Sunday, June 10, 2012

• truth-out – Court Says Regulators Must Evaluate Dangers of Nuclear Waste – Gregg Levine
• Casper Tribune – New Mexico wants nuclear waste repository – Peter R. Davis
• The Examiner – Fukushima forum: Arnie Gundersen compares U.S. and Japanese nuclear reactors – Donna Anderson
• The Examiner – Fukushima forum: Arnie Gundersen reveals real reason Americans need to be afraid – Donna Anderson
• The Examiner – Fukushima forum: Dr. John Apsley says U.S. is feeling the effects of radiation – Donna Anderson
• Salem-News – Kill One Kill Twelve Kill Millions Kill Billions – Bob Nichols
• truth-out – Four Decades Ago, a Senator Warned About the Revolving Door of the Military-Industrial Complex – Zaid Jilani
• Twitter – Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen on Coast to Coast radio Fukushima Daiichi Special tonight 10 pm PDT&1 am EDT – Maggie
• Mainichi Daily News – 18% of Fukushima evacuees might be unable to go home even after 10 yrs
• Mainichi Daily News – Panel raps PM office for excessive intervention in nuclear crisis
• Europe: IPS – Germany’s Energy Revolution Hits Potholes – Julio Godoy

Saturday, June 09, 2012

• Los Angeles Times – Nuclear panel must weigh risks of long-term storage, court rules – Ralph Vartabedian and Neela Banerjee
• New York Times – Court Forces a Rethinking of Nuclear Fuel Storage – Matthew L. Wald
• Tri-City Herald – More settlements reached in alleged Hanford kickbacks – Annette Cary
• Global Research – Breaking: Major Nuclear Base Running ‘Containment Exercise’ Amid Censored Radiation Spikes – Anthony Gucciardi
• Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) – Following Leak of Radioactive Coolant at Davis-Besse, NRC Officials Parrot False Claims from Corporate Flaks–Kucinich Demands Investigation
• Aiken Leader – SRS Historic Achievement in Transporting Nuclear Waste to New Mexico
• Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-MA) – Markey Statement on Court Ruling Vacating NRC Waste Disposal Decision – .
• Vermont Today – Vermont prevails in nuclear waste case – Susan Smallheer
• Fukushima Diary – Rotten Japanese press -Tepco conference ended within 3 minutes – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Fukushima town Mayor suggests residents not return home for five years or moreBy Jason Huth
• Japan Times – The Marshall Islands: Tropical idylls scarred like Tohoku – Christopher Johnson
• Europe: Washington Post blog – How hard is it to dismantle 150 nuclear reactors? Europe’s about to find out. – Brad Plumer
• Europe: Press Association – Anti-nuclear protesters scale crane
• East Europe: Gulf-Times – The road from Chernobyl… – Alexander Likhotal/Geneva

