Sunday, June 10, 2012

• truth-out – Court Says Regulators Must Evaluate Dangers of Nuclear Waste – Gregg Levine
• Broomfield Enterprise – On History: Rocky Flats gets its own museum – Carol Turner
• Montrose Daily Press – Defense bill may study uranium mine cleanup strategies – Dick Kamp
• Casper Tribune – New Mexico wants nuclear waste repository – Peter R. Davis
• New Ulm Journal – A problem in need of a permanent solution
• Augusta Chronicle – Keep MOX project’s cost in perspectiveBy Clint Wolfe, Ph.D.

Saturday, June 09, 2012

• IEEE Spectrum – Court Decision Heightens Pressure for U.S. Nuclear Waste Solution – Bill Sweet
• Los Angeles Times – Nuclear panel must weigh risks of long-term storage, court rules – Ralph Vartabedian and Neela Banerjee
• New York Times – Court Forces a Rethinking of Nuclear Fuel Storage – Matthew L. Wald
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford board wants to stop seeking alternative waste disposal methods – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – More settlements reached in alleged Hanford kickbacks – Annette Cary
• Idaho Press-Tribune – Women of INL reflect on challenges, progress – Sven Berg
• Post-Bulletin – Red Wing, others hail decision to halt plans for nuclear waste storage
• St. Paul Pioneer Press – Minnesota communities hail decision halting plans for nuclear waste storage – Leslie Brooks Suzukamo
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Approaching a U-233 milestone – Frank Munger
• Aiken Leader – SRS Historic Achievement in Transporting Nuclear Waste to New Mexico
• Power Engineering – A. G. Schneiderman Wins Landmark Victory in Challenge to Continued Storage of Nuclear Waste at Power Generating Stations Across the Country
• Waterford.Patch – Court Rules Closed Plants Can Hold Nuclear Waste For 30 Years, Not 60 – Paul Petrone
• Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-MA) – Markey Statement on Court Ruling Vacating NRC Waste Disposal Decision – .
• Europe: Washington Post blog – How hard is it to dismantle 150 nuclear reactors? Europe’s about to find out. – Brad Plumer

Friday, June 08, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Court throws out nuke waste storage rule – Steve Tetreault
• AP Google – Appeals court rejects waste storage at nuke plants – Matthew Daly
• Bloomberg – Nuclear Waste Storage Rules Thrown Out by U.S. Court – Don Jeffrey
• eNews Park Forest – Major Court Ruling Forces Nuclear Waste Disposal Review .
• Enformable – U.S. Court rules Nuclear Regulatory Commission failed to fully evaluate the risks associated with storage of spent nuclear fuel and must draft new plan – Lucas W Hixson
• MSNBC – Nuclear headache: What to do with 65,000 tons of spent fuel? – Miguel Llanos
• NEI – NEI Responds to Court Ruling to Vacate NRC Waste Confidence Decision
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit – State of New York v NRC: On Petitions for Review of Orders of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (pdf-137K)
• Energy Daily – BRC Chairman: Yucca Okay If Accepted Voluntarily – Jeff Beattie
• NEI – NEI Commends Rep. Shimkus, House for Increasing Yucca Review Funding
• UPI – House moves on Yucca Mountain funding
• World Nuclear News – Funding increased for Yucca Mountain review
• Spokesman Review – Editorial: Feds need rational nuclear waste policy
• Tri-City Herald – DOE awards $99 million Hanford contract to HPM of Kennewick – Annette Cary
• Salt Lake Tribune – Report: EnergySolutions looking at partial sale of company – Judy Fahys
• Minnesota Public Radio – Court curbs licenses to store nuclear waste – Conrad Wilson
• Chillicothe Gazette – House approves $100 million in USEC centrifuge project funding – Deirdre Shesgreen
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Paul Hanson speaking at FORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Rad terror training in Austria – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL ‘cooperated fully’ in federal probe against DOE official; Strayer, Earle plead not guilty – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 recreates, updates ‘Shift Change’ — Ed Westcott’s classic wartime photograph – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – B&W Y-12’s safety stats – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More Q&A on Y-12/Pantex security competition – Frank Munger
• Greenville News – Senators urged not to repeat Yucca Mt. errors in search for nuke site – Raju Chebium
• Mid-Hudson News – Onsite storage of nuclear waste could hold up IP relicensing decision
• Brattleboro Reformer – Court orders NRC to take second look at waste storage – Bob Audette
• AllGov – Is Money Wasted on Nuclear Weapons being Driven by Lobbyists? – Noel Brinkerhoff
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Drastic Review Sought for Nuclear Waste Tech Project
• Europe: The Guardian – Sellafield swallows contaminated by radioactivity – Rob Edwards

