Sunday, February 24, 2013

• Daily Beast – At The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, A Steady Drip of Toxic Trouble – Eric Nusbaum
• Forbes – The First Amendment Bombs Nuclear Energy By Accident – James Conca
• Louisville Courier-Journal – GE-Hitachi could take over Paducah uranium plant
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Is Moniz the next energy secretary? – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – Innovative nuclear-waste cleanup is reducing project costs in the CSRA – Terry Michalske, Ph.D.
• WaterWorld – EPA to retest water – Mary Ann Thomas
• Daily Beast – Our Next Energy Secretary? – Justin Green
• Energy Collective – How Did Our Relationship with Radioactive Material Sour? – Rod Adams
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation Page 12746 [FR DOC# 2013-04238]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Idaho National Laboratory Page 12747 [FR DOC# 2013-04235]
• Europe: BBC News – UK’s plutonium stockpile dilemma – Rob Broomby
• East Europe: IPS – Stopping Uranium to Fight Off Nuclear – Pavol Stracancsky

Saturday, February 23, 2013

• State of Washington – Governor Inslee’s statement on leaking tanks at Hanford – Jaime Smith
• State of Washington – Attorney General Bob Ferguson deeply concerned about new leak information – Janelle Guthrie
• AP Google – 6 leaking tanks are Hanford nuke site’s latest woe – Shannon Dininny
• AFP Google – US alarm over nuclear-waste leaks – Michael Thurston
• BBC News – Washington State nuclear waste tanks ‘leaking’
• BBC News – (video) Washington State nuclear waste tanks ‘leaking’
• CBS News – 6 tanks at Hanford nuclear site in Wash. leaking
• Crosscut Seattle – Inslee worries over new tank leaks at Hanford, fed response – John Stang
• The Examiner – 6 Hanford nuclear tanks leaking: ‘$2 billion each year on Hanford cleanup’ – Tina Burgess
• New York Times – Underground Nuclear Tanks Leaking in Washington State – Kirk Johnson
• Reuters – Radioactive waste leaking from six tanks at Washington state nuclear site – Eric Johnson
• RT – America’s most contaminated: Radioactive waste leaks into northwestern river
• Seattle Times – 6 nuclear-waste tanks leaking at Hanford – Craig Welch
• Tri-City Herald – Governor Inslee: Six Hanford tanks are leaking – Annette Cary
• Xinhua News – Underground tanks at U.S. nuclear reservation leaking: Washington governor
• Pueblo Chieftain – Uranium Cleanup: Mill group ready for task – Tracy Harmon
• Pueblo Chieftain – Cleaning Cotter: A work in progress – Tracy Harmon
• Lubbock Avalanche-Journal – Bills your representatives have filed: SB 347 Author: Seliger, Relating to funding for the operations of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission. – Adam D. Young
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Fed audit criticizes contractor system; cites Y-12 breach as evidence – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Truman grandson to talk nukes, etc., in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Y-12 Historian: Union Carbide’s first 20 years in nuclear energy – D. Ray Smith
• Oak Ridger – ORNL scientists to speak on peace through science, technology – Carolyn Krause
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – Up to 76 nuclear waste loads planned – Ian MacLeod
• Oceania: Herald Sun blog – Monckton to ABC: enough of Caldicott’s wild abuse – Christopher Monckton
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Canada keen on supplying uranium to India: Envoy

