Sunday, June 03, 2012

• Sacramento News – Fukushima still feeds lawmakers’ concerns for West Coast – Paul C. Barton
• Sacramento Bee – Viewpoints: Time has come for California to embrace a nuclear-free future – S. David Freeman
• Tri-Valley CAREs – Your Chance to Get Inside the Fence with Tri-Valley CAREs at the Lab’s Site 300 High Explosives Testing Range – Marylia Kelley
• Idaho Statesman – Our View: Once again, Idaho is forced to just say no on nuclear waste
• Courthouse News Service – Activists Claim Texas Dump Too Soggy to Take Radioactive Waste – Erin McAuley
• Greenville News – Political failure burdens region with nuclear waste – Eric Connor
• The Free Library – No to nukes: nuclear power isn’t cost-effective, no matter how you do the math. – Veronique de Ruby
• Canada: Toronto Star – Letter: Nuclear power has had its day – William L. Shore
• Europe: Bloomberg – EDF CEO’s Fate Decided by September, Journal du Dimanche Says – Francois de Beaupuy

Saturday, June 02, 2012

• Aspen Times – Letter: Cons of nuclear energy – Lou Mortensen
• FireEngineering – Laboratory burns; Site contains radioactive materials
• Global Research – Nuclear Tuna and Media Trivialization: The Risk of Radioactive Tuna from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster – Robert Alvarez
• Canada: Toronto Star – Letters: Scrap nukes, bring on wind
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – Kakadu victory as uranium mining battle ends – Emma Masters
• Asia-Pacific: Global Research – Fukushima: Pacific Ocean Will Not Dilute Dumped Radioactive Water
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – JAEC handed nuclear policy meeting docs to pro-nuclear figures at secret meeting
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Mayor of Fukushima town proposes residents stay away at least 5 years
• South Asia: Times of India – Radiation case: Bail to DU teachers
• South Asia: BBC News – Burma ‘has given up nuclear power research’ – minister

Friday, June 01, 2012

• Huffington Post – Appeals court hits DOE over nuclear waste fee – Matthew Daly
• CounterPunch – San Onofre: Still Dirty, Still Dangerous – Russell D. Hoffman
• Livermore Independent – Scientist Nominated To Lead NRC Has Livermore Connections – Jeff Garberson The Independent
• Orange County Register – Letter: NRC Oversight has Failed at San Onofre – Gene Stone, Residents Organized for a Safe Environment, Donna Gilmore, San Onofre Safety, Gary Headrick, San Clemente Green
• Orange County Register – Morning letters: San Onofre radiation risks overblown
• Huffington Post – Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant Has No Solid Timeline For Reopening, Regulators Claim – Josh Funk
• The Southern – Union claims Honeywell cutting corners on safety – Caleb Hale
• Bloomberg – Texas May Triple Power Prices to Avert Summer Blackouts – Mark Chediak and Julie Johnsson
• CounterPunch – Indian Point: Still America’s Most Dangerous Nuclear Plant? – John Raymond
• CounterPunch – Human Rights, Environment and Nuclear Disaster–Nuclear Savages – Barbara Rose Johnston
• Natural News – The next catastrophic nuclear reactor core meltdown is much more likely than you suspect – J. D. Heyes
• NEI – Nuclear Industry Encouraged by EPA Cooling Water Intake Proposal
• Phys.Org – Depleted uranium: could this reduce our dependency on crude oil? – Lindsay Brooke
• Reuters – NRC to finalize nuclear safety guidelines in August – Soma Das
• Salem-News – Reactor Reax Top Stories – Nuclear Power Industry Taking It On The Chin In States Across U.S.
• Utility Products – More Study Needed On Potential Natural Disasters At Nation’s Nuclear Facilities – Ken Black
• Canada: Canada NewsWire – Fifty years of Nuclear Power in Canada – Jeremy Whitlock
• Canada: Hamilton Spectator – Burying nuclear waste in ‘god’s country’ – Wayne MacDonald
• Asia: Bloomberg – China May Resume Nuclear Plant Approvals as Cabinet Passes Plan
• Asia: Xinhua News – Chinese military issues radioactive pollution regulation
• Europe: The Guardian – Is there a UK nuclear power plan B? – Damian Carrington

