Sunday, May 19, 2013

• San Luis Obispo Tribune – Looking back: Diablo’s moves on fuel disappoint
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – SLO County beaches brace for Japanese tsunami debris – David Sneed
• Albuquerque Journal – Pearce wants to solve nuclear waste problem – Christopher M. Timm
• Evening Post and Courier – Build MOX plant — and restart Yucca

Saturday, May 18, 2013

• East Oregonian – Hanford threats vast and dangerous – Representatives John E. Huffman and Vicki Berger
• Jamestown Sun – Radioactive waste on the N.D. monitor: Energy Industry Waste Coalition worried about improper disposal of oilfield material – Amy Dalrymple
• Bismarck Tribune – Group to meet Sunday on radioactive waste dumping – Nick Smith
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – Senators voice MOX support to White House
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Citizen’s Voice: Barbara Hickey: Judge should acquit Y-12 protesters on charges of sabotage
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Standridge named DOE’s Oak Ridge budget director – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Neile Miller announces her departure at NNSA; Cook to assume role as acting administrator – Frank Munger
• Wicked Local Plymouth – PILGRIM STATION: Special permit for dry cask storage? – Emily Clark
• Canada: Chronicle Journal – OpEd: Get both sides of N-waste issue – James F. Kimberley
• Asia-Pacific: Salon – The nuclear waste in that tuna roll – Brad Jacobson
• Asia-Pacific: Radio Taiwan International – No nuclear waste on aboriginal land: NGOs
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – Gorleben returns as nuclear disposal possibility
• Europe: RT – Hamburg ‘avoids radiation disaster’ as ship loaded with fissile material, explosives burns
• East Europe: Dalje.com – Remnants of radioactive ammunition found in Sarajevo area
• North Africa: North Africa Post – Radioactive Waste Found in Algiers Port

Friday, May 17, 2013

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Nye County official blasts Sen. Reid’s “hypocrisy” on nuclear waste disposal – Keith Rogers
• KING5 Seattle – Hanford waste moved across town with parade permit – Gary Chittim
• Sightline Daily – Senate Invites Public Comment on Atomic Waste Draft Bill – John Abbotts
• Tri-City Herald – B Reactor park bill passes Senate committee – Annette Cary
• Albuquerque Journal – Editorial: Look to WIPP for safe storage of nuke waste
• KRQE News 13 – Sandia Lab safety costs taxpayers millions – Larry Barker
• Gilmer Mirror – Bad Radioactive Waste Bill Increases Threats to Texas
• Augusta Chronicle – S.C., Georgia senators voice MOX support – Meg Kinnard
• Aiken Standard – Senators voice MOX support – Meg Kinnard
• The State – Buckner: MOX, new nuclear reactors, storage critical to peace, safety – Mel Buckner
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – How do you solve a problem like plutonium?
• DOE – Energy Department Authorizes Second Proposed Facility to Export Liquefied Natural Gas
• NRC Blog – Updating Nuclear Materials Transportation Regulations – Jessica Umaña
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Head of operator of trouble-plagued fast-breeder reactor resigns
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – Bundestag debates nuclear waste “disposal”
• Europe: Deutsche Local – Burning ship had tonnes of radioactive material

