Sunday, March 18, 2012

• BurlingtonFreePress – Arnie Gundersen: 40 years is not middle age for nuke plants
• Canada: Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre – Leak at Bruce Power – Manny Paiva
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Japan: One year after Fukushima, people speak out – Daniel P. Aldrich
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Australia’s role in the Fukushima disaster – Jim Green
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Nuclear Terms and Acronyms
• Asia-Pacific: Yahoo!7 News – 80% in Japan ‘support nuclear phase-out’
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Third of Fukushima kids got first radiation lessons from disaster: poll

Saturday, March 17, 2012

• Real Aspen – Battle over uranium mining brewing in Grand Canyon – Troy Hooper
• WTVC – Oak Ridge Contamination May Go Back Years
• Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) – Casey Urges Immediate Review of Nuclear Evacuation Zones
• Enformable – UCS to NRC: Nyah, Nyah, Nyah – Joy Thompson
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima evacuees upset over gov’t plan for set compensation amounts
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Anti-nuke protesters call on Tamil Nadu CM to halt KNPP
• East Europe: Journal of Turkish Weekly – Bulgaria Likely To Drop Belene Nuclear Project With Russia
• Russia: Bellona – Bellona’s Rybakov and other environmentalists meet Russian president with list of ecological demands – Charles Digges

Friday, March 16, 2012

• Enformable – San Onofre reports more steam generator tube failures to NRC – Lucas W Hixson
• L.A. Now – San Onofre nuclear plant reports more testing failures
• OC Weekly Blog – San Clemente’s Nuke Plant Radiation Mystery – Nick Schou
• Orange County Register – More reactor tubes fail; NRC team here Monday – Pat Brennan
• Pacific Coast Business Times – Editorial: PG&E can make Diablo a model for nuclear safety?
• Reuters Africa – Seven tubes fail test at Calif. San Onofre 3 reactor
• Fox 13 Now – Opponents call for ban on blended nuclear waste in Utah – Brittany Green-Miner and Kimberly Houk
• Nuclear Engineering – USEC reports huge loss for 2012
• Oak Ridger – Little things mean a lot: Cleaning up DOE sites
• WCAX – State official questions NRC oversight of Vt Yankee
• Alliance for Nuclear Accountability – News Briefing to release Nuclear Budget-Busters: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Riskiest, Most Unaccountable Programs – Bob Schaeffer (pdf-197K)
• Columbus Free Press – Nuclear power’s Green Mountain grassroots demise – Harvey Wasserman
• National Center for Policy Analysis – No Confidence in Nuclear Energy
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Japan atomic regulator blocked crisis plan revamp – documents – Yoko Kubota
• Asia-Pacific: YouTube – Global Fukushima Action Day 2012
• Europe: BBC News – Nuclear fissions green movement – Richard Black
• Europe: BBC News – Sepa and MoD agree beach radiation plan for Dalgety Bay in Fife
• Europe: The Guardian – Nuclear power will fail to achieve what George Monbiot wants – Charles Secrett, Tom Burke, Tony Juniper, Jonathon Porritt
• East Europe: Bloomberg – Stalemate Hits $10 Billion Czech Nuclear Plan on Funding – Ladka Bauerova

Thursday, March 15, 2012

• Huffington Post – San Onofre Nuclear Plant Probed By The Feds After Radiation Leak – Michael R. Blood
• L.A. Now – Nuclear regulators send inspection team to San Onofre
• Orange County Register – NRC sends team to inspect failed San Onofre reactor tubes – Pat Brennan
• Reuters – NRC calls for more inspections to Calif. reactor after tests fail
• Reuters – Three tubes fail test at Calif. San Onofre 3 reactor
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Tests at San Onofre Uncover Tube Weakness – Morgan Lee
• Washington Post – San Onofre’s Unit 3 reactor shut indefinitely while US regulators probe tube problems
• World Nuclear News – SONGS steam generator tube leakage under investigation
• The Coloradoan – Federal regulators say Colorado botched uranium hearings
• Telluride Daily Planet – Piñon Ridge uranium mill project under federal scrutiny – Benjamin Preston
• Environment News Service – Sea-Levels Rising: Millions in Coastal USA at Risk
• Environmental News Network – Nuclear Reactor Failures
• Huffington Post – A Post-Fukushima World: Truths and Confusion About Global Energy – Vivian Norris
• NRDC – What if the Fukushima nuclear fallout crisis had happened here?
• Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works – Statement of Chairman Barbara Boxer “Lessons from Fukushima One Year Later: NRC’s Implementation of Recommendations for Enhancing Nuclear Reactor Safety in the 21st Century”
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t panel divided on Japan’s future use of atomic power
• Asia-Pacific: PennEnergy – Minister Casts Doubt on Viability of 4th Taiwan Nuclear Plant
• South Asia: TwoCircles – N-power capacity failed to rise: Economic Survey
• Europe: The National – Europe split over future of nuclear energy – David Sapsted
• Europe: The Guardian – UK nuclear industry timeline – interactive – Giulio Frigieri
• Europe: thisis Somerset – ‘Nuclear power is the unsafe option’
• Europe: WalesOnline blog – Nuclear disaster – Gareth Clubb
• Europe: Western Mail – Welsh Government accused of U turn after coming out in support of nuclear power – Graham Henry
• Europe: Huffington Post – Scotland: Nuclear Power Dropping In Favor Of Renewable Energy – Shifra Mincer
• South Africa: Daily Times Nigeria – A nuclear Nigeria is unthinkable – Yemi Soneye

