Sunday, June 02, 2013

• Chattanooga Times Free Press – TVA eyes building 2 smaller reactors on the Clinch River in Oak Ridge – Dave Flessner
• Fairfield County Herald Independent – Nuclear construction findings revised – Kevin Boozer
• Wheeling News-Register – A Little Radiation May be A Big Deal – Casey Junkins
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Nuclear site scrap metal could be headed to recyclers – Len Boselovic
• The Guardian – Nuclear states developing new weapons in defiance of treaty, report claims – Richard Norton-Taylor
• Reuters – Bayer’s Nexavar shown to delay thyroid cancer by 5 months
• Canada: Regina Leader-Post – Skullduggery alleged over mayors’ ‘secret’ nuclear-waste storage meetings – Colin Perkel
• Oceania: yokwe.net – Articles: Don’t Ever Whisper: The Story of Marshallese Activist Darlene Keju
• Bloomberg – Abenomics Needs Cheap Nuclear Power to Work – Ulrike Schaede
• RT – ‘No nukes’: Thousands in Tokyo rally against nuclear power (PHOTOS)
• UPI Asia – 60,000 protest Japan’s plan to restart nuclear power plants
• Japan Times – Ministry may sue Tepco for ¥16 billion
• Japan Times – U.N. experts see no increased risk of cancer for residents near No. 1 plant
• Kyodo News – M6.3 quake hits central Taiwan, 2 dead, 1 missing, 21 injured – Ko Shu-ling
• Japan Focus – Life and Death Choices: Radiation, children, and Japan’s future – David McNeill
• JIJI Press – Actions Cut Radiation Exposure in Fukushima by 90 Pct: U.N.
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuke crisis evacuee gives up return to hometown for sake of family
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t urged to review criteria for Minamata disease recognition

Saturday, June 01, 2013

• Forbes – Southern California Edison Playing Hide-And-Seek With Public and Regulators – Ken Silverstein
• KPBS – Nuclear Regulatory Commission Invites Communuty Leaders to San Onofre Discussions
• Seattle PI – Storied nuke plant becomes environmental wasteland – Shannon Dininny
• Seattle PI – Questions, answers on Hanford Nuclear Reservation – Shannon Dininny
• Tri-City Herald – Information for ill Hanford, PNNL workers offered
• Montrose Daily Press – Uranium mill’s license challenged again – Dick Kamp
• Telluride Daily Planet – Four West End mines slated for clean-up – Katie Klingsporn
• Wyoming Public Media – Wyoming missed out on last uranium boom, but planning for the future – Irina Zhorov
• New Baltimore Voice – Anti-nuclear activist anticipates Michigan Senate’s concerns – Jim Bloch
• New Baltimore Voice – Michigan Senate questions nuclear waste dump on Lake Huron – Jim Bloch
• Wicked Local Plymouth – PLYMOUTH PLANNING BOARD: Dry cask storage appeal moves forward – Frank Mand
• Portland PressHerald – Maine turbine’s launch makes history – Tux Turkel
• Bloomberg – Abe Offers $32 Billion to Africa as Japan Seeks Resources Access – Isabel Reynolds & Takashi Hirokawa
• Earth First – DIY Nuclear Safety at Fukushima
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Nuclear Free Future: The Ongoing Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Eyewitness Report
• GlobalPost – Fukushima fishermen forced to test fish for radiation – Antoni Slodkowski
• New York Times – Experts Foresee No Detectable Health Impact from Fukushima Radiation – Andrew C. Revkin
• World Nuclear News – Fear and stress outweigh Fukushima radiation risk
• Japan Times – Reactor-dismantling cost rule may change
• Europe: The Guardian – Renewable energy is clean, cheap and here – what’s stopping us? – Ashley Seager