Thursday, May 31, 2012

• The Guardian – California tuna connoisseurs shy away from sushi over Japan radiation fears – Rory Carroll
• Clean Energy blog – The Political Hypocrisy of Uranium Enrichment – Sara Barczak
• WATE News – State monitors 1 million pounds of scrap radioactive material
• Daily News Journal – TVA inspector says agency withheld information
• Bloomberg – Southern’s Nuclear Construction Faces Added Delays, Monitor Says – Julie Johnsson
• Fiscal Times – Nuke Plants’ $8.3 Billion Loan: Who Will Pay? – Merrill Goozner
• The Examiner – McDonnell’s uranium mining study a subversion of the democratic process in VA – Daniel Carawan
• Plymouth.Patch – NRC to Hear Arguments on Post-Fukushima Orders – Casey Meserve
• GovExec – Senate accelerating confirmation for Nuclear Regulatory Commission nominee – Charles S. Clark
• NowPublic – Dumping Radioactive Waste at Sea – proves how stupid humans are
• Peoples World – Fukushima fallout – U.S. regulatory agency loses top safety advocate – Diane Curran & Mindy Goldstein
• DOE – Department of Energy Cites Bechtel National, Inc. for Worker Safety and Health Violations
• Canada: CBC News – Uranium decision could cost Saskatchewan millions
• Canada: Edmonton Journal – No safe radiation level – Cecily Mills, PhD microbiology
• Asia-Pacific: Huffington Post – Why I Don’t Buy Japan’s Nuclear Restart – Amy Chavez
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 1,200 more people join suit seeking Genkai nuclear plant’s shutdown
• South Asia: The Hindu – Kudankulam trial run to begin on June 10
• East Europe: Bloomberg – Belarus to Receive Third Part of $3 Billion Loan, Putin Says – Ilya Arkhipov and Aliaksandr Kudrytski

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

• Legal Documents
• CADC – 2012 05 02 Transcript – Oral Argument Court of Appeals Mandamus (pdf-204K)
• News
• Encinitas.Patch – Engineers Double Checking Nuke Plant Sensor – Adam Townsend
• FOX5 San Diego – Report: San Onofre plant operated with faulty equipment – Rick Boone
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Report: Nuclear plant operators haven’t reassessed quake risk – Daniel J. Goldstein
• Tri-Valley CAREs – Tri-Valley CAREs Participates in Statewide Nuclear Summit – Marylia Kelley
• WRCB-TV – TVA inspector says agency withheld information
• Plymouth Patch – Senate Approves $1.7 Million for Air, Water Testing Aroung Pilgrim Nuke Plant – Casey Meserve
• Enformable – FOIA Archive Release – Spent Fuel Pool LOCA – EPZ Evacuation Zones and KI – Risk Safety and Cost in Regulating Nuclear Energy
• IEER – Update
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Mapping the global market for up-rates – Jason Deign
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 24 – 30 May 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Policy & Commission Brief 24 – 30 May 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• ISIS – Chernobyl Deaths Top a Million Based on Real Evidence
• Yahoo! Finance US – Chernobyl’s Real Horror Show Isn’t the Radiation, It’s the Economics – Christopher Mims
• Asia-Pacific: Asian Scientist Magazine – WHO Estimates Radiation Dose From Fukushima Accident
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – New lawsuit filed against Sendai nuclear power plant – More than 100 Namie residents died during Fukushima evacuations – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Tokai mayor at front of antinuclear drive – Keiji Hirano
• Asia-Pacific: Tokyo Times – Japan closer to deciding its nuclear future
• East Asia: Korea Times – 5 engineers indicted for attempting to cover up blackout at nuclear plant
• Central Asia: Enformable – Kazakhstan to work towards launch of international fuel bank in 2013 at Ulba Metallurgic plant – Lucas W Hixson
• Europe: The Guardian – Germany’s renewable energy revolution leaves UK in the shade – Damian Carrington
• Europe: The Independent – Sellafield ‘needs extra £276 million of taxpayer’s money to complete UK’s biggest nuclear construction project’ – Steve
• Europe: Reuters – Update 1-Germany in 20 bln euro grid upgrade as it quits nuclear – Vera Eckert and Tom Käckenhoff
• North Europe: Safecast – Norway Still Radioactive 26 Years after Chernobyl
• South Africa: Afrique en Ligue – Activists protesting nuclear power in Africa beaten, detained
• South Africa: UPI – South African nuke guards acquitted

