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Your Industry News - NNSA Saves $4 million Disposing of Contaminated Excess Machine Too... - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 21 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 21 Jun 10
     
    "The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that it has removed contaminated excess machine tools at Sandia National Laboratories in California under a low-cost plan that saved taxpayers millions by forging an innovative partnership with an outside vendor. "After overcoming several disposition challenges, we successfully executed a strategy that resulted in significant savings to NNSA and American taxpayers," said Randal S. Scott, Deputy Associate Administrator for Infrastructure and Environment. "The removal of the contaminated tools at Sandia California is another example of NNSA's commitment to turning a Cold War-era nuclear weapons complex into a 21st century nuclear security enterprise." Sandia California's Building 979 housed machine tools that had been used to support a wide array of research and development projects since the early 1990s. That work was completed in recent years, resulting in a determination that the tools were no longer needed by the Department of Energy and NNSA and could be disposed of as excess. "
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Oak Ridge firm recycling Sandia's dirty tools | knoxnews.com - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 28 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 28 Jun 10
     
    "The NNSA announced last week that it had gotten rid of some contaminated "excess tools" at Sandia National Labs in California under a "low-cost plan" that saved taxpayers about $4 million -- the cost of disposing of the equipment at the Nevada Test Site. The savings came about because an Oak Ridge company -- Toxco Materials Management Center -- agreed to take title to Sandia's hot tools, with plans to clean them up and sell them."
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NRC - NRC Launches New Open Government Web Page with Citizen Engagement Tool - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 08 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 08 Feb 10
     
    "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today launched an Open Government Web page to serve as the gateway for agency activities related to the White House's Open Government initiative. The NRC is actively supporting the open government initiative and encouraging public participation through a new user-friendly citizen engagement tool accessible through this page. The Web page is at: http://www.nrc.gov/open.html. The public, including NRC employees, can use the tool to easily share ideas and comments on how the agency can work better with others inside and outside government, improve the availability and quality of information, and be more innovative and efficient. "
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Is It Time to Restart the Uranium Industry in the U.S.?: Scientific American - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 06 Jul 10 - Cached
  • FRESH FUEL: A proposal to build a uranium mill in Pi�on Ridge, CO, the nation's first mill in 25 years, could provide new jobs and economic benefits, but may also cause health and environmental impacts, experts say.WikimediaCommons/Alberto Otero Garc aArticleImages = new Array; aArticleImages[0] = new Object; aArticleImages[0].title = "FRESH FUEL:"; aArticleImages[0].caption = "A proposal to build a uranium mill in Pi�on Ridge, CO, the nation\'s first mill in 25 years, could provide new jobs and economic benefits, but may also cause health and environmental impacts, experts say."; aArticleImages[0].credit = "WikimediaCommons/Alberto Otero Garc"; aArticleImages[0].url = "http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ranger_Uranium_Mine.jpg"; aArticleImages[0].alt = ""; aArticleImages[0].src = "/media/inline/is-it-time-to-restart-the-uranium-industry-in-the-us_1.jpg"; aArticleImages[0].thisImageNumber = "1"; .atools_holder {border:#e4e0dd 1px solid; width:78px; background-color:#e4e0dd; color:#999; text-align:center; margin:0 0 5px 5px;} .atools_holder {text-align:-moz-center} .atools {width:98%; padding:3px 1px 0 0} .atools {text-align:-moz-center} .atools img {margin-bottom:5px; display:block;} .badge {padding: 2px; background-color:#fff; width:54px;margin-bottom:3px; left: 50%;} #atools_sponsor {width:88px;} #atools_sponsor span {font-size:8px !important; color:#999; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; text-align:center} var newURL = ""; newURL = location.href.replace(/&[e|s]c=[A-Za-z0-9_]{2,15}/,''); //strip ec or sc codes newURL = newURL.replace(/&page=[0-9]{1,2}/,''); //strip pagination from articles newURL = newURL.replace(/&SID=mail/,''); //strip SID from mailarticle feature var newTitle = document.title; //alert(newURL) digg_url = newURL; 0diggsdigg stumble_url = newURL;
  • Energy Net on 06 Jul 10
     
