Sunday, March 25, 2012

• Tri-City Herald – Hanford’s tank wastes disaster waiting to happen
• Tampa Bay Times – Cost of nuclear plants raises doubts on Progress Energy’s Levy County plan – Jeff Harrington
• Environmental Law Prof Blog – U.S. Nuclear Energy at the Epicenter – Lincoln Davies
• Global Research – The Government Spends Trillions On Unlikely Threats … But Won’t Spend a Billion Dollars to Prevent the Very Real Possibility of Global Nuclear Catastrophe
• Reuters – Factbox: Who are the world’s nuclear powers?
• Truthout – 400 Chernobyls: Solar Flares, Electromagnetic Pulses and Nuclear Armageddon – Matthew Stein
• Oceania: Radio New Zealand – Evacuees could return to outer Marshall Island atoll after 27 years
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Another man had sudden death on driving in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – 12,100 Bq/Kg from sludge ash – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Only one out of 54 nuclear reactors left operating in Japan
• South Asia: Xinhua News – India says no change in nuclear policy
• South Asia: Deccan Chronicle – Uranium from eight sites soon to fuel nuclear reactors – N. Arun Kumar
• North Europe: YLE News – Battle for nuclear waste disposal site
• East Europe: Reuters UK – Last enriched uranium rumbles out of Ukraine – Richard Balmforth

Saturday, March 24, 2012

• Orange County Register – O.C. plant in backup plans – Pat Brennan
• Santa Barbara Edhat – Helen Caldicott: Fukushima/Nuclear Medical Impact – Robert Bernstein
• Seattle Times – The growing global threat of radioactive scrap metal – Jonathan Tirone and Andrew MacAskill
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Plan to add reactor at Hamaoka is on hold
• Europe: Bloomberg – Swiss Nuclear Plant Unit Temporarily Switched Off, Axpo Says

Friday, March 23, 2012

• Bakersfield Californian – We need more nuclear plants – Tom Wimberly
• Los Angeles Times – Energy officials prepare for summer without San Onofre plant – Abby Sewell
• Seattle Times – Hanford contractors admit big safety problems remain – Craig Welch
• Courthouse News Service – U.S. Dodges Suit Over Radioactive Navajo Land – Jamie Ross
• Grand Junction Free Press – Film shows impact of uranium mining on Navajo land – Sharon Sullivan
• Austin American-Statesman – Texas officials OK radioactive waste dump – Jim Vertuno
• Pittsburgh Business Times – Westinghouse to apply for reactor funds
• Huffington Post – Vermont Yankee Protest: 130 Demonstrators Arrested At Nuclear Plant’s Corporate Headquarters – Wilson Ring
• Global Research – One Year after Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Phase-out a Feasible Alternative? – Dr. Ernst Pauli
• Canada: Nuclear Engineering – Canadian regulator publishes utilities’ post-Fukushima to do list
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Irish Chernobyl campaigner shares lessons with people of Fukushima – Maya Kaneko
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – No major obstacle for fuel removal at No. 4 spent fuel pool: TEPCO
• South Asia: BBC News – Hundreds arrested at India nuclear plant protest
• South Asia: IBNLive – Kudankulam: Hunger strike enters the 6th day – Meenakshi Mahadevan
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Probe into Sellafield discharge – Alan Irving
• Russia: Kazan Herald – Mothers Claim City Land Allocation Site Radioactive – Kira Maslova

Thursday, March 22, 2012

• Encinitas.Patch – Report Hints Summer Blackouts Possible If San Onofre Units Stay Offline
• Enformable – Diablo Canyon inadvertent alert after operator training an ill-timed incident – Lucas W Hixson
• Ventura County Reporter – Rocketdyne still hot – Michael Collins
• Telluride Daily Planet – State rebukes Nuclear Commission’s Piñon Ridge letter – Katie Klingsporn
• World Nuclear News – Major waste contract for US DoE site
• KOB-tv – Threat of nuclear waste lingers in home for 2 years – Peter St. Cyr
• WFPL – Kentucky Lawmakers Push Bill To Help Keep Paducah Uranium Plant Alive – Kenny Colston
• Barre Montpelier Times Argus – More than 900 protesters march on Entergy offices
• Vermont Public Radio – At Least 130 Vermont Yankee Protesters Arrested – Susan Keese
• Atlantic Wire – How to Make Drones Scarier: Make Them Nuclear Powered – Adam Clark Estes
• World Nuclear News – US opinion divided on risks of nuclear energy
• DOE – Obama Administration Announces $450 Million to Design and Commercialize U.S. Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
• Asia-Pacific: IAEA – Experts Consider Fukushima Accident Causes
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Fear of radiation creeping south – Megumi Iizuka
• Europe: BBC News – Nuclear waste consultation closes – Richard Black
• Europe: BBC News – Chernobyl controls on Cumbria sheep farms to be lifted
• Europe: Western Mail – Sheep restrictions lifted in Wales nearly 26 years after Chernobyl – Sally Williams
• East Europe: Xinhua News – Ukraine transfers weapons-grade uranium to Russia

