Sunday, June 02, 2013

• Tacoma News Tribune – PNNL scientist advises Japan on nuclear cleanup – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Plant may lack space for Hanford waste – Annette Cary
• Albuquerque Journal – Capitalize on WIPP’s success – John Heaton
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – TVA eyes building 2 smaller reactors on the Clinch River in Oak Ridge – Dave Flessner
• Knoxville News Sentinel – ORNL’s big turnaround: UT will fight to keep lab management contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Lamar Alexander: Water treatment plant to intercept mercury, make creek safer
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Lab directors coming to ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Introducing the Department of Energy – Frank Munger
• Fairfield County Herald Independent – Nuclear construction findings revised – Kevin Boozer
• Wheeling News-Register – A Little Radiation May be A Big Deal – Casey Junkins
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Nuclear site scrap metal could be headed to recyclers – Len Boselovic
• Energy Department – NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Re-Opening of the Public Comment Period for the Draft Uranium Leasing Program Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Page 33090 [FR DOC# 2013-13055]
• Canada: Regina Leader-Post – Skullduggery alleged over mayors’ ‘secret’ nuclear-waste storage meetings – Colin Perkel
• Oceania: yokwe.net – Articles: Don’t Ever Whisper: The Story of Marshallese Activist Darlene Keju
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Abenomics Needs Cheap Nuclear Power to Work – Ulrike Schaede
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Rising radioactive spills leave Fukushima fishermen floundering – Antoni Slodkowski
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Reactor-dismantling cost rule may change
• South Asia: Times of India – Bhabha Atomic Research Centre hedges its bets firmly on Tumalapalli for uranium

Saturday, June 01, 2013

• Seattle PI – Storied nuke plant becomes environmental wasteland – Shannon Dininny
• Seattle PI – Questions, answers on Hanford Nuclear Reservation – Shannon Dininny
• Tri-City Herald – Information for ill Hanford, PNNL workers offered
• Montrose Daily Press – Uranium mill’s license challenged again – Dick Kamp
• Telluride Daily Planet – Four West End mines slated for clean-up – Katie Klingsporn
• Wyoming Public Media – Wyoming missed out on last uranium boom, but planning for the future – Irina Zhorov
• New Baltimore Voice – Michigan Senate questions nuclear waste dump on Lake Huron – Jim Bloch
• Toledo Blade – 4 at Davis-Besse get get top industry award
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Avisco gets 2nd UPF contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Summer’s here: Oak Ridge tours start June 3 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A conversation in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘There’s just so much uncertainty right now’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Avisco gets 2nd UPF contract – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – DOE’s public bus tour begins Monday
• Lower Hudson Journal – ‘Contingency plan’ wastes resources – Al Samuels, Rockland Business Association
• Wicked Local Plymouth – PLYMOUTH PLANNING BOARD: Dry cask storage appeal moves forward – Frank Mand
• Asia-Pacific: Asia One – Can frozen soil wall save crippled N-plant? – Takashi Ito and Takashi Maemura
• Europe: Dunferline Press – Radioactive beach: Brown slams delay – Gary Fitzpatrick

Friday, May 31, 2013

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Nye county officials: Uranium waste might require underground concrete container – Keith Rogers
• Q13Fox SEATTLE – Radioactive readings at local park has people aglow with questions – Steve Kiggins
• OPB News – Sen. Murray Hopes New Leadership Brings Change To Hanford – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – 100 workers to be hired at tank farm contractor – Annette Cary
• Telluride Daily Planet – DOE extends environmental impact statement comment period for second time – Heather Sackett
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – TVA suffers blow, loses biggest customer – Dave Flessner
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Energy Secretary Moniz to visit ORNL on Monday – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – House Majority Leader gets a glimpse at Oak Ridge, says he’s impressed – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Cantor speaks at Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says even during ‘times of fiscal stress,’ maintenance of nuclear weapons a priority – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Moniz on Monday – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Alexander said he’s ‘pretty well had it’ with cost-growing DOE projects – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Alexander: ‘Oak Ridge’s role is key’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Almost there’ on Titan – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Alexander reveals new energy plan; wants to double government research funding, halt oil and wind subsidies – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Avisco Inc. receives $12 million Bear Creek Road construction contract for UPF project – John Huotari
• Aiken Standard – SRR President Olson transfers to Hanford, Wash. – Haley Hughes
• Canada: CBC News – Probe into AECL contracts hushed up – Annie Burns-Pieper and Alison Crawford
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Rising radioactive spills leave Fukushima fishermen floundering – Antoni Slodkowski
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO told to freeze soil around reactor buildings to block groundwater
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Ground freeze urged to curb seepage into Fukushima No. 1 radioactive basements – Kazuaki Nagata
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Trace Amount of Radioactive Cesium Found in Japan Trench
• South Asia: Times of India – Grasslands bristle over uranium plant, test range – Deepika Burli

