Sunday, December 09, 2012

• Los Alamos Study Group – Plutonium in Warhead Cores (“Pits”) Stable to 150 Years – Greg Mello

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
• POGO – Advocates Laud President Obama’s Signing of Federal Whistleblower Reforms

Friday, December 07, 2012

• NNSA – NNSA Conducts Pollux Subcritical Experiment at Nevada National Security Site
• Platts – Post-Fukushima nuclear safety plan needs more resources: IAEA head – Steven Dolley, Ann MacLachlan
• 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 [FR DOC# 2012-29678]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Applications: Application for a License To Export Radioactive Waste Pages 73054-73055 [FR DOC# 2012-29673]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Applications: Application for a License To Export High-Enriched Uranium Pages 73055-73056 [FR DOC# 2012-29641]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Applications: Application for a License To Export High-Enriched Uranium Page 73056 [FR DOC# 2012-29613]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Draft Regulatory Guides: Initial Test Programs for Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Plants Pages 73056-73057 [FR DOC# 2012-29618]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Japan Lessons-Learned Project Directorate Interim Staff Guidance: Japan Lessons-Learned Project Directorate Interim Staff Guidance JLD-ISG-2012-05; Performance of an Integrated Assessment for External Flooding Pages 73057-73059 [FR DOC# 2012-29619]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Meetings: Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS); Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Reliability & PRA Page 73059 [FR DOC# 2012-29675]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – PROPOSED RULES Low-Level Waste Disposal Pages 72997-72998 [FR DOC# 2012-29527]
• UN: Council on Foreign Relations – A Conversation with IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano – George Perkovich

Thursday, December 06, 2012

• 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
• GAO – High-Speed Passenger Rail–Preliminary Assessment of California’s Cost Estimates and Other Challenges, GAO-13-163T, Dec 6, 2012
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Indirect License Transfers: Aerotest Operations, Inc., Consideration of Indirect Transfer and Conforming Amendment Pages 72889-72893 [FR DOC# 2012-29523]
• Tennessee Valley Authority – NOTICES Notice of Sunshine Act Meeting Page 72904 [FR DOC# 2012-29586] ^!Replace “Nuclear Regulatory Commission” >> “Nuclear Regulatory Commission” ACHS
• UN: IAEA – IAEA At Doha Climate Change Conference
• UN: IAEA – Securing Healthy Soils
• UN: IAEA – Saving Soil – Saving Livelihoods
• UN: Reuters – Recent hacking of UN nuclear agency not first attempt-IAEA

Wednesday, December 05, 2012

• DOE – EIA Report Estimates Growth of U.S. Energy Economy Through 2040
• NAS – Project Update: Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants , DELS-NRSB-12-01
• NRC Blog – EXIT — A Good Sign of Radiation – Maureen Conley
• 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]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – RULES Technical Corrections; Correction Pages 72199-72200 [FR DOC# 2012-29348]
• UN: IAEA – IAEA Chief Calls for Action to Improve Nuclear Security
• UN: UPI – IAEA wants tighter nuclear controls

Tuesday, December 04, 2012

• NRC – NRC Schedules Public Meeting for December 11 to Discuss Palisades Corrective Actions and NRC Oversight
• NRC – Welcome Remarks by NRC Chairman Allison M. Macfarlane, International Regulators Conference on Nuclear Security, December 4, 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 71689-71691 [FR DOC# 2012-29234]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Sunshine Act Meetings Page 71844 [FR DOC# 2012-29373]
• 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, Idaho for Material from the Humboldt Bay Power Plant, Unit 3, License DPR-007, Eureka, CA Pages 71842-71844 [FR DOC# 2012-29221]
• UN: Press TV – UN member states overwhelmingly ban nuclear weapons

Monday, December 03, 2012

• Platts – Federal government must deal with nuclear waste: NARUC president – Rodney White
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• POGO blog – President Opposes Nuke Facility, Threatens to Veto Defense Bill – Mia Steinle
• DOE – Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
• NAS – Project Update: Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants
• NRC – NRC to Discuss Corrective Actions On Dec. 10 with Self-Shielded Irradiator Services Company
• NRC – Licensing Board to Resume Evidentiary Hearing on Dec. 10 in Tarrytown, N.Y., on Indian Point License Renewal Contentions
• NRC – Public Meeting Schedule
• UN: IAEA – To Change the Future of Diagnostic Medicine
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update