Sunday, September 09, 2012

• San Diego Union-Tribune – Changes Eyed for Nuclear-Plant Money – Morgan Lee
• Tri-City Herald – DOE wants changes to Hanford Advisory Board – Annette Cary
• NewsOK blog – Nuclear Waste Disposal in the Permian Basin – Robert Hayes
• Spartanburg Herald Journal – SRS is not suitable for high-level radioactive waste
• IPS – Kyoto Protocol May End With the Year – Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar
• Canada: Council of Canadians – Great Lakes communities resist nuclear waste sites – Brent Patterson
• Asia-Pacific: Seeking Alpha – NEIG: Japan’s New Energy Policy Coming Soon: What To Expect?
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Greenpeace detected cesium from Sushi sold beside Shinagawa station in Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• South Asia: NDTV – Over 1,000 people gather near Kudankulam nuclear power plant, situation tense
• Europe: Environmental Technology – Lower Cost of Ownership, Lower Risk of Contamination and Increased Levels of Safety
• Europe: Power Engineering – The dynamics of public opinion on nuclear power. Interpreting an experiment in the Netherlands

Saturday, September 08, 2012

• OpEdNews – Ethan Indigo Smith
• Orange County Register – NRC sheds little light with San Onofre review – Pat Brennan
• San Diego Union-Tribune – San Onofre: What’s happening with nuke trust money? – Morgan Lee
• Snake River Alliance – Snake River Alliance: Idaho has said no, repeatedly, to nuclear waste – Liz Woodruff
• POGO blog – Break-In Reveals “Ineptitude” at Nuke Facility, Probe Finds – Mia Steinle
• Washington Post – OpEd: What Mr. Obama’s nuclear cuts portend – Sen. Jon Kyl and Rep. Mike Turner
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – Radioactive releases from Chalk River have had little impact on Valley, scientific surveys say – Ian MacLeod
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – March 18th, 2011 – Federal Fact Sheets and Talking Points related to Fukushima
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO leaders receive average 13 million yen in pay
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – As Diet session ends, 13 lawmakers submit bill to end nuclear power by 2025 – Kazuaki Nagata
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 75% of out-of-prefecture evacuees considering settling away from hometowns: survey
• Southeast Asia: Free Malaysia Today – Fear over transfer of radioactive waste – Humayun Kabir
• Middle East: Foreign Policy Journal – The Lies that Led to the Iraq War and the Persistent Myth of ‘Intelligence Failure’ – Jeremy R. Hammond

Friday, September 07, 2012

• Gather – Photos of Mushroom Clouds in 1950s Las Vegas
• Orange County Register – Nuclear regulatory panel releases San Onofre inspection review – Pat Brennan
• Seattle Times – Special: Fifty years from Trinity
• Tri-City Herald – Ninth single-shell tank emptied out at Hanford – Annette Cary
• EnvironmentGuru – Nuclear Power and Bomb Testing Documentary Film
• Holland Sentinel – Public meeting addresses ‘safety culture’ at Palisades Nuclear Power Plant – Jim Hayden
• The State – Green groups oppose shipping hot waste to SRS – Sammy Fretwell
• TheLymes.patch – The Daily Five(#3): Nuclear Waste – Jayne Keedle
• Vermont Observer – Vermont Yankee opponents to float down Conn. River – Bob Audette
• Bellaciao – Nuclear news for the past week – Christina Macpherson
• FederalNewsRadio – DoD publishes radiation registry for its personnel
• Canada: NorthumberlandView – GreenView: Public hearings soon on Darlington nuclear site (deadline to submit Oct15)
• Oceania: NSW Daily Telegraph – No nukes only solution for world: Evans – Nick Perry
• Asia-Pacific: Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for August 31st – September 6th, 2012 – Christine McCann
• Asia-Pacific: Offnews – Japan – A Deteriorating Situation: Nuclear Mafia Derails Democracy in Japan – Richard Wilcox
• Asia-Pacific: Lew Rockwell – It’s Not Over: Government Plans for the Worst: Forced Evacuation of Tokyo – Mac Slavo
• Asia-Pacific: Platts – Fukushima panel told some details will take five years to learn – William Freebairn
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Japan’s Fukushima operator to release more video on disaster – Risa Maeda
• Asia-Pacific: RTT News – TEPCO Quizzed Over Fukushima Preparedness
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Nuke plant operator refuses tour for anti-nuke lawmakers
• Asia-Pacific: JapanFocus – Aileen Mioko Smith on Post-Fukushima Realities – Eric Johnston (pdf-748K)
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Global help urged to avert reactor 4 pool fire–U.S. expert appalled by Tepco’s attitude over ‘sleeping dragon’ risk
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Tepco says it has no money to pursue renewable energy alternatives
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Local gov’ts hosting nuclear facilities angered, bewildered by zero atomic energy pledge
• Europe: News&Star – Cumbria underground dump would be as big as a city – Julian Whittle
• Europe: RFI – France committed to closing its oldest nuclear reactor by 2017
• East Europe: Norwich Evening News – Photo gallery: Dramatic scenes of 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster documented – Donna-Louise Bishop
• East Europe: Nuclear Power Daily – Westinghouse Awarded Contract to Provide Feasibility Study for Hybrid Reactor Unit at Kozloduy NPP
• East Europe: Deutsche Welle – Poland’s nuclear ambitions
• Russia: Der Spiegel – Russia To Produce Electricity with Former Nukes – Kerstin Brandt

