Sunday, March 31, 2013

• Spokesman-Review – Letter: Hanford disaster looms – Tom Cameron
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Easter Sunday at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Rep. Fleischmann talks about his seat on Appropriations and Oak Ridge programs, with emphasis on cleanup work – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Former Y-12 overseer questions need for more fences and increasing secrecy – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 676th peace vigil at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Wicked Local Kingston – Law firm appeals to state for access to Pilgrim dry cask plans – Frank Mand
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Responsiblity for nuclear waste – Pan Han-shen

Saturday, March 30, 2013

• POWERnews – Nuclear Waste Disposal Sites Still Rare After All These Years – David Wagman
• KING 5 News – Radiation found in room next to popular Magnuson Park gym – Gary Chittim
• KPLU News – What makes Hanford’s ‘TRU’ tank waste different from the rest? – Anna King
• Albuquerque Journal – LANL to pull plug on record-setting computer
• Albuquerque Journal – Editorial: Partnership promising for UNM, Sandia, N.M.
• KLTV 7 – Press Release: Plaintiffs Exposed to Nuclear Waste Provided Roadmap to Success – Marc Jay Bern
• Daily News Journal – GUEST COLUMN: Tell our officials: Don’t pass the buck – Kathleen Ferris
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Government moves to restrict access to Y-12; new fence would block traditional protest area – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Roadrunner, once the world’s fastest supercomputer, to join Jaguar on the high-performance scrap heap
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Nonproliferation in a time of austerity’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UT’s Institute for Nuclear Security – Frank Munger
• Wicked Local Plymouth – Nuclear plant performance meeting to be followed by dry cask storage discussion – Frank Mand
• Wicked Local Plymouth – TOWN HALL: Law firm appeals to state for access to dry cask plans – Frank Mand
• Kennebec Journal – VIEW FROM AWAY: Muddled positions about nuclear waste no accident – Sacramento Bee
• New York Times – Nominee for Energy Secretary Lists Assets and Posts – Matthew L. Wald
• Canada: BlackburnNews – Clinton Nuclear Waste Site – Bob Montgomery
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Radiation accumulating in lakes and rivers around Metropolitan area – Iori Mochizuki
• Europe: in-cumbria – £1.7bn investment in cleaning up Sellafield – Julian Whittle
• Europe: Times & Star – £1.7bn investment in cleaning up Sellafield – Julian Whittle

Friday, March 29, 2013

• Heritage Foundation – Nuclear Waste Management: Minimum Requirements for Reforms and Legislation – Jack Spencer
• POWERnews – Nuclear Waste Disposal Sites Still Rare After All These Years – David Wagman
• Contra Costa Times – Deputies arrest 37 at Livermore Lab Good Friday protests – Jeremy Thomas
• Los Angeles Times – Goodrich Corp. to help clean up perchlorate in Rialto groundwater – Phil Willon
• NPR – Federal Budget Cuts Hamper Waste Cleanup At Washington Nuclear Reservation – Anna King
• Grand Junction Free Press – Letter: Waste from nuclear energy can’t be ignored – Fred Stewart
• Summit Daily News – Energy Dept. backs uranium mining in western Colo.
• Cibola County Beacon – Laguna Hosts 2nd Annual Uranium Film Fest – Rosanne Boyett
• ENS – Wastewater Injection Linked to Oklahoma’s Largest Earthquake
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Rolling, rolling, rolling – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Holding history hostage? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Inspection at Area G (at Los Alamos) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Deep cuts on staff augmentation at Y-12? – Frank Munger
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Spent nuclear fuel is a threat to security – Jack Barnes
• DOE – Top 9 Things You Didn’t Know about Carbon Fiber – Rebecca Matulka
• National Academy of Sciences – Review of the Department of Labor’s Site Exposure Matrix Database
• Canada: CTV News – Quebec puts uranium mining on hold while it studies environmental risks
• Canada: MetaFilter – It was a very exciting time when the Chalk River plant melted down.
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Slipping up on nuclear waste issue costs Jiang – Chang Kuo-tsai
• East Asia: Chosun Ilbo – Korea’s Nuclear Waste Storage Full Up by 2016
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – Radioactive waste storage in Germany

Thursday, March 28, 2013

• Politico – Greens keep up push against Dems over KXL – Ashley Judd won’t run for Senate – Train spills crude in Minnesota – NRC, Yucca supporters trade fire on ‘status quo’ – Chevron cuts chiefs’ pay – Alex Guillen
• Smart Energy Universe – Experts Embrace New US Strategy on Nuclear Waste
• OPB News – Federal Budget Cuts Hamper Waste Cleanup At Washington Nuclear Reservation – Anna King
• Seattle Times – 10 indicted in Hanford timecard scheme
• Tri-City Herald – Watchdog groups oppose sending Hanford waste to New Mexico – Annette Cary
• Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter – Radioactive Waste Bill Shuts Out Public
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – New boundary fence going up at Y-12 complex in Oak Ridge
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Incinerator operator seeks more foreign waste – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Report: DOE OK’d contractor salaries above market rates – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Government takes new steps to restrict access to Y-12; additional fence will be built around entry sign and long-time protest area – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The SNS status – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The mysterious cesium casks: high-rad drama in Oak Ridge continues – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Salaries: Bechtel Jacobs vs. UCOR – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Y-12 to install new fence to reduce trespassing – John Huotari
• IEER – Spent Fuel and Reprocessing Myths and Realities – Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D.
• DOE:EM – Office of Packaging and Transportation Fiscal Year 2012 Annual Report
• DOE:EM – Ensuring Safe Shipment of Hazardous Materials
• DOE:EM – DOE Awards Research and Systems Engineering Task Order
• DOE:EM – EM Update | Vol. 5, Issue 3 | March 2013
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – UPDATE 1-Japan’s nuclear fuel stockpile weighs on Urenco outlook – Geert De Clercq
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Local officials discuss radioactive waste disposal
• Europe: Dumfries and Galloway Standard – Radioactive water leak – Sharon Liptrott
• East Europe: World Nuclear News – New licence for Chernobyl used fuel facility

