Sunday, January 22, 2012
- Salem-News – Reactor Reax- Roundup of Nuclear-Related Stories
- Oceania: Radio New Zealand – Concern at continued closure of French Polynesia’s nuclear weapons test sites
- Europe: Herald Scotland – Why is the sea glowing green at Hunterston? – Rob Edwards
Saturday, January 21, 2012
- The Examiner – HEAL Utah and supporters oppose EnergySolutions subversion of 2005 waste ban – Shad Engkilterra
- Chicago Tribune – 40 years later, toxic waste still haunts pockets of DuPage County – Erin Meyer
- Peak Oil – U.S. Direct Fossil Fuel Subsidies are Half a Trillion Dollars Annual
- UN: IPS News – How the U.S. Manipulates Key U.N. Appointments – Thalif Deen
- Canada: Indian Country Today – Anishinabek Invoke NIMBY Clause for Radioactive Material
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – No. of visitors to Japan falls sharply due to disaster, nuclear crisis
- South Asia: IBNLive – Anti-N forum wants representatives to be included in talks
- Europe: Rutland and Stamford Mercury – Campaigners fighting the radioactive waste in King’s Cliffe loose battle against Court Appeal
Friday, January 20, 2012
- CounterPunch – The Radioactive Waste Crisis – Linda Pentz Gunter
- San Luis Obispo Tribune – PG&E chairman announces company will spent millions on improvements – David Sneed
- Salt Lake Tribune – Utah gives green light to nuclear power plant – Judy Fahys
- Williston Daily Herald – No option for haulers on rejected radioactive substances: Health concerns unaddressed – Dustin Ingram
- Omaha World-Herald – Neighbors question Ft. Calhoun’s safety – Nancy Gaarder
- Charlotte Observer – Backers, critics of Duke’s Lee nuclear plant clash at hearing – Bruce Henderson
- BurlingtonFreePress – Timeline of events at Vermont Yankee nuclear plant
- New York Times blog – First Round: Entergy 1, Vermont 0 – Matthew L. Wald
- Vermont Public Radio – Despite Entergy’s Court Win, Yankee Still Needs State Permit – John Dillon
- Platts – US DOE launches major funding program for small nuclear reactors – Yanmei Xie
- Asia-Pacific: BBC News – New video of Fukushima nuclear reactor interior
- Asia-Pacific: Reuters UK – Update 1-TEPCO to be nationalized for 10 years – Kyodo – Ashutosh Pandey
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – 3/11 memorial to be held in Tokyo
- Russia: Pravda – Thousands of tons of nuclear wastes to travel across Russia – Natalia Sinitsa
Thursday, January 19, 2012
- Sacramento News & Review – Nuclear-power shake-up – Darwin BondGraham
- NEI Nuclear Notes – Aftermath of Frontline’s “Nuclear Aftershocks”
- New York Times – A Judge Rules Vermont Can’t Shut Nuclear Plant – Matthew L. Wald
- Homeland Security Today – DoE Seeks to Amend Atomic Energy Act to Reclassify Certain Data – Anthony Kimery
- Asia-Pacific: Huffington Post – Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Images Show Radiation, Rusty Metal Inside Reactor – Mari Yamaguchi
- Europe: Belfast Telegraph – State-sponsored killing is not warfare, it is murder – Adrian Hamilton
- Europe: The Guardian – Anti-nuclear campaigners plan legal challenge to new British power stations – Terry Macalister
- Europe: Highland News – Secrecy over nuclear waste trains through Highlands
- Europe: Financial Times – ‘Atomic Anne’ leaves Areva under a cloud – Tony Barber
- Europe: Fox Business – Spain May Extend Garona Nuclear Plant’s Life Until 2019
- North Africa: Bikya Masr – Radioactive material stolen from nuclear power plant in Egypt
- South Africa: Botswana Sunday Standard – Pilikwe radiation facility goes ahead despite public disapproval – Reuben Pitse
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
- USA Today – Problems plague cleanup at Hanford nuclear waste site – Peter Eisler
- Idaho Statesman – Anti-nuclear activist Macy comes to Boise – Rocky Barker
