Sunday, September 16, 2012

• Power Engineering – NRC: San Onofre will stay shuttered for ‘months’
• ANS Nuclear Cafe – 122nd Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers
• Columbus Free Press – Bonnie Raitt lights up the world – Harvey Wasserman
• Forbes – Nuclear Power’s Long and Toxic Tail – William Pentland
• OpEdNews – It’s Us of the Nukes – David Swanson
• Washington Post – Aging U.S. nuclear arsenal slated for costly and long-delayed modernization – Dana Priest
• Bellona – Japan offers vague, weak nuclear exit by 2040 that could have reactors chugging decades beyond deadline – Charles
• New Zealand Press – Radiation refugee launches anti-nuke petition – Francesca Lee
• Reuters – Japan finds another gap in its disaster readiness – Mount Fuji – Sophie Knight
• Fukushima Diary – 34% of Fukushima city people want to evacuate, local gov “Measures need to be taken” – Iori Mochizuki
• South Asia: CounterCurrents – Koodankulam Protesters Create Symoblic Mass Graves
• South Asia: The Economist – The Kudankulam conundrum
• South Asia: Washington Post – Protests disrupt India’s nuclear energy plan – Rama Lakshmi and Simon Denyer
• South Asia: Calcutta Telegraph – Anti-nuke leader goes underground – G.C. Shekhar
• South Asia: Daily Kos – Japan’s Long Atomic Sayonara – Harvey Wasserman
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Anti-nuke protest takes bizarre turn
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – N-plant protests spread, 250 arrested in Tuticorin – Ramesh Babu
• South Asia: Livemint – Slideshow | India protests over land and water
• Europe: Daily Mail – Britain’s secret nuclear bunker: Buried 100ft down inside is the control room where the order to launch a strike would be given
• East Europe: New American – Belarus to Go Nuclear as It Allies With China and Russia – Christian Gomez

Saturday, September 15, 2012

• Huffington Post – Flood Threat To Nuclear Plants Covered Up By Regulators, NRC Whistleblower Claims – Tom Zeller Jr.
• Michele Kearney’s Nuclear blog – NEA / OECD: Nuclear Fuel Safety Criteria Technical Review – Second Edition
• POGO blog – ‘Extensive’ Oversight of Nuclear Weapons Facilities Not Such a Bad Idea, After All, Official Says – Mia Steinle
• POGO blog – Lockheed Campaign Cash Has Flowed to Members of House Panel Probing F-22 Problems – Jacob Washkurak, John Parker and
• POGO blog – Report Reveals Some Open Gov Progress, but Also Increasing National Security Secrecy – Suzie Dershowitz
• Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Republican News – S. 3469, the Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2012
• Canada: Toronto Star – Letters: What to do with spent nuclear waste
• Oceania: Yokwe – Articles: Human Rights Council Hears Report on Marshall Islands Nuclear Legacy
• Deutsche Local – Germany ready to help Japan go non-nuclear
• Nature News Blog – Japan’s nuclear sun to set? – Declan Butler
• Asahi Shimbun – New reactors could yet go critical in no-nuclear pledge loophole
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Government needs clear road map toward nuclear-free future
• Japan Times – The long tradition of sanitizing history – Jeff Kingston
• South Asia: IBNLive – Fisherman dies, K-protestors stop Jal Satyagraha – M Abdul Rabi
• South Asia: Daily Bhaskar – Benazir asked me to transfer N-technology to two countries: AQ Khan
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Protesters condemn Dounreay N-fuel rail runs
• Europe: Spalding Guardian – Nuclear test veteran’s plea
• Europe: AFP Yahoo! – France’s Hollande outlines ‘green’ energy policy
• East Europe: Focus News – Petition on Bulgaria’s 2nd nuke plant in Glavnitsa manipulated: citizens
• Middle East: antiwar.com – US, Israeli Attacks Would Push Iran Toward Nukes – Jim Lobe and Jasmin Ramsey

