Sunday, January 27, 2013

• Tri-Valley CAREs – Join us Jan. 30th for an Important Community Forum
• The State – Critics fear $7 billion SRS boondoggle – Sammy Fretwell
• Axis of Logic – Only the Whistleblower Goes to Prison – Abby Zimet
• Common Dreams – More Threats From Fracking: Radioactive Waste – Andrea Germanos
• Oceania: Independent Australia – Don’t believe thorium nuclear reactor hype
• South Asia: AP Google – India tests nuclear-capable missile
• Europe: Donegal Daily – New Lobby Group want Government to explore Possible Waste Dump Off Donegal Coast
• East Europe: Reuters – Bulgarians seen challenging govt in nuclear plant vote – Tsvetelia Tsolova
• East Europe: Xinhua News – Bulgarians postpone nuclear power plant construction due to low referendum turnout
• East Europe: Sofia News Agency – 9.34% Turnout at Bulgaria’s Nuclear Referendum 1 pm
• East Europe: Sofia News Agency – Q&A: Bulgaria’s Nuclear Energy Referendum

Saturday, January 26, 2013

• Huffington Post – San Onofre Delayed: Decision On Sickly Calif. Nuke Plant Hangs In The Balance
• LA Times blog – Nuclear commission pushes back decision on San Onofre – Abby Sewell
• Reno Dispatch – Chilling testimony: Design flaws at california nuclear plant put millions in danger – Jamie Reno
• San Diego Union-Tribune – A year off the grid – Morgan Leenoon
• San Diego Union-Tribune – At what price: a year without nuclear power – Morgan Leenoon
• UPI – Decision on San Onofre plant pushed back
• Los Alamos Monitor – Congressman questions plutonium plan
• OpEdNews – Reject Nuclear Power – Here’s Why – Jim McCluskey
• Europe: The Independent – Crunch vote on nuclear dump in Lake District – Mike Glover
• East Europe: BBC News – Bulgaria set for nuclear power referendum
• Middle East: antiwar.com – Devil Is in the Details for Iran Nuclear Deal – Jasmin Ramsey
• West Africa: New York Times – France Is Increasing Security at Sites in Niger and at Home – Steven Erlanger

Friday, January 25, 2013

• NDR – OpEd – The Elephant and Yucca Mountain – James C. Kennedy and John Kutch
• AP Google – Decision on sickly San Onofre nuke plant delayed
• Enformable – Nuclear Regulatory Commission delays decision on San Onofre restart – Lucas W Hixson
• Dana Point Times – SONGS Public Meeting Scheduled for February 12 in Capistrano Beach – Jim Shilander
• Tri-City Herald – Company to operate landfill at Hanford – Annette Cary
• MyFox Phoenix – EPA reports on plan to clean up uranium on Navajo
• Everyday ebook – Radioactive Homeland: Kristen Iverson’s Full Body Burden – John Abrahams
• All Things Nuclear – NRC Denies Oconee Fire Reg Extension, But What Will It Do Now? – David Wright
• Chatham Star Tribune – Anti-uranium bus trip planned
• NY Times blog – An Increase in Radiation Monitoring for Fracking – Jon Hurdle
• Rutgers University Daily Targum – Professor discusses 40 years of land use controversy – Wilson Conde
• Energy Collective – America’s Nuclear Energy Future – Michael Schellenberger &Ted Nordhaus
• NEI Nuclear Notes – Some Facts About Station Blackout That David Lochbaum Didn’t Tell The New York Times – Eric McErlain
• Truthout – Seventy Years of Nuclear Fission, Thousands of Centuries of Nuclear Waste – Gregg Levine
• Wall Street Journal blog – Gas Suffocates Nuclear Power – Liam Denning
• Asia-Pacific: AFP Google – World’s biggest nuke plant may shut: Japan report
• Asia-Pacific: Chemistry World – Reassessing the health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident – Rebecca Brodie
• South Asia: IPS – All Unclear Over Nuclear – Ranjit Devraj
• South Asia: Bangladesh News 24 – Minister ‘counsels’ N-plant sceptics
• Europe: European Parliament – “Nuclear operators should bear €25 billion cost of making Europe’s reactors safer”
• Europe: World Nuclear News – EU raps knuckles over decommissioning failures
• Europe: BBC News – Atomic Weapons Establishment suspends production over safety concerns
• Europe: ITV News – ‘There needs to be a full investigation’ into nuclear waste site – Kevin Coyne
• Europe: Times & Star – West Cumbria faces the biggest decision in its history
• Russia: Bellona – Russia’s nuclear power plants: Cruising planes with no landing in sight – Yevgeny Usov
• Russia: Slate – Did Chernobyl Cause the Soviet Union To Explode? – Mark Joseph Stern
• South Africa: IOL – Nuclear power plant stokes worries – Yeganeh Torbati