Thursday, May 16, 2013

• Bloomberg – Senate Confirms MIT’s Moniz as Obama’s Energy Secretary – Jim Snyder
• NEI – Nuclear Energy Industry Congratulates Moniz On Confirmation as Secretary of Energy
• Reuters – U.S. Senate confirms Ernest Moniz as Energy Secretary
• Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources – Wyden Statement on Energy Secretary Confirmation
• KUOW Puget Sound – Northwest Nuclear Plant Scores Higher Safety Rating – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – Richland nuclear plant oversight returns to routine level – Annette Cary,
• Tri-City Herald – Committee approves DOE budget request – Annette Cary
• Albuquerque Business First – NNSA workers spared furloughs
• Albuquerque Journal – $19M for LANL cleanup OK’d
• KOB – Congress approves additional LANL cleanup money
• LA Monitor – Cleanup funding OKd by Congressional committees
• Lincoln Journal Star – More uranium mining planned in Nebraska
• MIT Technology Review – Novel Material Shows Promise for Extracting Uranium from Seawater – Mike Orcutt
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – What happened during HFIR’s big break? – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – Microwaves could melt uranium at UPF, help remove carbon impurities – John Huotari
• Charleston Gazette – Radioactive device lost in W.Va. located
• Pottstown Mercury – Nuclear gauge lost in W.Va. found in Md.
• Wicked Local Plymouth – Nuclear Matters: Plymouth zoning and Entergy’s nuclear waste storage – Meg Sheehan and Genevieve Byrne
• NIRS – Add your voice: Senate Energy Comm. radwaste discussion draft is unacceptable. Start over!
• DOE:IG – Special Review: OAS-RA-13-20 Cost Incentives for the Department’s Cleanup Contract in Idaho
• Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA7) – Markey Introduces Bill to Stop Energy Department’s Radioactive Recycling Program
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: No choice but to decommission prototype fast-breeder reactor Monju
• Europe: Daily Commercial News – OPG $1 billion proposal to bury nuclear waste up for comment – Mary Baxter
• Europe: in-cumbria – Ministry wants views on N-waste process – Alan Irving
• Europe: in-cumbria – NMP ‘needs to change – or lose Sellafield contract’ – Alan Irving
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Ministry wants Views on N-Waste Process – Alan Irving
• Europe: Bloomberg – France Starts Public Debate on Underground Nuclear Waste Site – Tara Patel
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Public comment on French waste disposal
• South Africa: iAfrica – Radioactive scrap metal found – Govan Whittles

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

• E&E Daily – MOX negotiations continue as Moniz heads for confirmation – Nick Juliano And Hannah Northey
• News 88.9 KNPR – Too Hot To Handle: Weapons Grade Nuclear Waste In A Nevada Landfill? – Robert Alvarez
• The Hill blog – Nuclear watchdog seeks to change rules on transporting radioactive material – Julian Hattem
• Cañon City Daily Record – Former Cotter Corp. workers informed of potential benefits – Rachel Alexander
• Albuquerque Journal – Group asks hearing on uranium mine
• Las Cruces Sun-News – Congress approves additional LANL cleanup money
• World Nuclear News – New US uranium site in production
• Lincoln Journal Star – More uranium mining planned in Nebraska
• Chicago Sun-Times blog – Nuclear waste plan poses risks for Illinois – Thomas Frisbie
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Courtroom drama in Y-12 case pitted guard against guard – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR awards educational mini-grants – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Business growing (gradually) at ORNL’s mini-hotel – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ETEBA meeting canceled – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Home Sweet (asbestos-free) Home? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UPF design at 70% – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – With a little help from ORNL, Noah Kaye wins Scouts’ Hornaday Award – Frank Munger
• Virginian Pilot – Anti-uranium groups in Virginia join forces
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Officials looking for missing nuclear gauge in W.Va. – Lexi Belculfine
• Buffalo News – Environmental groups decry nuclear waste transport over New York highways – T.J. Pignataro
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Contract for £1.1 bn Sellafield Infrastructure Strategic Alliance (ISA) underway – Elisabeth Jeffries
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Policy Brief 9 – 15 May 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 9 – 15 May 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• DOE:EM – EM Delegation Tours UK Cleanup Program’s Sellafield Site
• Caribbean: Huffington Post – Ten Years After Ousting US Navy, Vieques Confronts Contamination – Maritza Stanchich, Ph.D.
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – Nuclear waste on the move in clean-up – Heath Aston
• Asia-Pacific: Washington Post – Japan’s nuke watchdog to stop troubled plutonium-burning test reactor over safety violations
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Monju ordered not to prepare for reactor restart
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Sellafield has need for up to £100m worth of steel boxes – Julian Whittle
• Europe: Bloomberg – France Starts Public Debate on Underground Nuclear Waste Site – Tara Patel

