Sunday, February 19, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Editorial: We won’t do that–Talk of negotiating for benefits in return for nuke waste is laughable
• Prescott Daily Courier – Chino Valley entrepreneur still fighting uranium-mining ban – Mark Duncan
• Galesburg Register-Mail – Pass depleted uranium training bill – Bobby Schilling
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The Dept. of Energy’s Oak Ridge office named three new members to its environmental advisory board, bringing the total to 20. – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Here’s the latest news on ORNL’s Jaguar (soon-to-be-Titan) supercomputer – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Energy Secretary goes ‘virtual’ at nuclear-themed visit to ORNL
• Augusta Chronicle – Missed MOX deadline costly unless federal law is changed – Rob Pavey
• Danville Register & Bee – A daughter of Elliot Lake remembers – Inka Milewski
• Mother Jones – Nuclear Weapons on a Highway Near You – —By Adam Weinstein
• Oceania: SteelGuru – New South Wales moving ahead to overturn ban on uranium exploration

Saturday, February 18, 2012

• Environmental Law Prof Blog – Nuclear Waste Siting Processes: Looking for Volunteers – Emily Meazell
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford contractors reach safety milestone
• Deseret News – Battelle Energy may face funding cut–radiation exposure leads to DOE action
• KIFI Idaho Falls – INL Honors Employee Inventions – Jessica Crandall
• Canon City Daily Record – New Cotter document available for comment – Rachel Alexander
• Daily Camera – Study: Rocky Flats area still as contaminated with plutonium as 40 years ago – Laura Snider
• Amarillo Globe-News – Consolidation sends Pantex manager to Tenn. – Bobby Cervantes
• d leak – Brad Hicks
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 says max exposure equal to 10 chest X-rays – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Atomic products for the nuclear family – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Radiation and You’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – $1.3M for training clean energy workers – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE honors 8 for cleanup procurement – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – D’Agostino looks at mercury-laden Alpha-5 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Max exposure from Y-12′ s dirty respirators reported to be equal to 10 chest X-rays – Frank Munger
• Citizens Voice – Nuclear waste disposal must be a priority
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Have say on nuclear waste site

Friday, February 17, 2012

• State of Nevada – State of Nevada Comments on NRC’s Draft Report: Background and Preliminary Assumptions for an Environmental Impact Statement -Long-Term Waste Confidence Update (pdf-50K)
• Lincoln County Record – Blue Ribbon Report Changes Focus on U.S. Nuclear Waste – Dave Maxwell
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford vit plant schedule may be at risk, Energy secretary confirms – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford contractors reach safety milestone
• KIFI Idaho Falls – Battelle Energy Faces $500K Cut In Funding
• Albuquerque Journal – Chu Pessimistic About LANL Project – Michael Coleman and John Fleck
• Daily Camera – Letter: Rocky Flats should be left alone – Eva Dunlap
• Westword blog – Rocky Flats land swap: Department of Justice headed to court to lift roadblock – Patricia Calhoun
• Business Insider – Never-Before-Seen Film Of Scientists Constructing The Atomic Bomb In The Remote Desert Of Los Alamos – Dina Spector
• Knoxville News Sentinel – TVA laying off security force – Ed Marcum
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 equipment certified as clean turns up radioactive – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12/Pantex federal manager to relocate to Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Positive report on Bill Wilcox – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Secretary Chu’s testimony today – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Hot respirators at Y-12: equipment certified as clean found to be contaminated – Frank Munger
• Aiken Standard – Budget request for SRS positive
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Regulators seek fix for nuclear fuel problem – Alex Nixon
• NEI – DOE Loan Guarantee for Plant Vogtle Expansion on Sound Financial Footing
• NEI – Nuclear Industry Opposes Latest DOE Bid to Re-Impose Cleanup Tax in FY 2013 Budget
• DOE – New Licensing Agreement Opens Energy Patents to NGOs, Non-Profits – Michael Hess
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Monju fast breeder reactor’s sodium detector hits trouble
• Europe: Bloomberg – Cameron Signs Nuclear Deal With Sarkozy as Talks Focus on Syrian Violence – Robert Hutton and Gregory Viscusi

