Sunday, April 21, 2013

• Tri-City Herald – Hanford museum CREHST faces difficult time it as merges with Reach interpretive center – Annette Cary
• Twin Falls Times-News? – INL Complaint over Plutonium Exposure Underscores Need for Transparency – Liz Woodruff, Snake River Alliance
• Columbus Dispatch – U.S. restarts plutonium production for space probes – Irene Klotz
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – Gunshots fired involving a TVA nuclear security officer outside the Watts Bar nuclear plant
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More data coming in, but questions persist: Is ORNL’s radioactive waste crossing the Clinch River and polluting groundwater? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge hires new recruiter; focus on UPF – Frank Munger
• Rochester Democrat and Chronicle – Watchdog report: Is the old Kodak dump safe? – Steve Orr
• The Guardian – Obama accused of nuclear U-turn as guided weapons plan emerges – Julian Borger
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico 
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Nevada

Saturday, April 20, 2013

• John Wiley & Sons – Uncertainty and variability of infiltration at Yucca Mountain. Part 2: Model results and corroboration – Stuart A. Stothoff
• Pahrump Valley Times – Oscar Goodman to be guest speaker at VEA meeting – Mark Waite
• AmericanTowns-Washington – Hastings Announces 2013 Nuclear Cleanup Caucus Site Briefings
• Boise Weekly – Tribune: Radioactive Material Discovered in Craigmont – Posted by George Prentice
• Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) – Bipartisan Group of Senators Reintroduce RECA Amendments Act–Bill Would Expand Relief for Americans Sickened by Radiation Exposure – Lindsay Nothern
• Alamogordo Daily News – New Mexico could get added to downwinder list – John Bear
• Albuquerque Journal – Nuclear defense still a big issue – Ed Feulner
• St. Cloud Times – Your Turn: Tribe’s lands face nuclear racism – Tony Akubue
• Muscatine Journal – Muscatine County Board of Supervisors agenda
• Electric Light & Power – NRC to Discuss NFS Performance at Public Meeting in Erwin
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Judge overrules TVA, allows zombie suit to proceed – Ed Marcum
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Two from ORNL elected fellows of APS – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Gearing up for DOE’s FY2015 cleanup budget – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UT’s top engineering honor goes to John Tickle – Frank Munger
• Wicked Local Plymouth – Pilgrim Station: Tritium source accidentally discovered – Frank Mand
• Europe: PennEnergy – Nuclear waste store bid on the cards – Sarah Headland
• East Europe: Yahoo! PRWeb – Kazakhstan Hopes to be Centre of Peaceful Nuclear Industry
• South Africa: AllAfrica – Namibia: Better Times for Uranium – Daniel Kavishe

Friday, April 19, 2013

• Tri-City Herald – DOE starting to implement small business requirement at Hanford – Annette Cary
• Idaho Press-Tribune – Workers blame INL officials for “unsafe culture”
• Idaho Statesman – Former INL workers say they suffered retaliation
• Twin Falls Times-News – Idaho workers exposed to plutonium file complaint
• Cibola County Beacon – Facility Remembers the Past – Dr. Pitts and Uranium Miners – Donald Jaramillo
• Pueblo Chieftain – Cotter cleanup advances – Tracy Harmon
• Albuquerque Journal – LANL cleanup assurance is sought – Michael Coleman
• Portsmouth Daily Times – NRC to host public meeting on USEC review – Frank Lewis
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Sansom vouches for TVA business model – Ed Marcum
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Clarification: Speaker to focus on biz ops, not UPF – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE’s J.T. Howell retiring – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More than a million pounds of rad waste removed from IMPACT Services site – Frank Munger
• Albany Times Union – Letter: Nuclear waste handling is pricey – Michael McGlynn
• Brattleboro Reformer – Vermont lawmakers hear from nuclear waste critic – Dave Gram
• WPTZ Burlington – Nuclear waste expert says Vt. Yankee’s growing risk – Stewart Ledbetter
• NTI – Reid Appoints Besieged Regulator to Nuclear Weapons Panel – Amy Harder
• DOE:IG – Alleged Mismanagement of the Department of Energy’s Executive Protection Operations, INS-SR-13-02
• Energy Department – NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Long-Term Management and Storage of Elemental Mercury Pages 23548-23550 [FR DOC# 2013-09291]
• Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – Yamagata Pref. refuses to accept waste soil from Fukushima
• Asia: New York Times – OpEd: Is China Changing Its Position on Nuclear Weapons? – James M. Acton
• Europe: BBC News – EDF Energy tritium alert over Dungeness B groundwater
• South Africa: Xinhua News – Chinese-invested Husab uranium mine kicks off construction in Namibia

