Sunday, May 05, 2013
- Tri-City Herald – Outage planned at Richland nuclear plant – Annette Cary
- Carlsbad Current-Argus – Washingaton lobbyist contract back before county commissionBy Stella Davis
- Sheboygan Press – Glimpse of 1960s fallout shelter on view in Neenah – Duke Behnke
- Chattanooga Times Free Press – Chattanooga leaders hope to capitalize on Oak Ridge technological research, military resources – Mike Pare
- Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 worker suffers lithium burns to face during operation at Beta-2 facility – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel – State fee increases to combat pollution reluctantly backed – Tom Humphrey
- Knoxville News Sentinel – EnergX announces layoffs – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nine months later, Plowshares come to trial – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More UPF design concerns – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – USEC cites more progress on American Centrifuge – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 worker suffers lithium burns to face during operation at Beta-2 facility – Frank Munger
- Aiken Standard – Mystery bacteria ‘cobwebs’ found in SRS cooling tank – Mike Gellatly
- CNY Central – Entergy says no to NY plan for nuclear waste storage – Laura Hand
- Europe: The Guardian – Radioactive materials lost in more than 30 incidents over past decade – Terry Macalister and Richard Halpin
- Europe: Irish Independent – Nicky Larkin: Nuclear fear clouds debate on fuel crisis – Nicky Larkin
- Europe: Whitehaven News – Foreign Plutonium to Stay at Sellafield – Alan Irving
Saturday, May 04, 2013
- Yahoo! Answers – Open Question: Why did Obama close Yucca Mountain?
- Tri-City Herald – Richland group to honor man who built Hanford – Sara Schilling
- Billings Gazette – Military, locals to drill for nuclear incident
- Telluride Daily Planet – State grants license to Energy Fuels – Heather Sackett
- Chillicothe Gazette – Centrifuge project hits two more milestones
- Knoxville News Sentinel – TVA prepares for Obama administration review – Ed Marcum
- Knoxville News Sentinel – $120 million water plant to capture Y-12 mercury – Bob Fowler
- Knoxville News Sentinel – EnergX announces layoffs – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What’s up with the off-and-on-again operations at Y-12’s Oxide Conversion Facility? – Frank Munger
- The Voice – Sheep farmer to discuss concerns on proposed nuclear waste site on Lake Huron – Jim Bloch
- Lower Hudson Journal – Entergy shareholders reject comptroller’s Indian Point nuclear storage initiative – Michael Risinit
- Attleboro Sun Chronicle – Nuke workers give and take
- Fairewinds Energy Education – Nuclear Contamination Knows No Borders
- Europe: in-cumbria – Sellafield appoints new boss – Julian Whittle
- East Europe: Austrian Times – Atomic Safety Plant Workers Left Contaminated
Friday, May 03, 2013
- CityWatch – Humans Used for Radiation Experiments: A Shameful Chapter in US History – John LaForge
- KING5 Seattle – Bonus money trumps safety at Hanford, experts say – Susannah Frame
- Tri-City Herald – PNNL engineer picked to head nuclear society
- Tri-City Herald – Former Hanford worker convicted in timecard case wants whistleblower pay – Annette Cary
- Atlantic Wire – Uranium Mine Returns to the Grand Canyon – J.K. Trotter
- Albuquerque Journal – Heinrich praises WIPP for ‘amazing job’ – Stella Davis
- Carlsbad Current-Argus – Sen. Carroll Leavell appointed to panels on radioactive waste, finance, pensions – Stella Davis
- Chattanooga Times Free Press – Sen. Alexander: Oak Ridge to get new water plant to treat mercury contamination
- The Chattanoogan – Alexander: Treatment Plant Helps Address Mercury Problem At Oak Ridge
- Knoxville News Sentinel – $120 million water treatment plant to capture Y-12 mercury runoff – Bob Fowler
- Knoxville News Sentinel – Pam Strickland: Y-12 protesters sit down, share stories – Pam Strickland
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – In the beginning – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – $120M mercury-removal system at Y-12 by 2020 – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Reorg, layoffs at EnergX – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Spotlight on mercury – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Dozens of Plowshares supporters expected for next week’s trial – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – How effective are cleanup projects? – Frank Munger
