Sunday, March 10, 2013

• Santa Maria Times – Letter: Nuke power and danger – Bill Denneen
• AllGov – As Hanford Radioactive Leak Continues, Clean-Up Contractor Pays Fraud Penalty – Noel Brinkerhoff
• HNN Huntingtonnews – $30 Million in Cash, Benefits Now Paid to former Huntington Uranium Workers, Survivors – Tony Rutherford
• Bloomberg – Nuclear Industry Withers in U.S. as Wind Pummels Prices: Energy – Julie Johnsson & Naureen S. Malik
• Christian Science Monitor – Moniz confirmation for Energy secretary: four things to watch for – Eli Hinckley
• Columbus Free Press – Fukushima is already harming our children – Harvey Wasserman
• Oceania: Radio New Zealand – Thousands join anti-nuclear rally in French Polynesia
• ABC – Fukushima not forgotten – Dave Sweeney
• Bellona – Tokyo demonstrates against in force against nuclear power on eve of Fukushima’s second anniversary – Charles Digges
• Deutsche Welle – Fukushima, two years later
• Getty Images – Japan To Mark 2nd Anniversary of Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake and Tsunami – Athit Perawongmetha
• Getty Images – Anti-Nuclear Protest Takes Place In Kobe – Buddhika Weerasinghe
• Greenpeace International blog – Hope from Fukushima – Junichi Sato
• Reuters – Thousands in Japan anti-nuclear protest two years after Fukushima – Mari Saito and Sophie Knight
• TIME – Two Years After Fukushima, Japan Worries About the Next Big Quake – Lucy Birmingham
• Asahi Shimbun – CHECKING BACK: British father who refused to flee feels vindicated 2 years later – Louis Templado
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (4): Selection of personnel for Fukushima mission limited by unit makeup – Hidefumi Nogami
• Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuke protests fill streets around world before 3/11 anniversary
• Daily Yomiuri – MARCH 11–2 YEARS ON / 2 years on, many long to return but can’t
• Daily Yomiuri – MARCH 11–TWO YEARS ON / Reality of recovery differs from official data
• Daily Yomiuri – MARCH 11–TWO YEARS ON / Local govts plead for ‘realistic’ targets
• Daily Yomiuri – MARCH 11–TWO YEARS ON / Fukushima govts hesitant to plant rice
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt axes genome survey of Fukushima residents
• Japan Times – Two years after the 3/11 disasters
• Mainichi Daily News – 44 economies still ban, limit Japan food imports over radiation fears
• China Post – More than 1,000 raise anti-nuclear flag in front of Presidential Office
• Xinhua News – Activists protest against nuclear power plant project in Taipei
• South Asia: India Today – Prohibitory orders clamped in 7 km radius around Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
• Europe: RFI – Anti-nuclear campaigners form human chain in Paris

Saturday, March 09, 2013

• Bloomberg – Report Sparks Debate Over Edison’s Role in Reactor Woes – Brian Wingfield & Mark Chediak
• East County Magazine – San Onofre in Limbo – Allison B Kagamaster
• Enformable – Redacted version of Mitsubishi root cause analysis of San Onofre replacement steam generators released – Lucas W Hixson
• Friends of the Earth blog – The secret Mitsubishi report revealed: Key quotes and conclusions – Adam Russell
• The Hill – Sen. Boxer calls for post-Fukushima safety report as anniversary approaches – Ben Goad
• The Hill – Documents spark concern, outrage over shuttered nuclear plant – Ben Goad
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Friends of the Earth: ‘Bombshell’ for plans to restart crippled reactor
• LA Times blog – Officials rejected some changes to crippled San Onofre generators – Abby Sewell
• Orange County Register – NRC posts San Onofre generator analysis – Pat Brennan
• Orange County Register – Activists win report’s release – Pat Brennan
• Reuters – Update 1-Calif. nuclear owner disputes Mitsubishi report on design flaws – Eileen O’Grady
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – Nuclear waste must be dealt with – Linda Seeley
• Corvallis Gazette Times – Letter: Nuclear energy has no future, and here are the reasons why – Debra Higbee-Sudyka
• Aiken Leader – MOX Madness: A Year Late and a Few Billion Short, DOE Releases Utterly Inadequate 2012 Plutonium Fuel “Report” – MOX Program Begs to be Cut – Thomas Clements
• Brattleboro Reformer – Safety breaches seen at U.S. reactors – Brian Wingfield
• All Things Nuclear – Two Years After Fukushima: Status of NRC Safety Reforms – Ed Lyman
• NRC Blog – Two Important Reports about Steam Generators at SONGS Go Public – Victor Dricks
• AP Google – Protesters in Tokyo demand end to nuclear power – Yuri Kageyama
• Asahi Shimbun – Filmmaker reveals enduring cost of Fukushima contamination – James Green
• Japan Times – 2011 disasters directly affected 1.1 million jobs: survey
• Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima residents hold anti-nuclear demonstration
• Japan Times – Two years on, Fukushima evacuees seek justice and a normal life – Winifred Bird
• Japan Times – Giving the children of Fukushima a place to play is not easy – Winifred Bird
• Focus Taiwan – 200,000 take part in Taiwan’s anti-nuclear protest
• Taiwan News – Taiwanese demand a stop to nuclear energy
• Southeast Asia: Bangkok Post – Editorial: Don’t let nuclear lessons fade over time
• Europe: ITV News – Anti nuclear march in west Cumbria

