Sunday, October 14, 2012

• This is Reno – Sierra Club opposes turning Nevada into a nuclear dumping ground
• Los Angeles Times – Editorial: Who’s paying for San Onofre
• Twin Falls Times-News – Twin Falls Man Wants Congress to Remember Idaho’s Downwinders – Blair Koch
• Alaska Dispatch? – ‘Project Chariot’ brings potential nuclear disaster story full-circle – Suzanna Caldwell
• Express-Times – Presidential race 2012: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney energy policies broken down – Kurt Bresswein
• NY Newsday – Indian Point hearings intensify clash on nuke plant
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – Whistleblowers deserve better – David Hutton
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Nobel laureate Oe leads protest of Oma nuclear plant
• Asia-Pacific: ENENews – Photographer: You can’t fix what’s happening in Fukushima — Silence was something that I’ve only ever heard at Chernobyl (VIDEO)
• South Asia: Sydney Morning Herald – India questions its own nuclear industry – Ben Doherty

Saturday, October 13, 2012

• San Luis Obispo Tribune – Diablo Canyon reactor likely shut down because of transformer problem – Tad Weber
• Tri-Valley CAREs – How Would You Spend $640 Billion? – Marylia Kelley
• Journal Register Voice – Anti-nuclear activists call for temporary ‘hardened on-site storage’ of nuclear waste – Jim Bloch
• Caribbean: BBC News – Cuban missile crisis: The other, secret one – Joe Matthews
• Asia-Pacific: HNN Huntingtonnews – Fukushima Cancers May Reach One Million
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Japan Power Company Admits Failings on Plant Precautions – Martin Fackler
• Asia-Pacific: Xinhua News – Japanese royal couple visits village near Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant
• Asia-Pacific: ENENews – Gov’t study estimates 225,000 cases of cancer from Fukushima disaster -Physician (VIDEO)
• Asia-Pacific: ENENews – TV: New Tepco admission “contradicts everything the company has maintained so far” (VIDEOS)
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Tepco finally admits nuke crisis avoidable
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Food co-op sues Tepco over soiled reputation – Tomoko Otake
• South Asia: Daily News & Analysis – ‘Anti-nuclear protests are due to propaganda spread by organisations’ – Yogesh Pawar

Friday, October 12, 2012

• KPCC – Veteran: Risks in 1950s bomb test ‘a disgrace’
• KSBY – Update: Unit 2 remains down at Diablo Canyon after electrical problem
• Democracy Now! – After Decades of Uranium Mining, Navajo Nation Struggles With Devastating Legacy of Contamination – Amy Goodman & Juan González
• Community Energy – Pittsburghers can now buy 100% PA wind and solar electricity
• New York Times – U.S. Panel to Hear Opponents of Indian Point Nuclear Plant – Matthew L. Wald
• NRDC – Report: Clean Energy Projects Primed to Replace Indian Point’s Power
• Boston Herald – Letter: Nuke plant pollutes – Anna Baker
• OpEdNews – Vermont Asks: “What the Fukushima”? – William Boardman
• AFP Yahoo! – US military prepares new rules for cyber war: Panetta
• IEER – Comments on the Draft Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
• Public Citizen – Public Citizen Applauds President Obama for Issuing a Directive Guaranteeing Intelligence Community Workers Whistleblower Protections – Keith Wrightson
• Washington Post – Report: Mid-Atlantic offshore wind industry would create 70,000 jobs, generate billions
• Canada: National Post – After Fukushima: Canada’s nuclear ambitions – Yadullah Hussain
• Asia-Pacific: AP Google – Japan utility agrees nuclear crisis was avoidable – Mari Yamaguchi
• Asia-Pacific: Epoch Times – Why TEPCO Failed to Prevent the Fukushima Disaster – Jack Phillips
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Former VP optimistic about future anti-nuclear referendum – Chris Wang
• Europe: Greenpeace UK – Cumbria gets a stay of execution – but it’s still no place for a nuclear waste dump – Richardg
• Europe: this Is Wiltshire – Chernobyl cancer victim needs your help
• East Europe: Sofia News Agency – Bulgarian Right-Wingers: N-Plant Referendum Is Provocation
• South Africa: World Nuclear News – Areva to mothball Trekkopje project

