Sunday, April 01, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Letter: Nuclear waste doesn’t belong here – Jim Cassidy
• Reno Gazette-Journal – Richard Bryan: ‘Energy park’ nothing more than a smokescreen – Richard Bryan
• Reno Gazette-Journal – Dan Schinhofen: Arguments against project not persuasive – Dan Schinhofen
• Spokesman-Review – Hanford offers sent to hundreds–Plaintiffs’ attorney doubts clients will take settlement
• Tri-City Herald – Letter: Bring back BWIP – Chris Wollam
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford Reach center has reckoning of accounts – Michelle Dupler
• Tucson Citizen – Radioactivity levels found to be dangerous due to uranium mines in northern Arizona on Navajo lands – DA Morales
• Chicago Daily Herald – Radioactive cleanup starts at McDowell Grove near Naperville – Elisabeth Mistretta
• Dayton Daily News – Stop gap highway bill omits Piketon project funding – Jessica Wehrman
• Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) – Alexander: NRC “Making Good Progress” on Approval of New Nuclear Reactors
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Back when nuclear was still sort of new (and so were the facilities) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Four DOE appointments confirmed – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 in 1959: Management hanging out by the Buick, talking Cold War stuff – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Advances in Reactor Physics, April 15-20 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The Kennedys, Feb. 24, 1959 – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – The 2000 decade at the Y-12 plant— Modernization – D. Ray Smith
• Danville Register&Bee – Insist on answers and full transparency – Katie Whitehead
• Canada: Toronto Star – Chalk River site eyed to bury low- and medium-grade radioactive waste – Steve Rennie
• Canada: Yahoo! AP – Chalk River site eyed to bury low- and medium-grade radioactive waste – Steve Rennie

Saturday, March 31, 2012

• New York Times – Uranium Mines Dot Navajo Land, Neglected and Still Perilous – Leslie Macmillan
• Chillicothe Gazette – USEC gives Piketon centrifuge project two additional months – Deirdre Shesgreen
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Another nuclear facility bites the dust at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Coming attraction: Expert on American foreign policy to speak at UT – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – USEC says it can fund project thru May – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Former Sen. Howard Baker at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Danville Register&Bee – Letter: Mine uranium for the children – Rhonda Fitzgerald
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Scientific panel ducks question around uranium openness – Rex Springston
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – 50,000 tones of radioactive wastes are over 8000 Bq/Kg – Iori Mochizuki

Friday, March 30, 2012

• Montrose Daily Press – Mill opponents are becoming desperate – Michael Moore
• Chillicothe Gazette – USEC extends its research funding for Centrifuge through May 31
• Chillicothe Gazette – Authority to transfer funds for Centrifuge not part of stopgap bill
• USEC – USEC Continues American Centrifuge RD&D Program
• Knoxville News Sentinel – $20M plutonium project at ORNL to support space program – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – U.S. nukes official visits Israel, touts cooperative efforts to counter nuclear terrorism – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – Two SRS nuclear waste tanks cleared for final closure – Rob Pavey
• Aiken Standard – Two tanks at SRS ready to be closed – Anna Dolianitis
• Press of Atlantic City – N.M. holds key to nuclear-waste issue – James McGovern
• DOE – Obama Administration and Great Lakes States Announce Agreement to Spur Development of Offshore Wind Projects
• DOE – Energy Department Nominees Confirmed by U.S. Senate
• DOE – Secretary Chu Announces New Institute to Help Scientists Improve Massive Data Set Research on DOE Supercomputers
• DOE – The Booming App Economy – Erin R. Pierce
• Canada: Toronto Star – Chalk River should consider nuclear waste as a business opportunity – Tyler Hamilton

Thursday, March 29, 2012

• Northwest Public Radio – Tribe Works to Revegetate Hanford Site – Courtney Flatt
• Tri-City Herald – 2 former tank farm workers plead guilty to timecard fraud – Annette Cary
• Carlsbad Current Argus – Governor, BRC members to speak at Nuclear Summit
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Nuclear Workers Data Breach Revealed
• Santa Fe New Mexican – Group sues nuclear agency over documents – Staci Matlock
• Chillicothe Gazette – Gaseous Diffusion Plant offering public tours of facilities
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Update on HEUMF litigation – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Three men and a moon box – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge still holding a lot of ARRA $$$$ – Frank Munger
• WBIR-TV – Weapons-grade Uranium from around the world comes to Y-12 for disposal – Hillary Lake
• Augusta Chronicle – Two SRS nuclear waste tanks cleared for final closure – Rob Pavey
• Covington News – Savannah site closing 2 radioactive tanks
• GPB – Nuclear Waste Clean Up Reaches Milestone – Orlando Montoya
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Uranium Mining: Study hall
• Utility Products – A Very Long Road for Military Nuclear Waste
• DOE – Major Cold War Cleanup Milestone Reached at the Savannah River Site
• Oceania: ABC – Muckaty dumps advances in reconciliation – Dave Sweeney
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Japan’s Atomic Energy Commission proposes to continue reprocessing plutonium, using MOX fuel, and fast breeder reactor technology – Lucas W Hixson
• South Asia: News Tribe – Nuclear waste affecting lives: CJ – Mirza Hassan
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield exodus begins – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Row over waste shipping plans
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Nuclear Plan Slammed – Will Metcalfe
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Nuclear waste consultation comes to end – Andrew Clarke
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Final report into new Cumbrian nuclear dump – Matthew Legg
• North Europe: Azom – Removal of Plutonium in Sweden by the United States – Cameron Chai
• North Europe: YLE News – Pekkarinen: No Fennovoima nuke without waste solution

