Sunday, May 12, 2013

• Los Angeles Times – Raising a glass to an atomic history – John M. Glionna
• HNN HuntingtonNews – Hot Particles From Japan to Seattle Virtually Undetectable when Inhaled or Swallowed
• Rolling Stone – St. Louis Is Burning – Steven Hsieh
• Rapid City Journal – U.S. Army vet reveals 1950s nuclear secret – Jennifer Rogers
• The Tennessean – ‘Girls of Atomic City’ tells tories of women at Oak Ridge – Brad Schmitt
• Southern Pines Pilot – Revealing a Little-Known Story – Faye M. Dasen
• Patriot-News – Tanker truck explosion: Did the gridlock prove we’d all be stuck in a TMI disaster? – David Wenner
• National Conference of State Legislatures – Senators Release Nuclear Waste Storage Draft Legislation
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – LDP to include campaign pledge calling for restart of nuclear reactors – Tomoyoshi Otsu
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – A-bomb survivors pass on own experiences to support Fukushima
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – ‘Unusually high’ number of radioactive particles found on Cumbria beach
• Europe: Sunday Mirror – Nuclear test veterans win war pensions after four year battle with Ministry of Defence – Susie Boniface

Saturday, May 11, 2013

• Contra Costa Times – Lawrence Livermore Lab must pay five former employees $2.7 million – Paul T. Rosynsky
• Marin Independent-Journal – Anti-nuclear lobbyist to speak at Mill Valley gathering
• Santa Maria Times – Letter: Nuke waste still an issue – Bill L. Denneen
• KING5 Seattle – No plan in place when leak alarm sounded at Hanford – Susannah Frame
• Tampa Bay Times – Editorial: The high price of nuclear fantasies
• Charlotte Observer – State-owned utility has too much power, is building more capacity – Roddie Burris
• Hartford Courant – Letter: Unsafe Spent Nuclear Fuel – Charles R. Waterman
• Asia-Pacific: Fairewinds Energy Education – What Did They Know and When? Fukushima Daiichi Before and After The Meltdowns Symposium: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident (pdf-19M)
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Nagasaki firms warned for sending workers to stricken nuke plant
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – LDP locks sights on reactors, Constitution
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan News – Taipower should pay for Orchid Island health checks: Control Yuan
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – Activists slam govt’s nuclear policies
• Europe: Dunferline Press – MP’s Rosyth nuclear waste storage concerns

Friday, May 10, 2013

• Ely Times – Tribes organize walk to send a message – Lukas Eggen
• io9 – Here’s how radiation from this atomic bomb test got to San Francisco – Esther Inglis-Arkell
• SanClemente.Patch – Documentary: Nuclear Power Isn’t So Bad – Tiffany Ujiiye
• KING5 Seattle – GAO faults Dept. of Energy’s management of Hanford cleanup – Gary Chittim
• Tri-City Herald – Man gets probation, fine for concealing Hanford kickbacks – Annette Cary
• KTRH – Critics Go Nuclear Over Radioactive Waste Bill – Scott Crowder
• Green Bay Press Gazette – Gone dark–Kewaunee Power Station shuts down after 39 years of service – Richard Ryman
• Florissant Patch – North County Cancer Cluster Dispute Heats Up at Radioactive Waste Meeting
• Rolling Stone – St. Louis Is Burning – Steven Hsieh
• Westport-News – Ark. nuclear plant death still under investigation
• Oak Ridger – Future’s So Bright … Generating solar power on unusable industrial park land
• Northeast Pennsylvania Business Journal – Local experts question credibility of power plant study – Kathy Ruff
• Baltimore Sun – Nuclear power is not the answer to our energy needs – Regina Minniss
• NEI Nuclear Notes – “So many mothers against nuclear energy!”–And For It, Too. – Mark Flanagan
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Dr Christoph Frei, World Energy Council: “The energy sector has to re-evaluate itself and regain the public confidence to be granted its social licence to operate.” – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Long-term operations set to dominate nuclear agenda – Jason Deign
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 2 – 8 May 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Policy Brief 2–8 May 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Washington Business Journal – Nuclear waste: Congress to probe Nuclear Regulatory Commission real estate – Daniel J. Sernovitz
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – New documentary shows plight of Fukushima nuclear plant evacuees – Ida Torres
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Researcher uses GPS data to investigate evacuee movements after nuclear disaster
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – TEPCO to remove cover of Fukushima reactor bldg.
• Asia: All Things Nuclear – Reconceiving China’s No First Use Policy – Gregory Kulacki
• Europe: in-cumbria – Number of radioactive beach particles soared threefold – Alan Irving
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Dounreay raffinate prepared for disposal
• Russia: Bellona – Bellona’s St. Petersburg office receives prosecutors’ list of alleged administrative violations – and refutes them – Charles Digges
• South Africa: iAfrica – NGO warns of dodgy nuke deals

