Sunday, August 26, 2012
- San Francisco Chronicle – Copters to measure radiation in Bay Area
- Telluride Daily Planet – Energy Fuels buys out uranium mine partner in Utah – Collin McRann
- Pueblo Chieftain – New Mexico repository a model for consent – Robert C. Amme
- Yes Vermont Yankee – 119th Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers Here at Yes Vermont Yankee
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Asahi Survey: 42% of Diet members want end to nuclear power
- South Asia: PTI – Scrap Jaitapur nuclear project, leaders write to PM
Saturday, August 25, 2012
- Bay Area Indymedia – Utilities’ nuclear power plants threaten millions – Ed Oberweiser
- HNN Huntingtonnews – Hanford Nuclear Waste Leak
- HNN Huntingtonnews – Pudacah False Claims Act Settled, More Anticipated
- PRWeb – Nuclear Energy Insider: $23.5bn to Implement Safety Upgrades at 104 U.S. Nuclear Sites
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Ministry to amend law to bury nuclear waste without reprocessing – Toru Nakagawa
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Survey: Scrap nuclear power soon, more than half of Japanese people say
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuclear protesters say Japan’s government ignores them
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Silence Deafening – A mother’s perspective on the Fukushima nuclear disaster – Karl Grossman
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Japan to include zero nuclear power goal in new government policy
- Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Anti-nuclear show draws huge crowd – Lee I-chia
- East Asia: The Hankyoreh – Problematic nuclear reactor having its life extended – Noh Hyun-woong
Friday, August 24, 2012
- Orange County Register – NRC: No action on San Onofre DUI arrest – Pat Brennan
- LA Times blog – Who will pay if San Onofre nuclear plant is restarted? [Video discussion]
- Tri-Valley CAREs – Our 2012 Strategic Planning Retreat – Scott Yundt
- Lexington Herald Leader – Feds settle claims over radioactive waste disposal–Bechtel Jacobs not required to admit fault – Brett Barrouquere
- Platts – TVA found liable for 2008 coal ash spill – Mary Powers
- ENS – Romney Backs Fossil Fuels and Nuclear, Drops Renewables
- World Nuclear News – Fuel cycle roundup #3
- DOE – Top 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Energy: Back-to-School Edition – April Saylor
- Canada: Seaway News – Keep river free of planned nuclear waste transports: Akwesasne
- Oceania: Radio Australia – Indonesia’s nuclear power plans
- Oceania: Radio New Zealand – Advocate for Rongelap nuclear test victims in Marshalls dies – Giff Johnson
- Asia-Pacific: The Australian – Radiation risks high in Japan – Leigh Dayton
- Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Kansai Electric Needs More Seismic Checks at Mihama, NISA Says – Tsuyoshi Inajima
- Asia-Pacific: Xinhua News – IPPNW meeting starts in Hiroshima, Japan
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – History lesson: Fukushima students stumble across wartime atomic bomb program
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – 50,000 signatures collected in Niigata seeking nuke plant vote
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – 8 workers wore no dosimeter at Fukushima nuke plant
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Japan resumes beef exports to U.S.
