Sunday, May 26, 2013

• HNN HuntingtonNews – Nuclear Ruin Awaits at Paducah
• EcoWatch – Draft Legislation Fails to Provide Solution for U.S. Stockpile of Nuclear Radioactive Waste
• GovTrack – H.R. 2032: To prohibit certain transfers of radioactive metal by the Department of Energy, and for other purposes.
• Canada: CNBC – Nuclear Power Falters, Engulfed by ‘Cauldron’ of Bad Luck – Javier E. David
• GlobalPost – UN expert says Japan government, nuclear plant operator evading responsibility for disaster
• Asahi Shimbun – Local officials inspect nuclear physics lab that exposed 30 to radiation
• Japan Times – Researchers hurt at Ibaraki nuclear facility
• Japan Times – Mr. Abe: Bag the nukes and heed the Keeling Curve – Stephen Hesse
• AFP Google – Hundreds rally against Taiwan nuclear referendum
• Europe: The Guardian – Hans Blix urges Britain to relinquish Trident nuclear programme – Shiv Malik

Saturday, May 25, 2013

• eNews Park Forest – Friends of the Earth to NRC: Operating San Onofre as a Nuclear Experiment Is Not an Option
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – Letter: Dry cask storage is safer – Ray J. Weymann
• Salt Lake Tribune – EnergySolutions: Acquisition by ECP completed – Steven Oberbeck
• New Castle News – Are we ready? Crews prepare for nuclear accident – John K. Manna
• Patriot Ledger – Plymouth nuclear plant could be fined after medical violations reported – Chris Burrell
• Motley Fool – Is Nuclear Energy’s Lightbulb Dimming? – Maxx Chatsko
• News International – The Unclear Fate of Nuclear Power – Josie Garthwaite
• Asahi Shimbun – Strict radiation reference levels shunned to stem Fukushima exodus – Shinichi Sekine
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Japan should ask India to join NPT first – Patriot Ledger?
• Japan Times – Is it safe? Ruling party pushes nuclear village agenda – Jeff Kingston
• Japan Times – Researchers hurt at Ibaraki nuclear facility
• Taipei Times – Annette Lu moots another nuclear referendum bid – Chris Wang
• South Asia: Frontline – Disposing of nuclear waste
• South Asia: New Indian Express – Nuclear El Dorado only a promiseBy Amit Ranjan Sharma
• South Asia: Pakistan News – Sanctifying nuclear hazards – Praful Bidwa
• East Europe: Global Research – Chernobyl: The Horrific Legacy – Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri
• East Europe: TechEBlog – 10 Fascinating Things You May Not Have Known About Chernobyl

Friday, May 24, 2013

• Dana Point Times – Letter: Avoid a Catastophe, Stop SONGS Restart in its Tracks – Jim Slark
• Los Angeles Times – Environmental group requests hearing process on San Onofre restart – Abby Sewell
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Time to close the doors at aged San Onofre plant – Doug Sheres & Torgen Johnson
• San Diego Union-Tribune – San Onofre Restart could be OK’d before Probe Ends – Morgan Lee
• CBS Local – Bridgeton Landfill Fire Creeping Closer to Radioactive Waste
• New York Times – Kentucky Operator to Cease Enrichment of Uranium – Matthew L. Wald
• Portsmouth Daily Times – USEC to shutdown Paducah enrichment site – Bob Strickley
• Vermont Journalism Trust – Sorrell, attorney generals from New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts petition Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Anne Galloway
• Common Dreams – Radioactive Cesium Recorded at 10 Spots in Pacific Ocean After Fukushima – Andrea Germanos
• Asahi Shimbun – Democratic rights or illegal squatting? Court holds first hearing on anti-nuclear tents
• Fukushima Diary – M8.3 hit Sakhalin 12 hours after M7.4 hit Fiji – Iori Mochizuki
• Kyodo News – Japan has 70% chance of M8-9 quake in Nankai Trough within 30 yrs
• Europe: Irish Examiner – Letter: Nuclear power is not the answer – Cllr Mark Dearey & Cllr Michael Carr
• Europe: Reuters – Update 2-Seaweed forces EDF to halt Scottish nuclear reactors – John McGarrity
• East Europe: Bloomberg – Czech $10 Billion Nuclear Project Splits Cabinet Parties – Peter Laca & Ladka Bauerova
• East Europe: Bloomberg – Czech Minister Unsure About Nuclear Expansion, Hospodarske Says – Peter Laca
• East Europe: Greenpeace International – How Polish nuclear boss commemorated Chernobyl nuclear disaster – Blogpost by Jan Haverkamp
• East Europe: Reuters – Update 2-Czech P.M., minister clash over nuclear project – Jana Mlcochova and Jan Lopatka
• Russia: Bellona – ERC Bellona’s Nikitin says organization faces fines, but will immediately appeal them if levied
• Russia: Reuters – Update 1-Magnitude 8.2 earthquake strikes Russian Far East – Steve Gutterman
• Russia: Moscow Times – Tornado Caught on Tape Over World’s First Nuclear Plant (Video)

