Sunday, July 29, 2012

• Los Angeles Times – Wisconsin oil spill is Canadian firm’s worst since 2010 disaster – Matt Pearce
• Oak Ridger – 3 arrested for trespassing at Y-12 nuclear site
• DNJ – Letter: TVA’s nuclear plan could bring fallout here – Kathleen Ferris
• IPS – Govts Boost Nukes While Cutting Aid, Social Services – Haider Rizvi
• Bloomberg – Nuclear Power Opposed by 70% at Japan Hearings, Asahi Reports – Andy Sharp
• Mainichi Daily News – Antinuclear rally to encircle Diet with candlelight
• Mainichi Daily News – Green party launched in Japan to oppose nuclear energy
• Europe: The Independent – Nuclear dumps are fast tracked – Matt Chorley

Saturday, July 28, 2012

• Dana Point Times – NRC: Problems at SONGS Due to Faulty Computer Modeling, Manufacturing Issues – Stacie N. Galang
• Lehigh Valley News – Limerick nuclear power plant returns one reactor to service, shuts down another – Follow
• Lower Hudson Journal – Relicensing hearings on Indian Point request set – Michael Risinit
• New York Times – In Blackouts, Drones and iPads May Come to Rescue – Matthew L. Wald
• Portsmouth Herald News – Seabrook nuclear protest film to start local series
• University of Texas Issues Online – How to store spent nuclear fuel – David Lochbaum
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Why nuclear is no climate change solution – Renfrey Clarke
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Nuclear power and nuclear weapons are two sides of the same coin – Jim Green
• New Straits Times – Will Fukushima report impact Japan’s nuke policy? – Takahiro Suzuki
• UPI Asia – NISA OKs aging Japanese reactor
• Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima cleanup at a standstill in most evacuated areas
• Mainichi Daily News – Political parties perplexed over anti-nuclear protests
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima disaster worker says subcontractors siphoned money from wages
• Europe: The Guardian – The future of energy – video
• Europe: The Independent – Nuclear dumps are fast tracked – Matt Chorley

Friday, July 27, 2012

• Cibola County Beacon – Letter: Who’s to blame? – Jonnie Head
• Pueblo Chieftain – Radioactive salesman busted – Nick Bonham |
• Roanoke Times – Don’t mine uranium in Virginia, member of study group warns – Laurence Hammack
• Hampton Union – Seabrook nuclear protest film to start local series
• Alliance for Nuclear Accountability – Feinstein Unhappy as Cost Estimate for Nuclear Bomb Program Jumps – Megan Scully
• POGO blog – Safety Board Calls Nuclear Lab’s Earthquake Resistance Analysis ‘Technically Inadequate’ – Mia Steinle
• Reuters – NRC alerts nuclear operators to possible design flaw – NR Sethuraman
• Union of Concerned Scientists – NRC Report States That Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel In Wet Pools Is ‘Adequate’ To Protect Public
• Denki Shimbun – Final report of government investigation panel on Fukushima accident released
• Japan Times – No. 1 workers’ radiation doses soared 16-fold
• Japan Times – Editorial: Suspicious geological faults
• Mainichi Daily News – Cabinet Office official deleted emails on secret meetings of pro-nuclear parties
• Europe: World Radio Switzerland – Geneva files complaint against nuclear site
• East Europe: Reuters – Bulgarian opposition demands vote on nuclear plant – Angel Krasimirov

Thursday, July 26, 2012

• Orange County Register – Letter: NRC is Covering for Edison and Itself – Gene Stone
• Tri-Valley CAREs – Summer 2012 Citizen’s Watch Newsletter
• Tri-City Herald – Review of Hanford concerns programs finds weaknesses – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Monks lead Interfaith Peace Walk to Hanford nuclear reservation – Annette Cary
• Bloomberg – Heat Sends U.S. Nuclear Power Production to 9-Year Low – Christine Harvey
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 18 – 25 July 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Pacific Free Press – Fuku Kids Unwitting Radioactive Guinea Pigs – John C.K. Daly
• Asahi Shimbun – Professor warned about safety problems in using contracted workers at nuclear plants – Toshihiro Okuyama
• Japan Times – Mihama reactor 2 turns 40 years; future uncertain
• South Asia: The Hindu – Expedite probe into cases against nuke protesters, says court

