Sunday, October 28, 2012

• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• NRC – Public Meeting Schedule
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update

Saturday, October 27, 2012

• FAIR – U.S. Media Ignore Toxic Legacy of U.S. Weapons – Peter Hart

Friday, October 26, 2012

• DOE – The Energy Department Prepares for Hurricane Sandy – Amanda Scott
• NAS – Project Update: Review of the Department of Labor’s Site Exposure Matrix (SEM) Database
• NRC – NRC to Meet With Omaha Public Power District Officials to Discuss Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant
• NRC – NRC Staff to Meet With Florida Power & Light to Discuss Inspection of St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant
• NRC blog – Introducing the NRC’s Waste Confidence Directorate
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Idaho National Laboratory Page 65374 [FR DOC# 2012-26370]
• National Nuclear Security Administration – NOTICES Additions of Properties: Notice of Addition of Property for the Kansas City Plant Facilities Pages 65376-65377 [FR DOC# 2012-26372]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Notice of Sunshine Act Meetings Page 65419 [FR DOC# 2012-26509]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Reconstitutions: Northern States Power Company (Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation); Notice of Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Reconstitution Page 65417 [FR DOC# 2012-26383]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Interim Staff Guidance: Compliance With Information Request, Flooding Hazard Reevaluation Pages 65417-65419 [FR DOC# 2012-26375]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Partial Directors Decisions; Issuances: Virginia Electric and Power Company Pages 65419-65420 [FR DOC# 2012-26365]

Thursday, October 25, 2012

• NRC – NRC Schedules November 1 Meeting to Discuss Oversight of Zion Nuclear Power Plant and Decommissioning
• NRC – Inspector General Reports: FY 2012 Index
• NRC – NRC Issues Two White Findings and a Severity Level III Finding to Columbia Generating Station
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Certain Licensees Requesting Unescorted Access to Radioactive Material; Order Imposing Trustworthiness and Reliability Requirements for Unescorted Access to Certain Radioactive Material (Effective Immediately) Pages 65220-65231 [FR DOC# 2012-26299]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Applications for Approval: Notice of Consideration of Approval of Application Regarding Proposed Indirect Transfer of Control of the Construction Authorization for the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility in Aiken, SC Pages 65208-65210 [FR DOC# 2012-26300]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Order Imposing Fingerprinting and Criminal History Records Check Requirements for Access to Safeguards Information, Effective Immediately: Pages 65210-65215 [FR DOC# 2012-26292]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Order Imposing Requirements for the Protection of Certain Safeguards Information, Effective Immediately: Pages 65215-65220 [FR DOC# 2012-26288]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – PROPOSED RULES Temporary Storage of Spent Fuel after Cessation of Reactor Operation: Consideration of Environmental Impacts of Temporary Storage of Spent Fuel After Cessation of Reactor Operation Pages 65137-65139 [FR DOC# 2012-26295]

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

• Nuclear Engineering – US regulator sponsors new cancer study
• Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA7) – Markey Applauds Start of Cancer Risk Study of Americans Living Near Nuclear Power Plants – .
• DOE:IG – Management Challenges at the Department of Energy – Fiscal Year 2013, IG-0874
• NRC – NRC to Hold Public Scoping Meetings For Waste Confidence Environmental Study Nov. 14 in Rockville, MD
• NRC – ASLB to Hear Oral Arguments Nov. 5-6 on Contention Regarding Cracks in Davis-Besse Shield Building
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Designation of a Class of Employees for Addition to the Special Exposure Cohort from the Ventron Corporation, in Beverly, Massachusetts, Pages 64996-64997 [FR DOC# 2012-26172]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Confirmatory Orders Modifying Licenses: DBI, Inc., Casper, WY; Confirmatory Order Modifying License (Effective Immediately) Pages 65019-65023 [FR DOC# 2012-26204]
• UN: IAEA – Iraq Ratifies Additional Protocol

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

• NRC – NRC Sponsoring National Academy of Sciences Effort to Carry Out Pilot of Cancer Risk Study
• NRC – NRC Amends Regulations on Distribution of Uranium and Thorium
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: DOE/NSF High Energy Physics Advisory Panel Pages 64799-64800 [FR DOC# 2012-26054]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Page 64800 [FR DOC# 2012-26056]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico Pages 64800-64801 [FR DOC# 2012-26057]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Sunshine Act Meeting Page 64835 [FR DOC# 2012-26180]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Confirmatory Orders: Confirmatory Order; In the Matter of Honeywell International Inc.; Metropolis, Illinois Pages 64831-64834 [FR DOC# 2012-26052]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Draft NUREGs: Computational Fluid Dynamics Best Practice Guidelines for Dry Cask Applications Page 64834 [FR DOC# 2012-26047]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Exemptions: Exelon Generation Company, LLC; Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station; Exemption Pages 64834-64835 [FR DOC# 2012-26051]

Monday, October 22, 2012

• Van Ness Feldman – Status of Court of Appeals’ Yucca Mountain-Related Cases and Standard Contract Litigation Western Interstate Energy Board Denver, CO October 10, 2012 – Michael F. McBride (pdf-220K)
• NRC – Public Meeting Schedule
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation Pages 64494-64495 [FR DOC# 2012-25907]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Draft Emergency Preparedness Frequently Asked Questions Pages 64562-64563 [FR DOC# 2012-25929]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Meetings: Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Regulatory Policies and Practices; Notice of Meeting Page 64563 [FR DOC# 2012-25923]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Meetings: Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Notice of Meeting Pages 64563-64564 [FR DOC# 2012-25934]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Staff Guidances: Implementation of Regulatory Guide 1.221 on Design-Basis Hurricane and Hurricane Missiles Pages 64564-64565 [FR DOC# 2012-25927]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Surveys: Solicitation of Feedback and Lessons-Learned from the Pilot of the Revised Construction Reactor Oversight Process Pages 64565-64566 [FR DOC# 2012-25931]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – PROPOSED RULES Import of Non-U.S. Origin Radioactive Sources: Branch Technical Position on the Import of Non-U.S. Origin Radioactive Sources Pages 64435-64437 [FR DOC# 2012-25924]
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update