Sunday, August 12, 2012

• Albuquerque Journal – Nuke Work Needs Risk Assessments – John J. Schinkle
• San Angelo Standard Times – ROCK DOC: Underground salt bed provides solution to nuclear waste – Kirsten Peters
• La Crosse Tribune – Paul J. Koenig: Fukushima is still looming danger
• Moral Liberal – Nuclear Power Schizophrenia – Alan Caruba
• New York Times – The Long, Dry History of the West – Bill Marsh
• Peak Oil – Can we bear the legacy costs of industrial society’s toxic pollution?
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t receives over 50,000 opinions on future nuclear energy policy
• Europe: Huffington Post – France Nuclear Site Explosion: Marcoule Waste Site Rocked By Blast – Jenny Barchfield
• Russia: Moscow Times – Russia Marks 12 Years Since Kursk Tragedy

Saturday, August 11, 2012

• Salt Lake Tribune – Nuclear waste–The foxes stand guard
• Columbus Free Press – Nuclear Righteousness – Robert C. Koehler
• TIME – A New Wind Blowing: Obama’s Clean-Energy Revolution – Michael Grunwald
• Canada: Hamilton Spectator – Letter: Nuclear power poses a horrendous risk – Peter Ormond
• Asia-Pacific: IPS – Families of ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’ Victims Still Struggling – Suvendrini Kakuchi
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Editorial: SPEEDI report deepens suspicion
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Today – Anti-nuclear rally outside Noda’s residence draws about 1,000
• Europe: The Guardian – How to build a nuclear power plant – video
• South Africa: AllAfrica – Kenya: Plans to Establish Nuclear Power Plant Challenged – Jillo Kadida

Friday, August 10, 2012

• Dana Point Times – Activists Pressure State Commission to Get to Bottom of SONGS’ Costs – Stacie N. Galang
• MWC News – San Onofre’s MOST fatal flaw is this… and this… and this… – Ace Hoffman
• Tri-Valley CAREs – How We Foreclosed on the Bomb in Livermore – Scott Yundt
• Albuquerque Journal – Protesters Plead Not Guilty – T.S. Last
• Toledo Blade – Public grills NRC officials on Davis-Besse – Roberta Redfern
• New York Times – Behind Nuclear Breach, a Nun’s Bold Fervor – William J. Broad
• ENS – Nuclear Weapons: Earth’s Greatest Environmental Threat
• e360 Yale University – Counterpoint: Slow or Fast, Nuclear Fission is Not the Answer – Arjun Makhijani
• IEER – Science for Democratic Action: Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free States (Vol. 16, No. 3) – Arjun Makhijani
• In These Times – The Next Hiroshima – Noam Chomsky
• OpEdNews – The Inconvenient Truth of America’s Nuclear Madness (Part I) – Robert Quinn
• NRC – NRC Issues National Report for Convention on Nuclear Safety’s Fukushima Meeting
• Oceania: Sydney Indymedia – Nuclear “renaissance” at a standstill?
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Videos Shed Light on Chaos at Fukushima as a Nuclear Crisis Unfolded – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Hibakusha: Nuke safety biggest lie – Shingo Ito
• Europe: Bellona – Belgium shuts down nuclear reactor over suspected vessel cracking – Charles Digges

Thursday, August 09, 2012

• KQED blog – Nuclear Woes Could Create a Window for Geothermal Energy – Craig Miller
• Orange County Register – San Onofre: New findings, ‘low’ significance – Pat Brennan
• Occupy NewMexico – People power challenges nuclear power with demonstrations in New Mexico and nationwide! – Peter Rugh
• Oak Ridge Today – Y-12 activists indicted by federal grand jury for trespassing, property destruction – John Huotari
• NY Times blog – An Uncertain Phase for Nuclear Power Licenses – Matthew L. Wald
• TreeHugger – 5 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy Projects Fast-Tracked by Obama Administration – Mat McDermott
• Oceania: Indigenous Peoples – Northern Territory: Waste Dump Tender Is ‘Putting The Radioactive Cart Before The Horse’
• Asia-Pacific: IPS – Activists Score in Fight Against Nuclear Power – Suvendrini Kakuchi
• Asia-Pacific: National Geographic – Nine Days in August 1945 (Part One) – Bulent Atalay
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Noda delays meet with antinuke group
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Nagasaki calls for worldwide nuclear abolition treaty
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Seawater option for meltdown galled execs
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Nagasaki calls for worldwide nuclear abolition treaty
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Nagasaki Seeks Int’l Efforts over Nuclear Waste Disposal
• Europe: The Scotsman – Protestors claim an independent Scotland could be forced to keep nuclear weapons if it remains in Nato
• North Europe: Bellona – Lithuanian polls suggest country opposed to new plans for nuclear reactor build: Hitachi remains optimistic –

Wednesday, August 08, 2012

• Reuters – RPT-NRC halts plant license approvals to resolve waste issue
• Salt Lake Tribune – Radiation board overhaul, appointment draws heat – Judy Fahys
• HNN Huntingtonnews – OpEd: ‘Nuclear Security’ Unmasked by Protesters – John LaForge
• New York Times – Security Questions Are Raised by Break-In at a Nuclear Site – Matthew L. Wald and William J. Broad
• Danville Register&Bee – Going for the jugular on mining?
• Plymouth.Patch – NRC Dismisses Pilgrim Watch Again, Freezes Licensing Process on 19 Plants – Casey Meserve
• ENS – U.S. Freezes All Nuclear Power Plant Licensing Decisions
• Asia-Pacific: Washington Post – Ex-PM criticizes utility over video of Japan nuclear crisis showing him without sound
• Asia-Pacific: J