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Geotimes
May 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Yucca Mountain e-Mails Reviewed The content of e-mails sent by U.S. Geological Survey employees that raised concern over work at Yucca Mountain -- site of the controversial future nuclear waste repository in Nevada -- should not affect the final scientific assessments of the site, according to an analysis.   |
Geotimes
December 2004
Laura Stafford |
Yucca on hold The Department of Energy likely will not meet its 2010 deadline to open up the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage site. |
Wired
April 2003
David Ewing Duncan |
Do-or-Die at Yucca Mountain The regulatory tug-of-war over Nevada's nuclear waste dump has dragged on for decades. Meanwhile, temporary sites across the country are overflowing with radioactive fuel rods -- making them perfect targets for terror. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Megan Sever |
A Loophole Threatens Yucca Mountain The House of Representatives recently passed its version of the energy and water bill, providing $749 million less than the Department of Energy says is necessary to push forward with the nation's nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, threatening to delay the projedt indefinitely. |
Mother Jones
Sep/Oct 2001
Jon Christensen |
Yucca Mountain: Nuclear Roulette The government is relying on some Vegas-style oddsmaking as it moves ahead with plans to bury deadly radioactive waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain... |
Geotimes
January 2005
Fred Schwab |
Mount Everest, Nevada The United States entered the nuclear age more than a half-century ago, but has not yet resolved what to do with nuclear waste. |
Geotimes
February 2005
Lubick & Sever |
An Austere Budget for 2006 The overall winners in the Bush administration's budget proposal for next year were, once again, the departments of Defense and Homeland Security. For science agencies, it was a mixed bag, with global observation systems faring well, but with research in energy resources taking some hard hits. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Lubick & Sever |
Homeland security tops Bush budget, again As the pundits decry President Bush's latest deficit spending, the geosciences have taken a hit. |
Chemistry World
October 7, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
Los Alamos lab's safety lapses faulted for radioactive leak A radioactive material leak that affected 22 workers and closed the US's only permanent nuclear waste repository was likely the result of a failure to follow safety procedures. |
Geotimes
February 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
USGS Says no Hush Orders Given The U.S. Geological Survey is not muzzling scientists, agency officials say. |
Chemistry World
July 31, 2006
Katharine Sanderson |
Bury Radioactive Waste, UK Government Told Radioactive waste should be stored deep underground at sites where local communities have had the opportunity to participate in, and even withdraw from, the planning process. |
Reason
November 2005
Tim Cavanaugh |
Subsidized Spin The Pentagon is spending $300,000 to send mid-career scientists, researchers, and engineers to a workshop at the television and screen writing school with the hope that some of these scientists will be inspired to produce a screenplay that paints scientists as cool. |
Geotimes
July 2006
Linda Rowan |
Expanding Nuclear Options The Bush administration recently proposed significant changes to U.S. nuclear policy to resolve some of our current waste disposal problems and to accelerate the development of new nuclear power capacity. |
Chemistry World
February 6, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Nuclear Storage: Ready, Willing, Able, and Undecided A report into the UK's long term nuclear waste storage plans has concluded there are no insurmountable technical barriers to storing nuclear waste deep underground. Between a third and two-thirds of the UK is geologically suitable for storing waste. |
Geotimes
December 2003
David Applegate |
Water is for Fightin' The High Plains aquifer could be a casualty in a political battle to prevent coordinated scientific characterization of this important groundwater system. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
Prachi Patel |
Should You Still Choose Nuclear Engineering as a Career? Despite Fukushima, nuclear engineering still promises a stable career |
Geotimes
February 2006 |
Budget Blues and Bonuses In his State of the Union Address, President Bush gave the public a sneak-peak at his funding priorities for fiscal year 2007 in the sciences: In a nutshell... Renewable resources, alternative energy shifts... Other basic research... etc. |
Salon.com
July 21, 2000
Fiona Morgan |
Secret costs Scientists say the security crackdown at nuclear weapons labs is the real national security risk. |
Geotimes
August 2003
Lisa M. Pinsker |
Open house informs public, cheers scientists Amid downsizing and a threatened budget cut, the mood has been dim at the U.S. Geological Survey. Since the early 1990s, its staff has dwindled from as many as 2,500 to 600. But, from May 30 to June 1, the office flung open its doors to the public and let some light in, lifting the spirits of its scientists. |
