Sunday, January 27, 2013

• Mohave Valley Daily News – Contamination remediation a step in the right direction – Michelle Peirano
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – USEC selling NAC for $45M; says part of strategy to focus on core business – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nuclear songbook: ‘Radioactive’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Somewhere north of awkward – Frank Munger
• Akron Beacon Journal – Will Ohio start accepting drilling brine at 40 landfills? – Bob Downing
• The State – Critics fear $7 billion SRS boondoggle – Sammy Fretwell
• Sumter Item – Proposed East Coast uranium mine dividing Virginia
• Beaver County Times – So who is in charge of fracking wastewater, anyway? – Rachel Morgan
• Common Dreams – More Threats From Fracking: Radioactive Waste – Andrea Germanos
• SNL Financial – Chu’s decision not to adjust nuke waste fee leaves state regulators puzzled – Glen Boshart
• Oceania: Independent Australia – Don’t believe thorium nuclear reactor hype
• Europe: Daily Telegraph – Cumbrians to vote on radioactive waste dump – Emily Gosden
• Europe: In-Cumbria – Sellafield workers ‘want probe into dump’
• Europe: Donegal Daily – New Lobby Group want Government to explore Possible Waste Dump Off Donegal Coast
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Copeland’s County Councillors Back Underground Store Site Search – Andrew Clarke

Saturday, January 26, 2013

• PennEnergy – Group takes no stance on nuclear storage
• Los Alamos Monitor – Congressman questions plutonium plan
• Europe: BBC News – Protesters march over Cumbrian waste site plans
• Europe: Daily Telegraph – Cumbrians to vote on radioactive waste dump – Emily Gosden
• Europe: The Independent – Crunch vote on nuclear dump in Lake District – Mike Glover
• West Africa: New York Times – France Is Increasing Security at Sites in Niger and at Home – Steven Erlanger
• West Africa: Press TV – France deploys troops to Niger to protect state-owned uranium mines

Friday, January 25, 2013

• NDR – OpEd – The Elephant and Yucca Mountain – James C. Kennedy and John Kutch
• Quora – Nuclear Waste: What was wrong with Yucca Mountain as a long-term repository for the United States’s nuclear waste? – Ryan Carlyle,
• Tri-City Herald – Company to operate landfill at Hanford – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Uncertain federal budgets leave Hanford officials looking for flat budgets – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – High-tech computer coming to PNNL campus – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Energy Northwest near Richland has big year in 2012 – Annette Cary
• MyFox Phoenix – EPA reports on plan to clean up uranium on Navajo
• Everyday ebook – Radioactive Homeland: Kristen Iverson’s Full Body Burden – John Abrahams
• Rapid City Journal – ROOKS: Uranium on my parade – David Rooks
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Missouri delegation presses Chu on nuclear funding – Jeffrey Tomich
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Carbon fiber production begins in new Oak Ridge facility – Bob Fowler
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Icy lab – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – REACTS in China – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL project in spotlight – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Give them their space’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge facilities on weather alert; essential workers only at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge K-25 video – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A ‘solid’ development in lithium ion batteries; ORNL says research has safety impact – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR: Equipment deal with Hanford saves $160K per month on K-25 demolition project – Frank Munger
• Government Security News – NNSA to conduct radiation assessment in New Orleans – Mark Rockwell
• Chatham Star Tribune – Anti-uranium bus trip planned
• Beaver County Times – Under the radar: Fracking wastewater radioactive – Rachel Morgan
• NY Times blog – An Increase in Radiation Monitoring for Fracking – Jon Hurdle
• Truthout – Seventy Years of Nuclear Fission, Thousands of Centuries of Nuclear Waste – Gregg Levine
• DOE:IG – The Department of Energy’s International Offices and Foreign Assignments, OAS-L-13-05
• Canada: Bullet News Huron – Plan for nuclear waste storage should be met with caution, says farmers union president
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Hitachi Zosen to get nuke fuel firm
• Asia-Pacific: Nikkei – Hitachi Zosen To Acquire U.S. Maker Of Nuclear Waste Containers
• Europe: BBC News – Unite calls for more Cumbria radioactive store talks
• Europe: Cumberland News – A dirty word, dump. It’s a multi-barrier geological engineered containment facility – Anne Pickles
• Europe: In-Cumbria – Protests at nuclear waste dump meeting in Carlisle – Ian Duncan
• Europe: In-Cumbria – Sellafield workers back west Cumbria nuclear repository site search – Ian Duncan
• Europe: ITV News – Nuclear waste debate underway
• Europe: ITV News – ‘There needs to be a full investigation’ into nuclear waste site – Kevin Coyne
• Europe: Times & Star – West Cumbria faces the biggest decision in its history
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield workers back West Cumbria nuclear repository site search
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Protests at nuclear waste store meeting in Carlisle – Ian Duncan
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield workers back west Cumbria nuclear repository site search – Ian Duncan
• Europe: Whitehaven News – West Cumbria faces the biggest decision in its history
• Europe: Whitehaven News – A dirty word, dump. It’s a multi-barrier geological engineered containment facility – Anne Pickles
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield workers back West Cumbria nuclear repository site search
• Russia: World Nuclear News – Sodium coolant arrives at fast reactor

