Sunday, April 01, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Letter: Nuclear waste doesn’t belong here – Jim Cassidy
• Reno Gazette-Journal – Richard Bryan: ‘Energy park’ nothing more than a smokescreen – Richard Bryan
• Orange County Register – San Onofre could be under the microscope – Teri Sforza
• Oak Ridger – The 2000 decade at the Y-12 plant— Modernization – D. Ray Smith
• Enformable – Too Cheap to Meter, Too Tempting to Ignore: Civilian Nuclear Power in American History
• OpEdNews – This Just In: As Fukushima Worsens, US Approves New Nukes. – G Lloyd Rowsey
• Peak Oil – Nuclear Power Is On Its Deathbed
• Oceania: Melbourne Indymedia – Prof Barry Brook – Brave New Climate – Jim Green
• Asia-Pacific: AP Google – Japan experts warn of future risk of giant tsunami – Elaine Kurtenbach
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Japan’s quake defences not enough, official reports warn – Antoni Slodkowski
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Tepco price hikes anger businesses
• South Asia: IBNLive – Country will have 60 N-plants by 2035: NPCIL

Saturday, March 31, 2012

• New York Times – Uranium Mines Dot Navajo Land, Neglected and Still Perilous – Leslie Macmillan
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Scientific panel ducks question around uranium openness – Rex Springston
• Plymouth.Patch – NRC Denies More Pilgrim Watch Contentions – Casey Meserve
• Bellona – First ever standards proposed to limit emissions from US power plants – Kristina Ostman
• New York Times – U.S. Has No Need to Test Atomic Arsenal, Report Says – Matthew L. Wald
• Oceania: Scoop – Nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands
• Europe: Environmental Expert – Nuclear third party liabilities to be increased sevenfold
• Europe: Virtual-Lancaster blog – Massive rise in liability costs for nuclear operators
• East Europe: Yahoo!7 News – Filming in Chernobyl, the ‘Land of Oblivion’

Friday, March 30, 2012

• Enformable – California kelp impact by Fukushima Iodine – May affect certain fish thyroid systems – Lucas W Hixson
• Environmental Health News – Fukushima’s radioactivity found in California kelp; levels spiked, then disappeared. – Marla Cone
• Global Research – California Slammed With Fukushima Radiation
• Los Angeles Times – Fear grows in O.C. cities near San Onofre nuclear plant – Rick Rojas
• Orange County Register – San Onofre would be under microscope in cancer risk study – Teri Sforza
• Scientific American – Radioactive Iodine from Fukushima Found in California Kelp – Marla Cone
• UPI – So. Calif. officials express nuclear worry
• Iowa City Press Citizen – Nuclear power represents far too many dangers for Iowa – Bob Elliott
• WKSU – “Interveners” are preparing a case against the NRC – Valerie Brown
• Reuters – U.S. agency okays Scana nuclear units in South Carolina – Eileen O’Grady
• Lower Hudson Journal – Community View: Entergy PR doesn’t change the facts – Gary Shaw
• Mid-Hudson News – NRC panel rejects challenge to Indian Point’s EIS
• IEER – Statement on National Academies Prepublication Copy of the Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations near Nuclear Facilities: Phase I – Arjun Makhijani (pdf-112K)
• National Academies – Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations near Nuclear Facilities: Phase I
• U.S. News&World Report – Expert: Nuclear Power Is On Its Deathbed – Jason Koebler
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Floating Windmills in Japan Help Wind Down Nuclear Power: Energy – Chisaki Watanabe
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Three evacuated municipalities in Fukushima to be reclassified so some residents can return home
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Taiwan seeks Japan’s assistance over troubled ‘money pit’ nuclear plant project
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Highest level of radioactive cesium to date found in freshwater fish in Fukushima village
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – All Fukushima residents to get compensation thanks to prefectural gov’t
• East Asia: Korea Herald – Nuclear deal with Vietnam
• Southeast Asia: Sun.Star – Government rules out Bataan nuclear plant revival
• Europe: Energy and Environmental Management – Nuclear power can’t happen without subsidy. So it shouldn’t happen? – David Thorpe
• Europe: The Scotsman – Nuclear disaster casts shadow over future of UK’s energy plans – David Maddox

Thursday, March 29, 2012

• HNN Huntingtonnews – Nuclear Workers Data Breach Revealed
• Santa Fe New Mexican – Group sues nuclear agency over documents – Staci Matlock
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Uranium Mining: Study hall
• Vermont Daily Briefing – A Birds-Eye View of the Historic March 22nd Anti-Nuclear Rally At Entergy’s Vermont Headquarters in Brattleboro; or, How VDB Wound Up Doing Time in The Spitters’ Cell, and Related Sordid Tales – Philip Baruth
• NRC – Revised – New Location – NRC to Discuss Upcoming Earthquake Re-Evaluation April 2-3 in San Mateo, Calif.
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Inquiry Suggests Worse Damage at Japan Nuclear Plant – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Japan Admits Nuclear Plant Still Poses Dangers – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Asia: Xinhua News – Environmentalists protest nuclear plant construction in Mongolia
• South Asia: News Tribe – Nuclear waste affecting lives: CJ – Mirza Hassan
• Europe: BBC News – Tepco needs $22bn more for nuclear compensation claims
• Europe: The Guardian – Nuclear giants RWE and E.ON drop plans to build new UK reactors – Fiona Harvey and Dan Milmo
• Europe: New York Times – Britain’s Nuclear Plans Suffer Setback – Julia Werdigier
• Europe: Platts – E.ON and RWE abandon UK new nuclear plans, seek buyers – Claire-Louise Isted, Jillian Ambrose
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Final report into new Cumbrian nuclear dump – Matthew Legg

