Summary
Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party is the only one in the country that supports any nuclear option! There were only a few Fukushima scandals, like Tepco refusing to pay people for mental distress, as well as a worsening in the serious underground radioactive contaminants hitting the ocean. The good news at Koodamkulam (India), there’s no underground volcano, and its still not online!
I usually attempt to do a sampling of the US news, but this time wanted to put attention on California since there has been a bit of good news. One down and 400 plus more to go! At the CEC’s recent IEPR workshop newly discovered documents by A4NR shows that the NRC coached the local utility PG&E on how to overturn its own resident inspector back in 2010. Diablo Canyon clearly isn’t capable of withstanding the highest seismic standards it supposed to be built for.
And just as this news starts to creep out, PG&E over a year ahead of the next round of seismic studies scheduled to be completed has already started a major campaign around the region promoting its local-centric economic benefits, even announcing its plan to relicense the reactors over a decade before its current license comes due. The battle is on, we’ve caught both PG&E and NRC in a very very bad position. They, and the state will be throwing everything it can to keep Diablo from following San Onofre. Another worry is the growing backlash that is being tossed up in the regional media around San Onofre. There are a lot of upset workers and pro-nuke types. A lot of help will be needed to counter the backlash, with SCE announcing another 700 rank and file nuke workers being laid off in the last couple of week.
Top News
Sunday, June 30, 2013
- Bay Area Indymedia – Movie Review: Pandora’s Promise – John Thielking
- Weatherford Democrat – VETERANS’ CORNER: Studies show impact to brains of Gulf War vets – Jim Vines
- HNN HuntingtonNews – PLUTONIUM: Looking back at the Portsmouth Contamination – Tony Rutherford
- Florence Times Daily – TVA looks at options for greener energy – Robert Palmer
- Rochester Democrat and Chronicle – Kodak sheds its environmental worries – Steve Orr
- Motley Fool – These 3 States Love Nuclear – Travis Hoium
- Asahi Shimbun – POINT OF VIEW/ Hirohito Ono: We cannot allow return to nuclear power without proper debate – Hirohito Ono
- Japan Times – LDP alone in fighting nuclear power exit
- Yomiuri Shimbun – Contaminated truck leaves nuclear plant
- Europe: Times & Star – Letter: Cumbria not suitable for underground nuclear storage – Tony Rigby, Cumbria Geological Society
- East Europe: Daily Express – New fears Chernobyl fires could bring even more fallout – Paula Murray
Saturday, June 29, 2013
- Fairewinds Energy Education – Vt. AG asks for status in California nuke case
- KCOY – Former Cal Poly Professor Weighs in on Benefits of Diablo Canyon – Leah Masuda
- San Luis Obispo Tribune – PG&E makes hard sell for Diablo Canyon renewal – Patrick S. Pemberton
- KING5 Seattle – Contamination from Hanford shipment worse than first thought – Susannah Frame
- WBIR-TV – TVA completes ash spill removal at Kingston plant – Jim Matheny
- Pottstown Mercury – What are the impacts of uranium mining in the U.S.? – Paul Raffman
- Climate Progress – Exelon Still Blaming Wind PTC For Nuclear Challenges, Exelon Still Wrong About It – Adam James
- Democratic Underground – Potential Cost of A Nuclear Accident? So High It’s A Secret! (5.8 Trillion Euros)
- Earth Island Journal – Another Take on Pandora’s Promiseby Gar Smith
- Energy Daily – House, Senate billions apart on green energy, nuclear waste funding – Jeff Beattie
- Canada: Saskatoon StarPhoenix – Lawsuit seeks to nullify uranium deal – Jason Warick
- Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Australian atomic massacre still ignored – David T. Rowlands
- Asahi Shimbun – POINT OF VIEW/ Hirohito Ono: We cannot allow return to nuclear power without proper debate – Hirohito Ono
- Asahi Shimbun – Government offers dosimeters–not decontamination–for Fukushima evacuees – Miki Aoki
- Japan Times – Municipalities ask Tepco for residents’ data to expedite redress
- JIJI Press – LDP Opposes Japan’s Exit from Nuclear Power
- Mainichi Daily News – Niigata gov. raises doubts about gov’t safety requirements for nuclear reactors
- Europe: Herald Scotland – Expert report: cancer levels twice as high near toxic Dalgety Bay beach
Friday, June 28, 2013
- Las Vegas SUN – Senate confirms Macfarlane to new term leading NRC
- Society of Environmental Journalists – “Quarrels Continue Over Repository for Nuclear Waste”
- KSBY – Medical tests begin in SoCal for A-bomb survivors
- Los Angeles Times – Southern California Edison issues layoff notices to 600 employees – Ricardo Lopez
- Santa Cruz Sentinel – Our Ocean Backyard: Shuttering of San Onofre – Gary Griggs
- San Diego Union-Tribune – San Onofre: How do you dismantle it? – Morgan Lee
- gCaptain – $745 Million to ‘Inactivate’ USS Enterprise
- Lake Country Sun – Veterans Corner: Researchers looking into Gulf War illness – Jim Vines
- Fairewinds Energy Education – TVA & Duke Ice Ratepayers, with Lou Zeller
- McClatchy Washington Bureau – South Carolina plutonium plant plagued by cost overruns, poor planning
- Asbury Park Press – TAURO: Plant puts 3.5 million of us at risk – Janet Tauro
- Union of Concerned Scientists – Nuclear Waste Bill Fails to Address Near-Term On-Site Management and Risks from Overcrowded Pools – Robert Cowin
- DOE – IAEA National Statement
- GovTrack – H.R. 1645: Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2013 – Rep. Ben Luján [D-NM3]
- GovTrack – S. 1240: A bill to establish a new organization to manage nuclear waste, provide a consensual process for siting nuclear waste … – Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]
- Asahi Shimbun – Analysis: Negatives abound for Japan’s ‘pluthermal’ power generation plans
- Asahi Shimbun – Floating wind turbine headed for coast off Fukushima Prefecture – Hiroaki Kimura
- Japan Times – Fallout decontamination efforts falling short
- NHK World – Komeito urges caution for nuclear tech exports
- Asia: All Things Nuclear – China’s Astronauts: Home from Space, Hope for the Earth – Gregory Kulacki
- Europe: BBC News – Dalgety Bay radiation: Sepa says MoD was responsible for contamination
- Europe: The Guardian – Fracking: energy futures
- Europe: Deutsche Welle – Bundestag agrees on search for nuclear waste disposal site, ends Gorleben debate for now
- Europe: Deutsche Welle – What to do with nuclear waste?
