With the leaks in Japan now stabilizing at a shrill scale, or until TEPCo is forced to divulge more due to media leaks, I’m gonna focus the international section on Germany as news there is that RWE, one of the biggest utilities announced plans to shut down 4 reactors, unhappily due to lack of profits, while the country’s other major company is threatening to pull up stakes and move to Turkey as the country continues with its push to hit a goal of 80% renewables by 2050.  Meanwhile, Kudankoolam is supposed to be up and running by the end of the month.

Of course, the big story of the week was the DC Appeals court (in the hands of republicans) gave Yucca Mountain a precarious foothold for a comeback as well as trounced Vermont’s legal rights to close Yankee.  Following these decisions there was a huge barrage of stories trumping the glories of Nevada as a site.  Am keeping the summaries short due to health issues…

Sunday, August 18 2013

• India – Economic Times – ‘Connection of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant unit with grid likely by month-end’
• The Local – German energy giants pull plug on coal, nuclear
• Asahi Shimbum – EDITORIAL: Japan, South Korea should work together to cut nuclear power
• The State – Doubts dampen S.C.’s nuclear future

Saturday, August 17, 2013

• Washington Post – A Secret Race for Abandoned Nuclear Material

Friday, August 16, 2013

• Las Vegas Sun – State releases memos detailing negotiations on pending nuclear waste shipment – Anjeanette Damon
• Simi Valley Acorn – Watchdog groupsfile suit claiming improper disposal offield lab waste – Gabrielle Moreira
• Mother Jones – Oregon’s GOP Chair Wants to Sprinkle Nuclear Waste From Airplanes – Tim Murphy
• KING5 Seattle – Radioactive material to be shipped on Wash. ferry – ZAHID ARAB
• Denver Post – Editorial: Going nowhere on U.S. nuclear waste – Fred Diddlebunker
• Albuquerque Journal – First-in-nation uranium deconversion plant delayed in NM – Nick Pappas
• NBC 5 Chicago – Residents Express Concern Over Aging Nuclear Plant – Chris Coffey
• Delaware News Journal – Regulator: New nuke plant now wouldn’t make sense – Ray Henry, Alexis Romero
• New York Times – As Worries Over the Power Grid Rise, a Drill Will Simulate a Knockout Blow – Matthew L. Wald
• eNews Park Forest – Key DOE Environmental Review of Plan to Use Weapons Plutonium as Mixed Oxide Reactor Fuel Indefinitely Delayed and ‘Under Departmental Review’
• FedSocBlog – Could the D.C. Circuit Become the Second Most Dangerous Court? – Publius
• New York Times – A Nuclear Submariner Challenges a Pro-Nuclear Film – Andrew C. Revkin
• POGO – Report: Nuclear Power Plants Vulnerable to Terrorist Attacks; POGO Work Cited – Lydia Dennett
• Common Dreams – Dangerous Operation at Fukushima’s Reactor No. 4 Could Ignite “Atomic Chain Reaction” – Jacob Chamberlain
• OPB News – Timeline: A Nuclear Crisis Unfolds In Japan
• Red Flag News – Mystery Japan Black Mold Measured At 170, 000 CPM…
• RT – Mission Impossible? Fukushima scientists brace for riskiest nuclear fuel clean-up yet
• Asahi Shimbun – Cesium levels in Fukushima water 8 times higher than after disaster – SHUNSUKE KIMURA
• Japan Times – Akiko Kuraoka’s documentaries find fresh relevancy amid Fukushima crisis – Michael Kleindl
• Mainichi Daily News – LDP panel to recommend freezing construction of new nuclear plants
• NHK World – Nuclear Watch: Struggle with Contaminated Water
• Russia: Washington Post – Saving the world at Plutonium Mountain – David E. Hoffman and Eben Harrell
• South Africa: Ventures Africa – Rosatom Promises Over 15,000 Jobs In South Africa

