Sunday, July 15, 2012

• Bay Area Indymedia – Nuclear Dread On Both Sides of The Pacific – Michael Steinberg
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – What would life be like without nuclear power? – David Sneed
• Denver Post – Memoir describes growing up next to Rocky Flats – Kristen Iversendenverpost.com
• Summit County Citizens Voice – Colorado: Court upholds rules that protect water from uranium mining and protect right to public involvement
• Aiken Leader blog – Troubled Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Program at Savannah River Site Draws Concern at Crosby, Stills&Nash Concert – Thomas Clements
• Lynchburg News and Advance – Q&A: Building nuclear power plants
• CNN – Hypocrisy Reigns Over the World’s Nuclear Facilities Programs
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Anti-nuclear protesters disperse after police stand-off
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Toshiba Hires JPMorgan to Weigh Westinghouse Sale, Express Says – Maria Kolesnikova
• Asia-Pacific: Equities – Nuclear energy hearing disrupted by presence of power company employee
• Asia-Pacific: MarketWatch – New Japan nuke report to contradict Diet: Nikkei – Michael Kitchen
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Only 9 allowed to speak at public hearing on nuclear power
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear power plant safety promises sit on shaky ground
• Europe: Daily Telegraph – Nuclear sale set to net billions for UK – Emma Rowley, Rowena Mason, and Helia Ebrahimi

Saturday, July 14, 2012

• Fairewinds Associates – San Onofre’s Steam Generators: Significantly Worse than All Others Nationwide
• LA Times blog – New details about problems at San Onofre nuclear power plant
• San Diego Reader – Local Lecture Addresses Nuclear Costs – Dave Rice
• Common Dreams – Predictions Realized: With Taxpayers on the Hook, Cost of US Nuclear Plants Soar
• Oceania: YouTube – Muckaty nuclear dump protest grows
• Asia-Pacific: Truth-Out – Made in Japan? Fukushima Crisis Is Nuclear, Not Cultural – Gregg Levine
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuclear protesters put heat on Noda
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO chairman admits Niigata reactor restarts are in trouble
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Attrition found in U.S. reactor tubes

Friday, July 13, 2012

• Camp Pendleton.Patch – Nuke Plant Workers Ditch 1,317 Bum Components – Adam Townsend
• KBPS – San Onofre’s Steam Generators Worse Off Than Other U.S. Nuclear Plants – Amita Sharma
• Orange County Register – Location and extent of tube wear detailed – Pat Brennan
• Poway.Patch – State May Launch San Onofre Watchdog Panel – Adam Townsend
• San Diego Union-Tribune – For California, allure of nuclear power endures – Morgan Lee
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Onofre Discloses Tube Wear Details – Morgan Lee
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Power Struggle: Nuclear energy faced with short-term headwinds, with San Onofre’s issues, state moratorium – Morgan Lee
• Southern California Public Radio – Federal report says San Onofre nuke plant might need to replace steam generators – Ed Joyce
• KEPR 19 – First of Hanford’s highly radioactive sludge moved away from river – Tyler Slauson
• Paducah Sun – NRC: Honeywell not prepared for ‘significant seismic event’ – By Cori Egan
• WSB Radio – Reactor costs soaring at Plant Vogtle – Bob Coxe
• Limerick.patch – NRDC Opposing License Renewal For Limerick Reactors – Keith Heffintrayer
• Albany Times Union – Nuclear Energy Insider: Nuclear Construction Market Booms to $120bn as SCE&G, Southern, Duke, FPL and the DOE
  
• Cape Cod Times – Pilgrim protesters get jury trial next year – Patrick Cassidy
• The Ecologist – Renewable Revolution or Nuclear Nightmare? – Oliver Tickell
• Environment News Service – Groups: U.S. Shares ‘Mindset’ Behind Japan’s Nuclear Disaster
• Huffington Post – Nuclear “Regulatory Capture” — A Global Pattern – Karl Grossman
• DOE – 10 Questions for a Nuclear Engineer: Todd Allen – Steven Thai
• DOE – Open Data for a Clean, Secure Energy Future – Todd Park
• Canada: Toronto Sun – Greens want Ontario nuclear costs reviewed – Jonathan Jenkins
• Asia-Pacific: Cutting Edge – Japan Wants Israel Clean Tech Experts to Rebuild Fukushima – Leigh Cuen
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Shizuoka group collects 100,000 signatures for nuke plant vote
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Friday night protests in front of PM’s house gather steam – Louis Templado
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Experts promote wider use of energy efficient technology (update) – James Lee
• South Asia: Times of India – Groundwater contaminated, Punjab battles uranium curse
• Europe: UPI – Nuclear waste in France set to double
• Russia: Bellona – Russian Duma passes controversial NGO ‘foreign agent’ bill in landslide vote – Charles Digges

