I’ve made some major changes to how the newsletter is designed As a result of these changes, I’m now posting them to the website rather than to this blog. The new design has been streamlined so that an average reader … Continue reading
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The weekly Radiation Bulletin has been published since 1985 by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse (SF California USA). It is produced using a combination of social bookmarking and programming.
Every week up 1,000 nuclear news stories are published around the world. The Rad Bull distills this down to a more digestible 100 stories. The Mainstream media just doesn’t want you know that there are battles over nuclear power and the nuclear fuel taking place around the world.
Continue readingWhat nuked up week its been. On the personal front I had to help a friend into the hospital who was dying. He had no family and has spent the last several years in a small space I provided for … Continue reading
What will the oil spill spin doctors do? In this oped, I will once again suggest, as I’ve been doing for years that there are no issues left to win in this world except the battle against the corporate media … Continue reading
It would seem that Chernobyl has become a global embarrassment to the media these days! Only the Los Angeles Times cared to cover the 24th anniversary or the more delicate release by the New York Academy of Science’s exhaustive investigation … Continue reading
No Nukes and happy Earth Day! I’m going to start out here with an editorial comment. The international corporate run media has a global agenda to promote and frame the push to build nuclear reactors worldwide. Just days before the … Continue reading
This is a two week addition of the news. Sorry, but I’ve had a rather severe medical emergency that put me in the Emergency Room at the local hospital twice. I’m doing a bit better after treatment for a rather … Continue reading
A bit of a slowdown compared to last week. Just a few breaking stories with most news about ongoing events that have already seen the light of day. I wanted to follow up the scary breaking story last week about … Continue reading
Just way over the top! Talk about getting buried… This is late coming out due to all of the major stories that hit last week. Before I get started with start, we have one story of particular interest, the possibility … Continue reading
Its always appropriate to point out just how hard it is to put a stake through the heart of a vampire. A few more stories to piss them off this time around. Portugal and Indonesia came out against development of … Continue reading
What a relief! Obama’s nuclear swine flu outbreak has finally started to slow a bit. Its clearly not over with however, has France’s President can attest to as he was sacking the head of Areva, calling for rich nations to … Continue reading
Nuclear quagmire!!! The last week of news continues to escalate. Its taken several hours more than usual to put this newsletter together. Obama’s version of nuclear change wasn’t what a whole lot of us were expecting. So the fallout continues … Continue reading
Talk about a Twilight Zone of a week. Once I weeded out the huge amount of redundant stories, it wasn’t a very busy week. Biggest chunk of content was as expected, the huge new push for reactor development across the … Continue reading
As expected. The national and many local media outlets around the country is having a huge field day promoting nuclear after Obama’s photo-op. But then that’s not the only news this last week. As usual, when the public is watching … Continue reading
After the last couple of weeks, this last one was very slow news wise. News yes, and a more than a bit of foul stuff. Expect a lot of we did it kind of PR stuff, onward to victory news. … Continue reading
A very busy week indeed, with several big stories breaking internationally. The stop story IMHO, is the news about Russia dumping nuclear waste into the Baltic Sea near Sweden! This is a breaking story, but if it is true, it … Continue reading
What a week. Obama goes nuclear just in time to shake up things. But let’s do the big picture. The UK investigation of the Iraqi invasion is no bigger story out there. For anyone in the U.S. with cable TV, … Continue reading
The major news this last week comes from France as Sarkozy had to call in EDF and Areva over a growing internal battle. The fallout over France’s failure to win the $40 billion UAE reactor construction contract continues as the … Continue reading
The nuclear industry gets slammed again. The state of Florida blocked funding for new reactors. Nuclear waste issues raised its head worldwide this last week with stories on 3 continents. The biggest story was out of Tennessee where a Norwegian … Continue reading
Nuclear News continues to slow down. Even the number of PR stories promoting more reactors has taken a dive. That’s not to say that they’ve disappeared, either as I’ve put a few pro-nuclear stories in the mix here. Note, that … Continue reading
As was expected the last week was a vacation week for most Americans so the volume of news was low. However, what happened was nothing of the sort. The news was mostly pretty bad stuff. The lead story has to … Continue reading
Introduction: I used to do regular versions of this, but have lapsed due to ongoing health problems. If you are like most Americans and just want the big splashy one liner stories during the last year, skip the intro. However, … Continue reading
Anybody have a best of the year list of articles? What’s your pick for the top nuclear stories for 2009? I’m considering putting together a special addition of the bulletin just to put the year in perspective. In a major … Continue reading
This was a fairly busy week in terms of important news. Its kind of hard to actually call what happened in Denmark important at this point as it is more than clear that we’ve lost a major chance to change … Continue reading