- Oak Ridge Today – Judge says prosecution against Y-12 protesters not selective, vindictive – John Huotari
- Huffington Post – The Downwinders – Ellen Cantarow
- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – The Sunflower: Issue #190 – May 2013
- Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Savannah River Site Pages 26005-26006 [FR DOC# 2013-10482]
- Europe: in-cumbria – No regrets over the nuclear dump vote, says outgoing Cumbria council leader – Ian Duncan
- Russia: Bellona – The enduring glow of a radiation disaster: Villagers near Russia’s Mayak still struggle to survive on contaminated lands – Yevgeny Usov, Maria Kaminskaya
Thursday, May 02, 2013
- KQED – After Failed Attempts at Nuclear Fusion, NIF Shifts Priorities
- Press-Enterprise – CABAZON: Cleanup crew detects radiation at vacant lot – Darrell R. Santschi
- Tri-Valley CAREs – Nuclear Energy Project Changes Aim After Years of Failure – San Francisco Chronicle – David Perlman
- Tri-City Herald – Draft legislation for nuclear disposal open for comments – Annette Cary
- Tri-City Herald – Website used to help Hanford workers hacked
- Carlsbad Current-Argus – Senator Martin Heinrich says WIPP a ‘real success story’ during Carlsbad visit – Stella Davis
- Telluride Daily Planet – Telluride: no to uranium leasing – Heather Sackett
- Knoxville News Sentinel – Editorial: ORNL helping U.S. manufacturing make comeback
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge, 1944 – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – An ORNL doorstop – Frank Munger
- York Daily Record – Our take: What will we do with nuclear waste?
- Forbes – Fancy New Lids for Nuclear Waste Casks, As Contents Get Hotter – Jeff Mcmahon
- Caribbean: Democracy Now – Punishing Vieques: Puerto Rico Struggles With Contamination 10 Years After Activists Expel U.S. Navy – Amy Goodman
- Oceania: Gisborne Herald – Letter: Oil and gas messy, let’s store nuclear waste . . .
- Europe: Galloway News – Victory for uranium campaigners – Stuart Gillespie
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
- The Hill blog – Congress needs to focus on how nuclear waste is stored now – Dave Lochbaum And Robert Cowin
- San Luis Obispo Tribune – Letter: Fuel no one wants – George Sheffield
- Government Accountability Project – DOE Helps Hanford Contractors Fight Whistleblowers: Daily Whistleblower News – Sarah Damian
- Iowa Now – Nuclear waste expert to speak at UI–Rodney Ewing helped scuttle plans for nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain
- World Nuclear News – Repository wins environmental recognition
- Knoxville News Sentinel – NRC meets May 7 on Watts Bar issues
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Here’s what Y-12’s GM told employees – Frank Munger
- NPR – Trial Begins For Protesters Who Broke Into Nuclear Complex – Matt Powell
- WDEF Chattanooga – Sequoyah Nuclear Plant Gets High Marks From NRC – Webb Wright
- Aiken Standard – Column: MOX vital to U.S. security – Clint Wolfe
- Wicked Local Plymouth – Cape Downwinders event
- Vermont Journalism Trust – Local residents challenge Entergy’s zoning permit for nuclear waste storage at Pilgrim in Plymouth
- Bloomberg – Babcock Gets Another Shot at $22.8 Billion Nuclear Award – Nick Taborek & Kathleen Miller
- Nuclear Energy Insider – EU nuclear operators happily foot bill for stress test safety improvements – Peter Taberner
- Nuclear Energy Insider – Areva: overcoming obsolescence with digital technology – Ritesh Gupta
- Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 25 April – 1 May 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
- Nuclear Energy Insider – Policy Brief 25 April 1 May 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
- POWERnews – mPower: It’s Now or Never – Kennedy Maize
- Yahoo! News – Fukushima Leaks and Sandy Sewage Raise Questions About Shore Pollution – Philip Bump
- GovTrack – S. 773: A bill to amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to improve compensation for workers involved in uranium mining, …
- Canada: Reuters – Update 1-Cameco profit falls 93 pct on weaker uranium sales
- Asia-Pacific: Common Dreams – ‘Flood of Highly Radioactive Wastewater’ Overwhelms Fukushima Crews
- Asia-Pacific: TIME – Leaks, Rats and Radioactivity: Fukushima’s Nuclear Cleanup Is Faltering – Bryan Walsh
- Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Jury out on Dounreay’s future should Scotland go it alone
- Europe: ITV News – Army nurse blames uranium for life-threatening illness
