Sunday, December 02, 2012

• Power Engineering – Monks march against nuclear plant
• Register-Guard – COMMENTARY: 1949 nuclear experiment is an ugly legacy of Hanford – Susan Cundiff and Patricia Hoover
• Salt Lake Tribune – Changes OK’d for radioactive waste site – Judy Fahys
• Bacon’s Rebellion – The Curse of the Yellow Powder – Rose Jenkins
• Simmons AAL – Nuclear Waste Pollutes North St. Louis County Creek for Half Century – Michael Stewart
• Asbury Park Press – Doomed to repeat history? Oyster Creek came close to calamity during Sandy – Janet Tauro
• Maine Sunday Telegram – Board slaps down Vermont Yankee
• Peak Oil – Almost half of Fukushima children now have thyroid disorders from radiation poisoning, officials blame ‘too much seafood’
• House of Japan – Fukushima reactors status 3 Dec 2012
• Japan Times – The best-kept secret in Japanese politics is that policies don’t matter – Jochen Legewie
• Majiros News – The winds of Fukushima – Catherine Makino and Naoyuki Ogi
• Europe: SFGate – Closing Europe nuke plants costly, dicey – Gary Peach

Saturday, December 01, 2012

• Daily Pilot – Electric bills to rise in Newport-Mesa – Jill Cowan
• Dana Point Times – Edison Officials Get Tough Questions at Meeting – Jim Shilander
• LaJolla.patch – San Onofre Officials Aim to Justify Nuclear Restart – Adam Townsend
• Los Angeles Times – U.S. regulators grill Edison on bid to restart part of San Onofre – Abigail Sewell
• Orange County Register – Edison makes case for Onofre restart – Pat Brennan
• Reuters – Edison lays out case to restart San Onofre to nuclear agency – Nichola Groom
• UPI – Protesters gather against nuclear plant
• Wisconsin Public Radio – Activists Criticize 70 Years of Nuclear Waste
• Washington Post – Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers to step down in settlement with NC regulator over merger dispute
• Daily Advance – Va. study group releases uranium mining report
• Washington Post – Virginia uranium-mining guidelines proposed – Errin Haines
• POGO – An Open Letter to the Senate in Support of More Protections for Whistleblowers and Taxpayer Dollars
• POGO blog – DoD Contractors Cost Nearly 3 Times More than DoD Civilians – Scott Amey
• SEIA – National Lab Report: Cost of Solar Energy Continues Significant Decline
• Wired News – Pentagon Cries Poor, Starts $10 Billion Nuclear Weapon Upgrade – Noah Shachtman
• NY Times blog – New View from Inside Fukushima: Chaos and Uncertainty – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Asahi Shimbun – High thyroid radiation doses in 178 Fukushima workers – Yuri Oiwa
• Japan Times – New footage shows discussions leading to release of radioactive water into Pacific after Fukushima nuclear meltdowns
• Japan Times – Counterpoint: Why is the potential turning point of 3/11 being allowed to slip away? – Roger Pulvers
• Japan Times – Another suit filed to halt reactors at Kepco’s over Oi nuclear plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Study suggests swallow numbers declining across Japan
• Mainichi Daily News – ‘We’ll die if it explodes’: Gov’t ignored Fukushima plant manager’s plea
• Asia: All Things Nuclear – China’s New Leaders May Surprise Obama – Gregory Kulacki
• South Asia: The Hindu – ‘We are a headache for the establishment’ – Meera Srinivasan
• South Asia: Times of India – Gas victims to join anti-nuke protest in Kudankulam
• Europe: The Guardian – Windfarms: the bitter fight dividing the UK – Zoe Williams
• Europe: The Independent – Centrica writes off £200m to quit nuclear power project – Mark Leftly

