Sunday, January 20, 2013

• Bismarck Tribune – Radioactive oil patch waste on the loose in N.D. – Lauren Donovan
• Prairie Island Indian Community – Xcel Energy Faces More Scrutiny Over Nuclear Waste Storage at Minnesota’s Prairie Island
• New York Times – Rift Widens Over Mining of Uranium in Virginia – Trip Gabriel
• North Africa: Al-Bawaba – Uranium discovered in Egypt

Saturday, January 19, 2013

• Bloomberg – U.S. Energy Department Defends Nuclear-Waste Fee to Court – Brian Wingfield & Jim Snyder
• Northwest Public Radio – Federal Report Blasts Hanford’s Waste Treatment Plant Project – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – GAO slams Hanford vit plant project – Annette Cary
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Y-12 contractor challenges plant management award – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Maryland leads the way on counter-nukes – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sensitive period – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – D’Agostino’s farewell – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE’s new Oak Ridge contractor says it will enhance security and ‘transition . . . skilled employees’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Union chief ‘very, very surprised’ at security winner – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – B&W-led team protests Y-12/Pantex contract award – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Touring Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Washington Post – Transportation, uranium mining ban bills make filing deadline for Va. General Assembly – Errin Haines
• Halifax-Plympton Reporter – NUKE MATTERS: Groundwater pollution at Pilgrim Nuclear Station – Meg Sheehan and Genevieve Byrne
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Editorial: Waste undermines reconstruction
• South Asia: Daily Pioneer – Soon, UCIL to start largest uranium mine in Kanampalle . – Parvinder Bhatia
• Europe: Times & Star – Cumbria nuclear dump debate in Carlisle – Pam McClounie
• Europe: Westmorland Gazette – Anti nuclear ‘dump’ protest staged on shore of Windermere

Friday, January 18, 2013

• Camarillo Acorn – Simi field lab still radioactive – Carissa Marsh
• Ventura County Reporter – “Greenwashing” Rocketdyne–Secret plan exposed after secret document posted online – Michael Collins
• Government Accountability Project – Internal Hanford Document Sounds the Alarm: Daily Whistleblower News – Jack Davis
• Hanford Challenge – Press Release: Top Engineer Calls for Stop Work at Hanford Waste Treatment Plant
• Tri-City Herald – Japanese cleanup officials see how Hanford does it – Annette Cary
• Salt Lake Tribune – Utah nuke company execs get millions in bonuses – Judy Fahys
• Nuclear Watch New Mexico – Good News: Nuclear Weapons Contractors’ Performance Reports Released Bad News: They Receive Millions Without Performance Benchmarks
• Amarillo Globe News – Babcock and Wilcox files protest challenging new Pantex contract – Jim McBride
• KCTV Kansas City – Woman blames husband, veteran’s death on toxic smoke from burning waste pits – Laura McCallister
• Dallas Morning News – Community, Environmentalists, Teamsters Tell EPA: Stop Nuclear Fires at Republic Landfill in Missouri
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch – EPA continues testing at West Lake Landfill; critics unmoved – Jeffrey Tomich
• DailyFinance – B&W Files Protest of Y-12/Pantex Decision with Government Accountability Office
• Knoxville News Sentinel – DOE awards $181M security contract in Oak Ridge – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Neutrons, neutrons, neutrons – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – State lawmakers at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Did Y-12 break-in kill WSI’s bid on other contract? – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – B&W protests Y-12, Pantex contract award – John Huotari
• Oak Ridger – B&W files protest of Y-12 contract decision – Darrell Richardson
• Chatham Star Tribune – Uranium bill expected to be introduced this week
• Lynchburg News and Advance – House panel OKs nuclear authority – Ray Reed
• Roanoke Times – Letters: Outsiders shouldn’t lead on uranium issue – Bob Makson
• Government Security News – NNSA and Maryland partner on radiological and nuclear security – Mark Rockwell
• NTI – Energy Department IG Urges Action to Preserve U.S. Atomic Assets – Diane Barnes
• GAO – DOE Needs to Take Action to Resolve Technical and Management Challenges, GAO-13-38, Dec 19, 2012
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Hanford 
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico
  
• Central Asia: Tengrinews – Pavlodar plant was storing over 6 tons of radioactive wastes
• Europe: In-Cumbria – MP: Focus on West Cumbria nuclear waste dump facts
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – ‘Atlantic Osprey’ bound for Belgium with Dounreay waste aboard
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – New Dounreay waste run as ship arrives at far north port
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Big turnout at nuclear store meeting
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Tourism group voices concern against West Cumbria nuclear dump
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Four MPs back geological search – two still undecided – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Minister answers your questions on nuclear waste disposal
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Fuel cycle shipments in Europe
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Work starts on first British dry fuel store
• North Africa: UPI – Egypt announces uranium discoveries