- Europe: Deutsche Welle – Living above Germany’s old nuclear waste
- East Europe: Smithsonian Magazine Blogs – 27 Years Later, Radiation Still Hides Out in Chernobyl’s Trees (Fukushima’s Too)
- Russia: euronews – Back in the Day: the Beginning of Nuclear Power
- Russia: Ria Novosti – Russian-US Warheads-for-Fuel Program to End in 2013 – Alexei Danichev
Thursday, June 27, 2013
- The Hill blog – Senators float long-awaited nuclear waste bill – Zack Colman
- KTLA – Diablo Canyon Reactor Shut Down After Leak Found – Kennedy Ryan
- San Luis Obispo NewTimes – Shredder: Regulatory meltdown
- San Luis Obispo NewTimes – ‘Calculational garbage’–Did the NRC allow PG&E to dodge Diablo Canyon seismic licensing requirements?
- Nextgov – Earthquake Could Cause Los Alamos Plutonium Facility to Collapse
- Alton Daily News – Hundreds Demand Nuclear Waste Removal
- HNN HuntingtonNews – NOVA Petitions for U.S. EPA to oversee Paducah, Piketon Clean-ups – Tony Rutherford
- Center for Public Integrity – ‘Nuclear Waste’ series targets seriously troubled project – Bill Buzenberg
- Public Citizen – Public Citizen Energy Experts Respond to President Obama’s Climate Action Plan
- NBC News – Where Is Domestic Nuclear Energy Heading? – Maxx Chatsko, Motley Fool
- Canada: Waterloo Region Record – Canada’s legacy of lies on biological weapons – Thomas Walkom
- Common Dreams – Ridiculous’: Experts Slam UN for Nuclear Danger Downplay – George Gao
- Greenpeace International – TEPCO fails on its responsibilities from the Fukushima disaster – Ayako Sekine
- Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO rejects compensation settlement for radiation anxiety – Ryujiro Komatsu
- Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuke shareholders state their case at power company meetings
- Asahi Shimbun – Protesters greet ship carrying mixed-oxide fuel from France
- Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: / Open letter to utilities: Wake up and smell the coffee!
- House of Japan – Roadmap revised for scrapping Fukushima reactors
- Japan Times – Komeito to campaign for nuke phaseout, denies disconnect with LDP – Ayako Mie
- NHK World – Map of radioactive iodine diffusion published
- NHK World – Nuclear Watch: Struggle with Contaminated Water
- Yomiuri Shimbun – Komeito sticks to nuclear-free goal
- Taipei Times – Taiwan has many renewable energy resources: activist – Lee I-chia
- Europe: in-cumbria – Nuclear waste store inquiry latest
- Europe: The Independent – Safety fears over elite police officers drunk on duty at UK’s nuclear sites – Andy Rowell
- Europe: Utility Week – Labour criticises ‘one-sided’ new nuclear talks with EDF
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
- Brattleboro Reformer – Vermont AG asks for status in California nuke case – Bob Audette
- CBS Los Angeles – Motion: Utility Customers Shouldn’t Have To Pay For San Onofre Shutdown
- Reuters – PG&E shuts California Diablo Canyon 1 reactor
- San Diego Union-Tribune – Shuttered Nuclear Plant Still Charging Customers – Morgan Lee
- KING5 Seattle – Hanford’s Dirty Secrets
- Idaho Mountain Express – Letter: Support the Snake River Alliance’s important work – Vanessa Fry
- KMOV – Residents urge removal of nuclear waste at Bridgeton landfill
- Mother Jones – How Fiscal Conservatives Learned to Love a $20 Billion Nuke Plant – Douglas Birch And R. Jeffrey Smith
- New York Times – U.S. Moves to Abandon Costly Reactor Fuel Plant – Matthew L. Wald
- Washington Post blog – Markey wins Massachusetts Senate race – Sean Sullivan
- Beyond Nuclear – VT PSB rules it can and will hear issues surrounding Entergy VY’s impacts on Connecticut River
- Portsmouth Herald News – Structural troubles at nuclear plant topic of forum
- AFP Google – Renewable energy use gaining worldwide: IEA
- Bloomberg – Clean Energy to Reach 25% by 2018 on New Markets, Costs – Ehren Goossens
- Center for Public Integrity – Nuclear Waste: Extremism in defense of federally-paid jobs is no vice in South Carolina – Douglas Birch
- NEI – House Spending Plan for FY 2014 Proposes Sizable Drop in Nuclear Energy Investment
- Nuclear Energy Insider – Exploring MENA’s nuclear siting issues – Heba Hashem
- Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 21 – 26 June 2013 – By K. Steiner-Dicks
- Nuclear Energy Insider – Policy Brief 21 – 26 June 2013 – By K. Steiner-Dicks
- UN: IPS – U.N. Downplays Health Effects of Nuclear Radiation – George Gao
- Oceania: Radio New Zealand – Hopes that book will provoke discussion Marshalls’ nuclear legacy
- Asahi Shimbun – 9 utilities want to restart idled reactors as soon as possible
- Japan Daily Press – TEPCO faces angry shareholders, calls for abandonment of nuclear power – Faith Aquino
- Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima survey wrongly estimates radiation exposure of 16,000 people
- NHK World – Shareholders reject anti-nuclear power proposals
- Europe: Democratic Underground – French Nuclear Disaster Scenario Was So Bad The Government Kept It Secret
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
- Vancouver Columbian – In Our View: More Bad News at Hanford
- Westword blog – Rocky Flats: Kristen Iversen wins a Colorado Book Award for Full Body Burden – Patricia Calhoun
- EON – Megatons to Megawatts Program 95 Percent Complete
- Portsmouth Daily Times – USEC: Megawatts Program “95 percent complete” – Ryan Scott Ottney
- West Kentucky Star – Paducah To Become The Nation’s Nuclear Dump? – Tim Brockwell
- Knoxville News Sentinel – Radioactive waste operations halted at Oak Ridge facility after fire scare – Frank Munger
- NorthCentralPa.com – Resnikoff’s Latest Study Misleads Public
- Philadelphia Inquirer – Fired nuclear-plant worker wins whistle-blower lawsuit – Jane M. Von Bergen
- All Things Nuclear – Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit #9: OpE – Dave Lochbaum
