Sunday, May 13, 2012

• truthout – The Thing That Couldn’t Die: Yucca Battle Continues in Congress and in the Courts – Gregg Levine
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Funding OK’d to Study Nuclear Plant Hazards – Morgan Lee
• The State – Earthquake threat prompts questions at nuclear plant – Sammy Fretwell
• Cape Cod Times – NRC must bite the bullet and pull the plug on Pilgrim
• Asia-Pacific: Fairewinds Energy Education – Fukushima Daiichi: The Truth and the Future – Arnie Gundersen
• South Asia: IBNLive – Release K-protestors, activists tell government
• Europe: Daily Mirror – Nuke ‘graveyard’ plan: Tons of deadly waste could be dumped below Lake District

Saturday, May 12, 2012

• Orange County Register – Ratepayers will foot $64 million bill for San Onofre earthquake study – Teri Sforza
• Voice of OC – Regulators Can’t Find Key Record on San Onofre Changes – Nick Gerda
• Toledo Blade – Editorial: Japan’s nukes, and us
• South Florida Sun-Sentinel – Kevin Doyle: Nuclear waste costs Floridians millions – Sun-Sentinel
• Huffington Post – Nuclear’s Once Bright and Shiny Future Blinks Out – William Bradley
• Asia-Pacific: Greenpeace International blog – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 8th – May 10th, 2012 – Christine McCann
• Asia-Pacific: Natural News – Plume-gate: Secret documents prove global cover-up of continued Fukushima radiation pollution – Ethan A. Huff
• Asia-Pacific: OpEdNews – Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb – GLloyd Rowsey
• Russia: Bellona – Fate of original US-Russian nonproliferation program unclear as Senator Lugar loses Indiana elections – Charles Digges

Friday, May 11, 2012

• LA Times blog – San Onofre: funding approved for seismic studies – Abby Sewell
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Funding OK’d for earthquake studies at nuclear plant – Morgan Lee
• Tri-City Herald – Energy Northwest to buy $711M of nuclear fuel – Annette Cary
• Friends of the Earth – Nuclear industry suffers major defeat in Iowa
• New York Times blog – A Higher Price Tag for a Nuclear Project – Matthew L. Wald
• NewsBlaze – Groups: Nearly $1 Billion Vogtle Nuclear Reactor Cost Overrun Echoes Earlier Warning About ‘Boondoggle’ Project
• Public Broadcasting Atlanta – Vogtle Nuclear Project Facing $900 Million in Cost Overruns – Jonathan Shapiro
• I-Nuclear – US NRC will review evacuation zone expansion, but separate from Fukushima review
• NEI Nuclear Notes – Too Cheap to Meter: What Did “They” Mean? – Gail Marcus
• NIRS – “Nuclear Loans, Subsidies&other Taxpayer Swindles….” Presentation by NIRS’ Michael Mariotte to Sierra Club National Nuclear Strategy Meeting, May 5, 2012. (pdf-709K)
• Asia-Pacific: The Economist – Tepco’s nationalisation–State power
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Japan yet to admit the true cost of nuclear disaster and realize the lessons learned – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Natural News – Fukushima haunts the world – Mark Sircus
• Asia-Pacific: NewsBlaze – Health Physics Presents Special Issue on U.S. Response to Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Group dumps Tokyo antinuke plebiscite petition on Ishihara – Mizuho Aoki
• East Europe: Daily Mail – Never-seen-before shots of Chernobyl nuclear disaster that cost two of the four photographers their lives

Thursday, May 10, 2012

• UPI – Groups plan nuclear protest in Utah
• Bloomberg – NRC Reviews Allegations in Texas After Markey Seeks Probe – Katarzyna Klimasinska
• Courthouse News Service – Chicago – Cancer Claim Against Nuke Plant Dismissed – Jack Bouboushian
• Newburyport Daily News – NRC denies C-10’s nuke plant petition – Angeljean Chiaramida
• POGO blog – Rep. Turner’s Never-Say-Die Effort to Squander Taxpayer Money on Nuclear Boondoggles
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Japan’s Nuclear Power Plants Go Dark: Today’s Pic
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Family of nuke crisis suicide victim to sue Tepco for damages
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Editorial: Restructuring of Tepco
• Europe: The Guardian – Government confirms plans for electricity market overhaul – Fiona Harvey
• South Africa: Sowetan – Long wait for sick workers – Hlengiwe Nhlabathi

