Sunday, February 17, 2013

• Seattle Times – Hanford N-waste leak is detected – Hal Bernton
• Albuquerque Journal – Nuclear agency back on federal ‘high-risk’ list – John Fleck
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – Research center keeps tabs on radiation levels of WIPP employees, neighbors – Natalie Gross
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – Carlsbad’s water future lies in Lea County – Stella Davis
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – TRU waste shipments to resume in FY 2014; processing continues at Oak Ridge plant – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UPF Construction Opportunities Conference Feb. 28 – Frank Munger
• Maryville Daily Times – The Why of the Y-12 Three – Wes Wade
• Augusta Chronicle – Too much is at stake to throw MOX nuclear project into jeopardy – Clint Wolfe, Ph.D.
• Aiken Standard – SRS makes significant progress in disposing of TRU waste – Mike Gellatly
• Wicked Local Hingham – HINGHAM LETTER: Recycling nuclear waste, a bad idea – Pat Granahan
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Only 23% of homes decontaminated

Saturday, February 16, 2013

• Washoe County Republican Committee – Feds to use revised process to replace Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site
• State of Washington – Governor Inslee’s statement on news of Hanford leak
• State of Washington – Attorney General Bob Ferguson urges action to address leaking tanks
• Bloomberg – Leaky Tank at Hanford Nuclear Site Roils Waste Cleanup – Alison Vekshin & Jim Snyder
• Crosscut Seattle – Inslee proclaims no tolerance for Hanford leaks – John Stang
• Enformable – Washington Governor confirms radioactive waste leaking from underground tanks at Hanford Nuclear Reservation – Lucas W Hixson
• Huffington Post – Hanford Nuclear Tank Leaking Radioactive Waste – Shannon Dininny and Mike Baker
• KNDO/KNDU – Locals React to Leaking Tank Announcement
• KXLY Spokane – Alarming leak announced at Hanford Nuclear Reservation – Annie Bishop
• Northwest Public Radio – Possible Leak At Hanford Nuclear Reservation – Anna King
• OPB News – Apparent Hanford Leak Raises New Questions About Buried Tanks – Austin Jenkins
• OPB News – There’s Little Space To Pump Out Hanford’s Possible Leaking Tank – Anna King
• Seattle Times – Hanford N-waste leak is detected – Hal Bernton
• Spokesman-Review – Guest opinion: Hanford cleanup merits urgency – Nils J. Diaz
• Spokesman-Review – New Hanford leak found–There is no immediate health risk, officials say – Jim Camden
• Tri-City Herald – Single-shell tank at Hanford found to be leaking waste – Annette Cary
• Bismarck Tribune – North Dakota takes slow, historic step toward radioactive waste – Lauren Donovan
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Jackie Kennedy in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Niemeyer joins DeNuke – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 25th year of anti-nukes partnership with Japan – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA won’t say what’s been removed from UPF work scope to deal with costly redesign – Frank Munger

Friday, February 15, 2013

• AP Google – Hanford nuclear tank in Wash. is leaking liquids – Shannon Dininny and Mike Baker
• Seattle Times blog – DOE says radioactive waste leaking from Hanford tank – Hal Bernton
• Spokesman-Review – New leak discovered at Hanford – Jim Camden
• Tri-City Herald – Inslee: Hanford tank leaking radioactive waste – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – At Hanford, 1,000 workers would face 6 weeks unpaid time if federal cuts happen, Democrats say – Annette Cary
• Telluride Daily Planet – Department of Energy to release new uranium leasing program study – Heather Sackett
• Columbus Dispatch – Short takes: Radioactive waste needs scrutiny
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Report: Sequestration would have big impact in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sundquist at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Preservation update: 8 firms show interest in K-25 museum, site design – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Meteor strike 60 miles from Russian nukes facility – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Continuing concerns’ on Los Alamos cyber security – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 getting started on life-extension project for W78/88 nuclear warheads – Frank Munger
• WBIR-TV – Automatic spending cuts would impact ORNL, Y-12 – Ashley Izbicki
• Augusta Chronicle – GAO says cost of MOX plant rises by $2 billion – Rob Pavey
• Aiken Standard – Report: Spent fuel at SRS needs attention – Mike Gellatly
• Wicked Local Plymouth – NUKE MATTERS: Long-term nuclear waste storage at Pilgrim – Genevieve Byrne and Meg Sheehan, Cape Cod Bay Watch
• Greenpeace International – Ending the nuclear weapons age – Jen Maman and Aaron Gray-Block
• Power Engineering – Bill Gates-backed company looks to turn nuclear waste into power
• World Nuclear News – Obama neglects nuclear in state of the union
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – New N-waste shipment set to leave Scrabster
• Europe: Times & Star – Search for an underground radioactive store is over, says council leader
• Russia: Sometimes-Interesting – The Most Contaminated Place on Earth: Chelyabinsk-40