- Center for Public Integrity – Nuclear Waste: A $1 billion Energy Department project overshoots its budget by 600 percent – Douglas Birch
- Global Research – War and the New Nuclear Danger: Fukushima and Beyond – Michael Welch
- Greenpeace International – It’s time for nuclear gamblers to settle their debts. – Blogpost by Justin McKeating
- The White House – President Obama’s Plan to Fight Climate Change
- Oceania: Radio New Zealand – Marshallese nuclear test campaigner subject of new book
- House of Japan – Fukushima reactors status 26 Jun 2013
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t white paper points to flaws in nuclear facility safety management
- South Asia: TwoCircles – Orders for Kudankulam N-plant were placed in 2001-02
- Europe: ITV News – Public Inquiry into nuclear waste dump
- East Europe: Daily Climate – At Chernobyl, danger lurks in the trees – Jane Braxton Little
Monday, June 24, 2013
- Las Vegas Review-Journal – Yucca Mountain sequels never end – Jane Ann Morrison
- MWC News – Book: Too Hot To Touch by William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley – Ace Hoffman
- Los Angeles Times – San Onofre closure generates mixed feelings – Abby Sewell and Anh Do
- Valley Sun – NASA making cleanup progress in Pasadena – Tiffany Kelly
- Northwest Public Radio – 6 Things To Know About Nuclear Power In The Northwest
- Telluride Daily Planet – Our fears are well founded – David Glynn
- Beyond Nuclear – Coalition defends its challenge against risky steam generator replacements at Davis-Besse
- Brattleboro Reformer – NRC says spent fuel pools safe from earthquake dangers
- Bellona – Obama climate plan set to clamp down on power plants and wield executive sword – Charles Digges
- FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
- NRC – Public Meeting Schedule
- Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
- Canada: Toronto Star – Pickering nuclear station gets two-month license – John Spears
- Canada: Waterloo Record – Southampton nuclear-waste dump opponents plan protest
- JAIF – News Update
- Taipei Times – Green activists say forum has pro-nuclear agenda – Lee I-Chia
- Europe: The Guardian – UK’s nuclear clean-up programme to cost billions more than expected – Terry Macalister
- Europe: The Guardian – Solar power still better than nuclear in the fight against climate change – Jeremy Leggett
- North Europe: The Foreigner – Norway sheep radioactivity falling – Lyndsey Smith and Michael Sandelson
Fuel Cycle
Sunday, June 30, 2013
- Forbes – Yes We Can – Dispose of Nuclear Waste – James Conca
- Idaho State Journal – INL cleanup to resume in September
- Los Alamos Monitor – Senate bill has $250 million for cleanup; House bill, meanwhile, earmarks $195M
- HNN HuntingtonNews – PLUTONIUM: Looking back at the Portsmouth Contamination – Tony Rutherford
- Asia-Pacific: Yomiuri Shimbun – Contaminated truck leaves nuclear plant
- Southeast Asia: Bangkok Post – Nuclear material needs to be secure
- Europe: Times & Star – Letter: Cumbria not suitable for underground nuclear storage – Tony Rigby, Cumbria Geological Society
Saturday, June 29, 2013
- Santa Fe New Mexican – LANL puts nuke work on hold over safety concerns
- KIMA TV – Feds warn state more Hanford cleanup deadlines at risk
- KING5 Seattle – Contamination from Hanford shipment worse than first thought – Susannah Frame
- Tri-City Herald – No bonus has Hanford whistleblower back in court – Annette Cary
- Knoxville News Sentinel – ORNL’s new research chief encourages debate, demands excellence – Frank Munger
- Pottstown Mercury – What are the impacts of uranium mining in the U.S.? – Paul Raffman
- West Lebanon Valley News – Letter: Value of Used Nuclear Fuel Rods – Howard Shaffer, Vermont Yankee
- Energy Daily – House, Senate billions apart on green energy, nuclear waste funding – Jeff Beattie
- Canada: Saskatoon StarPhoenix – Lawsuit seeks to nullify uranium deal – Jason Warick
- Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Australian atomic massacre still ignored – David T. Rowlands
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Japan, U.S. jointly developing tech to gauge melted fuel at Fukushima plant
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Toxic groundwater found in Fukushima No. 1 well just 6 meters from Pacific
- Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – LDP Opposes Japan’s Exit from Nuclear Power
- Asia-Pacific: Kyodo News – Japan, U.S. eye technology to measure melted fuel in Fukushima plant
- Asia-Pacific: Kyodo News – ASEAN postpones meeting with nuclear powers – Bandar Seri Begawan
- Asia-Pacific: Kyodo News – Melted fuel removal at Fukushima plant planned from 2020 at earliest
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Niigata gov. raises doubts about gov’t safety requirements for nuclear reactors
- Europe: Herald Scotland – Brown calls on MoD to meet cost of Dalgety Bay clean-up
- Europe: Herald Scotland – Expert report: cancer levels twice as high near toxic Dalgety Bay beach
Friday, June 28, 2013
- American Nuclear Society – ANS Commends Senate on Continued Progress Toward Nuclear Waste Legislation
- CBS Las Vegas – Senators Seek Nuclear Storage At Yucca Mountain
- KNPR – GOP Favors Yucca Mountain, But Are There Alternatives?
- Las Vegas Review-Journal – New nuclear waste bill doesn’t repeal Yucca Mountain – Steve Tetreault
- Las Vegas SUN – Senate confirms Macfarlane to new term leading NRC
- NY Times Blogs – On Nuclear Waste Bill, Senators Look to Public for Help – Matthew L. Wald
- PEW Stateline – Legislation Aims to Address Nuclear Waste Woes – Jim Malewitz
- Society of Environmental Journalists – “Quarrels Continue Over Repository for Nuclear Waste”
- New York Times – Quarrels Continue Over Repository for Nuclear Waste – Matthew L. Wald
- Nuclear Street – Senators Put Forward BRC-Based Nuclear Waste Proposal
- KIMA CBS 29 – Leaky tank at Hanford: Rainwater or radioactive waste?