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

• Bloomberg – Edison Says It Hasn’t Sought NRC Approval to Restart San Onofre – Mark Chediak
• Enformable – San Onofre: No restart plan submitted – No root cause identified – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – March 18th, 2011 – NRC is not in a position to share licensee radiation measurements with States/Counties
• LA Times blog – San Onofre nuclear plant backs away from reopening date – Abby Sewell
• Orange County Register – 1,300 San Onofre tubes plugged; no restart date – Pat Brennan
• Orange County Register – Siren testing continuing into next week in Dana Point
• Poway.Patch – San Onofre Restart Date Still in Limbo – Adam Townsend
• San Diego Union-Tribune – More Steam Tubes Plugged at San Onofre – Morgan Lee
• World Nuclear News – Investigations continue into tube wear at SONGS
• The Olympian – Editorial: Nuclear waste plan alarming
• Dallas Morning News – Judge orders hearing on Harold Simmons-owned West Texas nuclear waste dump
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – “The new retirement” for nuclear power plants – Dawn Stover
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Negotiating with Iran: Expectations for Baghdad – Emily B. Landau
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – May/June 2012
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Special issue on the risks of exposure to low-level radiation – Jan Beyea
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – The scientific jigsaw puzzle: Fitting the pieces of the low-level radiation debate – Jan Beyea
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Lessons from Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The most exposed and most vulnerable – David Richardson
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Principles in practice: Radiation regulation and the NRC – Terry A. Brock, Sami S. Sherbini
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Unmasking the truth: The science and policy of low-dose ionizing radiation – Gordon Thompson
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – The low-dose phenomenon: How bystander effects, genomic instability, and adaptive responses could transform cancer-risk models – Colin K. Hill
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – The social amplification of risk and low-level radiation – Roger E. Kasperson
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – The perception gap: Radiation and risk – Paul Slovic
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Underestimating effects: Why causation probabilities need to be replaced in regulation, policy, and the law – Sander Greenland
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – US nuclear forces, 2012 – Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris
• Nature – Radiation risks: Raiders of the lost archive – Alison Abbott
• Utility Products – Pick for NRC sets up battle with Senate; Reid opposes Svinicki renomination to panel
• South America: Bloomberg – Brazil Doesn’t Plan More Nuclear Plants, O Globo Says – Peter Millard
• Asia-Pacific: The Guardian – Fukushima owner saved from collapse by Japanese government – Justin McCurry
• Asia-Pacific: Washington Post – Japan to provide $12.55 billion to operator of tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant – Chico Harlan
• South Asia: Xinhua News – Indian gov’t freezes accounts of 30 NGOs over violation of law
• Europe: BBC News – Fishing ban in Dalgety Bay over radiation fear
• North Europe: ERR News – Estonia to Take 22% Share in Lithuania’s Nuclear Plant – Ingrid Teesalu
• North Europe: Reuters – Lithuania nuclear power plant to cost up to 7 bln euros

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

• Dana Point Times – NRC Chairman: No Restart Date Set for SONGS
• NBC Sandiego – San Onofre to Remove Damaged Tubes
• OneNewsNow – Over 1,300 tubes damaged at ailing Cal reactors – Michael R. Blood
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Nuclear Plant’s Restart up in the Air – Michael R. Blood
• KWES – Judge orders hearing on Texas nuke waste dump – Will Weissert
• WCAX – No decision on Vermont Yankee until 2013
• News & Observer – Obama makes NRC nomination over Reid opposition – Matthew Daly
• Canada: CBC News – Canada’s four most expensive contaminated sites
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – 2.7 tril. yen loss projected for 9 utilities in FY12
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 63% of Japanese citizens say ‘no’ to restarting of Oi nuclear reactors: Mainichi poll
• Europe: Bloomberg – Solar Becomes Europe’s Most-Installed Power Source, Lobby Says – Marc Roca
• Europe: Reuters – UK nuclear build requires taxpayer rescue -Citi
• South Africa: Politicsweb – Why SA should say no to nuclear energy – Brent Meersman

Monday, May 07, 2012

• OpEdNews – The Nuclear Industry Has Melted in Japan and France – Harvey Wasserman
• Platts – US NRC does not have timetable for San Onofre restart: chairman – Elaine Hiruo
• San Clemente Times – NRC Chairman: No Restart Date Set for SONGS
• Washington Post – NRC chair promises thorough review of idled Cal nuke plant, calls talk of restart ‘premature’
• Seattle Times – Editorial: Hanford’s latest insult to taxpayers
• Boston Herald – Pilgrim nuclear workers vote to authorize strike – Ira Kantor
• Climate Spectator – The end of nuclear – Matthew Wright
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• GAO – NRC’s Oversight of Nuclear Power Reactors’ Decommissioning Funds Could Be Further Strengthened, GAO-12-258, Apr 5, 2012
• Asia-Pacific: The Guardian – The Fukushima nuclear plant’s slow recovery offers lessons to the US – Richard Schiffman
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – TABLE-Japan nuclear ops (zero reactors online out of total 50) – Osamu Tsukimori, Yoko Kubota and Risa Maeda
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – With no nuke reactors in operation, Japan struggles to chart new energy strategy
• South Asia: Enformable – US continues pressure to reopen debate on Indian Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act – Lucas W Hixson
• South Asia: Deccan Chronicle – Power struggle over Kudankulam
• Europe: Reuters – Gunman wounds head of Italian nuclear company – Emilio Parodi
• East Europe: Gazeta.KZ – Kazakhstan for nuclear free world, conference
• Russia: Bellona – Comment: The president’s nature: What kind of environmental leadership can we expect from Vladimir Putin in his new term at Russia’s helm? – Vladimir Slivyak