Friday, February 22, 2013

• Tri-Valley CAREs – Livermore Vigils for Nuclear Abolition – Scott Yundt
• Seattle Times blog – 6 Hanford tanks are leaking nuclear waste, Inslee says
• Tri-City Herald – Governor Inslee: Six Hanford tanks are leaking
• Tri-City Herald – Estimated cost to finish Hanford cleanup now at $114.8B – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Waste from leaking single-shell tank at Hanford could be sent to New Mexico – Annette Cary
• Yakima Herald-Republic – State gains Oregon ally in cleanup at Hanford
• Salt Lake Tribune – Radioactive-waste oversight legislation advances – Judy Fahys
• Grand Junction Free Press – JOHNSON: Nuclear energy is and was the answer – Ken Johnson
• Cibola County Beacon – San?Mateo Mine Cleanup Takes 2 Decades – Rosanne Boyett
• Cibola County Beacon – Background information on San Mateo Mine
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Audit says NNSA’s contractor assurance system ineffective; cites Y-12 security incident as example – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – EnergySolutions hires new lobbyist – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Back in the day, when atomic was an attraction – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – SEC gets $1.3M West Valley contract – Frank Munger
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – EPA to retest water near nuke dump site in Parks Township – Mary Ann Thomas
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES License Amendment Requests: License Amendment Request for United Nuclear Corporation, Church Rock Mill-License No. SUA-1475
• Canada: CBC News – Nuclear waste meetings move to Prince Albert
• Canada: Prince Albert Daily Herald – Long-term nuclear waste repository ‘not worth it’: FSIN vice chief – Alex Di Pietro
• Canada: RT – Mission to transport 23,000 liters of bomb-grade uranium from Canada to US
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Nuclear Watch: Nuclear Waste Curse
• Asia: Xinhua News – China deploys uranium enrichment centrifuge
• Europe: Aberdeen Press and Journal – Fears over nuclear-waste trains – Jane Candlish
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Dounreay ‘exotics’ to be transferred to Sellafield
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Letters: Sellafield: the ‘good fairy’ whose magic dust ran out years ago…
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Watchdog backs Cabinet’s decision to reject repository
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Exotic fuel on the move
• North Europe: Sveriges Radio – Expert: Swedish nuclear waste plans are old fashioned
• South Africa: AllAfrica – Namibia: Public Needs to Know About Radiation – Daniel Kavishe

Thursday, February 21, 2013

• Inside Bay Area – Tri-Valley letters: Organization has done great work in Livermore for 30 years – Jo Ann Frisch
• OregonLive blog – Dry cask storage of spent nuclear fuel – Jan Castle
• Boise State Public Radio – Hanford Cleanup Would Likely Fall Behind With ‘Sequester’ – Anna King
• Vancouver Columbian – Leaking radioactive sludge raises fears of reaching Columbia River – Jim Snyder
• Messenger Index blog – Janet: I remember downwinders
• Cañon City Daily Record – Cotter Corp.: Removing uranium tailings would cost $895 million – Rachel Alexander
• Colorado Daily – Peace Train: Light on ‘The Atomic States of America’ – Bruce Barcott
• Albuquerque Journal – LANL employee awarded $1 million – Mark Oswald
• WSJM – Proos Blasts Yucca Mountain Inaction – Mike Arney
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – TVA pursues small nuclear reactor tests for Oak Ridge – Dave Flessner
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Shipping nastiest waste to resume in 2014 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – SEC gets $1.3M West Valley contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Shaking hands with Cambodia – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s inventors – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 break-in topical at Deterrence Summit – Frank Munger
• Baltimore Sun – Army says no risks from radioactive material found at APG’s Edgewood area – Allan Vought
• South Jersey Times – Editorial: Another punt in Newfield radioactive slag pile case
• BurlingtonFreePress – Vermont Yankee plans refueling with eye on 20 more years – Terri Hallenbeck
• Bloomberg – Court the Right: Advice for Obama’s Next Energy Department Chief – David Garman & Samuel Thernstrom
• Bloomberg Businessweek – Ex-Romney Aide Joins MIT Physicist on Obama Short List – Jim Snyder and Mark Drajem
• Politico – McCarthy, Moniz top picks for EPA, DOE – Darren Goode
• Nuclear Energy Insider – What the US DoE funding decision means for SMRs – Jason Deign
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 14 – 20 February 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear Energy Insider Policy Brief 14 – 20 February 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• DOE – Energy Department Announces $20 Million for New Tools and Technology to Strengthen Energy Sector Cybersecurity Protections
• DOE – Obama Administration Announces Johnson Controls, Macy’s and Sprint Join the Better Buildings Challenge
• DOE:EM – Technical Services Contract Awarded for West Valley Demonstration Project Support Services
• DOE:EM – “TRU” Success: SRS Recovery Act Prepares to Complete Shipment of more than 5,000 Cubic Meters of Nuclear Waste to WIPP
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee Page 12043 [FR DOC# 2013-04065]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: DOE/NSF High Energy Physics Advisory Panel Pages 12043-12044 [FR DOC# 2013-04064]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee Page 12044 [FR DOC# 2013-04063]
• Canada: The Province – Truckloads of nuclear waste expected to shipped across Ontario to U.S. this summer – Ian MacLeod
• Oceania: The Australian – Menzies government breached the human rights of 295 veterans exposed at Maralinga – Verity Edwards
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – Japan Atomic Power takes rare step of selling uranium – Ida Torres
• Europe: Der Spiegel – Abyss of Uncertainty: Germany’s Homemade Nuclear Waste Disaster – Michael Fröhlingsdorf
• Europe: Der Spiegel – Photo Gallery: Germany’s Nuclear Waste Headache
• Russia: Bellona – New reprocessing plant tender in Russia aims for proliferation of fast neutron reactors – Charles Digges

