Sunday, June 24, 2012

• Laguna Beach Independent – Long Hot Summer of Debate Over San Onofre – Rita Robinson
• Los Angeles Times – California energy officials plan for life without San Onofre – Abby Sewell
• Los Angeles Times – Editorial: San Onofre’s cloudy future
• North County Times – Another View: San Onofre: ‘Nuclear Safety In Action’ – Michael M. Rosen
• Orange County Register – Design flaws cloud San Onofre’s future – Pat Brennan
• Orange County Register – Sardul Minhas: A future for nuclear power – Sardul Singh Minhas
• Orange County Register – The non-nuclear summer – Pat Brennan
• Tri-Valley CAREs – Livermore Lab’s Pipeline Extension Project Begins Without Radiation Detectors: Tri-Valley CAREs Responds with Community-based Monitoring and Reporting – Marylia Kelley
• Denver Post – Colorado, EPA, Cotter call timeout over uranium mill cleanup – Bruce Finley
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Utilities paid local governments ¥73 billion in dividends: sources
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Now is time to go nuclear-free: author – Lee I-chia

Saturday, June 23, 2012

• Huffington Post – Wasting Time With Nuclear Waste – Elliott Negin
• LA Times blog – California begins mapping future without nuclear power – Abby Sewell
• Press-Enterprise blog – Riverside: San Onofre shutdown raises concerns
• The Oregonian – ‘Full Body Burden’ review: Story of nuclear weapons plant astounds and horrifies – Cynthia Kirk
• NY Newsday – Editorial: The nuclear-waste hot potato
• South Asia: Weekend Leader – ‘Experts overlooked the welds in Kudankulam reactor’ – Sam Rajappa

Friday, June 22, 2012

• Roll Call – Allison MacFarlane’s Nomination to Nuclear Panel Advances – Humberto Sanchez
• Bay Area Indymedia – Sebasterpol Meeting With Chieko Shiina and Screening of “Fukushima, Never Again”
• Power Engineering – NRC: Steam flow too high in San Onofre units
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – SLO Mothers for Peace joins petition on nuclear plant license renewal – David Sneed
• In These Times – Nuclear Power Workers Vote Down Contract As Safety Questions Mount – Mike Elk
• Vermont Attorney General – Nine States and The National Conference of State Legislatures Join Attorney General’s Appeal of Vermont Yankee Case – William H. Sorrell
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Stuxnet and the Bomb – Kennette Benedict
• DOE – Top Things You Didn’t Know About Solar Energy – Erin R. Pierce
• Asia-Pacific: Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for June 19th – June 21st, 2012 – Christine McCann
• Asia-Pacific: Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Watch: Japan Mulls Referendum on Nuclear Power – Mitsuru Obe
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – 45,000 joined demonstration against the restart of Ohi nuclear plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: JapanToday – 20,000 protest outside Noda’s residence over nuclear restart
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 8 of 20 resigning TEPCO execs to parachute to affiliates, other entities
• East Asia: The Hankyoreh – [Editorial] No nukes for Japan
• South Asia: Deccan Chronicle – Centre submits K-plant pact papers
• South Asia: Times of India – Court given copies of Kudankulam treaties
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Challenging nuclear agenda

Thursday, June 21, 2012

• Christian Science Monitor – Nuclear waste: why environmentalists are pressing NRC on reactor licenses – Mark Clayton
• Huffington Post – Embracing Nuclear Power Like a Religion – Karl Grossman.
• Bloomberg – California To Open Investigation Into San Onofre Later This Year – Mark Chediak
• CityWatch Today – We Can’t Ignore the Warning Signs: The Crippled San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Must Remain Closed
• Daily Californian – Berkeley City Council asks governor to pull plug on unsafe nuclear power plants – Oksana Yurovsky
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Shutdown at San Onofre: What happened?
• NTV – Sierra Club wants Neb. nuke plant to lose license
• Portsmouth Herald News – Nuclear plant relicensing opponents challenge NRC – Shir Haberman
• Xinhua News – Global warming worse than it appears: Nobel Prize laureate
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Fukushima: The Accident Waiting To Happen – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Nuclear Operator in Japan Exonerates Itself in Report – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Asia-Pacific: Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Watch: F1 versus Typhoon Part 2 — Water, Not Wind – Mitsuru Obe
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – TEPCO gives itself a clean chit for how it handled last year’s nuclear crisisBy Radhika Seth
• Europe: Reuters – China nuclear firms team for UK project bid-sources – Wan Xu and Karolin Schaps
• North Europe: Reuters UK – Explosives prompt Sweden nuclear plant probe
• North Europe: Bellona – Norwegian parlimentarians say dialogue over stopping Russian pollution must become demands – Ruth Lothe

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

• OpEdNews – Wake Up and Smell the Radioactive Waste – Abby Luby
• Energy Collective – No easy answers at SONGS – Update – Dan Yurman
• Crosscut Seattle – Is Hanford stuck with the hot waste? – Daniel Jack Chasan
• Spokesman-Review – More ill Hanford workers could get compensation
• Idaho Statesman Blogs – Crapo: Feds must honor commitments to remove nuke waste from Idaho – Kevin Richert
• Salt Lake Tribune – Herbert, Stewart more extreme than HEAL – Bob Archibald and Mary Ellen Navas
• Denver Post – Colorado regulators promise do over hearing for new uranium mill – Bruce Finley
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 13 – 20 June 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Toshiba to build Japan’s biggest solar plants in Fukushima – Mari Saito and Risa Maeda
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Petition protests reactor restart – Lee I-chia
• Russia: RAPSI – Nuclear supervision agency official faces 15 years in prison for bribe

