Sunday, December 23, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Winning the Yucca battle – 25 years later – Judy Treichel
• Heritage Foundation – A Nuclear Waste Carol – Jack Spencer and Katie Tubb
• Standard-Examiner – Company abandons plan to store nuke waste in Utah
• Lexington Herald Leader – Proposed Coles Hill uranium mine: Buried treasure or hidden threat? – Sean Cockerham and John Murawski
• Aiken Standard – SRNS hosts class of young leaders
• Europe: Herald Scotland – Alarm at plans for huge increase in radioactive discharges from Dounreay
• South Africa: Times LIVE – Potch uranium exposure to be studied through teeth

Saturday, December 22, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Twenty-five years later, ‘Screw Nevada’ bill elicits strong feelings – Keith Rogers and Steve Tetreault
• Tri-City Herald – DOE under secretary in charge of Hanford cleanup leaves position – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Western governors want trend of DOE budget cuts to end – Annette Cary
• KIFI Idaho Falls – INL could face bleak future with fiscal cliff budget cuts – Tatevik Aprikyan
• Salt Lake Tribune – Utah N-waste site backers call it quits – Judy Fahys
• Los Alamos Study Group – Los Alamos says PU Study Doesn’t Negate Need for Pit Manufacturing
• AP Google – Security increased at Los Alamos Nat’l Lab in NM
• Knoxville News Sentinel – DOE’s asbestos problem has a fiscal upside – Frank Munger
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Tell the Dept. of Energy AGAIN, Please no Radiated Silverware or Formerly Radiated Baby Toys – Tony Rutherford
• Newsvine – Recycle Radioactive Metals? Are You Nuts? – SallijaneG
• Southeast Asia: Malaysia Chronicle – Lynas’s waste plans a toxic pipe dream
• Middle East: Al-Shorfa – EU to build $2.6 million radioactive waste landfill for Iraq

Friday, December 21, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – PNNL earns 3 national awards in technology transfer
• Tri-City Herald – Benton sheriff to continue with Hanford contract
• Idaho State Journal – INL to cut 300 jobs
• KIFI Idaho Falls – INL announces job losses
• Enformable – Contamination event at Oak Ridge Depleted Uranium Recycling Facility – Lucas W Hixson
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – D’Agostino departing – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – This is the ridge Plowshares protesters crossed in darkness to reach Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘The cut in the fence has been repaired’ – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – NNSA Administrator D’Agostino retiring in January – John Huotari
• The Tennessean – Breach still remains in perimeter fence of Y-12 nuclear weapons plant
• New London Day – Four speak against Millstone waste-storage expansion – Judy Benson
• Nature blog – Plutonium’s new horizons – Anne Pichon
• NIRS – Nuclear Weapons Waste in Your Silverware, Pants Zipper, Baby Toys?
• DOE:EM – DOE Awards Hanford Site Law Enforcement Contract to Benton County
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Portsmouth Page 75626 [FR DOC#
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Nevada Page 75627 [FR DOC#
  
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Govt. to delay choosing nuclear waste storage site
• Europe: Energy Live News – Sellafield nuclear plant awards £1.1bn contract – Vicky Ellis
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Sellafield infrastructure contract awarded

Thursday, December 20, 2012

• The Coloradoan – Wayward uranium leads to radiation detection systems at landfill – Kevin Duggan
• Albuquerque Journal – Panel Pushes New Lab At LANL – John Fleck
• Chillicothe Gazette – Centrifuge funding in final version of federal spending bill
• Enformable – Contamination event at Oak Ridge Depleted Uranium Recycling Facility – Lucas W Hixson
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Unmended fences: Months after Y-12 break-in, hole in barrier remains – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE’s incinerator now in ‘safe shutdown’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – On fire in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE environmental board’s annual report – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 4 1/2 months after unprecedented break-in, there’s still a hole in Y-12’s fence – Frank Munger
• Courthouse News Service – Florida Contamination to Cost Lockheed $3M More – Iulia Filip
• Augusta Free Press – Herring announces opposition to lifting ban on uranium mining
• Chatham Star Tribune – Lt. governor opposes uranium mining – Tim Davis
• Virginian-Pilot – Military vets urge McDonnell to support uranium mining – Julian Walker
• Oceania: Penrith Press – Hazardous waste vetoed for Kemps Creek
• Asia-Pacific: ABC – Fuel rod problem in Japanese nuclear plant – Mark Willacy
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Futaba assembly passes no-confidence bid against mayor for skipping talks on nuclear waste storage
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – LDP’s nuclear, constitutional stances not ally’s – Ayako Mie
• Southeast Asia: AFP Yahoo!7 News – Australian miner Lynas wins Malaysia licence appeal
• Southeast Asia: Malaysian Insider – Lynas’ waste plans a toxic pipe dream – Wendy Bacon
• Europe: Whitehaven News – £1,000 bonus for Sellafield workers – Alan Irving
• Russia: Reuters – Sweden finds Soviet submarine wreck in Baltic Sea lost during WWII
• Middle East: MENAFN – US depleted uranium hit Iraq newborns horrifically

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

• State of Nevada – Update on Yucca Mountain and State of Nevada Activities, Background Information for City of Las Vegas City Council Meeting
  