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

• KEYT – Free Lecture Featuring Dr. Helen Caldicott
• Orange County Register – San Clemente calls for more public info on radiation – Fred Swegles
• San Clemente Times – City Calls for Timely Radiation Reports – Stacie N. Galang
• KIFI Idaho Falls – New INL Clean Up Facility Means 900,000 Gallons of Waste Gone By Dec. By Caleb James
• Des Moines Register – Heated battle over nuclear plant nears critical mass – Perry Beeman
• Quad City Times – Senators warn nuke plan poses severe risk – James Q. Lynch
• Cape Cod Times – Nuclear watchdog
• Vermont Journalism Trust – Nuke opponents vow to fight on – Erin Hale
• Bloomberg – Jon Stewart’s ‘Daily Show’ Goes Nuclear With Power-Industry Ads – Brian Wingfield
• New York Times – As Reactors Age, the Money to Close Them Lags – Matthew L. Wald
• NRC – NRC to Discuss Upcoming Earthquake Re-evaluation April 2-3 in Palo Alto, Calif.
• Oceania: ABC – National radioactive waste dump faces resistance – Rebecca Baillie
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima govt deleted SPEEDI data
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Woman who entered caution zone had sudden death – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan Today – ROC government agencies censured over nuclear plant – June Tsai
• Southeast Asia: Yahoo! Malaysia – Urgent motion on excessive radiation in Bukit Merah
• South Asia: DiaNuke – The Desperation of People at Koodankulam
• South Asia: Nuclear-News – Thousands of police surround India’s anti nuclear protestors
• Europe: BBC News – Dounreay in Caithness to store foreign nuclear waste
• Europe: The Guardian – Who really killed Hilda Murrell? – Michael Mansfield

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

• Orange County Register – San Clemente considers seeking more radiation monitoring – Fred Swegles
• Longview News-Journal – Nuclear waste transport across Texas likely to begin in April
• Vermont Journalism Trust – Murtha gives Entergy OK to continue operating Vermont Yankee – Randolph T. Holhut
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #84: It’s Hammer Time – Dave Lochbaum
• The Hill – Nuke industry, facing headwinds, launches multimillion-dollar ad campaign – Ben Geman
• The Nation – Lessons From Fukushima, One Year Later – Alexander Cockburn
• Reuters – Momentum stalls on Obama nuclear agenda – Matt Spetalnick and Alister Bull
• DOE:IG – The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management’s Budget Allocation Plan, OAS-L-12-03
• Oceania: ABC – Top End protest keeps nuclear waste issue fizzing – Carolyn Herbert
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Nobel laureate Oe calls for halt to all nuclear plants – Shinji Inada
• South Asia: Reuters – Work restarts at Indian nuclear plant, protesters arrested – S. Murari
• South Asia: Times of India – Kudankulam N-plant: Fifteen people fast against the project
• Europe: Spalding Guardian – Fight is ‘not over’ for nuclear test veterans
• Europe: Deutsche Local – Most fertilizers ‘contain too much uranium’
• East Europe: Ukrainian Journal – Ukraine eliminating its uranium stockpile
• East Europe: Daily Telegraph – Chernobyl sheep movement restrictions finally lifted – James Hall
• East Europe: Nuclear Engineering – Rosatom export promoter sets up in Ukraine and joins industry associations
• East Europe: World Nuclear News – Ready to start on Chernobyl shelter
• South Africa: IOL Mercury – Radiation fear over plan to build homes – Tony Carnie

Monday, March 19, 2012

• San Jose Mercury News – Ben Davis Jr.: California doesn’t know if Fukushima can happen here – Ben Davis Jr.
• Tri-Valley CAREs – New Tri-Valley CAREs’ Report, “Fewer Warheads, More Spending: An Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request for Nuclear Weapons” – Marylia Kelley
• La Crosse Tribune – Al Gedicks: Dangers of nuclear waste are real
• Mid-Hudson News – Riverkeeper says further environmental study of Indian Point is warranted
• Windham County Commons – Murtha gives Entergy OK to continue operating VY without state-issued Certificate of Public Good – Randolph T. Holhut
• Bloomberg – Nuclear Risks at Bed, Bath & Beyond Show Hidden Danger of Scrap – Jonathan Tirone and Andrew MacAskill
• CounterPunch – Try a Little Nuclear Sanity – Lawrence S. Wittner
• Alliance for Nuclear Accountability – Media advisorry: Awards reception honoring individuals who have been leaders (pdf-176K)
• Alliance for Nuclear Accountability – Nuclear Budget Busters: The U.S. Department of Energy’s–Riskiest, Most Unaccountable Projects (pdf-472K)
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – An elemental force: Uranium production in Africa, and what it means to be nuclear – Gabrielle Hecht
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Seoul purpose
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Open secret – Francesco Calogero and Giorgio La Malfa
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• NEI – Document Library
• Canada: Owen Sound Sun Times – Leak snags reactor restart – Paul Jankowski
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Traditional owners to fight Ferguson’s nuclear waste dump – Natalie Wasley
• Asia-Pacific: IAEA – Experts Discuss Lessons Learned from Fukushima Daiichi Accident
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Tsunami that hit around Fukushima nuke plant was 21 meters high: researchers
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Over 40% of Fukushima children do not understand much about radiation: poll
• East Asia: Korea Times – Fukushima around us
• South Asia: The Hindu – Kudankulam: 11 protesters held on sedition charges – P. Sudhakar, S. Vijay Kumar
• South Asia: The Hindu – Udayakumar terms Rs.500-cr. package a bribe to protesters
• South Asia: NDTV – Kudankulam nuclear plant: More than a hundred arrested in police crackdown
• South Asia: Bangladesh Daily Star – The end of the nuclear illusion – Praful Bidwai
• East Europe: Sofia News – Bulgaria Hasn’t Told Russia It Quits Belene NPP