Sunday, December 02, 2012

• Register-Guard – COMMENTARY: 1949 nuclear experiment is an ugly legacy of Hanford – Susan Cundiff and Patricia Hoover
• Salt Lake Tribune – Changes OK’d for radioactive waste site – Judy Fahys
• Bacon’s Rebellion – The Curse of the Yellow Powder – Rose Jenkins
• Rapid City Journal – Editorial: Questions for Powertech
• Simmons AAL – Nuclear Waste Pollutes North St. Louis County Creek for Half Century – Michael Stewart
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Duncan to chair Sen. Alexander’s reelection bid – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nuclear security expert Howard Hall among UT’s seven new AAAS Fellows – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Easy sledding in post-war Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Widow of DOE exec Michael Strayer reaches plea deal in government fraud case; could face year in prison and $104,000 in restitution – Frank Munger
• Oceania: Eureka Street – Australia proves a soft touch at UN over toxic warfare – Donna Mulhearn

Saturday, December 01, 2012

• Honolulu Civil Beat (blog – Army Seeks To Skirt Depleted Uranium Rules For Hawaii Training
• Tri-City Herald – PNNL in Richland picked to be part of energy research hub
• Brainerd Daily Dispatch – Nuclear waste
• Wisconsin Public Radio – Activists Criticize 70 Years of Nuclear Waste
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – Browns Ferry Nuclear plant’s safety eyed – Pam Sohn
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander to run again in 2014 – Andy Sher
• Knoxville News Sentinel – DOE exec’s widow to plead guilty in federal fraud case – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Queen Frederika’s visit to ORNL – Frank Munger
• Daily Advance – Va. study group releases uranium mining report
• News Virginian – Letter to the editor: Uranium mining is danger waiting to happen – Eleanor Amidon
• Washington Post – Virginia uranium-mining guidelines proposed – Errin Haines
• Forbes – Nuclear Waste Gone from Hurricane Sandy’s Path – James Conca
• POGO blog – DoD Contractors Cost Nearly 3 Times More than DoD Civilians – Scott Amey
• SEIA – National Lab Report: Cost of Solar Energy Continues Significant Decline
• Wired News – Pentagon Cries Poor, Starts $10 Billion Nuclear Weapon Upgrade – Noah Shachtman
• Oceania: ABC – First Pacific Island populations leave radioactive clues – Sean Dorney
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Urenco takes on Capenhurst site

Friday, November 30, 2012

• State of Nevada – Meeting Minutes – Commission on Nuclear Projects, May 31, 2012 (pdf-96K)
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford contractor proposes cutting union worker wages, benefits – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – CH2M Hill seeks wage, benefit cuts from Hanford union workers – Annette Cary
• Cibola County Beacon – Part I: Related Health Issues, Hard Case to Prove – Richard Kamp
• Cibola County Beacon – Part II: RECA and COMPENSATION – Richard Kamp
• Cibola County Beacon – Department of Labor Official Comments on Cibola General Hospital Screenings
• Denver Post – Conifer prof exposes students to nuclear history at museum – Karen Groves
• Austin American-Statesman – Radioactive waste site fees push Texas users out-of-state – David Barer
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge neighborhood about to vanish – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s Sean Smith elected AAAS Fellow – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Contract awarded for asbestos cleanup at Oak Ridge Fed Bldg; DOE workers may return home in May – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Rep. Chuck Fleischmann gets seat on House Appropriations Committee – Frank Munger
• Virginian-Pilot – Va. uranium mining panel set to release report
• Virginian-Pilot – Farm lobby wants Virginia uranium ban to stay – Steve Szkotak
• WAMU – Company Spreads Money In Advance of Radioactive Debate – Michael Pope
• Dallas Business Journal – Texas Instruments pays $15M to end contamination suit – Jeff Bounds
• ANWAG – Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Office Fails to inform Claimants of Contractor’s Potential Security Breach (pdf-75K)
• AFL-CIO – AFL-CIO’s strong opposition to HR4310, that would seriously weaken worker and nuclear safety protection st DOE (pdf-90K)
• DOE – Team Led by Argonne National Lab Selected as DOE’s Batteries and Energy Storage Hub
• Energy Department – NOTICES Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Transfer of the Kansas City Plant, Kansas City, MO Pages 71414-71415 [FR DOC# 2012-28713]
• Canada: Saskatoon StarPhoenix – Cameco CEO bullish on nuclear future – Bruce Johnstone
• Canada: Westmorland Gazette – ‘Nuclear repository is a threat to the Lakes’
• Oceania: Adelaide Now – ‘Significant’ uranium find near Beverley mine, says Core Exploration
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Traditional owners seek more benefits from mine – Phoebe Stewart
• South Asia: Tehelka – Why I don’t take Kolar lightly–Nuclear waste will not magically disappear. So who will be made to suffer its toxic effects? –
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – Nuclear storage at Gorleben to stay temporary, until vote
• Russia: PennEnergy – Russia Scrapped 192 of the 199 Discarded Nuclear Submarines
• South Africa: AllAfrica – Namibia: Epangelo Seals N$1.8 Billion Uranium Deal – Eveline De Klerk, 30 November 2012

