Sunday, April 21, 2013

• Columbus Dispatch – U.S. restarts plutonium production for space probes – Irene Klotz
• The Chattanoogan – Security Officer Exchanges Gunfire With Individual Near Watts Bar Nuclear Plant; NRC Notified
• Pottstown Mercury – Report: Limerick nuke plant evac plans may underestimate how many would flee – Evan Brandt
• Rochester Democrat and Chronicle – Watchdog report: Is the old Kodak dump safe? – Steve Orr
• Caribbean: Truthout – Vieques Vive La Lucha Continua 10 Years After the Bombing Stopped – Helen Jaccard and David Swanson
• ENENews – M6.7 rocks Japan island — Followed by Intensity 4 quake in Fukushima
• Fukushima Diary – [Food contamination] Cs-137 from orange produced in Shizuoka, sold in Yokohama – Iori Mochizuki
• JapanToday – Quakes hit southern Honshu, Fukushima
• JapanToday – Looking at Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – NRA team maintains active fault runs directly beneath Tsuruga nuclear reactor
• Asia: Global Times – China hits back with report on US human rights record
• Asia: Xinhua News – Full Text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2012
• Europe: The Guardian – Clean energy progress too slow to limit global warming, warns IEA
• Europe: North East Chronicle – Nuclear plant fire: ‘No threat to public’ as smoke billows from Hartlepool Power Station – Sarah Scott

Saturday, April 20, 2013

• Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) – Bipartisan Group of Senators Reintroduce RECA Amendments Act–Bill Would Expand Relief for Americans Sickened by Radiation Exposure – Lindsay Nothern
• St. Cloud Times – Your Turn: Tribe’s lands face nuclear racism – Tony Akubue
• ENS – New York’s First Desalination Plant Raises Radiation Fears – Jean van der Spuy
• Wicked Local Plymouth – Pilgrim Station: Tritium source accidentally discovered – Frank Mand
• Wicked Local Plymouth – Pilgrim Station: Chronology of 2013 leaks, events – Frank Mand
• ABC – Two Years after Fukushima
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO rejects ministry’s demand to pay 10.5 billion yen for decontamination work – Fukuko Takahashi
• Fukushima Update – one of the most contaminated villages in Fukushima lures children back with $100 book coupons
• Japan Times – Editorial: More Tepco mismanagement
• Asia: China Today – China’s nuclear reactor passes evaluation
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Faulty Russian valves delay K’kulam operation
• East Europe: Yahoo! PRWeb – Kazakhstan Hopes to be Centre of Peaceful Nuclear Industry

Friday, April 19, 2013

• KPBS – Is San Onofre Cost Effective In The Long Term? – Alison St John
• Idaho Press-Tribune – Workers blame INL officials for “unsafe culture”
• Idaho Statesman – Former INL workers say they suffered retaliation
• Twin Falls Times-News – Idaho workers exposed to plutonium file complaint
• Cibola County Beacon – Facility Remembers the Past – Dr. Pitts and Uranium Miners – Donald Jaramill
• West Branch Times – Letter: Nuclear plant unsafe and unwanted here – Dwight Glenney
• Beaver County Times – Could lightning strike nukes twice? – Rachel Morgan
• Albany Times Union – Letter: Nuclear waste handling is pricey – Michael McGlynn
• WPTZ Burlington – Nuclear waste expert says Vt. Yankee’s growing risk – Stewart Ledbetter
• POWERnews – Government Entities at Odds over Emergency Planning Zone for Nuclear Power Plants – Gail Reitenbach
• Wired News – The Most Dangerous (Man-Made) Lava Flow – Erik Klemetti
• South America: Xinhua News – Blackout occurs at Brazilian nuclear power station
• Asia News Network – Taiwan opposition raises eyebrow over Nuke 4 inspection – Enru Lin
• Greenpeace International – Japanese court’s verdict on request to shut down nuclear plant puzzling – Justin McKeating
• Greenpeace International blog – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for April 12th to April 18th, 2013 – Christine McCann
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (21): Fukushima plant chief cried – Hiroyoshi Itabashi
• Jpubb – Water Leak from the Underground Reservoirs in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Follow-up Information No.75)
• House of Japan – Yamagata Pref. refuses to accept waste soil from Fukushima
• Taiwan News – Taiwan opposition blocks 4th nuclear plant vote
• Asia: New York Times – OpEd: Is China Changing Its Position on Nuclear Weapons? – James M. Acton
• South Asia: NDTV – India’s nuclear watchdog finds faulty valves in Kudankulam plant – Pallava Bagla
• South Asia: Bangladesh Daily Star – Black Rain: Radioactive fallout from atmospheric nuclear detonations – Quamrul Haider
• South Africa: Xinhua News – Chinese-invested Husab uranium mine kicks off construction in Namibia