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

• The Hill – Sen. Wyden wants nuclear cleanup commitment from next Energy secretary – Zack Colman
• Bloomberg – Leaking Nuclear Sludge Could Threaten Columbia River – Jim Snyder
• Chinook Observer – Feds must respond to Hanford’s perfect storm
• MyNorthwest – As Hanford leaks, cleanup continues, and nuclear reservation’s legacy remains – Alyssa Kleven
• The Oregonian – Leaking radioactive waste at Hanford poses ‘unacceptable threats,’ Wyden says – Scott Learn
• Seattle Times – Treatment plant at Hanford won’t be done by 2019 deadline – Hal Bernton
• Tacoma News Tribune – Hanford’s nuclear waste can’t wait another 70 years
• Tri-City Herald – Wyden, as committee chairman, plans to focus on issues vital to Hanford – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Wyden backs Manhattan Project National Historical Park – Annette Cary
• Vancouver Columbian – Wyden tours Hanford, promises hearings
• Salt Lake Tribune – Editorial: Nuclear speculation–SB199 would shift risk to ratepayers
• Cañon City Daily Record – Removing uranium tailings would cost $895 million, Cotter Corp. says – Bruce Finley
• Daily Camera – Judith Mohling: Rocky Flats development risks exposure to nuclear radiation
• Denver Post – Removing uranium tailings would cost $895 million, Cotter Corp. says – Bruce Finley
• Grand Junction Sentinel – Advisory group to guide Colo. uranium mill cleanup
• Bismarck Tribune – Editorial: Make disposal of radioactive waste here possible
• Omaha World-Herald – World-Herald Editorial: Prudence needed in new nuke debate
• Brainerd Daily Dispatch – Granite may be used to encapuslate nuclear waste – Rolf Westgard
• Knoxville News Sentinel – No. 1 Titan not yet living up to potential – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More details on Titan’s trouble – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Why did the UPF design come up short? What’s been done to keep it from happening again? – Frank Munger
• Philadelphia Inquirer – Court ruling affects Glouco site with nuclear materials
• Vineland Daily Journal – Cleanup at Shieldalloy is stalled – Joseph P. Smith
• Concord Patch – More Former Nuclear Metals Employees Eligible for Medical Benefits, Compensation – Patrick Ball
• WCAX – Vt. Yankee to go forward with refueling
• Christian Science Monitor – Who will clean up after the nuclear plants? – John C.K. Daly
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Public Workshops: Notice of Forthcoming Workshop To Discuss Revisions to NUREG/BR-0204, Rev. 2 “Instructions for Completing NRC’s Uniform Low-Level Waste Manifest”
• Canada: Bullet News Huron – No showstoppers to exclude Central Huron as potential host for nuclear waste – Heather Boa
• Europe: BBC News – Cumbria Nuclear waste store rejection upheld
• Europe: Whitehaven News – West Cumbiria nuclear dump exit decision supported
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Cumbrian company part of £400m nuclear deal
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Council ‘right’ to vote against Cumbria repository vote
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Cumbria repository search is called off
• Europe: OilPrice – Who will Pay for Nuclear Power Plant Cleanup? – John Daly

