Sunday, October 28, 2012

• NTIS – National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants – Radionuclide Emissions, Calendar Year 2011.
• San Diego Free Press – Anti-Nuke Activists Claim Victory as PUC Orders Finanical Probe of San Onofre – Frank Gormlie
• Santa Monica Mirror – Customers Keep Paying For Utility Blunders – Tom Elias
• Seattle Times – Trace Fukushima radiation found in Northwest albacore tuna – Craig Welch
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• South Asia: The Hindu – ‘Our policy is to reprocess all the fuel put into a nuclear reactor’
• Europe: Dunferline Press – Contamination digging starts at Dalgerty Bay
• East Europe: AFP Google – Slovenia shuts nuclear plant after Sava river swells

Saturday, October 27, 2012

• Emmett Messenger-Index – RECA expansion — Blocking and delaying justice until there aren’t enough Downwinders left to demand it! – J Truman
• Sacramento Bee – Editorial: Obama, Romney pander on U.S. nuclear waste
• Inland Valley Daily Bulletin – Hope for the Hills continues fight against Southern California Edison and San Onofre nuclear plant – Canan Tasci
• Power Engineering – San Onofre rate relief possible
• Newark Star Ledger – N.J. nuclear plants brace for oncoming storm, rising waters – Eliot Caroom
• FAIR – U.S. Media Ignore Toxic Legacy of U.S. Weapons – Peter Hart
• Caribbean: The Guardian – Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war – Edward Wilson
• Canada: Northumberland News – Port Hope Area Initiative applies to move forward with cleanup
• Canada: Saskatoon StarPhoenix – Nuclear activist returns
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Hitachi group set to win U.K. nuclear venture
• Europe: The Guardian – Nuclear power turns to developing world as west recoils from Fukushima – Rupert Neate
• Europe: Scotland on Sunday – Nuclear energy costs a concern – Richard Thomson
• North Europe: YLE News – Greens chair shoots down Fennovoima nuclear project
• East Europe: Sofia News Agency – Bulgaria: a Nuclear Referendum – Andrew MacDowall

Friday, October 26, 2012

• Dana Point Times – Hydrogen Leak at SONGS Repaired – Andrea Swayne
• Dana Point Times – NRC to Sponsor Cancer Study of Six Nuclear Plants – Jim Shilander
• KPBS – California Regulators To Examine Customer Payments For Disabled San Onofre – Amita Sharma
• Los Angeles Times – California PUC launches probe of San Onofre outage – Abby Sewell
• Orange County Register – San Onofre rate relief possible – Pat Brennan
• San Francisco Chronicle – Treasure Island sites safe, state says – Katharine Mieszkowski and Matt Smith
• YouTube – NRC Meeting, Dana Point, CA, Oct 9, 2012
• Whitman Pioneer – Dr. Frannie Smith Gives Mind-Blowing Lecture on Nuclear Energy – Quin Nelson
• KSDK – Secret human testing: Victims in St. Louis speak, demand answers – Leisa Zigman
• Oak Ridger – Nat’l Day of Remembrance for nuclear workers event Monday – Donna Smith
• Vermont Public Radio – Federal Judge Dismisses Yankee Suit
• Foreign Policy Blogs – Study finds increase in litter on Arctic seafloor – Mia Bennett
• Government Accountability Project – GAP Clients/NSA Whistleblowers Call on SCOTUS to End NSA Surveillance: Daily Whistleblower News –
• Asia-Pacific: ABC – Radiation settles on seabed off Japan – Mark Willacy
• Asia-Pacific: Earthtimes – Fukushima – the nuclear emergency that won’t go away – Martin Leggett
• Asia-Pacific: Nature blog – Fukushima fish still hot – Geoffrey Brumfiel
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Sono: ‘Disaster survivors spoke more frankly to me than to NHK’ – Mark Schilling
• Asia: New York Times – China Slows Development of Nuclear Power Plants – Keith Bradsher
• South Asia: Asian Age – Oz filmmaker detained on way to K-plant
• East Europe: YouTube – Inside Chernobyl
• East Europe: NEWS.am – Armenian NPP has no waste disposal facility
• East Europe: Wall Street Journal blog – Polish Officials Hint Country May Scrap Nuclear Program – Marynia Kruk

