Sunday, December 30, 2012

• Orange County Register – When two nukes crashed, he got the call – Keith Sharon
• Marietta Times – Group against Ohio nuke plant license gets setback
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Year’s Top 10 posts at Atomic City Underground – Frank Munger
• Canada: Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre – Nuclear Waste Dump Concerns in Inverhuron – John Divinski
• Japan Times – Radiation-averse evacuees flock to Okinawa – Yuri Kageyama
• South Asia: Times of India – Activists join anti-nuclear protesters on New Year’s Eve
• Europe: Herald Scotland – Letter: Savings put ahead of nuclear safety – Tor Justad

Saturday, December 29, 2012

• San Diego Union-Tribune – Tests for steam generator fixes not compromised, Mitsubishi says – Morgan Lee
• Tri-City Herald – Audit criticizes management of $5.6 billion Hanford contract – Annette Cary
• Toledo Blade – Federal board dismisses 2 arguments against Davis-Besse – Vanessa McCray
• Pottstown Mercury – Limerick nuke plant re-licensing delayed by courts – Evan Brandt
• Plymouth.Patch – NRC Grants Pilgrim Exemption from Emergency Exercises – Casey Meserve
• New York Times – Hurricane Sandy Alters Utilities’ Calculus on Upgrades – Diane Cardwell, Matthew L. Wald and Christopher Drew
• Truthout – Nuclear Roulette: The Truth About the Most Dangerous Energy Source on Earth – Mark Karlin
• Asahi Shimbun – Kada, Ozawa split up anti-nuclear Tomorrow Party of Japan
• Asahi Shimbun – Pro-nuclear bureaucrats back in the picture under Abe
• Mainichi Daily News – Demonstrators protest Abe Cabinet review of zero nuclear policy
• Mainichi Daily News – Atomic Energy Commission lied about secret meetings to prime minister’s office
• South Asia: Times of India – Exhibition on the good and ugly side of ‘radiations’ – Payal Gwalan
• Europe: East Anglian Daily Times – Sizewell B: Safety expert rejects calls to bring forward N-plant reactor tests following Belgian discoveries –

Friday, December 28, 2012

• CounterPunch – The Nuclear Waste Dump Formerly Known as San Onofre? – Russell D. Hoffman
• eNews Park Forest – San Onofre: Edison’s Experimental Restart Scheme May Violate Terms of Plant’s Operating License .
• North County Times blog – Company: We didn’t botch nuke plant tests – Morgan Lee
• Orange County Register – Regulators seek more information on San Onofre plant damage – Michael R. Blood
• Orange County Register – NRC, activists to meet on San Onofre – Pat Brennan
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Public input is sought on San Onofre costs – Morgan Lee
• YouTube – Trouble brewing at the San Onofre nuclear power plant in CA – Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear joins Thom Hartmann
• KIFI Idaho Falls – Should Idaho store nuclear waste? – Karole Honas
• Johnson City Press – Judge dismisses suit against NFS – Brad Hicks
• Washington Post – Uranium mine debate divides quaint Chatham, Va.
• Government Security News – NNSA conducting radiation survey over Washington, D.C. – Mark Rockwell
• Danvers.patch – Tierney Wants Cuts to Nuclear Programs to Avoid Fiscal Cliff – Beth Lawton and Les Masterson
• OpEdNews – Nuclear dangers real and widespread – Helen Caldicott
• UN: IAEA – 2012: The Year in Pictures
• Canada: CBC News – Quebec’s Gentilly-2 nuclear plant shuts down after 29 years
• Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
• Japan Daily Press – Japan’s anti-nuclear Tomorrow Party to break up over internal issues – Ida Torres
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: LDP must not overturn zero-nuclear policy – Asahi Shimbun
• NHK World – Japan’s Diet to launch committee on nuclear issues
• Europe: The Guardian – Nuclear safety watchdog criticises Sellafield’s emergency readiness – Terry Macalister and Richard Cookson
• Europe: One News Page – Work halted at Germany’s proposed Gorleben repository – 5523180817607143
• North Europe: Reuters – Update 1-Finland expects to begin to bury nuclear waste in 2022 – Terhi Kinnunen

