Sunday, June 16, 2013

• Reno Gazette-Journal – Environmentalists urge Gov. Brian Sandoval to block uranium waste shipments
• St. Clair Shores, MI Patch – Rep. Roberts Opposes Canadian Nuclear Waste Site – Edward Cardenas
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – June 27 ETEBA meeting – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Movement on Manhattan Project Park – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – As always, there’s feedback, but maybe more so – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s perimeter defense – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge cleanup: Destination 2047 – Frank Munger
• Bloomberg – Nuclear Decommissioning Surge Is Investor Guessing Game – Stefan Nicola & Julie Johnsson
• Oceania: Adelaide Now – Radioactive waste stored near South Australian homes
• Europe: The Guardian – Bradwell-on-Sea identified as potential site to dump radioactive waste – Terry Macalister

Saturday, June 15, 2013

• Contra Costa Times – Livermore anti-nuclear group sues federal agencies for documents on Livermore lab – Jeremy Thomas
• KPBS – NRC Considers Voiding Key Ruling On San Onofre – Alison St John
• Pacific Free Press – Chorus: We Said No Nukes! – Harvey Wasserman
• Enformable – Leaks at Hanford getting worse according to reports – Lucas W Hixson
• KING5 Seattle – Feds: Hanford leaking tank won’t be pumped until 2019 – Susannah Frame
• The Oregonian – Build disposal facilities to deal with nuclear waste: Guest opinion – Lee H. Hamilton and Brent Scowcroft
• Tri-City Herald – House passes defense bill with Hanford amendments – Geoff Folsom
• Sioux Falls Argus Leader – Daugaard: South Dakota not site for nuclear waste – Jonathan Ellis
• Minneapolis Star Tribune – No way nuclear is a better way – Dean E. Abrahamson
• WV State Journal – Ohio budget bill may regulate radioactive oil and gas waste – Pam Kasey
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – MAXLAB gets LEED Gold – Frank Munger
• Alabama News – Nuclear reactor near Dothan back on line after automatic shutdown
• Chatham Star Tribune – Meeting focuses on dangers of uranium
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Regulation, safety in uranium mining don’t happen by themselves – Katie Whitehead

Friday, June 14, 2013

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Environmental, anti-nuclear groups urge Sandoval to turn away uranium waste – Steve Tetreault
• KING5 Seattle – Hanford contractor wasted millions on leaking tank – Susannah Frame
• Seattle Times – Editorial: Hanford’s porous deadlines
• Tri-City Herald – American Nuclear Society meeting set Tuesday in Richland
• East Idaho News – INL Researchers Find Silver in Nuclear Particles
• Congressman Jared Polis (CO-02) – Polis, Perlmutter, Whitfield Pass Amendment to Help Streamline Benefits Application Process for ‘Cold War Patriots’
• Nuclear Watch New Mexico – Nuclear Weapons Labs Made Improper Payments to Heather Wilson; She Should Resign from NNSA Council Determining Their Future
• KSDK – Secrets buried beneath Westlake landfill – Leisa Zigman
• KTRS – Brockovich legal team; state rep to hold meetings on Bridgeton landfill
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Landfill issues draw interest of Erin Brockovich – Jeffrey Tomich
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Retired DOE official: Management of UPF ‘out of control,’ cost could top $10B – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Seven kilograms of HEU heading north – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Peace, security & motor vehicles – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Retired DOE official says UPF ‘out of control,’ could end up costing $10 billion – Frank Munger
• Beaver County Times – Report: Radioactive waste from fracking plagues Ohio – Rachel Morgan
• E&E Daily – DOE: Moniz hires 3 advisers, with nominations for other posts expected this summer – Nick Juliano
• DOE:IG – Audit Report: OAS-RA-13-22: The Hydrogen Energy California Project
• Canada: Reuters – Cameco gets license for Saskatchewan Cigar Lake uranium mine
• Oceania: ABC – ‘Strong case’ for uranium mining despite delay
• Asia-Pacific: Fairewinds Energy Education – Cleanup From Fukushima Daiichi: Technological Disaster Or Crisis In Governance? – Art Keller
• Asia-Pacific: Wall Street Journal – Two Years Later, Slow Progress on Cleanup
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Probe into Sellafield chemical blunder
• Europe: Press Association – Sellafield fined for waste blunder
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield Fined £700,000 for Dumping Radioactive Waste
• Europe: Bloomberg – Scariest Atomic-Waste Burial Plan Has French Villages Up in Arms – Tara Patel

