Sunday, August 05, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Subsidies, subsidies – Jim Rossi
• Summit County Citizens Voice – Environment: Formal hearing set for proposed Piñon Ridge uranium mill in southwestern Colorado
• Broward Net – Ed Asner Says No To FPL Nuclear Power, Yes To Solar Power – Valerie J. Amor
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Buried Radioactive Materials Found; NRC Withdraws April California Emergency After Investigation
• Japan Times – Nearly 70% of Japanese who wanted to attend hearings on nuclear power hoped to discuss its complete abolition
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Kudankulam reactor to be fuelled mid-August

Saturday, August 04, 2012

• New York Times – Court Weighs an Order on Nuclear Waste Site in Nevada – Matthew L. Wald
• Ventura County Star – Dodge: Reaching a nuclear tipping point – Robert Dodge, M.D.
• Chicago Tribune – Exelon pushes to scrap wind subsidy – Julie Wernau
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: TEPCO should release all of nuke accident video
• Asahi Shimbun – Nagasaki Peace Symposium: Nuclear disarmament not Utopian thinking, say experts – Hiroshi Matsubara
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima nuke plant worker on-duty without dosimeter
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: TEPCO must be condemned for news media restrictions

Friday, August 03, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – Court refuses to order Congress to spend last $10 million on Yucca Mountain – Karoun Demirjian
• LA Times blog – San Onofre investigation is postponed – Abby Sewell
• Lansdale Reporter – Article fails to tackle nuclear plants’ other issues – George J. Silvestri, Jr.
• Vermont Journalism Trust – Shut It Down Affinity Group dies-in at Vernon Nuclear Power Plant during 20th arrest action
• Asahi Shimbun – NAGASAKI PEACE SYMPOSIUM: Nuclear disarmament not Utopian thinking, say experts – Hiroshi Matsubara
• Daily Yomiuri – A-bomb victims’ stories on website
• North Europe: Helsingin Sanomat – Up to four reactors at Sosnovy Bor nuclear plant could be shut down
• Russia: Bellona – Potentially devastating swelling and cracks discovered at Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant reactor No 1, while spokesman denies problems – Charles Digges

Thursday, August 02, 2012

• Platts – California PUC delays start of investigation into San Onofre shutdown – Lyn Corum
• Ventura County Reporter – The daunting ripple effects of nuclear energy – Michael Sullivan
• Albuquerque Journal – Nuke Protests Planned for Los Alamos – T. S. Last
• POGO blog – Y-12 Nuclear Facility Goes on Lockdown After Security Breach – Joe Newman
• The Tennessean – Nuke plant shuts down on security breach
• Atlanta Journal Constitution – Plant Vogtle’s contractors sue Georgia Power, project’s co-owners – Kristi E. Swartz
• Center for Public Integrity – The Army tank that could not be stopped – Aaron Mehta
• IPS – Mainstream Rhetoric on Nuclear Power Far From Reality – Julio Godoy
• OpEdNews – Rally for a Nuclear Free Future Sept 20-22 Wash DC – Remy Chevalier
• World Nuclear News – Chinese contract for Bechtel
• AllGov – Japan Restarts Nuclear Plants, then Orders Quake Fault Survey
• Reuters – Japan’s Chubu Electric faces moment of truth for damaged nuclear reactor – Risa Maeda
• Asahi Shimbun – Vox Populi: Abandonment of victims of Minamata disease a harbinger of how Fukushima could play out
• Japan Times – Prosecutors open criminal probes over Fukushima meltdown disaster
• Japan Times – Noda to meet with antinuclear rally organizers
• Mainichi Daily News – Secret meetings on nuclear fuel cycle influenced subcommittee discussion: report
• South Asia: IBNLive – Pollution Control Board gives green light to Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant
• South Asia: NDTV – Kudankulam nuclear plant hits new hurdle, PM asks who will pay for mishap – Sunil Prabhu
• Russia: Bellona – Closed Siberian nuclear city prepares to build permanent nuclear waste repository – Anna Kireeva
• Russia: Business Wire – Research and Markets: Nuclear Energy in Russia
• Russia: Helsingin Sanomat – Swedish-language daily HBL: One of Sosnovy Bor nuclear reactors is to be shut down