Thursday, November 29, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Hanford whistleblower to speak at Whitman College
• Green River Star – Conservation groups challenges uranium mine policy – Luke Justis
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – WIPP supporters say environmental group’s lawsuit over shipping containers has no merit – Natalie Gross
• Taos News – Taos area group seeks help with uranium in water – Matthew van Buren
• Courthouse News Service – Sierra Club Loses Bid to Stop Radioactive Waste – David Lee
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 does $38.1M in ‘work for others’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Report: U.S. considered nuking the moon – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Neutron production resumes at SNS – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Matters of the heart – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Jinxed? Power disruption shuts down SNS – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Blackburn vice chair of House Energy & Commerce – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – PIDAS relocation at Y-12 on pause, at least until security reviews are completed – Frank Munger
• POWERnews – MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility: Turning Swords into Plowshares – James M. Hylko
• firedoglake – OakRidge Nuclear Weapons Security Breach Showed How U. S. System for Protecting Whistleblowers Is Broken – Don Soeken
• NRDC blog – Let Them Eat Lead (and Drink Whatever Replaces Perchlorate) – Daniel Rosenberg
• NTI – NRC Interested in Easing Security Rules For Civilian Plutonium
• DOE:EM – EM’s $500,000 Investment in Contaminant Remediation Leads to Hanford Site Strategy Providing $6.35 Million in Cost Savings
• DOE:EM – EM’s Top Official Underscores Commitment to Meet with Tribes
• DOE:EM – Atomic Bombs, Winning the War and Women in Pants: Voices of the Manhattan Project Speak of the Nation’s History
• NWTRB – Jobs Update
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima governor accepts surveys for radioactive waste storage facility
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Osaka started test incineration of 100 tones disaster debris, more 36,000 tones to come next year – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Fukushima governor urges prefecture’s municipalities to accept state surveys on nuclear waste disposal site
• Europe: In-Cumbria – Sellafield plans to put £1billion of work West Cumbria’s way – Alan Irving
• South Africa: Citizen Daily – Uranium touted as safe, clean

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

• Nuclear Energy Insider – Spent fuel storage: could Congress fast-track a decision on US spent fuel storage? – Peter Taberner
• IPS – Settlement Begins in U.S. Mismanagement of Native Funds – Carey L. Biron
• Navajo-Hopi Observer – Researchers plan to study effects of Navajo Reservation uranium exposure on pregnancy and child birth – David Yankus
• Tri-City Herald – Scientific research in Washington would be hard hit by fiscal cliff
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Agencies sharing resources helped boost Titan to No. 1 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Day in the Life of a Nuclear Watchdog’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge cleanup numbers – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UT, Knox-based Tai Yang get ARPA-E awards – Frank Munger
• Nuclear Street – DOE Solicits Spent Fuel Storage Demonstration Projects
• Martinsville Bulletin – Council backs mining ban – Mickey Powell
• Martinsville Bulletin – Report days from release
• Staunton News Leader – Uranium panel meets for final time before report
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Costs cloud cleanup of Parks nuclear waste site – Liz Hayes
• Vermont Journalism Trust – Environmental groups release “dirty dozen” list of New England’s “worst polluters” – Alicia Freese
• Columbus Free Press – Radioactive waste now a mountain 70 years high: Energy Department must consider hardened on-site storage
• DOE – ARPA-E Awards $130 Million for 66 Transformational Energy Technology Projects
• DOE OakRidge – Transuranic Waste Processing (pdf)
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Fukushima to Accept Govt Surveys for Nuclear Waste Disposal Facility
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Municipalities concerned about spent nuclear fuel
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Local govts to allow tainted soil storage survey
• Europe: The Guardian – Lake District park authority opposes radioactive ‘waste grave’ – Martin Wainwright
• Europe: Irish Health – Sellafield accident ‘would not harm health here’ – Deborah Condon
• Europe: Limerick Leader – Report on Sellafield leak effects
• Europe: Scottish Sun – 30% chance of Sellafield leak – Ed Carty
• Europe: Times & Star – Plans for underground nuclear store near Silloth rejected by residents – Phil Coleman
• North Europe: Copenhagen Post – Not in anyone’s backyard – Ray Weaver
• North Europe: World Nuclear News – Greenland pushes on with uranium policy