Friday, May 31, 2013

• Q13Fox SEATTLE – Radioactive readings at local park has people aglow with questions – Steve Kiggins
• Telluride Daily Planet – DOE extends environmental impact statement comment period for second time – Heather Sackett
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – TVA suffers blow, loses biggest customer – Dave Flessner
• Mid-Hudson News – Common Cause finds fault with Entergy’s Indian Point PR effort
• New York Times – Owner Makes All-Out Push for Indian Point – Jim Dwyer
• Ars Technica – Does a new approach to nuclear make economic sense? – Kate Prengaman
• BBC News – Rover radiation data poses manned Mars mission dilemma
• The Economist – Thanks to cheap natural gas, America’s nuclear renaissance is on hold
• Enformable – March 17th, 2011 – US nuclear power plants lack sufficient measures to prevent runaway meltdown after LOCA
• Quartz – Everything you thought you knew about the risks of nuclear energy is wrong
• National Journal – Lamar Alexander Unveils His Maverick GOP Vision for Energy Future – Coral Davenport
• Rocky Mountain Institute – Is a High Renewables Future Really Possible? (Part 1) – Peter Bronski
• UN: IAEA – International IAEA Emergency Response Workshop in Fukushima Concludes
• Canada: CBC News – Probe into AECL contracts hushed up – Annie Burns-Pieper and Alison Crawford
• Canada: Chronicle Journal – Letter: Serious mistakes – D. Anthony Lariviere
• GlobalPost – TEPCO seeks yet more cash for Fukushima payouts
• Reuters – No rise in cancer seen from Japan’s nuclear disaster-UN experts – Fredrik Dahl
• Reuters – Rising radioactive spills leave Fukushima fishermen floundering – Antoni Slodkowski
• Asahi Shimbun – Abe to intensify efforts to restart nuclear power plants – Tomoya Fujita
• Japan Times – Editorial: Ill-prepared for nuclear accidents
• Japan Times – Widow in farmer suicide sues Tepco – Tomohiro Osaki
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Japan, India seek prompt N-accord
• South Asia: Times of India – Grasslands bristle over uranium plant, test range – Deepika Burli
• Russia: Bellona – Baltic NPP debacle: Construction reported halted, possibly mothballed – Andrei Ozharovsky

Thursday, May 30, 2013

• KCET – SoCal Edison Responds To Boxer’s Charges on San Onofre – Chris Clarke
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Talks ongoing for major repairs at San Onofre – Morgan Lee
• Socialist Project – The Bullet: The New Plunder of Native Lands – Ragina Johnson
• Democratic Underground – Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Plant May Be Too Dangerous – Valerie Brown
• Seattle Times – Public not told parts of Magnuson Park tainted – Brian M. Rosenthal
• KBOI-TV – FBI asking questions to investors of Eagle company
• Summit County Citizens Voice – Colorado orders cleanup of ‘zombie’ uranium mines
• KSFY – Foes of proposed uranium mine want hearing changed – Brian Allen
• Blog for Iowa – Iowa Farmers Oppose Nuclear Power – Paul Deaton
• WNCN – Harris shutdown could cost Duke Energy $1.5 million a day – Jake Seaton, Patrick Shehan
• WWAY – Feds still reviewing NC nuke plant’s year-old flaw
• Baltimore Sun – Nuclear is not the answer – Dr. Gwen L. DuBois
• WNYC – Indian Point Owner Spends Big in Push to Relicense: Report – Robert Lewis
• Earth Island Institute – Radiant Wildlands: The forests near Fukushima and Chernobyl likely have been changed forever. – Winifred Bird And Jane Braxton Little
• IEEE Spectrum – Restructuring and Retrenchment in Nuclear Fuels – Bill Sweet
• NRC – NRC Collection of Abbreviations (NUREG-0544, Revision 4)
• Canada: Reuters – Australia eases access to world’s biggest weapon range, eyes mining – Rob Taylor
• Canada: World Nuclear News – Bruce A1 can go full power
• Canada: Saskatoon StarPhoenix – Uranium mining legacy expensive – Ann Coxworth
• Canada: Windsor Star blog – Dr. Gifford-Jones: The radiation question
• Kyodo News – Gov’t orders TEPCO take measure to halt radioactive water increase
• NHK World – New probe into Fukushima accident launched
• NHK World – KEPCO to put off final report on fault study
• BBC News – Taiwan sees public backlash over nuclear power
• South Asia: Wall Street Journal – Japan Seeks Deal to Sell Reactors to India
• Russia: Bellona – Medvedev issues bold first by stumping for more renewable energy in Russia – Anna Kireeva

