Sunday, December 04, 2011

• Las Vegas SUN – Killing Yucca Mountain would be a real gift – Brian Greenspun
• Nevada News Bureau – Nevada Cites Concerns With Transport of Hazardous Waste In Response To Draft Plan For Former Test Site – Whaley
• Spokesman-Review – Hanford safety reports offer contradictory views – Shannon Dininny
• Chillicothe Gazette – USEC working to resolve issues – Loren Genson
• Oak Ridger – Called on unique operations for special efforts in early ’80s – D. Ray Smith
• Augusta Chronicle – Letter: Nuke waste issue criticalBy Mel Buckner – Mel Buckner
• Oceania: Reuters – Australia’s ruling Labor clears uranium sales to India – James Grubel
• Oceania: Xinhua News – Australia’s uranium sales to India arouses controversies – Vienna Ma
• Oceania: Xinhua News – Australian gov’t ends ban on uranium exports to India
• Oceania: The Australian – Labor finally sees light on Indian uranium sales by: Lavina Lee
• Oceania: The Australian – Stephen Conroy’s emotional plea in ALP uranium debate by: Ben Packham
• Oceania: Melbourne Age – Uranium decision splits cabinet and angers delegates
• Oceania: Melbourne Age – Nuclear debate inflames Labor passion and fury
• Oceania: Melbourne Age – Gillard fails to seize the day despite uranium – Michelle Grattan
• Oceania: Melbourne Age – Uranium: now for a deal with India – Katharine Murphy
• South Asia: ABC – Pakistan wants equal access to Australian uranium – Jeremy Thompson
• Europe: Herald Scotland – MoD under fire over ‘atomic beach’ – Rob Edwards
• Europe: Herald Scotland – Time for MoD to come clean on radiation clear-up

Saturday, December 03, 2011

• Chillicothe Gazette – USEC working to resolve issues – Loren Genson
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – IG’s special inquiry – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL gets green award – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nuke-terror training at University of Virginia – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Is the Haul Road hot? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘State of Creek’ set for Dec. 6 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Duck & hide but never let ’em see you sweat – Frank Munger
• Aiken Standard – SRNS contract to ship LEU ends – Anna Dolianitis
• Oceania: Herald Sun – No treaty, no sale to India – Bruce Arnold
• Oceania: Herald Sun – Show we trust India, they’ll invest in us – Andrew Carr
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – Why it’s too dangerous to sell uranium to India Peter Garrett.
• South Asia: CounterCurrents – I Am A Doctor, Being Victimized For Telling Radiation Truth – Dr.V.Pugazhenthi from Kalpakkam

Friday, December 02, 2011

• The Hill blog – House Republican targets Sen. Kerry for Yucca Mountain opposition – Andrew Restuccia
• Tri-City Herald – Safety review: Vit plant culture is ‘functional’ – Annette Cary
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Cray’s Cascade in Kyoto – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Getting good with Kazakhstan – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 gets a little extra, too – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR takes care of ORNL hot spot – Frank Munger
• IndyBay – North Carolina to Be the New Yucca Mountain? – Jerry A Nelson
• New York Times – A Big Uranium Deposit, and a Big Debate on Mining It – Theo Emery
• Washington Post – Fairfax Water looking at impact of uranium mining – Tom Jackman
• UPI – Uranium site gets funding for upkeep
• Canada: Chronicle Journal – Say no to nuclear waste – Joyce Tinsley
• Europe: Belfast Telegraph – Government takes £3bn gamble on nuclear waste – Steve Connor
• Europe: Global Security Newswire – U.K. Plans Subterranean Plutonium Storage Site
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Mox plant hope for west coast

Thursday, December 01, 2011

• Nevada Appeal – Nevada Needs to Remain Prepared for Possible Yucca Revival – Richard H. Bryan
• Stanford University News – Opal offers fast, lasting remedy for uranium contamination at nuclear sites, say Stanford researchers – Louis Bergeron
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA appeals Y-12 discharge permit; argues against mercury-reduction activities – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL getting skinny: about 250 volunteer to leave payroll – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR: 2,000 waste loads and counting – Frank Munger
• Richmond Times Dispatch – New uranium mining study assesses economic, social impacts – Olympia Meola
• DOE – Energy Department Releases Study of Electricity System Ahead of Proposed EPA Air Quality Standards
• DOE – President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
• NWTRB – NWTRB to Discuss DOE Integration Issues at January Meeting (pdf-46K)
• NWTRB – Board comments on a Draft Report issued by the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future (pdf-54K)
• NWTRB – NWTRB Calendar
• Canada: Telegraph-Journal – Lepreau refuelling hearing underway – Mark Iype
• Oceania: ABC – Australian firm gets Namibian uranium licence
• Europe: The Guardian – Mox plant U-turn by coalition stuns anti-nuclear campaigners – Terry Macalister
• Europe: The Independent – Government takes £3bn gamble on nuclear waste – Steve Connor
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Prism proposed for UK plutonium disposal