Thursday, January 24, 2013

• Las Vegas Weekly – Ski Yucca Mountain in a Hazmat suit
• Energy Daily – Chu, Gregoire agree on new ‘options’ for Hanford waste plant – George Lobsenz
• Tri-City Herald – PNNL, Infinia receive defense grants to research efficient heating, cooling – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Mystery of rising levels in Hanford tanks partly solved – Annette Cary
• Daily Utah Chronicle – EnergySolutions due to sell; vile business cycle continues – Jordan Vogel
• Knoxville News Sentinel – K-25’s North Tower bites the dust; demolition project nearing end – Frank Munger
• Vero Beach Press-Journal – Eve Samples: Climate change, fuel storage are serious issues for nuclear plants – Eve Samples
• Aiken Leader – MOX on the Rocks: DOE Assessment of Plutonium Fuel Project at SRS Shows Chronic and Uncorrected Cost and Schedule Problems – By Thomas Clements
• Pittsburgh Business Times blog – Radioactive Marcellus waste under microscope – Anya Litvak
• Olean Times Herald – Meetings To Continue On West Valley Project Funding – Rick Miller
• Forbes – Energy’s Latest Battleground: Fracking For Uranium – Christopher Helman
• Grist – The Department of Energy wants to sell radioactive metal for scrap – Sarah Miller
• Ploughshares Fund – Plutonium Waste Begets Budget Waste – Benjamin Loehrke
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Smoke from the common spent fuel – Iori Mochizuki
• Europe: Daily Telegraph – Nuclear enrichment plant closes over safety fears – Hayley DIxon
• Europe: The Guardian – Secret UK uranium components plant closed over safety fears – Rob Edwards
• Europe: The Guardian – Aldermaston had 50 fires in two years – Rob Edwards
• Europe: Times & Star – Nuclear repository: Residents get organised behind a common cause – Ian Duncan
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield unions urge councils not to block nuclear dump
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Cumbria could join exclusive global club if it chooses to stay in running for nuclear waste storage facility – Ian Duncan
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Nuclear repository: Residents get organised behind a common cause – Ian Duncan
• Russia: BBC News – Russia explores old nuclear waste dumps in Arctic – Laurence Peter
• West Africa: Reuters – France orders special forces to protect Niger uranium: source – John Irish, Geert de Clercq, Muriel Boselli and Michel Rose

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

• The Hill blog – Wyden joins three senators in nuclear waste policy group – Zack Colman
• Washington Times – Yucca Mountain site unworkable from start – Joseph C. Strolin
• Contra Costa Times – Plutonium to Livermore lab proposal highlights public meeting – Jeremy Thomas
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford contractor CH2M Hill changing its subcontractor policies – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford permit revision to take 2 years – Annette Cary
• Casper Star-Tribune – New uranium mine proposed in Campbell County, Wyoming
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Missouri delegation presses Chu on nuclear funding – Jeffrey Tomich
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Savannah River adding waste disposal units – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Tearing down K-25’s North Tower – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Miller promoted at ORAU – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Alexander to be Ranking Member on Senate panel – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – New Oak Ridge security contractor sets up website, prepares for workforce transition – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Correction – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – ORAU marks three million safe work hours
• People-Sentinel – No cleanup planned for contamination – By David Purtell
• Chatham Star Tribune – Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors ask General Assembly to keep uranium moratorium – Tim Davis
• Virginian-Pilot – Uranium bill sent to agriculture committee
• WSET – Pittsylvania Co. Board of Supervisors Vote Against Uranium Mining – Whitney Delbridge
• WSLS – Va. county home to uranium deposit backs ban
• Tribune-Review – Casey calls for new Parks nuke dump study – Mary Ann Thomas
• CounterPunch – Nuclear Weapons Waste in Your Water Bottle, Hip Replacement, Baby’s Toys, Jungle Gym? – JOHN LaFORGE
• DOE – Keeping America Competitive: Bringing Down the Cost of Small Wind Turbines – Mark Higgins
• DOE:EM – Oak Ridge EM Program Completes K-25 North End Demolition
• DOE:EM – Idaho Site’s Cold War Cleanup Takes Center Stage in Publication
• Europe: In-Cumbria – Nuclear repository: Residents get organised behind a common cause – Ian Duncan
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – Sizewell builds dry spent nuclear fuel store

