Sunday, December 09, 2012

• Vancouver Columbian – Letter: Hanford is burden on both states – Barbara Pereira
• Idaho State Journal – Battelle gets low rating from Energy Department
• Twin Falls Times-News – Otter Uses Your Taxes to Push False Stories About Nuclear Industry – Peter Rickards
• The Week – Hiroshima bombing biggest turning point in modern history: Survey
• South Asia: Times of India – Fearing protest, TN N-plant fortified

Saturday, December 08, 2012

• AP Google – APNewsBreak: Dispute over records at nuclear plant – Michael R. Blood
• Indian Country Today – Navajos Original Graduates Ready to Cleanup Superfund Sites
• WTVB – Consumers Energy plan to refund customers from nuclear settlement approved
• The Examiner – NRC urged to revisit radiation standard it raised, avoid rights abuses – Deborah Dupre
• POGO – Advocates Laud President Obama’s Signing of Federal Whistleblower Reforms
• ENS – Magnitude 7.3 Earthquake Shakes Northeast Japan
• Greenpeace International – Shadowlands
• Japan Times – Counterpoint: Chernobyl factored in the fall of a corrupt regime — Fukushima may too – Roger Pulvers
• Japan Times – 7.3-magnitude temblor triggers tsunami alert
• JapanToday – Sharp develops solar cell with world’s highest conversion efficiency of 37.7%
• NHK World – COP18 closes after adopting agreement
• Asia: All Things Nuclear – Is Xi Jinping Changing Chinese Nuclear Weapons Policy? – Gregory Kulacki
• South Asia: The Hindu – Anti-nuclear activists oppose Kovvada plant
• South Asia: PTI – PMANE threatens to lay siege to KNPP on Dec 10
• Middle East: antiwar.com – UN Nuclear Chief: Alleged Iranian Weapons Testing Site May Not Contain Any Evidence – John Glaser

Friday, December 07, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Scientists detonate plutonium experiment – Keith Rogers
• Bay Citizen – Radioactive waste on Treasure Island – what you need to know – Marie McIntosh
• KPBS – Citizen Activist Challenges License Amendment For San Onofre – Alison St John
• Cibola County Beacon – Cleanup Study of Legacy Uranium Mines Part of Defense Bill – Richard Kamp
• Fairfax County Times – Keep Virginia uranium-free – Scott Christian Marshall
• WCAX – Anti-nuclear group asks Vt. high court to close Yankee – Susie Steimle
• Portsmouth Herald News – Nuclear plant’s economic impact is ‘huge’ – Patrick Cronin
• Daily Climate – Special Report: IPCC, assessing climate risks, consistently underestimates – Glenn Scherer
• Foreign Policy – The Fissile Cliff – Tom Z. Collina
• Green Optimistic – Thorium Not the Nuclear “Wonder-Fuel” Once Supposed – Leigh Kim
• Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for December 4th to December 6th, 2012 – Blogpost by Christine McCann – December 7, 2012 at 9:55
• The Guardian – Japan earthquake and tsunami triggers Fukushima fears – Justin McCurry
• IAEA – IAEA Statement on Japanese Earthquake
• Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
• Xinhua News – Japan may restart more nuclear reactors next year
• Fukushima Diary – M7.3 caused scale1 even in Saga prefecture Kyushu and Ogasawara islands – Iori Mochizuki
• South Asia: The Hindu – Kudankulam plant gets nod for second heat-up – P. Sunderarajan
• Europe: Bellona – Sellafield hiring 500 new workers toward decommissioning efforts – Charles Digges
• Russia: Bellona – Obama speaks out for renewal of US-Russian Nunn Lugar nuclear weapons destruction program – Charles Digges

Thursday, December 06, 2012

• Slashdot – How Yucca Mountain Was Killed – ATKeiper
• Bay Citizen – Treasure Island development plans inch forward – Matt Smith and Katharine Mieszkowski
• ENS – Explosives Superfund Site Cleanup Settled for $50 Million
• Daily Titan – Edison aims to reinstate reactors at nuclear plant – Jonathan Winslow
• KPCC – Citizen activist makes his case about San Onofre to Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Kitty Felde
• Tri-City Herald – 10-year, 6,000-page study recommends decisions for Hanford cleanup – Annette Cary
• BBC News – Rocky Flats: Life in the shadow of a nuclear bomb factory
• Montrose Daily Press – Study of cleanup of legacy uranium mines part of defense bill – Dick Kamp
• Midwest Energy News – 70 years after first atomic reaction, anti-nuclear movement presses on – Kari Lydersen
• Huffington Post – Sister Megan Rice, Anti-Nuclear Protester, Charged Under Sabotage Act – Matt Sledge
• OpEdNews – Vermont Law vs Nuclear Power – William Boardman
• Government Accountability Project – How the Defense Department Inspectors Failed Bradley Manning – Jesselyn Radack
• Los Angeles Times – Better spies, not more – Max Boot
• Canada: Windsor Star – Letter: Nuclear energy isn’t cleaner – Dean Seppala
• Enformable – Last 24 hours have ‘killed’ French nuclear – analyst – Lucas W Hixson
• Asahi Shimbun – ASAHI STUDY: LDP on pace to win majority; DPJ to take a beating
• Asahi Shimbun – Violations of safety regulations found at Monju reactor – Jin Nishikawa
• Japan Daily Press – Nuclear scientists found to have accepted travel money from Japan’s utilities – Adam Westlake
• Southwest Asia: Bianet – Greenpeace Rails Against Turkish Nuclear Energy Institute – Elif AKGÜL
• South Asia: The Hindu – Cost of Jaitapur reactors could triple to more than Rs. 3 lakh crore – Vaiju Naravane
• South Asia: NDTV – Kudankulam row: Supreme Court reserves verdict on petitions seeking to stop fuel loading at the plant – A Vaidyanathan
• Europe: this is Somerset – Facts and figures for Hinkley Point

