Sunday, October 02, 2011
- St. George Daily Spectrum – Government extends public comment period on nuclear site
- Beaufort Observer – Letter: An alternative – Joe DeMare
- OPB News – Nuclear relic – Joseph Ditzler
- Idaho Statesman – Allgood: Eastern Idaho leads in nuclear research – Lane Allgood
- Twin Falls Times-News – Letter: An Idea for Storing Nuclear Waste – Jim Banholzer
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Way back when: 1947 construction of Bailey Bridge in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – In Czech: ORNL part of nuclear R&D pact – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Will Y-12’s union retirees join the one-day-a-week crowd? – Frank Munger
- Europe: NW Evening Mail – Fact-finding mission to see radioactive waste dumps
Saturday, October 01, 2011
- Environment News Service – Polluting Uranium Mine on Spokane Tribal Land to Be Cleaned
- The Spokesman-Review – Feds, Midnite Mine operators reach deal on cleanup – Becky Kramer
- KNDO/KNDU – PNNL technology detects radioactive materials from the sky – Chloe Beardsley
- KIFI Idaho Falls – Rare Inside Look At Top Secret INL Cyber Security – Caleb James
- Twin Falls Times-News – Idaho DEQ Revises its Explanation on Cleanup Agreements
- Denver Post – Property swap aims to link Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge with mountains – Bruce Finley
- Denver Post – Judge: Cotter must remove toxic water in mine along creek
- AP Google – Los Alamos under renewed environmental scrutiny – Jeri Clausing
- Columbus Dispatch – Uranium-enrichment plant in jeopardy – Jessica Wehrman
- Chillicothe Gazette – USEC takes final steps to transfer Piketon plant back to feds
- Chillicothe Gazette – Possible centrifuge layoffs announced – Chris Balusik
- Knoxville News Sentinel – Manhattan Project items up for sale: copper is key – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel – USEC may cut 190 Oak Ridge jobs
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL shares 3 ARPA-E awards – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 1,500+ on Oak Ridge summer tours – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Manhattan Project artifacts up for sale; but history’s not the big attraction – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 136 B&W employees get WARN notices tied to American Centrifuge project – Frank Munger
Friday, September 30, 2011
- Legal Documents
- NRC – MEMORANDUM AND ORDER (Suspending Adjudicatory Proceeding) (pdf-133K)
- News
- Denver Post – District court: Regulators were correct in ordering Cotter to clean up uranium mine near Ralston Creek – Bruce Finley
- AFP Google – Major US atom-smasher closes after 25 years
- BBC News – Tevatron atom smasher shuts after more than 25 years – Paul Rincon
- Columbus Dispatch – USEC prepares for possible layoffs – Jessica Wehrman
- Chillicothe Gazette – USEC Inc. to issue 60-day layoff notices
- The Hill – GOP senator: Energy Dept. dragging feet on uranium plant loan guarantee – Ben Geman
- MarketWatch – USEC Extends Investment in American Centrifuge Plant through October at Reduced Spending Rate
- Platts – Key investors to stick with American Centrifuge Plant another month: USEC – Herman Wang
- Politico – John Boehner pushes for $2B DOE loan guarantee – Darius Dixon
- World Nuclear News – US diffusion plant handover plans approved
- Knoxville News Sentinel – When the world is falling apart, hazards aplenty, and your smart phone won’t help – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – USEC issues 190 warn notices in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The biggest so far – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – State, DOE discussing TRU milestones – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Tea time in the Atomic City – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – USEC extends but scales down American Centrifuge investment, prepares for demobilization – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 12 TRU shipments from Oak Ridge . . . and then – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12, UT agree to share personnel – Frank Munger
- WVLT – K-33 building at Oak Ridge, demolished
- Global Security Newswire – Senior U.S. Official Denies Talk of Foreign Nuclear Waste Site in Mongolia – Elaine M. Grossman