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

• BlueOregon – As radioactive “goo” leaks at Hanford, Wyden pays a visit to get some answers – Kari Chisholm
• Daily Astorian – Editorial: A perfect radioactive storm
• KATU – Sen. Wyden touring Hanford despite radioactive tank leak
• Tri-City Herald – Our Voice: Important truth for Sen. Wyden’s fact-finding mission to Hanford — vitrification is essential
• Tri-City Herald – Photo: Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden tours B-Reactor at Hanford
• Provo Daily Herald – Court doubts oversight of NJ nuclear slag cleanup
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – House Energy Committee wants to dig deeper into security shortcomings of nuclear weapons complex – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – About 1,500 employees affected by January cyber attack on DOE systems; names, SSNs exposed; incident treated as ‘national security issue’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Bury UPF? – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Report says cuts could deeply affect Oak Ridge
• WBIR-TV – Y-12 celebrates 70 years – Heidi Wigdahl
• South Hill Enterprise – Uranium meeting held with Governor – Tim Davis
• Gloucester County Times – Federal court doubts oversight of N.J. nuclear slag cleanup
• Green Optimistic blog – Nuclear Waste Disposal: An Issue That Won’t Heal by Itself – Leigh Kim
• Canada: Seaforth Huron Expositor – Speaker cautions about dangers of nuclear waste deep geological repository – Melissa Murray
• Europe: ITV News – Nuclear storage decision stands
• Europe: Liberal Democrat Voice – Opinion: Radioactive waste consultation – a loss of public trust – Rebecca Hanson
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Council ‘right’ to vote against Cumbria repository vote
• Europe: Westmorland Gazette – No U-turn over nuclear waste rejection as CCC leader slams critics and reveals he won’t stand for re-election – Ellis Butcher,
• Russia: World Nuclear News – Tender for pilot reprocessing facility

Monday, February 18, 2013

• Forbes – Former Yucca Mountain Chief Questions Nuclear Waste Effort – Jeff McMahon
• New Scientist – Nuclear waste: too hot to handle? – William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley
• CBC News – Washington plutonium leak poses ‘long-term threat’ – Luke Brocki
• KLCC – Senator Ron Wyden To Visit Hanford, Report Raises Issues With Site’s Plant – Anna King
• Northwest Cable News – Sen. Wyden heading to Hanford following radioactive leak – Wayne Havrelly
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford lab analyzes precious samples of highly radioactive waste – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford lab analyzes highly radioactive samples, then turns them into precious material – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – NRC to discuss possible US Ecology rule changes Thursday in Richland
• WashPIRG – Hanford Nuclear Waste: No Such Thing as “Safe Storage” – Micaela Preskill
• WCSH-TV – Nuclear waste leak sparks outrage in Washington state – Krister Rollins
• Idaho Statesman – West Views: Opinions from newspapers in Idaho and the West commenting on Western issues
• Pueblo Chieftain – State reverses Cotter licensing: Health department says public should have say – Tracy Harmon
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – World’s fastest computer isn’t working like it should; Titan acceptance delayed at ORNL – Frank Munger
• ISS Source – Vulnerabilities with Stored Nuclear Fuel
• Tidewater News – Ad asks McDonnell not to allow uranium mining – Alix Hines
• Virginian-Pilot – Pro-uranium radio ad asks McDonnell for support – Julian Walker
• Power Engineering – Bill Gates-backed company looks to turn nuclear waste into power
• Europe: The Guardian – Radioactive material stolen from van in Lancashire – Martin Wainwright
• Europe: Times & Star – Inquiry to be held into Cumbria council nuclear store decision – Ian Duncan
• Europe: Reuters – CORRECTED-Areva says uranium output last year hit new record – Geert De Clercq
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Bumper uranium year for Areva