Popular Mechanics
December 1, 2009
Peter Kelemen |
What East Anglia's E-mails Really Tell Us About Climate Change What stolen e-mails from climate scientists corresponding with East Anglia University tell us about global warming and what they don't. |
Salon.com
December 10, 2001
Damien Cave |
Nukes now! Post-Sept. 11, isn't it time to get off our fossil fuel fixation and take another look at nuclear power? |
National Defense
January 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Future of Nuclear Energy Hinges on Recycling Technology The industry's Achilles' heel is the radioactive waste that is produced in the process of generating power, experts say. |
Geotimes
May 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Bush to Nominate New Director for U.S. Geological Survey Dirk Kempthorne was nominated as Secretary of the Interior, after Gale Norton resigned from the position March 10. Now, in the latest shakeup in the U.S. Department of the Interior, the USGS might soon be under new leadership. |
Chemistry World
February 11, 2010
Anna Lewcock |
Science advice rules could do more harm than good Eminent UK scientists have raised concerns that recent moves to ensure the independence of scientific advice in government may in fact further threaten the relationship between the two communities. |
Geotimes
March 2003
Greg Peterson |
Congress confronts a depleting aquifer Approximately 30 percent of the groundwater used for irrigation in the U.S. comes from a single source: the High Plains Aquifer. In March, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources passed a bill that provides a scientific basis for extending the usable life of the aquifer. |
Wired
February 2005
Schwartz & Reiss |
Nuclear Now! How clean, green atomic energy can stop global warming. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2011 |
What Next for Nuclear? IEEE Spectrum asked the experts how to build a safer and stronger nuclear industry |
Geotimes
March 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Patrick Leahy: Traversing Boundaries Since he stepped into the position of acting director of the USGS, Leahy has traveled widely and visited a variety of sites across the US and abroad, addressing the survey's many and varied activities. That variety reflects the evolving interests and career of this hydrologist-turned-manager. |
Geotimes
October 2004
Megan Sever |
Mount St. Helens Alert Level Lowered On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey lowered the alert level for Mount St. Helens in Washington from a Level 3 Volcano Alert to a Level 2 Volcano Advisory. |
Popular Mechanics
February 27, 2008
Joanna Borns |
Florida Outage Aside, New Plants Pave Clean Road for Nuke Power The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) just offered its annual outlook for the future of nuclear power, and it's optimistic. |
Chemistry World
February 15, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
UK Nuclear Policy Setback UK government plans for a new generation of nuclear power stations have suffered a setback after a public consultation on nuclear power was condemned by a High Court judge as 'inadequate' and 'misleading'. |
Industrial Physicist
Aug/Sep 2003 |
Letters New thinking?... Relativity and clocks... New bachelor?... etc. |
Information Today
April 26, 2010 |
DOE Launches Free Portal for Green Energy Research The free public portal was launched on the 40 th Anniversary of Earth Day by theU.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information within the Office of Science. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2011
Prachi Patel |
The Aging Nuclear Workforce A third of all workers in U.S. nuclear plants will be eligible to retire in the next five years. |
Chemistry World
May 2007 |
Comment: A Matter of Ethics Scientists should embrace a universal ethical code. |
Science News
May 9, 2009
Charles Niederriter |
At Nobel Conference, Scientists And Public Converse The author, a physics professor at Gustavus Adolphus College directs the Nobel Conference, an annual forum where scientists and the public discuss a contemporary scientific topic. |
Geotimes
August 2005
Katie Donnelly |
The State of Nuclear Nonproliferation Several nuclear-related topics not only are important to the nation's security, but also are scientifically interesting. |
Information Today
October 1, 2007 |
U.S. Department of Energy Launches New Patent Web Site The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the launch of a Web site, DOepatents, which allows search and retrieval of information from a collection of more than 20,000 patent records. |
The Motley Fool
April 1, 2004
Rich Smith |
Will America Go Nuclear? Seven companies join forces to design America's next-generation reactor. |
Geotimes
September 2003 |
Geomedia Book Review: The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science... Maps: Lewis and Clark, USGS maps... DVD: Glacier DVD accolade |
Salon.com
May 10, 2002
Douglas Cruickshank |
How do you design a "Keep Out!" sign to last 10,000 years? The Department of Energy is creating a vast monument to scare future trespassers away from radioactive waste sites. Their plan: A granite Stonehenge thing with warnings in Navajo... |