Thursday, June 07, 2012

• Congressman Joe Heck (NV-03) – Heck Votes to Keep Nuclear Waste Out of Nevada
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Improving public and stakeholder engagement in nuclear waste management – Thomas Webler, Seth P. Tuler, and Eugene A. Rosa
• CBS Las Vegas – House Restore Funding For Yucca Mountain
• FoxReno – Yucca Mountain Project still undecided
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – House backs revival of Yucca repository – Steve Tetreault
• Las Vegas SUN – What vast support for Yucca amendment in House could mean for Nevada – Karoun Demirjian
• Business Wire – Yucca Mountain Vote is a Win for Taxpayers – CCAGW
• C-SPAN – Senate Hears Recommendations on Siting Nuclear Waste Facilities
• NY Times blog – Moving From Square One on Nuclear Waste – Matthew L. Wald
• POWERnews – Federal Court Orders DOE to Reevaluate Nuclear Waste Fund, Rules Fee Is Unlawful
• Waste Management World – Statement of S. Andrew Orrell Director of Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Programs Sandia National Laboratories to Committee on Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety
• Tri-City Herald – Energy secretary to visit Hanford – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Appropriations legislation addresses budgetary issues at Hanford, Yucca Mountain
• Tri-City Herald – Appropriations legislation addresses budgetary issues at Hanford, Yucca Mountain – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – House OKs bill that includes Hanford budget – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Small modular reactor proposed at nuclear plant – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – House OKs bill that includes Hanford budget – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Protecting Richland water key goal of massive Hanford permit – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Energy Northwest pays $2.31M ‘privilege tax’
• Tri-City Herald – PNNL scientist to discuss Fukushima on June 19
• Congressman John Shimkus (R-IL19) – Shimkus Amendment on Yucca Passes
• Chillicothe Gazette – Cascade shutdown is end of an era in Piketon
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: USEC’s centrifuge project continues high-wire act – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Federal agency says mercury no health threat, wraps up Oak Ridge work – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 cancels respirator cleaning contract; will buy disposables – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Scientific Sales gets Y-12 respirator contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UT gets $300K from DOE for coal research – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Y-12 involved in process for assessing nuke weapon components
• Miami Herald – Affordable nuclear waste disposal a must – Kevin Doyle
• Augusta Chronicle – Savannah River Site MOX project cut by $17.3 million – Rob Pavey
• Business Insider – MIT Kids Think They’ve Solved How To Get Rid Of Nuclear Waste – Rob Wile
• Center for Public Integrity – Are nuclear weapons contractors’ millions in campaign contributions buying favors? – R. Jeffrey Smith
• Energy Collective – Mulvaney Amendment Suggests Big Cuts to Energy R&D Programs – Megan Nicholson
• NEI Nuclear Notes – Amir Adnani and the Future of Uranium – and Nuclear Energy
• POGO blog – Energy Dept. Transfers $17 Million from ‘Reverse Field of Dreams’ to Program that Makes Americans Safer – Mia Steinle
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES License Amendment to Construct and Operate New In Situ Leach Uranium: License Amendment To Construct and Operate New In Situ Leach Uranium Recovery Facility; Uranium One Americas; Ludeman Pages 33782-33786 [FR DOC# 2012-13809]
• Oceania: ABC – Nuclear waste protest
• Oceania: St George and Sutherland Shire Leader – Fight to stop ANSTO waste store – Kate Carr
• Central Asia: Bloomberg – Kazakhstan Will Enrich Uranium in Russia, Studies Power Station – Svetlana Antoncheva
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Thorp plant to close in 2018
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield project over budget by £200m-plus – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Nuclear dump next step will be hard to overturn
• Europe: World Nuclear News – NDA confirms oxide fuel strategy
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – Stress tests start for Germany’s nuclear waste sites

