Nuclear News Roundup Feb 17, 2019 Fluor Idaho, the cleanup contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory Site, recently created new fuel buckets that allow it to store more Advanced Test Reactor spent nuclear fuel elements in the remaining space of a dry storage facility. Localnews8.com Nuclear-capable Russian bombers carried out a training flight over the Sea of Japan, prompting Tokyo to scramble air force planes to intercept them, the Interfax news agency cited the Russian defense ministry as saying on Friday. Themoscowtimes.com A nuclear electrician’s mate aboard the USS Ronald Reagan has become the fourth sailor to plead guilty on drug charges he possessed and distributed substances that included LSD on the aircraft carrier. Thedailybeast.com The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is seeking public comment on its environmental review of proposed cleanup work at the former Northeast Church Rock uranium mine in New Mexico. The proposal would allow mine owner United Nuclear Corporation (UNC) to transfer contaminated soil from the mine for disposal at the former Church Rock uranium mill. World-nuclear-news.org