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

• YubaNet – Radioactive Waste Now a Mountain 70 Years High–Energy Department Must Consider Hardened On-Site Storage
• Tri-City Herald – New website captures voices of Hanford, Manhattan Project, Indians – Annette Cary
• KUTV – Toxic Nuclear Waste May Be On Its Way To Utah
• Los Alamos Daily Post – Audit of LANL Notes Millions in Unresolved Costs in FY2010
• Popular Science – Los Alamos Lab Demonstrates A Reactor For Space Travel – Rebecca Boyle
• Rapid City Journal – CARROLL: Better to mine at home – Frank Carroll
• Rapid City Journal – Fall River commission opposes Powertech uranium project until conditions met – Kevin Woster
• Albuquerque Journal – ‘Improper’ Use of Lab Range – Kiera Hay
• Daily Journal – Cleanup of closed Mo. nuclear fuel plant ongoing
• Knoxville News Sentinel – NRC sets meeting on TVA flood plan
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – SNS revved up and ready for users – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Livermore’s upgraded computer cluster would be used to predict fallout path from nuclear explosions – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 5 Los Alamos security workers fired – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s new video – Frank Munger
• Baton Rouge Advocate – Radioactive material handling probed – David J. Mitchell
• Augusta Chronicle – SRNS gift moves Aiken Tech toward nuclear training center
• CBS News – Va. uranium panel meets in Richmond for last time – Steve Szkotak
• Virginia Connection Newspapers – Uranium Money Spreads Across Virginia in Radioactive Debate – Michael Lee Pope
• Common Dreams – The Toxic Legacy of Depleted Uranium Weapons – Paul McGinniss
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Yaita residents angry over government’s radioactive disposal site proposal
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Commission recommends revising disposal plans for dangerous nuclear plant waste
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Prefectures not positive about nuclear disposal
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – No plan to dump nuclear waste at KGF, says Centre
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Nuclear waste not to be dumped at Kolar gold mine: Govt to SC
• Europe: Dublin Journal – Accident at Sellafield would have “no health effects in Ireland”
• Europe: EAEM – New nuclear clears licence hurdle for EDF-Centrica – David Thorpe
• Europe: ENDS Report (subscription) – Digging deep to bury nuclear’s problems – Alex Marshall
• Europe: Irish Times – Sellafield poses no health risk to State, says report – Dick Ahlstrom
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Sellafield branded a ‘nuclear slum’
• Russia: The Guardian – Siberia’s pesticide dumps may prove a bigger hazard than nuclear waste – Marie Jégo

Monday, November 26, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Bacteria helping clean up spilled fuel near N Reactor – Annette Cary
• Idaho Statesman – Rocky Barker: Is there a future in nuclear waste? – Rocky Barker
• El Paso Times – Group to appeal approval of ‘hot’ nuclear-waste plan for Carlsbad
• Courier-Journal blog – Final cap in the works for Maxey Flats nuclear waste dump – James Bruggers
• Morehead News – Maxey Flats runoff said to be no threat – Nicole Sturgill
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 26 million curies – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Audit identifies millions in unresolved costs in FY 2010 at Los Alamos lab – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The ORNL and NOAA relationship – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The slippery slope of security – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS role in future of spent nuclear fuel disposal unclear – Rob Pavey
• GPB – Nuclear Facility Quiet At Holiday – Orlando Montoya
• Business Week – Va. uranium panel meets in Richmond for last time – Steve Szkotak
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Newsroom America – GSN: Federal Panel: Dirty Bomb Cleanup Need Not Follow U.S. Cancer Rules
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed Dewey-Burdock In-Situ Uranium Recovery Project in Custer and Fall River Counties, SD Pages 70486-70487
• Canada: Nuclear Waste Watch – Review of Nuclear Waste Law Required–National Alliance Calls for Major Changes in Decade Old Nuclear Fuel Waste Act
• East Asia: Yonhap News – N. Korean ship captured in Somalia over sea dumping: media
• South Asia: Deccan Chronicle – ‘Kolar fields as N-dumpyard dangerous’ – Amit S. Upadhye
• South Asia: Times of India – Paranoia about nuclear waste unwarranted, says retired scientist – MB Maramkal, TNN
• Europe: BBC News – Sellafield inspection after ‘intolerable risk’ report
• Europe: ITV News – Sellafield bosses questioned over cost of cleaning up the nuclear reprocessing site
• Europe: ITV News – Sellafield scrutinised
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – New nuclear plant at Sellafield is ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunity, conference told – Julian Whittle
• East Europe: Balkans Business News – EU offers Bulgaria additional EUR 260 M for nuclear dismantling