Thursday, October 25, 2012

• Bay Citizen – Treasure Island sites called safe from radiation – Katharine Mieszkowski and Matt Smith
• Bloomberg – Pinnacle Shuts Palo Verde 3 Reactor for Unplanned Valve Repairs – Christine Harvey
• KGET – Financial probe may await damaged nuke plant
• Orange County Register – State regulators vote to investigate San Onofre nuclear plant – Pat Brennan
• Platts – CPUC opens investigation into outages at San Onofre – Lyn Corum
• Poway.Patch – State to Investigate San Onofre – Adam Townsend
• Power Engineering – Southern California Edison Conducts Required Testing of Equipment
• Honolulu Weekly – Letters: Nuked Hawaii
• Brattleboro Reformer – Experts claim evacuation plan inadequate – Bob Audette
• Providence Journal – Federal judge throws out Vt. Yankee tax challenge
• Columbus Free Press – The rust-bucket reactors start to fall – Harvey Wasserman
• eNews Park Forest – Cancer Study at 7 US Nuclear Sites Must be Fully Independent and Transparent .
• Oceania: Honolulu Star-Advertiser – Halloween hides real-life nuclear horror in Marshall Islands – Beverly Deepe Keever
• Asia-Pacific: BBC News – Fukushima fish still contaminated from nuclear accident – Jonathan Amos
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Tokyo lawsuit highlights risk of former employees spilling secrets
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Electricity supply sufficient even if next summer is a scorcher
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Radiation forecast creates hurdle in resuming nuclear plant operations
• Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – Fukushima reactors status 26 Oct 2012
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – M5.6 earthquake recorded off the coast of northeast Japan – Adam Westlake
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Regulator to urge wider nuclear safety zones
• Asia-Pacific: China Post – Taipower workers handled nuclear waste tanks with bare hands: DPP
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Nuclear future referendum needed – Chang Kuo-tsai
• Asia: Daily Telegraph – Linfen: how China’s Chernobyl turned the corner – Tom Phillips
• Asia: Power Engineering – Full Text: China’s Energy Policy 2012 (6) IV. Vigorously Developing New and Renewable Energy
• Europe: The Guardian – Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran – Nick Hopkins
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Cumbrian MP says Scotland must take waste back under independence – Julian Whittle

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

• Encinitas Coast News – City takes its position on SONGS to PUC – Bianca Kaplanek
• Los Angeles Times – U.S. to study cancer risks near 6 nuclear plants – Louis Sahagun
• Orange County Register – Siren test this morning at San Onofre – Pat Brennan
• San Clemente Times blog – Update: Small Leak Discovered During Non-Nuclear Testing at SONGS – Jim Shilander
• 89.3 KPCC – Radioactive waste found in Santa Monica grocery dumpster turns out to be a diaper – Rob Strauss
• Bristol Herald Courier – Government to study cancer risk at Erwin facility
• SNL Financial – Union of Concerned Scientists sees Fukushima-like risk at Duke’s Oconee nuke – Matthew Bandyk
• Vermont Public Radio – Vermont Yankee Debate Heats Up On Two Fronts – John Dillon
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Current Radio & Documents Update
• Government Accountability Project – The Back Story to Kiriakou’s Imminent Guilty Plea – Jesselyn Radack
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 17 October – 24 October 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear Energy Insider Policy Brief 17 October – 24 October 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA7) – Markey Applauds Start of Cancer Risk Study of Americans Living Near Nuclear Power Plants – .
• Santiago Times – Chile to resume studying nuclear energy, undersecretary says
• Asia-Pacific: Zee News – Japan releases 1st simulations of nuclear radiation spreading
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – People forced to store contaminated soil on their own property in Fukushima – Ida Torres
• Asia: AP Google – China set to OK new nuke plants, ending moratorium – Gillian Wong
• Asia: Xinhua News – China passes plans on energy development, nuclear power safety
• Central Asia: 24.kg – IAEA to grant €583.5 thousand to 12 countries, including Kyrgyzstan, for restoration of tailings till 2015
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – Anti-nuke protesters to confront ‘meaningless’ IAEA team – Vanita Srivastava
• South Asia: Zee News – New nuclear plants may be located in heart of city
• North Europe: Bloomberg – EON to Withdraw From Finnish Fennovoima Nuclear Reactor – Torsten Fagerholm
• East Europe: Sofia News Agency – Bulgaria Drops N-Plant Project from Nuclear Referendum