Thursday, September 06, 2012

• KUOW NPR – NRC Looking Into Wash. Nuclear Plant’s 11-Year-Old Mistake – Anna King
• Santa Fe New Mexican.com – Public comment still open on plans to expand WIPP – Staci Matlock
• South Hill Enterprise – Uranium Working Group meets in Virginia Beach – Chris Griggs
• DC Bureau – Race and Radiation: The Equal Opportunity Killer at the Savannah River Site – Joseph Trento
• Patch.com – NRC to Study Longterm Radioactive Waste Options – Elaine Pinait
• Japan: Mainichi Daily News – 1 billion yen sought for gov’t surveys on potential active faults below nuke plants
• Central Asia: Asia Times Online – Nuclear fuel bank or nuclear graveyard? – Zhulduz Baizakova
• Europe: Interfax – Buildings in Prypiat could be blown up, buried, says newspaper

Wednesday, September 05, 2012

• Indian Country Today Media Network.com – Prairie Island Indian Community Calls for Permanent Nuclear-Waste Solution – ICTMN Staff
• The Augusta Chronicle – Supporters, opponents of MOX facility speak out at hearing – Rob Pavey
• energybiz – NRC Rejects Nuclear Reactor for Too Much Foreign Owernship – Wayne Barber
• Cogeneration & On-Site Power Production Magazine – August?s top stories: Hurricane Isaac causes blackouts as US halts nuclear plans –
• UK: Scottish Daily Record – More nuclear waste found near Dounray power station – Dailyrecord.Co.Uk
• Europe: Charter 97 – Die Zeit: Belarusian law-enforcement agencies participate in special operation in Germany

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

• Nuclear Street – Nuclear Power Portal (blog) – Bechtel Responds to DOE Internal Memo Regarding Safety of Waste Treatment Plant Design
• Walla Walla Union-Bulletin – State right to force federal Hanford cleanup – Editorial Board
• Akron Beacon Journal (blog) – Study says Pennsylvania drilling waste high in radium – Bob Downing
• NW Evening Mail – West Cumbria nuclear repository debate rages on
• Asahi Shimbun – DPJ proposes early 2050s as target for eliminating nuclear power
• Korea Times – Facility for nuclear waste
• The Arctic Institute – The Arctic This Week: News for 25 August – 31 August 2012 – Tom Fries
• The Voice of Russia – Kara Sea as nuclear Pandora box – Grigory Milenin

Monday, September 03, 2012

• OpEdNews – Nuclear Experimentation Killed Free Power – Ethan Indigo Smith
• San Antonio Current – An interview with Full Body Burden author Kristen Iversen – Greg Harman
• Bloomington Pantagraph – The labor of energy: Nuclear power – Kenneth Lowe
• Herald & Review – A look at reactors in Illinois
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Piketon, Ohio Document: Up to 70,000 Dosimeter Readings “Changed” – Tony E Rutherford
• Aiken Standard – DOE holding hearing on SRS waste disposal – Teddy Kulmala
• Bloomberg – Growing U.S. Energy Supply Alters Political Debate: BGOV Insight – Rob Barnett and Anthony Costello
• Nuclear Engineering – NRC finalizes guidance for post-Fukushima requirements
• Oceania: Greens MPs – Aboriginal disadvantage&nuclear waste – Scott Ludlam
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Tochigi forest eyed as N-waste disposal site
• East Asia: Chosun Ilbo – Korea to Build Nuke Fuel Storage Facility
• South Asia: Business Standard – AERB detects flaws at nuclear plants – Sanjay Jog
• Europe: The Guardian – China could take key role in UK nuclear infrastructure through Hinkley Point – Terry Macalister
• Europe: Indymedia UK – Cumbria County Council: “Dump the Nuke Dump”
• Russia: Business Insider – This Is How Russia Disposes of Its Dated Nuclear Submarines – Leandro Oliva
• North Africa: AllAfrica – Egypt: Minister – Nation to Press Ahead With Nuclear Program to Challenge Dearth of Electricity Production