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Good afternoon. The Commission meets today with members of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) to discuss several important issues, including fire protection, the safety research program, the containment accident pressure credit issue and the disposal of depleted uranium. NRC To Hold Conference June 23-24 On Spent Fuel Storage And Transportation Licensing Process The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a public conference June 23-24 at its agency headquarters in Rockville, Md., on the licensing process for spent nuclear fuel storage and transportation. NNSA Security Professional of the Year Awards presented to Two Oak Ridge Officials OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – Two Oak Ridge federal and contractor officials have been named as the recipients of the third annual Security Professional of the Year Award for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Battelle Awarded $2 Billion ID/IQ Government Contract COLUMBUS, Ohio – Battelle has been chosen as one of a select number of companies given the chance to bid on computer software, network, information, modeling and simulation programs for the federal government. NRC Proposes $14,000 Fine Against Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System For Misadministration Of Iodine-131 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed a civil penalty of $14,000 against the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) San Diego Healthcare System for two violations of NRC regulations after a thyroid cancer patient was administered iodine-131 through the wrong port of a feeding tube. NRC Activates Region III Incident Response Center Due To Alert At Fermi Nuclear Plant The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region III office in Lisle, Ill., has activated its incident response center and entered monitoring mode due to an Alert declared at the Fermi nuclear plant. The Alert - the second lowest of the NRC's four emergency level classifications – was declared at 4:17 a.m. after high winds caused some physical damage to the auxiliary building that houses certain safety-related equipment. There is no evidence of damage to safety equipment at this time and the utility continues to assess the extent of damage to the plant. The plant is currently shut down. NNSA and Rosatom Officials Share Nuclear Security Best Practices, Officials Visit Y-12 National Security Complex and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that a delegation of U.S. Department of Energy and State Atomic Energy Corporation "Rosatom" (ROSATOM) officials completed a week-long effort aimed at sharing best practices in nuclear security. NRC Bans Former Worker And Issues Order To Duke Energy The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has banned a former contract employee at Duke Energy's McGuire Nuclear Station and issued a Confirmatory Order to the company, which has agreed to a series of corrective actions. Physicists and medics set out strategy on physics for health Geneva 3 June 2010. Following a workshop hosted by the CERN European particle physics laboratory in February, doctors and physicists today published a strategy for harnessing physics for health. Techniques developed for physics research have a long history of application in medicine. Today's news recognises that synergy, and sets out a programme of strengthened collaboration. Díaz de la Rubia appointed deputy director for Science & Technology LLNL Director George Miller has appointed Tomás Díaz de la Rubia as the deputy director for Science & Technology (DDST) to steward the continued long-term health of science, technology and engineering at the Laboratory. Los Alamos expertise integral to Nuclear Energy Innovation Hub LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, June 3, 2010-Los Alamos National Laboratory materials scientists and computer modeling experts have been selected to participate in an effort by the U.S. Department of Energy to create a "virtual" reactor that could lead to the next generation of safer, longer-lasting, and less-expensive nuclear reactors. Glimpse of heavy electrons reveals "hidden order" - Researchers unravel 25-year-old physics mystery LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, June 3, 2010-Unconventional use of a well-known scientific instrument has helped scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and other institutions unravel a 25-year-old physics mystery and reveal a "hidden order" of the electronic structure inside an unusual superconducting material. Report urges better beryllium protection at Hanford Hanford needs to do more to prevent chronic beryllium disease in its workers, moving more quickly and aggressively to implement a new protection program, according to the report on a three-month investigation released Wednesday. Independent Inspection Finds Hanford Beryllium Program Improved, But More Work Needed Richland, WA – The Department of Energy today released findings and recommendations from an independent inspection of the Hanford Site Chronic Beryllium Disease Prevention Program (CBDPP) during an open meeting in Richland, Washington. DOE's Office of Health, Safety and Security completed the inspection on the Hanford site at the request of Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, Dr. Inés Triay. The team evaluated current practices for protecting workers against beryllium hazards, along with the beryllium medical surveillance programs at the site. While the team found Hanford's new, coordinated sitewide program to be an improvement, they also noted the program could have been implemented more quickly. First Images of Heavy Electrons in Action UPTON, NY - Using a microscope designed to image the arrangement and interactions of electrons in crystals, scientists have captured the first images of electrons that appear to take on extraordinary mass under certain extreme conditions. The technique reveals the origin of an unusual electronic phase transition in one particular material, and opens the door to further explorations of the properties and functions of so-called heavy fermions. