Sunday, April 07, 2013

• Tri-City Herald – Hanford’s Foldtrack gets second chance – Annette Cary
• LANL – Disposing of nuclear waste in a salt bed
• Knoxville News Sentinel – TVA, B&W poised to put small modular reactors to the test – Ed Marcum
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Despite new barriers, activists show up to protest Y-12 facility – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What’s wrong with this picture? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Despite new barriers, protesters show up at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Spent nuclear fuel reprocessing costs nearly triples, a blow to utilities – Shin Matsuura
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Fukushima tank springs major leak
• Asia-Pacific: Yomiuri Shimbun – Fukushima storage problems escalate
• South Asia: Times of India – International meet on uranium

Saturday, April 06, 2013

• Hanford Sentinel – Veterans Corner: Burn-pit registry for veterans – Joe Wright
• Veterans Today – All Nuclear Reactors Leak All of the Time – Bob Nichols
• KPLU News – Hanford waste shipment plan under debate in New Mexico – Elaine Baumgartel
• Salt Lake Tribune – No end to Nevada’s quest for water – Brian Moench
• Salt Lake Tribune – EnergySolutions sweetens sale for shareholders – Judy Fahys
• Los Alamos Daily Post – LANL’s 1663 Magazine Now Available – Carol A. Clark
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Union workers at Y-12 approve contract extension – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Peace group’s hearing about fence ends before it really gets started – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Protest against Uranium Processing Facility – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Wanna get a UPF contract? Check out this – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 workers ratify contract extension – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Peace group comes up empty; hearing on restraining order never really gets started – Frank Munger
• AP Google – Deadliest submarine disaster in US remembered
• Nature – Radioactive dumping: Nuclear-waste site geology is paramount – David Smythe
• Power Engineering – Washington: Spent Nuclear Fuel Management at the Savannah River Site
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – 120 tons of contaminated water leaks at Fukushima nuclear plant – Shunsuke Kimura
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – New Fukushima facility shrinks nuclear sludge
• Asia-Pacific: Nikkei – DJ: Contaminated Water At Fukushima Daiichi May Have Leaked Into Soil
• Asia-Pacific: Yomiuri Shimbun – 120 tons of N-water leaked at Fukushima
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Disposal of radioactive waste very problematic – Chen Yi-nan
• East Europe: IAEA – Last Highly Enriched Uranium Leaves Czech Republic
• East Europe: Washington Post – U.S. aids effort to remove bomb-grade uranium from Czech Republic – Joby Warrick

Friday, April 05, 2013

• Energy Daily – Reid staff exploring DOE slot for Jaczko? – Jeff Beattie
• Northwest Cable News – Unexpected gas releases from Hanford tank – Gary Chittim
• OPB News – Hanford Waste Plan Under Debate In New Mexico – Elaine Baumgartel
• Tri-City Herald – Cleanup requires balance of concern with confidence
• Tri-City Herald – DOE cuts furlough time for 1,800 at Hanford – Annette Cary
• Bloomberg – Entergy Says It Will Take Weeks for Restart of Arkansas Reactor – Mark Chediak
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Two bombs’ worth of HEU removed – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Deadline near for UCOR’s science mini-grants – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – GAO preparing decision on gigantic Y-12/Pantex contract award; recommendation by April 29 to address both protests – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Microwave casting not ready for prime time at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Federal judge to hear peace group’s Y-12 request – Frank Munger
• Government Accountability Project – Nuclear Oversight: Hanford Whistleblower Settles With Fluor: Daily Whistleblower News – Jack Davis
• NWTRB – U.S. NWTRB April Meeting at Hanford to Focus on – Waste Form and Disposal Issues (pdf-36K)
• Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board – NOTICES Extension of Hearing Record Closure Date Page 20625 [FR DOC# 2013-07969]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Records of Decisions: Spent Nuclear Fuel Management at the Savannah River Site Pages 20625-20628 [FR
  
