Sunday, November 25, 2012

• Rapid City Journal – Edgemont area ranchers clash over proposed uranium mine – Kevin Woster
• MassLive Republican – Viewpoint: It’s time to get rid of nuclear weapons – Ira Helfand
• Daily Mail – Revealed: How the U.S. planned to blow up the MOON with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging rights over Soviet Union
• Depleted Cranium – Do our nuclear weapons work?
• Canada: GoPetition – Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump – Petition published by STGLND
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – WHO forecasts no significant increase in cancer patients in Fukushima
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Rice planting to resume in Fukushima Prefecture 
  
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Anti-nuclear madness doesn’t jibe with concern about global warming – Gwynne Dyer
• South Asia: Der Spiegel – Forgetting Fukushima–India Pursues Massive Nuclear Expansion – Wieland Wagner
• South Asia: Times of India – 27 held for visiting Idinthakarai
• Europe: Financial Times – UK fights to build a nuclear legacy – Sylvia Pfeifer
• Europe: The Scotsman – Letter: Questions over costs of nuclear – Richard Thomson
• North Europe: Washington Times – Lithuanians near old nuclear plant fear for their lives – Gary Peach

Saturday, November 24, 2012

• Crikey – Cold War photo: Why nuclear powered airliners never took off – Ben Sandilands
• Odessa American – Radioactive waste
• Radio Iowa – Grassley lauds update to Whistleblower Protection Act – O. Kay Henderson
• Bradenton Herald – Tallevast residents in court; ask Commission to postpone agenda item – Elizabeth Johnson
• Troy Record – Guest Columnist: Abolish stockpiles – Peter G. Cohen
• All Things Nuclear – Is Dilution The Solution to The Plutonium Threat? – Edwin S. Lyman
• Democracy Now! – Oliver Stone on the Untold U.S. History from the Atomic Age to Vietnam to Obama’s Drone Wars – Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Current Radio & Documents
• Canada: Saskatoon StarPhoenix – Letter: Dirty nukes – Karen Weingeist
• South Asia: TruthDive – BJP urges government to stop dumping nuclear waste in abandoned Kolar gold mines
• Europe: New York Times – Britain to Encourage Both Nuclear and Wind Power – Stanley Reed
• North Europe: YLE News – U.S. postpones Helsinki conference on nuclear-free Middle East
• Middle East: ITV News – What is Polonium-210?

Friday, November 23, 2012

• Tri-Valley CAREs – Citizen’s Watch Newsletter Fall 2012
• Spokesman-Review – Hanford documents show possible safety violations – Ralph Vartabedian
• Pottstown Mercury – ACE has evidence of damage nuclear plants can do – Dr. Lewis Cuthbert, ACE President
• Boston Globe – 6 Mass. women set for trial in nuclear protest – Dave Gram
• Bloomberg – Can the U.S. Create Its Own German-Style Energy Revolution? – Osha Gray Davidson
• Los Angeles Times – Editorial: Taking a hammer to ‘leaks’
• Canada: Queen’s Journal – Plant has longterm effects
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – KEPCO to push restart of Takahama nuclear reactors – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Yet again, data errors discovered in radiation forecast maps – Jin Nishikawa
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Britain can reuse plutonium extracted from Japan’s spent fuel: expert
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Japan to host int’l meeting on nuclear safety
• East Asia: Reuters – Update 1-South Korea urged to restore trust in nuclear power – Meeyoung Cho
• Southwest Asia: publics.bg – Turkey Drops Plans for Thermal and Nuclear Stations on Bulgarian Border
• South Asia: IBNLive – Kudankulam nuclear waste to be dumped in Kolar gold mines, residents protest
• Europe: The Guardian – The £200bn bet on our energy future – Damian Carrington
• Europe: ITV News – Arrests after anti-nuclear protest at Hinkley Point
• Europe: Times and Star – Hundreds turn out to Maryport Nuclear Dump Meeting
• Europe: Reuters – Update 1-UK energy deal triples renewable subsidy by 2020 – Oleg Vukmanovic and Karolin Schaps
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Fuel cycle roundup #4
• North Europe: SmartPlanet – Norway ringing in thorium nuclear New Year with Westinghouse at the party – Mark Halper
• East Europe: Sofia News Agency – EU Offers Bulgaria Extra EUR 260 M for Nuclear Dismantling
• Russia: BBC News – Pussy Riot woman moved to solitary confinement
• Russia: Bellona – NGOs vandalized and intimidated by pro-Kremlin youth groups as new law takes effect – Charles Digges
• Middle East: AFP Google – US says conference on WMD-free Middle East cancelled
• Middle East: Bloomberg – Saudi Arabia Plans $109 Billion Boost for Solar Power – Wael Mahd