Wednesday, December 05, 2012

• KCET – Last San Onofre Nuke Steam Generator Hits the Road – Chris Clarke
• San Francisco Chronicle – National Ignition Facility seeks new cash – David Perlman
• Northwest Public Radio – Nuclear Watchdog Group Skeptical About Commercial Waste Benefit – Aaron Kunz
• San Francisco Chronicle – Report: Idaho’s 1995 nuke pact may need changes
• Farmington Daily Times – 20 trained for uranium cleanup on Navajo land
• All Things Nuclear – TVA: Sounding Better Than Ever – Dave Lochbaum
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Fiscal Cliff, Entitlements, and Energy Workers – Terrie Barrie
• NewsNet5 – Navy veteran triggering federal probe into leaking McMurdo nuclear plant at navy base dies of cancer – Ron Regan
• Chatham Star Tribune – Uranium Working Group delivers report to governor – Tim Davis
• Peekskill-Cortlandt Patch – Indian Point Licensing Hearing to Resume – Krista Madsen
• Vermont Public Radio – Supreme Court Asked To Order VY Shutdown
• CounterPunch – Double Your Trouble With Nuclear Power – Joseph Mangano and Dr. Janette Sherman, MD
• Government Accountability Project – On The Media’s WPEA Wrap-Up: Daily Whistleblower News – Hannah Johnson
• Greenpeace International blog – Nuclear costs soaring? Save money by saving the climate – Justin McKeating
• Huffington Post – Nuclear Power Whistleblowers Charge Federal Regulators With Favoring Secrecy Over Safety – Tom Zeller Jr.
• Nature – Nuclear energy: Radical reactors – M. Mitchell Waldrop
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 29 November – 5 December 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear Energy Insider: Policy Brief 28 November – 5 December 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Financial Times – Cost-benefit study only first step in post-Fukushima Japan – Ms Mika Tobe
• Jpubb – Status of TEPCO’s Nuclear Power Stations after the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake (Daily Report as of 3:00 PM, December 4)
• NHK World – Govt. to integrate nuclear waste storage sites
• Europe: Power Engineering – Enel terminates nuclear relationship with EDF – Diarmaid Williams

Tuesday, December 04, 2012

• Business Wire – Final Shipment of Original Steam Generator to Utah to Begin
• LA Times blogs – EPA to remove contaminated soil that triggered Barstow water emergency – Phil Willon
• Orange County Register – Last large San Onofre part to be shipped out – Pat Brennan
• Carlsbad Current Argus – Navajo program trains people to clean uranium mines – Jenny Kane
• Law360 – Jury Orders Lockheed Pay $3M To Fla. Community Group – Juan Carlos Rodriguez
• NY Times blog – On Our Radar: Flood Risks and Reactors
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #120: Does Operating a Reactor Make Workers Dumber? – Dave Lochbaum
• ANWAG Blog – Fiscal Cliff, Entitlements and EEOICPA – Terrie Barrie
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Nuclear Power’s 70th Anniversary: Then and Now
• Green Miles – Nuclear Giant Exelon Back to Bullying Wind Energy
• Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – The Sunflower: Issue #185 – December 2012
• Power Engineering – NRC accused of negligence, excessive secrecy over nuclear power plant flood risk
• RTT News – Over 80% Homes In Fukushima Yet To Be Decontaminated
• Daily Yomiuri – ‘Labor violations rife’ at Fukushima N-plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Road to zero-nuclear Japan a rocky one
• South Asia: PTI – Australia to begin Uranium sales to India
• Europe: Bloomberg – EDF Falls in Paris on Rising Costs for Normandy Nuclear Reactor – Tara Patel
• Russia: AFP Google – Obama calls on Russia to update nuclear deal

Monday, December 03, 2012

• Bay Citizen – Treasure Island development plans inch forward – Matt Smith And Katharine Mieszkowski
• Power Engineering – Southern California Edison: Virtual Tour of San Onofre Nuclear Plant Now Online
• World Nuclear News – Seventy years since historic nuclear chain reaction
• Chatham Star Tribune – Senator to introduce legislation to lift 30-year uranium ban – Tim Davis
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• New York Times – Bid to Preserve Manhattan Project Sites in a Park Stirs Debate – William J. Broad
• POGO blog – President Opposes Nuke Facility, Threatens to Veto Defense Bill – Mia Steinle
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Canada: Shoreline Beacon – Part 2: Nuclear “Dump” in Bruce? – Peter L. Storck
• Daily Kos – New Corrosion Research Shows Accelerated Failure At Fukushima Daiichi – SDstuck
• eNews Park Forest – Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, December 3, 2012 .
• Asahi Shimbun – Pictures of mothers’ strength sends anti-nuclear message
• Asahi Shimbun – New party’s platform spurs pre-vote debate on nuclear policy
• Japan Times – Tepco moves up nuclear salvage schedule for Fukushima fuel rods to 2014
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear power phase-out is not a campaign promise: Hashimoto
• Mainichi Daily News – Experts continue investigation into active faults at Tsuruga plant
• Reuters – UPDATE 2-Enel pulls out from French EPR nuclear project – Stephen Jewkes and Michel Rose
• East Europe: Reuters – Clinton in Prague to lobby for Westinghouse nuclear bid – David Brunnstrom and Jason Hovet
• East Europe: Xinhua News – Nuclear power reactor shut down due to storm in Romania