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

• Santa Maria Times – SLO County details emergency plans – Kenneth Klein
• Hanford News – Settlement reached for 2 Fluor purchasers for alleged kickbacks – Annette Cary
• Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Editorial: Nuclear power’s lost cause
• Pleasantville.Patch – Lowey Urges NRC to Update Indian Point Evacuation Plans
• Keene Sentinel – Nuclear economics
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Weapons labs and the inconvenient truth – Hugh Gusterson
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Social acceptance and the Blue Ribbon Commission: A positive experience in national nuclear waste discussions – Allison Macfarlane and John Kotek
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – From the Bulletin archives: Selected readings on Three Mile Island
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – From the Bulletin archives: Selected readings on Chernobyl
• CleanTechnica – Nuclear’s Tremendous Economic Risk (Put on the Backs of Citizens) – Zachary Shahan
• The Economist – Special report: Nuclear energy–The dream that failed
• The Economist – Special report: Nuclear energy–From squash court to submarine
• The Economist – Special report: Nuclear energy–Blow-ups happen
• The Economist – Special report: Nuclear energy–Leave well alone
• The Economist – Special report: Nuclear energy–Bandwagons and busts
• The Economist – Special report: Nuclear energy–Over the rainbow
• Open Salon – Jill Stein Asks: ‘Has Obama Learned Nothing from Fukushima?’
• Asia-Pacific: The Australian – Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Japanese coast, tsunami wave hits coast – Shingo Ito
• Asia-Pacific: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Fukushima in review: A complex disaster, a disastrous response – Yoichi Funabashi, Kay Kitazawa
• East Asia: Korea Times – Reactor safety in doubt
• Europe: BBC News – Third nuclear power station at Heysham plans on ice
• Europe: Reuters – E.ON says its commitment to nuclear is fading
• Europe: Reuters – Swiss nuclear plant operator appeals against 2013 closure – Catherine Bosley
• Middle East: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Fearful of a nuclear Iran? The real WMD nightmare is Syria – Charles P. Blair
• Middle East: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Crying wolf about an Iranian nuclear bomb – Jacques E. C. Hymans

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

• KPBS – High Radiation Readings At San Clemente May Be False – Alison St John
• DOE:Hanford – The Hanford Story
• Seattle Times – Nobel winner Caldicott here for Japan nuclear crisis anniversary – Carol M. Ostrom
• Colorado Independent – Conservation groups, tribe defend feds in Grand Canyon uranium mining lawsuit – Troy Hooper
• The Coloradoan – State investigating radioactive sand dumping related to fracking – Bobby Magill
• KWES NewsWest9 – Former NM uranium mine proposed as Superfund site
• New Mexico Business Weekly – Closed Laguna uranium mine added to Superfund list – Megan Kamerick
• Los Alamos Monitor – Town hall meeting
• IEER – Renewable Minnesota: A technical and economic analysis of a 100% renewable-energy based electricity system for Minnesota – Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D., Christina Mills, J.D., M.V. Ramana, Ph.D.
• Minnesota Public Radio – What happens after a nuclear accident – Stephanie Curtis
• Quad City Times – Iowa nuclear power plan wins key vote, but outcome in doubt – James Q. Lynch
• Facing South – A year after Fukushima, the South remains at unnecessary risk of nuclear disaster – Sue Sturgis
• Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Nuclear power’s lost cause
• Tampa Bay Times · – Progress Energy customers on hook for $1.1B for nuclear plant that may never be built – Ivan Penn
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Uranium Studies: More sun
• Lower Hudson Journal – 200 demand Indian Point closure – Shawn Cohen
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #83: Salem’s Which Trial – Dave Lochbaum
• Keene Sentinel – A report weighs the effects if Vermont Yankee were to close – Kyle Jarvis
• Democracy Now! – Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen: Fukushima Meltdown Could Result in 1 Million Cases of Cancer – Arne Gundersen
• GMA News – Gorbachev proposes creation of world court for environment crimes
• New York Times – Nuclear Agency Head Calls for New Standards – Matthew L. Wald
• New York Times – Solyndra Is Blamed as Clean-Energy Loan Program Stalls – Bill Vlasic and Matthew L. Wald
• Nuclear Engineering – Exelon and Constellation complete merger
• Platts – Spot uranium price continues its slide, downside seen limited though – Mike Knapik
• Oceania: ABC – Nuclear dump protesters disrupt Parliament
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Muckaty community defiant, determined to stop nuclear dump
• Oceania: World Nuclear News – Australian radioactive waste bill passed
• Asia-Pacific: BBC News – Statement on Fukushima
• Asia-Pacific: Scoop – Fukushima One Year Later : The Poisoning of Planet Earth – Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuclear demonstrations held in Japan, elsewhere – Asahi Shimbun
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – First anniversary of 3.11 disasters in photos
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 474,000 tons of disaster rubble remains piled up in nuke crisis no-go zone
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Taipower misleading public: activists – Lee I-chia
• Asia: Xinhua News – China rethinks nuclear power one year after crisis in Japan
• South Asia: TwoCircles – Environmental group complains against pro-nuclear power ads

