Sunday, April 22, 2012

• OB Rag – Rally Against Nuclear Power at San Onofre on April 29th
• San Francisco Chronicle – Navajo land tainted by abandoned uranium mines – Leslie Macmillan
• Epoch Times – Plutonium Vaults Demolished at Top-Secret US Facility – Michael Fitzgerald
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Groups call for look at current 10-mile evacuation radius – Bill Vidonic
• Washington Post – Editorial: Phasing out nuclear
• Asia-Pacific: HNN Huntingtonnews – Japanese Chemical Plant with Radioactive Waste Struck by Lightning
• Asia-Pacific: HNN Huntingtonnews – Gundersen Updates Fukushima Reactor Status
• Asia-Pacific: Huffington Post – The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Is Far From Over – Robert Alvarez.
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Shutdown of nuclear plants urged ahead of Chernobyl anniversary – Christie Chen
• South Asia: IBNLive – Kudankulam nuke plant: PMANE threatens to go on fast again

Saturday, April 21, 2012

• Orange County Register – Inspections of San Onofre faulty tubes completed
• Orange County Register – Kick The Watchdog: Nixing nukes would cost, dearly – Teri Sforza
• Orange County Register – Morning letters: Unwise to pull the nuclear-power plug
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Key Issue Identified in Idled Reactor at San Onofre Plant – Morgan Lee
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Chernobyl expert takes a look at Tohoku’s trees – Winifred Bird
• South Asia: Lankaweb – Koodankulam is more dangerous than previously thought – Warna Hettiarachchi
• Europe: ITV News – Anti-nuclear protest
• Europe: SNP – Hidden subsidies show UK energy policy in tatters

Friday, April 20, 2012

• Bloomberg – PG&E Quake Risks at Diablo Nuclear to Undergo 3D Exam – Julie Johnsson and Mark Chediak
• San Diego Union-Tribune – New Evidence for The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty – Hazel O’Leary
• SanJuanCapistrano.patch – Nuclear Plant Restart Date Unclear, Despite Rumors – Adam Townsend
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – Opinions are polarized on Diablo seismic mapping – David Sneed
• World Nuclear News – Arizona: Lawsuit draws line in sand over mining ban
• Telluride Daily Planet – Regulatory meeting closed to public–Sheep Mountain Alliance, others, tried to get access – Katie Klingsporn
• Vermont Journalism Trust – Sanders Opposes NRC Nominee
• Portsmouth Herald News – Report raises concerns about Seabrook Station – Shir Haberman
• Bellona – Comment: How to dismantle the atomic industry (and burst the bubble of the nuclear revival folly) – Vladimir Slivyak
• Huffington Post – No Nukes and Intervening Women – Renee Parsons.
• Oceania: NSW Daily Telegraph – Buried fury at betrayal bubbles to the surface – Richard Noone
• Asia-Pacific: Wall Street Journal blog – Hunger Strike Launched at Antinuclear Tent City – Eleanor Warnock
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – 70% of farmers tilling land again
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan Today – Lawmakers move to expand Taiwan’s nuclear emergency zones – June Tsai
• Europe: Financial Times – Centrica threatens nuclear pull-out – Guy Chazan and Jim Pickard
• Europe: Greenpeace UK blog – The government’s nuclear dream is failing. It’s time for plan B
• East Europe: National Post – Driving to Chernobyl 26 years later – Jeremy Hart

Thursday, April 19, 2012

• The Hill – Obama to nominate nuclear official that Reid accused of lying – Andrew Restuccia
• NewportBeach.Patch – San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Leads Nation in Safety Complaints – Adam Townsend
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Ameren, Westinghouse seeking to build small nuclear reactors – Jeffrey Tomich •
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – POGO says leaked Defense Dept. memo reveals effort to expand work at DOE’s weapons labs – Frank Munger
• Pottstown.Patch – Residents Question Geologic Fault At Limerick Nuke Plant – Teresa McMinn
• Southeast Asia: Visayan Daily Star – ‘PNoy not for nuclear power plants’ – Carla Gomez
• South Asia: IBNLive – Drop cases on K-activists
• Europe: BBC News – Concerns over radioactive cargo through Avonmouth
• North Europe: Bellona – Renewable Energy Forum proposes formation of alternative energy working group and showcases hopeful developments