Friday, November 30, 2012

• AP Google – Possible generator tampering found at San Onofre
• East County Magazine – Sabotage Suspected at San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant – Miriam Raftery
• North County Times – Letter: In response: Restarting reactor a reckless proposal – Damon Moglen and Shaun Burnie
• Orange County Register – Edison: Onofre generator tampering possible – Pat Brennan
• Cibola County Beacon – Part I: Related Health Issues, Hard Case to Prove – Richard Kamp
• Cibola County Beacon – Part II: RECA and COMPENSATION – Richard Kamp
• Denver Post – Conifer prof exposes students to nuclear history at museum – Karen Groves
• Austin American-Statesman – Radioactive waste site fees push Texas users out-of-state – David Barer
• WAMU – Company Spreads Money In Advance of Radioactive Debate – Michael Pope
• MyCentralJersey – Letter: Nuke meltdown a genuine threat – Margaret Rose Donato
• OpEdNews – Vermont on Both Sides of Nuclear Power – William Boardman
• ENS – 2012 Breaks Records for Heat, Drought, Weather Extremes
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Podcast: November 21, 2012; Thanksgiving Edition: Financial Pressures are Affecting Safety Decisions at The Nations Nuclear Power Plants
• BBC News – Hitachi and Mitsubishi Heavy shares rise after merger
• Bloomberg – Japan, Russia Under Pressure to Renew Climate Vows, De Boer Says – Mike Anderson
• The Examiner – Fukushima worst confirmed, radiated children need evacuation – Deborah Dupre
• Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
• Daily Yomiuri – JAEA releases estimates on steps to reduce radiation
• South Asia: Tehelka – Why I don’t take Kolar lightly–Nuclear waste will not magically disappear. So who will be made to suffer its toxic effects? –
• Europe: The Guardian – Nuclear lobbyists wined and dined senior civil servants, documents show – Leo Hickman
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – Nuclear storage at Gorleben to stay temporary, until vote
• East Europe: AP Google – Seeking renewable energy, Poland looks to sea wind
• Russia: PennEnergy – Russia Scrapped 192 of the 199 Discarded Nuclear Submarines
• South Africa: AllAfrica – Namibia: Epangelo Seals N$1.8 Billion Uranium Deal – Eveline De Klerk, 30 November 2012

Thursday, November 29, 2012

• Columbus Free Press – Nuke power’s collapse gets ever more dangerous – Harvey Wasserman
• KCOY – Nuclear Regulatory Commission Holds Open Forum on Diablo Canyon – Leah Masuda
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – NRC defends Diablo Canyon earthquake study at meetings – David Sneed
• Green River Star – Conservation groups challenges uranium mine policy – Luke Justis
• Taos News – Taos area group seeks help with uranium in water – Matthew van Buren
• Courthouse News Service – Sierra Club Loses Bid to Stop Radioactive Waste – David Lee
• Union Leader – Seabrook Station’s owner looks for 20 more years to operate – Gretyl Macalaster
• firedoglake – OakRidge Nuclear Weapons Security Breach Showed How U. S. System for Protecting Whistleblowers Is Broken – Don Soeken
• Joseph Carson – Letter to Alison Macfarlane, NRC from Joseph Carson, PE, Re: Broken Covenant
• NY Times blog – Another Step to Smaller Reactors – Matthew L. Wald
• NRDC blog – Let Them Eat Lead (and Drink Whatever Replaces Perchlorate) – Daniel Rosenberg
• NTI – NRC Interested in Easing Security Rules For Civilian Plutonium
• Nuclear Hotseat – #76: San Onofre/NRC/SCE Special
• Canada: Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre – Learning About Nuclear Waste – Robyn Garvey
• New York Times – Japan’s Nuclear Mistake – Frank N. Von Hippel And Masafumi Takubo
• Asahi Shimbun – Japan Restoration Party platform includes writing new Constitution
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t-funded nuclear body outsourced projects worth 23 mil. yen to sum up accident reports
• NHK World – TEPCO chief questioned over nuclear plant problems
• Central Asia: PanARMENIAN – Gaddafi offered billions to Kazakhstan for atomic bomb – official
• Europe: Reuters – INSIGHT-France’s love affair with nuclear cools – Muriel Boselli
• East Europe: In-Forum – Photos: Workers raise 1st section of new Chernobyl shelter
• East Europe: In-Forum – Images of Chernobyl

