Sunday, June 09, 2013

• CityWatch LA – Humans Used for Radiation Experiments: A Shameful Chapter in US History – John LaForge
• Inland Empire News – Riverside seeks to replace lost San Onofre power
• Lompoc Record – Letter: Nuke waste still an issue – Bill L. Denneen
• Lompoc Record – Power jolt: Q&A over nuclear plant closing
• Los Angeles Times – San Onofre nuclear plant closure brings huge costs – Abby Sewell
• Los Angeles Times – Why is San Onofre nuclear plant closing? How much will this cost? – Abby Sewell and Shelby Grad
• Los Angeles Times – Editorial: – San Onofre, R.I.P.
• Los Angeles Times – A long cooling-off period for San Onofre nuclear plant – Ralph Vartabedian
• Los Angeles Times – Who should pay for San Onofre fiasco? The answer is obvious – Michael Hiltzik
• Reuters – Nuclear plant shutdown to increase California’s reliance on natural gas – Scott DiSavino
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Struggle ahead over who pays for nuke’s $4.3b costs – Dan McSwain
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Caught by surprise about double-domed beauty’s future – Logan Jenkins
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – Permanent closure of San Onofre nuclear power plant will shrink summer power supply – Dale Kasler
• CNN – People may find out how they received cancer?
• Toledo Blade – Calif. nuclear plant closing has local implications
• Boston Globe – Nuclear plant closures show industry’s struggles – Ray Henry And Michael R. Blood
• Forbes – Pandora’s Promise — The Sundance Film Festival’s Nuclear Exposé – Christopher Helman
• Santa Fe New Mexican – Reader View: Don’t let New Mexico become nation’s nuclear outhouse – Richard Johnson
• Cape Cod Times – Powerful questions
• Wicked Local Plymouth – EcoLaw and Entergy will face off at Plymouth Zoning Board of Appeals meeting – Frank Mand
• Canada: GlobalPost – Federal government poised to roll out plan to raise nuclear liability cap
• Canada: Global Research – The future of Uranium Development and Nuclear Power in Canada – David Orchard
• Asahi Shimbun – Nagasaki declaration to take swipe at nuclear pact with India
• Japan Focus – Abenomics Needs a Reboot Rather than Nuclear Restarts – Andrew DeWit
• Japan Focus – Scientists and Research on the Effects of Radiation Exposure: From Hiroshima to Fukushima – Sawada Shoji
• Japan Times – Fishermen to Tepco: Scrap plan to release No. 1 plant water into Pacific
• Japan Times – Rally against nuclear power
• South Asia: The Hindu – Residents oppose nuclear plant at Kovvada
• South Asia: Press TV – Foreign, local hurdles in Indian nuclear industry – Igor Alexeev

