Sunday, October 21, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Coming election could signal shift in opposition to Yucca Mountain – David McGrath Schwartz
• Twin Falls Times-News – Idaho Should Still be Pioneering Nuclear Energy – Chris James
• Carlsbad Current Argus – Senators seek support for $222m WIPP budget
• Los Alamos Monitor – Update(#4): LDRD Day
• Texas Tribune – Texas Sierra Club Fight Over Radioactive Waste Heats Up – Nick Swartsell
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Motion deadline extended to Oct. 30 for Y-12 protesters case in federal court – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s mission statement – Frank Munger
• Danville Register & Bee – Editorial: It’s time for leadership in Chatham
• Danville Register & Bee – Letter: Why is Gang of Four not listening? – Linda Worsley
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Uranium mine: ‘more than the issues we’ll lock on to’ – Alex Bainbridge
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Japan, IAEA working on Fukushima decontamination and disposal base

Saturday, October 20, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Compensation rules eased for Hanford – Annette Cary
• IdahoReporter – Governor’s nuclear commission holds meeting in Twin Falls
• Knoxville News Sentinel – UPF team adding people, space to redesign effort – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Dismantling W69 warhead parts at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Hey, cigarettes and world wars go hand in hand – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Redesign of UPF means more people, more leased space to work on multibillion-dollar project – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE cuts travel abroad, but not contractors – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – State officials Ramsey, Yager visit ORNL – John Huotari
• Bloomberg – Nuclear-Waste Rule Rewritten by September 2014, NRC Staff Says – Kasia Klimasinska
• Energy Guardian – Stimulus-paid nuclear waste cleanup not fully documented, GAO finds – Edward Felker
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Radioactive waste claims denied – Loa Iok-sin

Friday, October 19, 2012

• Walla Walla Union-Bulletin – Letter: Don’t ship more nuclear waste – Beth Call
• Albuquerque Journal – We still don’t know how much it might cost to build CMRR – John Fleck
• New York Times – Letter: A Nuclear Research Facility – Thomas P. D’agostino, Penrose C. Albright
• Courier-Journal – Nuclear waste dump opens offers a “Texas Solution” to nuclear waste – James Bruggers
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Talking about neutrons – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Taking down K-25’s North Tower, etc. – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 178 tasks during 46-day reactor outage – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Getting chilly: the end of Nunn-Lugar – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Clean Water Act turns 40 – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Y-12 protesters get three-week extension to file motions – John Huotari
• Brattleboro Reformer – Yankee: Tritium response finished – Bob Audette
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Reports on Waste Burial Charges: Report on Waste Burial Charges: Changes in Decommissioning Waste Disposal Costs at Low-Level Waste Burial Facilities Pages 64361-64362 [FR DOC# 2012-25848]
• Asia-Pacific: Electric Light &Power – Japan to Compile Report on Monju, Spent N-Fuel Disposal at Year-End – Brick Patch
• Asia: World Nuclear News – Fuel loading at Ningde 1
• Europe: University of Sheffield News – Nuclear experts in Sheffield display united front in tackling Britain’s radioactive waste
• East Europe: Slovenska Tiskovna Agencija – Debate Criticises Nuclear Waste Decommissioning Fund

Thursday, October 18, 2012

• Cañon City Daily Record – Molybdenum plume in Lincoln Park ground water will shrink because of changes in state standards – Rachel Alexander
• Highlands Ranch Herald – Snapshots of the nuclear age
• Albuquerque Journal – Reasons to like NM nuclear waste idea – John Fleck
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A state visit at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A No. 1 ranking in Tennessee; somebody call a pep rally – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The prospects for silicon nano-ribbons – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘The more things change, the more . . . ‘ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What’s going on with EnergySolutions? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The white roofs of Y-12 – Frank Munger
• The Lymes Patch – Dear Congress, Please Act to Find a Permanent Solution to the Problem of Nuclear Waste – Jayne Keedle
• Enformable – In-Focus: Nuclear – California probe into San Onofre – AREVA says no need to further test MOX fuel
• NRC – Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to Hold Prehearing Conference on Prairie Island Spent Fuel Storage Facility License Renewal
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Hanford Page 64112 [FR DOC# 2012-25628]
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – US Los Alamos National Laboratory developed the technology to detect the exact place of melted fuel in reactors – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Spent fuel in JP amounts 26,000 vitrification, “50yrs cooling before 100,000yrs geographical disposal,1500Sv/h surface” – Iori Mochizuki
• South Asia: Xinhua News – Uranium export tops Gillard’s agenda in Indian visit – Wang Xiaoshu and Xu Haijing
• South Asia: PTI – How will you handle Kudankulam nuke waste: SC
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Cumbrian MP says Scotland must take waste back under independence – Julian Whittle
• Europe: Whitehaven News – MP’s call over ‘foreign’ n-waste
• North Europe: Nuclear Engineering – AREVA to supply LEU fuel for Polish research reactor

