Sunday, November 11, 2012
- Los Angeles Times – Editorial: Safety and sea life at Diablo Canyon
- Albuquerque Journal – Documentary brings a dark side of nuclear past to light – Adrian Gomez
- Bloomberg – Entergy’s FitzPatrick Nuclear Plant Shut After Transformer Fire – Mike Lee
- Oceania: Ninemsn – Fukushima has turned Australians off nukes
- Taipei Times – Poll shows power plant concerns – Lee I-chia
- South Asia: Indian Express – Activists demand independent safety review of all n-plants – Sweta Dutta
- Europe: Herald Scotland – Expert report: cancer levels twice as high near toxic Dalgety Bay beach
- South Africa: Eyewitness News – Thousands protest against nuclear power – Theo Nkonki
Saturday, November 10, 2012
- PR Web – Nuclear Leaders Gather for American Nuclear Society Conference in San Diego, California
- San Francisco Chronicle – American Nuclear Society Honors Salomon Levy, PhD, with Presidential Citation
- Capistrano Dispatch – Update: NRC SONGS Meeting May Switch Date, Will Change Venue – Jim Shilander
- NBC Bay Area – Air Force Ships Calif. Radioactive Waste To Idaho Landfill – Katharine Mieszkowski and Matt Smith
- Orange County Register – Coolant, record-keeping troubles at San Onofre – Pat Brennan
- Salt Lake Tribune – Don’t bet on nuclear power – Rosemary A. Holt
- Billings Gazette – Group sues over uranium project – Adam Voge
- Chicago Tribune – Zion nuclear plant’s trust fund: No one watching as ratepayer-funded money is spent – Julie Wernau
- Outcome Magazine – High lupus rates near former uranium ore plant
- Enformable – Low-Level Radiation Exposure Increases Leukemia Risk Says US/Ukraine Study – Lucas W Hixson
- ENENews – Henry Kissinger-linked think tank pressuring Japanese to keep nuclear power (VIDEO)
- Japan Daily Press – Massive anti-nuclear rally canceled due to government refusal – Ida Torres
- Japan Times – Fault zones under, near Monju fast-breeder to be probed
- Asia: SteelGuru – China uranium find in Mongolia has interesting implications
- Europe: London Times – Ageing nuclear waste facilities pose ‘significant risks’ – Jill Sherman
- Europe: Mail & Guardian – Activists want govt to say no to nuclear
- South Africa: Deutsche Welle – ‘Action needed’ on uranium use in Tanzania
- South Africa: New Age – Group march against nuclear plans
Friday, November 09, 2012
- LA Times blogs – Environmental group’s request for hearing on San Onofre denied – Abby Sewell
- LosAlamitos.patch – NRC Weighs Request to Keep San Onofre on Ice
- San Clemente Times blog – Update: NRC SONGS Meeting May Switch Date, Will Change Venue – Jim Shilander
- San Diego Union-Tribune – Nuclear regulators turn back petition by Friends of the Earth – Morgan Lee
- Sacramento Bee – Air Force ships Calif. radioactive waste to Idaho landfill – Katharine Mieszkowski, Matt Smith
- HNN Huntingtonnews – Op-Ed: Reading Radioactive Tea Leaves: Without a Buyer for Old Kewaunee Reactor, Owner Chooses Shut Down – John Laforge
- AP Google – Official backs studying quake risks at nuke plants – Ray Henry
- Government Accountability Project – GAP Coalition Partner Launches Transparency Project: Daily Whistleblower News – Hannah Johnson
- Platts – US NRC panel does not support mandatory filters at nuclear units
- POGO blog – Energy Dept. IG Finds Conflicts of Interest in Nuke Clean-Up – Mia Steinle
- AFP Google – Cartoon bird warns Fukushima children of radiation
- CounterPunch – One Day in Fukushima – Steve Zeltzer
- Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
- Asahi Shimbun – Nuclear watchdog forced to apologize again for error-plagued maps
- Asahi Shimbun – Atomic agency plans to restart Monju prototype fast breeder reactor
- NHK World – Tsunami debris may reach US next month
- North Europe: Reuters – Update 1-High uranium levels found near Finnish mine leak – Terhi Kinnunen
- South Africa: New Age – Greenpeace wants Adam to head up nuclear regulator – Kim Helfrich
Thursday, November 08, 2012
- POGO – POGO and Allies Warn Secretary of Energy of Dangerous Plutonium Plan
- Encinitas Coast News – Edison assures safety of crippled San Onofre Nuclear Plant – Rachel Stine
- North County Times blog – Top nuke official: Edison responsible for San Onofre problems – Morgan Lee
- Power Engineering – Edison to present San Onofre plan
- San Clemente Times blog – Breaking: NRC Rejects Environmental Group’s Proposal for Edison License Review – Jim Shilander
- San Diego Union-Tribune – Nuke Official Stresses Edison’s Responsibility – Morgan Lee
- Ocala Star-Banner – PSC staff recommends $292M nuclear pass-on in Fla.