Monday, March 12, 2012

• Daily Titan – Anti nuclear groups protest San Onofre – Jameson Steed
• OpEdNews – Southern California Residents Risk Radioactive Exposure to Demand End to Looming Nuclear Threat – Ruth Hull
• Orange County Register – Nuclear foes’ I-5 banners shut down by CHP – David Bro
• SantaCruz.Patch – Fukushima Meltdown, Cover-Up Documentary Shows in Santa Cruz – Brad Kava
• Carlsbad.Patch – Hundreds Protest Operations at San Onofre Nuclear Generator Station – Jackie Connor
• Omaha World-Herald – Ft. Calhoun fire serious threat, report says – Leslie Reed
• Southside Pride – We almost lost our water – Ed Felien
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Freedom of Information; Let the sun shine
• Lower Hudson Journal – 200 demand Indian Point closure – Shawn Cohen
• Patriot Ledger – Nuclear power protesters march past Plymouth plant – Fred Hanson
• Vermont Public Radio – Task Force: State Should Plan For Impending Vermont Yankee Closure – Ross Sneyd
• Portsmouth Herald News – NRC dismisses three contentions from nuclear safety groups – Shir Haberman
• New York Times – Asleep at the Controls – Richard Brodsky
• New York Times – Editorial: The Nuclear ‘Implementation Study’
• Press Action blog – U.S. Nuclear Industry Operates as if Fukushima Never Happened
• Oceania: Scott Ludlam – Let the Facts Speak – Senator Scott Ludlam
  —let the facts speak: An Indictment of The Nuclear Industry (pdf-6.02M)
• Asia-Pacific: Xinhua News – Japan’s nuke disaster as bad as or worse than Chernobyl: expert – Al Campbell
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Chronology of major events related to the nuclear crisis
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Thousands rally at Hibiya Park – Jun Hongo
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Germans, French slam atomic power
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Today – 259 citizens file suit to block restart of reactors in Fukui
• Asia-Pacific: AsiaOne – Over 1,000 protest in Taipei against nuclear power
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Taipower hits back at protesters – Lee I-chia
• Asia: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – China’s Nuclear Crossroads – Kevin Tu
• Asia: Christian Science Monitor – China’s nuclear power plant review: ‘problems in 14 areas’ found – Peter Ford
• South Asia: Platts – Bangladesh cabinet ratifies deal with Russia for nuclear plant build – Mohammad Azizur Rahman
• Europe: BBC News – UK nuclear plans ‘put energy in French hands’ – Richard Black
• Europe: Gloucester Citizen – South West nuclear energy giant ‘fined’ £4.5 million
• Europe: The Guardian – Sellafield: ‘It was all contaminated: milk, chickens, the golf course’ – John Vidal
• Europe: The Guardian – The story of Sellafield nuclear power station – in pictures
• Europe: The Guardian – Windscale nuclear accident contaminates cows’ milk – 1957 British Pathé video
• Europe: Euronews – Anti-Nuclear Protest in Germany
• Europe: New York Times – Merkel Defends Germany’s Nuclear Power Deadline – Melissa Eddy
• Europe: Reuters – Feature-Germany harnesses green power in desolate east – Vera Eckert
• East Europe: Reuters – Austria expects EU anti-nuclear campaign this year – Michael Shields
• South Africa: Fin24 – Mega atomic deal
• South Africa: Zimbabwe Mail – Zimbabwe to ban Japanese car imports over Nukes contamination