Thursday, July 12, 2012

• KBPS – SASC Discusses The Costs of San Onofre Nuclear Plant
• Orange County Register – Tube wear detailed at San Onofre nuclear plant – Michael R. Blood
• SanClemente.Patch – State May Launch San Onofre Watchdog Panel – Adam Townsend
• Santa Barbara Independent – From Fukushima to Diablo Canyon – Nick Welsh
• AlterNet – Exposed: The Untold Legacy of a Secret Nuclear Weapons Plant Near a Major American City – Brad Jacobson
• Reuters – Duke-Progress merger puts restart of Florida reactor in doubt – Eileen O’Grady
• Augusta Chronicle – Court rejects legal challenge to Plant Vogtle construction license – Rob Pavey
• HNN Huntingtonnews – 1981 Radiological Assessment of Huntington Site Tested for Uranium, Iodine, Beta-Gamma Emitters – Tony Rutherford
• Alliance for Nuclear Accountability – Nuclear watchdog group requests ASLB open final GE-Hitachi review to public
• Newsvine – Here’s the list of riders the Republicans tried to get into law. Those in bold made it into the final spending bill.
• Physicians for Social Responsibility – Groups: Japanese Report on Fukushima Reactor Disaster Is “Real Wake Up” Call for Sleeping U.S. Regulators
• Rocket News – Is New Nuclear Energy Just Mission Impossible?
• Oceania: Port Stephens Examiner – Protesters step up campaign against nuclear waste dump – Bianca Hall
• Asia-Pacific: AFP Google – Japan govt, media colluded on nuclear: Nobel winner
• Asia-Pacific: NY Times blog – Fukushima vs. Chernobyl: How Have Animals Fared? – Rachel Nuwer
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Western media: Don’t blame Fukushima on ‘culture’ – Daisuke Nakai
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – [Asahi] Gov concealed radiation exposure data of Fukushima children “not to cause fear” – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – A-bomb doctor warns of further Fukushima woes – Megumi Iizuka
• Europe: Wall Street Journal – Vattenfall Has Filed Constitutional Complaint Over German Nuclear Exit – Jan Hromadko
• Europe: Reuters – Spain energy tax to raise 6.8 billion euros annually -report – Clare Kane
• North Africa: Al-Monitor – Egypt Moves Ahead with Nuclear Power Plans – Marcell Nasser

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

• Forbes – Nuclear Waste Issue Searing American Landscape – Ken Silverstein
• CounterPunch – The Broken Nuke–At San Onofre, “Fluid Elastic Instability” is Just a Fancy Term for “Busted” – Russell D. Hoffman
• Pomerado News – COGG members learn about San Onofre’s safety challenges – Elizabeth Marie Himchak
• San Diego Reader blog – Lack of Worker Protections, Possible Oversight Panel for San Onofre – Dave Rice
• Santa Maria Times – Letter: Protesting nuke waste – Bill Denneen
• POGO blog – Nuclear Weapons Lab Underestimates Risk of Radiation Leak, Study Finds – Mia Steinle
• Pueblo Chieftain – Cotter cleanup plan to be aired July 19 – Tracy Harmon
• KPLR 11 – Declassified Document Blows Lid Off Burn Pit Hazards – Chris Hayes
• Cape Cod Times – Judges rule against nuclear plant foes – Patrick Cassidy
• The Hill – Overnight Energy: Loan guarantee battle flares in House – Ben Geman and Zack Colman
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear Energy Insider Policy Brief 5 – 11 July 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 5 July – 11 July 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• OpEdNews – Nuclear Foxes In Charge of the Nuclear Hen Houses – Karl Grossman
• Power Engineering – Nuclear industry submits comments to EPA on water intake systems rule
• Asia-Pacific: CounterPunch – Fukushima as Manufactured Disaster – Chris Williams
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Futaba mayor lashes gov’t over radiation cover-up after nuke disaster
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Lawyer plans legal action over gov’t leak of nuclear policy meeting agenda
• Russia: Bellona – COMMENT: Amid din of new NGO bill, Duma works eagerly to erase other civil liberties – Charles Digges