Thursday, May 23, 2013

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Paiute environmental activist Calvin Meyers dies at age 57 – Keith Rogers
• Chico News & Review – Nuclear tuna from Japan
• Earthweek – Japan Radiation Widely Contaminates Pacific Marine Life
• KPCC – Senator Boxer calls for hearing on San Onofre nuclear plant during NRC chair’s reconfirmation – Kitty Felde with Ed Joyce
• Los Angeles Times – Sen. Boxer presses NRC head on San Onofre’s future – Abby Sewell
• Los Angeles Times – Edison employees shot ‘Star Trek’ spoof video at San Onofre – Abby Sewell
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Plant restart won’t wait on investigations – Morgan Lee
• Santa Maria Times – Resolving nuke issue
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Great Haste Made Great Waste at Hanford
• Idaho Statesman – Areva now mum on date for Idaho nuclear facility – John Miller
• KIVI-TV – Idaho uranium enrichment plant still looking for financing – James Cramer
• Albuquerque Journal – No need for change in law to expand WIPP – Don Hancock
• Detroit Free Press – Michigan questions Canadian nuclear waste proposal
• EcoWatch – Countdown to Nuclear Ruin at Paducah May 22, 2013 – Geoffrey Sea
• Lower Hudson Journal – New York AG: Harder look at nuclear waste storage needed – Michael Risinit
• Putnam County Courier – Legislature Overrides Odell’s Veto–Indian Point Evacuation Plan at Issue – Eric Gross
• Cape Cod Times – Voters want Pilgrim nuclear plant closed – Christine Legere
• Cape Cod Today blog – Animated Editorial: Cartoon; The Pilgrim Nuclear Waste Dump!
• Platts – US Republicans call for probe of NRC’s rulemaking process – Brian Scheid
• Power Engineering – Nuclear versus solar – Denver Nicks
• PR.com – Lessons from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant Crisis – Dr. Julie Pullen
• Smithsonian Magazine – The Unclear Fate of Nuclear Power – Josie Garthwaite
• Bellona – Mayor of Fukushima-devastated town: Say no to nuclear energy – Andrei Ozharovsky
• Deutsche Welle – Row rages over safety of Japanese nuclear plant
• Peak Oil – Study: Fukushima Radiation Has Already Killed 14,000 Americans
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear watchdog to officially prohibit restart of Monju
• Asia: Japan Times – China’s nuclear program still shrouded in secrecy – Michael Richardson
• Europe: Daily Telegraph – Green energy could save Britain up to £100 billion, says Government climate advisers – Rowena Mason
• Europe: Dublin Evening Herald – Irish food at risk from UK nuke disaster – Fiona Dillon
• Europe: The Guardian – Will green energy prove cheaper than gas? – Leo Hickman
• West Africa: BBC News – Niger suicide bombers target Areva mine and barracks

