Sunday, February 24, 2013

• Daily Beast – At The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, A Steady Drip of Toxic Trouble – Eric Nusbaum
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP (13): U.S. officials frustrated with Japanese at crisis meetings – Hiroyoshi Itabashi
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Survey: No nuclear plants meet new safety standards
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Ideology and reality: what Germany’s anti-nuclear stance tells us – Takeshi Yamawaki
• North Europe: Reuters – Update 1-Finland’s Fennovoima to drop Areva from reactor talks – Emmanuel Jarry and Geert De Clercq
• East Europe: IPS – Stopping Uranium to Fight Off Nuclear – Pavol Stracancsky

Saturday, February 23, 2013

• LA Times blog – San Onofre: Edison ordered to show costs for replacing generators – Abby Sewell
• State of Washington – Governor Inslee’s statement on leaking tanks at Hanford – Jaime Smith
• State of Washington – Attorney General Bob Ferguson deeply concerned about new leak information – Janelle Guthrie
• The Examiner – 6 Hanford nuclear tanks leaking: ‘$2 billion each year on Hanford cleanup’ – Tina Burgess
• Oceanside-Camp Pendleton Patch – Patch Editor Analyzes Nuclear News on KPBS – Adam Townsend
• Reuters – Radioactive waste leaking from six tanks at Washington state nuclear site – Eric Johnson
• RT – America’s most contaminated: Radioactive waste leaks into northwestern river
• San Diego Union-Tribune – SEC Silent on Edison Nuclear Complaint – Morgan Lee
• New York Times – Editorial: The Nuclear Agenda
• Oceania: Herald Sun blog – Monckton to ABC: enough of Caldicott’s wild abuse – Christopher Monckton
• Asia-Pacific: Before It’s News – Powerful Lies: The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and The Radioactive Effects On Human Health
• Asia-Pacific: The Guardian – After Fukushima: families on the edge of meltdown – Abigail Haworth
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Academics call for halt to New Taipei City nuclear power plant construction – Tang Chia-ling and Stacy Hsu

Friday, February 22, 2013

• Huffington Post – Radioactive Fish Found In California: Contamination From Fukushima Disaster Still Lingers – Aaron Sankin
• Daily Pilot – Residents speak up on San Onofre – Jill Cowan
• Daily Pilot – Residents speak up on San Onofre – Jill Cowan
• Dana Point Times – Mitsubishi SONGS Document Will be Released – Jim Shilander
• Enformable – AREVA analysis of San Onofre Unit 2 steam generators reveals new twist in restart debate – Lucas W Hixson
• LA Times blog – San Onofre customers complain about shut down nuclear plant – Jill Cowan
• MissionViejo.patch – San Onofre Nuke Plant Fight Moves to State Level – Adam Townsend
• Orange County Register – San Onofre refunds urged at Costa Mesa meeting – Pat Brennan
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Lawmaker Challenges San Onofre Operator’s Disclosure – Morgan Lee
• Power Engineering – Rep. Markey: Did San Onofre Operator Violate Federal Securities Law?
• Tri-Valley CAREs – Livermore Vigils for Nuclear Abolition – Scott Yundt
• Seattle Times blog – 6 Hanford tanks are leaking nuclear waste, Inslee says
• Tri-City Herald – Estimated cost to finish Hanford cleanup now at $114.8B – Annette Cary
• KSDK – North County cancer cluster investigation – Leisa Zigman
• Energy Tribune – Cheap Shale Gas Threatens Future of Nuclear Energy – Channtal Fleischfresser
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Are Whistleblowers Being Protected By The NRC? Not Really!
• Canada: Prince Albert Daily Herald – Long-term nuclear waste repository ‘not worth it’: FSIN vice chief – Alex Di Pietro
• Canada: RT – Mission to transport 23,000 liters of bomb-grade uranium from Canada to US
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO to face lawsuits over hospital evacuation deaths
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Photos and videos of Tepco’s SFP investigation in reactor3 – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima radiation spread to residential areas hours before venting
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan News – Taiwan opposition leader to cycle against nuclear plant
• Asia: China Daily – Nuclear link to thyroid cancer cases denied in Wuhan – Zheng Jinran
• Europe: Bloomberg – Germany Unveils First North Sea Offshore Wind-Power Network Plan – Stefan Nicola
• South Africa: AllAfrica – Namibia: Public Needs to Know About Radiation – Daniel Kavishe

Thursday, February 21, 2013

• Inside Bay Area – Tri-Valley letters: Organization has done great work in Livermore for 30 years – Jo Ann Frisch
• KPBS – Edison May Have Violated Securities Laws On San Onofre, Congressman Says
• New Times SLO – Report: California would be OK without Diablo Canyon – Matt Fountain
• OC Weekly – Ace Hoffman Is Tilting at ‘Nofre – Ned Madden
• SanClemente.Patch – Opinion: Anti-Nuke Groups Outline Arguments for CPUC
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Hearings today on customer costs tied to nuke plant – Morgan Lee
• Messenger Index blog – Janet: I remember downwinders
• Cañon City Daily Record – Cotter Corp.: Removing uranium tailings would cost $895 million – Rachel Alexander
• Colorado Daily – Peace Train: Light on ‘The Atomic States of America’ – Bruce Barcott
• Times Herald-Record – Ken Hall: Entergy evacuation study way off mark – Ken Hall
• All Things Nuclear – Potential nuclear plant closures and what could be done to stop them – Jim Hopf
• Grist – 100% of electric capacity added in U.S. last month was renewable – Philip Bump
• Motley Fool – 5 Facts That Sink Nuclear Power – Travis Hoium
• New York Times – Deal Advances Development of a Smaller Nuclear Reactor – Matthew L. Wald
• Politico – McCarthy, Moniz top picks for EPA, DOE – Darren Goode
• Nuclear Energy Insider – What the US DoE funding decision means for SMRs – Jason Deign
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 14 – 20 February 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear Energy Insider Policy Brief 14 – 20 February 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Asia-Pacific: Hoover Institution – Filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick debate the bombing of Hiroshima
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Anti-nuclear groups call for March 9 rally – Loa Iok-sin
• South Asia: TwoCircles – Bonjour India, Namaste France – Rajiv Bhatia
• Europe: Der Spiegel – Photo Gallery: Germany’s Nuclear Waste Headache
• Russia: Bellona – New reprocessing plant tender in Russia aims for proliferation of fast neutron reactors – Charles Digges