Thursday, June 13, 2013

• Politico – Moniz defends DOE budget, outlines reorganization – GOP hits OIRA nominee over ‘burdensome’ rules – Departing DOE chiefs of staff start firm – Southwest Dems back Grijalva for top post – Alex Guillen
• HNN Huntingtonnews – OP-ED: Fishy Accounts of Health Risks from Poison Fukushima Tuna – John Laforge
• Contra Costa Times – Livermore anti-nuclear group sues federal agencies for documents on Livermore lab – Jeremy Thomas
• Coos Bay World – Nuclear cleanup spins its wheels
• KING5 – Leak in Hanford double-shell tank getting worse – Susannah Frame
• Tri-City Herald – Energy secretary to visit Hanford next week
• Moab Times Independent – Uranium mill tailings removal pace gains steam – Steve Kadel
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Titan supercomputer finally gains ‘acceptance,’ but likely to lose its top ranking – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 security guards in limbo – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Titan didn’t re-test for TOP500, keeping last year’s benchmark; ORNL’s Jeff Nichols explains why – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DeNuke cites increased work – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Titan supercomputer at ORNL completes acceptance testing
• YubaNet.com – Mia Steinle: A Radioactive Waste of Money
• Waste Management World – Prototype Plasma System for Nuclear Waste Vitrification Wins Government Funding – Ben Messenger
• DOE – United States and Czech Republic Establish a Joint Civil Nuclear Cooperation Center in Prague
• NWTRB – Board letter to Mr. David Huizenga with comments from April 2013 Board Meeting (pdf-2.0M)
• NWTRB – Board letter to Dr. Peter Lyons with comments from April 2013 Board Meeting (pdf-753K)
• Canada: Northumberland News – Low-level radioactive waste cleanup not deterring Port Hope business park activity
• Europe: University of Bristol – PhD student wins award for uranium research

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

• Walla Walla Union-Bulletin – Editorial: Cleanup delays at Hanford can’t go on
• Pueblo Chieftain – Uranium mines to stay closed
• Telluride Daily Planet – World premiere of local film ‘Uranium Drive-In’ is this weekend – Katie Klingsporn
• Telluride Daily Planet – New legal challenge to Piñon Ridge uranium mill – Collin Mcrann
• Telluride Daily Planet – DOE extends environmental impact statement comment period for second time – Heather Sackett
• Albuquerque Express – Energy department withholding details on multibillion-pound projects
• Hazelwood.Patch – Erin Brockovich’s Firm to visit West Lake Landfill, Will It Help? – Candace Jarrett
• Suburban Life – U.S. Department of Labor to host seminar in Bolingbrook June 19
• Knoxville News Sentinel – TVA cuts 530 jobs, spending on Ala. nuclear plant – Ray Henry
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 pipe break causes fish kill – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Editorial: Latest breach at Y-12 shows safety still not up to par
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Flanagan elected ANS Fellow – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – K-33 demolition gets Dept. of Energy honor – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What about those UCOR exec salaries? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Is the NNSA embarrassed? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL defends its contract arrangement with ex-Rep. Heather Wilson; says it did nothing wrong – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Titan passes acceptance test, seals ORNL’s supercomputer deal with Cray – Frank Munger
• Aiken Standard – SRS meets new records toward shipping waste to New Mexico
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Peach Bottom LTO and Uprates: Another exciting year ahead – Peter Taberner
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 5 – 12 June 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – NRC’s Macfarlane says entire fuel cycle must take holistic view – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Yahoo! Finance – Research and Markets: North America to Lead the Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Casks Market up to 2020
• GovTrack – S.Res. 164: A resolution designating October 30, 2013, as a national day of remembrance for nuclear weapons program workers. – Sen. Mark Udall [D-CO]
• Oceania: ABC – audio: Nuclear waste a source for “Green Uranium”
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Uranium industry wants yellowcake red tape cut – Bridget Brennan
• Asia-Pacific: FOX News – Fukushima nuclear plant operator shows off huge steel structure to help remove fuel rods
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Fukushima governor demands scrapping all reactors
• Asia-Pacific: Yomiuri Shimbun – Removal of melted nuclear fuel could start sooner
• Europe: Morning Star – Sellafield bosses play down near catastrophe – Peter Lazenby