Thursday, April 18, 2013

• The Hill blog – Reid appoints former NRC chief Jaczko to nuclear panel – Zack Colman
• Bloomberg – Senate Panel Approves Obama’s Energy Secretary Nominee – Steve Walsh
• Platts – Key US senator blasts DOE 2014 budget request for fracking, nuclear waste R&D – Derek Sands
• ENS – Colorado River Tops America’s Most Endangered Rivers List
• Tri-Valley Times – Letter: Tri-Valley letters: Livermore Lab managers didn’t deserve renewed contract – Beverly King
• Ventura County Star – Santa Susana soil cleanup may not make 2017 deadline
• NBC Chicago – Lightning Strike Shuts Down Illinois Nuclear Plant
• Reuters UK – New York OKs transmission upgrades to replace Indian Point – Scott Disavino
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Too Big to Fail – Fairewinds Energy Education
• HNN Huntingtonnews – DOL Should Reexamine Cuts Affecting Sick Nuclear Workers – Terrie Barrie
• Yahoo! Finance – Japan’s trade deficit quadruples
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (21): Fukushima plant chief cried – Hiroyoshi Itabashi
• Asahi Shimbun – EDITORIAL: Court issues timid ruling on grave issue of nuclear safety
• Kyodo News – Fukushima residents allowed to go home once a month
• Mainichi Daily News – Yamagata Pref. refuses to accept waste soil from Fukushima
• Europe: Daily Mail – Nuclear power station has been leaking radioactive waste ‘for months’, says Environment Agency – Steve Nolan
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – Where to go with nuclear waste?
• North Europe: The Guardian – Copenhagen’s ambitious push to be carbon-neutral by 2025 – Justin Gerdes
• West Africa: Reuters – Update 1-Workers at Areva plant in Niger start 48-hr strike

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

• Forbes – Nuclear Energy Radiating on Capitol Hill – Ken Silverstein
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Public gets say on San Onofre ‘no hazards’ ruling – Morgan Lee
• New York Times – A Fight in Colorado Over Uranium Mines – Dan Frosch
• Muscatine Journal – Nuclear plant is unsafe and unwanted – Steve Jameson
• Wicked Local halifax – NUCLEAR MATTERS: Update on nuclear emergency evacuation planning – William Maurer
• NEI Nuclear Notes – Regulation, Nuclear Energy and the Cafeteria
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Desalination and alternative markets to get SMRs off starting block – Elisabeth Jeffries
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 11 – 17 April 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Policy Brief 4 – 17 April 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• POGO – FOIA Failings Continue – Lydia Dennett
• Radiation and Public Health Project – An Unexpected Mortality Increase in The United States follows arrival of the Radioactive Plume from Fukushima: is there a Correlation? – Joseph J. Mangano and Janette D. Sherman
• Canada: Toronto Star – Nuclear power: Green groups launch lawsuit over Darlington plant overhaul – John Spears
• AFP Google – Japan island rocked by 30 quakes
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (20): TEPCO offered only a list of cellphone numbers – Hiroyoshi Itabashi
• JapanToday – M5.8 quake strikes off Miyagi
• Nikkei – Japan Steel Works Plans Furloughs At Reactor Parts Plant
• NHK World – Nuclear fuel from France to Japan to resume
• Taipei Times – Ma broke pledge on nuclear safety, lawmakers say – Chris Wang and Lee I-chia
• Asia: All Things Nuclear – China in Focus #10: Per Capita Counts – Gregory Kulacki
• Europe: RFI – Nuclear cargo leaves France for Japan
• Russia: Bellona – Murmansk region pushing to extend old Kola NPP reactors – or build new nuclear plant – Charles Digges
• Russia: Xinhua News – Russia, U.S. to resume missile defense dialogue
• West Africa: Vibe Ghana – Nuclear Power: No Unilateral Decisions Without A Proper National Debate – Kofi Thompson

