Sunday, February 12, 2012

• Carlsbad Current-Argus – Area legislators wined & dined by energy lobbyists – Steve Terrell
• KCCI Des Moines – Opponents Question Need For Iowa Nuclear Plant
• RenewAmerica – America’s green enemies – Alan Caruba
• The White House – Loretta R. Valerio, Appointee for Member, Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health – President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
• Europe: Irish Independent – John Crown: Our judgement was distorted by Chernobyl tales – Senator John Crown
• North Africa: Egyptian Gazette – Egypt’s dilemma over its nuclear dream (II) – Mohssen Arishie

Saturday, February 11, 2012

• ENENews – Highest level of radioactive cesium in San Francisco-area milk since August 2011 — Now at 150% of EPA’s maximum contaminant limit (CHART)
• LA Times blog – Report faults workers for ammonia leak at San Onofre nuclear plant
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – PG&E altering plans for Diablo Canyon offshore fault surveying – David Sneed
• Salt Lake Tribune – Power to pollute – Christopher Thomas
• CNN iReport – Occupy the NRC – Rosehips
• North Europe: Bellona – Mystery radioactive iodine found in Barents Sea region earlier this month traced to Hungary, not Russia, says Finland – Charles Digges
• East Europe: Focus News – Poland’s first nuclear plant delayed five years to 2025

Friday, February 10, 2012

• KPCC – Feds slam San Onofre nuclear plant, SoCal Edison for failing to follow their own procedures – Paige Osburn
• Laguna Beach Independent – Council Says SONGS Needs to Change Its Tune – Rita Robinson
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Boxer Seeks Review of Leaks at San Onofre – Dean Calbreath
• IEER – Nuclear power plants pose threat to drinking water of millions of Americans: IEER in Red Wing, Minnesota (pdf-260K)
• KMOV – Legal claims may be filed over illnesses near former radioactive waste site – Marc Cox
• Alliance for Nuclear Accountability – Georgia nuke plant first to get OK’d in decades
• Columbus Free Press – We may yet lose Tokyo….not to mention Alaska…and now Georgia, too – Harvey Wasserman
• Public Citizen – With Japanese Nuclear Crisis Still Unfolding, New Nuclear Reactor Approval Is Move in Wrong Direction – Allison Fisher
• Rep. Edward J. Markey(D-MA7) – Markey to NRC: Vogtle Reactor Vote is an Abdication of Duty
• archive.org – Michael Mariotte of NIRS, Temperatures Rise at Fukushima, Activists in Japan and US Fight Nuclear Energy Industry – Dori Smith
• Huffington Post – New Reactors Signal U.S. Nuclear Energy Resurgence – Christine Todd Whitman and Dr. Patrick Moore
• io9 – A US government program secretly injected people with plutonium – Esther Inglis-Arkell
• New York Times blog – Nuclear Power vs. Natural Gas – Matthew L. Wald
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Japan Starts Nuclear Cleanup, With Little Idea of How – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Slideshow: Japan Begins Nuclear Cleanup
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – ‘Remove pro-nuclear Srinivasan from panel’
• Europe: Reuters – Refile-Table-French nuclear plant outages/restarts – Karolin Schaps and Axelle du Crest
• Europe: Reuters – Total has no plans to invest in nuclear energy-CEO – Muriel Boselli
• Europe: Der Spiegel – Cancer Mysteriously Ravages German Village – Hauke Goos
• East Europe: NRCU – Parliament allows to construct spent fuel storage facility near Chornobyl NPP

Thursday, February 09, 2012

• Colorado Springs Independent – The fallout – Molly Mrazek
• KMOV – Legal claims may be filed over illnesses near former radioactive waste site – Marc Cox
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – U.S. Rep. Markey introduces bill to slash $100B from ‘bloated’ nuclear weapons program over 10 years; would kill both UPF and CMRR – Frank Munger
• Politico – Jaczko dissents as NRC approves Vogtle permits – Darius Dixon
• Scientific American – Nuclear Reactor Approved in U.S. for First Time Since 1978 – David Biello
• Washington Post – NRC approves construction of new nuclear power reactors in Georgia – Steven Mufson
• Wicked Local blog – Bonnie Raitt helps the fight to end nuclear power in New England – Jon Chesto
• Canada: Winnipeg Free Press – Nuclear waste is a hot issue – Jonathon Naylor
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Taiwan dismisses nuclear waste storage concerns – Huang Chiao-wen and Scully Hsiao
• Europe: WhiteHaven News – Nuclear Waste: The great debate continues
• Europe: Reuters – Table-French nuclear plant outages/restarts – Karolin Schaps and Axelle du Crest
• East Europe: Majiros News – Winter in Chernobyl
• South Africa: AllAfrica – Namibia: Soldier Fined for Role in Uranium Deal – Adam Hartman