- Tri-City Herald – No bonus has Hanford whistleblower back in court – Annette Cary
- Tri-City Herald – Richland nuke plant coming back from outage this weekend
- Tri-City Herald – PNNL staffers exposed to radioactive tritium in Richland – Annette Cary
- Tri-City Herald – U.S. senator criticizes incentive pay for work at Hanford vit plant – Annette Cary
- Idaho Statesman – Otter says INL hazardous waste removal to restart
- Albuquerque Journal – Report urges LANL to boost protection
- Green Bay Press Gazette – Fuel rod storage is topic of Kewaunee nuclear safety meeting – Richard Ryman
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Getting nuke waste ready to leave Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE Oak Ridge not discussing Nevada plan; TDEC not taking position, but says CEUSP material can’t be disposed in Tennessee – Frank Munger
- McClatchy Washington Bureau – South Carolina plutonium plant plagued by cost overruns, poor planning – Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith
- Pittsburgh Business Times blog – Westinghouse lands DOE funding for advanced reactor research – Malia Spencer
- Platts – Moniz backs fracking, exports and coal shift, in first interview – Brian Scheid
- Union of Concerned Scientists – Nuclear Waste Bill Fails to Address Near-Term On-Site Management and Risks from Overcrowded Pools –
- DOE – IAEA National Statement
- GAO – National Nuclear Security Administration: Laboratories’ Indirect Cost Management Has Improved, but Additional Opportunities Exist,
- GovTrack – S. 1240: A bill to establish a new organization to manage nuclear waste, provide a consensual process for siting nuclear waste … –
- UN: Reuters – Missing nuclear material may pose attack threat: IAEA – Fredrik Dahl
- Canada: Canadian Energy Issues – Nuclear waste versus time/money waste: which is worse? An international exercise in comic-book posturing –
- Asia-Pacific: GlobalPost – MOX fuel processed in France arrives at Takahama nuclear plant
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Melted fuel removal at Fukushima plant seen optimistically starting in 2020
- Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Japan to Start Removing TEPCO N-Fuel Debris Earlier
- Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Japan’s nuclear fuel cycle left in limbo
- Europe: Deutsche Welle – Bundestag agrees on search for nuclear waste disposal site, ends Gorleben debate for now
- Europe: Deutsche Welle – What to do with nuclear waste?
- Europe: Deutsche Welle – Living above Germany’s old nuclear waste
- Russia: Ria Novosti – Russian-US Warheads-for-Fuel Program to End in 2013 – Alexei Danichev
Thursday, June 27, 2013
- Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) – Senators Introduce Bipartisan, Comprehensive Nuclear Waste Legislation
- Globe Newswire – NEI Commends Introduction of Bipartisan Nuclear Fuel Management Legislation
- The Hill blog – Senators float long-awaited nuclear waste bill – Zack Colman
- Platts – US senators introduce nuclear waste bill
- Power Engineering – Nuclear waste storage bill introduced in the Senate
- POWERnews – Senators Introduce Bipartisan Nuclear Waste Administration Bill
- Tri-City Herald – Vit plant gets new director – Annette Cary
- Spokesman-Review – Cleanup of buried waste in unlined pits at INL to resume in coming months – Betsy Z. Russell
- Nextgov – Earthquake Could Cause Los Alamos Plutonium Facility to Collapse
- Alton Daily News – Hundreds Demand Nuclear Waste Removal
- Reuters – NRC to meet on Honeywell Metropolis, Illinois uranium plant
- The Southern – NRC sets public meeting in Metropolis
- HNN HuntingtonNews – NOVA Petitions for U.S. EPA to oversee Paducah, Piketon Clean-ups – Tony Rutherford
- Lexington Herald Leader – Beshear to meet with Moniz on Paducah plant
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Seismic LANL – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Prepping for another nuclear landfill in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More about that fire-like situation at TRU center – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – CROET: No more leases for nuke waste companies – Frank Munger
- Oak Ridge Today – Sunday alarm at waste processing center triggered by smoke from heater – John Huotari
- Oak Ridge Today – More than 475 metric tons of Russian highly enriched uranium eliminated
- Augusta Chronicle – Appropriations bill criticizes slowing MOX to study alternatives – Rob Pavey
- All Things Nuclear – New NRC Study Shows Benefits of Transferring Spent Fuel to Dry Casks – David Wright
- Power Engineering – DOE to invest $3.5mn in advanced nuclear reactor projects
- DOE – Energy Department Announces New Investments in Advanced Nuclear Power Reactors
- DOE – Joint statement of the co-chairs of the nuclear energy and nuclear security working group of the bilateral U.S. – Russia presidential commission
- NRC – NRC Schedules Meeting to Discuss Inspections and Review of Honeywell Modifications
- Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee,
- Asia-Pacific: GlobalPost – Japan gets first MOX nuclear shipment since Fukushima
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Protesters greet ship carrying mixed-oxide fuel from France
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – First MOX shipment since 3/11 arrives in Fukui – Eric Johnston
- Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – MOX Nuclear Fuel from France Arrives in Japan
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – MOX fuel processed in France arrives at Takahama nuclear plant
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Japan unlikely to use MOX fuel in nuclear reactors
- Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Nuclear fuel arrives in Japan from France
- Europe: in-cumbria – Nuclear waste store inquiry latest
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
- Pahrump Valley Times – County funds Yucca contracts – Mark Waite
- KING5 Seattle – Radiation detected on Hanford waste shipment to contractor – Gary Chittim
- KING5 Seattle – GAO faults Dept. of Energy’s management of Hanford cleanup – Gary Chittim
- KING5 Seattle – Behind the scenes: KING 5?s Gary Chittim on why Hanford matters to every Washington resident
- KING5 Seattle – KING 5 story on Hanford prompts action by Inslee, feds – Susannah Frame
- KING5 Seattle – Contractor discounted Hanford leak evidence for a year – Susannah Frame