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

• BikeBiz – Prof uses bike to lay chalk-trail around US air force bases in Nevada – Carlton Reid
• Vancouver Columbian – In Our View: More Delays at Hanford
• Albuquerque Journal – Los Alamos manager’s performance on plutonium project criticized – John Fleck
• Denver Post – Colorado lawmaker to clean up his uranium mines
• Knoxville News Sentinel – DOE report faults $450K payments to ex-Rep. Wilson – Jeri Clausing And Matthew Daly
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Transparency lacking on contact process – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The Hill reweaves the Moniz hair piece – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 fish kill totals 8,500; water-line rupture blamed – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – IG finds ‘serious concerns’ with $450K payments to ex-Rep. Wilson by national labs, including ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Alexander sponsors ‘Day of Remembrance’ for nuclear weapons workers – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Water line rupture at Y-12 kills small fish, salamanders – John Huotari
• Oak Ridge Today – Y-12 security update outlines improvements since July 28 intrusion – John Huotari
• DOE:IG – Inspection Report: DOE/IG-0889: Concerns with Consulting Contract Administration at Various Department Sites
• Oceania: The Australian – NSW government approval for uranium exploration a step closer – Mark Coultan
• Oceania: Xinhua News – Australia calls for boosting uranium industry
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Removal of nuke fuel debris at Fukushima plant set for 2020 – Jin Nishikawa
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Status of melted fuel in Fukushima reactors uncertain despite push for early removal
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – TEPCO preparing to remove melted fuel
• Europe: News & Star – Sellafield’s Mox plant cost taxpayers £2.2bn – Julian Whittle
• Europe: France Local – France orders probe into ‘unsafe’ nuclear base
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – Growing evidence of radioactive contamination in DRC
• Russia: Bellona – Russian Ministry of Defense holding up dismantlement of Lepse floating radioactive waste ship – Alexei Pavlov

Monday, June 10, 2013

• Tri-City Herald – Hanford Advisory Board recommends evening sessions, mentoring to increase diversity – Annette Cary
• Vancouver Columbian – Plaintiffs in Hanford case hope for a settlement – Karen Dorn Steele
• Telluride Daily Planet – DOE extends environmental impact statement comment period for second time – Heather Sackett
• Oak Ridge Today – Three officers, one supervisor suspended after unbadged driver enters Y-12 – John Huotari
• Boston Globe – Editorial: Nuclear waste: Trying to move the mountain
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Oceania: Adelaide Now – Gava: There is a good case for Australia to become the world’s nuclear waste depository. – Associate Professor John Gava
• Oceania: Marianas Variety – ‘Radioactive elements could still be present on Guam’
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO moves all radioactive water from leaky underground tanks – Shunsuke Kimura
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Major challenges ahead for decommissioning
• Europe: Dunferline Press – Bay beach meets “radioactive contaminated land” criteria – Gary Fitzpatrick
• Europe: News & Star – Public inquiry into plans for west Cumbria nuclear waste dump – Julian Whittle
• Europe: AFP Google – Researchers optimistic radioactive lead can beat cancer – Jean-Louis Santini