Sunday, February 26, 2012

• Oceania: ABC – Questions asked over radioactive mine waste
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Snap rally condemns O’Farrell’s nuclear backflip – Josie Evans
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – RPT-INSIGHT-Japan’s nuclear crisis goes much further than Fukushima – Risa Maeda
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Anti-nuke groups slam PM remarks

Saturday, February 25, 2012

• Kalamazoo Gazette – Nuclear Regulatory Commission oversight not enough, Palisades must be shut down – Kevin Kamps
• Atomic Power Review – Atomic Power Review – February 24, 2012
• The Guardian – Q&A with Naomi Wolf: America’s nuclear future – Naomi Wolf
• New York Times – Letters: Sunday Dialogue: Nuclear Energy, Pro and Con
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Worker at No. 1 nuke plant died from overwork
• South Asia: Firstpost – Kudankulam protests: 3 NGOs lose licence for diverting funds
• Hindustan Times – Battle lines drawn, govt to monitor NGO funding – Zia Haq
• North Europe: SteelGuru – Radioactive steel scrap contaminates furnace of Outokumpu Tornio

Friday, February 24, 2012

• Care2 – Former Colorado Nuclear Weapons Plant Just As Contaminated 40 Years Later – Julie Rodriguez
• Green Bay Press Gazette – Guest column: Nuclear plant risks are not worth it – Mary Tordeur
• Cape Codder – Senator Wolf calls for Pilgrim nuclear plant shutdown
• Asia-Pacific: Business Week – Japan to Purchase Contracted Kazakh Uranium, Kazatomprom Says – Nariman Gizitdinov and Yuriy Humber
• Asia-Pacific: IAEA – Fukushima Daiichi Status Report (pdf-210K)
• Asia-Pacific: Nature – Scientists report back from Fukushima exclusion zone – Quirin Schiermeier
• Europe: Platts – Belgian public reveal mixed support for nuclear power: survey – Robin Sayles
• North Europe: Reuters – Update 1-Outokumpu workers exposed to radiation

Thursday, February 23, 2012

• Bloomberg – PG&E CEO Expects California Reactor Licenses Will Be Extended – Mark Chediak
• Salt Lake Tribune – Letter: EnergySolutions’ fate – Merlin Ross
• Iowa City Press Citizen – Even a Cyclops can see the nuclear bill is bad – James Larew
• KMOX – Debate Heats Up Over St. Louis County’s Westlake Landfill – Michael Calhoun
• San Antonio Express – CEO resigns at South Texas Project – Vicki Vaughan
• Massachusetts Daily Collegian – Anti-Nuke Dialogue Turns Up Heat on Vermont Yankee – Thomas Barnes
• Huffington Post – The Gang That Couldn’t Bomb Straight – Robert Scheer
• MSNBC – The 10 states that run on nuclear power – Brian Zajac
• South Asia: Calcutta Telegraph – Singh sees US hand in nuclear protests
• South Asia: Daily News & Analysis – ‘India has long way to go in nuclear disaster safety’
• South Asia: The Hindu – “State experts’ committee has lost credibility”
• Europe: AFP Google – Swiss environmental groups want Beznau nuclear plant shut
• Russia: Bellona – Explosion at Sarov nuclear facility leads to at least one injury and radical media confusion – Charles Digges

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

• KSBY San Luis Obispo – PG&E appoints new chief nuclear officer for Diablo Canyon – Courtney Meznarich
• Laguna Beach Independent – Letter: Nuclear Roulette – Marni Magda,
• Orange County Register – Japan fallout? Tiny, but SoCal got the most – Pat Brennan
• Orange County Register – San Clemente to look at radiation monitoring – Fred Swegles
• San Clemente Times – Nuclear Critics Continue Pleas for Independent Radiation Monitors, Cancer Studies
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Regulators review response at San Onofre nuke plant – Morgan Lee
• Deseret News – New study finds mild contamination outside controversial uranium mill – John Hollenhorst
• High Country News blog – Risks remain from uranium mining near the Grand Canyon – Heather Hansen
• WKMG Orlando – Energy bills going up for Progress customers
• Pottstown Mercury – Letter: Earthquake risks at Limerick are too high – Lorraine Ruppe
• Reuters – Update 1-NRC proposes first post-Fukushima safety orders
• Oceania: Radio New Zealand – France vows to reassess nuclear compensation claims
• Asia-Pacific: UPI – Report on Fukushima fallout released
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Transcripts sketch out NRC’s 3/11 confusion
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Kuwait scraps nuclear power in light of Fukushima crisis
• South Africa: Bloomberg – S. Africa Considers $78 Billion Nuclear-, Coal-Power Spend – Mike Cohen

