Sunday, October 28, 2012

• Multiple Choice Mitt – Mitt Romney’s Scorecard–Yucca Mountain
• NTIS – National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants – Radionuclide Emissions, Calendar Year 2011.
• New Yorker blog – Colorado in The New Yorker – Joshua Rothman
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – DC lobbyist hired by Carlsbad, Eddy County urging DOE to pass WIPP budget – Stella Davis
• Reuters – Duke S.C. Oconee 1 reactor shut for planned refueling
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Uranium foe gets money from supplier executives – Graham Moomaw
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Oceania: Rockhampton Morning Bulletin – Mayor says no to uranium processing in Rockhampton Region – Christine Mckee |
• South Asia: The Hindu – ‘Our policy is to reprocess all the fuel put into a nuclear reactor’

Saturday, October 27, 2012

• World Nuclear News – Final permit for new US mine in Wyoming
• Albuquerque Journal – Groups call for nuke manager Tom D’Agostino’s resignation – John Fleck
• Albuquerque Journal – Letter: Nothing Enchanting About Being a Waste Dump – Janet Greenwald
• Politic 365 – Licensing Panel to Hear Complaints Against Renewal of Waste Storage Facilities – Alton Drew
• Knoxville News Sentinel – TVA says Watts Bar construction on track–Costs are trending slightly lower – Ed Marcum
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Halloween 1948 in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Groups call for D’Agostino’s resignation – Frank Munger
• Charlottesville Newsplex – Douglass Explains Accepting Donations from Uranium Executives
• Canada: Northumberland News – Port Hope Area Initiative applies to move forward with cleanup
• Oceania: Byron Shire News – Open letter calls out Newman on uranium ‘lie’ – Adam Stone
• Oceania: Caboolture News – Uranium decision welcomed
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Today – TEPCO tries to find somewhere to store contaminated water – Mari Yamaguchi
• Central Asia: Central Asia Online – Kyrgyz work to transfer Soviet uranium tailings

Friday, October 26, 2012

• American Geophysical Union blog – Romney on Yucca Mountain: Let Nevada Decide – John Freeland
• KPLU News – New Hanford Tank Leak Raises Questions About Waste Storage – Anna King
• Seattle Times – Big step in cleaning up Hanford plutonium plant
• Tri-City Herald – Huge glovebox pulled from Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – NRC to increase its oversight of Richland nuclear power plant – Annette Cary
• Albuquerque Journal – $213M Project Not Working – John Fleck
• Santa Fe New Mexican – Security upgrade project at LANL delayedStaci Matlock
• KSDK – Secret human testing: Victims in St. Louis speak, demand answers – Leisa Zigman
• Knoxville News Sentinel – UT grad program testing radiation downtown – Gerald Witt
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Isotopes – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – POGO: ‘Security issues . . . getting out of hand’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Problems & problems w/Los Alamos security system – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Job description for ORNL deputy director – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – B&W offers jobs to all Y-12 guards – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE awards $10.6M IT contract to small biz – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Committee still identifying possible candidates for ORNL’s next deputy lab director for S&T – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Nat’l Day of Remembrance for nuclear workers event Monday – Donna Smith
• Oak Ridger – ‘Resisters’ issue photos of evidence at Y-12 in Oak Ridge – Beverly Majors and Darrell Richardson
• Foreign Policy Blogs – Study finds increase in litter on Arctic seafloor – Mia Bennett
• Power Engineering – Certain Licensees Requesting Unescorted Access to Radioactive Material; Order Imposing Trustworthiness and Reliability Requirements for Unescorted Access to Certain Radioactive Material (Effective Immediately); Federal Register Extracts
• DOE – The Energy Department Prepares for Hurricane Sandy – Amanda Scott
• NRC blog – Introducing the NRC’s Waste Confidence Directorate
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Idaho National Laboratory Page 65374 [FR
  