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

• Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works – Senator Boxer Calls on NRC to Assess Safety Conditions at San Onofre Nuclear Plant in California
• Global Research – Radioactive Leak at California Nuclear Plant: Almost Caused a Melt Down
• Orange County Register – Boxer asks NRC to check safety at San Onofre – Pat Brennan
• Orange County Register – Nuclear plant’s neighbors want radiation monitors – Fred Swegles
• San Clemente Times – Criticism Mounts as SONGS Reactors Remain Offline
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Boxer presses for San Onofre probe – Dean Calbreath
• San Juan Record – Radiation fears still cloud the crash of Felon 22 – Lee Bennett
• Tucson Citizen – Activist group trots out tritium scare – Jonathan DuHamel
• Augusta Chronicle – Southern Nuclear awaits NRC approval for Plant Vogtle expansion – Rob Pavey
• Huffington Post – ‘Mutant’ Spider Fears As White Cobwebs Are Found At Nuclear Waste Pool – Sara Nelson
• Portsmouth Herald News – Letter: Shipyard presents major nuclear hazard to region – Ben Chichester
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Role of nuclear energy in creating smarter US grid networks – Margaret Harding
• Nuclear Energy Insider – US nuclear industry prepares to build first reactor in 25 years – John Johnson
• POGO blog – Markey Introduces Aptly Named SANE Act to Curtail Wasteful Nuke Spending
• Asia-Pacific: UPI – Bird numbers drop around Fukushima
• East Europe: Focus News – EU funding shortfall for ex-Soviet nuclear plants clean-up
• East Europe: Bloomberg – Czechs Won’t Build New Nuclear Power Stations, Hospodarske Says – Peter Laca
• East Europe: Reuters – Czechs to curb nuclear expansion plans-IndMin – Jana Mlcochova

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

• CBS Local – Inspectors Get First Shot At Tests After Radiation Leak At San Onofre Nuclear Plant – Tom Reopelle
• LA Times blog – San Onofre nuclear power plant still shut down a week after leak – Robert J. Lopez
• Orange County Register – San Onofre leak: Reactors remain offline – Pat Brennan
• SanClemente.Patch – Nuclear Plant Still Shut Down; Inspection Ongoing – Adam Townsend
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Workers Enter Nuclear Reactor that Leaked, Prepare Inspection – Morgan Lee
• truthout – Our Ongoing Nuclear Disaster: One CA Reactor Leaks, The Other Doesn’t… Yet – Gregg Levine
• Environment News Service – Hanford Nuclear Waste ‘Vit Plant’ Has Safety Board Worried
• Daily Mail – How to stay safe in the atomic age: Charming posters from 1947 which show the health risks from radiation – Rose Parker
• Lower Hudson Journal – Letter: Nuclear accidents are forever – Frederick R. Schminke
• Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch – Indian Point Can Close with Little Impact, State Committee Says – Liz Giegerich
• Vermont Public Radio – In Franklin County, Radioactive Material Found In Fish – John Dillon
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #78: The Bucket List – Dave Lochbaum
• Canada: Owen Sound Sun Times – Panel to review nuclear waste storage plan – Troy Patterson
• Oceania: ABC – Canberra dangles $10m nuclear waste dump carrot – Anna Henderson and Louise Willis
• Oceania: The Guardian – France urged to clean up deadly waste from its nuclear tests in Polynesia – Christine Chaumeau
• Asia-Pacific: Washington Post – Messages show conflict within NRC after Japan earthquake and tsunami – Steven Mufson
• Europe: The Guardian – KPMG refuses to publish controversial green energy report – Jessica Shankleman
• Europe: Press Association – Radioactive beach response slammed
• Europe: NIRS – Updated Greenpeace International report on Areva’s EPR design: A Dangerous Waste of Time and Money. (pdf-2.88M)

Monday, February 06, 2012

• KPBS – San Onofre Nuclear Plant In Complete Shutdown – Ed Joyce
• Los Angeles Times – San Onofre nuclear power plant incidents draw attention – Esmeralda Bermudez
• Nuclear Engineering – SONGs remains offline following SG leak
• OB Rag – Nuclear Follies Continue: Fukushima, Vermont Yankee, and San Onofre – Michael Steinberg
• Ventura County Star – Close look at leak days away at Cal nuke plant
• KUOW NPR – Top Hanford Scientist Says Treatment Plant Pipes Not Strong Enough – Anna King
• Salt Lake Tribune – Letter: Nuclear plant fraud – Chip Ward
• Detroit News – Fermi 3 foes urge health analysis – Jim Lynch
• WFPL – Whitfield Says Paducah Uranium Enrichment Bill is “Stymied” in Congress – Erica Peterson
• TC Palm – Editorial: Fish kill at St. Lucie power plant demonstrates failure of reporting requirements
• Southern Alliance for Clean Energy – Nuclear Secrecy with $8 Billion on the Line
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• POGO blog – Building a Better Energy.gov: How DOE Can Take Steps Towards Achieving the Principles of Open Government – Mia Steinle
• Asia-Pacific: HNN Huntingtonnews – Shining the Light on the Triple Meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi – Margaret Harrington interviews Maggie and Arnie Gundersen
• Asia-Pacific: Tokyo Times – Chernobyl experts hopeful on Fukushima
• South Asia: Times of India – UN appeals India to ratify global nuclear test ban treaty
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – UK’s Horizon completes purchase of land for nuclear development
• Europe: Reuters – France declares level 2 nuclear event at Cattenom – Karolin Schaps
• Middle East: Global Research – Demonstrations in over 80 cities and 6 countries say: No War, No Sanctions, No Intervention, No Assassinations on Iran! – Sara Flounders
• Middle East: Ha’aretz Daily – Israel can clear Mideast of nukes, it just won’t – Akiva Eldar
• Middle East: Pacific Free Press – Hell on Wheels: War Train Picking Up Speed – Chris Floyd