Sunday, December 16, 2012

• Tri-Valley CAREs – Two Major Stories About NIF Seeking New Cash – Scott Yundt
• Oak Ridger – Y-12: Oak Ridge treasure — national resource: A look back at Union Carbide’s 20 years in nuclear energy – D. Ray Smith
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Japan’s LDP surges back to power, eyes two-thirds majority with ally – Leika Kihara and Linda Sieg
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – [Nikkei] Anti-nuke party suffers a crushing defeat, LDP gets 300 seats, JRP gets 40, Inose for Tokyo governor
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – LDP’s victory likely to lead Japan to retract nuclear phase-out goal
• Europe: The Independent – Bechtel sparks row with bid for nuclear clean-up – Mark Leftly
• East Europe: Standart News – Bulgarian Government Denies Allegations on Secret Talks on Belene NPP

Saturday, December 15, 2012

• Los Angeles Times – PUC plan would put trust funds at risk – Michael Hiltzik
• Modesto Bee – LA City Council delays vote on nuke plant concerns
• Utility Products – LA wants public hearings on nuke plant
• Salt Lake Tribune – Not a dump–New Mexico offers a better plan
• Lincoln Journal Star – OPPD and NPPD approve wind farms
• Aiken Standard – Letter: S.C. isn’t a dumping ground – Connie Young-Darden
• Halifax-Plympton Reporter – Nuke Matters: Radioactive waste storage at Pilgrim: why it is a concern – Meg Sheehan and Mary Lampert
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Explain This: Subcritical experiments – Frank Von Hippel
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – November/December 2012 Issue
• Canada: Saskatoon StarPhoenix – Nuclear no option – Mark Bigland-Pritchard
• Asia-Pacific: Environmental Expert – New insight on the spread of contamination from Fukushima
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Japanese protesters march against nuclear energy (1:25)
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Japan nuclear operator admits ”lack of safety culture” (0:54)
• Asia-Pacific: Washington Post – A discontented Japan is likely to return opposition party to power – Chico Harlan
• Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – Fukushima reactors status 16 Dec 2012
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – Nuclear regulator admits errors in radiation projects all over Japan – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Japan apocalypse in the making – Marushka France
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Confab talks up safety in Fukushima
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – WHO downplayed health effects of nuclear crisis on Fukushima residents : German physician
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Tokyo rally seeks to keep alive quest to end nuclear power – Kazuaki Nagata
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 2 moderate quakes jolt northeastern Japan, 1 slightly injured
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan News – Taiwan Atomic Energy Council opposes local nuclear referenda
• Europe: Times & Star – Sellafield ready to send third waste shipment to Japan – Julian Whittle
• Europe: Westmorland Gazette – A nuclear waste dump in West Cumbria would harm Lake District’s image, according to survey of visitors
• Middle East: Press TV – Victims: Chernobyl is underfunded in Ukraine