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

• KPBS – San Onofre’s Shutdown Generates Questions – Alison St John
• NM Nuclear Watch – Defense Dept. Memo Criticizes Cost of Nuclear Weapons Labs While Los Alamos Director’s Salary Nearly Triples
• Bloomberg – Southern Nuclear Power Plant Foes Ask Court to Block License – Andrew Harris, Brian Wingfield and Tom Schoenberg
• Columbus Free Press – Obama’s atomic Solyndra? – Harvey Wasserman
• NIRS – Women&Children Require More Protection from – Ionizing Radiation than Men
• POGO blog – Stuck in the Past? DOE’s Cold War Mindset Leads to Blown Bucks on Nuclear Labs – Mia Steinle
• Canada: Vancouver Free Press . – Federal government not testing West Coast salmon for Fukushima radiation – Carlito Pablo
• Oceania: NSW Daily Telegraph – Our nuclear fears demand inquiry
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Irradiated whales – Iori Mochizuki
• Europe: Swissinfo – Strategy outlined for nuclear-free energy future
• Russia: Enformable – Kamchatka Peninsula announces will test migratory birds for effects of Japan event – Lucas W Hixson

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

• The Examiner – Nuclear Energy Initiative fails to meet ballot deadline – Cynthia Lorene
• Tri-City Herald – DOE plans seismic analysis at Hanford – Annette Cary
• Inside Climate News – Nuclear Power Proposal in Utah Reignites a Century-Old Water War – David Hasemyer
• CBS Dallas – Lawmaker Wants Papers On Radioactive Dump Released
• Lubbock Avalanche-Journal – Lawmaker wants papers on radioactive dump released – Will Weissert
• Society of Environmental Journalists – “Burnam: ‘Top Secret’ Documents Show Risks of Radioactive Waste Dump” – Forrest Wilder
• IEER – What’sNew: NRC Denies Motion; Groups to Sue to Block Vogtle Units 3&4: Press Release and Press Conference
• OpEdNews – Stop the Nuclear Industry Welfare Program – Sen. Bernie Sanders and Ryan Alexander
• Asia-Pacific: Greenpeace International blog – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for April 13th – April 16th, 2012 – Christine McCann
• Asia-Pacific: Huffington Post – Fukushima’s Nuclear Nightmare Is Far From Over (or the Disturbingly Deadly Act of Placing Profits Before People)
• Asia-Pacific: Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Daiichi’s Achilles Heel: Unit 4’s Spent Fuel? – Phred Dvorak
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Taipower ceases geological exploration in Hualien amid criticism
• Europe: TheParliament – Greens hit out at plans to ‘reclassify’ nuclear power – Martin Banks

Monday, April 16, 2012

• The Hill – Romney, GOP don’t see eye to eye on Yucca Mountain – Ben Geman
• KPBS – Activists Call for Permanent Shutdown At San Onofre As More Tubes Showing Wear –
• Platts – Initiative to shut California reactors fails to make November ballot
• SanJuanCapistrano.patch – Nuclear Petition Drive Falls Short, But Could Still Make Ballot, Supporters Say – Ben Davis Jr. and Donna Gilmore
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford target of Occupy Portland protest – Annette Cary
• WUSA9 – GSA Death List Bonuses and $26 Million Bonus Pool – Russ Ptacek
• Mansfield News Journal – Lawmaker wants papers on radioactive dump released – Will Weissert
• Texas Observer – Burnam: ‘Top Secret’ Documents Show Risks of Radioactive Waste Dump – Forrest Wilder
• Bloomberg – Delay Sought by Environmental Groups for Reactors in Georgia – Brian Wingfield
• GPB – Officials Reopen Nuclear Worker Cases – Orlando Montoya
• Enformable – Can we avoid sinking our atomic Titanics? – Karl Grossman
• Enformable – November 15, 1945 – The Agreed Declaration on Nuclear Energy – USA – UK – CAN
• Green Times – Wave of radiation headed for US
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Activists mount court challenge to Olympic Dam mine – Renfrey Clarke
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Bread and bequerels: a year of living dangerously – Gianni Simone
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Taipower accused of hiding plans for nuclear waste site in Hualien
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Fractured anchor bolts at nuclear reactor raise safety concerns
• South Asia: Times of India – We are not opposed to Kudankulam nuclear power plant: Sri Lanka – Indrani Bagchi
• Europe: The Guardian – Nuclear: a toxic investment – Terry Macalister
• Europe: Western Mail – Wales should ditch nuclear power, says environment minister – Graham Henry
• East Europe: Enformable – Scientists find the effects of radiation cause birds in Chernobyl’s most affected areas to sing more – Lucas W Hixson
• Russia: Bellona – Comment: Russia gives up on “boosting” Chernobyl-type reactors – but still eyes VVER-running stations for further experiments – Andrei Ozharovsky