Thursday, May 09, 2013

• Institute for International Studies – Earth scientist and nuclear waste expert Rod Ewing joins Stanford – Beth Duff-Brown
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Editorial: San Onofre deserves a second chance
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – On-site spent fuel storage sensible – Linda Seeley And Elizabeth Brousse
• KING5 Seattle – Unsealed documents reveal serious violations by Hanford contractor – Gary Chittim
• Scientific American – Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Plant May Be Too Dangerous – Valerie Brown
• Tri-City Herald – Budget cuts put Hanford deadlines at risk – Annette Cary
• Muscatine Journal – Is Nuclear or NIMBYs the Issue? – Angela Henning
• Reuters – Activists convicted over Tennessee nuclear facility break-in – Preston Peeden
• South Florida Times – Vieques residents remain unhappy with U.S. Navy’s cleanup progress
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Nuclear Regulators Stick Their Heads In The Sand
• Link TV – The Naked Truth About Nuclear Accident Insurance – Miles Benson
• McClatchy Washington Bureau – Atoms for peace: Now what? – William F. Shughart Ii
• Wall Street Journal – Worst Week Since Fukushima: 4 Major Setbacks In 3 Days Are Latest Stumbles For U.S. Nuclear Power Industry
• NRC Blog – When “Nuclear” is the Star of Stage and Screen – Scott Burnell
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: First of all, Japan should think about nuclear nonproliferation
• Asia-Pacific: RocketNews24 – Japanese Documentary Tells the Real Story of the Daiichi Nuclear Plant Evacuees – Andrew Miller
• Europe: Daily Express – Nuclear fears in Europe after unshielded radioactive material is found – Charlotte Meredith
• Europe: Finwin – Platts Survey: High Capital Costs and Maintaining Public Confidence Cited as Greatest Challenges Facing European Nuclear Power Markets
• Europe: Northampton Chronicle & Echo – Plutonium stolen from Northampton school during refit – Richard Edmondson
• Europe: Scottish Express – SNP nuclear waste plan to cost billions – Paul Gilbride

Wednesday, May 08, 2013

• La Jolla Light – La Jolla Centenarians: Peter Fortescue led General Atomics’ team with adventurous spirit
• Los Angeles Times – The lifespan of 23 words – David L. Ulin
• TMCnet – University of California, Irvine; License Renewal for University of California, Irvine Nuclear Reactor Facility; Supplemental Information
• Pueblo Chieftain – Uranium workers’ health benefits
• New York Times – As Price of Nuclear Energy Drops, a Wisconsin Plant Is Shut – Matthew L. Wald
• PennEnergy – Dominion shuts down Kewaunee nuclear station permanently
• Huffington Post – Fred Upton: Michigan Nuclear Plant Situation Is ‘Unacceptable’
• MIT News – Funding clean-energy solutions – Rob Matheson
• Portsmouth Daily Times – USEC reports $2 million first quarter loss – Frank Lewis
• Rapid City Journal – Feds probe nuclear contractor over allegations – Ray Henry
• All Things Nuclear – Lindsay Graham’s MOX Factory to Nowhere – Ed Lyman
• Lower Hudson Journal – NRC report: Indian Point ‘preserved public health and safety’ in 2012 – Michael Risinit
• Hartford Courant – State’s $75M Share In Nuclear Waste Settlement Heads To Ratepayers – Brian Dowling
• Finwin – Worst Week Since Fukushima: 4 Major Setbacks In 3 Days Are Latest Stumbles For
• The Hill blog – Sen. Wyden: ‘It’s time to vote’ on DOE nominee – Zack Colman
• Scientific American blog – Nuclear energy for future citizens – Ashutosh Jogalekar
• Canada: Saskatoon StarPhoenix – Ban nuclear waste – Jack Jensen
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – OpEd: When Nature Is Not Enough – Nassrine Azimi
• Asia-Pacific: UPI Asia – Fukushima debris cleanup delayed
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 70% of nuclear experts still ‘comfortable’ with atomic power: survey
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO eyes dumping groundwater from Fukushima plant
• Asia-Pacific: Taiwan Today – Hong Kong scholar addresses nuclear safety – Meg Chang
• Europe: Bloomberg – Germany and France Want to Make Europe Clean-Energy ‘Pioneer’ – Stefan Nicola
• Europe: Gazzetta del Sud – Radioactive boars found in Piedmont

