owner levels accusations against Leechburg activist – Mary Ann Thomas
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Emperor, empress see decontamination work in Fukushima
• East Europe: Interfax – Waste beryllium removed from Zakhid Plant now outside Ukraine, say Kyiv authorities

Saturday, October 13, 2012

• Tri-Valley CAREs – How Would You Spend $640 Billion? – Marylia Kelley
• Spokesman-Review – Spokane’s nuclear hot spots–MAC exhibit shows how region was ‘tip of the spear’ in Cold War – Pia Hallenberg
• KING 5 – Apparent leak could trigger emergency response at Hanford nuclear facility
• KNDU-TV – Material found between walls of double-shell tank could be radioactive – Tracci Dial
• Salt Lake Tribune – Letter: Make it HEEL Utah – Grace Sperry
• Prairie Business Magazine – South Dakota reviews uranium mine permits request
• Journal Register Voice – Anti-nuclear activists call for temporary ‘hardened on-site storage’ of nuclear waste – Jim Bloch
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nuke security training in Russia – Frank Munger
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Kitakyushu city turned off monitoring post to incinerate disaster debris – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Senkakus not a dumping ground – Jyouji Hamano
• Russia: Bellona – Russian defense ministry says it will raise two sunken nuclear subs – observers skeptical it will happen soon – Charles Digges
• Russia: Washington Post – Without U.S. aid, will Russia keep scrapping its nuclear arsenal? – Editorial Board

Friday, October 12, 2012

• Homeland Security Neswire – U.S. keeps collecting money for a nuclear waste repository – but has no plans to build one
• Northwest Cable News – Evidence grows that Hanford tank has inner wall leak – Gary Chittim
• Tri-City Herald – Material between Hanford tank walls apparently radioactive waste – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford whistleblower’s case dismissed – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Battelle club’s screening of ‘Into Eternity: A Film for the Future’ suited for today – Gary Wolcott
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford dosimetry program in new hands
• Democracy Now! – After Decades of Uranium Mining, Navajo Nation Struggles With Devastating Legacy of Contamination – Amy Goodman & Juan González
• Casper Star-Tribune – Wyoming Legislature task force OKs nuclear waste bill – Jeremy Fugleberg
• Los Alamos Monitor – NMCF report digs deep on settlement – John Severance
• New Mexico Environment Department – Legacy Waste Cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) (pdf-75K)
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Evaluating the last days of WSI – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Alexander calls Y-12 breach ‘indefensible’ but he’s not ready to bring in the military – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Atomic art exhibit: ‘Doomtown’ – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – ORNL director gives lab update during Tuesday lecture – John Huotari
• Allentown Morning Call – Radioactive waste from Allentown’s arena site removed from Lower Saucon landfill – Emily Opilo
• Pocono Record – WWII-era Radioactive waste taken from Pa. landfill
• Boston Herald – Letter: Nuke plant pollutes – Anna Baker
• IEER – Comments on the Draft Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
• New York Times – U.S. Struggles to Rescue Green Program Hit by Fraud – Matthew L. Wald
• Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board – NOTICES Hanford Tank Farms Flammable Gas Safety Strategy
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: DOE/Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee Page 62231 [FR DOC# 2012-25144]
• Canada: Northumberland News – Radioactive waste or no, Port Hopers are passionate about their town
• Oceania: Creamer Media’s Mining Weekly – Cameco signs deal with Aboriginal landholders – Esmarie Swanepoel
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – In-Focus: Fukushima – Fukushima nuclear disaster causes 50% drop in value in one of world’s largest uranium producers – Only 1.1% of houses decontaminated as contaminated soil remains untouched
• Asia-Pacific: RTT News – Radiation-Contaminated Soil Remains Unlifted In Fukushima
• Europe: Greenpeace UK – Cumbria gets a stay of execution – but it’s still no place for a nuclear waste dump – Richardg
• Europe: ITV News – Cold War nuclear bomb store at risk, says English Heritage
• Europe: News & Star – Plea to rule out nuclear burial site in Cumbria – Julian Whittle
• Europe: this is Cornwall – Carl fought nuclear waste fight in 1980s at Gwithian
• East Europe: Interfax – Waste beryllium removed from Zakhid Plant now outside Ukraine, say Kyiv authorities
• South Africa: BDlive – Nuclear agency ponders what to do with dangerous material – Sarah Wild

