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NUCLEAR: FFTF reactor fuel shipped to Idaho | Tri-City Herald

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:33:47 -0000

The last of the fuel has been removed from Hanford’s shutdown Fast Flux Test Facility and shipped to Idaho almost a year ahead of a legal deadline.\n\nThe research reactor is being deactivated to allow it to be put into a long-term surveillance and maintenance mode at minimum cost by August 2009.\n\nThe Department of Energy was required under the Tri-Party Agreement to have the last of the fuel removed from the reactor in March 2009.

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DOE - Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Members Convene in Jordan For Second Steering Group Meeting

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:21:00 -0000

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Energy today announced continued progress at the conclusion of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership’s (GNEP’s) second Steering Group meeting. Representatives from twenty-eight countries and three intergovernmental organizations attended the two-day meeting in the Kingdom of Jordan hosted by the Jordanian Atomic Energy Commission.

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Event to honor fallen industry workers | chillicothegazette.com | Chillicothe Gazette

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:17:27 -0000

Former workers at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon will host a memorial to deceased nuclear industry workers on Memorial Day this year.
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Vina Colley, a former worker at the plant will host the memorial starting at 10:30 a.m. at Campy Oyo in Portsmouth.

Organizers in Piketon will join other workers at 14 nuclear sites throughout the country to remember former workers who have died due to illnesses they may have contracted while working at nuclear facilities operated by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Livermore lab fails terror test - ContraCostaTimes.com

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:09:52 -0000

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's protective force failed to deter a mock terrorist attack during a recent security drill, according to a Time magazine report online Monday.

During the simulated night-time attack several weeks ago, a team posing as terrorists was able to defeat the lab's defenses and get hold of their target of pretend nuclear material, according to unnamed sources.

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The "public" discussion about the Energy Department's Complex Transformation | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:58:15 -0000

On Tuesday, the Energy Department held public hearings in Washington on its plans to "transform" the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. Last time I went to Energy headquarters I was turned away because I wasn't a U.S. citizen. (See "Misadventures at the U.S. Energy Department.") This time they let me in without inquiring about my citizenship; they even let me roam the halls unescorted to look for a bathroom. Go figure.

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Flats secrecy taken too far - The Denver Post

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:32:08 -0000

Little about the history of the Rocky Flats nuclear trigger plant engenders the trust of Coloradans.

From its secretive Cold War era roots, to suppressed reports about contamination, to a stifled grand jury investigating environmental crimes, there remains a lingering suspicion that we still don't know everything about the former plant.

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PDF: National Nuclear Workers’ Memorial

Tue, 13 May 2008 09:07:35 -0000

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Department of Energy - Wind Energy Could Produce 20 Percent of U.S. Electricity By 2030

Tue, 13 May 2008 09:04:54 -0000

DOE Report Analyzes U.S. Wind Resources, Technology Requirements, and Manufacturing, Siting and Transmission Hurdles to Increasing the Use of Clean and Sustainable Wind Power

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knoxnews.com | UCS wants to delay projects at Y-12, Los Alamos

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:55:06 -0000

The Union of Concerned Scientists wants to postpone construction of a new production facility at Y-12 (Uranium Processing Facility or UPF) until the nation has a new nuclear policy and a better handle on the future of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. UCS also says it's "premature" to build the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR) Nuclear Facility at Los Alamos.

The new report, "The Cart Before the Horse: DOE's Plan for the Future of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex," is available

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HANFORD: New nonprofit supports ill nuclear workers | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:48:59 -0000

A nonprofit group has been formed to support ill nuclear workers who are applying for federal compensation or collecting benefits under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program.

The group, Cold War Patriots, is sponsored by Professional Case Management, a company that provides home health care for Hanford and other ill nuclear workers. Those who sign up for the program will receive a periodic newsletter. It also has a Web site that includes a forum to help workers or their survivors connect with former coworkers.