Thursday, February 14, 2013

• DOE:NNSA Nevada Site Office – Nevada National Security Site Final Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS)
• Reno News & Review – Soft sell: Obama tries a new approach to nuclear waste storage – Dennis Myers
• Tri-City Herald – Former head of NRC criticizes vit plant red tape – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Oregon senator to visit Hanford on Tuesday
• Tri-City Herald – Vit plant official claims retaliation in lawsuit – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – K East Reactor to be in surveillance mode to await cocooning – Annette Cary
• Albuquerque Journal – LANL managers: Job cuts not likely – John Fleck
• Casper Star-Tribune – Study: Wyoming’s energy future depends on conversion – Kyle Roerink
• HNN Huntingtonnews – 35 Years for Embarrassing the Guards? Intervenors Face Decades in Prison for Tying “Crime Scene” Tape on H-Bomb Factory – John LaForge
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – GAO reports of interest – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Federal Women’s Workshop in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Rep. Fleischmann calls sequestration ‘a bad plan from the beginning’; work in Oak Ridge ‘of utmost importance’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORAU &ORNL offer ‘Science Saturdays’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Shutting down HFIR wouldn’t save much money, ORNL director says – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – New Oak Ridge security contractor to take over March 24; no protests on award – Frank Munger
• Mountain Xpress – March 2 presentation on uranium and nuclear weapons – David Forbes
• Oak Ridge Today – Spending cuts could lead to Y-12 furloughs, ORNL reactor shutdown – John Huotari
• WFXG – DOE wants your opinion on the closure of a tank at SRS
• Aiken Leader – GAO Confirms Massive $2 Billion Cost Increase for Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Plant at Savannah River Site – NNSA Outed by GAO – Thomas Clements
• All Things Nuclear – State of the Union Gives Short Shrift to U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy – Lisbeth Gronlund
• Energy Daily – Federal payments highlight rising nuke waste liability costs
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Portsmouth
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico
  
• South Asia: Frontier Post – India: Toxic hotspot of uranium & N-wastes – Zaheerul Hassan
• Europe: Borehamwood & Elstree Times – Sellafield legacy cost still rising
• Europe: in-Cumbria – County council vote ‘called in’ for challenge – Alan Irving
• Europe: in-Cumbria – ‘Complacency and negligence’ blamed for radiation blunder
• Europe: in-Cumbria – Talks on future of nuclear waste – Alan Irving
• Europe: Financial Times – Nuclear reactors: from waste to fuel – Sylvia Pfeifer
• Europe: Forest and Wye Today – Nuclear waste – Robin Larkham
• Europe: New Scientist – Nuclear waste: too hot to handle?
• Europe: Times & Star – ‘We’re in limbo’ says Copeland council leader after nuclear waste meeting with minister – Phil Coleman
• Europe: Whitehaven News – ‘We’re in limbo’ says Copeland council leader after nuclear waste meeting with minister – Phil Coleman
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Talks on future of nuclear waste – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Copeland politicians meet government ministers to discuss future for nuclear waste
• East Europe: Ukrainian Journal – National security secretary calls for new nuclear waste facility

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

• Tri-City Herald – Smoke at Hanford tank farm prompts evacuation
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford Advisory Board members say better public outreach may answer DOE concerns – Annette Cary
• Bismarck Tribune – Radioactive waste may be buried – Lauren Donovan
• Business First of Columbus – Ohio proposing tighter restrictions on radioactive fracking fluids – Evan Weese
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Labor officials hold meetings for nuclear workers
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Report: Sequestration would shut down ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor and other research facilities – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – House Appropriations Democrats say sequestration would require 700-1,000 furloughs at Y-12 for six months –
• Augusta Chronicle – Report cites ‘vulnerabilities’ of nuclear fuel stored at SRS – Rob Pavey
• Augusta Chronicle – Canada’s high-level nuclear waste could be trucked to SRS – Rob Pavey
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Uranium mining promises better economic future – Cynthia Tucker Blunt
• Chatham Star Tribune – Uranium mining lands Southside on list of endangered places – Tim Davis
• Nuclear Street – NEI Video Explains Uranium Mining
• Virginian Pilot – Anti-uranium groups launch radio ad opposing mining – Julian Walker
• Energy Department – NOTICES Notice of Availability of Draft Section 3116 Basis for Determination for Closure of H Tank Farm at the Savannah River Site Pages 10163-10164 [FR DOC# 2013-03305]
• Europe: BBC News – Cumbria ruled out of current nuclear waste dump plans
• Europe: PennEnergy – Civilian nuclear waste is easier to deal with; Letters
• Russia: Science Daily – Mix Uranium from Russian Nuclear Weapons With Norwegian Rock, Researcher Says
• South Africa: IOL – RBM to bury its radioactive headache