Friday, March 08, 2013

• Vegas Seven – Seven Questions for Judy Treichel, Yucca Mountain Activist – Heidi Kyser
• Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works – Senator Boxer’s and Rep. Markey’s Statement on NRC’s Release of Mitsubishi Reports on Safety Issues at San Onofre Nuclear Plant
• AP Google – Feds release confidential report on Cal nuke plant – Michael R. Blood
• Enformable – Redacted version of Mitsubishi root cause analysis of San Onofre replacement steam generators released – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – San Onofre issues leave operators with no money and more problems – Lucas W Hixson
• NewportBeach.Patch – Critics: Documents Prove San Onofre Nuke Officials Knew of Safety Woes – Adam Townsend
• Orange County Register – NRC: San Onofre getting more inspections – Pat Brennan
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Nuke safety report released, in part – Morgan Lee9
• San Diego Union-Tribune – San Onofre grinding toward restart – despite carping – Michael M. Rosen
• Santa Maria Sun – Capps questions new NRC head on Diablo safety – Matt Fountain
• Tri-Valley CAREs – NNSA Official “Cooks the Numbers” in Livermore Lab Management Review and Awards Huge Bonus and Contract Extension – Scott Yundt
• Arizona Daily Sun – Suit filed to block uranium mine
• Oakland Press – Anti-nuclear protesters to rally in Royal Oak – Catherine Kavanaugh
• Energy Daily – DOE warned on corroding spent fuel at Savannah River – George Lobsenz
• Greenville News – Watchdog group: Catawba plant had ‘near miss’ – Eric Connor
• All Things Nuclear – UCS 3rd Annual NRC Review – Dave Lochbaum
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Attacks on nuclear sites are best prevented by abolishing the plants
• Fairewinds Energy Education – podcast: Follow the Money
• Greenpeace International – They profit, you pay – the shocking nuclear reality – Aaron Gray-Block
• Power Engineering – NRC Issues Annual Assessments for Nation’s Nuclear Plants
• Reuters – Analysis: Renewables turn utilities into dinosaurs of the energy world – Geert De Clercq
• AP Google – Stress emerges as major health issue in Fukushima – Malcolm Foster
• DigitalJournal – Fukushima two years on — The plight of 300,000 displaced Japanese – Robert Myles
• NBC News – Rare tour of Fukushima reveals colossal decontamination efforts – Arata Yamamoto
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima N-plant still in disarray
• Daily Yomiuri – Japan Atomic Power to get 140 billion yen in aid
• Japan Times – Water is both the savior and the bane at Fukushima No. 1 – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Worried Fukushima cops considered fleeing posts after 3/11
• Asia: Bloomberg – China Drives Record Solar Growth Becoming Biggest Market – Marc Roca
• Europe: Xinhua News – Cesium-137 traces detected in Italian boars
• Russia: YLE News – Concerns grow over Russian nuclear plant safety
• West Africa: Vibe Ghana – Ghana Incapable of Storing Dangerous Radioactive Waste Safely! – Kofi Thompson

Thursday, March 07, 2013

• San Luis Obispo Tribune – Letter: Nuclear waste must be dealt with – Linda Seeley
• AP Google – Feds look to ship Wash. radioactive waste to NM – Shannon Dininny
• KLCC FM Public Radio – Inslee: Best Case, Tank Waste Removal Will Take Years – Anna King
• Nuclear Watch New Mexico – Full FY2012 Performance Evaluation Reports For Nuclear Weapons Sites
• Rutland Herald – NRC deems Vermont Yankee ‘green’ – Susan Smallheer
• All Things Nuclear – Time to Reduce Nuclear Dangers – Lisbeth Gronlund
• EIN Presswire – NRC Still Inconsistent in Maintaining Nuclear Plant Safety, Report Finds
• Washington Post – Budget cuts and bombs – Walter Pincus
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (3): Keeping the public in the dark – Hidefumi Nogami
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] Greenpeace “Don’t let HITACHI walk away from Fukushima disaster” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Google begins international expansion of Public Alerts in Japan – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Focus Taiwan – Talk of the Day — Polls find most people favor halt to 4th N-plant
• Taipei Times – KMT unveils text of nuclear referendum – Shih Hsiu-chuan
• North Europe: UPI – Norway: Nuclear blast effects dire