Thursday, August 15, 2013

• Las Vegas SUN – Solar, geothermal projects touted at Vegas summit
• Bellona – US appeals court rules nuclear regulators must conclude their review of the near-dead Yucca Mountain project – Charles Digges
• Fresno Business Journal – San Onofre removal may cost $4.1 billion – John Luciew
• Deseret News – Without medical diagnosis, Utah sailor lives in limbo – Jed Boal
• LA Monitor – DOE work continues near condos
• Tampa Bay Times – After canceled nuclear power plant, state legislator seeks repeal of advance fee law
• Enformable – Tritium leak found at Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant – Lucas W Hixson
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Three Mile Island: If a Tree Falls in the Forest…
• Lower Hudson Journal – Think tank: Indian Point among nuke plants vulnerable to attack – Ned P. Rauch
• New York Times – Appeals Court Blocks Attempt by Vermont to Close a Nuclear Plant – Matthew L. Wald
• Rutland Herald – Appeals court sides with Entergy in shutdown case – Susan Smallheer
• WWLP 22News – Study: Nuclear leak would force Cape Cod to evacuate
• Bloomberg – Nuclear Reactors in U.S. Seen at Risk to Terrorist Attack – Brian Wingfield
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – When meetings aren’t enough – Fissile Materials Working Group
• NEI Nuclear Notes – Understanding the Facts About Radiation and Public Health at Turkey Point
• Beyond Nuclear – Paul Gunter discusses Fukushima leaks into the ocean on RT
• Beyond Nuclear – Kevin Kamps discusses the latest Fukushima crisis on The Big Picture
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Mission Impossible? Fukushima scientists brace for riskiest nuclear fuel clean-up yet
• Fairewinds Energy Education – After disaster, the deadliest part of Japan’s nuclear clean-up
• Global Research – Letting Tepco “Clean Up” Fukushima Is Like Letting a Murderer Do Brain Surgery On a VIP
• Huffington Post – Fukushima’s Song of Ice and Fire – Joe Cirincione
• Planet Ark – Insight: Japan’s nuclear clean-up: costly, complex and at risk of failing – Sophie Knight
• Real Agenda – Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War – Michel Chossudovsky
• Asahi Shimbun – Revised tsunami projection dashes hopes of early Takahama reactor restarts – Ryuta Koike
• Taipei Times – Japan’s nuclear clean-up is costly and at risk of failing
• South Asia: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Nuclear signals in South Asia – Arun Vishwanathan
• South Asia: Times of India – Kundakulam: AERB gives green signal to produce 500MW of power – B Sivakumar, Tnn
• East Europe: ABC – Inside the world’s worst nuclear wasteland – Robert Virtue With Angela Owens
• East Europe: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Contaminated forests: Management after Chernobyl and Fukushima –
• Russia: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Don’t blame Moscow – Kingston Reif

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

• TruthOut – Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Energy Economy Is Inevitable
• KSNV MyNews3 – Yucca Mountain began as one of nine possible nuke locations – Reed Cowan
• Las Vegas SUN – Few barriers between Nevada and nation’s nuclear waste – Karoun Demirjian
• Beyond Nuclear – Court “orders the doing of a useless act”: federal appeals panel orders NRC to resume Yucca dump licensing despite next to no funds
• Access Washington – Washington wins important case for Hanford cleanup – Attorney General Bob Ferguson
• Christian Science Monitor – Yucca Mountain waste site: Court orders nuclear agency back to work (+video) – Pete Spotts
• Los Angeles Times – Nuclear agency violating law at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, court says – Ralph Vartabedian
• Politico – Moniz: U.S. must respond to climate change – Yucca review hinges on approps – NOAA chief: Need more strategic cuts – Alex Guillen
• Weekly Standard blog – Who Cares What the Court Says – Geoffrey Norman
• Los Angeles Times – San Onofre closure likely to take 10 years or less, panel is told – Marc Lifsher
• Los Angeles Times – Ratepayers should bear part of San Onofre closure cost, utility says – Marc Lifsher
• San Francisco Business Times – UC Berkeley hosts nuclear security ‘summer school’ – Steven E.F. Brown
• CBS Denver – Public Comment Sought On Proposed Pinon Ridge Uranium Mill
• Tampa Bay Times – Expert says price of Georgia power plant not competitive
• Reuters – Entergy wins key appeals court ruling on Vermont nuclear plant – Nate Raymond
• Oceania: The Guardian – Northern Territory nuclear waste dump ‘contravenes UN declaration’ – Oliver Milman
• Christian Science Monitor – Fukushima isn’t the only nuclear plant leaking radioactive water – John C.K. Daly
• Deutsche Welle – Fish stocks threatened by Fukushima leaks
• Deutsche Welle – TEPCO unable to foot the Fukushima bill
• House of Japan – Decontamination outside Fukushima shifts to houses
• Jiji Press – Kan Denies Charges over Fukushima Nuclear Plant Accident
• NHK World – KEPCO to halt 2 reactors in September
• NHK World – NRA approves TEPCO’s reactor decommission plan
• South Asia: AFP Google – Indian submarine explosion ‘kills 18’
• Europe: Reuters – Picking up the nuclear energy bill divides the EU – Barbara Lewis and Karolin Schaps
• Europe: Bloomberg – RWE Shuts Unprofitable Power Plants to Spur Generation Unit – Tino Andresen
• Russia: New York Times – OpEd: The End of a Nuclear Era – James E. Goodby

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

• Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) – Heller: Yucca Mountain Should Be “Taken off the Table”
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit – IN RE: AIKEN COUNTY, ET AL., PETITIONERS, STATE OF NEVADA, INTERVENOR–On Petition for Writ of Mandamus (pdf-101K)
• Heritage Foundation blog – Court Kicks Yucca Mountain Review Back in Motion – Katie Tubb
• Huffington Post – Obama Administration Violating Law On Nuclear Waste Dump Decision Delay: Appeals Court – Matthew Daly
• Politico – Court tells NRC to revive Yucca Mountain review – Darius Dixon-=
• Washington Post – Federal appeals court orders Obama admin to move forward on Yucca Mountain nuclear dump
• KIVI-TV – Documentary tells story of “downwinders”, strive for justice – Karen Lehr
• RevolutionRadio.org – Fire commander’s dire warning on nuclear waste near landfill fire: St. Louis “would be threatened with radioactive smoke” –
  
• Huffington Post – The Danger at Fukushima Grows Even Worse – Harvey Wasserman
• Korea Herald – Abe’s Japan is blind to scary nuclear reality – William Pesek
• Asahi Shimbun – Workers likely sprayed with radioactive mist at Fukushima nuclear plant – Ryuta Koike
• Japan Times – Oi reactor halt Sept. 15 to see all plants idled