Saturday, June 08, 2013

• Las Vegas SUN – Sandoval’s veto benefits small Nevada energy provider – Cy Ryan
• Tri-Valley CAREs – Tri-Valley CAREs Files Federal Lawsuit to Compel Release of Information About Nuclear Weapons Activities at Livermore Lab
• Epoch Times – California Nuclear Plant Closures Show Industry’s Struggles
• Enformable – San Onofre shutdown latest setback in nuclear power’s downward spiral – Karl Grossman
• KPBS – Nuclear Fuel To Be Stored At San Onofre As Part of Decommissioning – Amita Sharma
• Los Angeles Times – San Onofre shutdown will mean tight electricity supplies – Marc Lifsher
• Los Angeles Times – Why is San Onofre nuclear plant closing? How much will this cost? – Abby Sewell and Shelby Grad
• Los Angeles Times – Shutting down San Onofre: How much should Edison’s customers pay? – Karin Klein
• Los Angeles Times – Finally, a smart decision on San Onofre – Karin Klein
• NBC Sandiego – San Onofre Decommissioning to Take Decades: Edison CEO – Emily Feldman
• New York Times – Nuclear Power Plant in Limbo Decides to Close – Matthew L. Wald
• NRC Blog – Today’s SONGS Announcement: Now What? – Victor Dricks
• Reuters – Rival Koreas set for first official talks in over two years
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Struggle ahead over who pays for nuke’s $4.3B costs – Dan McSwain5
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Fabled nuke fizzles out early – Logan Jenkins4
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Next at San Onofre: Defuel, dismantle – Morgan Lee8
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Shutting San Onofre a Win for No One
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Edison gives up on Crippled San Onofre Power Plant Shut Down – Morgan Lee & Mark Walker
• San Diego Union-Tribune – The End of The Line: What Happened at San Onofre? – Morgan Lee & Jonathan Horn
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Next at San Onofre: Defuel, dismantle – Morgan Lee
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – Permanent closure of San Onofre nuclear power plant will shrink summer power supply – Dale Kasler
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – San Onofre nuke plant to close after bitter fight – Michael R. Blood
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – San Onofre: Gov. says energy plan in the works
• Southern California Public Radio – FAQ: How will San Onofre store its spent nuclear fuel? – Sanden Totten
• The Oregonian – Hanford down-winder pursues a settlement for exposure to radioactive fallout
• Spokesman-Review – ‘They’re just waiting for all of us to die’ – Karen Dorn Steele
• Odessa American – Federal radioactive facility opens – Jon Vanderlaan
• Fort Worth Star-Telegram – Texas site begins taking federal nuclear waste – Betsy Blaney
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel blog – A month after Kewaunee, another nuclear plant shutters – Thomas Content
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Davis-Besse Intervention Looms Large as San Onofre Units 2 & 3 Terminated Because of Faulty Steam Generators
• South America: Xinhua News – Brazil announces delay in operation of its third nuclear plant
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Abe should stop using diplomacy to promote nuclear power
• Japan Times – Rally against nuclear power
• Mainichi Daily News – Data reveals that 75 percent of decontamination work in housing areas remains unfinished
• Taipei Times – Editorial: Cartoon
• South Asia: Daily News & Analysis – Uranium waste contaminates water in Jharkhand
• Europe: The Independent – Revealed: £2bn cost of failed Sellafield plant – Brian Brady
• East Europe: Kyiv Post – IAEA experts check Chornobyl, give recommendations for preventing collapse of walls

Friday, June 07, 2013

• Peace, Earth & Justice – Why do many people think Nevada’s Yucca Mountain is an unsafe place to store nuclear waste? – Vinka Lasic
• Politico – Yucca Mountain still haunts nuclear waste issue – Darius Dixon
• Huffington Post – Atomic Bomb Tests From 1950’s & 1960’s Helped Show That Brain Cells Can Be Created In Adulthood – Stephanie Pappas
• Los Angeles Times – Nuclear bomb fallout offers timeline for measuring brain development – Geoffrey Mohan
• Los Angeles Times – Preserving the history of the Manhattan Project – Stephanie Meeks
• Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) – Feinstein Statement on Closure of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
• Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) – Markey Hails San Onofre Closure As Win for Safety, Oversight
• AFP Google – Glitch-hit US nuclear plant shut down for good
• AP – Calif. Utility will close Troubled Nuclear Plant – Michael R. Blood
• BBC News – San Onofre California nuclear plant to shut
• Bloomberg – Edison Faces Regulatory Battle Over San Onofre Shutdown Cost – Mark Chediak &Amp; Jim Polson
• Capistrano Dispatch – SONGS to Shut Down – Andrea Swayne And Jim Shilander
• CounterPunch – San Onofre is Dead, the Nuclear Waste Isn’t – Ace Hoffman
• Edison International – Southern California Edison Announces Plans to Retire San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
• Edison International – Southern California Edison to Hold Conference Call On San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
• Enformable – San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant shutdown in wake of ASLB decision – Lucas W Hixson
• ENS – California’s Damaged San Onofre Nuclear Plant to Be Retired
• FOE – Victory: Edison closes San Onofre for good (updated with press conference)
• Lompoc Record – San Onofre: Gov. says energy plan in the works
• Los Angeles Times – San Onofre nuclear plant closure tied to finances – Abby Sewell
• Los Angeles Times – San Onofre neighbors no longer felt safe, welcome closure – Anh Do
• National Review – Another Blow to Our Nuclear-Powered Future – Ian Tuttle
• NBC Los Angeles – Socal Edison Retiring San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station – R. Stickney
• New York Times – The End Comes for a Troubled California Nuclear Plant – Andrew C. Revkin
• NRDC blog – NRDC Welcomes Southern California Edison’s Decision to Retire the San Onofre Nuclear Plant – Matthew Mckinzie
• NukeFree.org – San Onofre is Dead & So is Nuclear Power – Harvey Wasserman
• OC Weekly blog – San Onofre Nuke Plant Officials Say They Did Nothing Wrong–OH REALLY? – Nick Schou
• Platts – SoCal Ed to retire San Onofre nuclear units, blames NRC delays – William Freebairn
• Power Engineering – Both nuclear units at SONGS to be retired
• Reuters – UPDATE 4-California’s San Onofre nuclear plant to close for good – Scott Disavino
• Salon – Environmentalists celebrate nuclear plant closing – Gillian Flaccus And Amy Taxin
• SanClemente.Patch – San Onofre Plant Closing a ‘Seismic Event in the Nuclear Industry’ – Adam Townsend
• SanClemente.Patch – Major Political, Other Leaders React to Nuke Plant’s Closure – Penny Arévalo
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Timeline of San Onofre plant’s operations
• Washington Post – California is closing a huge nuclear plant. So what will replace it? – Brad Plumer
• World Nuclear News – Regulatory delay closes San Onofre
• Tri-City Herald – DOE says it may miss court-enforced Hanford deadlines – Annette Cary
• Minnesota Public Radio – Costs uncertain for Xcel to meet new nuclear rule – Elizabeth Dunbar
• Enformable – All of TVA’s nuclear power plants operating under notices of safety violations – Lucas W Hixson
• Amsterdam News – Activists fight against Indian Point nuclear power plant’s re-licensing – Stephon Johnson
• Buffalo Rising – Out of Sight, In Our Water? – Orlando C. Monaco
• Coastal Journal – Possible end in sight for nuclear waste storage – Chris Chase
• ThomasNet News – Can We Eliminate Nuclear Waste by Turning it into Energy? – Rp Siegel
• DOE:EM – DOE Applauds Opening of Historic Disposal Facility
• NRC – Inspector General Reports: FY 2013 Index
• Bloomberg – Abe Signs Deal With Hollande on Japan-France Nuclear Ties – Isabel Reynolds & Takashi Hirokawa
• JIJI Press – Over 10,000 People Have Yet to Apply for Compensation from TEPCO
• Mainichi Shimbun – Belarus shares experiences handling radiation contamination in Tokyo symposium
• Taipei Times – Lu launches new petition for nuclear referendum – Mo Yan-chih
• Taipei Times – Bicyclists start referendum drive – Lee I-chia
• South Asia: DNA – Don’t fund Jaitapur, locals urge European banks – Dilnaz Boga
• Europe: ITV News – Full report: Protestors campaign against nuclear waste law
• Europe: North Wales Chronicle – Anti-nuclear campaigners publish online petition – Tomos Hughes