Thursday, January 24, 2013

• Fairewinds Energy Education – audio: The Games People Play
• Orange County Register – Siren tests coming next week in San Clemente – Fred Swegles
• Temecula.Patch – Citizens Urge Temecula to Take Stance on San Onofre Nuclear Reactor
• Daily Utah Chronicle – EnergySolutions due to sell; vile business cycle continues – Jordan Vogel
• Vero Beach Press-Journal – Eve Samples: Climate change, fuel storage are serious issues for nuclear plants – Eve Samples
• Aiken Leader – MOX on the Rocks: DOE Assessment of Plutonium Fuel Project at SRS Shows Chronic and Uncorrected Cost and Schedule Problems – By Thomas Clements
• Olean Times Herald – Meetings To Continue On West Valley Project Funding – Rick Miller
• Forbes – Energy’s Latest Battleground: Fracking For Uranium – Christopher Helman
• Grist – The Department of Energy wants to sell radioactive metal for scrap – Sarah Miller
• Ploughshares Fund – Plutonium Waste Begets Budget Waste – Benjamin Loehrke
• NRC – Inspector General Reports: FY 2013 Index
• Asia-Pacific: AFP Google – Toshiba, GE expanding power generation ties
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Japan faces nuclear shutdown for second time since Fukushima – Aaron Sheldrick
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – Fukushima town mayor resigns over post-disaster frustrations – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Faults may void Tepco’s Niigata plant
• Europe: The Guardian – Secret UK uranium components plant closed over safety fears – Rob Edwards
• Europe: The Guardian – Aldermaston had 50 fires in two years – Rob Edwards
• Europe: Times & Star – Nuclear repository: Residents get organised behind a common cause – Ian Duncan
• Russia: BBC News – Russia explores old nuclear waste dumps in Arctic – Laurence Peter
• West Africa: Reuters – France orders special forces to protect Niger uranium: source – John Irish, Geert de Clercq, Muriel Boselli and Michel Rose

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

• The Hill blog – Wyden joins three senators in nuclear waste policy group – Zack Colman
• Contra Costa Times – Plutonium to Livermore lab proposal highlights public meeting – Jeremy Thomas
• Enformable – San Diego School District calls for NRC to conduct adjudicatory license amendment hearing process at San Onofre
• KFMB – San Diego School Board takes stand against San Onofre
• San Clemente Patch – SDUSD Board Votes to Oppose Nuclear Generator Start
• Temecula.patch – Citizens Urge Temecula to Take Stance on San Onofre Nuclear Reactor
• Bloomberg – Duke Completes Biggest Power Storage System at Wind Farm – Ehren Goossens
• WSET – Pittsylvania Co. Board of Supervisors Vote Against Uranium Mining – Whitney Delbridge
• CounterPunch – Nuclear Weapons Waste in Your Water Bottle, Hip Replacement, Baby’s Toys, Jungle Gym? – JOHN LaFORGE
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Ohi nuclear reactors in Japan may be stopped again
• South Asia: The Hindu – ‘Nuclear energy is nearing to its irrelevance’
• South Asia: Times of India – Nuclear plant concerns must be addressed: Nobel laureate
• Europe: In-Cumbria – Nuclear repository: Residents get organised behind a common cause – Ian Duncan
• Europe: The Guardian – Europe ‘has failed to learn from environmental disasters’ – John Vidal
• Europe: Nuclear Energy Insider – Policy Brief – 23 January 2013 – Skaur
• Europe: Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief – 23 January 2013 – Skaur
• North Africa: Egypt Independent – Egypt criticizes countries with nuclear weapons for failing to disarm