Monday, August 12, 2013

• FOX News – Mystery memos fuel battle between Nevada, DOE over nuclear waste – Barnini Chakraborty
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Letter: Yucca Mountain a death sentence for Nevadans – Carm Frey

Friday, August 16, 2013

• Bloomberg – Nagasaki Bomb Maker Offers Lessons for Fukushima Cleanup – Shigeru Sato & Yuji Okada
• Bloomberg – Tepco Bond Risk Rises as It Seeks to Avoid Third Straight Loss – Masumi Suga
• Common Dreams – Dangerous Operation at Fukushima’s Reactor No. 4 Could Ignite “Atomic Chain Reaction” – Jacob Chamberlain
• OPB News – Timeline: A Nuclear Crisis Unfolds In Japan
• Red Flag News – Mystery Japan Black Mold Measured At 170, 000 CPM…
• RT – Mission Impossible? Fukushima scientists brace for riskiest nuclear fuel clean-up yet
• Asahi Shimbun – Cesium levels in Fukushima water 8 times higher than after disaster – SHUNSUKE KIMURA
• ENENews – CNBC: “Cow terrorism” from government’s push to restart reactors – Nuclear power is unwelcome, Japan public fearful and resentful (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Japan TV reveals cover-up of radioactive ‘black rain’ data – Doctor: “This is really surprising” – A-bomb Survivor: “I feel nothing but resentment” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Highest contamination levels yet in seawater off Fukushima plant – 3,800 Bq/liter of tritium
• ENENews – Asahi: Radioactive cesium in Fukushima water now 8 times higher than when disaster began
• ENENews – Bloomberg: Tepco now in talks to cover Fukushima reactors with concrete for next 75 years – Officials reviewing plan in U.S.
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima worker suspects the connection between impervious wall the “floating reservoirs” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Severely exposed workers] Tepco “Sediment of feed tank for the mist may be the contamination source” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco started isolating the seaside of reactor2 by underground walls – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – A major confection brand makes ice cream in Minamisoma Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] 3 µSv/h before decontamination in Kohriyama city even on 8/2/2013 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 110,000,000 Bq/m3 of Tritium from sub-drain of reactor1 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] Life style research in Sighisoara – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Akiko Kuraoka’s documentaries find fresh relevancy amid Fukushima crisis – Michael Kleindl
• Mainichi Daily News – LDP panel to recommend freezing construction of new nuclear plants
• NHK World – Nuclear Watch: Struggle with Contaminated Water

Thursday, August 15, 2013

• Beyond Nuclear – Paul Gunter discusses Fukushima leaks into the ocean on RT
• Beyond Nuclear – Kevin Kamps discusses the latest Fukushima crisis on The Big Picture
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Mission Impossible? Fukushima scientists brace for riskiest nuclear fuel clean-up yet
• Fairewinds Energy Education – After disaster, the deadliest part of Japan’s nuclear clean-up
• Global Research – Letting Tepco “Clean Up” Fukushima Is Like Letting a Murderer Do Brain Surgery On a VIP
• Huffington Post – Fukushima’s Song of Ice and Fire – Joe Cirincione
• Planet Ark – Insight: Japan’s nuclear clean-up: costly, complex and at risk of failing – Sophie Knight
• Real Agenda – Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War – Michel Chossudovsky
• Wall Street Journal – Fukushima Watch: Tepco Finally Gets an Official Cleanup Plan – Phred Dvorak
• World Nuclear News – Groundwater works intensify at Fukushima
• Asahi Shimbun – NRA approves TEPCO’s Fukushima decommissioning plan, urges solution for water problem – Jin Nishikawa
• Asahi Shimbun – INSIGHT: Japan’s nuclear clean-up costly, complex and at risk of failing
• Asahi Shimbun – Revised tsunami projection dashes hopes of early Takahama reactor restarts – Ryuta Koike
• ENENews – Nuclear Experts: One century before Japan tries to deal with Fukushima’s melted cores? – “More likely what’s left of reactors will be left in situ for 100 years or more” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Bloomberg: Much more than 300 tons of contaminated water a day entering Pacific from Fukushima? Data’s been “cooked” all along – It’s polluting North Asia – Oceans have no boundary
• Fukushima Diary – 5 parts of power cable trench of reactor3&4 found empty / Tepco “Contaminated water have already gone underground” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco “We think underground reservoirs were uplifted by the increasing groundwater” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Contaminated groundwater possibly being exchanged with seawater in seawater trench of reactor1 too – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Exposed workers released after “wiping off the contamination” / 19 Bq/cm2 ? 6.9 Bq/cm2 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Well point got in operation to pump up groundwater / laid on vinyl sheet and sandbag, plywood boards – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Seawater Tritium level in front of impervious wall became the highest / “Contaminated water continuously overflowing” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – The highest level of Tritium measured in seawater of Fukushima nuclear plant port – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Update – The Post-Fukushima Nuclear Industry: a Case Study in Institutional Self-Deceptionaugust – Dennis Riches
• JAIF – Information Update
• Japan Daily Press – Calls for US seafood testing after revelations of Fukushima radiation leaks – Ida Torres
• Japan Daily Press – US sailor believes health deterioration is linked to Fukushima radiation exposure – Faith Aquino
• Japan Daily Press – Former PM Naoto Kan denies criminal responsibility for Fukushima disaster – Faith Aquino
• Japan Times – Tepco pumping more groundwater
• Japan Today – The deadliest part of Fukushima’s nuclear clean-up: Removing fuel rods – Aaron Sheldrick and Antoni Slodkowski
• Jiji Press – TEPCO Starts Removing Tainted Groundwater at N-Plant
• Jiji Press – 210 Tons of Tainted Water Seen in Fukushima N-Plant Trench
• Taipei Times – Japan’s nuclear clean-up is costly and at risk of failing