Thursday, February 16, 2012

• Carson Now – Former Nevada Gov. Richard Bryan Calls Rep. Mark Amodei’s Remarks On Yucca Mountain “Unfortunate” – Sean Whaley
• EIN Presswire – EM Press Release: Fourth Chapter of Hanford Story Released to Public
• KUOW NPR – Energy Secretary Says Hanford Plant Schedule Might Slip – Anna King
• Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) – Cantwell Presses Energy Secretary on Hanford Cleanup Deadlines, Federal Support
• Tri-City Herald – DOE clarifies local control of vit plant at Hanford – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: Watch DOE video explaining tank farms and vit plant
• Tri-City Herald – Ex-Hanford manager sentenced to 3 years, 10 months inP-card fraud – Annette Cary
• New Mexico Business Weekly – Four New Mexico firms vie for $200 million in LANL contracts – Kevin Robinson-Avila
• The Paducah Sun – INERTIA DOE, Heritage objections to tails plan don’t hold up
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Former TVA worker sentenced for forging work records
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Help, I’m in a reactor core and can’t get out – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Cold War Patriots Feb. 21 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The march toward K-27; DOE appears to be making a major move – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – Missed MOX deadline costly unless federal law is changed – Rob Pavey
• Danville Register & Bee – Letter: Keep the mining ban next year, too – Karen B. Maute
• DOE – Tribal Clean Energy Projects Awarded $6.5 Million from U.S. Energy Department
• DOE – Secretary Chu Highlights All-of-the-Above Energy Strategy in Senate Budget Testimony
• DOE – Energy Department and Department of Commerce Announce $1.3 Million for Clean Energy Workforce
• DOE – Chu Visits Site of America’s First New Nuclear Reactor in Three Decades
• DOE – Leaders of the Fuel Cell Pack – Sunita Satyapal
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee Page 9219 [FR DOC# 2012-3652]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation Pages 9219-9220 [FR DOC# 2012-3647]
• Europe: Irish Independent – Letter: Sellafield fears – Cllrs Ollan Herr and Michael Carr
• Europe: Whitehaven News – ‘Long-term benefits in return for waste’ – Andrew Clarke
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield bids to end limits for discharges – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Submarine N-waste for Sellafield? – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Public have their say on west Cumbria underground nuclear dump – Paul Crute
• Russia: Helsingin Sanomat – Russia to store miscellaneous waste in nuclear waste repository at Sosnovy Bor plant near St. Petersburg

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – DOE forms group to devise new nuclear waste plan – Steve Tetreault
• New York Times – Editorial: After Yucca
• The Hill blog – Energy Dept. working group to assess nuclear waste recommendations – Andrew Restuccia
• American Independent – Green groups sue U.S. government over proposed Rocky Flats land swap – Troy Hooper
• Los Alamos Monitor – LANL gets $239 million for cleanup
• Santa Fe Reporter – Who Killed Richard Burick? A simmering mystery raises questions about LANL’s past – Wren Abbott
• Senator Rand Paul, M.D. (R-KY) – Sen. Paul Demands Answers, Action on Depleted Uranium Supply in Western Kentucky
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Chu visits ORNL, experiences 3D nuclear – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – ORNL hopes to win advanced batteries research project – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Cuisinart in the sky? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Mason: ‘Overall, kind of flattish’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sludge project at Oak Ridge TRU site and U-233 planning in the works – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Energy Secretary Chu to visit ORNL today
• Oak Ridger – Lawmaker wants to inform others about ORNL work – Leean Tupper
• Oak Ridger – Some great things that happened in Oak Ridge in 2011: The DOE/ORNL edition – D. Ray Smith
• Chatham Star Tribune – Keep the ban on uranium mining – Karen B. Maute
• Danville Register & Bee – Letter: No reason to lift mining ban – Jesse Andrews
• Alliance for Nuclear Accountability – Questioning Obama’s nuclear agenda – Marylia Kelley
• Alliance for Nuclear Accountability – DOE PLAN SUPPORTS BUDGET- BUSTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS OVERKILL, – Underfunds Clean-Up, Despite A Few Bright Spots (pdf-140K)
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Social acceptance and the Blue Ribbon Commission: A positive experience in national nuclear waste discussions – Allison Macfarlane and John Kotek
• Mother Jones – Nuclear Truckers: Warheads on 18 Wheels – Adam Weinstein
• USGS – Nationwide Radium Testing of Groundwater Shows Most Susceptible Regions are Central U.S. and East Coast
• Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board – NOTICES Meetings: Board Meeting: March 7, 2012-Albuquerque, NM; The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board Will Meet To Discuss DOE Work on Criteria and Modeling for Generic Repository Geologies Page 8926 [FR DOC# 2012-3463]
• Oceania: Barrier Daily Truth – Radium Hill revisited – Paula Doran
• Oceania: West Australian – Mixed reaction to NSW uranium push – Adam Bennett, Lema Samandar and Miles Godfrey, AAP

