Sunday, May 05, 2013
- San Diego Union-Tribune – With nuke near death, consumers staring at $3B tab – Dan McSwain
- Lynchburg News and Advance – Lawsuit targets trade secrets – Eleanor Kennedy
- Sheboygan Press – Glimpse of 1960s fallout shelter on view in Neenah – Duke Behnke
- CNBC – A Yen for Nuclear Energy: Japan’s Power Conundrum – Javier E. David
- L’Express – Fukushima: Are they all crazy? – Jacques Attali
- NHK World – Japan’s reconstruction minister visits Chernobyl
- Europe: The Guardian – Radioactive materials lost in more than 30 incidents over past decade – Terry Macalister and Richard Halpin
- Europe: Whitehaven News – Foreign Plutonium to Stay at Sellafield – Alan Irving
- Middle East: Global Research – Israel Used Depleted Uranium on Syria
Saturday, May 04, 2013
- UPI – Nuclear power plant held together with masking tape, broomsticks – Kristen Butler
- Tampa Bay Times – Editorial: The Legislature’s $51 billion failure
- The Voice – Sheep farmer to discuss concerns on proposed nuclear waste site on Lake Huron – Jim Bloch
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts – Patrick-Murray Administration Reaches 2017 Solar Energy Target, Sets New Goal – Deval Patrick, Governor
- Electric Light & Power – Nuclear new build in the United States 1990-2010: A three state analysis – Raphael J. Heffron
- Fairewinds Energy Education – Nuclear Contamination Knows No Borders
- Huffington Post – When Harry Truman Got Actor Fired From MGM Epic – Greg Mitchell
- New York Times – An Ode to Helium – Gail Collins
- The Street – Solar Scores a Big Win Over Nuclear – Glenn Williams
- Canada: Chronicle Journal – Northern towns ‘bribed’ to take nuclear waste – Chris Mills-
- Oceania: Power Engineering – Minister’s loyalty to the mining industry warps his vision of nuclear power
- Deccan Herald – Japan reactor poses new risk
- Asahi Shimbun – Tokyo protesters say no to amending constitution
- Japan Times – Yakuza links put nation at added nuclear risk – Jake Adelstein
- Yomiuri Shimbun – TEPCO to set up 120 tanks at Fukushima
- North Europe: Baltic Review – Scandinavia’s nuclear threat: Where are the 130 operating reactors?
- East Europe: Austrian Times – Atomic Safety Plant Workers Left Contaminated
Friday, May 03, 2013
- CityWatch – Humans Used for Radiation Experiments: A Shameful Chapter in US History – John LaForge
- Atlantic Wire – Uranium Mine Returns to the Grand Canyon – J.K. Trotter
- Great Falls Tribune – Nuclear incident drills to start Monday across Montana – Jenn Rowell
- Summit County Citizens Voice – Fukushima ocean radiation panel to be live-streamed
- Sandusky Register – Davis-Besse ‘vulnerable’ – Melissa Topey
- Chattanooga Times Free Press – Greater Chattanooga area nuclear plants rank high for complaints – Pam Sohn
- Ocala Star-Banner – Editorial: We’re nuked again
- Tampa Bay Times – Duke is cutting 585 jobs at Crystal River nuclear plant – Ivan Penn-
- Platts – Duke suspends COL application for new Harris nuclear plant reactors – Housley Carr
- Huffington Post – The Downwinders – Ellen Cantarow
- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – The Sunflower: Issue #190 – May 2013
- Oceania: Mondaq – Australia: Last chance of justice for nuclear veterans – Joshua Dale
- Japan Times – Antinuclear drive in search of new strategies – Kazuaki Nagata
- Power Engineering – Experts divided on controversial nuclear plant – Huang Chiao
- Taipei Times – Costs of nuclear power remains a divisive issue
- Southwest Asia: AFP Google – Japan, Turkey sign $22-bn nuclear deal – Fulya Ozerkan
- Southwest Asia: Bloomberg – Mitsubishi, Areva Sign $22b Turkish Nuclear Plant Deal – Selcan Hacaoglu &Amp; Tara Patel
- Europe: BBC News – Irish challenge to UK approval of new nuclear plant in Somerset
- Europe: in-cumbria – No regrets over the nuclear dump vote, says outgoing Cumbria council leader – Ian Duncan
- Russia: Bellona – The enduring glow of a radiation disaster: Villagers near Russia’s Mayak still struggle to survive on contaminated lands – Yevgeny Usov, Maria Kaminskaya
- Russia: Bellona – Russian government crackdown on NGOs trains its sights on environmental groups – Charles Digges
Thursday, May 02, 2013
- Enformable – Without permission to restart Unit 2 Edison may announce decision to decommission San Onofre by end of year – Dumfries and Galloway Standard?