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

• AFP Google – Japan to go nuclear-free during safety checks
• Christian Science Monitor – Fukushima nuclear emergency stands, 2 years after quake – Jeremy Ravinsky
• Christian Science Monitor – Fukushima isn’t the only nuclear plant leaking radioactive water – John C.K. Daly
• Deutsche Welle – Fish stocks threatened by Fukushima leaks
• Deutsche Welle – TEPCO unable to foot the Fukushima bill
• Radio New Zealand – Deadly removal work ahead at damaged nuclear plant
• Reuters – REFILE-INSIGHT-After disaster, the deadliest part of Japan’s nuclear clean-up – Aaron Sheldrick and Antoni Slodkowski
• ENENews – Tepco: “Significant density” of Alpha radiation leaking from Unit 3 at Fukushima – Steam seen at reactor building “likely to be leaked” from containment vessel
• ENENews – Ex-Fukushima Worker: High risk they’ll break fuel rods in Unit 4 pool – Gundersen: Moving fuel risks nuclear chain reaction; You can’t stop it, no control rods to control it – Consultants: World’s most serious radiological disaster by far is possible
• ENENews – Reuters: Corrosion is weakening Unit No. 4 at Fukushima – Concern quake to ‘topple’ bulging structure – “May have tilted” – Holds 14,000 Hiroshima bombs worth of cesium-137
• ENENews – Japan Reporter: Engineers only have ‘vague idea’ where Fukushima nuclear fuel is after world’s first triple meltdown – “A vast experiment” – Problems are enormous (AUDIO)
• House of Japan – Decontamination outside Fukushima shifts to houses
• Japan Daily Press – Nagasaki bombing cancer veteran wants recognition from Britain’s Ministry of Defense
• Japan Times – Kan says he shouldn’t be held criminally liable for Fukushima disaster
• Japan Times – NRA OKs plan on safety measures for Fukushima No. 1
• Jiji Press – 210 Tons of Tainted Water Seen in Fukushima N-Plant Trench
• Jiji Press – Japan to Go without Nuclear Power Again from Sept. 15
• Jiji Press – Kan Denies Charges over Fukushima Nuclear Plant Accident
• Jiji Press – NRA Approves TEPCO Plan on Safety Control of Fukushima Plant
• Jiji Press – TEPCO Eyes Another Rate Hike
• Mainichi Daily News – Fishermen furious as TEPCO pumps up radioactive water at Fukushima plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Plan to reform Japan Atomic Energy Agency a major challenge
• NHK World – KEPCO to halt 2 reactors in September
• NHK World – NRA approves TEPCO’s reactor decommission plan
• Yomiuri Shimbun – NSA reforms? What reforms?

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

• ENS – Fukushima’s Radioactive Leaks to the Pacific Alarm Japan
• Huffington Post – The Danger at Fukushima Grows Even Worse – Harvey Wasserman
• Korea Herald – Abe’s Japan is blind to scary nuclear reality – William Pesek
• NaturalNews – Fukushima now in state of emergency, leaking 300 tons of radioactive water into the ocean daily – Mike Adams
• Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Watch: More Cooling Problems? – Mari Iwata
• Asahi Shimbun – Workers likely sprayed with radioactive mist at Fukushima nuclear plant – Ryuta Koike
• ENENews – Tokyo Professor on CBC: Latest Fukushima crisis is threatening public health – Gov’t response “totally abysmal” (AUDIO)
• ENENews – Japan Reporter: Engineers only have ‘vague idea’ where Fukushima nuclear fuel is after world’s first triple meltdown – “A vast experiment” – Problems are enormous (AUDIO)
• ENENews – NHK: Groundwater levels continue rising at Fukushima plant – Gov’t warns Tepco about typhoons – “We can’t do anything” if rainfall overwhelms pump – Contaminated water could overflow and move “extremely fast” into Pacific (VIDEO)
• ENENews – TV: They are turning ground into quicksand at Fukushima plant – Engineers warn reactor units may topple (VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – 190,000 Bq/m3 of a nuclide detected from reactor3 PCV gas – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 4 more parts found severely deteriorated in multiple nuclide removing system ALPS only 2 months after test operation – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Buoyancy of groundwater ?] 2 water reservoirs observed uplifted by 40cm – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima Worker “Severely exposed workers didn’t wear protective clothing” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima worker urgently hospitalized / Tepco “mild symptom of dehydration” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Oi reactor halt Sept. 15 to see all plants idled

Sunday, August 18, 2013

• Washington Post – Workers at Ky. uranium enrichment plant wonder what’s next as facility heads toward closure

Saturday, August 17, 2013

• Idaho Statesman – Idaho firm delays uranium deconversion plant, cites financing woes

