Sunday, August 28, 2011

• Asia-Pacific: HNN Huntingtonnews – Spent Fuel Pools Show Significant Damage
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Japanese Island’s Activists Resist Nuclear Industry’s Allure – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Central Asia: AFP Google – Kazakhstan reels from impact of nuclear tests, 20 years on – Aleks Tapinsh

Saturday, August 27, 2011

• Salt Lake Tribune – Wendover’s nuclear secrets revealed – Scott D. Pierce
• Press-Enterprise – Rialto: Possible health problems from old wells – Janet Zimmerman
• Reuters – Fire at Idaho nuclear lab mostly contained – Laura Zuckerman
• Nuclear Watch New Mexico – NNSA Hides Behind Final Enviro Statement To Press On With Unneeded and Exorbitant Plutonium Facility (pdf-117K)
• U.S. Politics Today – The Carlsbad Department of Development Attends NCSL to Promote WIPP and Nuclear Industry
• Kansas City Star – Nuclear weapon plant challenge goes to court – Lynn Horsley
• Fremont News Messenger – Ohio nuke plant radiation prompts more oversight
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The impact of cyber attacks on ORNL pensions
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Congressman at Y-12
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A national security concern? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge union chief gives a nod to John Eschenberg as DOE manager – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ambassador Brooks coming back to town – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – SRNS layoffs to affect fewer than announced – Rob Pavey
• Brattleboro Reformer – What is the real impact? – Richard Schmidt
• South Asia: IBNLive – Five nuclear energy parks to be set up

Friday, August 26, 2011

• Newsweek’s Daily Beast – Yucca Nuclear Site Returns – Daniel Stone
• Salt Lake Tribune – Letter: Blended waste – Linda Johnson
• Tri-City Herald – DOE prepared to take steps toward Hanford land transfer – Annette Cary
• Idaho Statesman – Idaho lab wildfire 50 percent contained – Rocky Barker
• Reuters – Firefighters gain ground at Idaho nuclear lab – Laura Zuckerman
• Reuters – Idaho fire prompts evacuation of nuclear facility – Laura Zuckerman
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Report: Y-12 may not meet uranium requirements by 2019 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Special board meeting to discuss LOC’s future – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 29 layoffs at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The ‘other’ 32 percent of Y-12’s HEU – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – SRNS layoffs to affect fewer than announced – Rob Pavey
• Global Security Newswire – Megawatts Program Converts 425 Metric Tons of HEU to Reactor Fuel
• DOE – Department of Energy Finalizes Partial Guarantee for $852 Million Loan to Support California Concentrating Solar Power Plant
• Canada: Meadow Lake Progress – Thousands sign petition against nuclear waste – Mark Melnychuk
• East Asia: Yonhap News – U.S. urges N. Korea to halt uranium enrichment program – Lee Chi-dong
• Europe: The Guardian – Nuclear train route to Sellafield runs into opposition from local councils – Rob Edwards
• South Africa: Business Day – Letter: Poor precedent for nuclear storage – Mariette Liefferink

Thursday, August 25, 2011

• San Diego Union Tribune – $142M award upheld for San Onofre nuclear fuel disposal – Morgan Lee
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: Watch new DOE video on contaminated ground water
• Idaho State Journal – INL firefighters battling T-17 fire
• Knoxville News Sentinel – 1,400 pounds of copper stolen from Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Taking down K-25’s East Wing – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR moving forward with K-25 demolition – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – IG audits ARPA-E – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12, mercury and NPDES permit options – Frank Munger
• Waterford.patch – What to do about Nuclear Waste? – Jayne Keedle
• Brattleboro Reformer – No tritium detected in NH water samples? – Bob Audette
• truthout – Depleted Uranium Weapon Use Persists, Despite Deadly Side Effects – H. Patricia Hynes
• DOE – Department of Energy Announces $41 Million Investment for Carbon Capture Development
• DOE:IG – The Advanced Research Projects, OAS-RA-11-11
• Energy Department – NOTICES High Energy Physics Advisory Panel Page 53119 [FR DOC# 2011-21731]
• South America: UPI – Argentina keen for more nuclear power
• Canada: Alberni Valley News – West Coast salmon to be tested for radiation – Wawmeesh G. Hamilton
• Canada: Global Saskatoon – Province signs MOU with Hitachi for nuclear research and development – David Giles
• Canada: Sudbury Star – Nuke waste storage pitch fuels opposition – Shirley Mills
• North Africa: AP Google – US says Libyan chemical, nuclear material secure – Bradley Klapper
• North Africa: Reuters – U.S. believes Libyan yellowcake, mustard agent secure