• East Europe: NEWS.am – Armenian NPP has no waste disposal facility

Thursday, October 25, 2012

• Bay Citizen – Treasure Island sites called safe from radiation – Katharine Mieszkowski and Matt Smith
• KVEW – Enormous piece of contaminated equipment removed from Hanford site – Dan Thesman
• Tri-City Herald – NRC to increase Richland nuke plant oversight due to findings – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Former Energy Northwest manager files whistleblower lawsuit – Annette Cary
• Albuquerque Journal – LANL Performs Tests at Japanese Site – T.S. Last
• Albuquerque Journal – DOE Facility Management Faulted – John Fleck
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Stimulus funding was boon to Oak Ridge facilities; created 3,800 jobs – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Tax break to support rehab of historic Alexander Inn – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Stimulus with a smile: Oak Ridge operations got big bang out of big bucks from Recovery Act – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Beierschmitt: ‘We’re really encouraged’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The start of the end at K-25 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ETEBA’s Biz Ops Conference, Nov. 6-8; Erhart, Eschenberg & Whitney on the agenda – Frank Munger
• Holland Sentinel – ‘Dirty dogs’ get decontaminated in radiation drill – Jim Hayden
• Power Engineering – Areva company successfully moves stored dry nuclear fuel
• Oceania: Adelaide Now – Mining go-ahead for uranium site – Christopher Russell
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Newman takes Qld back 30 years on uranium mining – Liam Flenady
• Oceania: Honolulu Star-Advertiser – Halloween hides real-life nuclear horror in Marshall Islands – Beverly Deepe Keever
• Asia-Pacific: Al Jazeera – Japan struggling to store radioactive water
• Asia-Pacific: IPS – Japan Struggling to Store Nuclear Water*
• Asia-Pacific: China Post – Taipower workers handled nuclear waste tanks with bare hands: DPP
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan News – Nuclear waste leaking from rusty barrels on Orchid Island: Taiwan lawmaker
• Europe: Westmorland Gazette – Letter: Nuclear waste is the biggest issue facing Cumbria – Keith Richardson

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

• 89.3 KPCC – Radioactive waste found in Santa Monica grocery dumpster turns out to be a diaper – Rob Strauss
• Tri-City Herald – More than 800 claims for ill Hanford workers to get new look – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Reminder: Town hall for ill Hanford workers, survivors today – Annette Cary
• Albuquerque Journal – DOE Inspector General: nuclear management problems contine – John Fleck
• WLEX-TV – State Showing Off Progress At Maxey Flats Site
• Bristol Herald Courier – Government to study cancer risk at Erwin facility
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – The bottom of the ‘U’ coming down at historic K-25, starting tomorrow – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Commercializing technology at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – DOE’s Oak Ridge Office awards $10 million information technology contract – John Huotari
• Chatham Star Tribune – Douglass took uranium industry donations – Tim Davis
• ChinaDialogue – Nuclear waste: the 270-tonne legacy that won’t go away – Olivia Boyd
• ENS – World’s Worst Pollution Problems: 2012
• DOE:IG – Management Challenges at the Department of Energy – Fiscal Year 2013, IG-0874
• NRC – NRC to Hold Public Scoping Meetings For Waste Confidence Environmental Study Nov. 14 in Rockville, MD
• Oceania: ABC – Qld Govt lifts 30-year ban on uranium mining – Stephanie Smail
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Uranium mining rethink sparks Qld farmland fears – Chrissy Arthur
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – People forced to store contaminated soil on their own property in Fukushima – Ida Torres
• East Asia: 38North – Challenges Posed by North Korea’s Weapon-Grade Uranium and Weapon-Grade Plutonium: Current and Projected Stocks –
• South Asia: The Hindu – NHRC takes up disposal of radioactive waste in hospitals
• Europe: Ellesmere Port Pioneer – Radioactive waste may be treated at Veolia in Ellesmere Port – Laurie Stocks-Moore
• Europe: this is Kent – Secret ‘Dumpy’ tunnel in Dover opened for series of tours
• Europe: Scottish Courier – MoD begins drilling at Dalgety Bay in search of source of radioactive particles