Friday, August 16, 2013

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Killing Yucca Mountain illegally – Sherman Frederick
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Letter: Policies could cause energy famine – FRANK PELTESON
• KSNV MyNews3 – Dina Titus leads fight against DOE’s nuclear shipments – John Treanor
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Declassified documents lift shroud over U-2, Area 51 – Steve Tetreaut and Keith Rogers
• Las Vegas Sun – State releases memos detailing negotiations on pending nuclear waste shipment – Anjeanette Damon
• Colorado Springs Gazette – Area 51 declassified in release to university – Tom Roeder
• ABC News Radio – Nuclear Waste: Yucca Mountain Gets Reprieve As Storage Site – Carmen Cox
• Christian Science Monitor – Editorial: Yucca Mountain low
• FuelFix – Yucca Mountain and the Rule of Law – William O’Keefe
• Thomson Reuters FindLaw – NRC Can’t Ignore Yucca Mtn. Application, Even With Shaky Budgets – Brett Snider, Esq
• Wall Street Journal – Strassel: Harry Reid’s Yucca Bluff – Kimberley A. Strassel
• OilPrice – US Court of Appeals Grants Hollow Victory to Yucca Mountain Supporters – Joao Peixe
• Simi Valley Acorn – Watchdog groupsfile suit claiming improper disposal offield lab waste – Gabrielle Moreira
• Mother Jones – Oregon’s GOP Chair Wants to Sprinkle Nuclear Waste From Airplanes – Tim Murphy
• KING5 Seattle – Radioactive material to be shipped on Wash. ferry – ZAHID ARAB
• Denver Post – Editorial: Going nowhere on U.S. nuclear waste – Fred Diddlebunker
• Albuquerque Journal – First-in-nation uranium deconversion plant delayed in NM – Nick Pappas
• Lexington Herald Leader – DOE urged to move quickly on Ky. plant cleanup
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge at night (1968) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Working group’ formed for controversial U-233 project – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – An up note for USEC; stock listing back in compliance – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DNFSB returning in October for Y-12 meeting; nuclear operations and UPF safety on the agenda – Frank Munger
• Connecticut Post – David McCumber: On Yucca Mountain, ‘no’ is not an option
• Hartford Courant – Letter: Spent Fuel The Big Problem At Nuclear Reactors – Charles R. Waterman
• eNews Park Forest – Key DOE Environmental Review of Plan to Use Weapons Plutonium as Mixed Oxide Reactor Fuel Indefinitely Delayed and ‘Under Departmental Review’
• FedSocBlog – Could the D.C. Circuit Become the Second Most Dangerous Court? – Publius
• NRC blog – Introducing Modern Uranium Recovery: Improved Regulations Make the Difference – John Saxton
• NWTRB – NWTRB Calendar
• Oceania: ABC – Inside the world’s worst nuclear wasteland – Robert Virtue
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Nagasaki Bomb Maker Offers Lessons for Fukushima Cleanup – Shigeru Sato & Yuji Okada
• Asia-Pacific: RT – Mission Impossible? Fukushima scientists brace for riskiest nuclear fuel clean-up yet
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Cesium levels in Fukushima water 8 times higher than after disaster – SHUNSUKE KIMURA
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Swiss utilities face waste hike
• Russia: Washington Post – Saving the world at Plutonium Mountain – David E. Hoffman and Eben Harrell