Friday, December 14, 2012

• Science 2.0 – Scientization Of Politics: The Reason Yucca Mountain Was Cancelled – Hank Campbell
• CBS LA – City Council To Call For Hearings Before San Onofre Restart
• LA Times blog – L.A. councilmen want hearings before San Onofre nuke plant reopens – Abby Sewell
• Northridge-Chatsworth Patch – More Radiation Found at Santa Susana Field Lab – Saul Daniels
• Water World – CA aims to cut rocket fuel pollution in drinking water
• Malu ‘Aina – Military to continue bombing nuclear waste dumps in Hawaii – Jim Albertini
• Public News Service – Critics: Feds Issue “Inadequate” Plan for Hanford Cleanup – Chris Thomas
• Westword blog – Rocky Flats land swap waiting on judge’s decision — a year after the deal announced – Patricia Calhoun
• Cibola County Beacon – The Diné Project: Uranium Health Legacy – Part 4 – Richard Kamp
• Greenville News – Whistleblowers: Potential Jocassee Dam failure could rival Fukushima – Eric Connor
• Virginian Pilot – Lt. Gov. Bolling says he opposes uranium mining – Steve Szkotak
• Pound Ridge Daily Voice – Indian Point Hearings Come To An End, For Now – Jessica Glenza
• Brattleboro Reformer – Anti-VY group restates its case to court – Bob Audette
• AP Google – US regulator: Transparency is key Fukushima lesson
• Common Dreams – Framing Matters: Lessons from the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign – Ken Butigan
• Public Citizen – Consumer Groups to 4th Circuit: Public Deserves to Know Identity of ‘Company Doe,’ Details of Consumer Product Database Case
• Uranium Investing News – Uranium Energy Appoints Spencer Abraham as Advisory Board Chairperson
• Asia-Pacific: CounterPunch – The Rape of Fukushima Dai-Ichi – Russell D. Hoffman
• Asia-Pacific: Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Radiation forecast maps corrected again for all nuke plants
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Welfare payments halted for 2,000 disaster victims
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Brazil eases restrictions on Japan food imports
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – TEPCO finally owns up to bad decisions that led to Fukushima nuclear disaster – Ida Torres
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – PM Noda says nuclear plant on active fault line most likely to be scrapped – Adam Westlake
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – All radiation forecast maps riddled with mistakes: NRA
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Foreign experts advise Japan on nuclear safety
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Govt. lifts some “hot spot” evacuation advisories
• Southeast Asia: Malaysian Chinese Association – Chua: Lynas waste must go
• Central Asia: Phys.Org – UN sounds alarm on unsecured uranium waste in Tajikistan
• North Europe: Energy Tribune – EU Freezes Lithuanian Nuclear Plant Decommissioning Funds
• Russia: Bellona – Launch of Russia’s first floating nuclear plant pushed back several years – again – Charles Digges

Thursday, December 13, 2012

• CNBC – Sempra U.S. Gas & Power Completes First Phase of New Nevada Solar Energy Project
• Community Voice – California Focus: Customers pay for utility blunders – Thomas D. Elias
• KVVU – Radiation drill sharpens emergency responders’ skills – Christian Cazares
• AP Google – EPA finds contamination at former rocket test site
• Los Angeles Daily News – Latest soil tests at Santa Susana Field Lab site shows radioactive material remains – Susan Abram
• San Diego Reader – Back to seeking ban–Activist once again seeking ballot initiative that would effectively halt nuclear power in California – Dave Rice
• Medill Reports – Out from the shadows: Argonne’s quest to demystify nuclear energy – Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory
• Brattleboro Reformer – U.S. Appeals court to hear VY appeal
• Brattleboro Reformer – The case so far
• IPS – Changing the Game to Achieve Nuclear Disarmament – Rebecca Johnson
• The Nation – American nuclear hypocrisy – Dr ELIAS AKLEH
• National Journal – Exelon to Employees: Tell Congress to End Wind Tax Credit – Amy Harder
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Policy Brief – 10 December 2012
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief – 10 December 2012
• Scholars and Rogues – When (and why) should an energy subsidy end? – Dr. Denny Wilkins
• Oceania: Radio New Zealand – Dismay at lack of compensation for French nuclear weapons tests
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Draft calls for stricter N-evacuation standards
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Mistakes found in all radiation projections
• Asia-Pacific: Jpubb – Bent Fuel Assembly Water Rod at Unit 5 of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station (Follow-up Report)
• Asia-Pacific: Jpubb – Status of TEPCO’s Nuclear Power Stations after the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake(Daily Report as of 3:00 PM, December 12)
• South Asia: Business Standard – IIFK delegates express solidarity to anti-nuclear stir
• South Asia: TruthDive – KKNPP commissioning put off to New Year – P Rajeshwari
• Europe: The Guardian – Sea-based nuclear deterrent expensive and ‘insane’ – ex-defence minister – Nick Hopkins
• Europe: Reuters – Britain approves design for EDF Energy’s new nuclear reactors
• Europe: Reuters – Russian state culpable in Litvinenko death: UK lawyer – Dasha Afanasieva
• Europe: Xinhua News – Germany’s wild boars still radioactively contaminated over 20 years after Chernobyl accident: report
• Russia: Bellona – Extending the run-time of aged reactors at the Kola NPP, or build a new plant – decision due in 2013 – Anna Kireeva