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

• Orange County Register – Mitsubishi pays Edison for San Onofre generators – Pat Brennan
• San Diego Union-Tribune – $45.4M Paid over Faulty Generators – Morgan Lee
• Stanford Daily – Stanford center gets access to ‘Sequioa’ supercomputer – Nitish Kulkarni
• Bloomberg – Leaking Nuclear Sludge Could Threaten Columbia River – Jim Snyder
• The Oregonian – Leaking radioactive waste at Hanford poses ‘unacceptable threats,’ Wyden says – Scott Learn
• Cañon City Daily Record – Removing uranium tailings would cost $895 million, Cotter Corp. says – Bruce Finley
• Daily Camera – Judith Mohling: Rocky Flats development risks exposure to nuclear radiation
• Enformable – Worker at Perry Nuclear Power Plant dies after ‘medical incident’
• Connecticut Post – Key program problem may haunt Obama’s potential EPA choice – David McCumber
• WCAX – Vt. Yankee to go forward with refueling
• Bloomberg – Ten Giant Weapons in the Pentagon’s Shrinking Budget – Emma Fidel
• Christian Science Monitor – Who will clean up after the nuclear plants? – John C.K. Daly
• Foreign Policy – Why America Reserves the Right to Nuke You First – John Arquilla
• Canada: Bullet News Huron – No showstoppers to exclude Central Huron as potential host for nuclear waste – Heather Boa
• Asia-Pacific: All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #130: Fukushima’s Dividends or Mea Culpas – Dave Lochbaum
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Japan to Operate Offshore Wind Turbines With Tepco, J-Power – Chisaki Watanabe
• Asia-Pacific: Greenpeace International – The nuclear reality: lives in limbo after Fukushima – Rianne Teule
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – Greenpeace calls on nuclear reactor manufacturers to be held responsible for Fukushima – Adam Westlake
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Editorial: Disclosure Of Nuclear Crisis Data
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Family of dairy farmer suicide to sue TEPCO
• Europe: The Economist blog – The search for a nuclear legacy
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Cumbria repository search is called off
• Europe: Reuters – German ‘green revolution’ may cost 1 trillion euros – minister – Alexandra Hudson and Markus Wacket
• East Europe: Polskie Radio – ‘State cannot fund nuclear power in Poland’ says minister

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

• MissionViejo.patch – OPINION: Union’s Pro-Nuke Plant Cheers Just for Show – Jerry Collamer
• Daily Astorian – Editorial: A perfect radioactive storm
• Reuters – Dominion to shut Kewaunee reactor in Wisconsin in second quarter
• Augusta Chronicle – Nuclear education teacher workshop scheduled
• Plymouth.Patch – Trial Date Set for Pilgrim Anti-Nuke Protesters – Casey Meserve
• Bellona – Between a rock and a hard place: How will US nuclear power compete with cheap shale gas? – Charles Digges
• Green Optimistic blog – Nuclear Waste Disposal: An Issue That Won’t Heal by Itself – Leigh Kim
• NY Times blog – A Strategy to Prevent the Next Fukushima – Matthew L. Wald
• Asia-Pacific: PanOrient News – Fukushima Disaster: Costs Fall on Public
• Asia-Pacific: Radio Australia – Company asking Fukushima victims to repay compensation: Greenpeace – Mark Willacy
• Asia-Pacific: AsiaOne – Taiwan opposition wants to scrap new nuclear plant
• South Asia: TwoCircles – Conduct audit of Kudankulam power project: Anti-nuke activists – NW Evening Mail
• Europe: The Guardian – EDF confirms it wants 40-year contracts to build nuclear plants – Juliette Jowit and Fiona Harvey
• South Africa: SA Times – Reactor makers must share nuclear accident costs: Greenpeace

Monday, February 18, 2013

• Power Engineering – NRC plans to release report on San Onofre – Pat Brennan
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Let engineers, not politicians, decide San Onofre’s fate
• Pueblo Chieftain – State reverses Cotter licensing: Health department says public should have say – Tracy Harmon
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Are Whistleblowers Being Protected By The NRC? Not Really! – Arnie Gundersen and David Lochbaum
• NEI – Cyber Security Strictly Regulated by NRC; No Additional Regulation Needed
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Documentary examines ordeal of nuclear evacuees – Yoshika Uematsu
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Faults under Higashidori N-plant active
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Panel to look into TEPCO’s alleged falsifications
• Europe: The Guardian – Nuclear power: ministers offer reactor deal until 2050 – Juliette Jowit
• Europe: Times & Star – Inquiry to be held into Cumbria council nuclear store decision – Ian Duncan
• Europe: Reuters – CORRECTED-Areva says uranium output last year hit new record – Geert De Clercq