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

• All Things Nuclear – Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit #4: Thousands of Words – Flickr Fotos – Dave Lochbaum
• Lincoln Journal Star – Meeting on troubled Fort Calhoun nuke plant will be closed
• Reuters – Texas power company Energy Future proposes prepackaged bankruptcy – Nick Brown and Michael Erman
• KXXV-TV – Nuke bill raises opposition from environmentalists – Betsy Blaney
• Tampa Bay Times – Column: Pull plug on Florida’s nuclear tax – Mark Cooper
• Daily Record – Nuke evacuation plans make little sense
• IPS – New York Nuke Waste in Limbo as Concerns Rise – George Gao
• CBG – EPA Dramatically Weakens Radiation Protections
• HNN HuntingtonNews – OpEd: Inhuman Radiation Experiments – John Laforge
• NTI – EPA Seeks Comment on Controversial Nuclear Response Guide – Douglas P. Guarino
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Facility Operating Licenses; Applications and Amendments: Application and Amendment to Facility Operating License Involving Proposed No Significant Hazards Consideration Determination; San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Unit 2
  
• Greenpeace International blog – Will a court help Japan avoid the next Fukushima Disaster? – Justin McKeating
• NHK World – French activists protest on nuclear fuel to Japan
• NHK World – Osaka court rejects demand to halt nuclear reactor
• Europe: BBC News – What’s a fair nuclear price? – Robert Peston
• Europe: News & Star – Nuclear waste must be key election issue, says Cumbrian pressure group – Ian Dunca
• Europe: Energy Collective – The Roots of German Nuclear Energy Skepticism – Sebastian Schwark
• South Africa: IAfrica – SA a nuclear dumping ground?

Monday, April 15, 2013

• San Francisco Bay Guardian – Treasure Island: Is this the end?
• Ventura County Star – Elias: San Onofre and Hanford help fuel anti-nuke initiative – Thomas D. Elias
• WOWT – NRC’s Next Meeting on Fort Calhoun Behind Closed Doors
• Reuters – Dominion to shut Wisconsin Kewaunee reactor on May 7
• Augusta Chronicle – Budget casts MOX doubts – Rob Pavey
• Bloomberg – Swords-Into-Plowshares Nuclear Venture Hit by Budget Cuts – Terry Atlas
• Grist – Fracking for uranium, first accidentally, and now on purpose – John Upton
• Public Radio International – Obama still trying to get green team in place – Steve Curwood
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Canada: CTV News – Environmental groups go to court over Ontario’s Darlington nuclear station
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco admitted Pu-238/239/240, Sr-90 in sea soil are from Fukushima accident – Iori Mochizuki
• JAIF – News Update
• TEPCO – TEPCO News Update
• Asia: Bellona – US and China announced ‘urgent’ joint efforts to fight climate change – Charles Digges
• Asia: Xinhua News – World’s top nuclear submarines
• Europe: The Scotsman – 47 arrested at Faslane anti-Trident protest – Morey Stettner
• East Europe: AP Google – Emergency shutdown at Bulgarian nuclear plant