Sunday, December 09, 2012

• Seattle Times – Letter: Concerns about Hanford nuclear waste–Bechtel committed to delivering WTP safely – Frank Russo, Betchel national project director for Waste Treatment Plant at Hanford, Richland
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford cleanup deadline changes proposed – Annette Cary
• Vancouver Columbian – Letter: Hanford is burden on both states – Barbara Pereira
• Idaho State Journal – Feds identify weaknesses with INL tactical team
• Idaho State Journal – Battelle gets low rating from Energy Department
• Albuquerque Journal – Letter: Contractors Leave Hefty Bills – Patricia Victour
• Los Alamos Study Group – Plutonium in Warhead Cores (“Pits”) Stable to 150 Years – Greg Mello
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ex-Savannah River subcontract worker agrees to pay $58K to settle fraud case against him – Frank Munger
• Roanoke Times – Editorial: Risks are too great to lift uranium moratorium
• OpEdNews – Nuclear Weapons: Who Cares Any More? – William Boardman
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Pit stop signals end of era at Ranger uranium mine – Ruby Jones
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Letter: Japan’s Plutonium Policy – Shunsuke Kondo
• South Africa: Zimbio – Radioactive waste fund may affect miners

Saturday, December 08, 2012

• USGS – Conceptualization of the Predevelopment Groundwater Flow System and Transient Water-Level Responses in Yucca Flat, Nevada National Security Site, Nevada – Joseph M. Fenelon, Donald S. Sweetkind, Peggy E. Elliott, and Randell J. Laczniak
• Indian Country Today – Navajos Original Graduates Ready to Cleanup Superfund Sites
• KOB – NM’s federal labs test nuclear weapons
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nuclear songbook: ‘Neutron Dance’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – U.S. Rep. Gerald Ford visits ORNL (1965) – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Opposed to nuclear weapons work, Y-12 protesters refused to plead gui
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – March 17th, 2011 – Some US Spent Fuel Pools are simply not seismically qualified
• Asia: All Things Nuclear – Is Xi Jinping Changing Chinese Nuclear Weapons Policy? – Gregory Kulacki

Friday, December 07, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Scientists detonate plutonium experiment – Keith Rogers
• NNSA – NNSA Conducts Pollux Subcritical Experiment at Nevada National Security Site
• Xinhua News – Japan raps U.S. subcritical nuclear test
• Bay Citizen – Radioactive waste on Treasure Island – what you need to know – Marie McIntosh
• Northwest Cable News – State worries no plan in place for half of Hanford waste – Gary Chittim
• Tri-City Herald – Mid-Columbia teams honored for hazardous material handling – Published: December 7, 2012
• Tri-City Herald – PNNL’s Aquatic Research Laboratory gets $4.9M upgrade – Annette Cary
• Casper Star Tribune – BLM seeks comment on Fremont County uranium mine
• Cibola County Beacon – Cleanup Study of Legacy Uranium Mines Part of Defense Bill – Richard Kamp
• Cibola County Beacon – Exposure and Muddy Records – Richard Kamp
• Portsmouth Daily Times – Brown: $150 million for USEC in Senate bill – Frank Lewis
• Portsmouth Herald News – NRC preps for hearing on nuke plant’s concrete issues
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Shipments of super-hot, fissile uranium to Nevada could begin in early 2013 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Carroll, Freeman, Campbell win Muddy Boots – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – WSI’s contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – How many government websites have a road named after them? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Additional funds for USEC’s centrifuge project – Frank Munger
• Fairfax County Times – Keep Virginia uranium-free – Scott Christian Marshall
• Free Lance-Star – Uranium mining discussed at Virginia forum – Steve Szkotak
• Foreign Policy – The Fissile Cliff – Tom Z. Collina
• Green Optimistic – Thorium Not the Nuclear “Wonder-Fuel” Once Supposed – Leigh Kim
• DOE – Energy Department Announces New SunShot Investment in Solar Energy Grid Solutions
• NNSA – Remarks by Administrator Thomas D’Agostino, National Nuclear Security Administration, to the Energy Facility Contractors Group
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Standard Review Plan for Review of Fuel Cycle Facility License Applications Pages 73060-73061 
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Applications: Application for a License To Export Radioactive Waste Pages 73054-73055 [FR 
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Applications: Application for a License To Export High-Enriched Uranium Pages 73055-73056 [FR 
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Applications: Application for a License To Export High-Enriched Uranium Page 73056 [FR DOC#
  
