Sunday, December 30, 2012

• Amarillo Globe News – Pantex Plant officials must regain staff’s trust – Jim McBride
• Marietta Times – Group against Ohio nuke plant license gets setback
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Year’s Top 10 posts at Atomic City Underground – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Update on plutonium project at ORNL – Frank Munger
• HNN Huntingtonnews – K-25 Barrier Scrap Disposal Considered in 60s for Huntington Uranium Plant; 10% Chromium Levels Found in Sludge at Dietz – Tony E. Rutherford
• HNN Huntingtonnews – TRU Waste Disposal Proposals
• Times and Democrat – Savannah River Site opens for 2013 tours
• Canada: Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre – Nuclear Waste Dump Concerns in Inverhuron – John Divinski
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Japan Aims for Early Solution to N-Fuel Cycle Issues: Min.
• Europe: Daily Telegraph – Nuclear sector pushes for green light on waste dump – Emily Gosden

Saturday, December 29, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Audit criticizes management of $5.6 billion Hanford contract – Annette Cary
• The Examiner – OK, new Congress, what about SRS? – Stephen Geddes
• South Asia: Times of India – Exhibition on the good and ugly side of ‘radiations’ – Payal Gwalan

Friday, December 28, 2012

• CounterPunch – The Nuclear Waste Dump Formerly Known as San Onofre? – Russell D. Hoffman
• KIFI Idaho Falls – Should Idaho store nuclear waste? – Karole Honas
• KPVI-TV – The Future of the INL and Getting the Public Involved
• Salt Lake Tribune – Utah seeks people to serve on environmental boards – Judy Fahys
• Post-Bulletin – Xcel faces scrutiny over nuclear waste storage
• Johnson City Press – Judge dismisses suit against NFS – Brad Hicks
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – World’s No. 1 supercomputer: Nothing disappointing about Titan so far – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – K-25 milestone: 15,000 waste loads – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Amid the fiscal uncertainty, ORNL Director Thom Mason says: ‘We’ve done the things we can do that are within our control’ – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Supercomputers, materials and bears: ORNL marks eventful 2012
• Oak Ridger – Y-12: Oak Ridge treasure — national resource/A look back at Union Carbide’s first 20 years in nuclear energy – D. Ray Smith
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Browns Ferry Unit 2 reactor nearly back to full power – Ed Marcum
• Aiken Standard – Column: DOE funding decision blow to SRS future – Danny Black
• Washington Post – Uranium mine debate divides quaint Chatham, Va.
• Government Security News – NNSA conducting radiation survey over Washington, D.C. – Mark Rockwell
• IEEE Spectrum – Could Fusion Clean Up Nuclear Waste? – William Sweet
• DOE – Photo of the Week: Inside the Tandem Mirror Experiment – Sarah Gerrity
• DOE:IG – Audit Report – The Management of the Plateau Remediation Contract, OAS-L-13-03
• Energy Department – NOTICES Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.: Extension of Public Review and Comment Period for the Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment for the Recycling of Scrap Metals Originating From Radiological Areas Pages 76474-76475 [FR DOC# 2012-31169]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico Page 76475 [FR DOC# 2012-31172]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Idaho National Laboratory Pages 76475-76476 [FR DOC# 2012-31173]
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Designation of a Class of Employees for Addition to the Special Exposure Cohort from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Page 76489 [FR DOC# 2012-31298]
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Designation of a Class of Employees for Addition to the Special Exposure Cohort from Nuclear Metals, Inc. (or a subsequent owner) in West Concord, Massachusetts, Page 76489 [FR DOC# 2012-31279]
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Designation of a Class of Employees for Addition to the Special Exposure Cohort, Mound Plant in Miamisburg, Ohio, Pages 76489-76490 [FR DOC# 2012-31297]
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Designation of a Class of Employees for Addition to the Special Exposure Cohort from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (X-10) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Page 76490 [FR DOC# 2012-31285]
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Determination Concerning a Petition to Add a Class of Employees to the Special Exposure Cohort from the Weldon Spring Plant in Weldon Spring, Missouri, Page 76490 [FR DOC# 2012-31316]
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Determination Concerning a Petition to Add a Class of Employees to the Special Exposure Cohort from the Mound Plant in Miamisburg, Ohio, Page 76490 [FR DOC# 2012-31283]
• Asia-Pacific: AP Google – Nowhere to use Japan’s growing plutonium stockpile – Mari Yamaguchi
• South Asia: Deccan Chronicle – Find Uranium where there are termites
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Letter: ‘The NDA must share all the relevant facts’ – Bob Burton
• Europe: One News Page – Work halted at Germany’s proposed Gorleben repository – 5523180817607143
• North Europe: Reuters – Update 1-Finland expects to begin to bury nuclear waste in 2022 – Terhi Kinnunen