Thursday, November 22, 2012

• Reno News & Review – New WMDs–Conservatives want new nuclear weapons, raising the spectre of new Nevada tests – Dennis Myers
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Huge generator reaches Utah site – Brady Mccombs
• Power Engineering – NRC reschedules San Onofre meeting for Nov. 30
• Tri-City Herald – Report: Safety probed at Wash. nuke-waste plant
• Cibola County Beacon – Uranium Health Legacy: Special Report–Related Health Issues, Hard Case to Prove – Richard Kamp
• WPSD Local 6 – Nuclear company expresses interest in Paducah – Jason Hibbs
• Truth-Out – Nuclear Hangover: Ghost of Past Power Struggle Haunts Sandy’s Victims Today – Gregg Levine
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Most Fukushima nuke plant workers ineligible for free cancer checks – Miki Aoki
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Kepco plans two reactor restarts
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Faulty fallout forecasts’ firm industry-linked
• Asia-Pacific: Jpubb – Status of TEPCO’s Nuclear Power Stations after the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake (Daily Report as of 3:00 PM, November 21)
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Japan to set nuclear evacuation standards
• South Asia: The Hindu – Protests against move to dump nuclear waste in KGF
• South Asia: The Hindu – Churches back Kudankulam stir
• South Asia: Times of India – Protests mark World Fisheries Day in south Tamil Nadu
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Date set for vote on West Cumbria nuclear waste dump
• Europe: Reuters – Germany’s nuclear exit proves costly for energy group E.ON – Christoph Steitz
• Europe: Expatica – Nuclear power plants: decommissioning to cost 10% more
• North Europe: Reuters – Some small owners eye exit from Fennovoima nuclear group-report – Jussi Rosendahl
• Russia: Bellona – Though clear of treason charges, Archangelsk academic still to stand trial for ‘inciting ethnic hatred’ – Charles Digges
• Russia: Press TV – Moscow hosts nuclear waste management conference
• South Africa: Mail & Guardian – SA snubs Global Nuclear Energy Partnership – Michael Adler

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

• Los Angeles Times – Exclusive: Possible safety breaches at radioactive-waste plant, files show – Ralph Vartabedian
• LA Times blogs – Crowd size at San Onofre nuclear hearing to be limited – Abby Sewell
• San Diego Union-Tribune – New time, place for San Onofre meeting – Morgan Lee
• Deseret News – EnergySolutions, investors reach $26 million settlement, await judge’s approval – Emiley Morgan
• Salt Lake Tribune – Used generator from California nuclear plant reaches Utah – Oak Ridge Today
• Gillette News Record – US, state agencies review proposed SD uranium mine
• KUNM – Activists Seek Public Hearing On WIPP Changes – Laura Paskus
• Republican Eagle – Letter: Reliable nuclear power supplies battered coastline – Rolf Westgard
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Ameren-Westinghouse passed by for nuclear grant – Jeffrey Tomich
• Consortium News – Muzzling an Anti-Nuke Trial Defense – John LaForge
• OpEdNews – Oak Ridge Nuclear Weapons Security Breach Showed How U.S. System for Protecting Federal Whistleblowers Is Broken
• Aiken Leader – SRS Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Program to Go Cold Turkey in Lame Duck Session as Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Balks at MOX Use? – Thomas Clements
• nj101.5 – Anti-Nuclear Groups Call For Post-Sandy Inspections [AUDIO] – Ilya Hemlin
• Barre Montpelier Times Argus – Vermonters urge PSB to deny Entergy approval for Yankee – Susan Smallheer
• NY Times blog – Help for Small Nuclear Reactors – Matthew L. Wald
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Recycling spent nuclear fuel: the ultimate solution for the US? – Heba Hashem
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear Energy Insider Policy Brief 14 – 21 November 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 14 – 21 November 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Canada: Nuclear Street – Canada Considers Deep Geologic Waste Repository Near Bruce Nuclear Plant
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Wild mushrooms far from Fukushima show high levels of cesium – Mutsumi Mitobe
• Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – Fukushima reactors status 21 Nov 2012
• Asia-Pacific: News on Japan – Japanese professors detect high radiation on island in Taiwan
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Anti-nuclear power advocates aim for Diet majority
• East Asia: Chosun Ilbo – KEPCO Eyes Share in U.S. Uranium Enrichment Firm
• East Asia: Dong-A Ilbo – Attempted entry into nuclear reactor complex
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Rumours of dumping of nuke waste send shock waves
• Europe: The Ecologist – The Energy Bill: What’s the real cost? – Paul Dorfman
• Europe: Liverpool City Champion – Waste storage concerns Greens Save By Farah Abdurahman
• Europe: AFP Google – Swiss nuclear reactor shuts down due to defect
• Russia: Bellona – Russian NGOs receiving foreign funding greet new law to register as “foreign agents” with yawns – Charles Digges