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – PROPOSED RULES Low-Level Waste Disposal Pages 72997-72998 [FR DOC# 2012-29527]
• Europe: Bellona – Sellafield hiring 500 new workers toward decommissioning efforts – Charles Digges
• Europe: The Guardian – Sellafield to create 500 extra jobs to speed up decommissioning of reactors – Terry Macalister
• Russia: AP Google – Russia fumes at US bill as “reset” plan takes hit – By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
• Russia: Bellona – Obama speaks out for renewal of US-Russian Nunn Lugar nuclear weapons destruction program – Charles Digges

Thursday, December 06, 2012

• Slashdot – How Yucca Mountain Was Killed – ATKeiper
• Straight Goods – Under the volcano: living with mountain of radioactive waste – Penney Kome
• Bay Citizen – Treasure Island development plans inch forward – Matt Smith and Katharine Mieszkowski
• ENS – Explosives Superfund Site Cleanup Settled for $50 Million
• The Oregonian – Tri-Cities combine for nation’s fastest-growing metro area, boosted by federal money to mop up Hanford – Richard Cockle
• Tri-City Herald – 10-year, 6,000-page study recommends decisions for Hanford cleanup – Annette Cary
• Idaho State Journal – INL disposal cell repurposed to treat waste
• Idaho Statesman – Kevin Richert: Why Idaho is talking nuclear waste, again
• Casper Star-Tribune – BLM seeks comment on Fremont County uranium mine
• Casper Star-Tribune – Wyoming steps into uranium project lawsuit – Adam Voge
• BBC News – Rocky Flats: Life in the shadow of a nuclear bomb factory
• Montrose Daily Press – Study of cleanup of legacy uranium mines part of defense bill – Dick Kamp
• Washington Times – Nearly a decade later, Los Alamos still hasn’t accounted for $470 million – Edward Felker
• Huffington Post – Sister Megan Rice, Anti-Nuclear Protester, Charged Under Sabotage Act – Matt Sledge
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Government ramps up charges against Y-12 protesters – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA says ‘subcritical’ experiment successful – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL &Angel Tree – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Signs? What signs? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UPF and The Transition – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Kinda, sorta, maybe – Frank Munger
• Charlottesville Newsplex – Uranium Mining Experts To Address General Assembly
• University at Buffalo – Decommissioning UB’s Buffalo Materials Research Center
• Portsmouth Herald News – NRC: ‘Mindset’ delayed discovery of nuke plant’s concrete woes – Shir Haberman
• Government Accountability Project – How the Defense Department Inspectors Failed Bradley Manning – Jesselyn Radack
• DOE – Energy Department Issues Tribal Renewable Energy Purchase Guidance and Project Development Resources
• DOE:EM – Hanford: Issuance of the Final Tank Closure and Waste Management Environmental Impact Statement (pdf)
• EIA – Wind energy tax credit set to expire at the end of 2012
• Europe: BBC News – Sellafield announces 500 jobs to accelerate clean-up
• Europe: this is Somerset – Facts and figures for Hinkley Point
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Ennerdale valley voices nuclear waste fears – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Nuclear staff union urges Cumbrian councils to start search for underground store – Alan Irving