- Vermont Digger – NRC inspection finds two violations at Vermont Yankee
- Portsmouth Herald News – Groups make case against Seabrook nuke plant relicensing – Patrick Cronin
- Government Accountability Project – Bill Binney Talks Obama Crackdown on Intelligence Whistleblowers: Daily Whistleblower News – Hannah Johnson
- Greenpeace International blog – Nuclear power: stuck in the past in more ways than one – Justin McKeating
- The Hill – Energy winners and losers: A snapshot – Ben Geman
- Oceania: Australian Greens – Government got it wrong on Muckaty, commission needed to reach radioactive waste solution – Scott Ludlam
- Bloomberg – Fukushima $137 Billion Cost Has Tepco Seeking More Aid – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yasumasa Song
- Fukushima Diary – The second largest book wholesaler refused to sell revealing book about nuke industry, the publisher got web attack – Iori Mochizuki
- Europe: The Guardian – Sellafield audit shows safety costs spiralling – Rajeev Syal and Fiona Har
- Europe: Deutsche Welle – Fears of low nuclear radiation run high
- East Europe: Daily Telegraph – The women living in Chernobyl’s toxic wasteland – Holly Morris
- East Europe: NewsBlaze – Chernobyl Cleanup Workers Had Significantly Increased Risk of Leukemia
- East Europe: Outcome Magazine – Leukemia risk increased by low dose radiation: Chernobyl study – Lydia Zablotska, MD, PhD
- East Europe: Sofia News Agency – Turkey Confirms It Will Not Build N-Plant on Bulgarian Border
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
- Enformable – NRC will meet with Southern California Edison to discuss San Onofre Steam Generator Issues
- Nature – Laser lab shifts focus to warheads – Geoff Brumfiel
- Orange County Register – Edison to present San Onofre plan – Pat Brennan
- San Diego Union-Tribune – San Onofre Restart Plan will get Public Vetting – Morgan Lee
- EECAP – Report on EEOICPA Claim Payment Rate Decline (pdf-676K)
- Energy Collective – Hurricane Sandy and Nuclear Plants in the Mainstream Media – Meredith Angwin
- Nuclear Energy Insider – Mounting storage concerns: Who’s responsible? – Heba Hashem
- Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear Energy Insider Policy Brief 1 – 7 November 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
- Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 1 – 7 November 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
- TIME – Nuclear Power and Superstorms Don’t Mix – Lucy Birmingham
- Asahi Shimbun – Nuclear watchdog admits additional errors in radiation forecast maps
- Japan Daily Press – Freelance journalists speak out about denied access to cover nuclear protests – Ida Torres
- Mainichi Daily News – 45 percent of Fukushima nuke plant host town residents say they won’t return: survey – Asahi Shimbun
- South Asia: The Hindu – Anti-KKNPP protestors plan to stage road roko in December
- South Asia: Hindu Business Line – US intelligence had predicted Indian nuclear bomb in 1964
- Europe: EAEM – Damning report on Sellafield nuclear waste management
- Europe: EAEM – The safest option for nuclear waste is to leave it where it is – David Thorpe
- Europe: Financial Times – Slow pace of Sellafield clean-up slammed – Sylvia Pfeifer
- Europe: Greenpeace UK blog – Sellafield clean-up means another blank cheque for the nuclear industry
- North Europe: Business Week – Vattenfall Won’t Buy EON Finnish Nuclear Share, Hatakka Says – Torsten Fagerholm
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
- Los Angeles Daily News – Canoga Park: $5.6M grant to help cleanup Santa Susana center
- Los Angeles Times – State agency says PG&E seismic surveys would hurt marine mammals – Louis Sahagun