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

• Enformable – Federal Report On San Onofre To Be Released Soon As California Discusses Public Watchdog – Lucas W Hixson
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Pressure test failures at San Onofre confined to one generator – Morgan Lee
• Cibola County Beacon – Who’s to Blame? – Donald Jaramillo
• WREX-TV – Byron Generating Station upgrading cooling towers – Samantha Jeffreys
• Wilmington Star-News – Uranium enrichment plant meeting to be closed to public – Wayne Faulkner
• EmpireStateNews – AG argues NRC must review risks of storing nuclear waste at Indian Point
• Epoch Times – Nuclear Waste Storage Risks – Zachary Stieber
• Grand Island Independent – News Guide: Building nuclear power plants
• Stamford Advocate – Problem is much bigger than Indian Point
• Democratic Underground – Thom Hartmann: Beyond Fukushima – When will we learn? Paul Gunter & Kevin Kamps (video xpost)
• Fox News – Building costs increase at US nuclear sites
• Nuclear Engineering – Macfarlane sworn in as NRC chairman
• Power Engineering – Solution for nuclear waste stockpiles in the offing – Diarmaid Williams
• Canada: Globe and Mail – Candu strike risks scattering top nuclear minds – Josh O’kane
• Canada: Northumberland Today – Proposed nuclear waste documentary draws strong reaction – Valerie MacDonald
• Asia-Pacific: Eurasia Review – Japan: Nuclear Industry Entrepreneur Seeks Massive Damages From Freelancer
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Update 1-Japan aims for $628 bln green energy market to boost economy – Takaya Yamaguchi
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO releases 33 more tsunami pictures
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Central Japan rocked by powerful quake
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – GPS Geiger counter from U.S.’s Safecast creates Fukushima radiation databaseBy Adam Westlake
• East Asia: Korea Times – Nuclear engineer gets prison sentence – Yi Whan-woo
• East Asia: Yonhap News – Dozens of nuclear power agency officials indicted under arrest for corruption
• Southwest Asia: Turkish Press – Cost of Akkuyu nuclear power plant might increase to $25 billion
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Report sought on psychiatrists’ use to suppress Kudankulam stir
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – The tale of Peter Rabbit’s nuclear waste protest…
• Europe: RT – Sellafield: The dangers of Britain’s nuclear dustbin
• North Europe: EU Observer – Soviet-era atomic plant troubles Lithuania – Nikolaj Nielsen
• South Africa: Business Day – Editorial: Cosy relationship is a nuclear accident waiting to happen

Monday, July 09, 2012

• KALW – Today on Your Call: What are the long term fallouts from Fukushima nuclear disaster? – Malihe Razazan
• Boston Globe – Mass. nuke plant union workers OK Entergy contract
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Pacific Free Press – A Determined Ignorance: Disappearing the Bomb – Tom Engelhardt
• Phys.Org – Bacteria a potential threat to nuclear waste repositories – Jan Overney
• Canada: Reuters Canada – Canadian nuclear power engineers walk off jobs – Nicole Mordant and Allison Martell
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Search for Truth Finds a Disaster Made in Japan – William Pesek
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Atomic Energy Commission held undocumented, closed-door meetings for more than a decade
• Asia: SlashGear – China planning a nuclear-powered mobile deep-sea mining platform – Shane McGlaun
• Europe: The Guardian – How not to solve nuclear power’s trust problem – Damian Carrington
• Europe: Press Association – Nuclear accident scale criticised
• Europe: this is North Devon – MoD admits 266 fires on nuclear subs
• Europe: World Radio Switzerland – Swiss nuclear plants ready for quakes
• East Europe: Focus News – Bulgaria socialist leader to head Belene NPP referendum petition in Plovdiv
• Middle East: Press TV – Mossad murdered at least four Iranian nuclear experts: Journalists