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

• The Hill – House gives another $10M to NRC to keep Yucca Mountain open – Pete Kasperowicz
• Nuclear Energy Institute – NEI Commends Rep. Shimkus, House for Increasing Yucca Review Funding
• Platts – US House adopts amendment aimed at reviving Nevada nuclear waste project – Jim Ostroff
• WJBD – Congressman Shimkus’ Amendment on Nuclear Storage Facility Passes
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – USEC’s high-wire act – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Safety board suggests training upgrades at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Safety vs. Safety at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – K-25 countdown: Dept. of Energy’s ‘final’ MOA will go out within few days – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 severs respirator recycling contract; plant will purchase disposable breathing equipment for nuclear workers – Frank Munger
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Panel member calls for withdrawal from reprocessing all spent fuel
• Asia-Pacific: Nikkei – ANALYSIS: Tohoku Filling Up Fast With Nuclear Waste

Tuesday, June 05, 2012

• The Hill – House preparing to slap Obama administration on Yucca Mountain – Pete Kasperowicz
• Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) – Bingaman to Discuss Progress of Nuclear Waste Management Report Recommendations
• Edmond Sun – Officials detail nuclear fuel plant cleanup plans – Van Mitchell
• Illinois Review – Why Not Nuclear when Green Energy Sources run amok? – Nancy Thorner
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – National Academies to release report on the future of U.S. research universities – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Baroness visits ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 hosts a safety shindig; Rep. Fleischmann, others attend ceremonies for DOE award – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR’s Spitzer named to association post – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Chu & Emanuel – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What takes place behind this door? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – A kitchen conference at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – Role of SRS in nuclear waste solutions to be studied – Rob Pavey
• The State – SRS retirees blast DOE for changes in medical benefits – Roddie Burris
• Staunton News Leader – Uranium critic: Study done, Va. ban should stick
• Sumter Item – SRS retirees don’t like health care changes
• Energy Department – NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Long-Term Management and Storage of Elemental Mercury Pages 33204-33205 [FR DOC# 2012-13614]
• Asia: Shanghai Daily – Chinese customs intercept radioactive waste metals from Japan

Monday, June 04, 2012

• Seattle Times – If DOE wants to tax N-waste storage, it should come up with a plan
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Amit Goyal’s big day – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Raising the flag at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Did UCOR ‘jack up’ costs of K-25 plan? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Where does Brookhaven get its researchers? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE restructuring reportedly OK’d – Frank Munger
• Danville Register&Bee – N.C. group joins uranium watch – Tara Bozick
• E&E Daily – Politics: Renewed Hill focus on Yucca poses peril for Romney — and possibly opportunity – Elana Schor
• Phys.Org – Into eternity: The nuclear waste challenge
• POGO blog – POGO Tells Hill Staffers to Think Outside the MOX – Melanie Kaufman and Caroline Chevat
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Plutonium reprocessing plan raises alarm amid shutdown
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Of immobilising radioactive waste
• South Asia: Firstpost – Kudankulam inspections on after removal of dummy fuel
• South Asia: IBNLive – Inspection of KNPP reactor underway for loading real fuel
• Europe: The Scotsman – Dounreay nuclear clean-up experts to advise Japan