Thursday, January 17, 2013

• Energy Collective – DOE’s Spent Fuel Strategy: Disappointing for Nuclear Advocates – Steve Skutnik
• Forbes – U.S. Launches 35-Year Quest For A New Yucca Mountain – Jeff McMahon
• About.com – Why Can’t You Take Pictures at the Nevada Test Site? – Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D.
• San Onofre Safety – Nightmare of Nuclear Waste – Donna Gilmore
• Crosscut Seattle – OK, Hanford: Time to start listening to whistleblowers – John Stang
• Northwest Public Radio – Former Manager Calls For Work On Hanford Plant To Stop – Anna King
• The Oregonian – Top Hanford engineer advised suspending treatment plant construction – Scott Learn
• Seattle Times – Hanford official had sought halt to waste-treatment project – Hal Bernton
• Tri-City Herald – Top engineer called for stop to work at vit plant – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Gregoire named as possible replacement for outgoing Interior chief – Annette Cary
• FireEngineering – Officials say radiation-laced wildfire smoke posed no risk
• Albuquerque Journal – Group Led by Bechtel Gets $59.7M To Run LANL – Mark Oswald
• Albuquerque Journal – We still don’t know how much Tennessee uranium building will cost – John Fleck
• Albuquerque Journal – LANS Gets $59.7M To Run Lab – FMark Oswald
• Taos News – My Turn: Regional coalition, deadly scam – Jeanne Green
• Taos News – My Turn: Taos should back LANL cleanup, not nuclear weapons – Jay Coghlan
• Lubbock Avalanche-Journal – NNSA awards contract for Pantex Wind Farm – Jim McBride
• Maryland Heights Patch – Radioactive Waste Contaminating Flood Plain, EPA to Hold Public Meeting
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE awards new Oak Ridge security contract to National Strategic Protective Services – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Summertime (1961) and the living was easy – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Who’s that lurking behind those protesters? – Frank Munger
• Bloomberg – Energy Secretary Chu Said to Plan Departure From Cabinet – Hans Nichols &Jim Snyder
• IEER – Groups Rebut the Waste Storage Claims of Nuclear Industry
• DOE – DOE Names Bill Drummond As New Bonneville Power Administration Administrator
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation Page 3890
• Asia-Pacific: Kyodo News – Industry minister vows to maintain nuclear fuel recycling policy
• Europe: The Guardian – Protests spread on Cumbria nuclear waste dump plan – Martin Wainwright
• Europe: World Nuclear News – UK shifts Urenco oversight

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

• Bay Area Indymedia – Plutonium Pits Coming Back to Livermore – Tara Dorabji
• Snohomish Daily Herald – Construction ready to go again at Hanford plant – Shannon Dininny
• Tri-City Herald – DOE says new nuclear waste repository possible in 2048; Hanford remains at risk of being temporary site – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Some vit plant construction can resume, officials announce – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Agencies facing reduced budgets if Obama issues sequestration order – Annette Cary
• Telluride Daily Planet – Both sides claim victory in uranium ruling – Collin McRann
• Albuquerque Journal – Using wind power to dismantle nukes – John Fleck
• Carlsbad Current-Argus – NMSU Carlsbad’s Nuclear Option: Chemistry course offers a better understanding of WIPP – Natalie Gross
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Audit finds good and bad with DOE’s management of surplus nuclear materials – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12’s Performance Evaluation Plan will switch with the contractor transition – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Radon – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UPF redesign effort now at 66 percent completion; approval on site readiness expected ‘soon’ – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – DOE touts interim storage option for spent nuclear fuel – Rob Pavey
• Augusta Chronicle – Fukushima recovery aided by SRS cleanup technology – Rob Pavey
• Aiken Standard – Congressman Markey: SRS MOX project a ‘disaster’ – Mike Gellatly
• Aiken Standard – Editorial: Another government boondoggle
• Roanoke Times – Virginia’s business leaders cool to renewed uranium mining – Michael Sluss
• ENS – Nuclear Industry Rushing Spent Fuel Assessment, Groups Warn
• The Neutron Economy – To reprocess or dispose? A look at fuel cycle triage – Steve Skutnik
• R & D Magazine – New concept enables high plutonium breeding in light water cooled reactors – Waseda University
• DOE – Secretary Chu, Governor Gregoire Issue Statement on Hanford Cleanup
• DOE:IG – Audit Report – Department of Energy’s Management of Surplus Nuclear Materials, OAS-L-13-04
• Canada: Waterloo Record – Bruce County group opposes burying nuclear waste near Lake Huron
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – [Express] “This is how incineration ash of sewage sludge is stocked in Kanazawa ward Yokohama” – Iori
• Europe: The Guardian – ‘Nuclear waste? No thanks,’ say Lake District national park tourism chiefs – Martin Wainwright
• Europe: In-Cumbria – Baroness Verma Webchat: Geological Disposal in West Cumbria
• Europe: News & Star – More than 7,300 sign No Nuclear Dump in the Lake District petition – James Johnson
• Europe: Westmorland Gazette – Cumbria nuclear waste depository opposed at meeting in Keswick – Daniel Orr
• Europe: Nuclear Energy Insider – Waste encapsulation: nuclear sector keeps eye on Finland’s progress – Peter Taberner