Thursday, October 11, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Reactions mixed to possible transfer of Hanford land for industrial development – Dori O’Neal
• Navajo Times – The great debate–RDC tables legislation to reaffirm tribal uranium ban – Alastair Lee Bitsoi
• Albuquerque Journal – “Plutonium, fun for the whole family!” – John Fleck
• Democracy Now! – Birthplace of Atomic Bomb, New Mexico Remains Center of Massive U.S. Nuclear Arsenal – Amy Goodman &Juan González
• Rock Hill Herald – Prairie Island Indian Community Granted Federal Hearing in Fight against 40 Year Extension of Nuclear Waste Storage
• Milwaukee Business Journal – Film Fest doc turns Lubar into nuke opponent – Rich Kirchen
• Journal Register Voice – Deep trouble: Nuclear waste burial in the Great Lakes basin – Jim Bloch
• EurekAlert – University of Tennessee receives DOE funds to improve nuclear safety
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Alexander says redesigning Y-12 Uranium Processing Facility better now than later – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Big Red II – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Dogs – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More Q&A’s on Oak Ridge security contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Alexander supports decision to redesign UPF – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – ORNL director to speak at Smyser lecture
• POGO blog – Video: POGO Pops Up in Y-12 Hearing – Andre Francisco
• Augusta Chronicle – Environmental groups seek updated cost estimates for MOX project – Rob Pavey
• Aiken Leader blog – Public Interest Groups Challenge Savannah River Site’s Troubled Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Program – Thomas Clements
• Danville Register & Bee – Pittsylvania County still split on uranium mining – Mary Beth Jackson
• Greenbelt.Patch – BARC to Remove Radioactive Waste From Beltsville Grounds – Bailey Henneberg
• Lehigh Valley News – IESI removes radioactive debris from Lower Saucon Township landfill – Lynn Olanoff
• BREDL – Letter to Dr. Chu: Additional Comments Regarding the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement noticed in the Federal Register on July 27, 2012 (pdf-286K)
• Uranium Investing News – Nuclear Power Prominent in US Presidential Candidates’ Energy Policies1 – Melissa Pistilli
• NAS – Project Update: Disposal Options for the Rocket Motors of Nerve Agent Rockets at Blue Grass Army Depot
• NWTRB – Agenda for Fall Board Meeting, October 17, 2012
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Annual Public Meeting of the Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Pages 61748-61749 [FR DOC# 2012-24982]
• UN: IAEA – Managing Radioactive Waste: Making a Difference with Nuclear Technology (pdf-333K)
• Canada: Northumberland News – A glowing future for Port Hope–Rebranding and rebuilding the community
• Europe: Historum – UK radioactive waste spilled in the Atlantic ocean
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Pros and cons of a nuclear bin
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Nuclear dump TV show ‘may hit area’s tourism’
• East Europe: Nuclear Engineering – Russia-Ukraine nuclear fuel plant begins construction
• Russia: Ria Novosti – Russia to Salvage Sunken Nuclear Subs – Media
• Russia: Ria Novosti – Dangerous radioactive dump sites in Kara Sea – Mikhail Flint
• South Africa: Creamer Media’s Engineering News – Concerns raised over proposed Necsa Pelindaba smelter – Megan Wait