Friday, June 08, 2012

• MSNBC – Nuclear headache: What to do with 65,000 tons of spent fuel? – Miguel Llanos
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit – State of New York v NRC: On Petitions for Review of Orders of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (pdf-137K)
• Bloomberg – Edison’s San Onofre Nuclear Plant to Be Shut Through August – Mark Chediak
• CNBC – Southern California Edison Provides An Update on the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
• Dana Point Times – SONGS’ Summertime Output a No-go, NRC to Host Public Meeting June 18
• Enformable – NRC announces multiple exit-meetings to be held for San Onofre Augmented Inspection Team findings
• Enformable – Decision to restart San Onofre reactors to be biggest decision of CEO’s tenure – Lucas W Hixson
• Los Angeles Times – San Onofre nuclear plant to stay offline this summer – Abby Sewell
• Reuters – RPT-San Onofre nuclear units in Calif to be shut through August – Eileen O’Grady
• Tri-City Herald – DOE awards $99 million Hanford contract to HPM of Kennewick – Annette Cary
• Salt Lake Tribune – Report: EnergySolutions looking at partial sale of company – Judy Fahys
• Chillicothe Gazette – House approves $100 million in USEC centrifuge project funding – Deirdre Shesgreen
• Wicked Local Plymouth – Anti-nuclear activists seek another chance to air Pilgrim concerns – Jay Lindsay
• Hartford Courant – Court: Closed Nuclear Plants Can’t Store Spent Fuel for 60 Years – Mara Lee
• AllGov – Is Money Wasted on Nuclear Weapons being Driven by Lobbyists? – Noel Brinkerhoff
• Oceania: Worldcrunch – “Just Cover Your Eyes” – The Toll of Decades of Nuclear Tests In French Polynesia – Christine Chaumeau
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Reform the Japanese power system. Nationalize Tepco. – Kay Kitazawa
• Huffington Post – Hold That ‘Hot’ Fukushima Sushi – Harvey Wasserman
• Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
• Reuters – Japan PM says two reactors must restart for “survival of society” – Linda Sieg and Aaron Sheldrick
• Fukushima Diary – Half of the villagers of Iidate mura don’t have intention to go back – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 7.22 million signatures against nuclear power – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Tepco never requested total Fukushima No. 1 evacuation: ex-president – Kazuaki Nagata
• South Asia: The Hindu – Relay fast begins in support of Kudankulam protesters
• Europe: The Guardian – Sellafield swallows contaminated by radioactivity – Rob Edwards

Thursday, June 07, 2012

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Improving public and stakeholder engagement in nuclear waste management – Thomas Webler, Seth P. Tuler,
• NY Times blog – Moving From Square One on Nuclear Waste – Matthew L. Wald
• POWERnews – Federal Court Orders DOE to Reevaluate Nuclear Waste Fund, Rules Fee Is Unlawful
• Enformable – Decision to restart San Onofre reactors to be biggest decision of CEO’s tenure – Lucas W Hixson
• LA Times blog – San Onofre nuclear plant out of service for the summer – Abby Sewell
• Reuters – San Onofre nuclear units in Calif to be shut through August
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Results due from federal inspection of San Onofre nuclear plant – Morgan Lee
• Santa Maria Sun – Letter: To close Diablo, or not to close Diablo – Grover Beach
• Chillicothe Gazette – Cascade shutdown is end of an era in Piketon
• Barnegat-Manahawkin.Patch – Oyster Creek Critics: NRC Lacks Urgency Post Fukushima – Elaine Piniat
• Enformable – Adults at higher risk for developing cancer later in life after childhood exposures – Lucas W Hixson
• Oceania: ABC – Nuclear waste protest
• Columbus Free Press – Hold that “hot” Fukushima sushi – Harvey Wasserman
• Enformable – In-Focus: Ohi Restarts – Noda faces fallout from DPJ lawmakers – Nuclear energy to have smaller role in Japan –
• Enformable – FOIA Archive – Fukushima Daiichi Unmonitored Releases – Dosimetry and Visualization Tools – Press Briefings
• Japan Times – DBJ mulling another ¥500 billion for eight utilities
• Japan Times – Opposition wins on nuke watchdog
• South Asia: Reuters – Bangladesh to produce 5,000 MW by nuclear by 2030 – Serajul Quadir
• Europe: Bloomberg – Germany Threatened by Energy Overcapacity, FT Deutschland Says – Patrick Donahue
• North Europe: YLE News – Unions plan action against nuclear utility
• Russia: Vestnik Kavkaza – Georgia denies secret nuclear power plant construction