Thursday, October 11, 2012

• KSBY – Public will be able to discuss PG&E seismic testing at Board of Supervisor’s meeting – Madelyn Monteath
• San Clemente Times – NRC SONGS Meeting Draws Vocal Crowd of Over 1000 – Jim Shilander and Andrea Swayne
• Democracy Now! – Birthplace of Atomic Bomb, New Mexico Remains Center of Massive U.S. Nuclear Arsenal – Amy Goodman &Juan González
• Journal Register Voice – Deep trouble: Nuclear waste burial in the Great Lakes basin – Jim Bloch
• Journal Register Voice – Deep trouble: What makes nuclear power dangerous – Jim Bloch
• POGO blog – Video: POGO Pops Up in Y-12 Hearing – Andre Francisco
• Aiken Leader blog – Public Interest Groups Challenge Savannah River Site’s Troubled Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Program – Thomas Clements
• Danville Register & Bee – Pittsylvania County still split on uranium mining – Mary Beth Jackson
• De Smog Blog – Heritage Foundation Distributes List of Fallacies Regarding Obama’s Energy Policies – Farron Cousins
• Government Accountability Project – GAP Praises President’s Action to Protect National Security Whistleblowers – Dylan Blaylock
• Asia-Pacific: Los Angeles Times – Dogs abandoned at Fukushima, Japan, suffer PTSD-like effects – Monte Morin
• Asia-Pacific: San Francisco Bay Guardian – Fukushima controversies that the mainstream media ignores – Yael Chanoff
• South Asia: Deccan Chronicle – Government accused of hiding safety report on Kudankulam
• Europe: Epoch Times – EU Nuclear Safety Review Finds Fault in 145 Reactors – Daniel Granger
• Europe: The Ecologist – Too Close For Comfort? – AAron Hindes
• Europe: Historum – UK radioactive waste spilled in the Atlantic ocean
• Russia: antiwar.com – Russia to Cancel US Nuke Security Aid – Jason Ditz
• Russia: Ria Novosti – Dangerous radioactive dump sites in Kara Sea – Mikhail Flint
• South Africa: SA Times – Nuclear power and our national character: iLIVE – Gerard Boyce

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

• Albany.Patch – You Ask: Helicopters Measuring Natural Radiation; Say What? – Catherine (Kate) Rauch
• Berkeley.Patch – You Ask: Really, Naturally-Occurring Radiation in the Bay Area (Part 2)? – Catherine (Kate) Rauch
• AP Google – Activists demand shutdown of ailing nuke plant – Michael R. Blood
• Capistrano Dispatch – NRC SONGS Meeting Draws Vocal Crowd of Over 1,600 – Andrea Swayne and Jim Shilander
• Los Angeles Times – Hundreds attend contentious forum on San Onofre’s future – Abby Sewell
• OC Weekly blog – Seismic Tests for Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Draw Surfrider and Fishermen Opposition – Matt Coker
• Orange County Register – Noisy crowd gathers at San Onofre nuclear plant meeting – Pat Brennan
• Reuters – San Onofre reopening not a done deal – NRC
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Onofre Panel Draws Neighbors, Workers – Morgan Lee
• Denver Westword – Reader: We’ll never know what’s been buried with Rocky Flats – Jane Zulian
• Citrus Daily – Environmental groups challenge proposed nuclear reactors in Levy County – Robby Douglas
• Boston Globe – Activists plan to sue Mass. nuclear plant owner
• International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons? – Review of latest reports to the UN Secretary General on DU
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Health &Safety: in a post-Fukushima world is the US nuclear industry prepared for the unexpected? – John Johnson
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear Energy Insider Policy Brief 28 September – 10 October 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 27 September – 10 October 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Asia-Pacific: AFP Google – Japan’s Toshiba to boost Westinghouse stake
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Evacuees bashing, “Evacuees spread harmful rumor outside of Fukushima prefecture” – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – Fukushima reactors status 11 Oct 2012
• Europe: Times of Malta – Nukes must be eradicated
• North Europe: Reuters – Greenpeace activists hide overnight at Swedish nuclear plants – Anna Ringstrom
• Russia: UPI – Russia to abandon WMD dismantling program
• Russia: Yahoo! News – Huge ammunition explosion rocks Russian city – Gleb Bryanski

