Sunday, June 17, 2012

• Nevada Appeal – No one can force Nevadans to take toxic waste – Guy W. Farmer
• The Oregonian – Shut down the Northwest’s only nuclear power plant – John Howieson
• HuntingtonNews – Mysterious Michigan/Indiana Radiation Suge
• Danville Register&Bee – All the credible science says, ‘Keep the ban’ – Robert G. Burnley
• Asia-Pacific: Environment News Service – Japanese Mayors Protest Restart of Nuclear Power Plant
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Japanese have to rely on foreign media to know what’s going on in Japan – Iori Mochizuki
• Europe: Daily Mail – Ministers to give £1billion go-ahead for nuclear weapons in move that could open up fresh Coalition rift – Chris Richards
• Europe: Herald Scotland – Revealed: blueprint for a nuclear-free Scotland two years after independence
• Europe: Reuters – RWE says won’t build any new nuclear plants – Tom Kaeckenhoff

Saturday, June 16, 2012

• Beyond Nuclear – Under the ‘nuclear shadow’ of Colorado’s Rocky Flats
• Wyoming Public Media – Wyoming Cleans Up After Uranium Boom Years – Rebecca Martinez
• Tampa Bay Times – Secret study said to paint grim picture of prospects for Progress’ broken nuclear plant – Ivan Penn
• Connecticut Post – Partial victory on nuclear safety
• Boston Globe – Locked-out Pilgrim workers slam Entergy over canceled emergency drill – Evan Allen
• UN: IAEA – International Experts Meet in Vienna To Discuss Improving Communication During a Nuclear Emergency
• Asia-Pacific: PanOrient News – Japan’s Oi Nuclear Plant Restart is Dangerous: Greenpeace
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – 9 Japanese nuclear plants yet to get quake-proof buildingsBy Jason Huth
• South Asia: The Hindu – Activists raise doubts on quality of Kudankulam reactor vessels
• Europe: Jarrow&Hebburn Gazette – A-bomb veteran’s European Court battle – Terry Kelly
• Europe: Reuters – Column-Germany offers energy blueprint: Gerard Wynn – Gerard Wynn

Friday, June 15, 2012

• Global Research – Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Grey Nun of the Sacred Heart, has passed away… – Ace Hoffman
• North County Times – Editorial: Politics trumping hard science
• InsideClimate News – Troubles at San Onofre Nuclear Plant Awaken Activists – Elizabeth Douglass
• Orange County Register – Nuclear foes plan rally Monday at NRC meeting about San Onofre – Fred Swegles
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Costs of Outage at San Onofre May Reach Hundreds of Millions – Elizabeth Douglass
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Security deficiencies found at San Onofre – Morgan Lee
• Encinitas.Patch – Encinitas City Council to Address San Onofre Safety Concerns – Jared Whitlock
• Kristen Iversen – What Really Happened at Rocky Flats? – Kristen Iversen
• Infowars – Breaking: Massive Nuclear Secret Uncovered In Austin, Texas
• Tampa Bay Times – Secret study said to paint grim picture of prospects for broken nuclear plant – Ivan Penn
• Portsmouth Herald News – Ammonia spill at nuke plant ‘unusual event’ – Patrick Cronin
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – 11,000 people joined demonstration in front of official residence of JP PM – Iori Mochizuki
• Southeast Asia: Phuket News – Govt scales down N-power plans
• South Asia: IPS – Westinghouse Agrees to Build Indian Nuclear Power Plant – Carey L. Biron
• Russia: Bellona – With remediation new Murmansk governor installed, Norway resuming Northwest Russia nuclear remediation projects with a vengeance – Alexei Pavlov
• Russia: Oil Price – Russia’s Nuclear Industry is a Disaster Waiting to Happen

