Sunday September 4th, 2011

• Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman – Letter: Measure local radiation levels – Daniel N. Russell
• Santa Clarita Valley Signal – Following the flow–Environment: Officials are redoubling efforts to monitor local wells for perchlorate – Natalie Everett
• Tri-City Herald – Support buildings coming down at Hanford’s FFTF – Annette Cary
• KWES NewsWest9 – NM lab seeks permit to detonate explosive waste – Susan Montoya Bryan
• Charleston Post Courier – Warning on nuclear waste
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – Maya’s opposition to N-deal was just a rhetoric
• Europe: Construction Enquirer – New village planned for army of Welsh nuclear builders – Grant Prior
• Europe: Monsters and Critics – Research shows distorted birth ratios around German nuclear dump

Saturday September 3rd, 2011

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Soviet nuclear legacy surfaces at atomic museum – Keith Rogers
• Hawaii News Now – No dangerous radiation found at Sandbar – Brooks Baehr
• AllGov – Judge Orders Exelon to Divulge Radiation Data in Child Brain Cancer Lawsuit
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – LOC showdown set for Sept. 9 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Aug. 12, 1945 press release touts Military Intelligence role in Manhattan Project, tells how ‘the war’s best-kept secret was kept’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 can’t forget about the stand down – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Who’s talking at ETEBA Biz Ops – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Funding cuts at 13 DOE site offices in 2012? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – $17.5M Recovery Act project completed; eases environmental concerns in old nuke burial grounds at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Official wants team approach on ‘energy park’ – Leean Tupper
• East Asia: Yonhap News – N. Korea may have used the black market for uranium enrichment: report
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – No radiation detectors still in Mayapuri scrap market – Faizan Haider
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – More than a year later, victim still scared of scrap
• Europe: Herald Scotland – Advocates of nuclear power have not solved the problem of safe disposal
• Europe: Swissinfo – Family due to face charges in nuclear case

Friday September 2nd, 2011

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Former lawmaker offers innovative ideas – Steve Sebelius
• KHON2 – State testing for radioactive contamination at Kaneohe sandbar
• Mohave Daily News – Meeting on uranium mining to be held in Arizona Strip – Jim Seckler
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – WIPP driver makes history, again
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ’10 Years After 9/11′ — DOE hosts emergency management forum in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE: premature to discuss funding – Frank Munger
• MyFoxOrlando – Uranium found in Stetson University dorm room – Valerie Boey
• South Florida Sun-Sentinel – Student had low-grade uranium on Stetson campus, cops say – Jeff Weiner
• UPI – Haz mat crew called to Stetson for uranium
• Bloomberg – Dominion Says Crack Found at North Anna Containment Building – Brian Wingfield
• New London Day – Dominion dry storage affected by earthquake
• South Asia: NDTV – Six DU professors charged in Mayapuri radiation case
• Europe: BBC News – NDA ‘open and direct’ about moving nuclear material
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Dounreay nuclear fuel rail plan under fire – Iain Grant
• Europe: Inverness Courier – Nuclear trains set to pass through Inverness
• Europe: AP Google – Swiss nuclear smuggling suspects to face charges – Frank Jordans

Thursday September 1st, 2011

• Contra Costa Times – Weapons-grade nuclear material dwindling at Livermore lab – Suzanne Bohan
• Seattle Post Intelligencer blog – Radiation disaster drill held at Seattle Central Community College – Joshua Trujillo
• Tri-City Herald – Highly radioactive material moved from Hanford to PNNL – Annette Cary
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – First shipment using new waste shipping package arrives at WIPP
• KWES NewsWest9 – Large Radioactive Waste Box Arrives at Carlsbad Plant
• Mother Jones – How Perry Pushed Donor’s Nuclear Waste Dump – Josh Harkinson
• Reuters – Exclusive: Perry sought to sideline nuclear waste site critic – Chris Baltimore, Peter Henderson and Karen Brooks
• Truthout – Perry Donor Enabled to Leach Radioactive Waste Into 1.9 Million People’s Water – Joe Conason
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Storing less at Livermore – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – KC peace group drops court challenge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Is DOE Oak Ridge about to take a fall? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Problems with mercury project at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Pushing for progress on Molten Salt – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS layoffs total 184 as SRNS president resigns – Rob Pavey
• Free Lance-Star – Spent nuclear fuel shifted – Rusty Dennen
• PhysOrg – Chemical research could help solve radioactive waste concerns
• Washington Post – Authority in radiation oncology leads U.S. response plan to nuclear event – Valerie Strauss
• Blue Ribbon Commission – BRC Announces Its Public Meetings For Input On Draft Report
• Europe: Herald Scotland – Dounreay urged to consult on nuclear waste plan – David Ross
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Babcock to tackle Berkeley waste

