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Mon Jun 29

• Protesters Demonstrate Against Demolition of Lab's Bevatron - The Daily Californian: A number of residents held a press conference in Downtown Berkeley Tuesday evening to protest the demolition of a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory building known to contain radioactive materials. Concrete shielding blocks in the Bevatron, the lab's 180-foot particle accelerator, became mildly radioactive during the past 40 years of use. Residents voiced concerns in front of Old City Hall that transporting these materials may affect the health of Berkeley residents and cause damage to roads. Annotated link http://www.dii go.com/bookmar k/http%3A%2F%2 Fwww.dailycal. org%2Farticle% 2F105955%2Fpro testers_demons trate_against_ demolition_of_ lab_s

Wed Jun 24

• Department decides on how to decommission 4 reactors 062309 - The Augusta Chronicle: After years of study into the best way to decommission Savannah River Site's obsolete Cold War nuclear reactors, the Energy Department has settled on a plan to fill them with concrete and leave them in place forever. According to an Environmental Bulletin published Friday, the department 9;s Early Action Proposed Plan -- which is out for public comment through Aug. 3 -- involves "in-situ& quot; (in-place) decommissionin g as the preferred option for C, K, L and R reactors. Such a plan, which is similar to one in place for P-Reactor, involves removing portions of the reactor buildings and maintaining the structural integrity of above-ground portions for at least 200 years, the bulletin said.

Mon Jun 22

• Sale of nuclear clean-up authority attracts 13 bidders - Business News, Business - The Independent: The sale of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), the Government-own ed nuclear clean-up business, has attracted 13 bids. A source close to the auction said that bids were submitted last month, with the shortlisted parties expected to be informed early next month. However, the bids are thought to be around the £30m-40m mark, when adviser Greenhill had hoped for closer to £50m. The bidders include: Amec, the Ftse-100 engineer
• A potential nuclear mess - Las Vegas Sun: The companies that own most of the nation?s aging nuclear reactors are not putting aside an adequate amount of money to properly close them when the time comes, an Associated Press review of financial records found. Part of the problem is that the nuclear industry has been battered, along with everyone else, by the stock market and the sour economy. Critics, however, say that the industry has never put enough money aside to close plants. Instead of planning for closure, plant owners are delaying the inevitable, with the help of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The NRC has given 19 plants permission to mothball their reactors for as many as 60 years before closing them. The commission has also granted 20-year license extensions for 54 reactors, more than half of the nation?s plants, which could mean closure would come in 80 years.

Sun Jun 21

• The Associated Press: AP IMPACT: Funds to shut nuclear plants fall short: The companies that own almost half the nation's nuclear reactors are not setting aside enough money to dismantle them, and many may sit idle for decades and pose safety and security risks as a result, an Associated Press investigation has found. The shortfalls are caused not by fluctuating appetites for nuclear power but by the stock market and other investments, which have suffered huge losses over the past year and damaged the plants' savings, and by the soaring costs of decommissionin g. At 19 nuclear plants, owners have won approval to idle reactors for as long as 60 years, presumably enough time to allow investments to recover and eventually pay for dismantling the plants and removing radioactive material.

Sun Jun 14

• Revealed: the unreported nuclear accident - Channel 4 News: A disaster narrowly avoided, a danger only spotted by chance - yet the company involved faces no prosecution. Channel 4 News tells the untold story of Sizewell A, one Britain's older nuclear power plants. These are details that, but for a Freedom of Information request, would have remained secret. Two years ago, a burst pipe inside the Sizewell A station led to a huge leak from the pond used to cool thousands of nuclear fuel rods. Sizewell lies in Suffolk, on the East coast of England. If the nuclear fuel rods had caught fire, the resulting radioactive plume could have landed on villages from Southwold and Dunwich in the North, to Thorpeness and Aldburgh in the South, and inland to Leiston and Saxmundum.

Fri Jun 12

• R. Baker & Son All Industrial Services Safety Record Featured in Hard Hat News: Hard Hat News recently featured a story on R. Baker & Son All Industrial Services' s impeccable safety record. R. Baker & Son announced that 2008 marked its fifth year of nonrecordable OSHA incidents; a record that can only be accomplished through the dedication to safety and teamwork of our employees, subcontractors and clients.

Mon Jun 1

• DOCUMENTATION: What is the process for decommissionin g a NetBackup 6.5 media server?

Tue May 12

• Ex-Yankee owner in High Court today: Times Argus Online: The Vermont Supreme Court will hear arguments today on how much money the state owes the former owner of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in interest on a tax refund stemming from contributions the former owner made to the plant's decommissionin g fund in 1992. The issue involves the 1992 tax return filed by Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp., according to Danforth Cardozo, an attorney with the Vermont Department of Taxes. Cardozo said that the state has already given Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. $800,000 in a tax refund in 2005, and the company is seeking interest dating back to 1992.
• Hanford News: Demolition being considered rather than sealing Hanford nuclear reactor sites: The Department of Energy is considering tearing down Hanford's K Reactors that stand on the banks of the Columbia River rather than sealing them up for 75 years. If the plan goes forward, it could lead to tearing down eight of the nine plutonium production reactors along the river instead of leaving them "cocooned ." Only B Reactor, which is expected to be preserved as a museum, would remain standing. Demolishing the reactors now instead of waiting 75 years to dispose of them could "save a ton of money" in long-term costs, said Dave Brockman, manager of the DOE Hanford Richland Operations Office.

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