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

• KING5 Seattle – Hanford by the numbers
• Texas Tribune – Bill Allowing Hotter Waste in Texas Passes House – Kate Galbraith
• St. Louis Magazine – Think Again: The Poisoned Children of Coldwater Creek – Ray Hartmann
• Green Bay Press Gazette – Kewaunee fuel rods removed from reactor
• Detroit News – Michigan senators seek answers on Ontario nuclear storage project – Jim Lynch
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – Protesters ask TVA to stop building nuclear reactors – Pam Sohn
• Baltimore Sun – Time for greens to embrace nukes – Tom Horton
• Hartford Courant – LETTER: Unsafe Spent Nuclear Fuel – Charles R. Waterman
• CapeCod Today – Cape Codders overwhelmingly vote to close the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant – Arlene Williamson & Diane Turco
• Wicked Local Plymouth – PILGRIM NUCLEAR POWER STATION: ‘Rally at the Reactor’ ends happily with 10 arrests – Frank Mand
• ExtremeTech – Cold fusion reactor independently verified, has 10,000 times the energy density of gas – Sebastian Anthony
• Greenpeace International blog – Nuclear power is safe and pigs can fly – Justin McKeating
• New Scientist – We can let fission fizzle out in a renewable world – Jochen Flasbarth
• New York Times – Editorial: Another Chilling Leak Investigation
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Asia demand for nuclear feedwater heaters to drive EU and US export sales – Paul French
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 16- 22 May 2013By K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Policy Brief 16 – 22 May 2013By K. Steiner-Dicks
• RealClearPolitics – America No Longer Leads in Nuclear Technology – William Tucker
• Wall Street Journal blog – Clean Coal’s Messy Numbers – Liam Denning
• Washington Business Journal – House scolds NRC over leasing problems – Daniel J. Sernovitz
• Enformable – Fukushima compensation scheme accused of denying hundreds of claims
• NHK World – NRA: Tsuruga nuclear plant built on active fault
• Southwest Asia: Today’s Zaman – Nuclear (un)consciousness – Cengiz Aktar
• North Europe: YouTube – Finland to bury nuclear waste in tunnels
• East Europe: Warsaw Business Journal – PGE’s nuclear unit in corruption scandal

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

• ABC News – Feds Again Delay San Onofre Nuke Restart Decision – Michael R. Blood
• Manteca Bulletin – Feds again delay San Onofre nuke restart decision
• Tri-City Herald – National Labor Relations Board to issue complaint against Hanford conractors – Annette Cary
• Salt Lake Tribune – Mustard-filled weapons found in Utah desert – Kirsten Stewart
• Cibola County Beacon – Protestors Oppose Uranium Mining on Mount Taylor – Alastair Lee Bitsoi
• Grist Magazine – Nation’s biggest uranium mine planned in New Mexico – John Upton
• Kansas City Pitch – OSHA orders reinstatement of Wolf Creek whistle-blower – Steve Vockrodt
• Dallas Morning News – Texas radioactive waste bill killed for error
• Dallas Morning News blog – Radioactive waste dump in West TexasBy Karen Brooks Harper
• Michigan Radio – Read this for a brief summary of all the problems at Palisades
• Oak Ridge Today – Equipment used in uranium casting falls from Y-12 furnace – John Huotari
• Tampa Bay Times – St. Petersburg lawmaker calls for study of Levy nuclear plant costs – Ivan Penn
• Aiken Standard – Board holds off recommendation for future of SRS – Michael Ulmer
• Baltimore Sun – Calvert Cliffs reactor shut down – Timothy B. Wheeler,
• Plymouth.Patch – Fire at Pilgrim Nuclear During Start-Up – Casey Meserve
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #137: Seabrook? Nope. See, Broke – Dave Lochbaum
• EcoChunk – The good, the bad and the ugly about nuclear power – Naresh Chauhan
• Huffington Post – Nuclear History In D.C: Where To Explore The Bikini Island Bombing Anniversary – Will Wrigley
• POGO – DOE Contracting Woes Continue – Scott H. Amey, J.D.
• Tech Graffiti – 10 Worst Civilian Nuclear Accidents in History
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Facility Operating Licenses: Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Units 1 and 2; Application for Amendment
  