Thursday, June 14, 2012

• The Verge – Wasteland: the 50-year battle to entomb our toxic nuclear remains – Matt Stroudon
• The Verge – Wasteland: The nuclear graveyard under New Mexico
• Encinitas Patch – Encinitas City Council to Address San Onofre Safety Concerns – Jared Whitlock
• Enformable – Polls show massive opposition to restarting San Onofre nuclear reactors – Lucas W Hixson
• North County Times – Encinitas: Council will put San Onofre on agenda to examine safety issues – Paul Sisson
• Pasadena Weekly – Nuclear deals with the devil? – John Grula
• Santa Barbara Independent – Pipe Problems Shut Down Nuclear Power Plant – Nick Welsh
• Ontario Argus Observer – SEC asks judge for ruling against nuke developer
• Montrose Daily Press – Court invalidates uranium mill license
• AllVoices – Nuclear explosion cover-up? High radiation, leaks reported in Michigan – Michelle Devlin
• Democratic Underground – If nuclear fuel is so cheap, why do we need to subsidize a failing enrichment company?
• Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) – Major Disclosure: Margin of Safety Eroded at Davis-Besse
• Huffington Post – New York’s Better Off Without Indian Point – Ed Koch and Paul Gallay
• Greenpeace International – Toxic Assets – Nuclear Reactors in the 21st Century
• New York Times – Senator Urges Bigger Cuts to Nuclear Arsenal – Thom Shanker
• NuStart Energy Development – Nuclear Energy Public-Private Partnership Achieves Industry Milestones, Now Disbanding
• POGO blog – Nuclear Weapons Lobby Pumps Cash Into Congressional Races – Mia Steinle
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to lift power-saving target for electricity suppliers if nuke reactors reactivated
• Asia-Pacific: Nikkei – Hitachi Eyes Y360bn In Nuclear Power Sales In FY20
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – Punjab yet to give proposal on uranium menace: Ramesh
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Concerns about radioactive swallows

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

• New York Times – N.R.C. Nomination Shines Spotlight on Waste-Disposal Issue – Matthew L. Wald
• Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works – Senator Boxer’s Statement: Hearing on the Nominations of Allison Macfarlane and Kristine Svinicki to be Members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Daily Astorian – Of Cabbages and Kings: Hanford boggles the mind
• WFSU – Under The ‘Nuclear Shadow’ of Colorado’s Rocky Flats
• Washington Post blog – What New Mexico can teach us about storing nuclear waste – Posted by Brad Plumer
• Miami Herald – South Miami commissioners want more planning for nuclear disaster – Andrea Torres
• GPB – Nuclear Opponents Seize On Overruns – Orlando Montoya
• Statesville Record & Landmark – Chernobyl disaster recalled by Statesville residents – Jim McNally
• WBUR – Ruling Could Help Break The Nuclear-Waste Logjam – Christopher Joyce
• Wicked Local Plymouth – The Fukushima Interviews: Part 1: Dry cask questions – Frank Mand
• Vermont Journalism Trust – Sanders has reservations about Nuclear Regulatory Commission nominee
• CleanEnergy Footprints – Congress unfairly picks winners (nuclear reactors) and losers (renewable energy) – Simon Mahan
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 7 – 13 June 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• OpEdNews – Misleading Ironies of Nuclear Experimentation – Ethan Indigo Smith
• UN: Chicago Tribune – U.N. cash gap may hinder its nuclear role: report – Fredrik Dahl
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Nearly 10 million signatures collected for abolition of nuclear energy – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Peak Oil – Estimating the Potential Impact of Failure of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 Spent Fuel Pool – Dr. Paul Gailey
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Timeline-Nuclear power from inception to Fukushima impact – David Cutler
• Asia: Xinhua News – Nuclear power more costly than renewables – Alexander Likhotal
• South Asia: DiaNuke – On Saying NO to Nuclear Energy – Shiv Vishwanathan
• Europe: EurActiv – EU rejects first citizen’s petition, on nuclear power
• Europe: Reuters – Feature-Europe makes big bets on nuclear waste burial – Terhi Kinnunen and Muriel Boselli
• Europe: Reuters – Utilities want 15 bln eur for German nuke exit-paper – Jonathan Gould
• North Europe: PRNewswire – International Review – a Milestone in the Nuclear Waste Issue
• East Europe: New York Times – Ukraine’s Poisoned Past – Jeré Longman
• Russia: Bellona – Tens of thousands demonstrate peacefully in Moscow – but spare no rage for Putin – Charles Digges
• South Africa: News24 – WWF cautions SA on nuclear energy – Duncan Alfreds