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

• Orange County Register – NRC sets San Onofre meeting for Nov. 30 – Fred Swegles
• Sioux Falls Argus Leader – State to decide on Edgemont uranium mine – Chet Brokaw
• Crain’s Chicago Business – Constellation Energy takeover not working out as planned for Exelon – Steve Daniels
• Michigan Radio – Plan to store lower-level nuclear waste near Lake Huron – Rebecca Williams
• UPI – U.S. pays rent to nuke weapons parts plant
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #119: Electrical Problems at Catawba – Dave Lochbaum
• Industrial Safety and Security Source – Reactor Head Cracks at SC Nuke
• The Argus-Press – US regulators hold meeting on troubled nuke plant
• Barre Montpelier Times Argus – Anti-Yankee sentiment reigns at Public Service Board hearing
• Daily Hampshire Gazette – Andrew Larkin: Future storms and aging reactors – Andrew Larkin
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – The Plan for IAEA Safeguards – Mark Hibbs
• History News Network – John Mueller: History and Nuclear Rationality
• Reuters – B&W Selected As Winner of DOE`s Small Modular Reactor Program
• Xinhua News – Greenhouse gas concentrations reach new record in 2011: WMO
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Hamaoka reactor likely wrecked in seawater accident – Jin Nishikawa
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Ozawa, Kamei to fight election on anti-nuclear line
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO adds missing radiation data to online archive
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Thyroid gland tests on kids in Nagasaki to be compared with Fukushima findings
• Asia-Pacific: ENENews – Asahi: Now almost 100,000 Fukushima kids with thyroid problems, parents concerned
  
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – TEPCO, Japanese government denying Fukushima radiation reaching ocean fish – Adam Westlake
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima releases full expert panel minutes on internal radiation exposure
• Asia: China Daily – Nuclear reboot gains pace – Wei Tian
• East Asia: Reuters – South Koreans to ponder where to store nuclear waste – Meeyoung Cho
• South Asia: Sri Lanka Island – Nuclear power: Sri Lanka–can do without it – I – Dr Janaka Ratnasiri
• Europe: Burton Mail – Book backs claims of radioactive fallout
• Europe: In-Cumbria – £1.2m centre to study nuclear waste storage – Julian Whittle
• North Europe: Bellona – Comment: Uniting rather than fracturing Lithuania’s public prevented dangerous nuclear construction
• North Europe: Bloomberg – Lithuania May Partly Replace Nuclear Power With Wind, Lobby Says – Torsten Fagerholm
• South Africa: AllAfrica – South Africa: Greenpeace Lodges Complaint With Public Protector and the Nation’s Human Rights Commission

Monday, November 19, 2012

• Nuclear Free California – The Rush to Restart San Onofre
• Crosscut Seattle – Hanford leak brings call for new underground tanks – John Stang
• Spokesman-Review – Eye On Boise: Air Force radioactive waste that drew protests in California finds home in Idaho
• KSL-TV – Massive nuclear waste shipment to arrive in Utah – Stephanie Grimes
• Peoria Journal Star – Forum: Let veterans know of health risks from depleted uranium exposure – Kimberley Schisler
• PaintSquare – Nuke Manager Faked Safety for Bonuses
• All Things Nuclear – UCS FOIA Finally Uncovers the NRC Staff’s Plan for Weakening Fissile Material Security – Ed Lyman
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Current Radio & Documents Update
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Global Research – Meta-Review of 46 Studies: Even the Lowest-Level Radiation Is Damaging to Human Health
• Greentech Media – Who Will Succeed Energy Secretary Steve Chu at DOE? Ten names to consider for the DOE post – Eric Wesoff
• NY Times blog – A Rough Road from Swords to Ploughshares – Matthew L. Wald
• YouTube – Dr. Helen Caldicott: “What We Learn From Fukushima” (Free Speech TV
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Asia-Pacific: eNews Park Forest – Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, November 19, 2012 .
• Asia-Pacific: Truth-Out – Costs and Consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster – Steven Starr
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – 2011 quake sparked new study, rethink of seismic theory – Shigeko Segawa
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – High radiation exposure level in Fukushima resident puzzles experts
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Tepco may be hiding unknown explosion occurred on 3/16/2011 – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima health survey committee chair apologizes over secret meetings
• South Asia: The Hindu – KKNPP may be commissioned by December 15
• Europe: Bellona – Sellafield faces court action over alleged low level waste shipments to erroneous location – Charles Digges
• Europe: Herald Scotland – Nuclear ‘cover-up’ revealed
• Europe: Science Daily – Overwhelming Public Support
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – Regulators take legal action against Sellafield Limited
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – France gives the go-ahead for ITER fusion reactor
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Transporter wins injunction against Greenpeace
• East Europe: AFP Google – Solar power to eclipse nuclear in Romania by 2016
• East Europe: Sofia News Agency – Bulgarian Right-Wingers to Form Anti-Nuclear Plant Committee
• South Africa: iAfrica – Why is govt hiding Nuke info?