• Tri-City Herald – ATL gets Hanford contract extended for 1 year – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Richland business gets $15M Hanford cleanup contract – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Battelle receives top research grade – Annette Cary
• Cronkite News – Uranium cleanup on Navajo Nation complicated by scope, history of problem – Maryann Batlle
• Telluride Daily Planet – Uranium mine expansion proposed – Collin McRann
• Albuquerque Journal – Congress pushes for Los Alamos plutonium project’s completion – John Fleck
• Albuquerque Journal – New Mexico’s chances of hosting a high-level rad waste site look like they just went up – John Fleck
• Portsmouth Daily Times – Calling the American Centrifuge Project (ACP) in Piketon – Frank Lewis
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: The unpredictable nature of DOE contracting – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Public tours of Savannah River – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – With ‘fiscal cliff’ looming, ORNL says it’s as well-prepared as it can be – John Huotari
• Aiken Leader – SRS Projects in “Red Zone” Push Site Over its own Fiscal and Management Cliff; Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Leads the Way into Abyss – Thomas Clements
• The State – Black: DOE decision deals blow to future of SRS – Danny Black
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Schapiro: For McDonnell, uranium issue political and personal – Jeff E. Schapiro
• Staunton News Leader – New group supports Va. uranium mining
• Canada: Lake Gaston Gazette Observer – River group responds to release of Uranium Working Group report
• Oceania: Business Spectator – Barnett slams Burke over delayed uranium ruling
• Asia-Pacific: AFP Google – Quake risk at Japan atomic recycling plant: experts – Kyoko Hasegawa
• Europe: SDLP – Ritchie: Sellafield figures alarming – Margaret Ritchie
• South Africa: Times LIVE – Uranium, cobalt found in Wonderfontein Spruit cattle organs

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

• Heritage Foundation blog – Managing Nuclear Waste – Jack Spencer and Paul Hultgren
• The Hill – Wyden open to moving nuclear waste to interim storage sites – Zack Colman
• B&W Y-12 – NNSA Sees Significant Achievements, Important Improvements in 2012
• EP Magazine – Watchdog Group Deems DOE Waste Cleanup Plan Inadequate
• Oak Ridger – Historically Speaking: Oak Ridgers helped Fermi usher in Atomic Age – D. Ray Smith
• Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald – Valley’s uranium concerns brought to Va. governor – Roger Bell
• New London Day – Public Hearing on Nuclear-Waste Storage Thursday at Millstone
• NY Times blog – Come January, Another Try on Nuclear Waste – Matthew L. Wald
• Platts – Spot uranium price rises to $44.75/lb as more buyers emerge – Jim Ostroff
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation Pages 74836-74837
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Pages 74837-74838
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico Page 74838]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – PROPOSED RULES Long-Term Cooling and Unattended Water Makeup of Spent Fuel Pools
• Canada: Shoreline Beacon – Part 4: Nuclear “Dump” in Bruce? – Peter Storck
• Oceania: Toowoomba Chronicle – Uranium described as the “asbestos of the 21st century” – Owen Jacques
• Oceania: Yahoo! News – Toxic anger towards Sydney dump site – Lee Jeloscek
• Europe: Candu – The UK’s Plutonium Challenge
• East Europe: Sofia News Agency – Bulgaria’s Kozloduy NPP Launches Liquid Radioactive Waste Processing System

Monday, December 17, 2012

• Reuters – Update 2-NRC may issue decision in March on San Onofre 2 restart – Eileen O’Grady
• Newswise – More Than 400 Rockets Soar From Sandia’s Kauai Test Facility in 50-Year History
• Tri-City Herald – Update: Hanford, PNNL work delays and cancellations – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – DOE drafts study on borrow pits – Annette Cary
• Augusta Chronicle – Flawed welds at MOX plant to be corrected, NRC told – Rob Pavey
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS announces public tour dates for 2013 – Rob Pavey
• Augusta Chronicle – French firm proposes used nuclear fuel solution – Sarita Chourey
• Aiken Leader – Faulty Plutonium “Glove Box” Received at $7-Billion MOX Plant Construction Project at SRS – Thomas Clements
• Wicked Local Plymouth – Nuke Matters: Radioactive waste storage at Pilgrim – why it is a concern – Meg Sheehan and Mary Lampert
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Science Daily – Investigating Ocean Currents Using Uranium-236 from the 1960s
• DOE – Join Us Wednesday: #AskEnergy with Secretary Chu &Senator Mark Udall – April Saylor
• Canada: Montreal Gazette – Letter: Uranium mining is highly regulated – Michael Binder, President, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
• Oceania: Aliran Monthly – The toxic waste that’s not in Australia’s backyard – Wendy Bacon
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Radioactive Waste a Risk to Locals: OPPN
• Europe: BBC News – Dalgety Bay radiation report: Up to two month delay
• Europe: Dunferline Press – Keep off Bay beach warning repeated – Gary Fitzpatrick
• Europe: East Kilbride News – Brown demands action over beach
• Europe: The Scotsman – First rail shipments of nuclear material from Dounreay to Sellafield take place – Alistair Munro
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Dounreay begins returning nuclear material by rail
• East Europe: News of Belarus – Japan shows interest in Belarus nuclear decontamination technologies