- Orange County Register – NRC, Edison to meet on San Onofre – Pat Brennan
- Power Engineering – Nuclear regulators to meet with SCE on SONGS
- Press-Enterprise – INLAND: Gigantic nuclear steam generator driving through – Mark Muckenfuss
- SanClemente.Patch – Edison to Present Nuclear Restart Plan to NRC – Adam Townsend
- San Clemente Times blog – Edison Hoping to Defray SONGS Costs to Insurance, Mitsubishi – Jim Shilander
- San Diego Union-Tribune – San Onofre Ships Off Third Old Generator – Morgan Lee
- Herald Palladium – Steam line leak forces Palisades shutdown – Andrew Lersten
- NY Times blog – A New Approach to Military Nuclear Waste – Matthew L. Wald
- Reuters – World needs $700 bln in power grid upgrades – Muriel Boselli
- DOE – Responding To Hurricane Sandy: DOE Situation Reports – Amanda Scott
- NRC – NRC to Meet With Southern California Edison Co. Officials to Discuss San Onofre Nuclear Plant Steam Generator Issues
- Oceania: Ninemsn – Australia rules out nuclear power after Fukushima – Erin Tennant
- Jpubb – Status of TEPCO’s Nuclear Power Stations after the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake (Daily Report as of 3:00 PM, November 5)
- Europe: BBC News – Sellafield nuclear waste storage poses ‘intolerable risk’
- Europe: The Guardian – Sellafield audit shows safety costs spiralling – Rajeev Syal and Fiona Harvey
- Europe: The Independent – Uncertainty over nuclear clean-up
- Europe: Gloucestershire Echo – Jonathan Porritt criticises deal for nuclear reactors in UK
Monday, November 05, 2012
- CBS News – Nuclear waste being moved on Calif. freeways
- KPBS – SoCal Edison Hauling Used San Onofre Generator To Utah
- KPBS – Shh! 400-Foot-Long Trailer Carrying Radioactive Material Is On Secret Mission – Mark Memmott
- KPBS – Steam Generator Removed From San Onofre, Disposed In Utah
- Seattle Times – New tank leak troubling for Hanford – Nicholas K. Geranios
- Holland Sentinel – Nuclear plant shuts down due to steam leak – Jim Hayden
- Bloomberg – Southern Co., Westinghouse Sue Each Other Over Plant Cost – Tom Schoenberg and Julie Johnsson
- Power Engineering – Third lawsuit filed over Vogtle nuclear construction costs
- EPRI – Work Planning and 3D Visualization Tool
- Fairewinds Energy Education – Current Radio & Documents Update
- NRDC blog – Can Nuclear Safety Be Improved Without Sacrificing Ocean Life? – Karen Garrison’s Blog
- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – The Sunflower: Issue #184 – November 2012
- Christian Science Monitor – Japan’s nuclear dilemma: What to do with all that nuclear waste? – Winifred Bird
- eNews Park Forest – Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, November 5, 2012 .
- Asahi Shimbun – Experts call for more studies on fault at Japan’s only active nuclear plant
- Japan Times – Editorial: Wider nuclear emergency areas
- Kotaku – How Japan’s Nuclear Fears Are Manifested in a Cartoon Character – Brian Ashcraft
- NHK World – TEPCO over-reports number of Fukushima workers
- Asia: Reuters – China finds major uranium deposit in Inner Mongolia -Xinhua – Carrie Ho
- East Asia: Enformable – Scandal involving over 7,500 unqualified replacement parts shuts down two South Korean nuclear plants – Lucas W
- Europe: AP Google – German solar power production up 50 pct on year
- East Europe: Ria Novosti – Turkey: ‘No Plans’ to Build Nuclear Plant on Bulgaria Border
- Russia: Ria Novosti – Russia Urges Better International Nuclear Disaster Notification – Emmanuel Dunand
- North Africa: Der Spiegel – Radioactive Water Threatens Middle East – Markus Becker
- South Africa: AllAfrica – Kenya: Nuclear Project Cite to Be Known Next Year – Joan Wairimu