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

• Pahrump Valley Times – Nuke dump incentive: Hundreds of millions of dollars – Mark Waite
• Enformable – Tape, broomsticks, and safety cones used at nuclear power plants to manage leaks – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Senator Boxer calls for Justice Department to conduct probe of San Onofre problems – Lucas W Hixson
• ENS – Senator Boxer Seeks Criminal Probe of San Onofre Nuclear Plant
• FOE – San Onofre: Internal letter reveals Edison knew of defects at crippled reactors but misled federal regulators to get expedited license – Adam Russell
• Los Angeles Times – Letter shows Edison anticipated problems with San Onofre generators – Abby Sewell
• Los Angeles Times – Sen. Boxer suggests Edison ‘misled’ public on San Onofre plant – Abby Sewell
• Yahoo! News – AP Exclusive: Boxer wants probe on troubled plant – Michael R. Blood
• Portland PressHerald – Debris from Japan drifts to California
• Rocky Mountain Institute – Is a High Renewables Future Really Possible? (Part 1) – Peter Bronski
• ABC News – Smoldering Landfill Could Threaten Nuclear Waste – Jim Salter
• CBS St. Louis – EPA: Radiation at West Lake Landfill Poses No Health Threat
• ANWAG Blog – Portsmouth continues to falsify records – Terrie Barrie
• Wilmington Star-News – GE hits milestone with laser enrichment of uranium – Jim Brumm
• Heritage Foundation – Virginia Uranium Mining: Draft Regulations Now, Lift Moratorium Later – Jack Spencer
• Beaver County Times – Nuclear reactor in forced shutdown – Rachel Morgan
• CapeCodToday – Solutions sought to eliminate “stockpiling” of spent nuclear fuel at Plymouth
• All Things Nuclear – Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit #7: Monthly Operating Reports – Dave Lochbaum
• Beyond Nuclear – States tell NRC to review nuclear waste storage at reactors
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Video: Nuclear Free Future: The Ongoing Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Eyewitness Report
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Upgrade supply chain set to soar – Peter Taberner
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Policy Review 23- 29 May 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 23 – 29 May 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• UN: IAEA – Legal Experts Meet at IAEA to Review Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage
• Canada: Toronto Star – Aging Pickering nuclear plant seeks five more years – John Spears
• Mainichi Daily News – Regulators to issue order effectively banning restart of Monju
• NHK World – 10,000 residents claim compensation in Fukushima
• South Asia: Navhind Times – SC’s Unjust Order on Kudankulam – Praful Bidwai
• Europe: Bloomberg – French Debates on Nuclear-Waste Repository Postponed by Protests – Tara Patel
• North Europe: Reuters – INTERVIEW-Sweden stands by refusal to subsidise new nuclear – Nerijus Adomaitis
• East Europe: Austrian Times – 27 years on, Austrian animals are still radioactive
• East Europe: Baltic Times – Belarus still fails nuclear convention requirements
• East Europe: Bloomberg – Czech Minister Unsure About Nuclear Expansion, Hospodarske Says – Peter Laca
• Russia: Barents Observer – No deal on nuclear accident warning – Thomas Nilsen
• Russia: Science Daily – Have Health Effects from the Chernobyl Accident Been Overestimated?

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

• Los Angeles Daily News – San Onofre nuclear power plant probe sought by U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer – Michael R. Blood
• Los Angeles Times – Sen. Boxer suggests Edison ‘misled’ public on San Onofre plant – Abby Sewell
• Platts – US Senator requests DOJ investigation of San Onofre nuclear plant – Steven Dolley
• Politico – Barbara Boxer wants U.S. probe on San Onofre
• Ecowatch – Slow Cooker at Paducah Comes to a Boil – Geoffrey Sea
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – Cleanup of K-25 nearing completion
• Cape Cod Times – Mass. officials seek long-term answer on nuke fuel
• SouthCoastToday – AG, Murray appeal for solutions to “stockpiling” of spent nuke fuel – Andy Metzger
• Energy Collective – The Cost of Wind Energy: Part II – Charles Barton
• Foreign Affairs – Book: Nuclear Power Issues and Choices: Report of the Nuclear Energy Policy Study Group – Andrew J. Pierre
• HNN HuntingtonNews – Markey Introduces Bill to Block Re-Use of Radioactive Scrap
• UN: IAEA – Experts Conclude Meeting to Discuss “Human Factors” of Nuclear Safety
• Mexico: CounterPunch – Mexico’s Troubled Nuclear Plant – Talli Nauman
• Canada: Yahoo! News – Plans to bury nuclear waste near Lake Huron face binational opposition – Steve Mertl
• Bloomberg – Tepco Leads Drop in Utilities After Fukushima Bill – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• msn Now – New accident is why Japan maybe shouldn’t have nuclear things
• Asahi Shimbun – Rezoning offers little hope for Fukushima evacuees – Takuro Negishi
• Japan Times – 281_Anti Nuke’s anger at authority is at a critical mass – Jon Mitchell
• Mainichi Daily News – Last no-go zone designation lifted in Fukushima Prefecture
• NHK World – Nuclear regulator’s new review process
• Yomiuri Shimbun – 24 more exposed to radiation
• Europe: The Independent – 43% back UK nuclear plant subsidies – Emily Beament
• Europe: Press Association – Seaweed surge nuclear plant reopens
• West Africa: AFP Google – Areva vows to stay in Niger despite uranium mine attack

