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Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

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Name: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Glitch with Y-12's old way of casting uranium, too

As if to show that not all casting problems are associated with the newly introduced microwave technology , there was an incident in mid-April involving the traditional casting of enriched uranium with an induction furnance. "Last week, a loaded stack ... [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - May 19 2013]

Entities: Uranium, Crucible, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Fissile Material, Enriched Uranium

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Another issue with microwave casting at Y-12

An April 12 report by staff of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board outlined yet another technical issue in the ongoing effort to introduce microwave casting into the uranium production activities at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant. The latest ... [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - May 19 2013]

Entities: Microwave, CAStor, Uranium

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

US Drug Enforcement Administration

Bradley gets OK for drug drop and other news from areas around Chattanooga

CLEVELAND, Tenn. — The Bradley County Sheriff's Office has gotten the OK from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to operate a permanent collection site for unused prescription drugs, according to a news release.A collection container is in place ... [Published Chattanooga Times Free Press - May 06 2013]

Entities: Human Trafficking, Drugs, Civil War, US Drug Enforcement Administration

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Y-12 worker suffered chemical burns in accident

Aerial photograph of the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge.Photo by The Knoxville News Sentinel /Chattanooga Times Free Press.OAK RIDGE — A Y-12 worker received chemical burns to his face and eyelids while checking a problem with a system in the ... [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - May 06 2013]

Entities: Chemical, Workers, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 2 reports

Y-12 worker suffers lithium burns to face during operation at Beta-2 facility

_ A Y-12 worker received chemical burns when lithium hydride powder discharged into his face while he was checking out a problem with a system in the plant's Beta-2 facility (Building 9204-2) that's used to recycle the material.Information about the incident, ... [Published Knox News Sentinel - May 05 2013]

Entities: Lithium, Workers, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

What's up with the off-and-on-again operations at Y-12's Oxide Conversion Facility?

The Oxide Conversion Facility in the 9212 complex at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant has been authorized for operation, apparently for the first time in about a year, but it's still not clear what's driving the restart and a Y-12 spokesman had little ... [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - May 04 2013]

Entities: Oxide, Uranium, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Nuclear Warhead

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Second breathing incident at Oak Ridge nuclear waste plant prompts DOE action

A second incident in recent months involving loss-of-supplied-air to nuclear workers at the Transuranic Waste Processing Center in Oak Ridge prompted the Department of Energy to take a closer look at what's going on there. During a December 2012 event ... [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Nuclear Waste, Environmental Management, Workers

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Battle of the bulge at Y-12

A couple of recent reports by staff of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board have made reference to problems with overpressurized drums containing depleted uranium and a difficult time, with one stainless-steel drum in particular, in venting to ... [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Steel, Depleted Uranium

First reported Apr 10 2013 - Updated Apr 10 2013 - 1 reports

They're not baking cookies in Beta-2E

B&W Y-12 photo Beta-2E, located in the foreground, is part of the main production complex at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, where much of the assembly and disassembly of warhead components takes place. According to a recently released report by ... [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Apr 10 2013]

Entities: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Certification, CONVECTION, Warhead

First reported Apr 03 2013 - Updated Apr 03 2013 - 1 reports

Treatment Plant for Waste in Nuclear Cleanup Has Design Flaws, Panel Says

New York Times: A treatment plant that the Energy Department is counting on to stabilize the radioactive waste at the nation's largest environmental cleanup project, at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State, has design problems that could ... [Published Water Conserve: News - Apr 03 2013]

Entities: Nuclear, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Environmental Cleanup, Radioactive Waste

First reported Apr 03 2013 - Updated Apr 03 2013 - 1 reports

April 3 News: World Bank President Calls Climate Change A ‘Fundamental Threat’ To Economic Development

Jim Yong Kim, the head of the World Bank, said that we need to curb climate change immediately or we will leave behind “an unrecognizable planet” for our children and grandchildren. [ Washington Post ] World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Tuesday ... [Published Think Progress - Apr 03 2013]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, Threat

First reported Feb 20 2013 - Updated Feb 20 2013 - 1 reports

Why did the UPF design come up short? What's been done to keep it from happening again?

In a stunning development, the National Nuclear Security Administration last fall acknowledged that the design for the multibillion-dollar Uranium Processing Facility wasn't big enough to accommodate all the planned operations and needed equipment. ... [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Feb 20 2013]

Entities: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Risk Management, Centralized Control, Uranium, Nuclear Weapon

Quotes

"Last week, a loaded stack assembly (primarily comprising a crucible, mold, and uranium charge) from a recently completed casting run in Building 9212 fell several feet from the body of an induction furnace to the base of the furnace where stack assembly loading and unloading occur" staff of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board wrote in an April 19 memo to board headquarters in Washington D CD C Ordinarily, operators watch...