- KING5 Seattle – Hanford’s Dirty Secrets
- Tri-City Herald – DOE says radiological release from glovebox minor – Annette Cary
- Tri-City Herald – House, Senate subcommittees vary greatly on Hanford budgets – Annette Cary
- Idaho Mountain Express – Letter: Support the Snake River Alliance’s important work – Vanessa Fry
- CBS St. Louis – Anger Apparent At Bridgeton Nuclear Waste Hearing
- KMOV – Residents urge removal of nuclear waste at Bridgeton landfill
- MarylandHeights Patch – EPA Hosts Public Meeting on West Lake Landfill – Joe Barker
- Mother Jones – How Fiscal Conservatives Learned to Love a $20 Billion Nuke Plant – Douglas Birch And R. Jeffrey Smith
- New York Times – U.S. Moves to Abandon Costly Reactor Fuel Plant – Matthew L. Wald
- Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Y-12 security failures overshadow improvements – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – HFIR resumes operation – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A deep-fat-fried battle over Y-12/Pantex – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Megatons to Megawatts – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – State supports DOE’s cleanup plan for 2015 – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The 9212 complex at Y-12 – Frank Munger
- Center for Public Integrity – Nuclear Waste: Extremism in defense of federally-paid jobs is no vice in South Carolina – Douglas Birch
- Nuclear Energy Insider – Exploring MENA’s nuclear siting issues – Heba Hashem
- Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 21 – 26 June 2013 – By K. Steiner-Dicks
- Nuclear Energy Insider – Policy Brief 21 – 26 June 2013 – By K. Steiner-Dicks
- Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico
- Asia-Pacific: AFP Google – First MOX nuclear shipment since Fukushima arrives in Japan
- Europe: BBC News – Hinkley nuclear waste debated by West Somerset Council
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
- World Nuclear News – NRC moves on used fuel storage
- Rep. Doc Hastings(R-WA6) – Hastings Statement on Hanford Funding in Fiscal Year 2014 House Energy and Water Appropriations Bill
- Vancouver Columbian – In Our View: More Bad News at Hanford
- WSU News – The new guy tours the Hanford nuclear site – E. Kirsten Peters
- World Nuclear News – Moab tailings clean-up milestone
- Westword blog – Rocky Flats: Kristen Iversen wins a Colorado Book Award for Full Body Burden – Patricia Calhoun
- EON – Megatons to Megawatts Program 95 Percent Complete
- Portsmouth Daily Times – USEC: Megawatts Program “95 percent complete” – Ryan Scott Ottney
- West Kentucky Star – Paducah To Become The Nation’s Nuclear Dump? – Tim Brockwell
- Knoxville News Sentinel – Radioactive waste operations halted at Oak Ridge facility after fire scare – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel – Radioactive waste operations halted at Oak Ridge facility after fire scare – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – You know you’re getting close to Oak Ridge when . . . – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE update: smoke, no flames at TRU facility – Frank Munger
- Aiken Standard – Report: SRS tritium programs need newer facilities, more funding – By TEDDY KULMALA
- Center for Public Integrity – Nuclear Waste: A $1 billion Energy Department project overshoots its budget by 600 percent – Douglas Birch
- Phys.org – Uranium crystals could reveal future of nuclear fuel – Kortny Rolston
- Power Engineering – NRC seeks public comment on nuclear spent fuel pool study
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Plutonium problem lingers as mixed-oxide fuel comes to Japan
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Tritium samples in sea near No. 1 soar – Reiji Yoshida
- Europe: BBC News – Inquiry over Keekle Head nuclear waste plan
- Europe: ITV News – Public Inquiry into nuclear waste dump
Monday, June 24, 2013
- KNPR – Sandoval Says No To Manhattan Project Waste Guest: Robert Halstead – Joan Whitely
- Las Vegas Review-Journal – Yucca Mountain sequels never end – Jane Ann Morrison
- Energy Collective – Technetium: Dangerous Nuclear Energy Waste or Essential Strategic Resource? – N Nadir
- Forbes – Where Has All The Nuke Waste Gone? – James Conca, Contributor
- Valley Sun – NASA making cleanup progress in Pasadena – Tiffany Kelly
- CNN – U.S. engineers to inspect possible leak at Hanford nuclear site – Michael Martinez
- Northwest Public Radio – No Immediate Threat Seen From Possible Leak At Hanford Nuclear Site – Tom Banse
- Seattle Times – Popular Hanford tour pulls back the curtain of secrecy – Jackie Smith
- Tri-City Herald – Our Voice: New Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz shows mettle in Tri-Cities
- Idaho State University – Uranium crystals produced at Idaho State University RISE facility could reveal future of nuclear fuel – Kortny Rolston
- Idaho Statesman – Idaho Cleanup Project contractor wins award
- KBOI•670 – Feds Pleased With Cleanup Contractor At INL
- Janesville Gazette – Isotope company expects truckload of radioactive waste each month – Jim Leute
- Knoxville News Sentinel – Fire reported at DOE nuclear waste facility – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – State declares IMPACT rad cleanup a success – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nevada’s opposition to Oak Ridge hot waste growing; governor says no to fissile uranium mix – Frank Munger
- Oak Ridge Today – No contamination, no injuries in small fire at ORNL waste processing center – John Huotari
- Augusta Chronicle – SRS tritium program will need new facilities, added funding – Rob Pavey
- NorthJersey.com – Pompton Lakes meeting quells uranium fears – Leslie Scott
- Lower Hudson Journal – NRC: Indian Point’s spent-fuel pools likely safe in severe earthquake – Michael Risinit
- Brattleboro Reformer – NRC says spent fuel pools safe from earthquake dangers
- AAAS Science Mag – Remake Management of DOE Labs, Report Argues – David Malakoff
- FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
- valley Dispatch – Nuclear Waste: How a huge U.S. nonproliferation program became a major proliferation concern – Douglas Birch And R. Jeffrey Smith
- NRC blog – Two Separate NRC Efforts Address Spent Fuel Safety – David Mcintyre
- NRC – NRC Seeks Public Comment on Spent Fuel Pool Study