Thursday, August 15, 2013

• Rapid City Journal – Uranium mining opponents swarm council committee
• Las Vegas SUN – Appeals court: Obama violating law on nuke site
• ABC News – Nuclear Waste: Yucca Mountain Gets Reprieve As Storage Site – Alan Farnham
• ABC News – Area 51, 25 Among Yucca Mountain’s Nuclear Neighbors
• American Thinker – Court slaps down Obama for disreagrding laws he doesn’t like – Rosslyn Smith
• ANS Nuclear Cafe – Court Finally Rules on Yucca Mountain’s NRC License Review – Robert L. Ferguson
• Bellona – US appeals court rules nuclear regulators must conclude their review of the near-dead Yucca Mountain project – Charles Digges
• Bloomberg BusinessWeek – Why You Maybe Should Care About Yucca Mountain – Kyle Stock
• Breitbart – Nuclear Fallout: Yucca Decision Could Affect Immigration, Obamacare – Joel B. Pollak
• Engineering News-Record – Court Tells NRC to Resume Review of Yucca Mountain Proposal – Tom Ichniowski
• FuelFix – Commentary: ‘No’ is really not an option on Yucca Mountain – David Mccumber
• Jurist – Federal appeals court orders decision on nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain – Theresa Donovan
• Mojave Desert Blog – Yucca Mountain: Dead or Alive? – Shaun G.
• Fresno Business Journal – San Onofre removal may cost $4.1 billion – John Luciew
• The Oregonian – Bikini baristas and freedom; nuclear waste and a destination: Opinion roundup – Len Reed
• Spokesman-Review – Editorial: Heed court’s order on nuke waste delay tactics
• St. George Daily Spectrum – Yucca Mountain
• LA Monitor – DOE work continues near condos
• CBS St. Louis – Mo Congressional Delegation Avoids Nuclear Waste Question – Kevin Killeen
• News Herald – POLI-TICKER: Hopgood among hosts for nuclear waste discussion
• WRDW-TV – Attorney general says ‘Yucca’ back on track, but could be in trouble – Chad Mills
• GSA Business – DOE waits on NRC to make next move on Yucca Mountain
• Rock Hill Herald – Editorial: Build nuclear waste dump
• Enformable – Tritium leak found at Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant – Lucas W Hixson
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – When meetings aren’t enough – Fissile Materials Working Group
• Energy Department – Notices Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Hanford
• Energy Department – Notices Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico
• Energy Department – Notices Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico 
• Energy Department – Notices Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation
• Oceania: Alice Spring News – Green roadmap: nuke power the answer? – Erwin Chlanda
• Asia-Pacific: Beyond Nuclear – Paul Gunter discusses Fukushima leaks into the ocean on RT
• Asia-Pacific: Beyond Nuclear – Kevin Kamps discusses the latest Fukushima crisis on The Big Picture
• Asia-Pacific: Fairewinds Energy Education – Mission Impossible? Fukushima scientists brace for riskiest nuclear fuel clean-up yet
• Asia-Pacific: Fairewinds Energy Education – After disaster, the deadliest part of Japan’s nuclear clean-up
• Asia-Pacific: Planet Ark – Insight: Japan’s nuclear clean-up: costly, complex and at risk of failing – Sophie Knight
• Asia-Pacific: Wall Street Journal – Fukushima Watch: Tepco Finally Gets an Official Cleanup Plan – Phred Dvorak
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – NRA approves TEPCO’s Fukushima decommissioning plan, urges solution for water problem – Jin Nishikawa
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – INSIGHT: Japan’s nuclear clean-up costly, complex and at risk of failing
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Today – The deadliest part of Fukushima’s nuclear clean-up: Removing fuel rods – Aaron Sheldrick and Antoni Slodkowski
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Japan’s nuclear clean-up is costly and at risk of failing
• East Europe: ABC – Inside the world’s worst nuclear wasteland – Robert Virtue With Angela Owens
• East Europe: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Contaminated forests: Management after Chernobyl and Fukushima

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

• KLAS – Appeals Court Rules for Decision on Yucca Mountain – Scott Daniels
• KOLO – Appeals Court: Obama Violating Law on Yucca Site
• KSNV MyNews3 – Yucca Mountain began as one of nine possible nuke locations – Reed Cowan
• KSNV MyNews3 – Yucca Mountain could be money, jobs for the state – Denise Rosch
• KSNV MyNews3 – Appeals court: Obama violating law on Yucca Mountain
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Ignoring law on Yucca not a real solution – Steve Sebelius
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – DOE chief: Agency agreed to bury nuclear waste ‘deeper’ in Nevada – Keith Rogers
• Las Vegas SUN – Few barriers between Nevada and nation’s nuclear waste – Karoun Demirjian
• Las Vegas SUN – More productive talks, no resolution on planned nuclear waste shipment – Andrew Doughman
• Reno Gazette-Journal – Court: Obama violating law on Yucca Mountain nuclear site in Nevada – Matthew Daly
• Beyond Nuclear – Court “orders the doing of a useless act”: federal appeals panel orders NRC to resume Yucca dump licensing despite next to no funds
• Access Washington – Washington wins important case for Hanford cleanup – Attorney General Bob Ferguson
• Bloomberg Law – Yucca Nuclear Debate Seen Revived as Court Rebuffs NRC – Brian Wingfield
• Bloomberg – Yucca Nuclear Debate Seen Revived as Court Rebuffs NRC – Brian Wingfield
• Bloomberg – Yucca Mountain Nuclear Storage Bid Must Be Processed – Brian Wingfield &Amp; Andrew Zajac
• Christian Science Monitor – Yucca Mountain waste site: Court orders nuclear agency back to work (+video) – Pete Spotts
• E&E Daily – Yucca Mountain: Split judicial panel orders NRC to resume license review – Emily Yehle
• Electric Light & Power – Court rules Yucca Mountain review must continue
• GlobalPost – Yucca ruling nearly steals show at Vegas energy conference touting solar, geothermal projects
• Heritage Foundation blog – Court Kicks Yucca Mountain Review Back in Motion – Katie Tubb
• The Inquisitr. – Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository Review Resumes Despite Obama’s Opposition
• KTOO NPR – Federal Court Says U.S. Must Complete Yucca Mountain Review – Eyder Peralta
• Los Angeles Times – Nuclear agency violating law at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, court says – Ralph Vartabedian
• Morris Daily Herald – Feds told to stop stalling on Yucca Mountain nuclear waste decision – Michael Doyle
• News Radio 1310 – Court Says Delay in Decision for Nevada Nuclear Dump Must End – Benito Baeza
• New York Times – Government Must Continue Review of Nevada Nuclear Waste Site, Court Says – Matthew L. Wald
• Northern Colorado Gazette – Two Judges rule against Obama / Reid – Craig Masters
• Penn Energy – Nuclear Power: Court orders NRC to resume Yucca Mountain review – Dorothy Davis
• Politico – Moniz: U.S. must respond to climate change – Yucca review hinges on approps – NOAA chief: Need more strategic cuts – Alex Guillen
• RollCall blog – Court Deals Harry Reid Small Setback on Yucca Mountain (Updated) – Niels Lesniewski
• The BLT – Court Orders Yucca Mountain Licensing to Resume
• Slate – What to Do About Yucca Mountain? – Elliot Hannon
• Wall Street Journal – Problems With Authority–Lawless regulators and the White House earn a judicial rebuke
• Wall Street Journal – Court Keeps Yucca Mountain in Play – Tennille Tracy, Keith Johnson
• Weekly Standard blog – Who Cares What the Court Says – Geoffrey Norman
• World Nuclear News – US court rules on Yucca Mountain
• Yahoo! News – Appeals Court Shoots Down Obama Administration’s Yucca Delays – Alex Brown
• National Journal – U.S., Nevada Leaders in Talks on Disposing Tennessee Nuke Waste
• Rep. Doc Hastings(R-WA6) – Hastings: It’s Time to Move Forward with Yucca Mountain
• Seattle Times – Editorial: NRC must finish work on Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste site
• KHQ Right Now – Ferguson, Hastings cheered by nuke waste decision
• KING5 Seattle – Ferguson, Hastings cheered by court ruling on Nevada nuclear waste site
• Tri-City Herald – DOJ to join Hanford subcontracting lawsuit – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Our Voice: State should keep public informed about safety issues at Hanford
• CBS Denver – Public Comment Sought On Proposed Pinon Ridge Uranium Mill
• Harbor Country News – Release of nuclear plant ‘effluents’ into lake described as part of normal cycle–Opinions differ on safety of practice
• State of South Carolina – Gov. Nikki Haley reaction to court ruling on Yucca Mountain – Governor Nikki R. Haley
• Rep. Joe Wilson (SC-02) – Wilson Statement on Yucca Mountain Ruling by DC Court – Congressman Doc Hastings(Wa)
• Aiken Standard – Editorial: Court’s decision could correct broken promise
• Colombia SC Patch – SC Pols React to Yucca Mountain Ruling – Shawn Drury
• GSA Business – S.C. wins ruling on Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site – Chuck Crumbo
• The State – SC officials cheer Yucca dump ruling – Sammy Fretwell
• Post and Courier – The right ruling on Yucca
• DNFSB – Public Hearing and Meeting: Y-12 National Security Complex Public Meeting – Tuesday, October 22, 2013
• Oceania: The Guardian – Northern Territory nuclear waste dump ‘contravenes UN declaration’ – Oliver Milman
• Asia-Pacific: Radio New Zealand – Deadly removal work ahead at damaged nuclear plant
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – NRA approves TEPCO’s reactor decommission plan
• South Asia: AFP Google – Indian submarine explosion ‘kills 18’
• Europe: Energia.gr – RWE Raises Nuclear Provisions on Changed Atomic Waste Storage Law