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

• KPBS – Hydrogen Leak Stopped At San Onofre Nuclear Plant
• Orange County Register – Edison: No danger from non-nuclear leak at San Onofre – Pat Brennan
• San Clemente Times blog – San Clemente Among Sites for NRC Cancer-Risk Study – Jim Shilander
• San Diego 6 – San Onofre to Test Emergency Alert System
• Tri-City Herald – DOE officials confirm tank leaking radioactive waste – Annette Cary
• Dallas/Fort Worth Magazine – Harold Simmons Does Nuclear Waste His Way – Laray Polk
• Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal – Xcel cancels $237M nuclear plant upgrade – Ed Stych
• New York Times – Wisconsin Nuclear Reactor To Be Closed – Matthew L. Wald
• Plymouth.Patch – NRC Sponsors Cancer Risk Study
• Brattleboro Reformer – How long would we have to evacuate? – Bob Audette
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #115: Marine Invasions of Nuclear Plants – Dave Lochbaum
• Jurist – One Thousand Years of Danger: Spent Nuclear Fuel Production and Management in the US – Catherine Jahn
• New York Times – Aging and Expensive, Reactors Face Mothballs – Matthew L. Wald
• Caribbean: New York Times – 50 Years Later: The Cuban Missile Crisis Remembered
• Canada: The Manitoban – Hotspot: U of M’s role in the nuclear industry – Brandi M. Shabaga
• Oceania: Australian Financial Review – Ferguson says no to nuclear power
• Enformable – Safety zones around nuclear plants may not be large enough: active fault found 14 km from future nuclear power station
• Asia-Pacific: Greenpeace International – False hope: radiation monitoring in the Fukushima area – Greg McNevin
• Asia-Pacific: PanOrient News – Official Radiation Monitoring Stations in Fukushima “Unreliable“: Greenpeace
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – Surprisingly Japan declines to join 16 UN countries in outlawing nuclear weapons – Adam Westlake
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – 30-km nuke safety zone may not be enough
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – Anti-nuke protests to greet visiting IAEA team – Vanita Srivastava
• Europe: BBC News – Nuclear and green energy: David Morris and Natalie Bennett
• Europe: Daily Telegraph – Government accused of writing ‘blank cheque’ for new nuclear construction costs – Amy Wilson
• Europe: Financial Times – EDF issues nuclear power challenge – Jim Pickard and Sylvia Pfeifer
• Europe: The Guardian – UK public favours wind turbines over shale gas wells, poll finds – Damian Carrington

Monday, October 22, 2012

• Bloomberg – PG&E Says No Damage to Diablo Canyon Plant After Quake – Christine Harvey
• Laguna Niguel Patch – San Onofre Finds Nonradioactive Hydrogen Leak – Adam Townsend
• Orange County Register – O.C. hazardous waste clean-up firm opens Washington lab – Jan Norman
• Power Engineering – SCE conducts testing of equipment at shut down California nuclear power plant
• Reuters – Dominion closing nuclear plant due to low natgas prices – Scott DiSavino
• Scranton Times-Tribune – FEMA will evaluate preparedness at Luzerne County nuclear facility
• Enformable – In-Focus: Nuclear – Earthquake felt in Diablo Canyon control room – Fukushima upgrades continue at US nuclear sites
• Enformable – 3-16-11 – NRC Deleted Over 100 E-mails From Members of the Public Demanding Immediate Closure of US Nuclear Plants
• ANS Nuclear Cafe – Update on Nuclear Waste Confidence Court Ruling – Jim Hopf
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Canada: Toronto Media Co-op – The Huron Declaration on Nuclear Waste – Angela Bischoff and et al. and Gordon Edwards and Zach Ruiter
• Oceania: Reuters – Australia state lifts uranium mine ban, eyes India exports – James Regan
• Asia-Pacific: Natural News – Ground under Fukushima Unit 4 sinking, structure on verge of complete collapse – Ethan A. Huff
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Alien plant species invading Fukushima restricted zone
• Asia-Pacific: Jpubb – Status of TEPCO’s Nuclear Power Stations after the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Giant off-shore wind turbine becomes Japan’s latest renewable energy addition
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Resident-oriented countermeasures against nuclear disasters needed
• Asia: Nuclear Engineering – Rolls-Royce to modernize I&C at China’s Ling Ao nuclear plant
• Europe: Bignews Portugal – Spain waits for US to finish bomb clean-up