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

• KPBS – San Onofre Still Offline Three Weeks Later – Maureen Cavanaugh, Patty Lane
• UH Daily Cougar – Atomic energy not the answer – Bryan Washington
• BurlingtonFreePress blog – Post-game analysis: The appeal of Vermont Yankee appeal – Terri Hallenbeck
• IEER – Reprocessing: Mythology versus Reality, Science for Democratic Action vol. 16 no. 2 (February 2012) (pdf-)
• IEER – Surete nucleaire en France post-Fukushima (Nuclear Safety in France). A critical analysis by IEER and WISE-Paris. (February 20, 2012) (pdf-)
• IEER – Long-Term Waste Confidence and Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: Comments to the NRC from IEER, BREDL, Riverkeeper, SACE, and NRDC. (February 17, 2012) (pdf-)
• IEER – No More Solyndras: Groups Call On DOE to Force Public Release of Details on Delays and 12 Secret Cost Overruns at Vogtle Reactors (pdf-)
• IEER – Declaration of Dr. Arjun Makhijani in Support of Motion to Stay Effectivness of Vogtle Col Approval (pdf-)
• NIRS – Emergency Preparedness–Nuclear 911 Campaign
• Daily Beast – John D’Agata’s Fact-Checking Battle – Josh Dzieza
• The Ecologist – Nuclear special Links between childhood leukaemia and nuclear power plant radiation – Matilda Lee
• Energy Collective – Rethinking the Nuclear Energy Renaissance – Holbert Janson
• The Guardian – From Rocky Flats to Fukushima: this nuclear folly – Naomi Wolf
• Huffington Post – New Nuclear Construction Will Help Secure U.S. Energy Technology Leadership – J. Scott Peterson, Senior Vice President of Communications, Nuclear Energy Institute
• New York Times – Letter: Invitation to a Dialogue: Using Nuclear Energy – Zvi J. Doron
• ScienceNOW – Nuclear Reactors Not Needed to Make the Most Common Medical Isotope – Robert F. Service
• Canada: TheChronicleHerald – Group calls for seismic testing before Point Lepreau restart
• Oceania: Cumberland Courier – Rally against uranium mining in NSW Wednesday
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Records Show Confusion in U.S. at Start of Japan’s Atomic Crisis – Matthew L. Wald
• Asia-Pacific: Wall Street Journal – Faulty Data Guided U.S. After Japan Nuclear Accident – Peter Landers
• Asia-Pacific: Tokyo Times – Only two nuclear reactors running in Japan
• South Asia: IBNLive – Anti-Koodankulam protestors plan 72-hour fast
• Europe: The Guardian – Nuclear weapons are the great taboo of British politics – Richard Norton-Taylor
• North Europe: The Foreigner – Chernobyl still affects Norway – Michael Sandelson
• East Europe: Radio Prague – Radioactive Waste Depository Authority launches multi-million-crown incentive to win over municipalities for possible nuclear waste sites – Sarah Borufka
• East Europe: Warsaw Business Journal – Germany protests against Poland’s nuclear plans

Monday, February 20, 2012

• Arizona Capitol Times – Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon region is unwise – Carl Taylor
• Tri-City Herald – DOE wants whistleblower lawsuit dismissed – Annette Cary
• Columbia Daily Tribune – State study of area’s cancer risks panned
• Bellona – New Obama budget makes deep cuts in US global nonproliferation efforts – can nuclear smuggling be stemmed? – Charles Digges
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• South America: IPS – Latin America Seeks to Spread Nuclear Free Zones – Emilio Godoy
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – January trade deficit hits new high – Jun Hongo
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – ‘Bikini incident’ survivor’s story relevant today as Fukushima crisis continues – Mamoru Shishido
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Tao protest against nuclear facility – Loa Iok-sin
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – India’s breeder reactor to be commissioned in 2013
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – EDF plans longer life extensions for UK AGRs
• Europe: Platts – Spanish nuclear watchdog OKs Garona life extension – Henry Cybulski
• East Europe: News.Az – interview: ‘Many aspects’ of nuclear safety of concern to Azerbaijan – Rovshan Ibrahimov
• East Europe: Telegraf.by – Lukashenko Invites Japan to Build NPP in Belarus
• South Africa: Kenya Broadcasting Corporation – World’s nuclear plants grounding to a halt – Judith Akolo