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

• ABC 27 – Backup power probed at Cal nuke plant – Michael R. Blood
• Fairewinds Energy Education – San Onofre: Bad Vibrations – Arnie Gundersen
• Inside Climate News – Soaring Costs Plague Calif. Nuke Plant Undergoing Repair – Elizabeth Douglass
• Los Angeles Times – Bluefin tuna carried a little radiation from Japan to California, study says – Eryn Brown
• Idaho Statesman – Rocky Barker: Flap clarifies Idaho’s nuclear waste stand
• Denver Post – Guest Commentary: End the uranium industry’s free ride with regulators – Hilary White and Sharyn Cunninghamdenverpost.com
• Cedar Rapids Gazette – Nuclear emergency planning overhaul draws fire – Dave DeWitte
• Cedar Rapids Gazette – Are you concerned about living near a nuclear plant?
• EmpireStateNews – Riverkeeper predicts Indian Point license will not be renewed
• Barnstable-Hyannis.Patch – Senator Wolf Decries Re-Licensing of Pilgrim Nuclear Plant – Jennifer Simckowitz
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• The Hill – House GOP scuttles face-off with outgoing nuke agency chief – Ben Geman
• The Hill – Confirm Allison Macfarlane to NRC – Diane Curran and Mindy Goldstein
• NY Times blog – How Will Nuclear Plants Stand Up to Quakes and Floods? – Matthew L. Wald
• Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works – Senator Boxer and Rep. Markey Release GAO Report: NRC Earthquake, Flooding Risk Assessment Not Adequate
• Washington Examiner – Trim nuclear fat from the Pentagon budget – Benjamin H. Friedman and Christopher Preble
• GAO – Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Natural Hazard Assessments Could Be More Risk-Informed, GAO-12-465, Apr 26, 2012
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Japan Says Tuna Radiation Levels May Need Global Monitoring – Takashi Hirokawa
• Asia-Pacific: Fairewinds Energy Education – Fukushima Daiichi: The Truth and the Future – Maggie and Arnie Gundersen
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Ex-PM Kan apologizes for not preventing Fukushima disaster
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – University of Tokyo develops light, highly efficient ‘decontamination cloth’
• South Asia: NYTimes blog – As Tamil Nadu Nuclear Plant Opening Nears, Protests Enter ‘Death Throes’ – Michael Edison Hayden
• Europe: this is Leicestershire – Lifting the lid on secret bunkers
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – Germany’s plans to end use of nuclear power get a boost
• Europe: World Radio Switzerland – Court rejects Mühleberg extension
• South Africa: AllAfrica – South Africa: No Nuclear in Africa!
• South Africa: iAfrica Business – No nuclear Africa! – Greenpeace
• South Africa: New Age – No nuclear in Africa, Greenpeace tells Minister Peters – Sandile Hlangani
• South Africa: New Age – Green peace activists forcibly removed at IDC – Sandile Hlangani
• South Africa: Radio Netherlands – Trouble at Greenpeace nuclear protest in S. Africa
• South Africa: Sowetan – Nuclear protesters ‘manhandled’ in Sandton

Monday, May 28, 2012

• Los Angeles Times – Scientists observe ‘tragic experiment’ of tsunami debris – Tony Barboza
• Reuters – Fukushima radiation seen in tuna off California – Deborah Zabarenko
• Business Week – Bankrupt Nuclear Waste Firm Impact Services Gets Deadline – Phil Milford
• CounterPunch – Meltdown at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Karl Grossman
• Heritage Foundation blog – There’s More to the Story on Obama’s Pick for America’s Top Nuclear Regulator – Jack Spencer
• OpEdNews – Nuclear Rubberstamp Commission – Karl Grossman
• truthout – Obama Taps Allison Macfarlane as New Head of Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Gregg Levine
• Canada: Huffington Post Canada – Chemicals In Tsunami Debris Could Pose Coastal Threat
• Oceania: West Australian – Activists advised on uranium site
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Preliminary Dose Estimation from the Nuclear Accident after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
• Asia-Pacific: The Independent – Scrap nuclear power, says Japan’s Kan – David McNeill
• Asia-Pacific: OpEdNews – Fukushima Denial/Awareness – Carol Wolman, MD
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Kan tells nuke probe: 3/11 overwhelmed us – Kazuaki Nagata
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Butcher arrested in Fukushima beef ploy
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan News – Nuclear waste dump site on isolated island ‘impossible’: councilor
• South Asia: Bangladesh Daily Star – Going nuclear: Are we ready to face the challenges? – Syed Mansur Hashim
• Europe: BBC News – Sizewell C: Anti-nuclear campaigners not invited to meeting
• Europe: BBC News – Faslane protesters carry on camping after 30 years
• Europe: The Guardian – The truth about Germany’s nuclear phase-out – Duncan Clark
• Europe: Worldcrunch – Testing Food For Fukushima Radiation, Swiss Find Chernobyl Contamination Instead – Patrick Kühnis
• East Europe: Bloomberg – Czechs to Generate 50% Nuclear Power by 2030, Hospodarske Says – Ladka Bauerova
• Middle East: Press TV – Oil prices soar after Baghdad talks end inconclusively