- Canada: Waterloo Record – Southampton nuclear-waste dump opponents plan protest
- Asia: China Daily – Uranium enrichment plant opens to media
- Europe: in-cumbria – ‘Unprecidented’ Sellafield challenges priority for NDA – Tom Little
- Europe: The Guardian – UK’s nuclear clean-up programme to cost billions more than expected – Terry Macalister
Fukushima
Sunday, June 30, 2013
- Asahi Shimbun – LDP only party opposed to moving toward zero nuclear plants
- Asahi Shimbun – POINT OF VIEW/ Hirohito Ono: We cannot allow return to nuclear power without proper debate – Hirohito Ono
- Fukushima Diary – Fukushima police officer from disaster prevention division found dead beside prefectural office – Iori Mochizuki
- Japan Times – LDP alone in fighting nuclear power exit
- Japan Times – Toxic groundwater found in Fukushima No. 1 well just 6 meters from Pacific
- Japan Times – Japan, U.S. jointly developing tech to gauge melted fuel at Fukushima plant
- Japan Times – Municipalities ask Tepco for residents’ data to expedite redress
- JIJI Press – LDP Opposes Japan’s Exit from Nuclear Power
- JIJI Press – Contaminated Truck Travels outside Fukushima N-Plant
- JIJI Press – Highly Toxic Groundwater Found near TEPCO N-Plant Port
- Yomiuri Shimbun – Contaminated truck leaves nuclear plant
- Yomiuri Shimbun – LDP opposes zero nuclear policy
- Yomiuri Shimbun – Simply calling for end of nuclear power is irresponsible
- Yomiuri Shimbun – Tohoku, Kyushu vie for linear collider
- Yomiuri Shimbun – Toxic groundwater found in N-plant well
Saturday, June 29, 2013
- Enformable – Nuclear issues in Japan piling up but no easy resolutions – Lucas W Hixson
- Asahi Shimbun – POINT OF VIEW/ Hirohito Ono: We cannot allow return to nuclear power without proper debate – Hirohito Ono
- Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Local communities should have more say in nuclear safety planning
- Asahi Shimbun – Government offers dosimeters–not decontamination–for Fukushima evacuees – Miki Aoki
- Asahi Shimbun – ANALYSIS: Negatives abound for Japan’s ‘pluthermal’ power generation plans
- Fukushima Diary – [Column] Do you know we are all in the “hotspot” ? – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – All ß nuclides level in groundwater is higher near the sea, “3,000,000 Bq/m3 from a boring water of 6m from the sea” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Fukushima workers decreased by 20% since March, Tepco “Counted the different way” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Tritium overflow] Tritium detected from 11 locations in the sea, average 340,000 Bq/m3 – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Former Fukushima worker “Fukushima workers starting to think it’s better to work somewhere else” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Express] “After 311, extremely radioactive debris removed by major construction companies, not Tepco or plant maker” – Iori Mochizuki
- Japan Times – Japan, U.S. jointly developing tech to gauge melted fuel at Fukushima plant
- Japan Times – Toxic groundwater found in Fukushima No. 1 well just 6 meters from Pacific
- Japan Times – Municipalities ask Tepco for residents’ data to expedite redress
- Japan Times – Utilities reap ¥10 billion of 3/11 funds
- JAEA – Ground deposition maps of Iodine 131 discharged from Fukushima Daiichi were produced using a newly develOpEd: method for analyzing airborne monitoring data – Joint study with JAEA and DOE/NNSA
- JIJI Press – LDP Opposes Japan’s Exit from Nuclear Power
- Kyodo News – Japan, U.S. eye technology to measure melted fuel in Fukushima plant
- Kyodo News – ASEAN postpones meeting with nuclear powers – Bandar Seri Begawan
- Kyodo News – Melted fuel removal at Fukushima plant planned from 2020 at earliest
- Mainichi Daily News – Niigata gov. raises doubts about gov’t safety requirements for nuclear reactors
- Yomiuri Shimbun – New reactor road map unveiled / Melted fuel removal will begin earlier
Friday, June 28, 2013
- AFP Google – Japan disaster budget given to nuclear operator
- GlobalPost – MOX fuel processed in France arrives at Takahama nuclear plant
- Asahi Shimbun – Analysis: Negatives abound for Japan’s ‘pluthermal’ power generation plans
- Asahi Shimbun – Floating wind turbine headed for coast off Fukushima Prefecture – Hiroaki Kimura
- Fukushima Diary – Former head doctor of National Cancer Center,”Thyroids of Fukushima children look like honeycomb from too much cysts” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Citizen’s measurement, “ß dose is 2~10 times much as ? dose in Minamisoma Fukushima and Miyagi” – Iori Mochizuki
- Japan Daily Press – Government uses quake recovery funds to help out nuclear facility – Ida Torres
- Japan Times – Melted fuel removal at Fukushima plant seen optimistically starting in 2020
- Japan Times – Fallout decontamination efforts falling short
- JIJI Press – Japan to Start Removing TEPCO N-Fuel Debris Earlier
- NHK World – Japan’s nuclear fuel cycle left in limbo
- NHK World – Komeito urges caution for nuclear tech exports
Thursday, June 27, 2013
- Bloomberg – Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Casts Shadow Over EDF’s Safety Drill – Tara Patel
- Common Dreams – Ridiculous’: Experts Slam UN for Nuclear Danger Downplay – George Gao
- Enformable – New map of radioactive iodine released from Fukushima Daiichi – Lucas W Hixson
- GlobalPost – Japan gets first MOX nuclear shipment since Fukushima
- Greenpeace International – TEPCO fails on its responsibilities from the Fukushima disaster – Ayako Sekine
- UPI – U.S., Japan work to analyze disaster radiation levels
- Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Watch: Staff Shortage May Delay Reactor Restarts – Mari Iwata
- World Nuclear News – Japan receives MOX shipment
- Asahi Shimbun – Utility shareholders reject all anti-nuke proposals
- Asahi Shimbun – Nuclear watchdog: Contaminated water at Fukushima plant likely flowing into sea
- Asahi Shimbun – Utility shareholders reject all anti-nuke proposals
- Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO rejects compensation settlement for radiation anxiety – Ryujiro Komatsu
- Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuke shareholders state their case at power company meetings
- Asahi Shimbun – Protesters greet ship carrying mixed-oxide fuel from France
- Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: / Open letter to utilities: Wake up and smell the coffee!