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

• AP Google – Feds say design flaw led to Calif. nuke plant woes – Michael R. Blood
• Berkeley Daily Planet – Press Release: Rally for A Nuclear-Free Berkeley at Old City Hall, Tuesday at 6 – Bob Meola
• Bloomberg – Faulty Model and Design Changes Led San Onofre to Shut, NRC Says – Mark Chediak
• CounterPunch – The Fukushima Gyre – Shepherd Bliss
• Enformable – San Onofre may need neighborly boost to continue to keep out the ‘unwelcome mat’ – Lucas W Hixson
• KGTV San Diego – NRC Holds Public Meeting On San Onofre Nuclear Plant
• Los Angeles Times – Faulty computer modeling caused San Onofre equipment problems – Abby Sewell
• OC Weekly blog – [Updated with Edison Objection to Weekly Report:] Design Flaws Confirmed at San Onofre Nuclear Plant – Matt Coker
• Orange County Register – NRC: Flaws led to plant leak – Pat Brennan
• Orange County Register – NRC: Steam flow too high in San Onofre units – Pat Brennan
• Reuters – Faulty tests blamed for California nuclear plant leak – Rory Carroll
• San Diego Reader – Nuclear Initiative Backers Look to Supreme Court to Place Measure on Ballot – Dave Rice
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Nuclear inspection team highlights failures at San Onofre – Morgan Lee
• Columbia Daily Tribune – Group petitions for nuclear licensing halt – Rudi Keller
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – Anti-nuclear summit planned in Chattanooga this month – Pam Sohn
• Valley Advocate – Nuke Plant Opponents to Swarm the Gates – Stephanie Kraft
• Huffington Post – Has The Energy Department Gone Completely Off The Rails? – Raymond J. Learsy
• PR Newswire – NRC Petitioned To Stop Final Licensing Decisions For Nearly Three Dozen Nuclear Reactors In Wake of Waste Confidence Ruling
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan Today – AEC approves restart of reactor at Guosheng nuclear plant – June Tsai
• North Europe: Bloomberg – DS&S Fined for Paying Bribes at Lithuanian Nuclear Plant – Milda Seputyte
• North Europe: Eureka! Science News – Where to put nuclear waste?

Monday, June 18, 2012

• Enformable – NRC administrator says problems at San Onofre appear to be due to design flaws – Lucas W Hixson
• LA Times blog – Environmental group demands full San Onofre review – Abby Sewell
• LA Times blog – Design flaws may have led to San Onofre plant shutdown, NRC says – Abby Sewell
• Long Beach Press-Telegram – Friends of the Earth tries to keep San Onofre nuclear plant closed
• North County Times – San Onofre: Activists want answers at nuclear meeting Monday – Paul Sisson
• Orange County Register – NRC: Design flaws caused San Onofre problems – Pat Brennan
• Platts – San Onofre nuke plant design change needed review, amendment: green group
• Dallas Morning News – NRC Petitioned To Stop Final Licensing Decisions For Nearly Three Dozen Nuclear Reactors In Wake Of Waste Confidence Ruling
• Bloomberg – NRC License of Nuclear Plant Challenged by Massachusetts – David McLaughlin
• Enformable – Entergy facing showdown with congressional concerns, unions, and state appeals – Lucas W Hixson
• Al Jazeera – Going nuclear–We ask if nuclear power is the answer to the US’ energy needs – Shihab Rattansi
• AOL Defense – Our Nukes Cost More Than You Think; Stimson Pegs Annual Nuke Spending At $31B – Gordon Adams
• Clean Energy News – NRC Petitioned to Halt Decisions Post-Waste Ruling – Ailis Aaron Wolf
• CounterPunch – The Nuclear Cult – Karl Grossman
• Enformable – Atomic orthodoxy and the ascent to heaven – Karl Grossman
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• NY Times blog – Using Risk Estimates to Guide Nuclear Safety – Matthew L. Wald
• Power Engineering – Nuclear power plant operators can increase output, NRC says – CounterPunch
• Yahoo! News – ‘Carbon capture’ too risky, earthquake prone: US study – Kerry Sheridan
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Tokyo Assembly Panel Votes Down Nuclear Referendum Bill
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – A stolen life: Fukushima woman looks back on lost peaceful life due to nuclear crisis
• Europe: Greenpeace International – Europe’s nuclear stress tests turn a blind eye to potential disaster – Blogpost by Justin McKeating
• Europe: Reuters – Exclusive: Western firms tap China cash to bid for UK nuclear – Karolin Schaps and Arno Schuetze
• Europe: Deutsche Local – Energy giant pulls plug on nuclear power
• Europe: Enformable – German utility RWE permanently shelves interest in building any new nuclear plants due to risk – Lucas W Hixson
• Russia: Power Engineering – Russia’s nuclear sector in precarious state – Diarmaid Williams