- KQED – After Failed Attempts at Nuclear Fusion, NIF Shifts Priorities
- Press-Enterprise – CABAZON: Cleanup crew detects radiation at vacant lot – Darrell R. Santschi
- Tri-Valley CAREs – Nuclear Energy Project Changes Aim After Years of Failure – San Francisco Chronicle – David Perlman
- Tri-City Herald – Draft legislation for nuclear disposal open for comments – Annette Cary
- Tri-City Herald – Website used to help Hanford workers hacked
- Telluride Daily Planet – Telluride: no to uranium leasing – Heather Sackett
- Tampa Bay Times – Editorial: Utility customers keep losing
- NEI Nuclear Notes – Fair and Unfair Nuclear Editorials – Mark Flanagan
- Reuters – Lyrics of unpublished Bob Dylan anti-nuclear song up for sale – Belinda Goldsmith
- Caribbean: Democracy Now – Punishing Vieques: Puerto Rico Struggles With Contamination 10 Years After Activists Expel U.S. Navy – Amy Goodman
- Oceania: Gisborne Herald – Letter: Oil and gas messy, let’s store nuclear waste . . .
- Wall Street Journal – Japan’s Nuclear Plan Unsettles U.S. – Jay Solomon And Miho Inada
- Asahi Shimbun – Nuclear watchdog to answer unresolved questions about Fukushima disaster – Jin Nishikawa
- NHK World – Japan police introduce radiation-proof vehicles
- Taiwan News – Experts divided on controversial nuclear plant – Huang Chiao-Wen And Scully Hsiao
- Southwest Asia: Xinhua News – Alliance of Japan, France firms wins Turkey’s second nuke plant bid
- Europe: BBC News – Irish challenge to UK approval of new nuclear plant in Somerset
- Europe: Galloway News – Victory for uranium campaigners – Stuart Gillespie
- Europe: Morning Star – 45 years of broken promises on nukes
- East Europe: Wildfire Today – Preventing fires in Chernobyl’s radioactive forest
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
- The Hill blog – Congress needs to focus on how nuclear waste is stored now – Dave Lochbaum And Robert Cowin
- FOX News – Costs for idling California nuclear plant soar above $550M
- Reuters – SCE may retire San Onofre nuclear plant if restart denied
- San Luis Obispo Tribune – Letter: Fuel no one wants – George Sheffield
- Yahoo! News – Calif. reactors might be retired if restart nixed – Michael R. Blood
- Government Accountability Project – DOE Helps Hanford Contractors Fight Whistleblowers: Daily Whistleblower News – Sarah Damian
- San Antonio Express – Regulators: Too much foreign ownership for nuclear expansion – Nolan Hicks
- NPR – Trial Begins For Protesters Who Broke Into Nuclear Complex – Matt Powell
- Tampa Bay Times – Florida House rejects attempts to repeal nuclear fees – Mary Ellen Klas
- CapeCodToday – Residents challenge Entergy’s zoning permit – Meg Sheehan
- Wicked Local Plymouth – Cape Downwinders event
- Nuclear Energy Insider – EU nuclear operators happily foot bill for stress test safety improvements – Peter Taberner
- Nuclear Energy Insider – Areva: overcoming obsolescence with digital technology – Ritesh Gupta
- Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 25 April – 1 May 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
- Nuclear Energy Insider – Policy Brief 25 April 1 May 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
- Yahoo! News – Fukushima Leaks and Sandy Sewage Raise Questions About Shore Pollution – Philip Bump
- GovTrack – S. 773: A bill to amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to improve compensation for workers involved in uranium mining, …
- Bloomberg – Japan Utilities Raising Prices Offer Abe Wrong Inflation – Tsuyoshi Inajima & Brian Swint
- Common Dreams – ‘Flood of Highly Radioactive Wastewater’ Overwhelms Fukushima Crews
- Truthout – Fukushima: A Dire SOS Message
- JAIF – 46th JAIF Annual Conference takes place: Chairman Imai Calls for Quick Decision on Restarting Reactors
- NHK World – Nuclear regulators to probe Fukushima disaster
- NHK World – Questions in Fukushima crisis
- Europe: The Guardian – UK nuclear power plans are ‘Soviet’, says EU energy commissioner – Arthur Neslen