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

• Enformable – Obama’s pick for Secretary of Energy advocates nuclear and fracking – Karl Grossman
• Stanford Daily – Stanford professor emeritus researches nuclear threats – Nitish Kulkarni
• The Oregonian – More storage tanks could be leaking at Hanford nuclear reservation – Scott Learn
• Reuters – Washington nuclear cleanup faces $171 million in budget cuts – Eric M. Johnson
• Longview News-Journal – Agency questions Texas nuclear plant’s safety
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Cleanup crew: best practices for a nuclear disaster supply chain – Jason Deign
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Mike McGough, Chief Commercial Officer, NuScale Power – Heba Hashem
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Policy Brief 28 February – 6 March 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 28 February – 6 March 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• CounterPunch – Fukushima and the Health Effects of Low Dose Radiation – John LaForge
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Japan’s Tipping Point: “Will Japan Become Nuclear Free?”
• Greenpeace International – General Electric, Toshiba & Hitachi hide from their responsibilities in Fukushima – Hisayo Takada
• The Independent – Two years on the deadly battle to save Fukushima from an invisible, odourless enemy goes on – David McNeill
• Asahi Shimbun – Cesium levels still exceed standards in wild mushrooms, seafood, game
• Japan Daily Press – 80% of surveyed evacuees say they won’t return to their hometowns – Ida Torres
• Japan Times – Weekly rallies keeping antinuclear movement alive after LDP’s return – Morichika Nakamoto
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO considers dumping water from Fukushima nuclear plant into ocean
• Focus Taiwan – Mothers to form anti-nuclear group ahead of protest
• Asia: Daily Telegraph blog – Wind power outstrips the atom in China – as new doubts surface about the green technology – Geoffrey Lean
• South Asia: Press Information Bureau – Liability of Nuclear Suppliers

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

• ENS – Obama Names McCarthy to Head EPA, Moniz for Energy
• Science AAAS – Obama Taps Familiar Face for Energy Secretary – David Malakoff
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Knowledge of nuke flaws at issue – Morgan Lee
• The State – Savannah River Site furloughs 2,000 workers
• All Things Nuclear – Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit (NEAT) Series – Dave Lochbaum
• Greenpeace International blog – How can the nuclear industry profit from nuclear disasters? – Hisayo Takada
• OpEdNews – Nuclear Industry Lies Spread by Techno-Geeks – Joe Giambrone
• Phys.Org – Detecting caesium with naked eyes
• Oceania: Pacific Islands Report – U.S. Considers Releasing RMI Nuclear Test Reports–Declassification could provide first new information since mid-90s – Giff Johnson
• ABC News – Google Begins Mapping Japan’s Nuclear Exclusion Zone
• AFP Google – Fukushima lags in Japan tsunami recovery
• Greenpeace International – Fukushima: Human Impacts
• IBTimes – Fukushima Two Years Later
• Asahi Shimbun – LDP boots anti-nuke advocates from environment panel – Tetsu Kobayashi
• NHK World – NHK reporters visit Fukushima nuclear plant
• Mainichi Daily News – 80 percent of evacuees from 3 prefectures won’t return to hometowns: survey – Asahi Shimbun
• Focus Taiwan – DPP legislators cite 9 ‘time bombs’ at 4th Nuclear Power Plant
• South Asia: Daily Pioneer – Protest grows against N-plant at Mithi Virdi . – Rathin Das
• Europe: Times & Star – ANTI-NUCLEAR CAMPAIGNERS TO MARCH ON SELLAFIELD – John Connell

Monday, March 04, 2013

• San Luis Obispo Tribune – Nuclear storage: an issue too long on back burner
• Las Cruces Sun-News – Mining companies eye new Navajo Nation projects
• ABC News – Some Leaders Souring on Nuclear Power Costs – Ray Henry
• Next Big Future – Carnival of Nuclear Energy 146
• Washington Times – MONROE: The antiquation of America’s nuclear weapons – Robert R. Monroe
• Energy Matters – A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission: Part 1 Radioactive Contamination of American Sailors – Roger Witherspoon
• Energy Matters – A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission: Part 2: The Navy Life – Into the Abyss – Roger Witherspoon
• Energy Matters – A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission: Part 3: Cat and Mouse with a Nuclear Ghost – Roger Witherspoon
• Asahi Shimbun – English version of 3/11 disaster documentary to be screened in Tokyo, London – Michiko Kawahara
• Asahi Shimbun – Study: Higher radiation risk found at one evacuation route used after nuclear disaster – Yuri Oiwa
• Fukushima Diary – [Poor attention of foreign media] Only one media-Reuters-attended the first press conference of Fukushima plant chief – Iori Mochizuki
• House of Japan – Fukushima plant 2 years after crisis
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima decontamination workers’ exposure doses go unchecked
• Mainichi Daily News – Residents miffed by taxes on Fukushima nuclear disaster compensation
• Focus Taiwan – Anti-nuke students campaign on foot
• Europe: BBC News – Why Treasury may reject nuclear option – Robert Peston
• Europe: Grimsby Telegraph – Letter:Say no to nuclear energy and opt for renewable alternative – David Musgrove
• Europe: Irish Times – Minister rules out nuclear plants – Mary Minihan
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Anti-Nuclear Campaigners to March on Sellafield – John Connell
• Europe: New York Times – Report Casts Doubt on Britain’s Nuclear Electricity Strategy – Stanley Reed