Sunday, April 08, 2012

• Los Angeles Daily News – PG&E tests bad for sea life and also for fishing industry – Brian Stacy
• PalosVerdes.Patch – Are Fish Affected by Radioactive Kelp Off Our Coast?
• San Francisco Chronicle – Fukushima radiation found in California kelp – Marla Cone
• Whittier Daily News – Problems at San Onofre nuclear plant fuel concerns – Kevin Smith
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Editorial: Lawmakers should reject Ameren’s greedy money grab
• SouthtownStar – Why don’t nuclear plants pay their water debt? – Emily Briley
• Tampa Bay Times – Is nuclear power industry poised to repeat ‘managerial disaster’? – Robert Trigaux
• Current TV – Evacuating: Dr. Helen Caldicott – What We Learned From Fukushima (April 2, 2012)
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – April 8th, 2011 – Fukushima NPP Radiation Health Risks v.1
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Ex-prime minister Murayama expresses regret over supporting nuclear power
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Storage space to be built at 2 sites in Fukushima for tsunami debris
• South Asia: Xinhua News – Sri Lanka concerned over Indian nuclear plants
• North Europe: BBC News – Are Denmark’s renewable energy goals wishful thinking? – Paul Moss
• East Europe: Daily Mail – Chernobyl disaster gave football star Stiliyan Petrov cancer, claims Bulgarian doctor – Ian Garland
• East Europe: Moscow Times – Belene Cancellation Backlash
• East Europe: Xinhua News – Chernobyl legacy – Paul Fusco

Saturday, April 07, 2012

• LakeElsinore-Wildomar.Patch – Video: San Onofre Nuke Plant To Remain Shut, Officials Say – Adam Townsend
• Orange County Register – Nuclear chief: Wear differs in Onofre reactors – Pat Brennan
• Reuters – No timetable for restarting California nuclear plant: Jaczko – Alex Dobuzinskis
• San Diego Reader – San Onofre Faces More Challenges on Multiple Fronts – Dave Rice
• UPI – NRC: So. Calif. nuke plant can’t restart
• Valley News – Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman, Rep. Issa, Sen. Feinstein visit San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
• Asia-Pacific: Infowars – Fukushima Reactor 4: Life On Planet Earth in the Balance – Kurt Nimmo
• Asia-Pacific: AkioMatsumura.com – Fukushima Daiichi Site: Cesium-137 is 85 times greater than at Chernobyl Accident – Akio Matsumura
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Mayors organize antinuclear forum
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Japanese mayors to establish anti-nuclear energy conference
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Kudankulam’s turnaround – M R Venkatesh
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Bumpy road ahead for India’s nuclear programme – Kalyan Ray
• South Asia: Times of Assam – India dumping Nuclear waste In Bangladesh – Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
• Europe: The Independent – RWE and E.on prepare to sell UK nuclear project – Mark Leftly
• Europe: Bloomberg – German Renewable Power Cheaper Than Fossils in 2030, Study Shows – Stefan Nicola

Friday, April 06, 2012

• Contra Costa Times – NRC head: San Onofre plant will remain offline until cause of problem found – Michael R. Blood
• Dana Point Times – NRC: Power Plant Restart Hinges on Assurances of Safety – Stacie N. Galang
• L.A. NOW – San Onofre to remain closed indefinitely, NRC chief says – Abby Sewell
• L.A. NOW – Congressman hopes San Onofre is back in operation by summer – Abby Sewell
• L.A. NOW – Anti-nuke protesters gather outside shuttered San Onofre – Abby Sewell
• SanJuanCapistrano.Patch – NRC Chief: San Onofre Won’t Restart Until Leak Cause Found – Adam Townsend
• Democratic Underground – Residents Rethink a Nuclear Neighbor
• Salon – The GOP’s nuke-dump donor – Mariah Blake
• CounterPunch – Fighting the Legacy of Enrico Fermi – Michael Leonardi
• WPSD – Troubled waters: DOE to clean up contaminated groundwater – Jason Hibbs
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – Video: Cost of completing reactor at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant rises by up to $2 billion – Pam Sohn
• New York Times – Energy Dept. to Revitalize a Loan Guarantee Program – Matthew L. Wald
• Asia-Pacific: LewRockwell.com – It’s Not Over: Government Plans for the Worst: Forced Evacuation of Tokyo – Mac Slavo
• Asia-Pacific: Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Toyota plans to build a final disposal site for debris in their factory area – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Weekly – A Global Concern
• South Asia: Indian Express – Pvt players get more share of nuclear pie – Anil Sasi
• NRDC blog – French people form “Human Chain Reaction” of up to 60,000 people near Lyon – Unfortunately ignored by international news media
• East Europe: Reuters – Bulgaria govt faces no-confidence vote over energy – Tsvetelia Tsolova

Thursday, April 05, 2012

• LA Weekly blog – Radioactive Acid Rain Detected in Los Angeles – Dennis Romero
• Poway.Patch – San Onofre Still Idle; NRC Chairman to Visit Friday
• Flagstaff Live – Fallout of empire–A new photo exhibit pays tribute to the nuclear age’s forgotten victims – Abbie Gripman
• Bloomberg – Is GOP Donor Emptying Pockets to Fill a Dump?
• Political Wire – GOP Donor Spends Big to Get Rules Changed
• Columbus Free Press – America’s 2 new nukes are on the brink of death – Harvey Wasserman
• Enformable – Notice of Unusual Event due to Dual Unit Loss of Offsite Power at Catawba Nuclear Plant – C.Harris
• AlterNet – Why Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer to Global Warming – Christian Parenti
• Christian Science Monitor – World is ignoring most important lesson from Fukushima nuclear disaster – Kenichi Ohmae
• Asia-Pacific: Wall Street Journal – Japan Tallies Upheaval’s Toll – Yuka Hayashi Minamisoma
• South Asia: IBNLive – TN: 127 anti-nuclear protestors released from prison
• Europe: thisis Somerset – The nuclear negatives
• Russia: Al Jazeera – Russian villages in nuclear danger zone