- Neutron Economy blog – Dissecting the BRC report, Part II: Where interim storage falls short – Steve
- BRC – BRC Lists Agenda & Conference Line Information for Boston Meeting
- DOE – Energy Department Finalizes $1.2 Billion Loan Guarantee to Support California Solar Generation
- DOE – Energy Department Finalizes Loan Guarantee for Transformational Rooftop Solar Project
- DOE – Energy Department Finalizes $646 Million Loan Guarantee to Support Innovative Solar Power Plant
- DOE – Geobacter: The Junk Food Connoisseurs of the Bacterial Kingdom
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Regulatory Issue Summaries; Requests for Comments: Policy Regarding Submittal of Amendments for Processing of Equivalent Feed at Licensed Uranium Recovery Facilities Pages 60941-60945 [FR DOC# 2011-25243]
- Oceania: ABC – Mutton bird radiation warning
- Europe: BBC News – Dounreay shellfish tests reduced
- Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Dounreay dump just perfect for the birds – Iain Grant
- East Europe: Nature – Future of Chernobyl health studies in doubt – Declan Butler
- East Europe: Prague Daily Monitor – Radiation at Prague playground caused by small metal rod
Thursday, September 29, 2011
- Las Vegas Review-Journal – Comment period for environmental impact statement extended – Keith Rogers
- Nevada News Bureau – Draft Plan For Future of Former Nevada Test Site Questioned At DOE Public Hearing – Sean Whaley
- UPI – Cleanup approved for Navajo uranium mine
- Hanford News – Over 1,000 workers face final Hanford work day
- Reuters – Idaho laboratory analyzed Stuxnet computer virus – Tabassum Zakaria
- Billings Gazette – Wyoming has most proposed uranium projects in US
- Water World – Cotter Ordered to Build Bypass Pipeline at its Schwartzwalder Mine
- Carlsbad Current-Argus – Community reacts to WIPP layoff announcement – Tom Schneider
- Water World – Cotter Ordered to Build Bypass Pipeline at its Schwartzwalder Mine
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – John Stewart named Y-12 nuclear safety chief – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – When the world is falling apart, hazards aplenty, and your smart phone won’t help – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – One-day-a-week jobs (for retirees) at Y-12 – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nuke milestone: 10,000th shipment to WIPP – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Brooks recalls earlier look at Y-12/Pantex – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘His life was absolutely saved by Oak Ridge’ – Frank Munger
- Augusta Chronicle – Savannah River Site celebrates completed reactor projects, cleanup funded by Recovery Act – Rob Pavey
- DC Bureau – Savannah River Site Gets Nuclear Waste – National Academy of Sciences Draft Report Confirms Nuclear Weapons Testing Not Needed – Susan Trento
- DOE – Energy Department Finalizes $132 Million Loan Guarantee to Support the Abengoa Bioenergy Project
- DOE – Obama Administration Announces $12 Million i6 Green Investment to Promote Clean Energy Innovation and Job Creation
- DOE – Department of Energy Awards $156 Million for Groundbreaking Energy Research Projects
- EPA – EPA announces plan to clean up largest abandoned uranium mine on the Navajo Nation
- NAS – Project Update: – Uranium Mining in Virginia
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact: Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for a License Amendment to Materials License No. SNM-33; Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC, Hematite Decommissioning Project, Hematite, MO Pages 60557-60559 [FR DOC# 2011-25063]
- Europe: Whitehaven News – Cumbrian nuclear expert’s death due to asbestos
- Europe: Whitehaven News – Nuclear new-build plans ‘still on track’ – Alan Irving
- Europe: Whitehaven News – Anti-nuclear campaigner’s claim blasted by Furness group
- Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield Stories
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
- State of Nevada – Letter from Governor Brian Sandoval to Energy Secretary Steven Chu Regarding Routing of Low-Level and Mixed Hazardous & Low-Level Waste Shipments to the Nevada National Security Site (pdf-54K)
- Tri-City Herald – Can DOE health team put vit plant on right track?