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – $60 million of federal budget allotted for nuke waste – Steve Tetreault
• Tri-City Herald – Obama budget reduces money for vit plant – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – ‘Occupy Hanford’ rally coming April 15
• Aurora Sentinel – Bombing range oil bonanza or land mine? – Sara Castellanos
• Albuquerque Journal – Sandia Wins, LANL Loses In Fed Nuke Proposal – John Fleck and Michael Coleman
• Albuquerque Journal – Political Reaction to CMRR Decision – John Fleck
• CNBC – Beshear intercedes on behalf of Paducah plant
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Bill Wilcox hospitalized – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – HFIR funding request: $60M – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The backlog – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Corker & Alexander on UPF – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Vogtle to ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – How is DOE cutting costs? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – OREPA: Early Valentine to ‘Oak Ridge weaponeers’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UPF tops Oak Ridge budget news – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – CMRR vs. UPF – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More money for K-25 demolition – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Mason talks about ORNL outlook FY13 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Mixed views on UPF news – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ITER’s funding request bumped up to $150M – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Obama’s budget: Oak Ridge, NNSA hikes – Beverly Majors
• Augusta Chronicle – Major SRS projects preserved in 2013 energy budget request – Rob Pavey
• Aiken Standard – 2013 budget calls for continued MOX funding – Anna Dolianitis
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Social acceptance and the Blue Ribbon Commission: A positive experience in national nuclear waste discussions – Allison Macfarlane and John Kotek
• EnergyBoom – Obama’s Proposed 2013 Budget Allots $27 Billion for the Department of Energy – Joseph Baker
• Huffington Post – As if a Runaway Train, the Nuclear Juggernaut Roars On – Karl Grossman
• Nuclear Engineering – DOE and NRC request budgets for FY 2013
• POGO blog – Budget Breakdown: Feeding the Congressional Watchdogs – Michael Smallberg
• Tri-Valley CAREs – Nuclear Weapons Budget for FY2013 Released – Marylia Kelley
• Yahoo! News – Obama Proposes $27 Billion Budget for Department of Energy
• DOE – What Would the President’s Proposed 2013 Budget Mean to the Energy Department? – Ginny Simmons
• DOE:IG – Alleged Misuse of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Grant Funds by the Western Arizona Council of Governments
• NWTRB – Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request (pdf-122K)
• Oceania: ABC – NSW Government to overturn uranium ban – Lucy McNally
• Oceania: Daily Telegraph – Barry O’Farrell’s nuclear search U-turn – Andrew Clennell
• South Asia: The Hindu – Scouting for sites to store n-waste: AEC chief
• Europe: Staffordshire Sentinel – Clean-up of radioactive waste at city school cost £9,000

Monday, February 13, 2012

• Reno Gazette-Journal – Reno hearing today on old toxic mine at Yerington – Scott Sonner
• Deseret News – Letter: No nuclear waste in Utah – Merlin Ross
• OPB News – Small Radiation Leak Contained At Hanford – Anna King
• Seattle Times – Hanford cleanup budget proposed for $2.1 billion
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford Advisroy Board split on vit plant safety – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Manhattan Project guide now available
• Las Cruces Sun-News – Obama budget puts Los Alamos facility on hold – Jeri Clausing
• Chillicothe Gazette – 1.1 million cubic feet shipped from Piketon cleanup site
• Community Common – Sen. Brown: Budget Request Includes $150 Million to Advance Piketon’s American Centrifuge Project
• Huntington Herald Dispatch – Obama budget seeks Ohio uranium enrichment funds
• Platts – USEC centrifuge project would get $150 million in Obama’s budget – Herman Wang
• Portsmouth Daily Times – DOE, Fluor-B&W move massive amounts of material – Jason Lovins
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Giant Y-12 project in spotlight at budget time – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Energy Secretary Chu to visit ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA proposes acceleration of UPF construction; funding request boosted to $340M in FY2013 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE releases FY 2013 budget request – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Report: CMRR to be ‘indefinitely deferred’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE’s Eschenberg on likely EM funding for Oak Ridge — low to mid $400M – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UPF in the spotlight at budget time – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL supported GE’s hybrid water heater – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The $76M bridge at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Obama’s $11.5B request shows ‘strong support’ for nuclear security objectives
• Augusta Chronicle – Major SRS projects preserved in 2013 energy budget request – Rob Pavey
• The Hill blog – Energy Dept. nears approval of $8.3B nuke loan, setting up clash in Congress – Andrew Restuccia
• NASDAQ – US Energy Secretary Expects Southern Nuclear Loan ‘To Close and Go Forward’ – Ryan Tracy
• Aiken Standard – Editorial: MOX defunding bill a mistake
• DOE – Chu: President’s 2013 Energy Budget Makes Critical Investments in Innovation, Clean Energy, and National Security
• Canada: CNSC – Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission News Update
• Oceania: New Matilda – Ferguson’s Dumping Ground Fights Back – Natalie Wasley
• Europe: The Independent – Sellafield faces nuclear option as overspending threatens plant’s future – Steve Connor
• Europe: The Independent – Leading article: An unhappy record on reprocessing
• Europe: Times & Star – Public have their say on underground nuke dump – Paul Crute
• North Europe: YLE News – Posiva: No room for Fennovoima waste in nuclear cave – Wif Stenger
• East Europe: Barents Observer – Hungary source of radioactivity
• East Europe: ForUm – Ukrainian Green Party opposes construction of radioactive waste storage near Chornobyl