Sunday, September 09, 2012
- Tri-City Herald – DOE wants changes to Hanford Advisory Board – Annette Cary
- Utility Products – International Isotopes Gets NRC Approval of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Planned Depleted Uranium De-Conversion and Fluorine Extraction Processing Facility
- International Isotopes Inc. – International Isotopes Inc. Announces Nuclear Regulatory Commission Approval of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Planned Depleted Uranium De-conversion and Fluorine Extraction Processing Facility – Jim Drewitz (pdf-367K)
- NewsOK blog – Nuclear Waste Disposal in the Permian Basin – Robert Hayes
- Chillicothe Gazette – Nuclear power, Piketon plant key to country’s future – Jay Wenstrup
- Decatur Daily – Plutonium coming to Browns Ferry site? Public hearing set for fuel source discussion – Eric Fleischauer
- News Courier – Meeting on Browns Ferry plutonium plan Thursday – Adam Smith
- Spartanburg Herald Journal – SRS is not suitable for high-level radioactive waste
- Beaver County Times – NRC reviewing impact of temporary on-site nuclear waste storage – Patrick O’Shea
- Canada: Council of Canadians – Great Lakes communities resist nuclear waste sites – Brent Patterson
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Industry ministry opposes change to nuclear fuel recycling policy
Saturday, September 08, 2012
- EnvironmentGuru – Closure Report for Corrective Action Unit 574: Neptune Nevada National Security Site, Nevada.
- EnvironmentGuru – Corrective Action Investigation Plan for Corrective Action Unit 550: Smoky Contamination Area Nevada National Security Site, Nevada.
- EnvironmentGuru – Nevada National Security Site 2010 Waste Management Monitoring Report Area 3 and Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Sites.
- KNDO/KNDU – Hastings endorses Reagan Dunn for WA Attorney General
- Tri-City Herald – DOE Secretary Steven Chu keeps up work on Hanford vit plant – Annette Cary
- Tri-City Herald – Small fire starts up at Areva – Annette Cary
- Snake River Alliance – Snake River Alliance: Idaho has said no, repeatedly, to nuclear waste – Liz Woodruff
- Daily Camera – Ex-mining town of Uravan hopes for return of uranium – Rema Rahman
- Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 protesters’ trial reset to Feb. 26; nun breaks both wrists in fall – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – U.S.-Czech pact to fight nuke terrorism – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Her arms are in casts, but Sister Megan Rice says: ‘I don’t need a lot of sympathy’ – Frank Munger
- POGO blog – Break-In Reveals “Ineptitude” at Nuke Facility, Probe Finds – Mia Steinle
- Augusta Chronicle – Savannah River Nuclear Solutions extends SRS management contract – Rob Pavey
- Aiken Standard – SRNS, DOE pleased with new contract – Teddy Kulmala
- Aiken Standard – SRNS offers ongoing STEM activities for students
- Hartford Business – NRC to investigate CT nuclear waste
- TheLymes.patch – NRC Will Study Environmental Impact of Temporary On-Site Storage of Nuclear Waste – Jayne Keedle
- New London Day – NRC waste storage study won’t affect Millstone – Judy Benson
- House Armed Services Committee – Y-12 Intrusion: Investigation, Response, and Accountability – Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
- World Nuclear News – Two-year hiatus in US licensing
- UN: IAEA – IAEA Chief Visits Finnish Spent Fuel Disposal Site
- Canada: Ottawa Citizen – Radioactive releases from Chalk River have had little impact on Valley, scientific surveys say – Ian MacLeod
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – In-Focus Japan: Japan to aid disaster debris disposal in North America – Spent Fuel Concerns – Permanent waste storage site considered at national forest
- Asia-Pacific: Kyodo News – Industry ministry opposes change to nuclear fuel recycling policy
- Southeast Asia: Free Malaysia Today – Fear over transfer of radioactive waste – Humayun Kabir
Friday, September 07, 2012
- Gather – Photos of Mushroom Clouds in 1950s Las Vegas
- Seattle Times – Special: Fifty years from Trinity
- Tri-City Herald – Ninth single-shell tank emptied out at Hanford – Annette Cary
- EnvironmentGuru – Nuclear Power and Bomb Testing Documentary Film
- Los Alamos Monitor – DOE lengthens comment period