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

• Huffington Post – William Ostendorff, NRC Commissioner, Invested In Honeywell During Plant Lockout – Ryan Grim
• San Francisco Chronicle – Livermore lab jury awards $2.7 million – Bob Egelko
• KNDO/KNDU – Groundwater Contamination Cleanup at Hanford Ahead of Schedule – Emily Bowman
• OPB News – Some Hanford Water Cleanup Exceeds Expectations – Anna King
• Tri-City Herald – Former Hanford worker won’t receive part of timecard fraud settlement – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Nuclear society meeting planned May 21 in Richland
• Tri-City Herald – In Focus: New opening created at Hanford instead of wasted opportunity – Sid Morrison and Valoria Loveland
• Gillette News Record – New uranium mine opens – Alexandra Sukhomlinova Cockar, News Record Writer
• Rapid City Journal – Guest Editorial: – Do some research on your own – Mary Helen Pederson
• Wyoming Public Media – Gov. Mead releases WY energy policy – Irina Zhorov
• Los Alamos Study Group – Latest plan for Los Alamos plutonium facilities involves construction of underground factory “modules” – Greg Mello
• KUNM – Public Has More Time To Comment On New Uranium Mine Proposal – Carrie Jung
• Santa Fe New Mexican – Rep. Pearce files bill to expand WIPP mission
• KMOV – Environmentalists urge against landfill settlement – Jim Salter
• WBFO – Nuclear Hot Spots along the Great Lakes – Chris Caya
• Akron Beacon Journal blog – Radioactive waste from drilling hot topic with Ohio eco-groups – Bob Downing
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Oak Ridge guards union elects president – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL research reactor returns to operation following three-month maintenance outage – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UPF’s federal director said he’s ‘encouraged’ by contractor’s response to latest design concerns – Frank Munger
• Oak Ridge Today – B&W team says it’s the best choice for Y-12, Pantex contract – John Huotari
• Oak Ridger – Y-12 Historian: Brief overview of Oak Ridge history, Part I
• StateImpact Pennsylvania – Radioactive Drilling Waste Sparks Concern – Marie Cusick
• Washington Business Journal – Bidders get another shot at $23B contract for nuclear weapons’ protection – Jill R. Aitoro
• Energy Department – NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Lake Charles Carbon Capture and Sequestration Project (DOE/EIS-0464D) Pages 28205-28207 [FR DOC# 2013-11413]
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Hanford Page 28207 [FR DOC#
  
• Canada: Chronicle Journal – Leave it where it is – Ken Wasky
• Asia-Pacific: Yomiuri Shimbun – Halt restarts, Monju N-reactor to be told
• Central Asia: The Atlantic – Kazakhstan’s Painful Nuclear Past Looms Large Over Its Energy Future – Jillian Keenan
• South Asia: The Hindu – Sites scouted for biggest nuclear fuel fabrication plant – Mallikarjun
• Europe: GOV.UK – Views sought on managing radioactive waste safely site selection process and Government responds to plutonium reuse consultation
• Europe: East Anglian Daily Times – Sizewell A: New nuclear waste store could be set for decommissioned site – David Green
• Europe: in-cumbria – Businesses urged to bid for ‘huge’ Sellafield contract – Tom Little
• Europe: in-cumbria – Campaigners’ safety fears for beach near Sellafield – David Hemming
• Europe: Resource Magazine – Views sought on managing radioactive waste – Susanna Prouse
• Europe: Der Spiegel – Nuclear Headache: Task of Decommissioning Plants Is Herculean – Gerald Traufetter
• Europe: World Nuclear News – German demolition plans revealed

Monday, May 13, 2013

• Tri-City Herald – Hanford Health and Safety Expo runs Tuesday, Wednesday – Annette Cary
• Albuquerque Journal – Pearce files bill to expand WIPP mission
• DC Bureau – The Toxic Tycoon – Bobbye Pyke
• SurfKY News – McConnell, Paul and Whitfield Speak out on Paducah Doe Site
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Gray elected president of IGUA, Local 3 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Export specialist at ETEBA – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Guard vs. Guard – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Rad remnants of German waste ready for return – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Yager to serve on nuclear panel – Frank Munger
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Enough Said / Nuclear waste piles up
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – NRA wants Monju to remain shut down
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO seeks approval over dumping groundwater from Fukushima plant
• Asia-Pacific: China Post – Government lacks ability to handle nuclear waste: DPP – Katherine Wei