Thursday, June 06, 2013

• Fairewinds Energy Education – Fighting a dragon I cannot see
• Sonoma Valley Sun blog – Going nuclear – Larry Barnett
• Tri-City Herald – Birds at Hanford vit plant spread contaminated waste – Annette Cary
• Albuquerque Journal – LANL waste to reach Texas site today
• New Baltimore Voice – Anti-nuclear activist anticipates Michigan Senate’s concerns – Jim Bloch
• Akron Beacon Journal – Radioactive drilling wastes up for Ohio Senate vote – Bob Downing
• The Chattanoogan – Environmental Group Says Study Shows Those Living Near Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Have Higher Mortality Rates
• Bloomberg – NRC Orders Owners of 31 U.S. Reactors to Toughen Vents – Brian Wingfield
• Platts – US nuclear plant operators estimate $3.6 bil in post-Fukushima costs – William Freebairn
• Scientific American blog – Hope springs eternal: “Pandora’s Promise” and the truth about nuclear energy – Ashutosh Jogalekar |
• Canada: Toronto Star – Nuclear waste meetings draw criticism in Bruce County – John Spears
• Oncology Update – Thyroid cancer spike in Fukushima
• Asahi Shimbun – Family blasts TEPCO’s refusal to apologize for Fukushima farmer’s suicide – Ryujiro Komatsu
• Asahi Shimbun – Experts: More data needed to assess radiation’s role in cancer among Fukushima kids
• Asahi Shimbun – Radiation levels fall 40 percent in Fukushima evacuation zones – Jin Nishikawa
• Japan Daily Press – 3-year limit may prevent Fukushima evacuees from claiming compensation from TEPCO – Faith Aquino
• Mainichi Daily News – 4 members leave Fukushima panel overseeing prefectural health survey
• Mainichi Daily News – Petition against removal of A-bomb victim figures delivered to Hiroshima museum
• East Asia: AFP Google – S. Korea’s top nuclear plant operator sacked
• Europe: Bloomberg – EDF Doesn’t Have U.K. ‘Over a Barrel’ on Nuclear, Minister Says – Sally Bakewell
• Europe: Burnham-On-Sea – Nuclear waste could be transferred from Dungeness to Hinkley Point
• Europe: ITV – Anti-nuclear demonstration in Whitehaven
• Europe: this is Somerset – Concern over plans to store nuclear waste at Hinkley Point
• East Europe: Ria Novosti – Belarus Scientists Want Logging Restart in Chernobyl Area – Andrey Alexandrov
• Middle East: Al Jazeera – What’s delaying the WHO report on Iraqi birth defects? – Mozhgan Savabieasfahani