Monday, May 27, 2013

• Huffington Post – The Nuclear Option: Waste Plan or a Wasteland? – Bill Chameides
• ABC News – Navajo Plans to Block Access for Uranium Transport – Felicia Fonseca
• Detroit News – Canadian firm’s nuclear waste plan near Lake Huron stirs Michigan fears – Jim Lynch
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Too big to believe: K-25 demolition approaching the end – Frank Munger
• Grist Magazine – Fukushima meltdown’s latest victims: American uranium jobs – John Upton
• PRI – Japanese citizen radiation-tracking program goes big time, spawns U.S. branch
• Wall Street Journal blog – A New Red Flag for Nuclear ‘Safety Culture’ – Yuko Takeo
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• NRC – Public Meeting Schedule
• Canada: CBC News – Nuclear waste site on Lake Huron concerns Michigan, Sarnia
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Oceania: ABC – Waste dump opponents ‘not going to back down’ – Gail Liston
• Common Dreams – Exposed: Japanese Officials Upped Radiation Yardsticks to Dodge Compensation Costs – Andrea Germanos
• IAEA – IAEA RANET Capacity Building Centre in Fukushima Begins Work
• RTT News – Nuclear Emergency Preparedness Capacity Building Center Opens In Fukushima
• Asahi Shimbun – U.N.: Post-Fukushima collective thyroid dose about 3.3% the dose from Chernobyl – Yuri Oiwa
• House of Japan – PHOTO : IAEA facility opens in Fukushima
• Japan Daily Press – Fukushima subcontractor fires employees for whistle-blowing, gets berated by labor office – Ida Torres
• Japan Daily Press – UN expert says Japanese government, TEPCO should do more for nuclear victims – Ida Torres
• Japan Times – 281_Anti Nuke’s anger at authority is at a critical mass – Jon Mitchell
• Japan Times – End of the line for Tsuruga reactor
• Japan Times – Nuclear exposure toll hits 30 in J-PARC lab accident
• Jiji Press – Japan Rezones Last of No-Go Areas near Fukushima N-Plant
• NHK World – Nuclear regulator: Radiation leak at INES Level 1
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Japan in Depth / Researchers downplayed radiation / Leak signals lax N-safety culture
• Taipei Times – Anti-nuclear rally held in Taipei – Lee I-chia
• Asia: CULcEN – Two years on, America hasn’t learned lessons of Fukushima nuclear disaster
• South Asia: Business Standard – Film on Tarapur Atomic Power Station bags award
• Europe: The Guardian – Asos pulls belts in radioactive scare – Simon Neville
• Europe: New York Times – Powerhouse of the Uranium Enrichment Industry Seeks an Exit – Stanley Reed
• East Europe: Warsaw Business Journal – PGE’s nuclear unit in corruption scandal – Kamila Wajszczuk, Jacek Ciesnowski
• Russia: Bellona – ERC Bellona, experts, environmentalists survey Russia’s dirtiest radioactive ‘hot spot’ – Alexei Shchukin, Vsevolod Levchenko
• Russia: Energy Business Review – Russia’s Kursk Nuclear Power Plant shuts down on emergency protection system alarm
• South Africa: ESI Africa – SA’s nuclear power build programme – will it happen? – Antonio Ruffini