• UN: GlobalPost – U.N. mulls excluding nuclear accidents from disaster prevention plan
• Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 17th to May 20th, 2013 – Christine McCann
• PRI’s The World – In Japan, Citizen Radiation-Tracking Project Goes Big Time – Catherine Winter
• Reuters – Japan’s nuclear tsunami wall
• New Straits Times – Hundreds seek damages in Japan nuclear crisis
• Asahi Shimbun – Japan’s feed-in-tariff system for clean energy mired in regulations
• Asahi Shimbun – Industry ministry behind private panel’s push for reactor restarts – Shin Matsuura
• Asahi Shimbun – Residents just outside Fukushima seek damages in nuclear crisis
• Fukushima Diary – The highly exposed man in Ibaraki died – Iori Mochizuki
• House of Japan – Bill approved to file suits against TEPCO after 3-yr limit runs out
• Japan Times – Researchers find high cesium in some Pacific plankton
• JIJI Press – Japan to Exclude Disaster-Prone Areas from N-Waste Sites
• Mainichi Daily News – IAEA to support radioactive decontamination in Fukushima from July
• Mainichi Daily News – Yoroku: Rituals and myths have no chance against active faults
• Taipei Times – Officials seeking to enrich selves: DPP lawmakers – Chris Wang and Shih Hsiu-chuan
• Taipei Times – Demonstrations continue at legislature – Lee I-chia
• Europe: News & Star – Angry Cumbrian MP and council leader write to David Cameron about Sellafield deal
• North Europe: Al Jazeera – Finland to bury nuclear waste underground
• North Europe: McClatchy Washington Bureau – Greenpeace drops item on Swedish reactor from glider to make point – Lennart Simonsson
• East Europe: New York Times – Romania Changes Course on Renewable Energy – Palko Karasz
• Russia: Ria Novosti – Russia to Scrap World’s Biggest Nuclear Subs
• Russia: World Nuclear News – Fast reactor developer licensed to build

Monday, May 20, 2013

• Bloomberg Businessweek – NRC Says Decision Date on San Onofre Restart To Be Determined – Mark Chediak
• Los Angeles Times – Letters show rift over San Onofre nuclear repairs – Abby Sewell
• NRDC blog – Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Issues Decision on San Onofre, Sides with FOE and NRDC – Jordan Weaver
• SanClemente.Patch – NRC Chief Makes Statement on San Onofre Hearings – Adam Townsend
• WDAY – Radioactive waste is found in a trash can in Williston
• KSN-TV – Wichita: Firm To Appeal Nuclear Plant Whistleblower Case
• Liberty Vindicator – Bad radioactive waste bill increases threats to Texas while rewarding a major Gov. Perry donor – Lone Star Sierra Club
• Huffington Post – Feds Say Peace Activists Who Trespassed Onto Nuclear Facility Are A National Security Threat – Radley Balko
• Pottstown Mercury – Limerick nuclear relicensing hearings invite public input
• Boston Business Journal blog – MIT to cut nuclear fusion program – Galen Moore
• BurlingtonFreePress – Hearing scheduled on Vermont Yankee challenge
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• AFP Google – Goldman Sachs to invest in Japan green energy
• Bloomberg – JA Solar Surges as Shipments Exceed Forecast on Japan Demand – Christopher Martin
• Peak Oil – Crushed By Soaring Energy Costs, Japan Prepares To Reactivate Its Nuclear Power Plants
• Japan Times – Fukushima No. 1 can’t keep its head above tainted water – Reiji Yoshida
• Yomiuri Shimbun – TEPCO rushing application for reactor restarts
• Enformable – 30,000 protestors demonstrate against nuclear power in Taiwan – Lucas W Hixson
• Taipei Times – Thousands rally against nuclear power – Lee I-chia
• Central Asia: Times of Central Asia – 20/05/2013 – Radioactive cars from Japan seized at Kazakh-Kyrgyz border
• South Asia: Bangladesh Daily Star – Nuclear power plant and human rights in Bangladesh – Md.Munjur E. Moula
• Europe: New York Times – In Litvinenko Case, Secrecy Wins Out Over Inquiry – Alan Cowell
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – Living above Germany’s old nuclear waste
• North Africa: Xinhua News – Algeria plans to build its 1st nuclear plant in 2025