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

• AP Google – Feds: Calif. nuke plant to remain shut for probe – Michael R. Blood
• Carlsbad.Patch – Feds Order Indefinite San Onofre Shutdown
• Enformable – Southern California heating up as public and utility head for face-off over repairs – Lucas W Hixson
• Los Angeles Times – San Onofre nuclear power plant prohibited from restarting – Abby Sewell
• YubaNet – Nuclear engineer warns unresolved safety issues threaten San Onofre reactors – Friends of the Earth
• Xinhua News – Troubled Southern Calif. nuclear power plant remains offline until safety requirements met
• Tri-Valley CAREs – March/April 2012 Citizen’s Watch Newsletter
• NewsBlaze – The National Nuclear Fuel Cycle Summit on April 2-5, 2012 in Carlsbad, NM Provides Information, Free Registration for Members of the Media
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 shipping HEU to France – Frank Munger
• Portsmouth Herald News – Letter: Nuclear power no longer right for the U.S. – Denise Adrien Ambrose
• NIRS – The largest, most important, anti-nuclear protest you don’t know about is in southern India
• Scoop – Pentagon’s Secret Nuclear Agenda: “Privatizing Nuclear War”–Review of Michel Chossudovsky’s Book – Sherwood Ross
• NRC – NRC Determines Breckenridge Disposal Site in Michigan is Safe for Unrestricted Public Use
• Oceania: ABC – Dumping on Traditional Owners: the ugly face of Australian racism – Dr Jim Green
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Rebelled NHK announcer purged – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to seek 1 tril. yen public fund injection: sources
• East Asia: BBC News – US confirms it has suspended North Korea food aid plans
• South Asia: DiaNuke – The Great Indian Nuclear Maya – Saraswati Kavula
• South Asia: IBNLive – Mumbai: BARC security breached 25 times in two years – Shoaib Ahmed
• Europe: Energy Fair – The Financial Risks of Investing in New Nuclear Power Plants (pdf-831K)
• East Europe: Sofia News Agency – Belene Nuclear Power Plant Canceled, Bulgarian PM Confirms
• Russia: Ria Novosti – Russia to Build Nuclear Space Engine by 2017 – Sergey Pyatakov

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

• AP Google – Feds: Calif. nuke plant to remain shut for probe – Michael R. Blood
• LA Times blog – San Onofre: Report blames generator design changes for shutdown – Abby Sewell
• Orange County Register – Irvine council to discuss dangers of San Onofre – Samantha Schaefer
• Orange County Register – San Onofre problems: Slapping V-8 engine in Model T Ford?
• SanJuanCapistrano.patch – Environmental Group Blames San Onofre Leak on Equipment Change – Adam Townsend
• Portsmouth Herald News – NRC raises long-term operability concerns with Seabrook nuke plant
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #85: This Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words – Dave Lochbaum
• World Nuclear News – Westinghouse reorganizes its nuclear business
• NAS – Project Update: Uranium Mining in Virginia
• Asia-Pacific: Hanford News – New probe finds worse damage at Fukushima reactor
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima reactor water level shallower than thought
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Industry body opposed boosting nuke disaster prevention steps before Fukushima crisis
• East Asia: Reuters – Bland nuclear summit communique seeks “safer world” – Nick Macfie
• Europe: CleanTechnica – Nuclear Power Too Expensive, French Court Finds – Zachary Shahan
• South Africa: AllAfrica – Kenya: Two-Year Nuclear Study to Cost €2.3 Million – Charles Gichane

Monday, March 26, 2012

• Los Angeles Times – Compromised transfer tubes leave San Onofre plant sitting idle – Abby Sewell
• Connect Savannah – As if Fukushima never happened – Stacey Kronquest
• Lower Hudson Journal – Indian Point fined $1.2 million for oil spill – Greg Clary
• Fairewinds – Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US – Arnie Gundersen
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Global Research – Depleted Uranium Contamination: A Crime against Humanity – Dr. Arun Shrivastava
• Asia-Pacific: The Atlantic – Japan in Uproar Over Censorship of Emperor’s Anti-Nuclear Speech
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Table-Japan nuclear ops (1 reactor left online with Tepco checks) – Osamu Tsukimori, Yoko Kubota and Risa Maeda
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Fear of radiation from Fukushima accident led to psychiatric disorder hospitalizations
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear industry group paid 7.9 million yen to 4 scholars on Fukui panel
• East Asia: Nature blog – Nuclear summit highlights research reactor risk – Geoffrey Brumfiel
• South Asia: Firstpost – PMANE’s open letter against Kudankulam
• South Asia: NDTV – Kudankulam protests against nuclear plant: 10 big facts – Sam Daniel
• South Asia: TwoCircles – A cry from Koodankulam – Bhaskar Menon
• Europe: BBC News – New inquiry urged into campaigner Hilda Murrell’s murder
• Europe: Bristol Evening Post – How can anyone claim it is clean? – Councillor Ralph Pryke
• East Europe: Standart News – The Fate of Belene Nuke Still Wrapped in Mystery