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

• energybiz – Where will Nuclear Waste Go? What Japan may teach us – Ken Silverstein
• Environment News Service – Tribal Forum Views Film That Fights Uranium Contamination of Navajo Land
• CBS News – Burning rail car a “small thermal nuclear bomb”
• Tri-City Herald – Coalition urges end to energy, farm subsidies – Renee Schoof
• Tri-City Herald – Energy Northwest: Draft study finds no concerns
• Tri-City Herald – 6 quit after pot found in meeting room at Hanford – Annette Cary
• AP Google – Feds approve key expansion of NM nuclear plant – Susan Montoya Bryan
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Supercomputing’s shaking up research
• Knoxville News Sentinel – New permit at Y-12 would require mercury cleanup projects – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE union ‘accepts’ Brinkman’s ‘gracious offer’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – With federal funds under pressure in Oak Ridge, what’s going to happen to the Local Oversight Committee? Is it doomed? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 completes loading of uranium fortress – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – State putting pressure on mercury cleanup in Oak Ridge; new Y-12 permit requires 5 projects – Frank Munger
• Bradenton Herald – Tallevast attorneys allowed to withdraw – Sara Kennedy
• Waterford.patch – The Nation’s Biggest Collection of Spent Nuclear Fuel – Paul Petrone
• Foster’s Daily Democrat – NH: We’re not seeing tritium in river water
• Register – US and Russia to give uranium to ANYONE – Tim Worstall
• DOE – Go Local on the New Energy.gov – Cammie Croft
• DOE:IG – Impact of Copper Thefts on the Department of Energy (OIG Case No I11IG002)
• NRC – Follow NRC on Twitter
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Nevada
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation
• Europe: New Europe – Radioactive Waste Directive: Will nuclear safety be improved? – Lubomir Mitev
• North Africa: Reuters – Update 1-Nuclear experts warn of Libya “dirty bomb” material – Fredrik Dahl
• South Africa: AllAfrica – The Return of Highly Enriched Uranium to the U.S. in Context – Noel Stott
• South Africa: Business Day – Letter: Dumps still radioactive – Keith Gottschalk

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

• Town Hall – Time to Privatize Nuclear Waste Management – Eleanor Vaughan
• Seattle Times – 6 Hanford waste workers quit over drug testing – Janesville Gazette
• Tri-City Herald – Independent review of vit plant safety culture under way – Annette Cary
• Janesville Gazette – Janesville still could land isotope plant – Jim Leute
• Chillicothe Gazette – Council throws support toward USEC loan plan
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE’s Golan: ‘I’m not unhappy’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Information security, circa 1945 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – EPRI to work with Japanese institute – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Everybody needs an ally in Washington – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Terror test with real radioactive materials – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge museum’s Sept. events – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Y-12 completes transfer of highly enriched uranium ahead of schedule
• Leader Times – Nuclear site cleanup unnerves neighbors – R. A. Monti
• Tarentum Valley News Dispatch – Nuclear site cleanup unnerves neighbors – R. A. Monti
• Boston Globe – Boston hearing on route for hazardous material
• Interior Department – NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Sheep Mountain Uranium Project, Fremont County, WY Pages 52688-52690 [FR DOC# 2011-21563]
• UN: Reuters India – IAEA seeks safety checks in all atomic energy states – Fredrik Dahl
• Canada: Canada OH&S News – Lab temporarily quarantined after beryllium exposure
• Canada: Sault Star – Nuclear waste storage pitch fuels Wawa opposition – Shirley Mills
• Oceania: ABC – Gloves off in Angela Pamela uranium mine scrap – Jane Bardon and Lucy McNally

Monday, August 22, 2011

• Heritage Foundation – Blue Ribbon Commission on Nuclear Waste: Missing Opportunity for Lasting Reform – Jack Spencer
• Nuclear Engineering – Used nuclear fuel-what happens after Fukushima?
• San Diego Reader blog – General Atomics Faces Yet Another Uranium Cleanup Fight – Matt Potter
• KEPR 19 – Hanford Waste Treatment Plant Completes Important Installation – Matthew Chibe
• KPLU News – Bechtel to conduct survey on safety culture at Hanford – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – 140-acre waste site cleaned up at Hanford – Annette Cary
• Idaho State Journal – Wildfire reported on northwest side of INL site
• Reuters – No threat seen from fire near Idaho nuclear complex – Laura Zuckerman
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Neutron history – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sprucing up ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Fed employment at DOE’s Oak Ridge office – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Alaska, climate change & Oak Ridge National Lab – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE’s historic preservation plans in Oak Ridge: decisionmaking still in flux – Frank Munger
• Your Nuclear News – Nuclear D&D costs in the U.S estimated at over $69 billion
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health: Notice of Charter Renewal Page 52329 [FR DOC# 2011-21413]
• Canada: Hamilton Spectator – Province OK’s company’s response to beryllium spill
• Canada: Regina Leader-Post – ‘No’ to nuclear waste the right position – Geron Paul
• Oceania: ABC – Nuclear opponents trek against uranium mining
• Oceania: NTNews – Editorial: Nuke dump not all bad
• East Europe: Bellona – Belarus halts uranium repatriation to Russia over western sanctions for human rights abuses – Charles Digges