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, McMaster University, and ["http://www.lanl.gov" target="'blank">Los Alamos National Laboratory describe the results in the June 3, 2010, issue of Nature. Licensing Board To Hear Oral Argument June 8-9 In Custer, S.D.,On Powertech USA Uranium Recovery License Application An Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) panel will hear oral argument June 8-9 in Custer, S.D., regarding requests from the Oglala Sioux Tribe and a group termed the Consolidated Petitioners for a hearing on the Powertech USA uranium recovery license application for sites near Custer. The Board is an independent quasi-judicial arm of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that decides legal challenges to applications and proposed licensing actions by the NRC. NRC To Brief Public On Westinghouse Request To Dispose Of Radioactive Waste In Idaho Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will hold a public meeting June 9 in Bruneau, Idaho, to brief members of the public on a proposal by Westinghouse Electric Co. to dispose of low-activity radioactive materials at the U.S. Ecology Disposal Facility in Grand View, Idaho. LLNL aids in maritime exercise to screen small vessels for radiological cargo SAN DIEGO, CALIF. - More than 130 trained maritime law enforcement and first responder personnel from federal, state, and local agencies participated in an operational maritime exercise in San Diego as part of a larger state of California Golden Guardian 2010 exercise on May 18. New 'doubly magic' research reveals role of nuclear shell OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 1, 2010 - Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the University of Tennessee (UT) and six collaborating universities have performed an unprecedented nuclear reaction experiment that explores the unique properties of the "doubly magic" radioactive isotope of 132Sn, or tin-132. Argonne scientist receives Humboldt Research Award ARGONNE, Ill. (June 1, 2010) - Julius Jellinek of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has been elected a recipient of the prestigious Humboldt Research Award, known also as the Humboldt Prize, by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany for his extensive groundbreaking work in physics and chemistry of finite-size systems. NRC Seeks Public Comment On Proposed Rule On Security Of Radioactive Materials The Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeks public comment on proposed new regulations that would codify and expand upon recent security measures the agency has imposed for certain sensitive radioactive materials. The OPERA experiment at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory After seven years since the start of construction of the OPERA experiment and three years of operation in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), one of the many billions of muonneutrinos produced at the CERN accelerator complex (CNGS) has likely "transformed" into a tau-neutrino that has been observed by the OPERA apparatus. This is an extremely important result. The observation of a few more of these tau-neutrino events over a large number of conventional muon-neutrino interactions will represent the long awaited proof of the direct conversion of one type of neutrino into another: the so called "neutrino oscillation" mechanism. NNSA Hosts 26 Countries for Nuclear Emergency Response Training WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced today that it recently completed an International Search and Consequence Management workshop in Las Vegas, Nev. Through this first of its kind workshop, NNSA brought together 92 officials from 26 countries and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to interact with NNSA experts to improve understanding of the processes and techniques used by the U.S. for nuclear and radiological incidents. New NRC Resident Inspector Assigned to Beaver Valley Nuclear Plant Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials in King of Prussia, Pa., have selected Erin Bonney as the new resident inspector at the Beaver Valley nuclear power plant in Shippingport, Pa. She joins NRC Senior Resident Inspector Dave Werkheiser at the two-unit site, which is operated by First Energy Nuclear Operating Company. Audit Report on "Waste Processing and Recovery Act Acceleration Efforts for Contact- Handled Transuranic Waste at the Hanford Site" A prior audit, DOE/IG-0624, October 23, 2003, "Transuranic Waste Retrieval and Processing at the Hanford Site" determined that the Department of Energy (Department) faced significant challenges in its efforts to process transuranic (TRU) waste at the Hanford Site (Hanford). Specifically, processing of transuranic waste had been far slower than expected. Further, the Department had not performed a comprehensive study to determine optimal processing levels needed to meet at minimal cost, regulatory milestones and cleanup goals. |
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