Thursday, December 27, 2012

• Thousand Oaks Acorn – EPA completes study of former rocket engine and nuclear test site – Carissa Marsh
• EPA – Santa Susana Field Laboratory Remedial Site Assessment
• Idaho State Journal – Snake River Alliance opposes new shipments of spent nuclear fuel to Idaho
• LAMonitor – LANL assesses nukes
• St. Cloud Times – Xcel faces scrutiny over nuclear waste storage
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – WSI personnel updates – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Back when shopping was an adventure – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DeNuke spins off ReNuke – Frank Munger
• The State – Letter: Nuclear waste not so safe – Elizabeth Darden
• Smith Mountain Eagle – Subcommittee reviews latest uranium mining reports – Tim Davis
• DOE:EM – EM Update – December 2012
• DOE:IG – Audit Report – Naval Reactors Information Technology System Development Efforts, IG-0879
• Canada: St George and Sutherland Shire Leader – Nuclear facilities under scrutiny Save – Murray Trembath
• Oceania: Radio New Zealand – Tahiti nuclear test veterans want assembly to raise compensation issue
• Asia-Pacific: Desdemona Despair – Video: Distribution of Cesium-137 contamination in the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima, modeled to the year 2021
• East Europe: National Geographic – Pictures: Race Against Time to Build a New Tomb for Chernobyl

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

• Arizona Daily Sun – Uranium cleanup still hazy – Maryann Batlle
• ProPublica – On a Wyoming Ranch, Feds Sacrifice Tomorrow’s Water to Mine Uranium Today – Abrahm Lustgarten
• Minneapolis Star Tribune – Radioactive waste storage at Prairie Island faces scrutiny – David Shaffer
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Training under way for new nuclear plant operators – Ray Henry
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Zooming in: UT’s $3.5M microscopes boon for researchers, students – Mike Blackerby
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Don’t put uranium over health, safety – Brian Simmons
• Canada: Waterloo Record – Opposition grows to burying radioactive waste
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Flimsy waste tanks cause new delay in Fukushima plant decontamination

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

• Beyond Nuclear – 30 years ago today, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act was passed
• Chemical & Engineering News – Letter: Technical Solution To Nuclear Waste – Joseph J. Kirkland
• Electric Light & Power – Come January, Another Try on Nuclear Waste
• AP Google – West Coast girds for more tsunami debris in winter – Alicia Chang
• Salt Lake Tribune – Utah’s environmental feats and failures highlighted in report – Judy Fahys
• Salt Lake Tribune – Changes OK’d for radioactive waste site – Judy Fahys
• Rapid City Journal – Trip to Nebraska uranium mine answers questions – Kevin Woster
• News & Observer – Proposed uranium mine: Buried treasure or hidden threat to N.C. water? – Sean Cockerham and John Murawski
• Government Accountability Project – Federal Contractor Whistleblower Provisions Included in NDAA 2013 – Dylan Blaylock
• POWERnews – Too Dumb to Meter, Part 7: Eddie Teller’s Exploding Ambitions
• Oceania: The Australian – Radioactive waste being stored in shed in Arkaroola – Bryan Littlely
• Oceania: Energy Business Review – West Australia to host four uranium mines before 2023
• East Europe: Balkans Business News – Bulgaria: Kozloduy liquid waste facility completed

Monday, December 24, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Plan to keep nuclear waste at Utah Tooele County site dead
• East Idaho News – INL Faces Bleak Future for Funding
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Santa arrives in Oak Ridge (1948) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE gets a refund from asbestos problem – Frank Munger
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Canada: Great Lakes Nuclear Dump – OPG’s locally focused plan excluded the involvement of over 40 million Canadians and Americans living in the Great Lakes Basin
• South Asia: Power Engineering – First breeder reactor a far-fetched dream?
• Europe: In-Cumbria – Waste repository could be ‘game changer’ for coast
• Europe: Dumfries and Galloway Standard – Chapelcross defuelling milestone – Sharon Liptrott
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Waste Repository could be ‘Game Changer’ for Coast
• North Europe: Sea Breezes – SKB Orders New Waste Ship – John Young