Thursday, December 27, 2012

• AP Google – Ailing Calif nuke plant faces questions on restart – Michael R. Blood
• Los Angeles Times – Regulators ask Edison questions about San Onofre restart plan – Abby Sewell
• North County Times – Officials seek public’s input on nuke plant’s costs – Morgan Lee
• Thousand Oaks Acorn – EPA completes study of former rocket engine and nuclear test site – Carissa Marsh
• EPA – Santa Susana Field Laboratory Remedial Site Assessment
• Idaho State Journal – Snake River Alliance opposes new shipments of spent nuclear fuel to Idaho
• The State – Letter: Nuclear waste not so safe – Elizabeth Darden
• Smith Mountain Eagle – Subcommittee reviews latest uranium mining reports – Tim Davis
• Desdemona Despair – Video: Distribution of Cesium-137 contamination in the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima, modeled to the year 2021
• Reuters – Toshiba in talks with 3 firms to sell part of Westinghouse stake-media
• ZeroHedge – Tokyo Almost As Irradiated As Fukushima – George Washington
• Japan Daily Press – 1.5 trillion yen not enough: Fukushima-responsible utility TEPCO seeks even more government funds – Adam
• Mainichi Daily News – Antinuclear Tomorrow Party of Japan to split over internal feud 1 month after launch
• NHK World – New nuclear evacuation standard to be delayed
• Asia: Ria Novosti – Russia, China Launch Stage Two in Joint Nuclear Plant Project
• Asia: Xinhua News – France’s EDF dismisses fears over China nuclear partnership
• East Asia: All Things Nuclear – Debris from North Korea’s Launcher: What It Shows – David Wright
• South Asia: the Diplomat – Paying Dividends: The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal Four Years On
• East Europe: National Geographic – Pictures: Race Against Time to Build a New Tomb for Chernobyl
• East Europe: Standart News – Documentary to Promote Belene NPP

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

• Pacific Free Press – Transcript: Democracy Now Includes Dennis Kucinich: The Vegas Debate
• AP Google – NRC wants more analysis at ailing Calif nuke plant – Michael R. Blood
• Arizona Daily Sun – Uranium cleanup still hazy – Maryann Batlle
• ProPublica – On a Wyoming Ranch, Feds Sacrifice Tomorrow’s Water to Mine Uranium Today – Abrahm Lustgarten
• Minneapolis Star Tribune – Radioactive waste storage at Prairie Island faces scrutiny – David Shaffer
• Chatham Star Tribune – Letter: Don’t put uranium over health, safety – Brian Simmons
• Torrington Register Citizen – Collins: Nixing nuclear energy around the world – William A. Collins
• Canada: Waterloo Record – Opposition grows to burying radioactive waste
• AP Google – Key members of Japan’s new Cabinet
• PennEnergy – Millions sign online petition to protest nuclear power in Japan
• Reason Foundation – US Sailors Sue Japan over Fukushima Exposure
• Japan Times – Tohoku Electric fails to convince NRA that faults are inactive
• Southwest Asia: Hurriyet Daily News – Study to locate 3rd nuke plant to begin
• Southwest Asia: Standart News – Turkey May Still Build Nuclear Plant Close to Bulgarian Border

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

• Beyond Nuclear – 30 years ago today, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act was passed
• AP Google – West Coast girds for more tsunami debris in winter – Alicia Chang
• Salt Lake Tribune – Utah’s environmental feats and failures highlighted in report – Judy Fahys
• Rapid City Journal – Trip to Nebraska uranium mine answers questions – Kevin Woster
• Tampa Bay Times – Florida environmental agency lays off longtime employees and hires from regulated industries – Craig Pittman
• News & Observer – Proposed uranium mine: Buried treasure or hidden threat to N.C. water? – Sean Cockerham and John Murawski
• Democratic Underground – More Lessons From the Fukushima Daiichi Accident
• Government Accountability Project – Federal Contractor Whistleblower Provisions Included in NDAA 2013 – Dylan Blaylock
• POWERnews – Too Dumb to Meter, Part 7: Eddie Teller’s Exploding Ambitions

Monday, December 24, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Plan to keep nuclear waste at Utah Tooele County site dead
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Canada: Great Lakes Nuclear Dump – OPG’s locally focused plan excluded the involvement of over 40 million Canadians and Americans living in the Great Lakes Basin
• House of Japan – Fukushima reactors status 24 Dec 2012
• Japan Times – Fault-linked nuke plants sitting on 800 tons of fuel
• Asia: NRDC blog – China moves to strengthen nuclear safety standards and moderate the pace of its nuclear power development
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – India, Russia claim progress in K’kulam talks
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Waste Repository could be ‘Game Changer’ for Coast
• Russia: Bloomberg – Putin Signs $2.9 Billion Indian Deals in Trip to Top Arms Buyer – Ilya Arkhipov & Brendan McGarry