Friday, September 14, 2012

• Enformable – Edison to submit SONGS restart plan to NRC next month
• Los Angeles Times – Energy officials plan for another summer without San Onofre – Abby Sewell
• North County Times – San Onofre: Planners brace for no nuke plant in 2013 – Eric Wolff
• North County Times – San Onofre: Commission to seek activists’ input on nuke plant discussion – Paul Sisson
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Bracing for 2nd Summer without Nuke Plant – Morgan Lee
• Chillicothe Gazette – House approves centrifuge funds; Senate expected to take up measure next week – Deirdre Shesgreen
• Vermont Journalism Trust – Breaking down Entergy’s new suit against Vermont – Andrew Stein
• AP Google – House votes to end energy loan guarantee program – Jim Abrams
• SNL Financial – Blue ribbon commission co-chair sees little action by Obama on nuclear waste – Kathleen Hart
• Reuters – Nuclear power champions Japan and France turn away – Karolin Schaps and Henning Gloystein
• GAO – Spent Nuclear Fuel: Accumulating Quantities at Commercial Reactors Present Storage and Other Challenges, GAO-12-797
• New York Times – Japan Will Try to Halt Nuclear Power by the End of the 2030s – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
• Asahi Shimbun – Up-close photo of 3/11 tsunami will be shown at Photokina – Kenichiro Saito
• Japan Times – Victims dissatisfied with Tepco compensation
• Japan Today – Main points of Japan’s post-Fukushima energy plan
• Nikkei – Japan Targets Phasing Out Nuclear Power By 2030s
• South Asia: Deccan Chronicle – Fuel loading yet to begin: AERB
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Kudankulam impasse crosses 25 months
• Europe: Bloomberg – Westinghouse ‘Absolutely Committed’ to U.K. Nuclear Rollout – Roxana Zega
• Europe: The Scotsman – Energy minister Fergus Ewing warns renewables could lose out to nuclear – Lynsey Bews
• Russia: Bellona – Nuclear waste ship leaves Murmansk harbor for good after 20-years of politicking and environmental pressure – Charles Digges

Thursday, September 13, 2012

• Enformable – Edison to submit SONGS restart plan to NRC next month
• Huffington Post – Solving California’s Nuclear Dilemma – Craig Lewis and Bill Ritter Jr.
• Los Angeles Times – Review of plan to restart San Onofre reactor could take months – Abby Sewell
• MissionViejo.Patch – Nuclear Plant Still a Long Way from Restart
• San Diego Union-Tribune – San Onofre Restart Plan to be Released in 3 Weeks – Morgan Lee
• Tri-Valley CAREs – The Government Accountability Office Issues a Report on NNSA’s Security, Oversight and Project Management Problems
• Salt Lake Tribune – Who’s in charge? Regulators, waste firm too friendly
• Government Accountability Project – GAP Blog Update
• IBTimes – Energy’s Dangerous Water Addiction
• Mother Board – Scientists Have a Plan To Power 95% of the World With Renewable Energy – Brian Merchant
• Politico – Solyndra bill is Stearns’s last stand – Tax extenders languishing in Senate – A look at energy riders in the CR – Senate committees take up nuclear issues – Alex Guillen
• NRC – NRC to Hold Public Meeting to Discuss San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Issues
• Asahi Shimbun – Offshore wind power generation in the spotlight in Japan – Tomoya Fujita
• Daily Yomiuri – Compensation sought for losses from N-fears
• Kyodo News – Japan to maintain plan to seek spent fuel reprocessing at Rokkasho
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – SC refuses to stay fuel loading at Kudankulam nuclear plant
• South Asia: IBNLive – India: Nuclear and seismological map – Soumyadip Choudhury
• South Asia: IBNLive – Day after, 50 held at Koodankulam
• South Asia: Reuters India – Kudankulam plant protests
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield to stage biggest ever decommissioning expo – Alan Irving
• Russia: Russian Geographical Society – Second radiation monitoring expedition finished