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

• Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) – Feinstein on Department of Energy’s Interim Nuclear Waste Storage Program
• Tri-City Herald – Board selects Pasco, Richland companies to design, build Hanford Reach Interpretive Center – Sara Schilling
• Idaho State Journal – Special Services still available for idled Clearwater Paper, INL workers
• Deseret News – Editorial: In our opinion: Debate over nuclear waste storage in Tooele is over
• University of Wyoming News – Uranium Research Projects Receive Funding
• Indianz – Native Sun News: Uranium mine in Black Hills draws attention – Talli Nauman
• Rapid City Journal – Uranium forum draws crowd – Curt Nettinga
• Knoxville News Sentinel – POGO calls for federalizing guard force at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Going, going, gone, gone – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE’s ‘rather awkward situation’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Fleischmann gets coveted seat on Energy &Water – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Giant wind farm to power Pantex – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Cray’s $23M deal with Germany’s weather service – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – No indication of Chu’s direction on security – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridger – Y-12: Oak Ridge treasure — national resource/A look back at Union Carbide’s first 20 years (ORNL) – D. Ray Smith
• Clean Energy News – Nuke Industry Pushes for Weak Nuclear Waste Review
• Aiken Standard – DOE outlines nuclear waste strategy – Mike Gellatly
• Courthouse News Service – Assault Rifles to Be OK’d at Spent Nuke Fuel Spots – Nick McCann
• FSRN – Nuclear watchdogs urge NRC’s study on nuclear waste to include key safety concerns – Diane Curran
• Nuclear Engineering – US unveils new spent fuel strategy
• Physicians for Social Responsibility – Groups: Nuclear Energy Institute Is Pushing NRC to Shortchange Environmental Review of Long-Term Radioactive Waste Storage
• POWERnews – DOE Unveils Used Nuclear Fuel Strategy
• Europe: BBC News – Sizewell B builds new radioactive nuclear waste store
• Europe: East Anglian Daily Times – Sizewell B: Work starts on radioactive waste store – Craig Robinson

Monday, January 14, 2013

• KAIT – EPA hearing on St. Louis Co. contamination site
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – POGO again pushes for federalizing guard force; cites letters from experts following Y-12 security breach – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORAU shares $300M DOE/NNSA contract – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Buzz Patrick to speak at ETEBA – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Experts recommend federalizing guard forces at DOE nuclear weapons sites, nonprofit says – John Huotari
• Gazette-Virginian – Southside Va. senator wants ban to remain
• Gazette-Virginian – Uranium bill expected to be introduced this week
• Rappahannock – Keep uranium mining ban, Sen. Ruff says – Samantha Morgan
• Virginian-Pilot – Va. uranium mining stirring on 2 fronts
• Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA7) – Rep. Markey urges DOE to abandon radioactive waste “recycling” proposal.
• Heritage Foundation blog – DOE Nuclear Waste Plan Ignores Basic Flaw of Current Policy – Jack Spencer
• Nuclear Street – DOE Announces New Timeline for Interim, Permanent Nuclear Waste Disposal
• PR Newswire – Groups To Warn Industry Is Pressuring NRC To “Flout” Court Order On Environmental Impact Of Nuclear Reactor Waste
• World Nuclear News – New start for US nuclear disposal
• YubaNet – Kevin Kamps: Obama administration policy would launch unprecedented numbers of risky high-level radioactive waste shipments
• Canada: National Post – Uranium One bought by top Russian shareholder ARMZ for $1.3-billion – Peter Koven
• Canada: Reuters – Update 2-Russia’s ARMZ to take Uranium One private for $1.3 bln – Melissa Akin and Avik Das
• Canada: Nuclear Engineering – CNSC authorizes production increase for McClean Lake mill
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – CROOKED CLEANUP: Fukushima city not sticking to plan to decontaminate homes – Masakazu Honda
• Asia-Pacific: ENENews – Teenagers working with Fukushima radioactive waste
• Europe: East Anglian Daily Times – Bradwell: Concerns over waste disposal at N-plant – Tom Potter
• Russia: RT – Rosatom spares no expense to buy out Canada’s Uranium One
• South Africa: iAfrica – SA uranium has a golden future