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

• KOMO News – Energy Dept.: slow leak in Hanford waste tank
• KPLU News – Hanford managers confirm slow leak in radioactive waste tank – Anna King
• KVEW – Hanford determines double-shell tank leaked waste from inner tank – Josh Peterson
• Tri-City Herald – DOE to extend MSA Hanford contract 3 years – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – DOE officials confirm tank leaking radioactive waste – Annette Cary
• Dallas/Fort Worth Magazine – Harold Simmons Does Nuclear Waste His Way – Laray Polk
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Editorial: Feds need to get UPF design right this time
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 protesters release government photos of July 28 break-in – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Another photo of Y-12 security breach – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – K-25: A year ahead, six months behind – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Karl Waltzer acting deputy manager of NNSA’s Y-12/Pantex Production Office – Frank Munger
• Nashua Telegraph – Radioactive element found at safe levels in NH fish in first round of tests – David Brooks
• Jurist – One Thousand Years of Danger: Spent Nuclear Fuel Production and Management in the US – Catherine Jahn
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: DOE/NSF High Energy Physics Advisory Panel Pages 64799-64800 [FR DOC# 2012-26054]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Page 64800 [FR DOC# 2012-26056]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico Pages 64800-64801
  
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Confirmatory Orders: Confirmatory Order; In the Matter of Honeywell International Inc.; Metropolis, Illinois
• Canada: The Manitoban – Hotspot: U of M’s role in the nuclear industry – Brandi M. Shabaga
• Oceania: ABC – Uranium mines will take time – N Fernbach with P Tapiolas and M Clarke
• Oceania: ABC – Uranium mine near Mount Isa could create hundreds of jobs – Chrissy Arthur, Virginia Tapp and Neroli Roocke
• Oceania: ABC blog – Uranium mining to make a Queensland come-back
• Oceania: The Australian – Nuclear to fall in cost: Ferguson by: Paige Taylor
• Oceania: Australian Financial Review – Ferguson says no to nuclear power
• Oceania: NSW Daily Telegraph – Editorial: Safety plagues uranium mining
• Europe: BBC News – Dalgety Bay radiation: Diggers to be used in pit testing

Monday, October 22, 2012

• Van Ness Feldman – Status of Court of Appeals’ Yucca Mountain-Related Cases and Standard Contract Litigation Western Interstate Energy Board Denver, CO October 10, 2012 – Michael F. McBride (pdf-220K)
• Homeland Security Neswire – Los Alamos lab accelerates shipment of nuclear waste to permanent storage site
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Plowshares protesters release photos of Y-12 break-in – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 protester: ‘We want to emphasize not just the security issue but the actual production of nuclear weapons’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NNSA: ‘no comment’ on release of Y-12 photos – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Hole in Y-12 security fence – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 protesters release photos of July 28 break-in, protest scene at nuclear weapons plant – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Disposable respirators reportedly gain worker acceptance at Y-12 nuclear weapons plant – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Wounded Warriors deer hunt at Savannah River – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Energy efficiency for sale — research homeowners wanted in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s West End Mercury Project: the good, the bad and the remaining uncertainties – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – ‘Core’ capabilities, unique technologies covered by Lab chief at Smyser Lecture – Beverly Majors
• ANS Nuclear Cafe – Update on Nuclear Waste Confidence Court Ruling – Jim Hopf
• EECAP Blog – ANWAG Why there are rules to follow – Terrie Barrie
• EECAP Blog – Radioactive Daughter: Out of the Rabbit Hole; Back on firm ground–Let’s fix the problems – Deb Jerison
• Canada: Toronto Media Co-op – The Huron Declaration on Nuclear Waste – Angela Bischoff and et al. and Gordon Edwards and Zach Ruiter
• Oceania: ABC – Qld Govt lifts 30-year ban on uranium mining
• Oceania: ABC – Newman lifts uranium mining ban in Queensland – Eric Tlozek and Bridget Smith
• Oceania: NSW Daily Telegraph – Newman’s uranium backflip means money and jobs to him – what does it mean to you? – John McCarthy, Robyn Ironside
• Oceania: Reuters – Australia state lifts uranium mine ban, eyes India exports – James Regan
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Letter shows Newman uranium backflip – Elise Worthington
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Pressing need to secure permanent sites for contaminated waste
• Europe: British Forces News – Digging begins at radioactive beach
• Europe: Dunferline Press – Appeal to locals over Bay contamination – Gary Fitzpatrick
• Europe: BBC News – Palomares bombs: Spain waits for US to finish nuclear clean-up – Gerry Hadden
• Europe: Bignews Portugal – Spain waits for US to finish bomb clean-up