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

• AP Google – Activists say feds conducting sham nuke review – Michael R. Blood
• AP Google – Plan for damaged nuke plant may need long review – Michael R. Blood
• KPBS – NRC To Host Public San Onofre Meeting Tonight – Alison St John
• LagunaBeach.Patch – Labor Unions, Edison Plan to Counter ‘Loudmouth Protesters’ at NRC Meeting – Adam Townsend
• Orange County Register – NRC vows review of San Onofre restart plan – Pat Brennan
• Los Angeles Times – Op-Ed: An America eternally ‘at war’ – Tom Engelhardt
• Salt Lake Tribune – Utah-based EnergySolutions lays off scores company-wide – Judy Fahys
• Hampton-NorthHampton.Patch – Sens.: Bill Will Stop Early Nuke Relicensing – Kyle Stucker
• Asia-Pacific: AFP Google – World leaders meet on disaster management in Japan – Kyoko Hasegawa
• Asia-Pacific: Christian Science Monitor – Uncertain power: a return to nuclear energy for Japan? – James Burgess
• Asia-Pacific: CNIC – Nuke Info Tokyo No. 150 (Sep./Oct. 2012)
• Central Asia: The Scotsman – Josef Stalin’s nuclear legacy remains in East Kazakhstan
• South Asia: Business Standard – Anti-nuke activists lay siege to Kudankulam plant from sea
• Europe: UPI – Safety of European nuclear plants eyed
• North Europe: Greenpeace International – Greenpeace Sweden exposes lax security at nuclear plants – Brian Blomme
• North Europe: Reuters – Greenpeace breaks into grounds of Swedish nuclear plants – Anna Ringstrom
• North Europe: Wall Street Journal – Vattenfall Plants Targeted in Nuclear Protest
• East Europe: BBC News – Artists Jane and Louise Wilson offer view of Chernobyl – Ian Youngs

Monday, October 08, 2012

• NBC Bay Area – Navy’s Treasure Island Radiation Report Found Wanting – Matt Smith
• KPBS – Opinion Polls Differ On Restarting San Onofre – Alison St John
• North County Times – Edison’s biggest safety gamble yet: San Onofre’s restart plan – Patricia Borchmann Escondido
• Nuclear Engineering – SCE reveals San Onofre restart plan
• Power Engineering – Nuclear power plant experienced “greater-than-green” safety violation
• Berkeley-NJ.patch – Public Meeting to be Held on Operation and Closure of Oyster Creek – Elaine Piniat
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Asia-Pacific: Greenpeace International – South Korea can’t deny the risks of nuclear power forever – Jan Beranek
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Noda calls for faster decontamination in Fukushima
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – Prime Minister Noda makes visit to Fukushima nuclear disaster plant – Adam Westlake
• South Asia: Business Standard – NPC to seek nod to close reactor vessel at Kudankulam – Sanjay Jog
• South Asia: Deccan Chronicle – Anti-nuclear protesters stage day-long siege of plant
• Europe: BBC News – Hinkley Point: Arrests over trespass
• Europe: BBC News – Cumbria’s nuclear waste disposal dilemma is prolonged
• Europe: Economic Voice – ‘Blank cheque’ plan would be a multi-billion pound nuclear U-turn
• Europe: World Radio Switzerland – Document suggests radioactive sites already chosen – Lucas Chambers