    "In Colorado's far western reaches is a valley called Paradox. Unlike most, it is cut crosswise through the middle. The Dolores River runs perpendicular through it, creating a geologic anomaly that is also the valley's namesake. Brilliant orange cliffs cradle the valley floor under the white gaze of Utah's La Sal Mountains. Sagebrush plains and irrigated hay fields are broken only by herds of cows and the tiny hamlets of Bedrock and Paradox. Within the region's perplexing geology run rich veins of uranium, fuel for the nation's incipient nuclear renaissance. A proposal to build the nation's first uranium mill in 25 years has divided the community there between those who see good jobs and a stable economy and neighbors fearful of uranium's history of health impacts, environmental harm and unstable prices. Both sides recognize that the proposed Piñon Ridge uranium mill - fed by ore from up to 41 nearby mines - could transform this quiet corner of Colorado into the fountainhead of the nuclear fuel industry."
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NRC: News Release - Region II-10-036 - NRC Issues Confirmatory Order to Areva NP Nuclea... - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 03 May 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 03 May 10
     
    "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a Confirmatory Order to Areva NP's nuclear fuel processing facility in Richland, Wash., which has agreed to a series of corrective actions related to materials safety. The settlement was achieved under the NRC's Alternative Dispute Resolution process, which was initiated at the request of Areva NP to address a willful violation of a facility safety procedure. On Jan. 6, the NRC notified Areva that an agency investigation determined that a plant employee had willfully defeated the function of a tool relied upon for safety. The tool, an electronic sensor known as a vacuum wand interlock, is used to transfer uranium powder from a drum into the plant's processing system. During the powder processing, operators must block the wand's eye with their body to activate the vacuum transfer system. The employee deliberately bypassed the tool's safety function on April 21, 2009 by taping the wand's eye, violating an operating procedure. Even though the wand was used improperly, sufficient safety controls to prevent accident scenarios remained in place."
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Diablo Canyon and PG&E deal with water-cooling mandate - Local - SanLuisObispo.com - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 17 May 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 17 May 10
     
    "It must stop using a once-through water system by 2024, but PG&E will not know for several years what will replace it By David Sneed | dsneed@thetribunenews.com Comments (18) | Recommend (0) Bookmark and Share Add to My Yahoo! email this story to a friend E-Mail print story Print Text Size: tool name close tool goes here It's hard to miss Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant when passing it by air or sea. One immediately sees the hulking containment domes that house and protect the plant's two nuclear reactors rising above the squat, brown generator building. Attention is soon drawn to another sight - a massive plume of whitewater cascading from the plant's cooling water system. When operating at full power, Diablo Canyon uses 2.5 billion gallons of seawater a day to condense steam after it has passed through the two electrical generators. On May 4, the state Water Resources Control Board adopted a new policy that declared these once-through cooling systems used at Diablo Canyon and 18 other coastal power plants in California to be antiquated. The board gave the utilities that own those plants deadlines for installing less environmentally damaging cooling systems. "
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TheSpec.com - Businesses feel nuclear uncertainty - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 11 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 11 Jan 10
     
    Hold on reactor development worries companies, researchers A half-million-dollar investment and a whole lot of hope are keeping All Tool Manufacturing afloat as the nuclear power industry weathers a stormy period in Ontario.
  • Energy Net on 11 Jan 10
     
    Hold on reactor development worries companies, researchers A half-million-dollar investment and a whole lot of hope are keeping All Tool Manufacturing afloat as the nuclear power industry weathers a stormy period in Ontario.
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Social Networking for Nuclear Decommissioning - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 09 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 09 Nov 09
     
    Faced with the challenges of delivering the right training to the right people, the IAEA´s International Decommissioning Network (IDN) has begun using popular social networking tools to connect with more than 400 nuclear professionals in 60 countries all year round. Described as a network of networks, the IDN brings together experts in the decommissioning of nuclear facilities so they can share ideas and learn from each other. It has proven difficult for some young nuclear professionals who are actually involved in day-to-day decommissioning to attend workshops, seminars and global site visits. So the IDN´s coordinators at the IAEA are using non-traditional approaches to engage them.
  • Energy Net on 09 Nov 09
     