Thursday, May 30, 2013

• Socialist Project – The Bullet: The New Plunder of Native Lands – Ragina Johnson
• Democratic Underground – Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Plant May Be Too Dangerous – Valerie Brown
• KING5 Seattle – Head of Hanford tank farm contractor abruptly retires – Susannah Frame
• KING5 Seattle – Navy: No threat from Magnuson radioactive contamination
• Seattle Times – Public not told parts of Magnuson Park tainted – Brian M. Rosenthal
• Tri-City Herald – Head of Hanford tank farms retiring; new president named – Annette Cary
• KBOI-TV – FBI asking questions to investors of Eagle company
• Summit County Citizens Voice – Colorado orders cleanup of ‘zombie’ uranium mines
• KSFY – Foes of proposed uranium mine want hearing changed – Brian Allen
• Midland Reporter-Telegram – Andrews waste disposal facility to celebrate grand opening
• Oak Ridge Today – Energy secretary to visit ORNL Monday – John Huotari
• Oak Ridger – Feds won’t say if Libya’s nuclear equipment still at Y-12 Plant
• IEEE Spectrum – Restructuring and Retrenchment in Nuclear Fuels – Bill Sweet
• NWTRB – Board letter to Mr. David Huizenga with comments from April 2013 Board Meeting
• NWTRB – Board letter to Dr. Peter Lyons with comments from April 2013 Board Meeting Consolidated Line Item Improvement Process Pages 32476-32477 [FR DOC# 2013-12874]
• Canada: Reuters – Australia eases access to world’s biggest weapon range, eyes mining – Rob Taylor
• Canada: Saskatoon StarPhoenix – Uranium mining legacy expensive – Ann Coxworth
• Canada: Windsor Star blog – Dr. Gifford-Jones: The radiation question
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Monju fast-breeder reactor will not restart in 2013 – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Trace Amount of Radioactive Cesium Found in Japan Trench
• Asia-Pacific: Kyodo News – Gov’t orders TEPCO take measure to halt radioactive water increase
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Regulators effectively ban Monju reactor from restarting

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – High security to accompany uranium waste to Nevada – Steve Tetreault
• Pahrump Valley Times – Nuke dump incentive: Hundreds of millions of dollars – Mark Waite
• Portland PressHerald – Debris from Japan drifts to California
• Tri-City Herald – Owner of wallet found at Hanford died in 1995 – Annette Cary
• Rocky Mountain Institute – Is a High Renewables Future Really Possible? (Part 1) – Peter Bronski
• Albuquerque Journal – Nuclear power, brackish water complementary – William T. Sellers
• Albuquerque Journal – ‘Active’ permit sought for mine – Deborah Baker
• Duluth News Tribune – Reader’s view: Use Northland’s granite to store nuclear waste and create jobs – Rolf Westgard
• ABC News – Smoldering Landfill Could Threaten Nuclear Waste – Jim Salter
• CBS St. Louis – EPA: Radiation at West Lake Landfill Poses No Health Threat
• ANWAG Blog – Portsmouth continues to falsify records – Terrie Barrie
• Columbus Dispatch – Records altered at closed plant – Lynn Hulsey
• Cleveland Plain Dealer – Low-level radioactive waste dump in Newburgh Heights is now a park and playground – Dave Davis
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Moniz may be coming to ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – WSI’s report: In the four days before Y-12 break-in, there were 800 false alarms – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA says it’s sticking with UPF – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Looking for Muddy Boots – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Hua-Tay Lin to receive Stodola Medal – Frank Munger
• Aiken Standard – Letter: Still no good answer in nuclear waste disposal – Maxine Dexter
• Wilmington Star-News – GE hits milestone with laser enrichment of uranium – Jim Brumm
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: “Perception” of uranium mining – Karen B. Maute
• Heritage Foundation – Virginia Uranium Mining: Draft Regulations Now, Lift Moratorium Later – Jack Spencer
• CapeCodToday – Solutions sought to eliminate “stockpiling” of spent nuclear fuel at Plymouth
• Beyond Nuclear – States tell NRC to review nuclear waste storage at reactors
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Upgrade supply chain set to soar – Peter Taberner
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Policy Review 23- 29 May 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 23 – 29 May 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• NRC – NRC Finalizes Rules on Using and Distributing Uranium and Thorium
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – RULES List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks:
  