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

• McMinnville News-Register – Oregon State University to test new nuclear energy technology
• Northwest News Network – Bipartisan Group Plans Overhaul For Radioactive Waste Disposal – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – National Guard armory proposed on Hanford land – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford Advisory Board members say better public outreach may answer DOE concerns – Annette Cary
• Energy Daily – NNSA: Lapse on MOX plant changes ‘a bureaucratic issue’
• Knoxville News Sentinel – The List: UT bringing significant funds into Tennessee with NSF grants
• Knoxville News Sentinel – 100 tons of Germany’s radioactive waste burned at Oak Ridge facility – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 contractor slapped for UPF, microwave problems – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Report: Liquid hot stuff with HEU could be trucked from Canada to Savannah River – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Rev. Billy Graham visits the Atomic City (1970) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – State’s perspective on burning German waste – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s current boss tells employees: ‘Be patient’ during stalled contractor transition and protests – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Security wasn’t the only problem; B&W Y-12 marked down for costly ($539M) UPF design failure, microwave woes – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Y-12: Oak Ridge treasure — national resource/Union Carbide’s first 20 years in nuclear energy (Y-12 milestones) – D. Ray Smith
• Enformable – The State of the Nuclear Union – Lucas W Hixson
• EurekAlert – Fallout from nuclear testing shows that the Achilles tendon can’t heal itself
• Huffington Post – Climate Change: No Breakthroughs Needed, Mr. President – Amory Lovins with Thomas Dinwoodie
• IEEE Spectrum – Who After Chu? – Bill Sweet
• Washington Post – Q&A: Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska on her ’20/20′ vision for energy policy – Steven Mufson
• Energy Department – NOTICES DOE Response to Recommendation 2012-2 of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Hanford Tank Farms Flammable Gas Safety Strategy; Correction Page 9902 [FR DOC# 2013-03161]
• South America: Tico Times – Costa Rica signs letter supporting ban on nuclear weapons
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – Chalk River’s spent fuel rods to be shipped to U.S – Ian MacLeod
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – Sellafield to be prosecuted for nuclear waste error
• North Europe: Epoch Times – Sweden’s Planned Nuclear Waste Storage Faces Problems – Barbro Plogander
• Russia: BarentsObserver – Nuclear waste vessel without work – Thomas Nilsen

Monday, February 11, 2013

• Tri-City Herald – Last furnace at chemical depot finishes work
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Oak Ridge meetings to discuss benefits for sick nuclear workers – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 100 tons of German rad waste burned at EnergySolutions plant in Oak Ridge; ash being packaged for return – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Obama to push for cuts in nuclear arsenal; not enough, peace group states – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Classification math – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Department of Labor has meetings Wednesday for nuclear weapons workers
• Augusta Chronicle – Transuranic waste: flotsam and jetsam of the nuclear age – Rob Pavey
• Greenville News – Solution to nuclear waste remains in limbo – Eric Connor
• Greenville News – Political failure burdens region with nuclear waste – Eric Connor
• Greenville News – State leaders want Nevada nuclear waste option back on table – Eric Connor
• Rock Hill Herald – Editorial: Keep waste out of S.C.
• Gazette-Virginian – Lawmakers to governor: Don’t give in to uranium
• Forbes – Does The DoD Want To Kill Us All With Radioactive Nuclear Scrap Metal? No, No Not Really – Tim Worstall
• Pacific Free Press – Radiation Coverups Theirs and Ours: Los Alamos, Ft. Calhoun, Fukushima, TSA – Corbett Report
• Platts blog – The ultimate sendoff for Steven Chu: The Onion pokes fun at him – Derek Sands
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• DOE – Office of Nuclear Energy Launches New Website – Assistant Secretary Lyons
• Energy Department – NOTICES Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000; Revision to the List of Covered Facilities by removing the designation of the Bridgeport Brass facility in Adrian, Michigan Page 9678 [FR DOC# 2013-03022]
• Canada: Bullet News Huron – Underground storage of nuclear waste isn’t the answer, speaker argues – Heather Boa
• Canada: National Post – Bomb-grade uranium to be shipped secretly from Chalk River, Ontario nuclear plant to U.S. – Ian MacLeod
• Canada: Yahoo! News Canada blog – Plan in works to ship bomb-grade uranium from Ontario to U.S. in secret truck convoys – Steve Mertl
• Europe: Isle of Man Today – Sellafield’s nuclear waste error
• East Europe: publics.bg – New Radioactive Waste Storage Ready by 2015
• Middle East: All Things Nuclear – Timeline for an Iranian Solid-fuel ICBM? – David Wright