    Faced with the challenges of delivering the right training to the right people, the IAEA´s International Decommissioning Network (IDN) has begun using popular social networking tools to connect with more than 400 nuclear professionals in 60 countries all year round. Described as a network of networks, the IDN brings together experts in the decommissioning of nuclear facilities so they can share ideas and learn from each other. It has proven difficult for some young nuclear professionals who are actually involved in day-to-day decommissioning to attend workshops, seminars and global site visits. So the IDN´s coordinators at the IAEA are using non-traditional approaches to engage them.
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NRC: Risk Management and Security - is it Time for a Recalibration? - Nuclear Power Ind... - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 30 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 30 Nov 09
     
    Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. I am pleased to have the opportunity to participate in this important conference. The concept of managing risk to avoid adverse consequences has been with us since the first human beings appeared on the planet. Over time, the application of the principles of risk management to ever broader fields of activity has been constant and is still expanding. Some view this as progress and others as the unwelcome price we have to pay for the increasing complexity of our existence. In the regulatory field, the concept of risk as a management tool is relatively recent. At the NRC, it was not until 1995 that the Commission issued a policy statement that encouraged the application of probabilistic risk assessment "as an extension and enhancement of traditional regulation." As a regulator and based on the agency's experience over the last two decades, I strongly support the use of risk analysis as a means to focus on the events and activities that pose the greatest risks to public health and safety and to ease unnecessary burdens on licensees. I believe we have come a long way since 1995. I also believe, however, that we can and should expand the systematic use of risk analysis to areas where, up to now, it has been used intermittently. I am referring here to the security arena. This will be a difficult task, however, and will require the concerted effort of the NRC and the industry to carry it out.
  • Energy Net on 30 Nov 09
     
    Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. I am pleased to have the opportunity to participate in this important conference. The concept of managing risk to avoid adverse consequences has been with us since the first human beings appeared on the planet. Over time, the application of the principles of risk management to ever broader fields of activity has been constant and is still expanding. Some view this as progress and others as the unwelcome price we have to pay for the increasing complexity of our existence. In the regulatory field, the concept of risk as a management tool is relatively recent. At the NRC, it was not until 1995 that the Commission issued a policy statement that encouraged the application of probabilistic risk assessment "as an extension and enhancement of traditional regulation." As a regulator and based on the agency's experience over the last two decades, I strongly support the use of risk analysis as a means to focus on the events and activities that pose the greatest risks to public health and safety and to ease unnecessary burdens on licensees. I believe we have come a long way since 1995. I also believe, however, that we can and should expand the systematic use of risk analysis to areas where, up to now, it has been used intermittently. I am referring here to the security arena. This will be a difficult task, however, and will require the concerted effort of the NRC and the industry to carry it out.
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NRC: Spent Fuel Storage - 2010 Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Licensing Process ... - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 14 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 14 Jun 10
     
    "Some links on this page are to documents in our Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), and others are to documents in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). ADAMS documents are provided in either PDF or Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). To obtain free viewers for displaying these formats, see our Plugins, Viewers, and Other Tools page. If you have questions about search techniques or problems with viewing or printing documents from ADAMS, please contact the Public Document Room staff. Date: Wednesday, June 23 and Thursday, June 24, 2010 Location: NRC Headquarters Two White Flint Auditorium"
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NRC: Slide Presentations - 12/11/08 Briefing on Uranium Recovery - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 20 Dec 08
     
    All links on this page are to documents in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). See our Plugins, Viewers, and Other Tools page for more information. Part 1 - Morning Session: * NRC Staff Presentation Part 2 - Afternoon Session: * State Government Representatives: Donald R. McKenzie - Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality * Other Stakeholders: Katie Sweeney, National Mining Association Michelle R. Rehmann, Uranium Program Manager, International Forum on Sustainable Options for Uranium Production (IFSOUP)
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Nuclear plants shut by mass strikes over foreign workers | News - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 03 Feb 09
     