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

• Tri-City Herald – Vit plant open house brings Hanford project to people
• Tri-City Herald – Funding should be cut to Hanford interest groups
• Los Alamos Monitor – Study Group’s first suit to be heard in appeals – John Severance
• Los Alamos Monitor – Letter: Keep those hands off WIPP mission – Candy Jones
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Feds appeal new discharge permit at Y-12, fight mercury requirements – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Nearly 250 volunteer to leave payroll at ORNL
• Aiken Standard – NRC review of MOX: No violations found – Anna Dolianitis
• Virginia Business Magazine – Study indicates uranium milling would have annual $135 million impact
• Accuracy In Media – The Case of CH2M Hill: $2 Billion in Crony Stimulation – Rusty Weiss
• Washington Post – Will the United States really spend $700 billion in the next decade on nuclear weapons programs? – Glenn Kessler
• Oceania: ABC – NT uranium miner to improve waste water management – Carl Curtain
• Oceania: Reuters – Australia backs security pact with U.S., India – Rob Taylor
• Asia: Washington Post – Evidence of China’s nuclear storage system
• South Asia: Press Information Bureau – Uranium Reserves
• South Asia: TwoCircles – 800 police vans to be equipped with radiation monitors
• South Asia: Zee News – Traces from old n-tests found in Antarctic moss
• Europe: BBC News – Sellafield waste reactor proposed to convert plutonium
• Europe: The Guardian – GE and Hitachi plan new reactor to burn UK plutonium stockpile – Fiona Harvey
• Europe: The Independent – Augean wins case to bury nuclear waste in Peterborough – Nick Clark
• Europe: Press Association – Brown seeks beach particles action
• Europe: Bloomberg – GE, Hitachi Propose Plant to Burn U.K.’s Plutonium Stockpile – Kari Lundgren
• Europe: Reuters UK – GE Hitachi can reuse UK plutonium stockpile – Oleg Vukmanovic
• Europe: Bloomberg – German Atomic Waste Site Search May Cost $2.1 Billion, FTD Says – Stefan Nicola

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

• NRC Commission – MEMORANDUM AND ORDER: Denying Staff’s request (pdf-135K)
• Cronkite News – Opponents challenge court ruling that let Arizona uranium mine reopen – Cassondra Strande
• The Republic – Court to hear appeal of suit that seeks to halt nuke lab at LANL
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – In praise of Goyal – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Bill Brinkman: ‘We must plan carefully’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s Amit Goyal wins E.O. Lawrence Award – Frank Munger
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #68: Fire and Rain – Dave Lochbaum
• Platts – Spot uranium prices continue slide, trade at about $52 a pound U308 – Michael Knapik
• Oceania: ABC – Doctors say transporting nuclear waste too risky – Gail Liston
• Oceania: NTNews – Fear of unsafe waste – Meagan Dillon
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Radioactive substances detected on Lanyu ‘not hazardous’: Taipower – Huang Chiao-wen and Elizabeth Hsu
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan News – Radioactivity found at Orchid Island outside nuclear waste storage space
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan News – Taiwan researcher finds radioactivity near nuclear waste storage space on Orchid Island
• Europe: News & Star – No major job losses when Sellafield Thorp plant closes, say bosses
• Europe: Scotland Courier – Gordon Brown to raise Dalgety Bay beach radiation in parliamentary debate
• Europe: The Scotsman – Letter: MoD waste – Michael N Crosby
• Europe: AP Google – Nuclear waste reaches destination in Germany
• Europe: AFP Google – Hundreds ‘hurt’ during German nuclear train demos
• Europe: Deutsche Local – Nuke waste convoy leaves hundreds hurt
• Russia: Barents Observer – 34 vessels in transit on Northern Sea Route
• Russia: Barents Observer – Takes radioactive threat out of the water
• Russia: Bellona – Analysis: Mountain of waste: New temporary radwaste storage site at Russia’s Novovoronezh NPP threatens to multiply, grow into long-term problem across country – Andrei Ozharovsky

Monday, November 28, 2011

• Tri-City Herald – Vit plant open house set for Wednesday
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s Amit Goyal wins E.O. Lawrence Award – Frank Munger
• Txchnologist – Will NASA Ever Recover Apollo 13’s Plutonium From the Sea? – Matthew Van Dusen
• DOE – Energy Department Nuclear Systems Are Powering Mars Rover
• DOE – Secretary Chu Announces 2011 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award Winners
• Canada: Bloomberg – Rio Wins Hathor for $633M as Cameco Quits – Christopher Donville
• Oceania: NTNews – Fear of unsafe waste – Meagan Dillon
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – Treaty may put at risk India’s hopes for uranium
• Oceania: West Australian – Don’t send waste to Muckaty, doctors say
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to consider scrapping of Monju reactor as option: Hosono
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Activists challenge government on nuclear waste management policy
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Activists protest nuclear waste – Lee I-chia
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – ‘No automatic route to uranium sale’
• Europe: STV.tv – Gordon Brown says MoD should ‘recognise their responsibility’ for radiation on Fife beach
• Europe: AP Google – German protesters to block nuke waste transport
• Europe: AFP Google – Nuclear waste train nears journey’s end – Frederic Happe
• Europe: BBC News – German police clear nuclear waste train protest
• Europe: The Guardian – Anti-nuclear protests in Germany – in pictures – Hanna Gersmann
• Europe: Der Spiegel – Radioactive Cargo Delayed Thousands of Protesters Obstruct Nuclear Waste Transport
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – Swiss decommissioning cost estimate rises by 10%
• Europe: Swissinfo – Nuclear contamination fears increase