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – 50% said willing to wait until they get OK to return to evacuated Fukushima town
- Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Change in nuclear radiation tolerance limits in food broadens control: DOH – Lee I-chia
- South Asia: Dhaka Independent – Parliamentary report on Fukushima: Lessons for Rooppur – Abdul Matin
- South Asia: Hindustan Times – Aruna Roy demands halt on new n-plants
Thursday, August 23, 2012
- CounterPunch – The Radioactive Waste Disaster – Kevin Kamps and Linda Gunter
- The Atlantic – My Atomic Holiday – Graeme Wood
- Los Angeles Times – If San Onofre nuclear plant is restarted, who pays? – Abby Sewell
- InsideClimate News – Public Demands Bigger Role in Deciding Fate of Troubled Calif. Nuke Plant – Elizabeth Douglass
- Lubbock Avalanche-Journal – Activists question plan to ship plutonium to New Mexico – Jeri Clausing
- Business Insider – The US Is Investigating Claims That Power Plants Are Vulnerable To Hackers – Jim Finkle
- Union of Concerned Scientists – Infographic: The Energy-Water Collision–Energy and Water Demands Clash During Hot, Dry Summers
- Asia-Pacific: Perth Now – Fifth Fukushima nuclear plant worker dies
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Lee returns Noda’s letter on Takeshima / Unusual move goes against protocol
- Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – DPJ Team Calls for Restarting N-Reactors upon Safety Approval
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 90 percent of public submissions favor zero nuclear power plants
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Worker dies after collapsing at Fukushima nuke plant
- South Asia: The Hindu – Citizens condemn suppression of movements against nuclear plants
- South Asia: Hindustan Times – Uranium 12 times the safe limit in Punjab ground water
- Europe: Whitehaven News – Nuclear waste disposal: The definitive report condensed – Ellis Butcher
- Europe: Whitehaven News – Anti-nuclear protesters to stage demonstration in Carlisle
- Europe: ABC News – Belgian Paper: Flaw in Nuke Plants Found Years Ago
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
- LA Times blog – San Onofre layoffs raise questions about nuclear plant’s future – Abby Sewell
- Marin Independent-Journal – Anti-nuke marchers plan prayer vigil at Dublin prison – Denis Cuff
- Reuters – California CO2 market players eyeing nuclear plant woes – Rory Carroll
- Seattle Times – Big, radioactive lump in Hanford nuclear-waste tank: Is it leaking?
- Albuquerque Journal – Hearing Held on Nuclear Fuel Disposal
- AP Google – Activists question plan to ship plutonium to NM – Jeri Clausing
- KUNM – The legacy of uranium on the Navajo reservation – Laura Paskus
- Industrial Safety and Security Source – Control Rod Falls into Core, Reactor Down
- Stamford Advocate – Op-Ed: We can easily replace Indian Point – Marilyn Elie
- New York Times – Court Blocks E.P.A. Rule on Cross-State Pollution – Matthew L. Wald
- Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear Energy Insider Policy Brief 15 – 22 August 2012 – skaur
- NRC – NRC Issues Final Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed Uranium Deconversion Facility in New Mexico
- Canada: Ottawa Citizen – Federal government grants licence for new nuclear reactors for first time in 30 years – Ian MacLeod
- Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Japanese Leader Meets With Antinuclear ProtestersBy HIROKO TABUCHI
- Asia-Pacific: Platts – Japan’s Tokuku Electric to receive Yen 230 bil loan for quake-hit facility repairs – Takeo Kumagai
- Asia-Pacific: Xinhua News – New Yamaguchi Governor to freeze plan to build nuclear plant
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Support for nuke-free Japan rises to 47% after voter discussions
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Radiation 258 times legal limit found in fish off Fukushima
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Survey: 34 died from stress caused by nuclear accident
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Poll: Nearly 50% favor zero nuclear power scenario
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Noda unswayed by talks with rally leaders – Masami Ito
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Energy policy chief inclined toward nuclear-free Japan
- Asia: Xinhua News – Clean energy sources generate more electricity in China
- Central Asia: Tengrinews – Major benefit of hosting the international nuclear fuel bank is boosting Kazakhstan’s weight in the global non-proliferation endeavors
- South Asia: India Blooms – Greenpeace concerned over CAG N-safety report
- South Asia: Press Information Bureau – Radiation Levels Around Nuclear Power Projects
- South Asia: TwoCircles – ‘No rise in cancer cases due to nuclear power plants’
- Europe: this is Somerset – ‘No limit to Chinese stake in reactor’
- Europe: Whitehaven News – Anti-nuclear protesters to stage demonstration in Carlisle
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
- Bloomberg – Edison to Cut Staff by a Third at Shut San Onofre Nuclear Plant – Mark Chediak
- Enformable – Edison plans to cut one-third of workforce at San Onofre – Lucas W Hixson
- Reuters – Seismic study near California nuclear plant wins key approval – John Upton
- Reuters – Utility to lay off 730 at closed Calif. nuclear power plant
- San Diego Union-Tribune – Layoffs highlight troubles at San Onofre plant – Morgan Lee
- SF Bay Indymedia – PG&E’s Seismic Testing: The Fix Was In – David Gurney
- Crosscut Seattle – Hanford’s “safe” storage tanks: Leaking again? – John Stang
- Hampton Union – Groups challenge nuke plant relicensing effort
- Earth Times – Nuclear power from uranium in seawater gets closer – Adrian Bishop
- HNN Huntingtonnews – Gundersen Says Nuclear Plants Can’t Afford Full Mother Nature Earthquake Protection
- POGO blog – Spending Billions on B-61 Nuclear Bomb Upgrades Doesn’t Make Sense – Mia Steinle
- DOE – Solar Energy for All: How-To Guides Encourage Growth of Solar Communities – Rachel Tronstein
- DOE:IG – Alleged Ethical and Procurement Concerns at the Office of Nuclear Energy, INS-L-12-05
- Asia-Pacific: eNews Park Forest – Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, August 20, 2012 .