- ENENews – Medical experts say U.N. downplaying health effects of Fukushima disaster – “A lot of people experienced acute radiation illness… bleeding noses, hair loss, nausea, diarrhoea”
- ENENews – Kyodo: Melted fuel from Fukushima Reactor 3 “is the highly lethal mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (MOX)” – Unit to be last to attempt fuel removal says new plan
- ENENews – New ‘Godzilla’ movie tied to Fukushima nuclear disaster? – Crew filming scenes of plant “at risk of meltdown with radioactive leaks” (PHOTOS)
- ENENews – Medical experts say U.N. downplaying health effects of Fukushima disaster – “A lot of people experienced acute radiation illness… bleeding noses, hair loss, nausea, diarrhoea”
- ENENews – Japan Paper: Radiation failing to drop in Fukushima towns, despite ‘decontamination’ – “Levels haven’t changed at all”
- Fukushima Diary – [Express] “Tepco censors my tweets and called me to delete the photos” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Express] “Can’t watch the explosion scene of reactor3 on BBC, says “It can’t be played in your country” “ – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Japan coast guard discovered unknown submarine volcano, “1,600m diameter caldera with 10 craters” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Tepco excluding Strontium-90 from analyzing nuclides of groundwater and seawater samples – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Can’t stop Tritium] Tritium density in seawater tripled in 2 weeks – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Tepco transferring back contaminated water to the crippled reservoir No.2 again, Tepco “diluting” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Cs-134/137 detected from 15 of 15 tea leaves samples in Shizuoka prefecture – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Fukushima pref gov underestimated external exposure dose of 12,500 citizens by up to 400 µSv/h, “Program error” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Tepco still represents radiation readings 90% lower than actual in the new English survey map – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – New purification system of reactor3 seawater not working to decrease radiation level – Iori Mochizuki
- House of Japan – Melted fuel removal at Fukushima plant planned from 2020 at earliest
- House of Japan – Regulator urges reduction of tritium into sea
- House of Japan – Group to explain reactor decommission to be set up
- House of Japan – Roadmap revised for scrapping Fukushima reactors
- House of Japan – Japan to Start Removing TEPCO N-Fuel Debris Earlier
- Japan Times – Editorial: New nuclear safety standards
- Japan Times – Komeito to campaign for nuke phaseout, denies disconnect with LDP – Ayako Mie
- Japan Times – First MOX shipment since 3/11 arrives in Fukui – Eric Johnston
- Japan Times – Letter: The only ethical energy option – Gabriele Hadl
- Japan Times – First MOX shipment since 3/11 arrives in Fukui – Eric Johnston
- JIJI Press – Japan’s Major Utilities Announce Rate Hikes for Aug.
- JIJI Press – Post-Fukushima Radioactive Iodine Spread Shown in Map
- JIJI Press – New Komeito to Keep Aiming for Nuclear-Free Japan
- JIJI Press – MOX Nuclear Fuel from France Arrives in Japan
- Mainichi Daily News – MOX fuel processed in France arrives at Takahama nuclear plant
- Mainichi Daily News – Japan unlikely to use MOX fuel in nuclear reactors
- NHK World – Nuclear fuel arrives in Japan from France
- NHK World – Map of radioactive iodine diffusion published
- NHK World – Nuclear Watch: Struggle with Contaminated Water
- Yomiuri Shimbun – Komeito sticks to nuclear-free goal
- Tokyo Times – Japan’s active nuclear reactors allowed to stay online
- Taipei Times – Taiwan has many renewable energy resources: activist – Lee I-chia
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
- AFP Google – First MOX nuclear shipment since Fukushima arrives in Japan
- Bloomberg – Tepco’s Shareholders Decline to Pursue GE for Fukushima Claims – Jacob Adelman & Yuji Okada
- Enformable – AREVA sends new decontamination robots to Fukushima
- SteelGuru – Nuclear regulation authority to double number of inspectors – Agency
- UPI – Radioactive tritium level rising in Fukushima water
- Asahi Shimbun – 9 utilities want to restart idled reactors as soon as possible
- ENENews – Plutonium-burning reactors to restart in Japan? — Gov’t forcing companies to use MOX fuel — Official: “We have no other choice”
- ENENews – Record level of radioactive tritium found in ocean near Fukushima plant — Japan Official: Nuclear material may be seeping into harbor
- ENENews – Radioactive material “soars” in ocean near Fukushima plant — Tepco: Contaminated groundwater leaking into Pacific?
- House of Japan – TEPCO rejects arbitration body’s compensation plan
- House of Japan – TEPCO shareholders want out of nuclear power
- Japan Daily Press – TEPCO faces angry shareholders, calls for abandonment of nuclear power – Faith Aquino
- Japan Times – Editorial: Mr. Obama rekindles nuclear dream
- Japan Times – Exposure data wrong for 16,000 in Fukushima
- Japan Times – Fight to get Tepco, state to come clean lives on – Keiji Hirano
- Kyodo News – IAEA guidance sought against cyberattacks on nuclear facilities – Marco Sostero
- Mainichi Daily News – Utilities unreceptive to shareholders’ proposals to phase out nuclear power
- Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima survey wrongly estimates radiation exposure of 16,000 people
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t white paper points to flaws in nuclear facility safety management
- NHK World – TEPCO shareholders want out of nuclear power
- NHK World – Shareholders reject anti-nuclear power proposals
- Taipei Times – Ma defends safety efforts at nuclear power plants – Mo Yan-chih
- Taiwan Today – Ma reaffirms commitment to nuclear safety
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
- Global Research – War and the New Nuclear Danger: Fukushima and Beyond – Michael Welch
- Bloomberg – Japan’s High-Cost Renewable Energy Curbs Subsidy Impact – Chisaki Watanabe
- New York Times – Japan: Signs of Contamination at Plant – Martin Fackler
- World Nuclear News – Robots enlisted to survey Fukushima
- Asahi Shimbun – Plutonium problem lingers as mixed-oxide fuel comes to Japan
- ENENews – Record level of radioactive tritium found in ocean near Fukushima plant – Japan Official: Nuclear material may be seeping into harbor
- House of Japan – Japan Gov OKs 4th Extra Financial Aid to TEPCO – House Of Japan
- House of Japan – Fukushima reactors status 26 Jun 2013
- Japan Times – Fight to get Tepco, state to come clean lives on – Keiji Hirano
- Japan Times – Tritium samples in sea near No. 1 soar – Reiji Yoshida
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t white paper points to flaws in nuclear facility safety management
- Mainichi Daily News – Level of radioactive tritium rising in port at Fukushima plant
- Yomiuri Shimbun – Nuclear agency adopts new power plant safety standards
- Taiwan Today – Taiwan, Singapore collaborate on environment study
Monday, June 24, 2013
- Bloomberg – Japan’s High-Cost Renewable Energy Curbs Subsidy Impact – Chisaki Watanabe
- Deutsche Welle – Tougher rules for Japanese nuclear plants – Michael Maqua
- Reuters – Japan nuclear safety upgrades dazzle, mask industry woes – Aaron Sheldrick and Kentaro Hamada
- Asahi Shimbun – In Fukushima first, district declared decontaminated – Noriyoshi Otsuki
- Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Kansai Electric should lose its smug attitude