Wednesday, December 05, 2012

• Platts – Nuclear foe says no-reactor option should be top choice in NRC waste rule – Elaine Hiruo
• KCET – Last San Onofre Nuke Steam Generator Hits the Road – Chris Clarke
• San Francisco Chronicle – National Ignition Facility seeks new cash – David Perlman
• Idaho Statesman Blogs – Idaho’s nuclear waste debate: the next chapter – Kevin Richert
• KIFI Idaho Falls – Report: Idaho may need to change nuclear cleanup agreement – Caleb James
• NEI Nuclear Notes – Idaho Ponders Its Nuclear Future – Mark Flanagan
• Northwest Public Radio – Nuclear Watchdog Group Skeptical About Commercial Waste Benefit – Aaron Kunz
• San Francisco Chronicle – Report: Idaho’s 1995 nuke pact may need changes
• Farmington Daily Times – 20 trained for uranium cleanup on Navajo land
• KFDA Amarillo – Senate approves NNSA reform study
• KRQE News 13 – Udall pushes oversight for labs, NNSA – Kim Vallez
• San Antonio Express – Uranium project wins EPA approval – Jennifer Hiller
• Palos.Patch – Nuclear Waste Site in Palos Township Holdover from Manhattan Project – Nick Swedberg
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Fiscal Cliff, Entitlements, and Energy Workers – Terrie Barrie
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: DOE’s return to Fed Building now planned for May – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Legal wrangling: Plowshares attorney says government’s press release doesn’t tell the whole story – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Plowshares statement: ‘Ultimately we are required to follow the law of love and our consciences’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – SNS doing fine after ‘rough start’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Superseding indictment against Y-12 protesters; new count carries max of 20 years in prison – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Regulatory cease-fire? – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – ORNL duo elected AAS fellows
• Oak Ridge Today – Y-12 protesters face new national defense charge, longer prison sentence – John Huotari
• Tampa Bay Times – Florida House representative files bill to repeal advance fee for building nuclear plants – Ivan Penn
• Chatham Star Tribune – Uranium subcommittee to meet in Chatham – Tim Davis
• Chatham Star Tribune – Senator to introduce legislation to lift 30-year uranium ban – Tim Davis
• Chatham Star Tribune – Uranium Working Group delivers report to governor – Tim Davis
• Chatham Star Tribune – Uranium mining: Report details regulations – Tim Davis
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Uranium offers money for public education – Mark Edward
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Uranium provides educational opportunity – Lorien Huemoeller
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Uranium resource could benefit schools – Valerie Welch
• Washington Post – Editorial: Uranium mining in Va. should proceed carefully
• WDBJ7 – Roanoke delegate still weighing decision on uranium mining – Joe Dashiell
• Plymouth.Patch – Selectmen Hear Questions on Entergy’s Plans for Used Fuel Storage – Casey Meserve
• Beyond Nuclear – Urge NRC to consider risks of pools & dry casks, improvements of HOSS
• DOE – EIA Report Estimates Growth of U.S. Energy Economy Through 2040
• Energy Department – NOTICES Injury Assessment Plans; Availability, etc.: Notice of Availability of the Injury Assessment Plan for the Hanford Site, Richland, WA Page 72337 [FR DOC# 2012-29420]
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Govt. to integrate nuclear waste storage sites