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

• Orange County Register – Presentation about San Onofre plant draws public, protest – David Bro
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – Up-to-date seismic data needed – Sherry Lewis
• IPS – Settlement Begins in U.S. Mismanagement of Native Funds – Carey L. Biron
• Navajo-Hopi Observer – Researchers plan to study effects of Navajo Reservation uranium exposure on pregnancy and child birth – David Yankus
• IEER – Comments to the MN Public Utility Commission on Xcel Energy’s Resource Plan – Christina Mills
• Nuclear Street – DOE Solicits Spent Fuel Storage Demonstration Projects
• Reuters – New York tells Con Ed to prepare in case Indian Point shuts – Scott DiSavino
• Bourne Courier – U.S. responds to Bourne concerns about nuclear evacuation planning
• Brattleboro Reformer – Six Vermont Yankee protesters convicted – Mike Faher
• Vermont Journalism Trust – Environmental groups release “dirty dozen” list of New England’s “worst polluters” – Alicia Freese
• AlterNet – Whistleblower: Nuclear Disaster in America Is More Likely Than the Public Is Aware of
• Columbus Free Press – Radioactive waste now a mountain 70 years high: Energy Department must consider hardened on-site storage
• New York Times – Washington: Obama Signs Whistle-Blower Bill Adding Protections
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear Energy Insider Policy Brief 21 – 28 November 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 21 – 28 November 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• DOE OakRidge – Transuranic Waste Processing (pdf)
• UN: OpEdNews – United Nations — Worse Than a Lipsticked Pig – Tracy Turner
• AFP Google – Japan anti-nuclear groups join forces ahead of poll – Kyoko Hasegawa
• Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima inquiry reports become bestsellers
• Kyodo News – “Something wrong” in TEPCO’s safety culture: regulatory body chief
• Europe: Scottish Sun – 30% chance of Sellafield leak – Ed Carty
• Europe: Times & Star – Plans for underground nuclear store near Silloth rejected by residents – Phil Coleman
• Europe: Bloomberg – RWE, EON Offshore Wind Projects May Be Unlocked by German Accord – Stefan Nicola
• North Europe: Copenhagen Post – Not in anyone’s backyard – Ray Weaver
• North Europe: World Nuclear News – Greenland pushes on with uranium policy
• East Europe: RT – Giant 100-meter sarcophagus constructed at Chernobyl nuclear plant (Photos, Video)