I’m more than a bit late in getting this out and so I’m only gonna make a couple of quick comments and you are on our own… The bad news is of course the Kerry-Lieberman campaign in the senate. Good … Continue reading
Strategy sessions are part and parcel to the nuclear industry’s frontal attack on the planet and the US public. The industry’s capacity to get its point of view heard by the general public is legend, and of course it comes … Continue reading
The nuclear world continues to be rocked by economics, safety problems and scandals. At the top of the news this last week was Japan’s formal release of its secret deal with the U.S., illegally hiding the fact that the Japanese … Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving! This was a small news week, however, many stories that hit were powerful wacks to the the nuclear industry, like the South-Texas CPS scandal where the utility was caught lying to the public over the real construction costs. … Continue reading
A modest week in the news. Boy, I wished somebody else knew how to work with social bookmarks! On the international scene, the British Labour Party announced their latest, brand new push to build 10 new reactors. A Turkish court … Continue reading
What a difference a week can make in the news! Even as Maryland was busy locking in a devastating new nuclear nazi agenda over letting France drive this country’s nuclear agenda, Areva and EDF took one of its worst beatings … Continue reading
What a difference a week can make in the news! Even as Maryland was busy locking in a devastating new nuclear nazi agenda over letting France drive this country’s nuclear agenda, Areva and EDF took one of its worst beatings … Continue reading
Goodness, this wasn’t the best week out there, no thanks to the continuing media campaign to just let the nuclear industry pump bs into the public domain. But what’s new! Wow are Republicans capable of deceipt! All of a sudden … Continue reading
Here’s another issue of the news. Sorry about the delay on this again. There are still a few kinks in the system yet to work out. This was a slow news week. Again the most interesting news stories are coming … Continue reading
Sorry about the delay in getting this out, there is some kind of technical problem going on with the wordpress blog software, possibly another hack attack. I’ve found a work around for now. When reporting on nuclear news worldwide its … Continue reading
Not a lot of news this week but the stories that did come out were fairly important. There were many fuel cycle issues this week with DOE pushing to dump 6,000 cubic yards of llw from West Valley in a … Continue reading
Not a big news week in terms of major stories. A bit of surprising news however, is the story out of Germany that Merkel’s new coalition partner has said that there won’t be any nuclear renaissance, but more like an … Continue reading
I finally caught up… Germany fell to the right today. Expect a major war over a new push to toss out Germany’s nuclear moratorium. A foul week indeed as new intenational alliances with Corporations are popping up worldwide. EDF and … Continue reading
I’m getting a bit closer every few days. Maybe I’ll be caught up within two or three days. Again, its always hard to see through the whirlwind of stories, alerts and trends. We are counting down to the last few … Continue reading
I’m finally starting to catch up with the workload. Let’s hope I can keep up. My world has changed a bit. I’m struggling to hold onto my job and my home, so times are a bit unstable. I will know … Continue reading
I’m in catchup mode. I seem to have gotten the blog back into some kind of safe condition, free of attacks. Yes, over the last month I’ve had somebody attacking the blog deleting new posts, resulting in hours of additional … Continue reading
A never ending mess these days. I’ve got a new look and updated the service to the latest version. Maybe that will save me some grief for awhile. Sorry, but I’m way behind now due to the attack that kept … Continue reading
Okay, I’m back after a couple of weeks of hack attacks. I’m hoping I’ve been able to finally clean up what has happened as somebody has been deleting all of my work for over a month now, causing a huge … Continue reading
The Top energy stories person is still on vacation. The news is here and being produced, but a week late. You can click and see all the stories below! Enjoy Anyone interested in doing the commentary for the weekly bulletin? … Continue reading
The top stories is still on vacation. They are coming out a week late, so news is being kept up to date. That means, if you have monitored this news in the past, it still is available for searching via … Continue reading
I’m still on vacation… Having a wonderful time doing other things for a rare moment. I’m a history buff, and like tracking down old historic stuff, especially materials that have been lost. I promise to do a bit better cleanup … Continue reading
I’m kind of back… Had a great event. With lots of help and a good turnout. The event was all about the 75th anniversary of the 1934 general strike in SF. It had major impacts on the city and the … Continue reading
The Matrix guy… Mr. Anderson… I manage a large community center. Our largest and oldest tenant left the building last week leaving 20 years of work in jeopardy… Not to mention the possible loss of a home for the archives … Continue reading
The Death of the Nuclear Renaissance? From France selling off part of Areva to the Mideast or Exelon’s abandonment of its proposed Victoria reactors in Texas, or the DOE’s abandonment of GNEP and a proposed reprocessing facility at Savannah River, … Continue reading
Imagine. If even 1/10th of republicans ever read legislation, they may have overwhelmingly support the Waxman-Markey scam! Just look at the Huffington Post leaked Exelon memo! Billions are to me made by nuclear with this new cap and trade legislation. … Continue reading
After a large volume of email to me (thanks) several people were worried that taking the newsletter private would mean the loss of any kind of comprehensive overview for the public on the full scope of the nuclear industrial state. … Continue reading