Tuesday, May 07, 2013

• Grist Magazine – One nuke plant in Wisconsin will shutter, another in California might not be switched back on – John Upton
• Los Angeles Times – The dubious future of the San Onofre nuclear plant – Karin Klein
• Los Angeles Times – Energy officials brace for another summer without San Onofre – Abby Sewell
• San Diego Union-Tribune – New inquiry at San Onofre focuses on nuclear commission – Morgan Lee
• Telluride Daily Planet – DOE extends environmental impact statement comment period – Heather Sackett
• FOX News – Texas appealing to other states for radioactive trash, looks to expand program – Barnini Chakraborty
• Oak Ridge Today – Y-12 site manager, fired security guard could testify at protester trial – John Huotari
• Southern Maryland Online – Chesapeake Born: Nukes and Windmills – Tom Horton
• Bourne Courier – Bourne backs resolution to request Pilgrim nuke plant shutdown
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #136: Scoring 100 on the Test by Changing the Questions – Dave Lochbaum
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – How do you solve a problem like plutonium? – Fissile Materials Working Group
• Yahoo! News – Internet Explorer Zero-Day Attack Targets Nuclear Researchers – Ben Weitzenkorn
• UN: IPS – U.N. Accused of Playing Down Nuke Disarmament Conference – Thalif Deen
• Oceania: Marianas Variety – Increased radiation compensation for Guam pushed – Louella Losinio
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Highly radioactive debris recovered from atop crippled Fukushima Daiichi reactor – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Global Research – Is Japan Developing a Nuclear Weapons Program? – Peter Symonds
• kushima Diary – JP Gov to lift all the hazard areas in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to review Fukushima quake debris disposal plans due to nuclear disaster
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Japan losing its moral compass with nuclear reactor exports
• Southwest Asia: Greenpeace International – Japanese and French companies to build Turkey’s nuclear reactors: What could go wrong? – Justin McKeating
• Europe: Sheffield Star – ‘Lost’ uranium found in scrap metal at firm
• Russia: Bellona – COMMENT: He did it again: Putin renews vows to build more reactors on eve of Chernobyl anniversary – Andrei Ozharovsky
• Middle East: Democracy Now! – Robert Fisk on Syria’s Civil War, Chemical Weapons “Theater” & Obama’s Backing of Israeli Strikes

Monday, May 06, 2013

• Power Engineering – Edison may retire both San Onofre nuclear units
• Enformable – Palisades nuclear power plant shut down due to leaks – Lucas W Hixson
• Oak Ridge Today – Guest column: Did God initiate the invention of the atomic bomb? – Myra Mansfield
• Citizens Voice – Whitman pushes nuclear energy in gas country – David Falchek
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – CROOKED CLEANUP: Yakuza taking slice of lucrative decontamination work
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Solar power taking off in a big way across Japan – Toru Nakagawa
• Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – Fukushima N-Plant Workers Got Used to Radiation Shortly after Crisis
• Asia-Pacific: Yomiuri Shimbun – High-radiation debris found at nuclear plant
• South Asia: BBC News – Kudankulam: India court allows operations at nuclear plant
• South Asia: Calcutta Telegraph – Supreme Court allows commissioning of Kudankulam nuclear power plant
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – Pros and cons of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant
• South Asia: India West – Plea Against Nuclear Power Plant Dismissed
• Europe: Scientific American – U.K. Stockpiles Plutonium in Hopes of Future Energy – Paul Brown
• Russia: Bellona – Thuggish arrests of activists and journalists mar Chernobyl anniversary march in Minsk, Belarus – Charles Digges, Tatyana Novikova
• Middle East: Press TV – Israel used depleted uranium in airstrike on Syria: Report