- Asia-Pacific: Fairewinds Energy Education – Can Spent Fuel Pools Catch Fire? – Arnie Gundersen
- Asia-Pacific: RT – Fukushima fish carrying 258 times the ‘safe’ level of radiation
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Movie that examined nuclear risks draws new audience
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Power use falls; reactors unneeded – Jun Hongo
- Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – TEPCO Execs in Panic after Nuclear Accident: Footage
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – At least 26 people disabled in Fukushima due to effects of earthquake disaster
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t panel considers completely eliminating nuclear power plants by early ’30s
- Central Asia: Caspionet – Astana to host anti-nuclear forum
- South Asia: IBNLive – Uranium mining in Vemula a curse on farmers
- Europe: Daily Telegraph – Doubts mount over UK’s nuclear energy future – Emily Gosden
- Europe: The Guardian – Does the world need nuclear power to solve the climate crisis? – Oliver Tickell
- Europe: NW Evening Mail – Anti-nuclear group in demo over Cumbria dump
- East Europe: New Papyrus – NRC Evaluation of the 1986 Chernobyl Accident – Marcel F. Williams
Monday, August 20, 2012
- Progressive Radio Network – Designed for disaster: San Onofre nuclear plant could become California’s Fukushima
- ENS – Hanford Double-Shell Tank Leaks Nuclear Waste
- Tacoma News Tribune – Hanford’s B Reactor: A park haunted by the 20th century
- Salt Lake Tribune – International experts explore rad-waste sites in Utah, Colorado – Judy Fahys
- CBS2 Chicago – Environmental Group Wary Of Allowing Power Plants To Dump Hotter Water – John Cody
- CounterPunch – Nuclear Cover-Up Threatens Great Lakes Region – Michael Leonardi
- Facing South – Duke Energy under pressure to disclose hidden ratepayer costs – Sue Sturgis
- FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
- NEI Nuclear Notes – More Gundersen Propaganda – Bob Applebaum
- Slate Magazine – Curiosity’s Dirty Little Secret – Geoffrey Brumfiel
- Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
- Canada: Power Engineering – Nuclear power project in Canada receives site preparation license
- Asia-Pacific: UPI Asia – IAEA: Fukushima slowed nuke growth
- Asia-Pacific: Asian Scientist – Fukushima Disaster Caused Mutant Butterflies, Study – Aparna Venkatesh
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – 30% of Japan’s biggest companies see renewable energy as positive changeBy Adam Westlake
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Today – 3 Fukushima towns selected for 12 storage sites of radioactive debris
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO, Tohoku Power made dubious transactions to Rokkasho nuke plant village
- South Asia: Hindu Business Line – Kudankulam project: Anti-nuclear activists ready for fresh round of talks with Jayalalithaa
- Europe: The Ecologist – Underwater nuclear power stations destined for the English Channel? – Robert Williams
- Europe: STV.tv – Giant holes dug to contain nuclear waste from former power station