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

• Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) – Heller: Yucca Mountain Should Be “Taken off the Table”
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit – IN RE: AIKEN COUNTY, ET AL., PETITIONERS, STATE OF NEVADA, INTERVENOR–On Petition for Writ of Mandamus (pdf-101K)
• KLAS8 – BREAKING NEWS: Court Rules for Decision on Yucca Mountain – Caroline Bleakley
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Federal court orders NRC to restart licensing process for Yucca Mountain – Keith Rogers and Steve Tetreault
• Las Vegas SUN – Court says NRC must consider Yucca Mountain application – Cy Ryan
• Augusta Chronicle – U.S. Court of Appeals says Yucca Mountain licensing can resume – Rob Pavey
• Bloomberg BusinessWeek – Yucca Mountain Nuclear Storage Application Must Be Processed (1) – Andrew Zajac and Brian Wingfield
• E&E Daily – Yucca Mountain: Split judicial panel orders NRC to resume license review – Emily Yehle
• ENS – Court Forces Yucca Mtn. Decision on U.S. Nuclear Regulators
• Fitsnews – SC Wins On Yucca Mountain
• Fox5 KVVU – Court orders Yucca Mountain licensing process to resume – Aaron Barker
• Greenville News – Yucca Mountain nuke waste plan can’t be abandoned, court rules – Eric Connor
• Heritage Foundation blog – Court Kicks Yucca Mountain Review Back in Motion – Katie Tubb
• Huffington Post – Obama Administration Violating Law On Nuclear Waste Dump Decision Delay: Appeals Court – Matthew Daly
• MyNews3 – Appeals court: Licensing for Yucca Mountain can resume
• NBC News – Feds must act on Yucca Mountain nuke-waste site permit: Judge – Lawrence Hurley and David Ingram
• Platts – US court orders NRC to resume review of Yucca nuclear repository application – Elaine Hiruo, Tom Harrison
• Politico – Court tells NRC to revive Yucca Mountain review – Darius Dixon
• Power Engineering – NRC violates law in Yucca delay, court says
• Reuters – U.S. court demands decision on Nevada nuclear waste project – Lawrence Hurley and David Ingram
• RollCall blog – Court Deals Harry Reid Small Setback on Yucca Mountain (Updated) – Niels Lesniewski
• Seattle Times blog – Washington state wins on Yucca Mountain nuclear site in federal court – Kate Riley
• The Guardian – US government ordered to act on Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project
• The Hill blog – Court: Obama broke law with nuke delay – Zack Colman
• Tri-City Herald – Appeals court says Obama violating law on Yucca Mountain
• Washington Post – Federal appeals court orders Obama admin to move forward on Yucca Mountain nuclear dump
• Las Vegas SUN – Moniz: Oak Ridge nuclear waste shouldn’t be a big deal for Nevada
• Reno Gazette-Journal – Molten salt reactors could help with nuclear waste – Robert Gonzalez
• FOX News – Mystery memos fuel battle between Nevada, DOE over nuclear waste – Barnini Chakraborty
• The Hill blog – Moniz on energy loans: ‘What is there to be defensive about?’ – Ben Geman
• KIVI-TV – Documentary tells story of “downwinders”, strive for justice – Karen Lehr
• RevolutionRadio.org – Fire commander’s dire warning on nuclear waste near landfill fire: St. Louis “would be threatened with radioactive smoke” – “Potential for something very tragic” – Paul Martin
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Wind power at the Pantex nuclear weapons plant – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oak Ridge housing (1947) – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Congressman Fleischmann at ORNL – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 mum on the gun incident – Frank Munger
• DOE:IG – Audit Report: OAS-M-13-03, Cost Transfers at the Department’s Sodium Bearing Waste Treatment Facility Construction Project
• Asia-Pacific: NaturalNews – Fukushima now in state of emergency, leaking 300 tons of radioactive water into the ocean daily – Mike Adams