Wednesday, June 05, 2013

• ABC 10news – San Onofre security demands video be deleted – Mitch Blacher
• KPBS – Lessons From Fukushima For San Onofre – Alison St John
• Los Angeles Times – Ex-NRC chief: San Onofre restart plan doesn’t instill confidence – Abby Sewell
• San Diego Union-Tribune – In San Diego, Fukushima legacy comes calling – Morgan Lee
• Truthout – America’s Secret Fukushima Poisoning the Bread Basket of the World – Margaret Flowers And Kevin Zeese
• Enformable – Monticello found needing to improve external flooding mitigation – Lucas W Hixson
• Bettendorf – Sizing up nuke plant opposition
• World Nuclear News – SMRs off the menu for Iowa
• Chillicothe Gazette – USEC sues feds, seeks reimbursement – Brett Barrouquere
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Some Atomic Energy Workers Passed Effects of Radiation and Chemical Exposure to their Spouses and Children
• The Chattanoogan – NRC Increases Oversight Of Sequoyah Nuclear Plant For Flood-Related Violations
• Bloomberg – Scana Reactors Face New Delays and $200 Million Additional Costs – Julie Johnsson
• Wicked Local Plymouth – PILGRIM STATION: What to ask about casks – Frank Mand
• Vermont Business Magazine – State defends authority over Vermont Yankee
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Long term community impact of plant uprate programmes – Peter Taberner
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Policy Brief 30 May – 5 June 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 30 May – 5 June 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Kitsap Sun – Nuclear site scrap metal could be headed to recyclers – Len Boselovic
• WorkersCompensation – US DoL Notifies Workers of Inclusion In EEOICPA Special Cohort Designation
• Canada: Toronto Star – Nuclear waste meetings draw criticism in Bruce County – John Spears
• Oceania: Islands Business – French Polynesia nuclear test expert dismissed – report
• Foreign Policy and Security Research center – Japan seeks to adopt Belarus’ post-Chernobyl agricultural practices
• New York Times – In Reversal, Tepco Says Water at Fukushima Is Contaminated – Martin Fackler
• SimplyInfo – The Marketing-Speak of The UNSCEAR Report On Fukushima
• Yahoo! News – Inside Japan’s solar boom – Carmel Lobello
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO’s failure at math may have increased radiation release at Fukushima plant – Toshihiro Okuyama
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Abe’s growth strategy misses the big picture by reverting to nuclear energy
• Japan Daily Press – Fukushima thyroid cancer cases rise to 12 confirmed, 15 suspected – John Hofilena
• Japan Daily Press – Ex-PM Naoto Kan attends anti-nuclear symposium in California – Faith Aquino
• Japan Times – High-level radiation zones now less than quarter of 2011 crisis levels
• Japan Times – Kan shares lessons of Fukushima in U.S.
• NHK World – Kan: Only nuclear-free society can avoid accidents
• NHK World – Nuclear evacuation guidelines updated
• NHK World – TEPCO settlement in farmer suicide
• NHK World – Photos released of Fukushima reactor probe
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Panel to set rules to scrap N-reactors
• Taipei Times – Ma on ‘energy tour’ when quake struck – Jake Chung
• Europe: YouTube – Radioactive waste: Dumped and Forgotten
• Europe: BBC News – Somerset council objects to nuclear waste transfer option
• Europe: BBC News – World’s deepest nuclear clean-up a step closer to starting
• Europe: Irish Independent – Lessons learned from nuclear accident can improve creches – Stephen Kinsella
• Europe: Irish Independent – Holy radioactive alert
• East Europe: BelTA – Budget of new Union State Chernobyl program at RUB1.4bn
• East Europe: Enformable – IAEA experts examining ceiling collapse at Chernobyl nuclear power plant – Lucas W Hixson
• Russia: Bellona – Russian PM Medvedev stomps out NGO involvement in Barents area cooperation – Anna Kireeva
• Middle East: Global Research – U.S. Builds $25-Million Military Base for Israel’s Anti Missile System, to Counter Iran – Richard Silverstein