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO makes room to store spent nuclear fuel from damaged Fukushima reactor building
• Asia-Pacific: Kyodo News – Cooling of Fukushima plant’s No. 3 spent fuel pool stops for 3 hours
• Asia-Pacific: Yomiuri Shimbun – N-waste transferred
• Central Asia: BBC News – Banking on nuclear peace in Kazakhstan – Rayhan Demytrie
• Central Asia: Xinhua News – Kazakhstan says not refusing to host nuclear fuel bank
• Europe: Reuters – Scotland’s Salmond would consider non-nuclear NATO bases – Daniel Bases
• East Europe: Bellona – ANALYSIS: Hungary eager to shed Russian-origin SNF: the story behind one damaged batch, and what to do with it – Andrei Ozharovsky, Maria Kaminskaya
• East Europe: Huffington Post – US helped Czech Republic remove nuclear material

Thursday, April 04, 2013

• Tri-City Herald – Hanford workers find time capsule – Annette Cary
• Idaho Press-Tribune – Federal, local officials dedicate new INL facility
• Albuquerque Journal – LANL decommissions computer
• LAMonitor – Next DOE chief faces dilemmas
• Odessa American – Senate bill calls for more radioactive waste into the Andrews facility – Emma Petty
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Nuclear Workers Organization Applauds DOL Site Matrix Review
• WCPN – Push For Increased Monitoring of Radioactive Waste In Landfills – Michelle Kanu
• Lexington Herald Leader – Paducah nuclear plant avoids layoffs for now
• West Kentucky Star – Honeywell Plant to Reopen in June
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Fires set on DOE lands to curb threat of future blazes – Bob Fowler
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Peace activists ask court to reopen protest area at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Berkeley materials scientist named ORNL’s deputy lab director for science and technology; will hold Governor’s Chair at UT – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Five-year, $25M-a-year funding renewal for ORNL’s BioEnergy Science Center – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Senate Energy Committee to consider Moniz – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Assessing impacts at Savannah River – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – American Centrifuge milestone – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What really happened? Oak Ridge historian tells story of the last days of World War II – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge critters: weirdly wonderful – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Peace group seeks restraining order; wants court to force Y-12 to reopen ‘public forum area’ – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – ORNL names new deputy director for science, technology – John Huotari
• Augusta Chronicle – Budget cuts for MOX plant feared – Rob Pavey
• POGO blog – Energy IG Pushes to Consolidate Nuclear Labs, Again – Lydia Dennett
• DOE – Energy Department Announces Five-Year Renewal of Funding for Bioenergy Research Centers
• DOE:EM – EM Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB) public meeting via webinar
• NRC Blog – Inspector General Report Presents Results of the NRC 2012 Safety Culture and Climate Survey – Stephen Dingbaum
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board Chairs Page 20311 [FR DOC# 2013-07831]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: State Energy Advisory Board; Meeting Pages 20311-20312 [FR DOC# 2013-07832]
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – U.S. says radioactive waste shipments safe, nixes full environmental assessment – Ian MacLeod
• Oceania: News Limited – NT land owners tour Spanish nuclear dump
• Asia-Pacific: YouTube – Fukushima nuclear waste
• Asia-Pacific: China Post – Premier vows new nuclear disposal site – Ann Yu
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Slipping up on nuclear waste issue costs Jiang – Chang Kuo-tsai
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan News – Premier reiterates promise of end to Lanyu nuclear waste storage
• Central Asia: CA-News – Creation of nuclear fuel bank in Kazakhstan doesn’t pose threat of terrorist attacks, Foreign Minister says
• Europe: AFP Google – Cameron insists UK still needs nuclear missiles
• Europe: Galloway News – Depleted uranium concerns taken to Scottish Parliament – Stuart Gillespie
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Focus on Sellafield for NDA
• Russia: Barents Observer – Nuclear watchdog expects more secret voyages – Thomas Nilsen
• Russia: Bellona – Russia still keeping Norway in the dark about secret radwaste shipments to Murmansk – Charles Digges