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

• LexisNexis – Feinstein: Court Ruling Reinforces Need for Action on Nuclear Waste Policy – Sen. Dianne Feinstein
• Los Angeles Times – The long, hot summer without San Onofre’s nuclear power – Karin Klein
• Salt Lake Tribune – EnergySolutions shake-up brings new boss, new questions – Judy Fahys
• KUHF-FM – Under The ‘Nuclear Shadow’ Of Colorado’s Rocky Flats – Kristen Iversen
• Vermont Today – Nine states, plus legislative group, join in Yankee appeal – Susan Smallheer
• Greenpeace International – Nuclear plants are toxic assets with no warning labels – Gyorgy Dallos
• IEER – IEER on “Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations near Nuclear Facilities, Phase I” – Arjun Makhijani
• Power Engineering – Nuclear power partnership to disband
• University of Oxford – Natural gamma rays linked to childhood leukaemia
• Asia-Pacific: The Economist – Radiation refugees
• Asia-Pacific: IBTimes – Japan: Ignorance and/or Dishonesty of “Energy Experts”
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – UPDATE 1-NTT to build 20 megasolar farms over 3 yrs-Nikkei
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Monju R&D could cost 290 billion yen
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Reticent government to blame as new media tell true nuclear story
• South Asia: Los Angeles Times – India’s cold shoulder – Jonathan E. Hillman
• Europe: STV Local – Third ‘significantly’ radioactive particle found on Dalgety Bay coastline
• Europe: Bloomberg – EON, Utilities Seek 15 Billion Euros for Nuclear Exit, FAZ Says – Karin Matussek
• Russia: Bellona – Russian police raids ahead of opposition rally stokes rage and signals show-down with Kremlin; independent media shut down before march – Charles Digges

Monday, June 11, 2012

• Ventura County Reporter – A Radioactive Nightmare – Michael Collins
• Brattleboro Reformer – National organization files in favor of Vermont in Entergy lawsuit
• Ventura County Star – Legislatures group rips judge in Vt. nuke case
• New York Times – Editorial: Nuclear Time Warp
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• NRC – Public Meeting Schedule
• NRC – Live NRC Meeting Webcast
• Asia-Pacific: CNN – Fukushima residents call for criminal charges against nuclear officials – Kyung Lah
• Asia-Pacific: Fairewinds Energy Education – Fukushima Daiichi: The Truth and the Future – Maggie and Arnie Gundersen
• Asia-Pacific: Institute of Science in Society – Fukushima Fallout Rivals Chernobyl – Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – 1,300 file complaints against Tepco
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 70 percent of residents near Fukushima nuke plant forced to evacuate at least 4 times after disaster
• Asia-Pacific: Tokyo Times – Scientist panel okays nuclear restart
• Southeast Asia: Malaysiakini – Lynas thorium waste : A real health threat – SM Mohd Idris
• South Asia: Rediff – Explained: Why Indo-US nuclear deal is in COLD STORAGE – Aziz Haniffa
• South Asia: Times of India – Cabinet gives nod for two Kaiga nuke units – Stanley Pinto
• Europe: Herald Scotland – Three anti-nuclear activists face court
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Nuclear protest
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Radioactive mosquitoes blamed for contaminated bird droppings at Sellafield nuclear site – Victoria Brenan