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

• YubaNet – Radioactive Waste Now a Mountain 70 Years High–Energy Department Must Consider Hardened On-Site Storage
• InvestorPoint – Virtual Tour of San Onofre Nuclear Plant Now
• KUTV – Toxic Nuclear Waste May Be On Its Way To Utah
• Rapid City Journal – Fall River commission opposes Powertech uranium project until conditions met – Kevin Woster
• Albuquerque Journal – ‘Improper’ Use of Lab Range – Kiera Hay
• Daily Journal – Cleanup of closed Mo. nuclear fuel plant ongoing
• Baton Rouge Advocate – Radioactive material handling probed – David J. Mitchell
• GPB – More Delays At Plant Vogtle Possible By Jeanne Bonner
• Virginia Connection Newspapers – Uranium Money Spreads Across Virginia in Radioactive Debate – Michael Lee Pope
• Pittsburgh Business Times – Westinghouse part of small reactor frenzy – Paul J. Gough
• All Things Nuclear – 20 Years of NRC Inaction (and Counting) – Dave Lochbaum
• Bellona – Bellona chairing Carbon-Negative session at GHGT, the world’s largest CCS conference in Kyoto, Japan
• Bellona – As UN annual climate talks convene in Doha, Kyoto’s future is on the chopping block – Charles Digges
• Common Dreams – The Toxic Legacy of Depleted Uranium Weapons – Paul McGinniss
• Consortium News – US Nuke Plants’ Flooding Risks – William Boardman
• Energy Live News – NASA tests nuclear powered space travel
• Government Accountability Project – White House “Insider Threat” Memo Will Silence Whistleblowers – Jesselyn Radack
• Nation of Change – Whistleblower: Nuclear Regulators Suppress Facts, Break Law
• OpEdNews – Real Nuclear Madness – Ethan Indigo Smith
• Canada: Saskatoon StarPhoenix – Uranium firms offer deal to Sask. community – Jason Warick
• Canada: World Nuclear News – Regulator speaks out on U moratoria
• AP Google – US scientists find lessons from Japan nuke crisis – Mari Yamaguchi
• Bloomberg – Japan Opposition’s Hosoda Calls for Restarting Nuclear Reactors – Isabel Reynolds and Takashi Hirokawa
• New York Times – Hopes of Home Fade Among Japan’s Displaced – Martin Fackler
• UPI – Nuclear power key issue in Japan elections
• Xinhua News – Japanese ruling party promises to abandon nuclear power
• Asahi Shimbun – Despite 2011 disaster, pro-nuclear party could win power in Japan
• Japan Times – Nuke victim aid falls short: U.N. envoy
• Mainichi Daily News – Yaita residents angry over government’s radioactive disposal site proposal
• Mainichi Daily News – Commission recommends revising disposal plans for dangerous nuclear plant waste
• Mizzima News – Nuclear fallout
• Nikkei – Mountain of Work Remains At Fukushima Plant
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Nuclear waste not to be dumped at Kolar gold mine: Govt to SC
• Europe: ENS – Europe Changing Fast as Climate Warms
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Sellafield branded a ‘nuclear slum’
• Europe: Power Engineering – Germany must invest $38bn in network upgrades – Dr. Heather Johnstone
• East Europe: AP Google – Workers raise 1st section of new Chernobyl shelter – Jim Heintz
• East Europe: Daily Mail – Still a no-go area: Chernobyl pictured 26 years on as engineers prepare £1.2bn arch to cover exploded reactor
• East Europe: Ukrainian Journal – Eastern Chernobyl fourth reactor containment arch completed
• Russia: The Guardian – Siberia’s pesticide dumps may prove a bigger hazard than nuclear waste – Marie Jégo

Monday, November 26, 2012

• East County Magazine – NRC to Hear Citizens Oversight Arguments on Licensure Amendment for San Onofre Dec. 5
• Idaho Statesman – Rocky Barker: Is there a future in nuclear waste? – Rocky Barker
• El Paso Times – Group to appeal approval of ‘hot’ nuclear-waste plan for Carlsbad
• Courier-Journal blog – Final cap in the works for Maxey Flats nuclear waste dump – James Bruggers
• Florida Today – Public Service Commission OKs collection for nuclear costs
• WCAX – 6 elderly women head to trial for Vt. nuke protest
• Bellona – As UN annual climate talks convene in Doha, Kyoto’s future is on the chopping block – Charles Digges
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Newsroom America – GSN: Federal Panel: Dirty Bomb Cleanup Need Not Follow U.S. Cancer Rules
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Establishment of Atomic Safety and Licensing Boards: Southern California Edison Company; Establishment of Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Canada: Nuclear Waste Watch – Review of Nuclear Waste Law Required–National Alliance Calls for Major Changes in Decade Old Nuclear Fuel Waste Act
• AFP Google – Japan should ask people about nuclear fears: UN – Kyoko Hasegawa
• eNews Park Forest – Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, November 26, 2012 .
• The Independent – Care of Japan’s nuclear victims ‘poor’, says UN
• RT – Not good enough: UN says Japan is underestimating nuclear fallout risks
• Asahi Shimbun – Japan split over nuclear energy policy as Lower House election nears
• Denki Shimbun – Local officials demanded full implementation of compensation from TEPCO
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima teachers’ union member advocates lessons about radiation, human rights
• Mainichi Daily News – A-bomb project left legacy of radioactive contamination in Canadian town
• NHK World – Anti-nuclear parties seek unity before election
• South Asia: Deccan Chronicle – ‘Kolar fields as N-dumpyard dangerous’ – Amit S. Upadhye
• Europe: East Anglian Daily Times – Update: Four arrested as Sizewell protest broken up
• Europe: Reuters – Hitachi completes acquisition of UK’s Horizon nuclear project – Henning Gloystein
• Europe: UPI – Britain eyes first nuke plant in 25 years