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA confirms Dan Hoag’s reassignment – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Strange stuff growing on Savannah River’s spent fuel – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 protesters’ trial reset for Feb. 26; Sister Megan Rice falls, breaks both wrists – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More personnel shuffling in the post-breach environment – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – WSI reassignments will be outside DOE complex – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – New warning sirens at Y-12; test Sept. 26 – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Walli, Rice won’t be at hearing – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORAU’s $36K giveaway – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Black Hole of Los Alamos – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Savannah River contractor gets extension – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Democrats at ORNL – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Briefing on ORNL cleanup – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE to release Oak Ridge security RFP – Frank Munger
- Augusta Chronicle – Savannah River Nuclear Solutions extends SRS management contract – Rob Pavey
- Aiken Standard – DOE extends SRNS contract for 38 months – Tim O’briant
- The State – Green groups oppose shipping hot waste to SRS – Sammy Fretwell
- Lower Hudson Journal – NRC review of storing used fuel at reactors such as Indian Point may take 2 years – Michael Risinit
- TheLymes.patch – The Daily Five(#3): Nuclear Waste – Jayne Keedle
- NRC – NRC Directs Staff to Conduct Two-Year Environmental Study and Revision to Waste Confidence Rule
- NWTRB – NWTRB Meeting to Focus on SNF and HLW Packaging, Transportation, and Disposition (pdf-47K)
- Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Page 55200 [FR DOC# 2012-22072]
- Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee Page 55200 [FR DOC# 2012-22074]
- Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee Page 55201 [FR DOC# 2012-22073]
- Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: State Energy Advisory Board (STEAB); Meeting Page 55201 [FR DOC# 2012-22071]
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Japan Lessons-Learned Project Order Modifying Licenses With Regard to Reliable Spent Fuel Pool Instrumentation Pages
- Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Dounreay prepares for world’s deepest nuclear clean-up – Will Clark
- Europe: News&Star – Cumbria underground dump would be as big as a city – Julian Whittle
- Europe: Whitehaven News – Underground dump could be size of Carlisle – Julian Whittle
- Europe: Whitehaven News – Fears Cumbria will have to host nuclear dump
- Europe: Whitehaven News – Sharp divisions over nuclear waste plans – Julian Whittle
- Europe: Whitehaven News – ‘Major gaps in information about N-waste’ – Alan Irving
- Europe: Whitehaven News – West Cumbria nuclear repository debate rages on
- Europe: Whitehaven News – Council debates nuclear waste dump proposals – Jenny Barwise
- Europe: Whitehaven News – Latest stage in site clean-up complete
- Europe: Whitehaven News – £5m fence will circle Sellafield – Jenny Barwise
Thursday, September 06, 2012
- Reno News & Review – Funds go to waste – Ashley Hennefer
- KUOW NPR – NRC Looking Into Wash. Nuclear Plant’s 11-Year-Old Mistake – Anna King
- Santa Fe New Mexican.com – Public comment still open on plans to expand WIPP – Staci Matlock
- South Hill Enterprise – Uranium Working Group meets in Virginia Beach – Chris Griggs
- The Augusta Chronicle – SRS nuclear growth “biological,” but what does it eat? – Rob Pavey
- Platts – US NRC to develop EIS, new rule on waste confidence: commission – Elaine Hiruo
- DC Bureau – Race and Radiation: The Equal Opportunity Killer at the Savannah River Site – Joseph Trento
- The Mercury – Limerick nuclear plant re-licensing delayed 2 years by NRC?s spent-fuel study – Evan Brandt
- Reuters – NRC staff to review nuclear reactor waste storage rules – Scott DiSavino
- Patch.com – NRC to Study Longterm Radioactive Waste Options – Elaine Pinait
- Japan: The Japan Times – Eliminating all nuke power cheapest option: Softbank’s Son – Eric Johnston
- Japan: Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Nuclear power must go, and we need a plan to make it happen
- Japan: Mainichi Daily News – 1 billion yen sought for gov’t surveys on potential active faults below nuke plants
- Central Asia: Asia Times Online – Nuclear fuel bank or nuclear graveyard? – Zhulduz Baizakova
- UK: Times & Star – Sharp divisions over nuclear waste plans – Julian Whittle
- UK: News & Star – Waste in Cumbria?s future?