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Agency's purge of Flats documents triggers outcry - The Denver Post

Tue, 13 May 2008 07:47:43 -0000

The U.S. Department of Energy plans to digitally copy, then destroy 500 boxes of documents related to the former Rocky Flats nuclear- weapons plant, prompting vigorous objections from a local coalition and two Colorado congressmen.

The decision is "extremely troubling," U.S. Reps. Mark Udall and Ed Perlmutter said in a recent letter to the DOE Office of Legacy Management.

"These documents, which have been part of the public record for years, are critical to understanding the history of Rocky Flats and cleanup activities and should be preserved," the congressmen said.

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House Kicks Off Debate Over Future Of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex

Fri, 09 May 2008 09:03:40 -0000

WASHINGTON (May 7, 2008) — A House Armed Services Committee subcommittee today will kick off the debate over the future of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, the infrastructure used to design, build and maintain the thousands of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal. The subcommittee will review a Department of Energy (DOE) revitalization plan that would dramatically increase the complex's ability to produce new nuclear weapons.

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Speak now or for the next five years hold your peace

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:54:50 -0000

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has issued its 'Draft Supplement Analysis for the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada Test Site and Off-Site Locations in the State of Nevada.' The document, released on April 17, is the NNSA’s periodic report on the Nevada Test Site’s Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that was completed in 1996.

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The Columbus Dispatch : DOE plan for nuke waste is reshelved

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:50:59 -0000

WASHINGTON -- Some say a multibillion-dollar recycling center for nuclear waste would be an economic blessing for southern Ohio. Others see it as little more than a radioactive waste dump.

But both sides agree on at least one thing: The Department of Energy initiative will not happen anytime soon on the grounds of the former uranium-enrichment plant in Piketon -- or perhaps anywhere else.

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Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: Key GNEP Decision Left to Next President

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:42:13 -0000

With its Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) already facing resistance from Congress, the Bush administration has decided to leave to the next president key decisions affecting the domestic leg of the controversial program.

Administration officials have claimed that GNEP, which seeks to develop new nuclear technologies and new international nuclear fuel arrangements, will cut nuclear waste and decrease the risk that an anticipated growth in the use of nuclear energy worldwide could spur nuclear proliferation.

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Some Flats data public - The Denver Post

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:35:25 -0000

U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch on Monday agreed to release some documents in a long-sealed case involving the Rocky Flats grand jury, but it was a hollow victory for jurors.

Matsch ruled that court filings, memos and other ancillary information be released.

But he kept a lid on the testimony of jurors who think the Justice Department undermined their 2 1/2-year criminal investigation and instead cut a deal for an $18.5 million fine against Rockwell International, the operator of the former nuclear weapons plant in Jefferson County.

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aikenstandard: Senate panel boosts SRS budget total

Tue, 06 May 2008 09:02:57 -0000

The Senate Defense Authorization Bill that was passed out of the Senate Armed Services Committee had better news than expected for the Savannah River Site.\nThe portion of SRS funded through that part of the federal government was pegged to get an allocation next year of $1.28 billion which is $74 million more than was in President Bush's request for the Site.

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DOE: Senior DOE Official to Outline Cold War Era Nuclear Waste Cleanup Progress

Tue, 06 May 2008 08:54:23 -0000

WASHINGTON, DC – On Wednesday, May 7, 2008, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management (EM) James A. Rispoli will deliver remarks at the Environmental Management Advisory Board (EMAB) semi-annual public meeting in Washington, D.C. Assistant Secretary Rispoli will provide an update on the Bush Administration’s priorities for safely and responsibly cleaning up the Nation’s Cold War era nuclear waste and will outline the Department’s recent accomplishments across the DOE complex

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IEER: Draft Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic (SPEIS)

Fri, 02 May 2008 19:06:32 -0000

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SRS to receive more than $1 billion in federal funding

Fri, 02 May 2008 19:01:15 -0000

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today said he was very pleased Savannah River Site is in line to receive increased funding under the 2008 Defense Authorization bill.

Graham is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The bill passed committee unanimously and will now be sent to the full Senate.

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