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

• The Hill – House gives another $10M to NRC to keep Yucca Mountain open – Pete Kasperowicz
• truth-out – House Postpones Witch Hunt While Nuclear Industry Awaits Results of Latest Power Play – Gregg Levine, Capitoilette
• Omaha World-Herald – More retaliation claims among nuke regulators – Nancy Gaarder
• Missouri News Horizon – Ameren briefs state on new nuclear potential
• Pottstown Mercury – Letter: Safety should be top priority for nuclear plants – Charlie and Betty Shank
• Plymouth Daily News – Union workers locked out of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant – Matthew Nadler
• Business Week – Vt. urges US appeals court to let state rule nuke – Wilson Ring
• Windham County Commons – Calling out a NRC cover-up on releases of strontium-90 – Hattie Nestle
• Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-MA) – Markey Releases New Whistleblower Allegations, Other Documents Citing Lack of Confidence in NRC Inspector General
• Greenpeace International – Energy Revolution 2012
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Mark Cooper, Institute for Energy and the Environment, on the changing face of the nuclear renaissance – Peter Taberner
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 31 May – 5 June 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nature – Japan considers nuclear-free future – David Cyranoski
• Mainichi Daily News – Panel projects reliance on nuclear power in 2020 at 0-26%
• Nikkei – ANALYSIS: Tohoku Filling Up Fast With Nuclear Waste
• Focus Taiwan – President accepts petition on nuclear safety
• Europe: Bloomberg – French Nuclear Watchdog Says Orders Won at Too-Low Prices – Francois de Beaupuy
• Europe: Der Spiegel – Germany’s Nuclear Phase-Out Brings Unexpected Costs – Alexander Neubacher and Catalina Schröder

Tuesday, June 05, 2012

• The Hill – House preparing to slap Obama administration on Yucca Mountain – Pete Kasperowicz
• The State – SRS retirees blast DOE for changes in medical benefits – Roddie Burris
• Staunton News Leader – Uranium critic: Study done, Va. ban should stick
• Vermont Today – State: States have say in nuclear power plants – Susan Smallheer
• New York Times – Book: Covert Wars, Waged Virally–‘Confront and Conceal,’ by David Sanger – Thomas E. Ricks
• Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board – Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations Near Nuclear Facilities: Phase I
• Institute of Science in Society – Truth about Fukushima
• Reuters – Radiation: Shall I compare thee to an angry Japanese wife? – Miki Kayaoka
• Japan Daily Press – Japanese energy agency compares radiation to ‘an angry wife’ – Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Watchdog let utilities justify omitting nuclear plant power supply safety steps
• Tokyo Times – PM opposed by own party on resuming nuclear power
• Asia: Shanghai Daily – Chinese customs intercept radioactive waste metals from Japan
• Asia: Xinhua News – Factbox: New energy development in China
• Southwest Asia: Xinhua News – Turkey aims to build 23 nuclear power units by 2023
• South Asia: The Hindu – At Moscow expo, atomic industry makes a strong pitch – Sandeep Dikshit

Monday, June 04, 2012

• Enformable – 40 year utility industry veteran calls for California to embrace nuclear-free future
• San Clemente Patch – San Clemente Siren Testing Starts Monday – John Crandall
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – Editorial: TVA’s $2 billion mistake
• Huntsville Times blog – TVA hires firm to survey residents to ‘fine-tune’ Browns Ferry evacuation plans – Keith Clines
• Plymouth.Patch – Nuke Employees Say No – Charles Mathewson
• WCAX – Vt. AG appeals Yankee decision
• OpEdNews – Inviting Atomic Catastrophe – Karl Grossman
• Reuters – Nuclear, coal power face climate change risk: study – David Fogarty
• CounterPunch – An 80-Year License to Kill? – Karl Grossman
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Firedoglake – House Postpones Witch Hunt While Nuclear Industry Awaits Results of Latest Power Play – Gregg Levine
• New York Times – Benefits Are Great, and the Risks Exist Anyway – James Lewis
• RedOrbit – Thirsty Power Plants Hog Water – Michael Crumbliss
• Canada: Canada Free Press – Nuclear Renaissance? – Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser
• The Atlantic – Japan’s Latest Nuclear Crisis: Getting Rid of the Radioactive Debris – Michael McAteer
• Fukushima Diary – A few tens of tones sardines washed up on fishing port in Chiba – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia: UPI Asia – China to pursue new nuclear plants?
• South Asia: NDTV – Human rights violated in Kudankulam: Report
• South Asia: Times of India – Why talk of N-plant when we can rely on gas-based projects: Sunita Narain
• Europe: The Scotsman – Dounreay nuclear clean-up experts to advise Japan
• Russia: World Nuclear News – Rosatom signs international deals