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

• Crosscut Seattle – Powerful congressman demands Hanford answers – John Stang
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford permit revision to take 2 years – Annette Cary
• Gillette News Record – More authority sought in uranium regulation
• Rapid City Journal – State regulators seek more authority in uranium-mine regulation as critics file bills for full permitting power – Kevin Woster
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ashton Carter next Energy Secretary? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12/Pantex contract transition ‘completely frozen’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Corker to be Ranking Member on Foreign Relations – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nuclear symbolism – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORAU safety milestone – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Chu’s departure? – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Y-12 protesters ask court to dismiss sabotage charges – John Huotari
• Concord.patch – What’s Going on at the Starmet/Nuclear Metals Site? – Patrick Ball
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Reuters – Update 1-RWE says Urenco not core to group
• DOE:EM – Idaho Cleanup Project 2005-2012 Project Highlights
• GAO – Depart Energy: Better Information Needed to Determine If Nonmajor Projects Meet Performance Targets, GAO-13-129, Dec 19, 2012
• Energy Department – NOTICES DOE Response to Recommendation 2012-2 of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Hanford Tank Farms Flammable Gas Safety Strategy Page 4404 [FR DOC# 2013-01132]
• Oceania: National Indigenous Times – Yami Lester has seen it all and says “no” to uranium mining
• Asia-Pacific: Denki Shimbun – METI minister declared continuation of nuclear fuel cycle policy
• Asia-Pacific: ScienceDaily – High Plutonium Breeding of Light Water Cooled Reactors
• Asia-Pacific: Waseda University. – High plutonium breeding of light water cooled reactors
• South Asia: Frontline – Disposing of nuclear waste – R. Ramachandran

Monday, January 21, 2013

• Las Vegas Sun – Putting end to Yucca Mountain project ‘within reach,’ state commission says – Cy Ryan
• Courthouse News Service – U.S. May Align Spent Nuclear Fuel Rules – Philip A. Janquart
• Bismarck Tribune – Photo: Radioactive Waste
• Dodge City Daily Globe – Kansas communities pay to rid water of uranium – Maria Sudekum
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge’s wartime security – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Recycling Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The depleted uranium that disappeared; December incident melted poly container at EnergySolutions – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 protesters seek dismissal of sabotage charges; motion says prosecution is vindictive, wrongful and unconstitutional – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Q&A: John Eschenberg on Uranium Processing Facility at Y-12 – John Huotari
• Oak Ridge Today – State legislators, county mayor tour ORNL – John Huotari
• Oak Ridger – Historically Speaking: Bill Arnold: from ‘fission’ to photosynthesis – D. Ray Smith
• Oak Ridger – Y-12: Oak Ridge treasure — national resource/A look back at Union Carbide’s first 20 years in nuclear energy (ORNL) continued – D. Ray Smith
• Aiken Standard – Japanese power company learns waste management techniques from SRNL – Mike Gellatly
• Lynchburg News and Advance – Uranium firm pumps money into assembly – Mary Beth Jackson
• Virginia Gazette – J4C hosts forum on uranium mining – James City County Citizens Coalition
• Enformable – NRC to review spent fuel regulations
• Reuters – Areva, Toshiba eye nuclear fuel producer Urenco: sources – Karolin Schaps and Christoph Steitz
• Canada: The Australian – Talks to start on sale of uranium to India – Amanda Hodge
• Asia-Pacific: World Nuclear News – Trial operation of Rokkasho furnace
• South Asia: Hindu Business Line – India, Australia to hold civil nuclear talks in March
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – India and Australia to begin talks on civil nuke deal – Jayanth Jacob
• South Asia: Indian Express – ‘India a mature nation, never opposed supplying uranium to it’ – Navjeevan Gopal
• Europe: In-Cumbria – Bowness protesters voice repository fears
• Europe: News & Star – Opponents step up fight against underground nuclear dump in Cumbria – Julian Whittle
• Europe: Westmorland Gazette – Cumbria Tourism to say ‘no’ to nuclear dump – but only if it enters the Lake District National Park
• Europe: Reuters – Update 1-UK examining sale of nuclear fuel producer Urenco
• Russia: Nuclear Diner – Keeping The Plutonium From The Scavengers At Semipalatinsk