Tuesday, June 04, 2013

• San Diego Union-Tribune – Tuna pose no risk after nuke disaster – Bradley j. Fikes
• 89.3 KPCC – Ex-NRC head Jaczko: San Onofre restart proposal ‘does not instill a lot of confidence’ – Ben Bergman
• KING5 Seattle – State ready to take action over leaking Hanford nuclear waste tank – Susannah Frame
• Telluride Daily Planet – DOE extends environmental impact statement comment period for second time – Heather Sackett
• Washington Post – A visit to Trinity, where the first A-bomb was tested in 1945, turns up radiation still – Devin Powell
• Blog for Iowa – Iowa Pulls The Plug On Nuclear Power – Paul Deaton
• DesMoinesRegister – MidAmerican decides against Iowa nuclear plant – Perry Beeman and William Petroski
• Atlanta Journal Constitution – Tea party targeting Southern Co. power monopoly – Ray Henry
• Baltimore Sun – In terms of cost and safety, nuclear power can’t hold a candle to renewable energy sources
• Pottstown Mercury – Letter: Early re-licensing of Limerick Nuclear Plant is outrageous – Betty and Charlie Shank
• Wicked Local Plymouth – PILGRIM STATION: Operator health questions added to list of nuclear plant issues – Frank Mand
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #138: U-235–Return to Somebody? – Dave Lochbaum
• Huffington Post – Fixing Blame for a Nuclear Security Failure – Helen Young
• Japan Daily Press – TEPCO admits Fukushima groundwater contaminated with radioactive cesium – Faith Aquino
• Japan Times – Tepco finds groundwater contaminated with radioactive cesium
• Japan Times – Nuclear foes stage march on Diet
• NHK World – Report: Nuclear impact is top environment issue
• Tokyo Times – Tokyo protests against Abe’s plan on nuclear power
• South Asia: The Hindu – “Uranium mining posing danger to people, habitat”
• North Europe: Bellona – URGENT: Leaked mothballing order confirms CPR stopped on long-suffering Baltic NPP – Rosatom website counters in own version – Maria Kaminskaya
• Middle East: antiwar.com – Report: Israel Has At Least 80 Nukes – Jason Ditz
• Middle East: antiwar.com – IAEA Chief Fears Searching Iran Site, Finding Nothing – Jason Ditz
• Middle East: Washington Times – Obama uses executive order to expand sanctions on Iran – Guy Taylor
• North Africa: North Africa Post. – Radioactive Waste Found in Algiers Port

Monday, June 03, 2013

• Pahrump Valley Times – UPDATE: 2,500 nuclear waste shipments through town each year – Selwyn Harris
• KPBS – San Onofre: How Did It Come To This? – Alison St John
• San Diego Union-Tribune – San Diego hosts famous skeptics of nuclear safety – Morgan Lee
• KPBS – Tribes, Enviros Fight Uranium Mining Near Grand Canyon – Laurel Morales
• New Baltimore Voice – Michigan Senate questions nuclear waste dump on Lake Huron – Jim Bloch
• WickedLocal Cape Cod – Protesters still oppose Pilgrim nuclear power Station – Rich Eldred
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• ISIS Report – Nuclear Subsidies Largesse by other Names – Prof Peter Saunders
• UN: IAEA – Board of Governors Convenes June Meeting
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Asahi Shimbun – Consolation money to place additional financial burden on TEPCO
• Japan Times – Ministry may sue Tepco for ¥16 billion
• NHK World – Residents win radiation uncertainty compensation
• Mainichi Daily News – Large anti-nuclear rally held near Diet building
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima village residents to receive new compensation over mental damage
• TEPCO – TEPCO News Update
• Yomiuri Shimbun – 42% of govts back plan for final N-waste sites
• Asia: Bloomberg – China Nuclear Stockpile Grows as India Matches Pakistan Rise – Robert Wall
• East Europe: Prague Daily Monitor – Competitiveness to be considered in Czech energy development, trade min says