Glitch with Y-12's old way of casting uranium, too [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - May 19 2013]

"Since this issue was corrected, successful microwave runs have been made" Wyatt said by email

Another issue with microwave casting at Y-12 [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - May 19 2013]

"The operator was performing post-maintenance testing on a system used to recycle lithium hydride powder and noticed an abnormal condition involving nitrogen"

Y-12 worker suffers lithium burns to face during operation at Beta-2 facility [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - May 05 2013]

"Operators placed the system in warm standby, which negated the need for B&W to perform most surveillances and preventative maintenance activities . . . Nonetheless, production management had planned to keep current with these activities to ease resumption of operations. However, changes in programmatic priorities and available funding late in fiscal year 2012 compelled B&W to forego this approach, making efforts to restart operations more challenging."

What's up with the off-and-on-again operations at Y-12's Oxide Conversion Facility? [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - May 04 2013]

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Glitch with Y-12's old way of casting uranium, too [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - May 19 2013]
Another issue with microwave casting at Y-12 [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - May 19 2013]
Bradley gets OK for drug drop and other news fr... [Published Chattanooga Times Free Press - May 06 2013]
Y-12 worker suffered chemical burns in accident [Published North Georgia Times Free Press - May 06 2013]
HAZMAT - North-America - USA [Published RSOE EDIS - Emergency and Disaster Information - May 05 2013]
Y-12 worker suffers lithium burns to face durin... [Published Knox News Sentinel - May 05 2013]
Y-12 worker suffers lithium burns to face durin... [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - May 05 2013]
What's up with the off-and-on-again operations ... [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - May 04 2013]
Second breathing incident at Oak Ridge nuclear ... [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Apr 18 2013]
Battle of the bulge at Y-12 [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Apr 18 2013]
They're not baking cookies in Beta-2E [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Apr 10 2013]
Suddenly No Solution For 56 Million Gallons Of ... [Published Zero Hedge - Apr 05 2013]
Microwave casting not ready for prime time at Y-12 [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Apr 05 2013]
April 3 News: World Bank President Calls Climat... [Published Think Progress - Apr 03 2013]
Treatment Plant for Waste in Nuclear Cleanup Ha... [Published Water Conserve: News - Apr 03 2013]
More microwave issues at Y-12 [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Mar 20 2013]
Making for Jamaica [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Feb 27 2013]
Why did the UPF design come up short? What's be... [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Feb 20 2013]
Senior Federal Acquisition Professional Joins C... [Published PRWeb - Feb 13 2013]
That must have been a freaky moment [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Feb 10 2013]
Y-12 supports Caribbean conversion [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Feb 08 2013]
Atwood named defense board's GM [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Feb 08 2013]
Obama Signs $633 Billion Defense Authorization Act [Published militaryfeed.com - Jan 04 2013]
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Major defense bill sent to Obama [Published Taipei Times Online - Dec 22 2012]
Getting it right with job hazards at Y-12 [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Dec 14 2012]
A critical look at UPF's safety culture [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Dec 14 2012]
Editorial: Feds need to get UPF design right th... [Published Knox News Sentinel - Oct 23 2012]

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Glitch with Y-12's old way of casting uranium, too [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - May 19 2013] As if to show that not all casting problems are associated with the newly introduced microwave technology , there was an incident in mid-April involving the traditional casting of enriched uranium with an induction furnance. "Last week, a loaded stack ...
Another issue with microwave casting at Y-12 [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - May 19 2013] An April 12 report by staff of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board outlined yet another technical issue in the ongoing effort to introduce microwave casting into the uranium production activities at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant. The latest ...
Y-12 worker suffers lithium burns to face durin... [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - May 05 2013] A Y-12 worker received chemical burns when lithium hydride powder discharged into his face while he was checking out a problem with a system in the plant's Beta-2 facility (Building 9204-2) that's used to recycle the material. Information about the ...
What's up with the off-and-on-again operations ... [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - May 04 2013] The Oxide Conversion Facility in the 9212 complex at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant has been authorized for operation, apparently for the first time in about a year, but it's still not clear what's driving the restart and a Y-12 spokesman had little ...
Second breathing incident at Oak Ridge nuclear ... [Published Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground - Apr 18 2013] A second incident in recent months involving loss-of-supplied-air to nuclear workers at the Transuranic Waste Processing Center in Oak Ridge prompted the Department of Energy to take a closer look at what's going on there. During a December 2012 event ...