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – NRC chief seeks distance from Yucca criticism – Steve Tetreault
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Informed consent: Getting from NIMBY to yes – Dawn Stover
• Asia-Pacific: AlterNet – After Fukushima, Nuclear Power on Collision Course With Japanese Public
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – TEPCO’s do or die mission to save nuclear reactor may have caused largest radiation leaks during Fukushima disaster – Lucas W Hixson
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO may start lump-sum compensation in August
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco plans to restart Fukushima plant reactor5, 6 and Daini – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Japan’s accountability crisis – Christopher Hobson
• North Europe: Baltic Times – Opposition strengthens against nuclear plant project

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

• Energy Collective – A long hot summer ahead for SONGS – Dan Yurman
• eNews Park Forest – Friends of the Earth: Just What Did Edison Tell Feds About San Onofre Equipment Switch? .
• Los Angeles Times – Rocketdyne sold to GenCorp for $550 million – W.J. Hennigan
• Telluride Daily Planet – Analyst: Uranium prices too low to sustain mill – Katharhynn Heidelberg
• Farmington Daily Times – EPA plans for disposing uranium waste near Gallup
• Georgia Public Broadcasting – MOX Plant 60% Done – Joshua Stewart
• WACH – Public meeting to be held over Savannah River Site MOX plant
• NC WARN – Press Release: Major problems in Duke merger investigation
• York Dispatch – NRC: Records at Peach Bottom falsifiedBy CANDY WOODALL
• Enformable – Oldest operating nuclear power plant in the United States experiences loss of offsite power – Lucas W Hixson
• Bloomberg – Republicans Urge NRC Not to Overwhelm Industry With Rules – Kasia Klimasinska
• New York Times – Inquiry Sees Chaos in Evacuations After Japan Tsunami – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Asahi Shimbun – Government Probe: Many Fukushima hospital patients died during botched rescue operation – Noriyoshi Otsuki
• Daily Yomiuri – Exec admits falsifying N-data / Lead-shielded dosimeters carried by workers in high-radiation areas
• Japan Times – Probe targets ploy to shield dosimeters – Deccan Herald
• Mainichi Daily News – Release of final gov’t report on Fukushima disaster sparks residents’ criticism
• Energy Live – Taiwan’s nuclear plans despite protests
• Taipei Times – Groups warn on cracks in nuclear reactor – Lee I-chia
• South Asia: Equities – 40 India nuclear plant workers contaminated: firm [Times of Oman]
• Europe: Bloomberg – French Nuclear Dismantling Funds May Fall Short, Report Says – Tara Patel
• North Europe: Climate Spectator – A fresh Finnish warning against nuclear – Gerard Wynn
• East Europe: Warsaw Business Journal – Anti-nuclear protests take place in Poland
• Enformable – Plans for building the first nuclear power plant in Egypt once postponed by Chernobyl now potentially stymied after Fukushima

Monday, July 23, 2012

• SanJuanCapistrano.patch – Opinion: Activists Call NRC Opinion a Coverup – Gene Stone
• Truth-Out – NRC Report on San Onofre: Close Enough for Government Work – Gregg Levine
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Westinghouse to plan nuclear units for Canada – Kim Leonard
• LA Times blog – Japan investigating if Fukushima workers hid radiation exposure – Emily Alpert
• RTT News – More Investigation Urged Into Fukushima Nuke Accident
• TruthDive – Japan, TEPCO ignored atomic accident risks due to ‘myth of nuclear safety’: Report
• Daily Yomiuri – Panel: Meltdown denials extremely inappropriate
• Daily Yomiuri – Panel: Safety myth at root of N-crisis
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO ‘hesitant to probe crisis’
• Daily Yomiuri – 5 workers used covers on dosimeters
• Fukushima Diary – [Ajisai Revolution] Photos of the 7/1 protest at Ohi plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear accident report calls for better administrative system after patients’ deaths
• Europe: BBC News – Energy market reform: blowing a fuse
• Europe: Daily Referendum Blogspot – The corruption behind Britain’s nuclear industry.
• Europe: The Guardian – Fukushima report casts doubt on other nuclear plants’ disaster preparations
• Europe: The Guardian – Why is the Treasury intent on sabotaging our clean energy future? – Damian Carrington
• South Africa: Business Day – Nuclear industry ‘rebirth’ is instead stillborn – Peter Becker