Wednesday, April 03, 2013

• New York Times – Treatment Plant for Waste in Nuclear Cleanup Has Design Flaws, Panel Says – Matthew L. Wald
• Tri-City Herald – Wyden’s concerns renewed over Hanford tank waste explosions – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Fluor Hanford settles lawsuit for $1.1M – Annette Cary
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Man crashes into historic gatehouse in Oak Ridge
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Expand the SNS? That’s a billion-dollar question – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – DOE advisory panel supports $1 billion expansion at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Sign, sign, everywhere a sign . . . ‘ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Newly assigned federal judge keeps May 7 trial date for Y-12 protesters – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Crackdown at Bear Creek Road – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Inside the fence and (apparently) staying there – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge museum honored for Westcott exhibit – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ready, set, burn – Frank Munger
• Aiken Standard – SRS exploring uses for natural gas, spent nuclear fuel
• DOE – DOE Names Mark A. Gabriel as New Western Area Power Administration Administrator
• DOE – 10 Questions for a Materials Scientist: Mr. Rare Earth — Dr. Karl A. Gschneidner, Jr. – Rebecca Matulka
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Lost Creek ISR, LLC, Lost Creek Uranium In-Situ Recovery Project, Sweetwater County, Wyoming
  
• Canada: World Nuclear News – Quebec imposes uranium moratorium
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan News – No end in sight to nuclear waste disposal problem: activists
• Europe: Daily Mail – Soldier dying after being exposed to uranium in Iraq must raise £110,000 for treatment because the NHS can’t help her – Anna Hodgekiss
• East Europe: Sofia News Agency – EC Clears Plan for Disposal of Radioactive Waste from Decommissioning of Kozloduy NPP Units
• Russia: Barents Observer – Secret nuclear cargo shipped around Norway – Thomas Nilsen

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

• AP Google – Nuclear board warns of Hanford tank explosion risk – Shannon Dininny
• Tri-City Herald – Nuclear board warns of Hanford tank explosion risk – Shannon Dininny
• Tri-City Herald – DOE counterintelligence Richland office to close – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Bechtel National gives up its incentive pay for second half of 2012 – Annette Cary
• Knoxville News Sentinel – TVA does re-check at Watts Bar – Ed Marcum
• Knoxville News Sentinel – DOE advisory panel supports $1 billion expansion at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – State works with Y-12 to develop supply network for UPF – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Incinerator operator seeks more foreign waste – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA gave thumbs up to contract extension – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Road map for completing the cleanup – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Tentative agreement on contract extension for Y-12’s hourly workers; 14-month deal includes 2 1/2 percent wage hike – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – So, what did DOE’s advisory committee say about the High Flux Isotope Reactor? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – State gets involved in UPF development; wants to create lasting impacts from mega-sized project – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – $95K temporary fence in place at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Duxbury Reporter – Law firm appeals to state for access to Pilgrim dry cask plans – Frank Mand
• Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – The Sunflower: Issue #189 – April 2013
• Oceania: ABC – Federal approval for WA’s first uranium mine
• Russia: UPI – Shipyard scrapping last Soviet nuclear sub

Monday, April 01, 2013

• Tri-City Herald – PNNL research tests BPA risks – Annette Cary
• Arizona Republic – Grand Canyon uranium mine draws ire – Brandon Loomis
• Daily Camera – Kristen Iversen: Is Rocky Flats contamination being ignored – Kristen Iversen
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – WIPP rail spur could come back to life after 30 years – Stella Davis
• American Recycler – DOE proposes recycling metal from nuclear facilities – Mark Henricks
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – Weekend protest likely last by plant entrance in Oak Ridge
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Incinerator operator seeks more foreign waste – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Is there another billion dollars for SNS? Basic Energy Sciences panel supports a Second Target Station – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Workers erect fence around Y-12 area once used for protests – John Huotari
• Oak Ridger – Y-12 Historian: Union Carbide’s Last 20 Years in Oak Ridge – part 4 – D. Ray Smith
• Duxbury Reporter – Nuclear plant performance meeting to be followed by dry cask storage discussion – Frank Mand
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Huffington Post – The Three Nuclear Poisons – David Loy
• ThomasNet Industrial News Room – Symposium covers effects of radiation on nuclear materials.
• DOE:NNSS – OneVoice, April 2013
• Canada: Hill Times – Former soldiers say depleted uranium has left them ill, but report, experts say there’s no link – Jessica Bruno
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – Obama’s nuclear policy a big disappointment – Hugh White
• Europe: BBC News – Berkshire protest against Trident nuclear weapons system