Monday, August 12, 2013

• FOX News – Mystery memos fuel battle between Nevada, DOE over nuclear waste – Barnini Chakraborty
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Heller asks DOE chief to clear up discrepancies over nuclear waste – Keith Rogers
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – No nuclear storage for Yucca Mountain – John Esperian
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Letters: Debate Yucca Mountain anew
• Las Vegas Sun – Show me the memo: Fight between state, federal officials over nuclear waste continues – Andrew Doughman
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Letter: Yucca Mountain a death sentence for Nevadans – Carm Frey

Friday, August 16, 2013

• NRC – NRC, Omaha Public Power District to Meet on Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station
• NRC blog – Introducing Modern Uranium Recovery: Improved Regulations Make the Difference – John Saxton
• NWTRB – NWTRB Calendar
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Notices Policy Statement on Adequacy and Compatibility of Agreement State Programs:Statement of Principles and Policy for the Agreement State Program PDF
  

Thursday, August 15, 2013

• Energy Department – Notices Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Hanford Page 49738 (1 page) [FR DOC #: 2013-19817]
• Energy Department – Notices Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico Pages 49737 – 49738 (2 pages) [FR DOC #: 2013-19834]
• Energy Department – Notices Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico Page 49739 (1 page) [FR DOC #: 2013-19832]
• Energy Department – Notices Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation Pages 49738 – 49739 (2 pages) [FR DOC #: 2013-19826]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Notices Interim Staff Guidance on Changes During Construction PDF Pages 49782 – 49784 (3 pages) [FR DOC #: 2013-19865]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Notices License Termination Plans:Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Humboldt Bay Power Plant, Unit 3; Meeting; Correction PDF

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

• Rep. Doc Hastings(R-WA6) – Hastings: It’s Time to Move Forward with Yucca Mountain
• State of South Carolina – Gov. Nikki Haley reaction to court ruling on Yucca Mountain – Governor Nikki R. Haley
• Rep. Joe Wilson (SC-02) – Wilson Statement on Yucca Mountain Ruling by DC Court – Congressman Doc Hastings(Wa)
• DNFSB – Public Hearing and Meeting: Y-12 National Security Complex Public Meeting – Tuesday, October 22, 2013
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Notices Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals Page 49551 (1 page) [FR DOC #: 2013-19647]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Notices License Amendments:Vogtle Electric Generating Station, Units 3 and 4; Southern Nuclear Operating Co. Pages 49551 – 49553 (3 pages) [FR DOC #: 2013-19709]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Notices Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report:Three Mile Island, Unit 2 

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

• Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) – Heller: Yucca Mountain Should Be “Taken off the Table”
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit – IN RE: AIKEN COUNTY, ET AL., PETITIONERS, STATE OF NEVADA, INTERVENOR–On Petition for Writ of Mandamus (pdf-101K)
• DOE:IG – Audit Report: OAS-M-13-03, Cost Transfers at the Department’s Sodium Bearing Waste Treatment Facility Construction Project
• NRC – NRC Names Cynthia D. Pederson as Region III Administrator
• NRC – NRC Meeting Aug. 22 in Rockville, Md., to Discuss Review of Faster Transfer of Spent Fuel to Dry Casks
• NRC blog – Dealing with the Possibility: Nuclear Power Plants and Earthquakes – Roger Hannah
• Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board – Notices Meetings; Sunshine Act PDF Pages 49262 – 49263 (2 pages) [FR DOC #: 2013-19723]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Notices Facility Operating Licenses and Combined Licenses:Applications and Amendments Involving Proposed No Significant Hazards Considerations, etc. PDF Pages 49298 – 49305 (8 pages) [FR DOC #: 2013-19320]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Notices Facility Operating Licenses:Luminant Generation Co., LLC, Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 PDF Pages 49305 – 49306 (2 pages) [FR DOC #: 2013-19540]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Notices Meetings; Sunshine Act PDF Page 49306 (1 page) [FR DOC #: 2013-19711]

Monday, August 12, 2013