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

• Mountain Democrat – Rock doc: Salty tomb within an underground crystal – E. Kirsten Peters
• Tri-City Herald – Host of NPR’s Science Friday coming to Richland
• Tri-City Herald – GAO calls for better project management at Hanford, DOE cleanup sites – Annette Cary
• Idaho Statesman – Idaho Falls company receives NRC license – New Mexico Business Weekly
• Tucson Explorer – Sen. Melvin responds to letters – Al Melvin
• Casper Star-Tribune – Wyoming nuclear waste bill gets second nod – Adam Voge
• Pueblo Chieftain – Cotter cleanup reduced in scope – Tracy Harmon
• New Mexico Business Weekly – LANL scientists use cosmic rays to peer into reactors – Dan Mayfield
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Sen. Lamar Alexander not ready to call in the military at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Double trouble at Oak Ridge National Laboratory project: Two targets ‘fail’ prematurely – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Mason: ‘Jaguar is history’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Beefing up barricades at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The SNS puzzle – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Will NNSA & DOE security interests in Oak Ridge work cooperatively in the future? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – REACTS in Vietnam – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge feels impact of EnergySolutions job cuts; German rad waste coming ‘soon’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Forever interesting – Frank Munger
• Danville Register &Bee – Uranium company reaffirms commitment to safety
• WSET – Governor’s Uranium Mining Meeting Wednesday in Chatham
• Bangor Daily News – Earthquake didn’t crack Wiscasset nuclear waste containers, Maine Yankee officials say – Bob Mentzinger and Larry Grard
• Canada: Marketwire – Media Advisory: A Better Alternative to Burial of Nuclear Waste?
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – SC query on spent fuel in KNPP
• South Asia: The Hindu – ‘Where will nuclear waste go?’ Supreme Court asks NPCIL – J. Venkatesan
• South Asia: Indian Express – Kudankulam: SC questions govt on n-waste
• South Asia: PTI – India thanks Australian PM on uranium supply issue
• Europe: Dundee Courier – MoD hires contractor to search for contamination at Dalgety Bay beach

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Design teams show interest in Hanford Reach Interpretive Center – Paula Horton
• KPVI-TV – INL Employees Honored By Energy Secretary
• KPBS – Researchers To Study Uranium Impacts On Navajo Children – Laurel Morales
• Power Engineering – Regulators, local community sign MOU on nuclear waste storage review
• West Central Tribune – NRC signs deal to work with Prairie Island tribe
• Reuters – NRC lays down terms for Honeywell before Ill. uranium plant opening
• The Lane Report – State seeks firm to design final cap for Maxey Flats Project, low-level radioactive waste landfill
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Music was a wartime groove – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – GAO report says DOE’s results on Recovery Act-funded cleanup projects difficult to validate – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Double trouble at SNS – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – Tests of overseas MOX touted by plant’s builders – Rob Pavey
• Danville Register & Bee – Three Pittsylvania supervisors make their own anti-mining resolutions – John Crane
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Nuclear waste site owner levels accusations against Leechburg activist – Mary Ann Thomas
• Christian Science Monitor – Uranium woes: no relief for prices amid low demand – Jen Alic
• NRC – NRC Issues Confirmatory Order to Honeywell
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Portsmouth Page 63300 [FR DOC# 2012-25369]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Ultra-Deepwater Advisory Committee Page 63300 [FR DOC# 2012-25376]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Unconventional Resources Technology Advisory Committee
• Canada: CBC News – How to put Canada’s nuclear waste to bed – Max Paris
• Canada: KnowNuclearWaste – Stopping Nuclear Waste in its Tracks – Saskatchewan (October 2012) – SandraCuffe
• Canada: Shoreline Beacon – Letter: 10 reasons to oppose the DGR – John Harding Jr.
• Oceania: AFP Google – Australian PM to start India nuclear talks
• Oceania: NSW Daily Telegraph – Uranium no fix for India relations: Greens
• Oceania: Radio Australia – Why Australia’s uranium sale to India is crucial to bilateral ties
• Oceania: Toowoomba Chronicle – India’s nuclear power failures warn against uranium exports – MV Ramana
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Group urges Qld Government to rethink uranium mining
• Oceania: Scoop NZ – Radioactive waste to sit on farms for billions of years?
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Tepco investigated the inside of SFP3, “Location of refueling machine, state of the fuel are still not known” – Iori
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Cameras spot reactor 3 pool debris; fuel intact – Jun Hongo
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima district a wasteland despite preparations to lift evacuation order
• Europe: Dunferline Press – Beach to be dug up in latest radiation investigation
• Europe: CUFC Online – Nuclear Waste Repository – Lakeland V Wasteland

Monday, October 15, 2012

• Nevada View – Baby Tark: Make Nevada National Nuclear Waste Dumping Ground – Launce Rake
• Lab Manager Magazine – Fifteen Scientists, Engineers Inducted into LLNL Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame
• Honolulu Star-Advertiser – Radioactive debris unlikely, health officials say – Gary T. Kubota
• Westword – Rocky Flats still off-limits during National Wildlife Refuge WeekBy Patricia Calhoun
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 contractor gets DOE ‘Sustainability Awards’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Another round of Q&A’s on security contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s new warning system ‘fully operational’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Three-way funding DOE’s Oak Ridge museum – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ITER’s Director-General has a ready view of construction progress – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – User activities suspended at Spallation Neutron Source – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Radiation Safety Information Computational Center at ORNL marks 50th year
• NavyTimes – Cruiser, submarine back in port after collision – Christopher P. Cavas
• Aiken Leader – Bonnie Raitt Concert Supports Public Interest Work Focused on the Savannah River Site (SRS) – Thomas Clements
• Today’s Sunbeam – Salem 2 nuclear reactor in Lower Alloways Creek shut down for refueling outage – Bill Gallo Jr.
• GAO – Most DOE Cleanup Projects Are Complete, but Project Management Guidance Could Be Strengthened, GAO-13-23, Oct 15, 2012
• Oceania: Business Spectator – PM to push on with Indian uranium talks
• Asia-Pacific: Energy Collective – Radiation probes indicate NO melt through at Fukushima Unit 1 – Rod Adams
• Asia-Pacific: ENENews – “Impossible” that bulk of melted fuel is in Unit 1 containment — Charred vessel could indicate explosive event inside