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

• KPCC – Feds: Orange County meeting in Feb. on San Onofre nuclear plant restart plan – Ed Joyce
• SanClemente.Patch – NRC to Hold Public Meeting on San Onofre Restart – Adam Townsend
• San Clemente Times blog – NRC Announces Capo Beach Public Meeting on SONGS Restart Plan – Jim Shilander
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Decision near on San Onofre restart – Morgan Lee
• Rapid City Journal – State regulators seek more authority in uranium-mine regulation as critics file bills for full permitting power – Kevin Woster
• Radio Iowa – Senator Grassley moves to beef up whistleblower law – Matt Kelley
• Oak Ridge Today – Y-12 protesters ask court to dismiss sabotage charges – John Huotari
• Aiken Leader – Vogtle Nuclear Reactor Still Stranded in Savannah; Pouring of “Nuclear Concrete” for Reactor’s Basemat Delayed Yet Again as Embarrassment and Costs Mount – Thomas Clements
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• NRC – NRC to Meet Public to Discuss San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Steam Generator Issues
• Oceania: National Indigenous Times – Yami Lester has seen it all and says “no” to uranium mining
• Asia-Pacific: NY Times blog – An Early Nuclear Warning: Was It for Naught? – Matthew L. Wald
• Asia-Pacific: UPI – Nuclear plants in Japan get new rules
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Watchdog to set strict evacuation rules for nuclear accidents – Jin Nishikawa
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Govt to train experts to deal with N-accidents
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Environmental groups slam DPP – Chris Wang
• South Asia: AP Google – Kashmir police publish nuclear war survival tips – Aijaz Hussain
• Europe: Power Engineering – UK’s “energy destiny” hangs on nuclear price talks, warns EDF boss de Rivaz – Kelvin Ross
• Europe: Nuclear Engineering – Switzerland set to vote on nuclear phase-out

Monday, January 21, 2013

• Las Vegas Sun – Putting end to Yucca Mountain project ‘within reach,’ state commission says – Cy Ryan
• About.com – hat Animals Live at the Nevada Test Site? – Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D.
• KPBS – San Diego School Board To Vote On Resolution Opposing San Onofre – Kyla Calvert
• Dodge City Daily Globe – Kansas communities pay to rid water of uranium – Maria Sudekum
• Augusta Chronicle – Vogtle evacuation plan Rob Pavey
• Asbury Park Press – Oyster Creek employee fired after probe – Bob Vosseller
• North Kitsap Herald – Eight cited during ‘Die-in’ at nuclear sub base
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #126: Draining Cooling Water from Reactor Vessels – Dave Lochbaum
• New York Times – Letters: What Nuclear Weapons Cost the World
• Reuters – Areva, Toshiba eye nuclear fuel producer Urenco: sources – Karolin Schaps and Christoph Steitz
• Canada: The Australian – Talks to start on sale of uranium to India – Amanda Hodge
• Asia-Pacific: Bellona – Record cesium levels measured in Fukushima rockfish, signaling radiation woes in food chain far from over in Japan –
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Japanese nuclear plant operators charge over 90 million dollars per year to pay local authorities – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Financial Times – Japan unveils strict nuclear measures – Jonathan Soble in Tokyo
• Asia-Pacific: The Independent – Fish caught close to the Fukushima nuclear plant was 2,500 times over the legal safe radiation limit – Rob
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Nuclear plant operators payout amount revealed
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – J&K govt prepares people for nuke war – Peerzada Ashiq
• South Asia: Newstrack India – Fishermen protest against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
• Europe: Deutsche Local – Germany still supports foreign nuclear power
• East Europe: Prague Daily Monitor – Minister rejects Austrian criticism of Temelín nuke plant
• East Europe: Slate Magazine – Do Animals in Chernobyl’s Fallout Zone Glow? – Mary Mycio