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

• CounterPunch – The Hidden Costs of Nuclear Power – Russell D. Hoffman
• Tri-City Herald – Emptying of Hanford’s C Tank Farm tanks continues after delay – Annette Cary
• KLIX – Former Idaho Governors Oppose Change to Nuclear Agreement – Benito Baeza
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #121: Palisades Reprises Davis-Besse – Dave Lochbaum
• The Chattanoogan – Groups Want Dye Markers In Nuclear Plant Emissions
• The State – Letter: Don’t send more nuclear waste to Aiken – Connie Darden-Young
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Uranium opponents selling snake oil – Bobby Blair
• Foreign Policy blog – The U.S. Plan to Nuke Everyone–Why LBJ vetoed the Dr. Strangelove option. – William Burr
• Government Accountability Project – Bradley Manning = Guardian’s Person of the Year: Daily Whistleblower News – Hannah Johnson
• The Guardian – Guardian person of the year: Voters choose Bradley Manning
• Huffington Post – FreshDialogues: Bill Clinton Praises His New Climate Change Hero – Alison van Diggelen
• NRC Blog – There’s a long way to go on San Onofre restart review
• Canada: CanWest News – Uranium miners still struggling to emerge from shadow of Fukushima – Peter Koven
• Oceania: Radio New Zealand – France to compensate five Tahiti nuclear test victims
• Asia-Pacific: Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for December 7th to December 10th, 2012 – Christine McCann
• Asia-Pacific: Market Oracle – The Big Nuclear Energy Lie – Matt Badiali
• Asia-Pacific: Kyodo News – Gov’t to draw up Monju test plan for research purposes next summer
• South Asia: IBNLive – Focus of protests remains safety concerns: Meenakshi Mahadevan
• Europe: BBC News – Navy submariner jailed for Official Secrets Act breach – Press TV
• Europe: RFI – Nuclear waste convoy crosses France despite protests
• Europe: Noodls – Next arrival of used nuclear fuel from the Netherlands for recycling
• North Europe: Sweden Local – Cracks found in Swedish nuclear waste pools
• East Europe: ANSAmed – Serbia: soaring cancer rates due to NATO radioactive bombing
• East Europe: Pestiside.hu – Don’t Be Concerned Just Because a Van Carrying Nuclear Material Was Hit By a Passenger Train
• East Europe: Platts – Ukraine approves plan to borrow Eur600 mil for nuclear safety – Alexander Bor

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

• KPBS – Decision On Restarting San Onofre Still Months Away, NRC Says
• Santa Cruz patch – Ballot Proposal to Close San Onofre, Diablo Canyon N-Plants Is Latest Try – Brad Kava
• The Oregonian – Idaho nuclear cleanup pact: 2 former governors oppose changes to 1995 deal
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #121: Palisades Reprises Davis-Besse – Dave Lochbaum
• Lacey.patch – NRC to Hold Public Meeting on Anti-Oyster Creek Petition – Elaine Piniat
• Brattleboro Reformer – Letter Box(#1): On toilets, protests and citizens’ rights – Bob Bady
• Brattleboro Reformer – Letter Box(#2): VY protesters should be considered heroes – Amy Hendrickson
• AP Google – Exxon: US energy revival has staying power – By JONATHAN FAHEY
• Courthouse News Service – Nuclear Waste Disposal Rules Reconsidered – Nick McCann
• IEER – Follow-up Memo to NRC Chair Allison Macfarlane – Arjun Makhijani
• ISN blog – Obama’s Nuclear Agenda: The Next Four Years – Ralph A Cossa and David Santoro
• NEI – White Paper – Global Nuclear Power Development: Major Expansion Continues
• Canada: Oshawa Express – Nuclear hearings stress good, bad and ugly – Geoff Zochodne
• Asia-Pacific: Energy Tribune – Nuclear Power ‘Major Issue’ in Japan Poll – Kate Stowell
• Asia-Pacific: Fairewinds Energy Education – What Are The Consequences of Siting A Nuclear Plant In a Seismically Active Area?
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Safety at nuclear plants not even an election issue – Jun Sato
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – OK unlikely for restart of N-plant / Authority cites possible fault at Fukui site
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Japan Atomic financial fears deepen – Kazuaki Nagata
• Southwest Asia: Green Prophet – Greenpeace Blasts Turkish Nuclear Energy Institute Over Negligence – Julia Harte
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Pak nuclear stock pile to grow: US analyst
• Europe: The Guardian – BBC1 science show ‘downplayed impact’ of Chernobyl nuclear disaster – Mark Sweney
• North Europe: Singularity Hub – Norway Begins Four Year Test of Thorium Nuclear Reactor – Peter Murray