- Europe: ITV News – Army nurse blames uranium for life-threatening illness
- Russia: Ria Novosti – US Secretary of State John Kerry to Visit Russia May 7-8
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
- Forbes – A New Authority For Nuclear Waste – James Conca
- Bloomberg – Edison’s Damaged Nuclear Plant Costs Exceed $550 Million – Mark Chediak
- KGTV San Diego – Plastic bags, tape, broomsticks fix San Onofre leak – Mitch Blacher
- Reuters – California nuclear shutdown offset lower natgas prices in 2012
- Emmett Messenger-Index – Bipartisan group of senators reintroduce RECA amendments act
- Salt Lake Tribune – EnergySolutions reports vote on public-to-private move
- Herald & Tribune – Chernobyl, other atomic-power accident effects – Frances Lamberts
- Washington Post – The Prophets of Oak Ridge – Dan Zak
- Washington Post – The nun who broke into a US nuclear-weapons facility
- Tampa Bay Times – Hearings begin over who’ll foot Duke Energy’s bill for failed Crystal River Nuclear Plant – Ivan Penn
- Physics Today – Graham puts foot down on DOE review of South Carolina MOX fuel plant – David Kramer
- Rutland Herald – Entergy sues Vermont over diesel generator – Susan Smallheer
- All Things Nuclear – Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit #5: Technical Specifications – Dave Lochbaum
- Environmental News Network – What to do with Radioactive Waste – Andy Soos,
- The Examiner – Radioactive risk acceptance – Suzanna Aaring
- Government Accountability Project – Federal Circuit’s Decision Restores Cornerstone of Whistleblower Protection – Dylan Blaylock
- Next Big Future – Carnival of Nuclear Energy 154
- NTI – Uranium Transfer Details Still Developing
- Nuclear Street – U.S. Nuclear Plants Order Spent Fuel Pool Monitoring Systems
- Taxpayers for Common Sense – MOX Not Populi
- Washington Post – Editorial: EPA speaks on how much radiation is too much
- Canada: Globe and Mail – AECL must testify in U.S. lawsuit, Ontario Court of Appeal rules Add to … – Janet McFarland
- Canada: Ontario Post – OPG DGR public comment period closes May 24, 2013 – Troy Patterson, Kincardine News
- Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for April 26th to April 29th, 2013 – Christine McCann
- Reuters – Japan utilities post $16 bln loss, outlook clouded on reactor restarts – Aaron Sheldrick and Osamu Tsukim
- NPR – In Japan: Running Out of Places To Put Radioactive Water – Mark Memmott
- Asahi Shimbun – POINT OF VIEW/ Katsuno Onozawa: Government’s lethargic response stresses Fukushima mothers
- Mainichi Daily News – 70-year-old photographer records radiation-tainted hometown with camera
- Southwest Asia: Trend News Agency – Japan to build nuclear power plant in Turkey – A.Taghiyeva
- Europe: Whitehaven News – ‘RADIOACTIVE PIZZA’ RETURNS TO CUMBRIA FOR DISPOSAL – Emily Parsons
- Russia: Bellona – Andreyeva Bay and Lepse nuclear service ship remain major nuclear dangers to Northwest Russia – Anna Kireeva, Charles Digges
- South Africa: AllAfrica – South Africa: Nuclear Power’s Threat to Democracy
Monday, April 29, 2013
- POWER magazine blog – Nuke Waste: Same Old Same Old, Won’t Work Won’t Work – Kennedy Maize
- High Country News – The latest: Mixed messages about nuclear power safety – Sarah Jane Keller
- KAMR Fox14 Amarillo – GAO Says NNSA Should Reopen bid for Pantex – Karl Wehmhoener
- FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
- Forbes – 5 Weapons of Mass Destruction the U.S. Military Uses Every Day – Michael Peck
- Le Monde Diplomatique – You are a guinea pig – Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner
- DOE:EM – EM Update | Vol. 5, Issue 4 | April 2013
- Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
- Oceania: NSW Daily Telegraph – A Sydney council’s nuclear waste warning – Vikki Campion
- East Europe: BelTA – Expert: No scientific facts of radiation-caused mutation
- Russia: Bellona – Mapping and accounting for sunken radiological hazards in Arctic devils Russian authorities – Anna Kireeva
- West Africa: Ghanaweb – Plans to develop nuclear power intensify