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

• Livermore Patch – Anti-Nuclear March Starts in Walnut Creek and Ends at Livermore National Labatory – Patrick Creaven
• Northwest Public Radio – Hanford Watchdogs: Sending Tank Waste To New Mexico Won’t Work – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – 10 Hanford managers indicted in timecard scheme – Published: March 27, 2013 Updated 3 hours ago
• Yakima Herald Republic – Letter: Hanford concerns – Mercedes Delgado
• Santa Fe New Mexican – Officials optimistic over stopgap spending measure’s effect on lab – The Santa Fe New Mexican – Roger Snodgrass
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Inspector General says DOE improperly approved salaries above market rates for Oak Ridge cleanup contractor; cost an additional $3.4M – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Carbon jobs and all that stuff – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Haslam & Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Manufacturing jobs, not just carbon fiber – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Oak Ridge carbon fiber plant could lower cost of strong, lightweight material – John Huotari
• Ocala Star-Banner – A clean audit for Ocala – Susan Latham Carr
• Aiken Standard – Graham: SRS not a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel – Mike Gellatly
• DOE:IG – Approval of Contractor Executive Salaries by Department of Energy Personnel, DOE-IG-0882
• NRC Blog – Working Together to Keep Radioactive Materials Safe – Kim Lukes
• Oceania: Greenpeace International blog – Uranium mining stopped in Australian national park – Justin McKeating
• Asia-Pacific: Power Engineering – Kansai Electric eyes MOX fuel use at Takahama plant from fall of 2014
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Pact stifles South as nuke waste piles up – Youkyung Lee

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

• Oakland Tribune – Groups gear up for annual Good Friday protest at Livermore lab – Jeremy Thomas
• Tri-City Herald – Hastings urges DOE not to shift Hanford money away from Hanford – Annette Cary
• Albuquerque Journal – Speak Up!(#8): WHAAAT? WIPP
• StateImpact Texas – Hotter Radioactive Waste Could Be Coming To Texas – David Barer
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Sequester-induced furloughs won’t be necessary at Y-12 after all – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – DOE to announce national clean energy initiative during Oak Ridge event – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s Carbon Fiber Technology Facility – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The Human Reliability Program at Y-12, Pantex – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Not yet – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – Nuclear waste “melter” placed on standby at SRS plant – Rob Pavey
• Aiken Standard – LETTER: Disagrees with nuclear waste column – Ulla Ringle
• UN: IAEA – IAEA’s Nuclear Energy Management School Opens in U.S.A.
• Canada: Bloomberg – Canada Should End Most Uranium Ownership Curbs, Wall Says – Greg Quinn
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Japanese nuclear commissioner urges limits for reprocessing spent fuel
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Tepco to boost compensation zone
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Abe ties nuke plant restarts to rebuilding
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Atomic energy bigwig’s NPO favored for nuke waste disposal project
• Europe: in-cumbria – Sellafield ‘Fast Reactor’ Option for Waste Stockpile Touted
• Europe: in-cumbria – Sellafield ‘fast reactor’ option for waste stockpile touted
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – Commission to determine criteria for final nuclear storage
• North Europe: World Nuclear News – Finnish waste fund continues to grow

Monday, March 25, 2013

• Washington Times – Las Vegas museum tells of city’s history with nuclear testing – Todd DeFeo
• Knoxville News Sentinel – New security contractor on the job at ORNL, ETTP
• Knoxville News Sentinel – No furloughs at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – C’mon, folks, it’s almost April – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – New security contractor on the job at ORNL, ETTP – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Early waste tanks at Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – IG identifies waste issues at Paducah – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Eschenberg at ETEBA – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UPF stats – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Cleanup math – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – GAO testimony on DOE/NNSA big projects (including the Uranium Processing Facility) – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Y-12: Oak Ridge treasure — national resource/Union Carbide’s last 20 years in Oak Ridge, Part 3 – D. Ray Smith
• Oak Ridge Today – Letter: WSI leaves Oak Ridge with ‘flags flying’
• Aiken Leader – SRS Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Program Life-Cycle Cost Surges to Over $20 Billion – Thomas Clements
• Pottstown Mercury – Exelon: Re-fueling outage boosts local economy
• NTI – White House Supports Rollback of Cleanup Standards for Nuclear Incidents – Douglas P. Guarino
• DOE:EM – DOE Selects Contractor for Depleted Hexafluoride Conversion Project Support
• DOE:EM – Continuing Progress in Tribal Communities
• DOE:IG – Inspection Report – Radiological Waste Operations in Area G at Los Alamos National Laboratory, INS-O-13-03
• Canada: Kenora Online – Nuclear waste on Dryden agenda tonight – Mike Aiken
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Fuel cycle roundup #6
• Europe: NHK World – Germany to reconsider nuclear waste site
• Russia: UPI – Man claims he hoarded radioactive material for immortality – Kristen Butler