- Fukushima Diary – [Express] “Russia rejected importing a car of 0.17 µSv/h but it’s 0.40 µSv/h in my car” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – 20,000 Bq/Kg from school swimming pool sediment in Miyagi prefecture – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Tepco updated English report about desalination system leakage 3 days after Japanese report – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Tepco “Tritium is travelling underground with groundwater” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Tritium level in seawater spiked over double within 2 weeks – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Tepco will run out of 2.6 trillion yen of financial support for compensation payouts by this July – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Express] “0.17 µSv/h in the hotel room in front of the station of Yokohama” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Express] “The leader who sprayed water to Fukushima plant on 311 died of lung cancer, 47 y.o” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – 20 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 measured from pickled plum in Miyagi – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – 2.5 Bq/Kg of Cs-137 detected from canned meat sauce manufactured in Kumamoto – Iori Mochizuki
- JAIF – News Update
- Japan Times – NRA fails to find party to probe Oi quake faults
- JIJI Press – Fukushima Municipalities Want 2nd Round of Decontamination
- JIJI Press – Regulator Almost Finishes Safety Checks for Oi N-Reactors
- Kyodo News – Level of radioactive tritium rising in port at Fukushima plant
- NHK World – Nuclear authority to allow 2 reactors to run
- TEPCO – TEPCO News Update
- China Post – Nuclear reactor operating after brief shutdown
- Taipei Times – Green activists say forum has pro-nuclear agenda – Lee I-Chia
- Taipei Times – No safety problems after shutdown at plant: Taipower – Lee I-chia
Government Docs
Saturday, June 29, 2013
- NRC Blog – Chairman Macfarlane Confirmed For A Five-Year Term – Eliot Brenner
- UN: IAEA – Nuclear power remains important energy option for many countries, IAEA Ministerial Conference concludes
- UN: IAEA – IAEA Ministerial Meeting Focuses on Stronger Nuclear Security
Friday, June 28, 2013
- DOE – IAEA National Statement
- GAO – National Nuclear Security Administration: Laboratories’ Indirect Cost Management Has Improved, but Additional Opportunities Exist, GAO-13-534
- GovTrack – H.R. 1645: Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2013 – Rep. Ben Luján [D-NM3]
- GovTrack – S. 1240: A bill to establish a new organization to manage nuclear waste, provide a consensual process for siting nuclear waste … – Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]
- NRC Blog – The NRC Makes Sure Employees at Perry Are Focused on Worker Radiation Safety – Viktoria Mitlyng
- Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Paducah, Pages 38969-38970 [FR DOC# 2013-15528]
- Environmental Protection Agency – NOTICES Environmental Impacts Statements; Notice of Availability, Page 38975 [FR DOC# 2013-15612]
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 2 and 3, Pages 39018-39019 [FR DOC# 2013-15527]
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Petitions: Omaha Public Power District, Fort Calhoun Station, Unit 1, Pages 39019-39020 [FR DOC# 2013-15524]
- UN: IAEA – IAEA Ministerial Meeting Focuses on Stronger Nuclear Security
- UN: Reuters – Missing nuclear material may pose attack threat: IAEA – Fredrik Dahl
Thursday, June 27, 2013
- Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) – Senators Introduce Bipartisan, Comprehensive Nuclear Waste Legislation
- DOE – Energy Department Announces New Investments in Advanced Nuclear Power Reactors
- DOE – Joint statement of the co-chairs of the nuclear energy and nuclear security working group of the bilateral U.S. – Russia presidential commission
- NRC – NRC Schedules Meeting to Discuss Inspections and Review of Honeywell Modifications
- NRC Blog – Factoring in Human Factors in Nuclear Power Plants – Valerie Barnes, PhD
- Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, Page 38696 [FR DOC# 2013-15400]
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES License Amendment Requests: License Amendment Request for Homestake Mining Company of California, Grants Reclamation Project, Cibola County, New Mexico, Pages 38736-38739 [FR DOC# 2013-15414]
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Regulatory Guides: Standard Format and Content for Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report, Page 38739 [FR DOC# 2013-15426]
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Regulatory Guides: Special Nuclear Material Control and Accounting Systems for Nuclear Power Plants, Pages 38739-38741 [FR DOC# 2013-15427]
- UN: IAEA – IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Power Commences
- UN: IAEA – Mauritius Signs Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
- Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Meetings: Subcommittee on Procedures Review, Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Pages 38346-38347 [FR DOC# 2013-15194]
- Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Meetings: Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH or Advisory Board), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Pages 38347-38348 [FR DOC# 2013-15193]
- Defense Department – NOTICES Meetings: Veterans’ Advisory Board on Dose Reconstruction; Notice of Meeting, Page 38302 [FR DOC# 2013-15244]
- Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico, Pages 38305-38306 [FR DOC# 2013-15256]
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Inspections, Tests, Analyses, and Acceptance Criteria: Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Unit 4; Inspections, Tests, Analyses, and Acceptance Criteria, Pages 38411-38412 [FR DOC# 2013-15261]
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
- Rep. Doc Hastings(R-WA6) – Hastings Statement on Hanford Funding in Fiscal Year 2014 House Energy and Water Appropriations Bill
- NRC – NRC Issues Supplement to Final Environmental Study For Indian Point Nuclear Plant License Renewal Application
- NRC – NRC Names New Senior Resident Inspector at South Texas Project Plant
- The White House – President Obama’s Plan to Fight Climate Change
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Sunshine Act Meetings, Page 38087 [FR DOC# 2013-15259]
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Facility Operating Licenses: Biweekly Notice; Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses and Combined Licenses Involving No Significant Hazards Considerations, Pages 38078-38087 [FR DOC# 2013-14880]
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – RULES Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: MAGNASTOR® System, Pages 37927-37930 [FR DOC# 2013-15127]
Monday, June 24, 2013
- FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
- NRC blog – Two Separate NRC Efforts Address Spent Fuel Safety – David Mcintyre
- NRC – NRC Seeks Public Comment on Spent Fuel Pool Study
- NRC – Public Meeting Schedule
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Draft Regulatory Guides: ASME Code Cases Not Approved for Use Pages 37848-37849 [FR DOC# 2013-15018]
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Meetings: Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Notice of Meeting Pages 37849-37850 [FR DOC# 2013-15042]
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Regulatory Guides: Quality Assurance Program Requirements (Operations) Pages 37850-37851 [FR DOC# 2013-15041]
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – PROPOSED RULES Draft Regulatory Guides: Approval of American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Code Cases Pages 37721-37722 [FR DOC# 2013-15021]
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – PROPOSED RULES Approval of American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Code Cases Pages 37885-37920 [FR DOC# 2013-15022]
- Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update