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

• Bloomberg – Edison to File Restart Plan for San Onofre Unit in October – Mark Chediak
• KPBS – Boxer Pushes NRC For Assurances On Nuclear Safety – Alison St John
• San Diego Union-Tribune – San Onofre restart proposal weeks away – Morgan Lee
• Salt Lake Tribune – Guv rethinks naming EnergySolutions exec to waste oversight board – Judy Fahys
• Texas Tribune – Harold Simmons’ Waste Company Pays County, State – Nick Swartsell
• University of Texas at Austin – Nuclear Waste-Burning Technology Could Change the Face of Nuclear Energy
• Evansville Courier & Press – Number of warheads dismantled under Lugar program tops 7,600
• Huffington Post – Megan Rice: How Did An 82-Year-Old Nun Get Past A Nuclear Facility’s Security?
• York Daily Record – About 50 workers at Peach Bottom nuclear plant exposed to low levels of radiation – Sean Adkins
• Youngstown Vindicator – NRC’s inspector general probing W. Pa. dump cleanup
• Lower Hudson Journal – Indian Point: $1.5B suit alleges regular security system crashes, claims plant fails anti-terrorism drills – Jonathan
• Brattleboro Reformer – Entergy sues Vermont over higher tax law – Josh Stilts
• Carnegie Institution for Science – Enough wind to power global energy demand
• Center for Public Integrity – Break-in forges political consensus for tighter nuclear oversight – R. Jeffrey Smith
• Green Miles – Nuclear Power Operator Complains Wind Energy is Too Inexpensive – Miles Grant
• NY Times blog – Addressing a Gap in Nuclear Regulation – Matthew L. Wald
• Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works – Senator Boxer’s Statement: Hearing on NRC’s Implementation of Recommendations for Enhancing Nuclear Reactor Safety
• Canada: Montreal Gazette blog – Parti Québécois says it will keep promise to close Gentilly-2 nuclear power plant – Monique Beaudin
• Reuters – Japan aims for zero nuclear power in 2030s – media – Linda Sieg
• Reuters AlertNet – Helping to ease minds on radiation
• Reuters AlertNet – Handout photo of TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after being hit by a tsunami
• Asahi Shimbun – Radioactive fallout detected far from Fukushima – Nobutaro Kaji
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO releases 600 pics of wrecked nuclear plant
• Japan Times – Work on citizen radiation reports going slow
• Japan Times – Fukushima finds first child thyroid cancer after 3/11
• Japan Times – Foreign tourists still staying away
• South Asia: ENS – Two Dead in Protest of India’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant
• South Asia: DiaNuke.org – Live Updates from Idinthakarai, Koodankulam – Arundhati Roy’
• South Asia: Firstpost – Govt being deceptive about Kudankulam, says ex-AERB chief
• South Asia: The Hindu – KKNPP protest will be taken up at national level: Kejriwal
• South Asia: The Hindu – Kudankulam stir: protest staged against police action in Vizag
• Europe: Washington Post – Britain looks to China to fuel nuclear renaissance – Anthony Faiola
• Europe: Equities – Netherlands : Next arrival of used nuclear fuel from the Netherlands for recycling
• Russia: Bellona – Lepse nuclear waste storage ship endangering Murmansk for decades finally headed for dismantlement