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
- Forbes – A New Authority For Nuclear Waste – James Conca
- Seattle Times – NW Books: A chilling look at Hanford and its Russian twin
- Tri-City Herald – Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler tours Hanford – Annette Cary
- Emmett Messenger-Index – Bipartisan group of senators reintroduce RECA amendments act
- Salt Lake Tribune – EnergySolutions reports vote on public-to-private move
- Cibola County Beacon – Uranium: Piñon Ridge Permit License is Approved Again – Dick Kamp
- Herald & Tribune – Chernobyl, other atomic-power accident effects – Frances Lamberts
- Johnson City Press – NRC review says NFS had safe, secure 2012 – Brad Hicks
- Knoxville News Sentinel – GAO upholds protests on Y-12/Pantex contract – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12/Pantex protests upheld: GAO recommends procurement be reopened – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Recap on story of the day – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Bechtel ‘encouraged’ despite setback – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA says it will ‘take some time’ before choosing path on Y-12/Pantex; ‘We’re still looking at everything’ – Frank Munger
- Washington Post – The Prophets of Oak Ridge – Dan Zak
- Washington Post – The nun who broke into a US nuclear-weapons facility
- Physics Today – Graham puts foot down on DOE review of South Carolina MOX fuel plant – David Kramer
- All Things Nuclear – Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit #5: Technical Specifications – Dave Lochbaum
- Environmental News Network – What to do with Radioactive Waste – Andy Soos,
- NTI – Uranium Transfer Details Still Developing
- Nuclear Street – U.S. Nuclear Plants Order Spent Fuel Pool Monitoring Systems
- Taxpayers for Common Sense – MOX Not Populi
- DOE – Energy Department Releases New Energy 101 Video on Ocean Power – Eric Barendsen
- DOE:EM – New Mexico Environment Department Presents WIPP Its Highest Recognition for Environmental Excellence – Deb Gill
- DOE:EM – Board Focuses on Budget in First Virtual Semi-Annual Meeting
- DOE:EM – Hanford Site Creates One-Touch Wonder for Groundwater Treatment Systems
- DOE:EM – Idaho Cleanup Contractor Surpasses Significant Safety Milestones
- Canada: Ontario Post – OPG DGR public comment period closes May 24, 2013 – Troy Patterson, Kincardine News
- Oceania: Herald Sun – A Sydney council’s nuclear waste warning
- Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Tough Going Seen for Fukushima Radioactive Waste Facilities – Baltimore Examiner
- Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Monju operator says faults are not active
- Asia-Pacific: Yomiuri Shimbun – Nuclear fuel cycle must be used in way that ensures proper use of plutonium
- Europe: Whitehaven News – ‘RADIOACTIVE PIZZA’ RETURNS TO CUMBRIA FOR DISPOSAL – Emily Parsons
Monday, April 29, 2013
- POWER magazine blog – Nuke Waste: Same Old Same Old, Won’t Work Won’t Work – Kennedy Maize
- KAMR Fox14 Amarillo – GAO Says NNSA Should Reopen bid for Pantex – Karl Wehmhoener
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – B&W ‘pleased’ by GAO ruling on protest – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12/Pantex protests upheld: GAO recommends that NNSA reopen the $22B procurement, seek additional info from bidders on cost savings – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NPO team at transition time – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Bill Richardson: ‘I liked Oak Ridge’ – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Worldly Hunter – Frank Munger
- Montville Patch – Millstone Gets Tentative Approval to Expand Its Nuclear Waste Storage – Paul Petrone
- Bloomberg – Babcock Gets Another Shot at $22.8 Billion Nuclear Award – Nick Taborek &Amp; Kathleen Miller
- FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
- Forbes – 5 Weapons of Mass Destruction the U.S. Military Uses Every Day – Michael Peck
- Le Monde Diplomatique – You are a guinea pig – Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner
- DOE:EM – EM Update | Vol. 5, Issue 4 | April 2013
- Oceania: NSW Daily Telegraph – A Sydney council’s nuclear waste warning – Vikki Campion
- Asia: Power Engineering – DOE in China to discuss nuclear waste
- North Europe: Helsinki Times – Daily: Olkiluoto final disposal project to proceed as planned
- Russia: Bellona – Mapping and accounting for sunken radiological hazards in Arctic devils Russian authorities – Anna Kireeva