- Carlsbad Current-Argus – Senators seeking more money for WIPP
- KOAT Albuquerque – Bingaman, Udall Urge More WIPP Funding
- Chattanooga Times Free Press – Regulators to discuss Browns Ferry findings – Pam Sohn
- Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Oak Ridge wants to scrap consolidation
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Brooks recalls earlier look at Y-12/Pantex – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘His life was absolutely saved by Oak Ridge’ – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nuke weapons plant’s research may be key to light & strong body armor – Frank Munger
- DOE – Energy Department Finalizes $337 Million Loan Guarantee to Mesquite Solar 1 for Innovative Solar Power Plant
- DOE – Energy Department Finalizes $737 Million Loan Guarantee to Tonopah Solar Energy for Nevada Project
- DOE – The Department of Energy Announces Major Cold War Legacy Waste Cleanup Milestone
- NRC – NRC Approves USEC’S Plan to Return Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Enrichment Plant to Department of Energy
- Energy Department – NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor Pages 60017-60020 [FR DOC# 2011-24947]
- Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Pages 60011-60012 [FR DOC# 2011-24926]
- Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings:State Energy Advisory Board (STEAB) Page 60012 [FR DOC# 2011-24928]
- Oceania: ABC blog – When it comes to nuclear waste….whose backyard is best? – Michaela Andreyev
- Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Dump firm in pledge to use Caithness workers – Iain Grant
- Russia: Bellona – International investigation targets Russian weapons-grade uranium smuggling – Charles Digges
- South Africa: Ninemsn – Nuclear waste transport opposed in SA
- Las Vegas Review-Journal – Test site claimants depicted as horror movie characters in training manual – Keith Rogers
- The Oregonian – When the issue was nuclear, at least it was clear – David Sarasohn
- The Oregonian – Federal court clears the way for $30 million investment to rescue Corvallis-based NuScale Power – Mike Rogoway
- East Oregonian – Nuclear Regulatory Commission begins inspecting Hanford
- Tri-City Herald – NUCLEAR: Richland plant supplying power again – Annette Cary
- Tri-City Herald – Meetings today about Richland nuclear plant
- Tri-City Herald – DOE seeks way to streamline Hanford land transfers – Annette Cary
- Tri-City Herald – Hanford investment fund grants will help bring more jobs, tourism – Loretto J. Hulse
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Labor Dept. manual outrages sick worker advocates – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE releases energy technology review – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Day of Remembrance for sick nuke workers – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Peace group asks Duncan to help curb spending on UPF, other weapons projects – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Dade W. Moeller (1927-2011) – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oct. 12-14 at ORNL, a major gathering on cyber security and information intelligence – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Slow moving on DOE’s Recovery Act-funded block grants; Oak Ridge has minimal comment – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oh, to be young, talented and . . . funded – Frank Munger
- Virginian-Pilot – Study: Pittsylvania uranium site prone to floods – Laurence Hammack
- WSLS – Pittsylvania uranium site prone to flooding, according to study – Erin Barnett
- AP Google – Atomic worker advocates aghast at names in manual – Dan Sewell
- DOE – Department of Energy Awards $2 Million for National University Clean Energy Business Challenge to Jump Start Young Entrepreneurship
- DOE – Energy Department Awards $8.4 Million for Projects to Improve Engine and Powertrain Efficiency
- DOE – Department of Energy Releases Inaugural Quadrennial Technology Review Report
- NWTRB – Calendar–Spring Board Meeting
- Defense Department – NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement For Divert Activities and Exercises, Guam and Commomwealth of The Northern Mariana Islands Pages 59664-59665 [FR DOC# 2011-24754]
- Environmental Protection Agency – NOTICES Meetings: Human Studies Review Board (HSRB); Notification of a Public Meeting Pages 59697-59699 [FR DOC# 2011-24816]
- Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Final Effect of Designation of a Class of Employees for Addition to the Special Exposure Cohort, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Pages 59701-59702 [FR DOC# 2011-24751]
- Canada: Vancouver Sun – Radioactive spill ship in legal limbo off North Vancouver – James Weldon
- Oceania: ABC – Consultation promised on nuclear waste transport
- Oceania: ABC blog – Remembering Maralinga – Eoin Cameron
- Oceania: UN News Centre – Marshall Islands calls on UN to acknowledge past history on nuclear testing
- Oceania: Radio New Zealand – Marshall Islands reminds UN of nuclear responsibilities
- East Europe: AP Google – AP Exclusive: Officials say crime ring has uranium – Desmond Butler
- East Europe: Slovak Spectator – US and Slovak experts meet to counter nuclear trafficking
- South Africa: BusinessLIVE – Radioactivity will dwarf Acid Mine Drainage in future
Monday, September 26, 2011
- Spokesman Review blog – Hanford kickbacks lead to $1.5M deal
- Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 eliminates ‘Just In Case’ facility – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A Mongolian supercomputer – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Just In Case’: Another Cold War story – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – City of Oak Ridge has a few suggestions for NNSA, beginning with ‘Don’t do it’ – Frank Munger
- DOE – Thirteen Department of Energy Researchers Honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
- DOE:IG – Fixed Monthly Living Expense Payments at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, INS-L-11-05
- GAO – Excess Uranium Inventories: Clarifying DOE’s Disposition Options Could Help Avoid Further Legal Violations, GAO-11-846
- NRC – NRC Meetings in Maryland, Illinois and California to Discuss Long-Term Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
- Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico Pages 59392-59393 [FR DOC# 2011-24629]
- Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Nevada Page 59393 [FR DOC# 2011-24616]
- Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation Pages 59393-59394 [FR DOC# 2011-24614]
- Europe: Reuters – EDF Energy shuts down Hartlepool reactor to refuel – Karolin Schaps
- East Europe: AP Google – US and Ukraine sign deal to remove uranium – Desmond Butler