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

• Albany.Patch – You Ask: Helicopters Measuring Natural Radiation; Say What? – Catherine (Kate) Rauch
• Berkeley.Patch – You Ask: Really, Naturally-Occurring Radiation in the Bay Area (Part 2)? – Catherine (Kate) Rauch
• Northwest Public Radio – Report: Hanford Unprepared For Early Start On Cleanup – Jessica Robinson
• Tri-City Herald – Enrico Fermi’s granddaughter talks nuclear history, “Fermi Paradox” – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Official says vit analysis not developed – Annette Cary
• Denver Westword – Reader: We’ll never know what’s been buried with Rocky Flats – Jane Zulian
• Santa Fe Reporter? – Just Say Nuke–Southeastern New Mexico goes nuclear. Is that bad? – Justin Horwath
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Budget uncertainty costing cleanup jobs – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 uranium project’s redesign after $500 million already spent raises questions, anxiety – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Normal maintenance’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Eschenberg: Redesigning UPF now is a whole lot better — and cheaper — than tearing it apart after construction begins – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Attorneys for Plowshares protesters request another month to file motions in Y-12 case – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Neutrons and more neutrons – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 mirrored ORNL lockdown – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – After visit to Y-12, Rep. Turner remains ‘very concerned’ about security at nuclear weapons sites – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Y-12 protesters ask for extra month to file motions in federal case – John Huotari
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Public meetings should be safe harbor for concerns – Mark Edward
• Chatham Star Tribune – Former Canadian regulator discusses uranium mining – Jonathan Parker
• Chatham Star Tribune – Uranium Working Group returns to Chatham Oct. 17 – Tim Davis
• International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons? – Review of latest reports to the UN Secretary General on DU
• Oceania: Perth Now – WA’s first uranium mine is two steps away – Rebecca Le May
• Asia-Pacific: ENENews – Mystery Continues: ‘Difficult to determine’ location of melted fuel during Unit 1 investigation, says Tepco – Radiation dose highest at top of containment vessel=
• Russia: RT – Moscow to block US from monitoring Russia’s nuke arsenal
• Russia: Yahoo! News – Huge ammunition explosion rocks Russian city – Gleb Bryanski

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

• KUOW Puget Sound – Report: Hanford Unprepared For Early Start On Cleanup – Jessica Robinson
• Tri-City Herald – Fermi talk on Nuclear Age tonight in Richland
• Tri-City Herald – Pump problem slows emptying of Hanford tank – Annette Cary
• Salt Lake Tribune – Utah-based EnergySolutions lays off scores company-wide – Judy Fahys
• World Nuclear News – Areva to help develop US storage facility
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Cook says he’s confident NNSA will meet W76 commitments to the Defense Dept. – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – New target vessel installed at Spallation Neutron Source; previous one failed prematurely – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Shults tells Oak Ridge retirees: ‘This is not what you want to hear and not what I would like to say’ – Frank Munger
• NTI – Turner Not Convinced Y-12 Managers Were Unaware Of Security Failings – Douglas P. Guarino
• Oak Ridger – New uses for Carbon Fiber: Rogers says ‘team effort’ involves ORNL, others – Leean Tupper
• Oak Ridge Today – ORNL locked down Sunday as officials investigate security concern – John Huotari
• WBIR-TV – ORNL, Y-12 retirees meet to discuss pension plan, Y-12 break-in
• Brattleboro Reformer – Vt. begins shipping radioactive waste to Lone Star state – Dave Gram
• DOE:IG – Management Alert – The 2020 Vision One System Proposal for Commissioning and Startup of the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, IG-0871
• Central Asia: The Scotsman – Josef Stalin’s nuclear legacy remains in East Kazakhstan

Monday, October 08, 2012

• NBC Bay Area – Navy’s Treasure Island Radiation Report Found Wanting – Matt Smith
• Tri-City Herald – Pump problem slows emptying of Hanford tank – Annette Cary
• Salt Lake Tribune – Budget woes in Tooele County lead to hazmat cuts – Kimball Bennion
• Albuquerque Journal – Editorial: N.M. Steps Into D.C.’s Yucca Mountain Breach
• Nuclear Engineering – NRC licenses first US deconversion facility
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE provides info on cleanup budget and job cuts; says K-25 demolition to be finished ahead of schedule – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sunday lockdown at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Security ‘clearance’ at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Aiken Leader – Department of Energy Cites Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Violations
• East Asia: Japan Times – South Korea eschews enrichment of uranium, but chafes at U.S. effort to restrict its options – Lee Byong Chul
• South Asia: Daily Pioneer – Thorium a game changer for India’s power needs? . – Kumar Chellappan
• Europe: BBC News – Cumbria’s nuclear waste disposal dilemma is prolonged
• Europe: BBC News – Nuclear waste disposal: Where in Cumbria to bury it?
• Europe: World Radio Switzerland – Document suggests radioactive sites already chosen – Lucas Chambers