- Westword blog – Rocky Flats, which once manufactured plutonium triggers, still produces secrets – Patricia Calhoun
- Roanoke Times – Legislature may not act on uranium issue during this year’s session – Michael Sluss
- Green Power & Wellness Radio – Have 14,000 Americans already died from Fukushima’s radioactive fallout? – Harvey Wasserman
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Panel: evacuation system unreliable / Government group says SPEEDI cannot accurately predict radiation spread
- Europe: Bloomberg – Siemens to Pump $1.3 Billion Into Gas Turbines to Fend Off GE – Richard Weiss
- Europe: Deutsche Local – Cost of nuke phase-out ‘could near €2 trillion
- North Europe: Nuclear Energy Insider – Final repositories: deep knowledge in the Nordics – Jason Deign
- Russia: Bellona – Comment: Mobile nuclear meltdowns: Coming soon to a town near you? – Vladimir Slivyak
- Middle East: Tehran Times – IPPNW condemns assassination of scientists: report
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
- KUOW – Report: Hanford Tanks May Have More Plutonium Than Estimated – Anna King
- Idaho Statesman – Plans for uranium de-conversion plant move forward for International Isotopes of Idaho Falls – Sandra Forester
- New York Times blog – A Fresh Look at Nuclear Power, from Fukushima to the Hudson – Andrew C. Revkin
- Washington Times – Editorial: NIMBY nation – Obama: It’s not doable unless it’s renewable
- World Nuclear News – Records tumble for uranium producers
- Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin – Frontline examines implications of the Fukushima event for Pilgrim
- Alliance for Nuclear Accountability – DOE Seeking More Reactors to Use Controversial Plutonium Fuel (MOX)
- FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
- Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Japan to allow reactors to operate up to 60 yrs – Rie Ishiguro and Risa Maeda
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – U.S. forces given SPEEDI data early
- Asia-Pacific: Tokyo Times – New probe vows to cut deeper in Japan nuke crisis
- South Asia: Hindustan Times – India rejects US think tank report on nuclear safety
- South Asia: Times of India – N-lab pumps waste into Neela Hauz: DJB – Abhinav Garg
- Europe: Reuters – France’s Hollande softens nuclear closure stance – Muriel Boselli and Benjamin Mallet
- Europe: Reuters – Siemens puts cost of nuclear exit at 1.7 trillion euros – Christoph Steitz
- East Europe: Czech Position – CEZ fails to make economic case for expanding Temelín, study says
- West Africa: Reuters Africa – Niger to pursue nuclear plans despite Fukushima: president
Monday, January 16, 2012
- Indianapolis Star – Thyroid cancer cases increasing, but doctors are unsure why – Shari Rudavsky
- Nature blog – After Fukushima, emergency back-up equipment recommended for US nuclear reactors – Declan Butler
- South America: Jornal.us News Agency – Brazilian nuclear power plants set new records in 2011 – Joao Vianna
- Canada: World Nuclear News – Federal cash for legacy waste clean-up
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 11 people live in no-entry zone within 20 km of Fukushima plant
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Opponents of Hamaoka nuclear plant restart gain momentum – Daily News of Newburyport
- Europe: Oxford Mail – 20-year storage of radioactive waste – Liam Sloan
- Russia: Bellona – Comment: Russia ignoring case for beefing up nuclear disaster preparedness plans – even at risk of losing moscow to a fallout plume in major accident – Andrei Ozharovsky
- Russia: Bikya Masr – Russian environment group warns of “Chernobyl on Wheels” shipments – Stefan Korshak
- Russia: Ria Novosti – Repair, modernization of fire-damaged sub may cost $30 mln – Andrei Pronin
- North Africa: Ahram Online – Dabaa nuclear station project crisis escalates – Zeinab El Gundy