Wednesday, August 01, 2012

• The Hill – Sen. Bingaman proposes nuclear waste management bill – Zack Colman
• KBPS – Insiders Say San Onofre Failed To Fix Fire Safety Problems This Year Despite 2010 Warning From Feds – Amita Sharma
• Orange County Register – Reactors’ restart dates are fill-ins – Pat Brennan
• Orange County Register – Edison lists San Onofre expenses – Pat Brennan
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Plant Might Need New Generators – Morgan Lee
• Charleston City Paper – Examining Colorado’s dirtiest little secret – Susan Cohen
• Patriot Ledger – Congressmen ‘troubled’ by NRC response to request about Pilgrim – Jon Chesto
• Bloomberg – Energy Panel Advances Bill to End Energy Loan Program – Jim Snyder
• CleanEnergy Footprints – Energy and Water Collisions: Drought Implications – Sara Barczak
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 19 July – 1 August 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear Energy Insider Policy Brief 19 July – 1 August 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Scientific American blog – Book review: The Radioactive Boy Scout. – Janet D. Stemwedel
• World Nuclear News – Alliance of 13 US reactors is formed
• Oceania: Radio Australia – US report looks at basing nuclear fleet in Perth
• CounterCurrents – From Hiroshima To Fukushima – Mordechai Vanunu
• New Scientist – Japan could become second biggest solar power nation – Rob Gilhooly
• Reuters – Update 2-Fukushima operator Tepco posts $3.69 bln Q1 loss as crisis drags on – Osamu Tsukimori
• Wall Street Journal – Japan Prosecutors to Review Calls for Criminal Case Against Tepco Over Nuclear Disaster
• Japan Daily Press – Former Fukushima plant chief Yoshida suffering from bleeding in brain By Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Fukushima residents rip nuke power – Natsuko Fukue
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t won’t stop power company officials from taking part in energy policy polls
• Southeast Asia: The Atlantic – The Time William F. Buckley Wanted to Nuke Vietnam
• South Asia: New York Times – India’s Long Struggle for Power

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

• Reuters – Edison’s SCE utility has no timeline to restart San Onofre units
• Orange County Register – Operator: Reactors could restart this year – Michael R. Blood
• Cape Cod Times – Cape escape plan lacks nuclear scenario – Patrick Cassidy
• CNN – GE Chief: Nuclear ‘hard to justify’ – Pilita Clark
• Union of Concerned Scientists – NRC Report States That Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel In Wet Pools Is ‘Adequate’ To Protect Public
• Washington Post – Book details hazards of radiation; another tells how to steer clear of plastics – Aaron Leitko and Nancy Szokan
• Reuters – Tepco’s April-June loss estimated at over 200 bln yen – Nikkei – Maneesha Tiwari
• SimplyInfo – Sunday Protest 200,000 Surround Diet Building
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO put under state control / 1 trillion yen injected into utility, giving govt majority of voting rights
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Poll results, nuke protests show public’s distrust in gov’t at boiling point
• Mainichi Daily News – Construction of tsunami defenses delayed at Hamaoka nuke plant
• South Asia: Reuters – India power cut hits millions, among world’s worst outages – Frank Jack Daniel
• North Europe: Reuters – Vattenfall applies to replace reactors – authority

Monday, July 30, 2012

• Huffington Post – Bill Magwood, NRC Democrat, Is ‘Treacherous, Miserable Liar’ and ‘First-Class Rat,’ Says Harry Reid – Ryan Grim
• Sacramento Bee – Grant to allow UC Davis researchers to investigate alternate nuclear reactor steel – Julie Granka
• WBRC – Browns Ferry cooling tower damaged
• Asbury Park Press – Tree blamed for Oyster Creek shut down – Bob Vosseller
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• POGO blog – Leave the Multi-Billion-Dollar Nuclear Decisions to the Experts – Mia Steinle
• Reuters – Nuclear power hard to justify in cheap gas world-GE
• Yale Environment 360 – Are Fast-Breeder Reactors A Nuclear Power Panacea? – Fred Pearce
• Oceania: Greens MPs – Returned Nuclear Waste – radiation signature – Scott Ludlam
• The Guardian – Anti-nuclear campaigners launch Japan’s first green party – Justin McCurry
• Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuclear protesters surround the Diet in candle-lit protest
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO restrictions on coverage of nuclear crisis videos challenged – Hideaki Kimura
• Japan Times – IAEA inspects Onagawa nuke plant
• South Asia: AFP Yahoo! – Blackout hits 300 million in northern India
• Europe: Aberdeen Press and Journal – ‘Dirty dozen’ sites revealed on radioactive waste hitlist – Jessica Murphy
• Europe: Reuters – EnBW says nuclear exit violates property rights – Christoph Steitz
• East Europe: Bellona – Bellona demands Belarusian authorities release arrested environmental activist Ozharovsky
• East Europe: Warsaw Voice – PGE Wants Tax Privileges
• Russia: Reuters – Russia to get stronger nuclear navy, Putin says – Gleb Bryanski