Thursday, April 18, 2013

• Bloomberg – Senate Panel Approves Obama’s Energy Secretary Nominee – Steve Walsh
• Platts – Key US senator blasts DOE 2014 budget request for fracking, nuclear waste R&D – Derek Sands
• ENS – Colorado River Tops America’s Most Endangered Rivers List
• Tri-Valley Times – Letter: Tri-Valley letters: Livermore Lab managers didn’t deserve renewed contract – Beverly King
• Ventura County Star – Santa Susana soil cleanup may not make 2017 deadline
• Rep. Doc Hastings(R-WA6) – Hastings Announces 2013 Nuclear Cleanup Caucus Site Briefings
• Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) – Cantwell, Key Committee Vote to Approve Energy Secretary Nominee Moniz
• Tri-City Herald – Hastings criticizes DOE for poor communication – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Budget boost possible for some Hanford work in 2014 – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Sirens to sound for drill Thursday at Hanford
• Montrose Daily Press – County wants uranium program left intact – Katharhynn Heidelberg
• New York Times – A Fight in Colorado Over Uranium Mines – Dan Frosch
• Pike County Daily – NRC to discuss USEC lead cascade at public meeting
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s discharge permit still under appeal – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL studies the afterlife (of batteries) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Second breathing incident at Oak Ridge nuclear waste plant prompts DOE action – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Battle of the bulge at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• WCAX – Vt. lawmakers hear from nuclear waste critic
• HNN Huntingtonnews – DOL Should Reexamine Cuts Affecting Sick Nuclear Workers – Terrie Barrie
• DOE – Enhanced Geothermal in Nevada: Extracting Heat From the Earth to Generate Sustainable Power
• DOE – DOE Extends Public Comment Period for the Draft Uranium Leasing Program Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation Pages 23241-23242 [FR DOC# 2013-09130]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Page 23242 [FR DOC# 2013-09126]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Uranium Enrichment Fuel Cycle Inspection Reports: Uranium Enrichment Fuel Cycle Inspection Reports Regarding Louisiana Energy Services, National Enrichment Facility, Eunice, New Mexico, Prior to the Commencement of Operations
  
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – MOX shipment set to land in June
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – MOX nuclear fuel shipment leaves France for Japan
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Yamagata Pref. refuses to accept waste soil from Fukushima
• Europe: BBC News – Alderney Hurd Deep radioactive waste ‘not dangerous’
• Europe: Daily Mail – Nuclear power station has been leaking radioactive waste ‘for months’, says Environment Agency – Steve Nolan
• Europe: Daily Telegraph – Tritium found in ground water around Dungeness nuclear plant – Richard Gray
• Europe: London Sun – Peter Andre at centre of radioactive scare – Ian Garland
• Europe: Reuters – Nuclear fuel leaves French port for Japan, first since Fukushima – Michel Rose
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – Where to go with nuclear waste?

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Most of delegation displays little concern on nuke waste – Steve Tetreault
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford vit plant could face furloughs this summer – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – National nuclear waste board hears local Hanford concerns – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Sirens to sound for drill Thursday at Hanford
• New York Times – A Fight in Colorado Over Uranium Mines – Dan Frosch
• Austin American-Statesman – Bill would stop New Mexico residents from challenging Texas waste dump – Asher Price
• NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth – Bill Could Narrow Challenges to Radioactive Waste Site – Betsy Blaney
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Corps of Engineers official to talk about UPF work – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Eschenberg: ‘UPF is a microcosm’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – U.S.-China atoms for peace – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 trespassing charge dismissed; bicyclist apologizes – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – How much did the Y-12 fence really cost? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sequoia: It’s classified – Frank Munger
• Chatham Star Tribune – Come back to earth on uranium – Joe Aylor, Chief Geologist for Virginia Uranium Inc.
• Energy Collective – Marriage and Nuclear Waste Management – Suzanne Baker
• POGO – FOIA Failings Continue – Lydia Dennett
• Power Engineering – Shimkus: DOE spent nuclear fuel budget proposal is a “joke”
• DOE:IG – Management of Naval Reactors’ Cyber Security Program, OIG-0884
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Nuclear fuel from France to Japan to resume
• Europe: RFI – Nuclear cargo leaves France for Japan

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

• Forbes – Looking For A Safe Way To Store Spent Nuclear Fuel – Ucilia Wang, Contributor
• Hawaii Reporter – Office of Hawaiian Affairs rolls out website to tackle political issues
• KXXV-TV – Nuke bill raises opposition from environmentalists – Betsy Blaney
• Southern Illinoisan – Commission to review Honeywell plan – Caleb Hale
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Is the MOX plant at Savannah River unaffordable? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The odd side of Oak Ridge history – Frank Munger
• IPS – New York Nuke Waste in Limbo as Concerns Rise – George Gao
• HNN HuntingtonNews – OpEd: Inhuman Radiation Experiments – John Laforge
• DOE – Energy Department Announces New Investment in Nuclear Fuel Storage Research
• DOE – Expanding Options for Nuclear Power – Assistant Secretary Lyons
• NRC blog – Ensuring the Safety of Spent Fuel in Storage – Mark Lombard
• Navy Department – NOTICES Surplus Land at a Military Installation Designated for Disposal: Information on Surplus Land at a Military Installation Designated for Disposal: Naval Air Station Alameda, Alameda, California Pages 22529-22530 [FR DOC# 2013-08916]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – RULES List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: HI-STORM 100, Amendment No. 8; Corrections
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – French activists protest on nuclear fuel to Japan
• Europe: News & Star – Nuclear waste must be key election issue, says Cumbrian pressure group – Ian Duncan
• Russia: Xinhua News – Russia, U.S. to resume missile defense dialogue
• South Africa: IAfrica – SA a nuclear dumping ground?

Monday, April 15, 2013

• San Francisco Bay Guardian – Treasure Island: Is this the end?
• Lexington Herald Leader – Proposal submitted to keep Paducah plant open
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Activists in Washington for 25th ‘DC Days’ – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – Budget casts MOX doubts – Rob Pavey
• Grist – Fracking for uranium, first accidentally, and now on purpose – John Upton
• Public Radio International – Obama still trying to get green team in place – Steve Curwood
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Portsmouth
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Plutonium found outside of containment in marine soil at Fukushima Daiichi – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia: Xinhua News – World’s top nuclear submarines
• Europe: Kilmarnock Standard – Protesters chained to Faslane gate
• Europe: The Scotsman – 47 arrested at Faslane anti-Trident protest – Morey Stettner