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

• Oakland Tribune – Annual nuclear weapons protest at Livermore lab set for Friday – Robert Jordan
• Orange County Register – NRC chairman to visit troubled San Onofre – Pat Brennan
• Orange County Register – Questions on nuclear cancer risks? Ask the chairman – Teri Sforza
• SanClemente.Patch – Anti-Nuke Group Slams San Onofre with CNN, MSNBC Ad
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Power shortages loom with idled Calif. nuke plant – Michael R. Blood
• New York Times blog – Uranium, Cattle Grazing and Risks Unknown – Leslie Macmillan
• Bloomberg – Republican Donor Simmons Seeks Rule to Fill Texas Dump – Julie Bykowicz
• Danville Register&Bee – Local group wanted in on uranium meeting – Tara Bozick
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Westinghouse CEO resigns after 2 days – Erich Schwartzel
• Mid-Hudson News – Assemblywoman calls for public hearings on Indian Point evacuation plan, emergency preparedness
• Norwood News – Rivera Says There’s No Plan to Protect The Bronx From Nuclear Disaster – Destiny DeJesus
• Daily Kos – My Take on Nuclear Power – Sault
• Greenpeace International blog – Double trouble for nuclear power: UK and Bulgaria projects collapse – Justin McKeating
• New York Academy of Sciences – Energy for the Next 20 Years–Protecting the Environment and Meeting Our Demands – Kelly Lombardo
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Europe’s nuclear phase out markets learn costly lessons from Japan – Jason Deign
• Canada: Waterloo Record – Nuclear-waste dump proposal sparks protest in cottage country
• Oceania: Australia Network News – Marshall Islands nuclear testing victims need more support
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Severe storms in Japan expose fragile design of Fukushima reactor cover – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Long-term no-go areas considered
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Toshiba’s Shiga takes helm at U.S. nuclear company
• South Asia: IBNLive – Three anti-KNPP activists detained outside stadium
• South Asia: IBNLive – Cop thrashes anti-nuke activist
• Russia: Ria Novosti – Russia’s Nuclear Arms Industry Fraud ‘Systemic’ – Prosecutors
• Russia: Space Daily – Plutonium to Pluto: Russian nuclear space travel breakthrough
• Russia: Staple News – Siberian Village Exposed To Radiation

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

• NBC San Diego – San Onofre Conducts Siren Test – Lauren Steussy
• The Oregonian – Occupy Portland takes aim at Hanford nuclear plant with April 15 rally in Richland, Wash. – Anne Saker
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #86: Didn’t Want to Disturb You – Dave Lochbaum
• Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – The Sunflower: Issue #177 – April 2012
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Japan kept 10 trillion becquerel per hour calculations secret for over a year
• Asia-Pacific: Huffington Post – Fukushima Radiation Moving Across Pacific Ocean – Jesse Emspak
• Asia-Pacific: Mother Nature Network – Radiation from Japanese disaster tracked 186 miles away – Jesse Emspak
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear agency received large donations from nuke plant operators
• Asia-Pacific: Tokyo Times – Top politicians hesitant about restarting reactors
• Southeast Asia: Philippine Daily Inquirer – Beware the myth of (nuclear) safety
• South Asia: Deccan Chronicle – Protest against Haryana nuke plant intensifies – Rashme Sehgal
• South Asia: IBNLive – Fundamental rights violated: Udayakumar
• Russia: RIA Novosti – Three Charged in $6.3 Mln Nuclear Arms Complex Fraud
• Russia: RT – Plutonium to Pluto: Russian nuclear space travel breakthrough

Monday, April 02, 2012

• Enformable – New California ad campaign targets San Onofre reactor problems – Lucas W Hixson
• Carlsbad.Patch – San Onofre Should Stay Shut, Environmental Group Says
• WNYC – As Indian Point Seeks Relicensing, NY Officials Call for Better Evacuation Plan – Annmarie Fertoli
• Bloomberg – Energy Week Ahead: NRC Talks Temblors With Power-Plant Owners – Brian Wingfield
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Oceania: Radio Australia News – Nuclear testing still affects Marshall Islands: expert
• Asia-Pacific: The Guardian – Japanese experts warn of earthquakes that could produce 34-metre tsunamis
• Asia-Pacific: International Business Times – Radioactive ‘Hotspots’ Found Far From Fukushima Disaster – Roxanne Palmer
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 84 percent say government stress tests for nuclear plant restarts inadequate: survey
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Opposition leaders express mixed views over resuming idled reactors
• East Asia: Korea Herald – Greenpeace officials denied entry on national interest
• South Asia: IBNLive – Country will have 60 N-plants by 2035: NPCIL
• Europe: BBC News – Babcock Dounreay Partnership awarded demolition contract
• Europe: World Nuclear News – UK boosts nuclear liabilities – Kalamazoo Gazette
• Europe: OilPrice – German Nuclear Plans Reveal Deep Flaws – John Daly
• South Africa: Reuters – S.Africa considers nuclear fuel cycle facilities – Wendell Roelf