Monday, December 10, 2012

• Los Angeles Times – Rise in renewable energy will require more use of fossil fuels – Ralph Vartabedian
• San Bernardino Sun – In Rialto, new city council ready to roll; perchlorate surcharge may go away – Josh Dulaney
• San Jose Mercury News – EPA finishes hauling off contaminated soil on Barstow residential property – Jim Steinberg
• StateImpact Idaho – Former Idaho Govs Andrus, Batt Oppose Changes To 1995 Nuclear Agreement – Molly Messick
• WKSR – NRC Clears Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant of Violations
• Lower Hudson Journal – Indian Point hearing: Judges press for details on buried pipes
• Reuters – New England grid can function without Vermont Yankee reactor – Scott DiSavino
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Washington Post – Lobbyists see powerful opportunities in second term – Catherine Ho
• NRC – NRC to Discuss San Onofre Unit 2 Restart Proposal with Southern California Edison in Rockville, Md., on Dec. 18
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Canada: Shoreline Beacon – Part 3: Nuclear “Dump” in Bruce? 0 – Peter L. Storck
• Oceania: Yahoo!7 News – NT Labor draws line in sand on nuclear waste dump By Allyson Horn
• Asia-Pacific: eNews Park Forest – Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, December 10, 2012 .
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Japan Atomic may have to decommission plant as active fault found – Risa Maeda
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – 80% of evacuees report distress
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – New zones set for town near N-plant
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Book reveals human drama in Fukushima No. 1 crisis – Kazuaki Nagata
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Govt. decides most of Okuma Town unfit for living
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Taipower must draft plan for decommission of nuclear reactor by 2015 – Lin Meng-ju and Elizabeth Hsu
• East Asia: Greenpeace International blog – South Korea tramples human rights and ignores lessons from Fukushima – Pino Lee
• East Asia: Naharnet – Greenpeace Sues S. Korea Over Nuclear Activists
• Southeast Asia: VietNamNet Bridge – Experts examine nuclear feasibility
• South Asia: Power Engineering – Approval for six new nuclear power plants in India – Diarmaid Williams
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Another bid to lay siege to Kudankulam plant foiled
• South Asia: The Hindu – Experts against nuclear power plant at Kovvada
• South Asia: Jagran Post – Anti-nuclear activists lay siege to Kudankulam Nuclear Plant
• South Asia: Utility Products – Environment Ministry seeks to improve quality of EIA reports
• Europe: AFP Google – Britain announces £1.2 billion sub deal
• East Europe: Huffington Post – Georgia’s Nuclear Black Market – Desmond Butler
• East Europe: OilPrice – Clinton Shills for Westinghouse Nuclear Project in Czechoslovakia – John Daly
• Middle East: Global Research – “Unlimited Imperialism”, US Expansionism and the Crimes of War – Francis A. Boyle
• Middle East: IPS – The Civilian Toll of Israel’s Bombs – Eva Bartlett