• Canada: Bayshore Broadcasting – Critics Slam Council Over DGR
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – U.S. weapons-grade uranium shipments to Chalk River near end – Ian MacLeod,
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – NRA: Tsuruga plant spent fuel pool needs checking
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Regulators to inspect fault under Monju reactor
• Europe: Bloomberg – French Debates on Nuclear-Waste Repository Postponed by Protests – Tara Patel
• East Europe: Austrian Times – 27 years on, Austrian animals are still radioactive

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

• Mohave Valley Daily News – Navajo Nation plans to block uranium transport
• Ecowatch – Slow Cooker at Paducah Comes to a Boil – Geoffrey Sea
• World Nuclear News – Paducah enrichment plant to be closed
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – Cleanup of K-25 nearing completion
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Is Libya’s nuclear equipment still at Y-12? Feds won’t say – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Centrifuge manufacturing in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – They’ve got a secret – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Power lineup at Summit in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Knoxville part of Better Buildings Challenge – Frank Munger
• South Jersey Times – PSEG Nuclear’s Salem 1 reactor returns to service after refueling outage – Bill Gallo Jr.
• New Haven Independent – Clean-Up OK’d At Olin’s Nuclear Rods Site – Allan Appel
• Boston Globe – Action urged on nuclear waste storage – Joshua Miller
• Cape Cod Times – Mass. officials seek long-term answer on nuke fuel
• Norwell Mariner – State House News — Coakley and Murray appeal for solutions on spent nuclear fuel – Andy Metzger
• SouthCoastToday – AG, Murray appeal for solutions to “stockpiling” of spent nuke fuel – Andy Metzger
• HNN HuntingtonNews – Markey Introduces Bill to Block Re-Use of Radioactive Scrap
• NRC – Online Registration Closes May 31 for Fuel Cycle Information Exchange, June 11-12, 2013 in Rockville, Md.
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico
  
• Canada: BlackburnNews – Residents Question Saugeen Shores Nuclear Repository Involvement
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – U.S. weapons-grade uranium shipments to Chalk River near end – Ian Macleod
• Canada: Yahoo! News – Plans to bury nuclear waste near Lake Huron face binational opposition – Steve Mertl
• Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – Panel reopens debates on nuclear waste disposal
• Asia-Pacific: Jiji Press – Japan Starts Talks on Spent N-Fuel Final Disposal
• Asia-Pacific: Kyodo News – Gov’t panel starts review of process to select radioactive waste site
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Panel reopens debates on nuclear waste disposal
• West Africa: AFP Google – Areva vows to stay in Niger despite uranium mine attack

Monday, May 27, 2013

• Huffington Post – The Nuclear Option: Waste Plan or a Wasteland? – Bill Chameides
• ABC News – Navajo Plans to Block Access for Uranium Transport – Felicia Fonseca
• Boise Weekly – Idaho Budget Cuts Trigger More Job Loss at INL – George Prentice
• Detroit News – Canadian firm’s nuclear waste plan near Lake Huron stirs Michigan fears – Jim Lynch
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Too big to believe: K-25 demolition approaching the end – Frank Munger
• Grist Magazine – Fukushima meltdown’s latest victims: American uranium jobs – John Upton
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Canada: CBC News – Nuclear waste site on Lake Huron concerns Michigan, Sarnia
• Oceania: ABC – Waste dump opponents ‘not going to back down’ – Gail Liston
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Operation up in air at nuclear fuel recycle plant
• Europe: The Guardian – Asos pulls belts in radioactive scare – Simon Neville
• Europe: New York Times – Powerhouse of the Uranium Enrichment Industry Seeks an Exit – Stanley Reed
• Russia: Bellona – ERC Bellona, experts, environmentalists survey Russia’s dirtiest radioactive ‘hot spot’ – Alexei Shchukin, Vsevolod Levchenko
• Middle East: Tehran Times – IAEA must escape from West’s orbit
• South Africa: ESI Africa – SA’s nuclear power build programme – will it happen? – Antonio Ruffini