Wednesday August 31st, 2011

• Las Vegas SUN – Editorial: Amodei is latest state Republican to leave door open on Yucca
• Tri-City Herald – 5 workers return after Hanford pot incident
• Amarillo Globe-News – Pantex breaks ground on explosives facility – Bobby Cervantes
• Kansas City Star – Vote on KC weapons plant is still uncertain – Mike Hendricks
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Contractor picks up pace of demolition
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A K-25 breakthrough (literally) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE preservation plans in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Pantex breaks ground on new $65M High Explosives Pressing Facility – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – No layoffs at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 26 Cray XE6 cabinets arrive at ORNL; will be part of NOAA system for climate research – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Mixed results on Los Alamos audit – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS nuclear waste travels in new breed of container – Rob Pavey
• Free Lance-Star blog – Spent-fuel casks at North Anna shifted in quake – Rusty Dennen
• WIVB – Concerns over Falls road fill radiation – Luke Moretti
• UPI – Arsenic, uranium found in US wells
• Europe: Aberdeen Press and Journal – Fears mount over plan for north nuclear rail cargoes – Iain Grant
• Europe: BBC News – ‘Consult communities’ on Dounreay to Sellafield plan
• Europe: Norfolk Eastern Daily Press – Investigation under way into fire at Sizewell B nuclear site
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Scots worried by nuclear fuel route
• Middle East: Press TV – ‘IAEA influenced by corporate lobbies’
• West Africa: Reuters – Paladin says Namibia, Malawi uranium mines to hit full capacity by Q1 2012 – Rebekah Kebede
• South Africa: IOL – Radioactive spillages condemn farmland – Sheree Bega

Tuesday August 30th, 2011

• Las Vegas SUN – Amodei: No reason to close Yucca Mountain entirely – Karoun Demirjian
• Nevada View – Mark Amodei (& Joe Heck) to Nevada: Get Nuked! – Andrew Davey
• Daily Astorian – $12 Billion Hanford Waste Treatment Plant May Be Over Budget Committee Says
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford equipment fire quickly doused
• Tri-City Herald – Vit plant budget doubted in review – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – B Reactor moves toward being a museum – Annette Cary
• Waste Management World – First Trupact-III Shipment Arrives Safely at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
• Energy Business Review – Uranium Energy gets draft radioactive material license for Texas project
• KVII – $65 million Pantex expansion unveiled – Steve Myers
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Federal safety board slams Y-12 for not following rules – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A different kind of diploma – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Securing substations against copper thieves – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE responds to state of Tennessee proposal: Thanks, but no thanks – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Thom Mason talks about ITER – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The swirl – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Challenge to nuke weapons production in KC – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA responds to critical report – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – B&W Y-12’s response to DNFSB report – Frank Munger
• WVLT – Safety review criticizes Y-12 operations – Kate Burgess
• Charlottesville Hook – Tritium trouble? Nuke fears rise with quake, self-policing – Courteney Stuart
• UN: AFP Google – US, Australia schemed against IAEA chief: cable
• Canada: Regina Leader-Post – Nuclear agenda reignited – Murray Mandryk
• Oceania: Australian Mining – Rio push for nuclear power in WA – Andrew Duffy
• Central Asia: The Ecologist – Special report Kazakhstan’s nuclear legacy offers lessons for Fukushima
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – India’s fuel reprocessing capacity to be enhanced: AEC
• South Asia: Times of India – Nuclear enrichment tech to take giant leap
• Europe: News & Star – Sellafield site clearance begins – Chris Story
• Europe: SwissInfo – Burying the nuclear waste problem – Marc-André Miserez

Monday August 29th, 2011

• ANS – ANS urges NRC to take action on Yucca Mountain – Eric Loewen
• KPCC blog – Superfund site of the Week: (Almost a fifth of) The San Gabriel Valley – Molly Peterson
• KNDO/KNDU – B – Reactor one step closer to being tourist attraction
• Seattle Post Intelligencer blog – “Improving” Whistleblower Programs – Steve Berman
• Seattle Times – Reid: Energy revolution happening, but too slowly – Oskar Garcia
• Tri-City Herald – Second chapter of video about Hanford released
• Washington State University – Nuclear power viability, safety, waste discussed – Beverly Makhani
• Albuquerque Journal – LANL Wants To Keep Blowing Up Explosives, Seeks To Modify Permit – Phil Parker
• Odessa American – NRC gives OK on cascades
• Mother Jones – A Privately Owned Nuclear Weapons Plant in… Kansas City? – Adam Weinstein
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – NRC requires new look at quake risks for reactors – Pam Sohn
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Federal safety board slams Y-12 for not following procedures – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge boosts nuclear fuel supply – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL, Dow push foward lithium ion batteries – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Libya and Y-12 – Frank Munger
• WSLS – Uranium company refutes Virginia Beach study – Tara Bozick