Saturday, December 01, 2012

• POGO – An Open Letter to the Senate in Support of More Protections for Whistleblowers and Taxpayer Dollars
• 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
• UN: IAEA – Board of Governors Concludes November Session

Friday, November 30, 2012

• State of Nevada – Meeting Minutes – Commission on Nuclear Projects, May 31, 2012 (pdf-96K)
• 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)
• ENS – 2012 Breaks Records for Heat, Drought, Weather Extremes
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Podcast: November 21, 2012; Thanksgiving Edition: Financial Pressures are Affecting Safety Decisions at The Nations Nuclear Power Plants
• 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]
• Health and Human Services Department – RULES Irradiation in the Production, Processing and Handling of Food Pages 71312-71316 [FR DOC# 2012-28967]
• Health and Human Services Department – RULES Irradiation in the Production, Processing and Handling of Food Pages 71316-71321 [FR DOC# 2012-28968]
• National Nuclear Security Administration – 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]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Notice of Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Reconstitution, Tennessee Valley Authority (Watts Bar, Unit 2) Page 71454 [FR DOC# 2012-29004]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES License Amendment to Construct and Operate Marsland Expansion Area: Crow Butte Resources, Inc. License SUA-1534, License Amendment To Construct and Operate Marsland Expansion Area Pages 71454-71458 [FR DOC# 2012-29000]
• UN: Reuters – Hackers claim to have “confidential” IAEA information – Fredrik Dahl

Thursday, November 29, 2012

• 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
• NRC – NRC to Hold Public Meeting, Open House on Dec. 11 to Update Public on Reviews of Concrete Degradation at Seabrook Nuclear Plant
• NRC – NRC to Meet With Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Co.
• NRC – NRC Schedules Meeting with FPL to Discuss Application for New Nuclear Units at the Turkey Point Site
• NWTRB – Jobs Update
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.: Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact Related to Exemption From the Implementation Deadline for Certain New Emergency Preparedness Regulations for the Humboldt Bay Power Plant, Unit No. 3, License DPR-007, Eureka, CA Pages 71198-71199 [FR DOC# 2012-28888]
• UN: IAEA – IAEA Director General Addresses Board of Governors
• UN: IAEA – IAEA Concludes Safety Review at Gravelines Nuclear Power Plant, France
• UN: IAEA – Half a Century of Science for Development
• UN: IAEA – Five Decades of Achievement, Future Challenges in Focus at Ceremony Marking IAEA Labs Anniversary
• UN: IAEA – Technical Cooperation Budget Considered in Vienna
• UN: Reuters – Hackers did not steal sensitive nuclear information: IAEA – Fredrik Dahl

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

• State of Nevada – Public Meeting: Commission on Nuclear Projects, Clark County Government Center, County Commission Chambers, First Floor, 500 S. Grand Central Parkway,Las Vegas, Nevada 89155, November 29, 2012 – 1:00pm (pdf-215K)
• DOE – ARPA-E Awards $130 Million for 66 Transformational Energy Technology Projects
• DOE OakRidge – Transuranic Waste Processing (pdf)
• GAO – Megaports Initiative Faces Funding and Sustainability Challenges, GAO-13-37, Oct 31, 2012
• NRC – NRC Schedules Meeting With TVA to Discuss Supplemental Inspections at Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Interim Staff Guidances: Japan Lessons-Learned Project Directorate Interim Staff Guidance JLD-ISG-2012-04; Guidance on Performing a Seismic Margin Assessment in Response to the March 2012 Request for Information Letter Pages 71019-71020 [FR DOC# 2012-28755]
• UN: Enformable – Hackers access IAEA data and slam Israeli nuclear program – Lucas W Hixson
• UN: OpEdNews – United Nations — Worse Than a Lipsticked Pig – Tracy Turner

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

• Energy Live News – NASA tests nuclear powered space travel
• Government Accountability Project – White House “Insider Threat” Memo Will Silence Whistleblowers – Jesselyn Radack
• Nation of Change – Whistleblower: Nuclear Regulators Suppress Facts, Break Law
• NRC – NRC Schedules Meeting With TVA to Discuss Flood Mitigation Strategies at Sequoyah and Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plants
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Facility Operating Licenses and Combined Licenses: Biweekly Notice; Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses and Combined Licenses Involving No Significant Hazards Considerations Pages 70837-70846 [FR DOC# 2012-28566]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Regulatory Guides: Regulatory Guide 1.182, “Assessing and Managing Risk Before Maintenance Activities at Nuclear Power Plants” Pages 70846-70847 [FR DOC# 2012-28719]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Requests for Action: Entergy Nuclear Indian Point 2, LLC; Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit No. 2, Request for Action Pages 70847-70848 [FR DOC# 2012-28718]
• UN: AP Google – UN nuclear agency reports being hacked
• UN: Reuters – U.N. nuclear agency says hackers stole information
• UN: IAEA – Technical Cooperation Budget Considered in Vienna

Monday, November 26, 2012

• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Newsroom America – GSN: Federal Panel: Dirty Bomb Cleanup Need Not Follow U.S. Cancer Rules
• GAO – Oversight and Status of Implementing a Risk-Informed Approach to Fire Safety
• NRC – Public Meeting Schedule
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Sunshine Federal Register Notice Page 70488 [FR DOC# 2012-28715]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Draft Regulatory Guides: Preoperational Testing of Onsite Electric Power Systems To Verify Proper Load Group Assignments, Electrical Separation, and Redundancy Pages 70484-70486 [FR DOC# 2012-28564]
• 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 [FR DOC# 2012-28425]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Establishment of Atomic Safety and Licensing Boards: Southern California Edison Company; Establishment of Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Pages 70487-70488 [FR DOC# 2012-28562]
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Canada: Nuclear Waste Watch – Review of Nuclear Waste Law Required–National Alliance Calls for Major Changes in Decade Old Nuclear Fuel Waste Act