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

• Tri-Valley CAREs – March/April 2012 Citizen’s Watch Newsletter
• Tri-City Herald – Energy Secretary Chu to visit Hanford in June – Annette Cary
• NewsBlaze – The National Nuclear Fuel Cycle Summit on April 2-5, 2012 in Carlsbad, NM Provides Information, Free Registration for Members of the Media
• Naperville.Patch – Thorium Cleanup Will Close Portion of McDowell Grove Forest Preserve (IL) – Collin Czarnecki
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: ORNL exec praises unions for commitment to lab
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Fancy smancy science lab, circa 1950 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Father of SNS takes a visit – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – YSO gives (and then gives some more) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 shipping HEU to France – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Concussion at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Did the GAO put CMRR on the shelf? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Safeguards Lab at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Update on Oak Ridge contract transition – Frank Munger
• Chatham Star Tribune – National Academy of Sciences to hold briefings on uranium study – Tim Davis
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Coles should abandon uranium – Karen B. Maute
• PhysOrg – A capsule for removing radioactive contamination from milk, fruit juices, other beverages
• Oceania: ABC – Dumping on Traditional Owners: the ugly face of Australian racism – Dr Jim Green
• Oceania: Penrith Star – Only ‘safe’ radioactive soil will be dumped at Kemps Creek – Shery Demian and Sheree Mutton
• Oceania: Penrith Star – Hazard levels tested first at Kemps Creek – Sheree Mutton
• Oceania: Penrith Star – Kemps Creek waste
• Europe: Cumberland News – Final report into new Cumbrian nuclear dump – Matthew Legg
• Europe: Plymouth Evening Herald – Legal bid to block incinerator
• East Europe: NRCU – Ukrainian Radio – Construction of nuclear fuel production plant in Ukraine to cost UAH 2.3 b

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

• Hanford News – Hanford workers breathe in radioactive contamination; levels well below limits – Annette Cary
• Columbus Telegram – NPPD’s low level nuclear waste may go to Texas – Tyler Ellyson
• Monroe Evening News – Fermi shut down for more than a month for refueling work
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL: no problems with respirators – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Protest dismissed on DOE services contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Eight more years of HEU fuel at HFIR – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Wrapping up Mexico project; HEU at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – President Obama at Nuclear Security Summit: ‘No one nation can do this alone’ – Frank Munger
• The White House – Fact Sheet: Plutonium Removal from Sweden
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board Chairs Page 18242 [FR DOC# 2012-7306]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Pages 18242-18243 [FR DOC# 2012-7307]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation Pages 18243-18244 [FR DOC# 2012-7308]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Acceptability for Unrestricted Use: Acceptance Decision for the Unrestricted Use of the Former Michigan Chemical Company-Breckenridge Disposal Site Pages 18270-18271 [FR DOC# 2012-7314]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Uranium Enrichment Fuel Cycle Facility Inspection Reports; Availability: Uranium Enrichment Fuel Cycle Facility Inspection Reports Regarding Louisiana Energy Services LLC, National Enrichment Facility, Eunice, NM, Prior to the Commencement of Operations Pages 18272-18273 [FR DOC# 2012-7310]
• Canada: Bloomberg – Canada Pressured Over Bomb-Grade Uranium for Medical Use – Jonathan Tirone
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – Radioactive dump – on 10 days notice, court told – Maris Beck.
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Fukushima worker assumes melted fuel has gone into suppression chamber – Iori Mochizuki
• Europe: BBC News – Further delay to Dalgety Bay beach radioactive clean-up
• Europe: Westmorland Gazette – Coniston pupils win nuclear repository contest prize

Monday, March 26, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal blog – DOE unleashes bureaucrats on post-Yucca report – Posted by Steve Tetreault
• Las Vegas SUN – Letter: Yucca the best site for nuclear waste – Jean Younker
• Hanford News – US announces deal to ensure medical isotope supply
• StateImpact Idaho – Laid-Off INL Workers Will Get Help Through Federal Grant – Molly Messick
• Westword blog – Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant deal between Rockwell and feds turns twenty today – Patricia Calhoun
• Los Alamos Monitor – 557 employees to leave LANL as part as voluntary separation program
• Santa Fe New Mexican – 557 LANL workers accept buyoutRoger Snodgrass
• Universitycity.Patch – Radioactive Waste in our Groundwater – Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – GAO releases report critical of CMRR – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL reactor returns to action – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What do the U.S, Belgium, Netherlands and France have in common? – Frank Munger
• Lynchburg News and Advance – Uranium study group: Transparent enough, or needlessly secret? – Rex Springston
• Fairewinds – Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US – Arnie Gundersen
• Global Research – Depleted Uranium Contamination: A Crime against Humanity – Dr. Arun Shrivastava
• GAO – New Plutonium Research Facility at Los Alamos May Not Meet All Mission Needs – Gao-12-337
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Tepco Faces Post-Fukushima Future Dictated by Bureaucrats – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Contract workers report more radioactive water leaked into ocean at Fukushima Daiichi – Lucas W Hixson
• Europe: Ayrshire Post – Brown demands beach clean-up action
• Europe: Bristol Evening Post – How can anyone claim it is clean? – Councillor Ralph Pryke
• East Europe: Reuters – Last enriched uranium rumbles out of Ukraine – Richard Balmforth
• East Europe: Kyiv Post – Ukraine, NATO enter final stage of removal of nuclear waste stored since Soviet times