    Two nuclear plants were hit by wildcat strikes today as the foreign workers row escalated. Nine hundred contract workers walked out at Sellafield in Cumbria and Heysham nuclear facility in Lancashire. Management said radioactive waste was safe but ministers were alarmed by disruption at such sensitive sites. Another 200 employees downed tools at Fiddlers Ferry power station in Widnes, Cheshire, and manual workers did the same for 24 hours at Grangemouth oil refinery and power stations in Longannet and Staythorpe. Unions in Scotland were holding mass meetings with a total of about 2,500 workers.
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Letter: Don't build new nuclear plants |  The Republican Eagle  | Red Wing, M... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 02 Dec 08
     
    During the presidential campaign John McCain stated that a partial solution to the energy crises would be to build 45 new nuclear plants. The suggestion did not generate a dialogue among either party and for good reason. There has not been a new nuclear plant built in the United States for 28 years. As a result, we have no nuclear "equipment" to technology supply source. Even if it was agreed to build one, it would take a half dozen years, to "tool up" to buy the necessary "hardware."
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Foes slam nuclear waste plan | The Tennessean - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 29 Nov 08
     
    A Bush administration project aimed at reprocessing nuclear waste in a global sharing arrangement is bringing opposition that's not always from anti-nuclear advocates as public hearings come to Oak Ridge and Paducah next week. Both of those locations are potential receiving sites for what could be domestic and foreign waste. In the case of Oak Ridge, at least part of the highly radioactive materials could travel through Nashville. Advertisement The Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest public power producer, has been working with the U.S. Department of Energy on the feasibility of the long-controversial practice of re-tooling nuclear waste.
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Report: Safety not 'core value' at NIST : Science and Environment : Boulder Daily Camera - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 11 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 11 Nov 08
     
    The National Institute of Standards and Technology doesn't put a priority on safety and doesn't give researchers and scientists the tools they need to be safe, according to a report released Friday by a blue-ribbon commission charged with analyzing the adequacy of NIST's safety programs. U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez formed the commission in August after a plutonium spill June 9 on Boulder's NIST campus. The commission's report said the staff at NIST "is eager, willing and ready to embrace a safety culture," but that it needs leadership to make that happen.
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knoxnews.com |Burial secrets at Oak Ridge - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 28 Oct 08
     
    After a recent column and blog post about the troubles of Trench 13, I heard from a number of folks with stories about the nuclear burial grounds at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. One gentleman, who worked initially in the "laborers' gang" at the lab burial grounds (known as Solid Waste Storage Areas) and who later worked in the office where truck shipments were recorded, said folks might be surprised to know what's deposited in trenches and wells. "We buried all kinds of cars, trucks. We've buried cranes," the former worker said. On one occasion, a truck loaded with hot tools from a nuclear reactor in New York set off alarms before it ever arrived at the monitoring station, he said.
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Radioactive kegs menace public, hike recycling costs | Chronicle | Chron.com - Houston ... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 15 Nov 08
     
    Improper disposal of industrial equipment and medical scanners containing radioactive materials is letting nuclear waste trickle into scrap smelters, contaminating consumer goods, threatening the $140 billion trade in recycled metal and spurring the United Nations to call for increased screening. Last year, U.S. Customs rejected 64 shipments of radioactive goods at the nation's ports, including purses, cutlery, sinks and hand tools, according to data released by the Department of Homeland Security in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. India was the largest source, followed by China.
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Radiation in Your Backyard... Sometimes - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 18 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 18 Oct 08
     
    Modern nuclear techniques are giving the world's scientists and regulators better tools to fight pollution and other environmental threats - even those that may be lurking naturally at the beach or near your backyard. Many of the world's top "radioecologists" are in Morocco this week to assess a dynamic picture.
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Robots to work in Dounreay's radioactive cells - John O'Groat Journal and Caithness Cou... - 0 views

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shared by Energy Net on 10 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 10 Oct 08
     
    ROBOTS are being employed to help clean up Dounreay. Decommissioning bosses have turned to specialist demolition firm Brokk to supply the remotely-operated equipment that can work inside cells and a pond where radiation levels are still too high for human access. The robots - mounted on tracks like a construction excavator and powered by electricity - have been fitted with specially-designed tools. They will go inside the cells and pond to cut up and package the vessels and pipes where more than 10,000 spent fuel elements were dissolved and reprocessed before the plant shut down in 1996.
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NRC: Background, Status, and Issues Related to the Regulation of Advanced Spent Nuclear... - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 27 Sep 08
     
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