Tuesday, December 04, 2012

• Business Wire – Final Shipment of Original Steam Generator to Utah to Begin
• LA Times blogs – EPA to remove contaminated soil that triggered Barstow water emergency – Phil Willon
• Orange County Register – Last large San Onofre part to be shipped out – Pat Brennan
• Press-Enterprise – Barstow: EPA to remove contaminated soil – David Danelski
• Tri-City Herald – Deadline to apply for Hanford Advisory Board extended to Dec. 21
• Tri-City Herald – Draft report calls for study of Hanford plant, animal harm – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – PNNL director Mike Kluse to be on Inslee’s transition team
• Boise State Public Radio – Idaho Task Force Considers Nuclear Waste – Aaron Kunz
• Idaho Statesman blog – Putting Idaho in competition for nuclear waste site premature, Sayer says – Rocky Barker
• Idaho Statesman – Idaho National Laboratory gives state $826 million boost – Alex Stuckey
• NPR StateImpact – Gov.’s Commission Weighs Idaho Jobs Against Existing Nuclear Waste Disposal Agreement – Molly Messick
• Spokesman-Review – Public comment sought on positioning INL as nation’s key nuclear research site
• Twin Falls Times-News – Public Asked for Opinion of Nuclear Industry in Idaho
• Salt Lake Tribune – Letter: Nuclear nonsense – Rosemary A. Holt
• Carlsbad Current Argus – Navajo program trains people to clean uranium mines – Jenny Kane
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Memories of early Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Championing the Science Bowl – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Dave Bradley named G4S’ executive general manager for DOE work – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Three splashed with sludge during test; no rad detected on workers – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Reviewing UPF: who’s doing what? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA says it beat nukes dismantlement goal – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Fusion of interests – Frank Munger
• Law360 – Jury Orders Lockheed Pay $3M To Fla. Community Group – Juan Carlos Rodriguez
• Virginian Pilot – Fraim urges legislators to maintain uranium ban – Julian Walker
• ANWAG Blog – Fiscal Cliff, Entitlements and EEOICPA – Terrie Barrie
• The Examiner – Letter mentions ‘safety issues’ at operating defense nuclear facilities – Robert Tilford
• Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – The Sunflower: Issue #185 – December 2012
• Energy Department – RULES Criteria and Procedures for Determining Eligibility for Access to Classified Matter or Special Nuclear Material: Criteria and Procedures for Determining Eligibility for Access to Classified Matter or Special Nuclear Material: Technical Amendments Pages
  
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.: Exemption of Material for Proposed Disposal Procedures at the US Ecology Idaho Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Subtitle C Hazardous Disposal Facility Located Near Grand View, 
• UN: Press TV – UN member states overwhelmingly ban nuclear weapons
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Britain to return radioactive waste to Japan around February
• Asia-Pacific: Kyodo News – Britain to return radioactive waste to Japan around Feb.
• South Asia: PTI – Australia to begin Uranium sales to India

Monday, December 03, 2012

• Platts – Federal government must deal with nuclear waste: NARUC president – Rodney White
• The Neutron Economy – Yucca Mountain is dead. Long live Yucca Mountain!
• Las Vegas SUN – President signs whistle-blower bill for US workers – Kfda?
• Bay Citizen – Treasure Island development plans inch forward – Matt Smith And Katharine Mieszkowski
• Idaho Statesman blog – Otter praises Idaho nuclear commission for answering ‘some tough questions’ – Kevin Richert
• World Nuclear News – Seventy years since historic nuclear chain reaction
• KFDA Amarillo – Lab: LANL firings probe near complete
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Half the rad-waste inventory removed from bankrupt IMPACT Services site – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Waste limits adjusted at EnergySolutions landfill – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Guest column: UPF project at Y-12 not Santa for city, ‘windfall’ short-term – Pat Fain and Leslie Agron
• Chatham Star Tribune – Senator to introduce legislation to lift 30-year uranium ban – Tim Davis
• Virginian Pilot – Dominion restarts nuclear reactor after refueling
• World Nuclear News – Next step for Virginia uranium
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• New York Times – Bid to Preserve Manhattan Project Sites in a Park Stirs Debate – William J. Broad
• POGO blog – President Opposes Nuke Facility, Threatens to Veto Defense Bill – Mia Steinle
• DOE – Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
• Canada: Shoreline Beacon – Part 2: Nuclear “Dump” in Bruce? – Peter L. Storck
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – 2 municipal governments in Toyama to start test incineration of 32 tones of debris from Iwate – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – TEPCO speeds up removal of spent fuel rods