- Europe: Interfax – Buildings in Prypiat could be blown up, buried, says newspaper
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
- U.S. Politics Today – EnergySolutions to Present at the Wedbush Clean Technology & Industrial Growth Conference – EnergySolutions, Inc
- Energy Digital – International Isotopes Inc. Announces Nuclear Regulatory Commission Approval Of The Final Environmental Impact Statement For The Planned Depleted Uranium De-Conversion And Fluorine Extraction Processing Facility
- Indian Country Today Media Network.com – Prairie Island Indian Community Calls for Permanent Nuclear-Waste Solution – ICTMN Staff
- Equities.com – Perma-Fix to Present at the 2012 Wedbush Securities Clean Technology & Industrial Growth Conference – Marketwire
- The Augusta Chronicle – Supporters, opponents of MOX facility speak out at hearing – Rob Pavey
- Department of Defense – Registry to Provide Japan Response Radiation Info – Jim Garamone
- Japan: The Daily Yomiuri – Aomori Pref. mulling rejecting nuclear waste – Yomiuri Shimbun
- Korea: The Korea Herald – [Editorial] Nearing the brim
- UK: Scottish Daily Record – More nuclear waste found near Dounray power station – Dailyrecord.Co.Uk
- UK: News & Star – Council debates nuclear waste dump proposals – Jenny Barwise
- UK: ITV News – Nuclear waste store debate
- UK: Kent News – Nuclear waste dump consultation ?a waste of taxpayers? money? – Marijke Cox
- Europe: Charter 97 – Die Zeit: Belarusian law-enforcement agencies participate in special operation in Germany
- Europe: Telegraf.by – Belarusian militiamen participated in a special operation in Germany
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
- Nuclear Street – Nuclear Power Portal (blog) – Bechtel Responds to DOE Internal Memo Regarding Safety of Waste Treatment Plant Design
- Walla Walla Union-Bulletin – State right to force federal Hanford cleanup – Editorial Board
- Equities.com – Perma-Fix to Present at the Rodman & Renshaw Annual Global Investment Conference – Marketwire
- Akron Beacon Journal (blog) – Study says Pennsylvania drilling waste high in radium – Bob Downing
- NW Evening Mail – West Cumbria nuclear repository debate rages on
- The Japan Daily Press – Tochigi Prefecture proposed as radioactive waste disposal site – Adam Westlake
- Korea Times – Facility for nuclear waste
- The Arctic Institute – The Arctic This Week: News for 25 August – 31 August 2012 – Tom Fries
- The Voice of Russia – Kara Sea as nuclear Pandora box – Grigory Milenin
Monday, September 03, 2012
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Letter(#2): Nuclear industry handles used fuel responsibly – Adam Heflin
- Minneapolis Star Tribune – Prairie Island tribe seeks action on nuclear waste – David Shaffer
- HNN Huntingtonnews – Piketon, Ohio Document: Up to 70,000 Dosimeter Readings “Changed” – Tony E Rutherford
- Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Will cost dispute impact future construction? – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The big computing change is taking place at ORNL; first Kepler GPUs being tested, many more coming soon — on the way to Titan – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Security guard cuts at ETTP – Frank Munger
- Knoxville News Sentinel blog – More downsizing at Savannah River – Frank Munger
- Augusta Chronicle – Newest MOX plans to be revealed at Sept. 4 meeting – Rob Pavey
- Aiken Standard – DOE holding hearing on SRS waste disposal – Teddy Kulmala
- Bloomberg – Growing U.S. Energy Supply Alters Political Debate: BGOV Insight – Rob Barnett and Anthony Costello
- NPEC – NPEC’s Comment on the Department of Energy’s Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
- Canada: nuclear-news blog – Where to put Canada’s 2358873 radioactive used nuclear fuel bundles?
- Oceania: Greens MPs – Aboriginal disadvantage&nuclear waste – Scott Ludlam
- Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Radioactive waste warningLee Jeloscek – Arirang
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Tochigi forest eyed as N-waste disposal site
- Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – Yaita mayor rejects disposal site
- Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – Radioactive waste disposal site proposed for Tochigi
- Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – Gov proposes radioactive disposal site
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Radioactive waste disposal site proposed for Tochigi
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Many old, damaged structures excluded from decontamination work in Fukushima
- Europe: BBC News – Seabed particle recovery off Dounreay wound up
- Europe: Indymedia UK – Cumbria County Council: “Dump the Nuke Dump”
- Europe: Times&Star – £5m fence will circle Sellafield – Jenny Barwise
- Russia: Business Insider – This Is How Russia Disposes of Its Dated Nuclear Submarines – Leandro Oliva
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