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

• Bay Citizen – SF wants state to conduct new study of Treasure Island cleanup – Matt Smith and Katharine Mieszkowski
• KPBS – Proposed Changes To San Onofre’s Decommissioning Fund – Alison St John
• Kitsap Sun – Navy gets go-ahead for plan to dispose of Enterprise reactor compartments – Ed Friedrich
• ABC 4 – Radioactive regulators criticised – Marcos Ortiz
• Salt Lake Tribune – Utah Senate leader rages at lax nuke waste oversight – Judy Fahys
• Ocala Star-Banner – Regulators begin hearings on nuclear charges – Gary Fineout
• Danville Register & Bee – Uranium forum to be held Oct. 2
• CleanTechnica – Why Thorium Nuclear Isn’t Featured on CleanTechnica – Zachary Shahan
• The Hill – Overnight Energy: Senate goes nuclear – Ben Geman and Zack Colman
• NY Times blog – Addressing a Gap in Nuclear Regulation – Matthew L. Wald
• NAS – Project Update: Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants
• Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for September 7th to September 10th, 2012 – Christine McCann
• RTT News – IAEA Launches Database of Fukushima Radiation Information
• Asahi Shimbun – Science panel recommends delaying burying radioactive waste
• Japan Times – Disaster-area kids under hard stress
• JIJI Press – Japan Scientists Call for Full Review of Nuclear Waste Disposal Policy – Reason Magazine
• South Asia: AFP Google – Indian police crack down on nuclear plant protesters
• South Asia: IBNLive – Police spreading false information: Kudankulam activist Udayakumar
• South Asia: IBNLive – Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant: The pros and cons
• South Asia: Outlook – Petition for Stalling KNPP Project Reaches SC
• Europe: BBC News – Romney Marsh nuclear waste plan opposed by 63%
• Europe: Coastal Scene – Sizewell: EDF under fire over waste store site survey – David Green
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – A year and a half after Fukushima
• East Europe: Bloomberg – Russia’s Rosatom Files 1 Billion-Euro Claim Against Bulgaria – Elizabeth Konstantinova
• Russia: CounterCurrents – The Soviet Union Dumped Enormous Quantities of Nuclear Waste In Kara Sea In The Arctic Ocean – Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere (Retd)

Monday, September 10, 2012

• Platts – Bingaman nuclear bill could be vehicle to modify US waste act: NARUC
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – Letter: Shut down Diablo – Linda Seeley
• Daily Astorian – Editorial: Energy secretary must dissect Bechtel
• The Atlantic – A September 11th Catastrophe You’ve Probably Never Heard About – Andrew Cohen
• The Independent – Book: Full Body Burden, By Kristen Iversen – Lucy Scholes
• Grand Island Independent – Neb. utility offers update on troubled nuke plant
• Brattleboro Reformer – U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others join Entergy in lawsuit against Vt. – Josh Stilts
• Vermont Public Radio – NRC Oversees Post-Fukishima Inspections At Vermont Yankee – John Dillon
• Bloomberg – Nuclear Repairs No Easy Sale as Cheap Gas Hits Utilities – Julie Johnsson
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• ABC – Problem plagued nuclear reactor called world’s most dangerous – Mark Willacy
• Nuclear Free by 2045 – Urine tests for cesium? Government says basically, “Piss off.”
• Reuters – Japan energy deadlock deepens; government fails to announce policy mix – Linda Sieg
• House of Japan – One and half years after Fukushima accident
• Japan Times – New energy policy postponed amid lack of consensus
• South Asia: Daily Pioneer – Thorium holds key to India’s energy security – Sandhya Jain
• South Asia: Daily Pioneer – Foreign-funded protests? .
• South Asia: The Hindu – Protesters had plans to attack KKNPP: DGP – S. Vijay Kumar
• South Asia: The Hindu – Shinde sees foreign NGOs’ hand in Kudankulam – Sandeep Joshi
• South Asia: NDTV – Kudankulam: Protesters jump into water to avoid tear gas; one killed in police firing in Tuticorin
• East Europe: Telegraf.by – Belarusian environmentalists urge Yanukovych to stop construction of the Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant
• Russia: Bellona – Comment: Fire at Rostov NPP blazes for three hours, burning up millions on hasty construction project – Andrei Ozharovsky
• Russia: Enformable – Russia starts full-scale production of anti-radiation missile