An interesting news week.  In Japan, the big news is that the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) led by PM Abe won, taking control of both houses.  The LDP was the only pro-nuke party in the race.   Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan has filed a slander suit against Abe.  Last week’s radioactive leak at Fukushima was downplayed by Tepco and most of the press.  Koodankulam has gone critical in India, but is still under attack by activists, Greenpeace broke into a French nuke just as the EU announced millions of Euros of nuclear bribes, which pissed off Germany.

Peter Bradford & Mark Cooper’s report listing a dozen potential reactors that are on the edge made news in reactor communities across the country.  While the NRC listed TVA’s Browns Ferry unit as the worst in the country.  Fourteen activists were arrested for doing civil-disobedience at the Pilgrim facility.  Georgia’s governor blamed activists for the $1 billion cost overruns at Vogtle, while Southern Cal Edison sued Mitsubishi for constructing faulty steam generators..

Sunday, July 21, 2013

• YouTube – Upton-Frelinghuysen Colloquy on Yucca Mountain Funding
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Regulators killed San Onofre, not engineers – Dan McSwain
• Crookston Times – ND to study radiation in oil drilling waste
• Ocala Star-Banner – Nuclear rip-off – Elvere S. “Tommy” Thompson
• Cape Cod Times – Gonsalves: Nuke plant debate heating up – Sean Gonsalves
• CapeCodToday – Fourteen Cape Cod anti-nuclear protestors in Plymouth Court again yesterday – Walter Brooks
• Bloomberg – Nuclear Closures at Entergy to Exelon Seen on Obama Plan – Mark Chediak
• Oceania: Radio New Zealand – Mururoa veterans want answers about exposure to radiation
• Asia-Pacific: Zero Hedge – “Who Could Trust Such A Company?” – The Big Fat Lies About Radiation Exposure of Workers At Fukushima
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Roadblock to U.S. nuclear arms cuts – by Richard Weitz
• Europe: Singapore Today – The clean-up quandary of nuclear waste – Sylvia Pfeifer
• Europe: The Local Suisse – Geothermal tests cause Swiss quake

Saturday, July 20, 2013

• Glendale News Press – Glendale prepares for long term cost of chromium 6 removal
• Orange County Register – Economics darken future of nuclear power
• San Diego Union-Tribune – SDG&E sues over nuclear plant losses – Morgan Lee
• Sacramento Bee – Viewpoints: Nuclear waste bill endangers public health – Robert Gould, Harry Wang and Jimmy Hara
• HNN HuntingtonNews – Some Isotopes Were Not Calculated, Per New Huntington Pilot Plant Response, Lengthier Residue Decays Possible –
• Yahoo! News – The Story of Energy: The Physics of an Atom, Part 1 – Clarissa Ai Ling Lee
• Canada: Maclean’s Canada – Book Review: A Short History of Nuclear Folly – Rudolph Herzog
• Oceania: 3News NZ – Gathering marks 40 years since Mururoa nuclear protest – Jono Hutchison
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – CRUCIAL VOTE: Protesters say candidates skirting nuclear power issue
• Asia-Pacific: Yomiuri Shimbun – Decontamination delayed in Iitate
• Europe: New York Times – Litvinenko Inquiry Blocked to Avoid Upsetting Russia, British Official Suggests – Alan Cowell
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – Potential nuclear power subsidies anger Germans
• Europe: Reuters – Germany rebuffs European nuclear power subsidy proposal – Charlie Dunmore and Henning Gloystein
• Europe: World Bulletin – Germany rejects European nuclear power subsidy proposal
• Middle East: Axis of Logic – Ten Years Later, U.S. Has Left Iraq with Mass Displacement & Epidemic of Birth Defects, Cancers

Friday, July 19, 2013

• Forbes – Fallout Over Nuclear Energy Debacle Underway – Ken Silverstein, Contributor
• Los Angeles Times – Edison starts legal action in San Onofre nuclear plant shutdown – Marc Lifsher
• Oceanside-Camp Pendleton Patch – Edison Blames Manufacturer for San Onofre Shutdown – Adam Townsend
• Platts – SoCal Ed to hold Mitsubishi accountable for San Onofre generators – Tom Tiernan, Steven Dolley
• Reuters – UPDATE 1-San Onofre nuclear plant closure prompts contract dispute – Rory Carroll
• San Diego Source – PUC should charge Edison for San Onofre–Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on gmail Share on stumbleupon More Sharing Services – Thomas D. Elias
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Blame Game Begins at Broken Nuke Plant–San Onofre operator contests limits on liability in contract – Morgan Lee
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Edison assigns blame for broken nuke plant – Morgan Lee
• Ventura County Star – Mitsubishi blamed in Calif. nuclear plant closure
• Tri-Valley CAREs – Tuesday, August 6 Hiroshima Commemoration at Livermore Lab
• Tri-Valley CAREs – May – June 2013 Citizen’s Watch Newsletter – Marylia Kelley
• Mitchell Daily Republic – Uranium hearings scheduled – Bob Mercer
• El Paso Times – Radiation fallout: 40 people so far report contact with Fort Bliss bunker – Aaron Bracamontes
• KDBC – Air Force retiree who helped bury radioactive material on Fort Bliss shares story
• Wisconsin Public Radio – New Study Triggers Debate About Point Beach’s Nuclear Future – Chuck Quirmbach
• Beyond Nuclear – Palisades & Davis-Besse among most at risk reactors in U.S. for near-term shutdown
• Alabama News blog – Film on nuclear energy dangers, discussion of Browns Ferry safety set Saturday at Lowe Mill – Paul Gattis
• Miami Herald – Miami-Dade residents, environmentalists sound off on FPL power lines plan – Howard Cohen
• Pottstown Mercury – Report: Limerick nuke plant among those at risk for early closure – Evan Brandt
• New Jersey 101.5 FM – Does Nuclear Plant Proximity Endanger Health? [AUDIO] – Rosetta Key
• South Jersey Times – Few questions at hearing on nuclear emergency response plan in Salem County – Bill Gallo Jr.
• Addison-Eagle – Guest Viewpoint: Nuclear power for the anti-nuclear set – John Mcclaughry
• CapeCodToday – Enough is enough – Close Pilgrim Nuclear – Diane Turco, Capedownwinders Spokesperson
• Beyond Nuclear – Vermont Yankee owner: ‘Expect workforce reductions’
• Beyond Nuclear – New report documents reactors most at risk of “early retirement”
• Beyond Nuclear – New World Nuclear Industry Status Report shows industry in decline
• Bloomberg BusinessWeek – The U.S. Nuclear Power Industry’s Dim Future – Matthew Philips
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Forty Good Years and One Bad Day
• The Hill blog – Moniz reshuffles Energy Dept. management structure – Ben Geman
• TIME – Nuclear Energy Is Largely Safe. But Can It Be Cheap? – Bryan Walsh
• GovTrack – H.R. 2712: Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2013
• NAS – Project Update: Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants
• Oceania: Tennant & District Times – Nuke dump search marks 8 years
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Steam emitting from Fukushima Daiichi reactor halts work – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – EDITORIAL: Japan Atomic Power should face reality and decommission its reactors
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – MHI hit for U.S. nuclear plant flaw
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – 80% think another nuke disaster ‘probable’: poll – Kazuaki Nagata
• Asia-Pacific: Jiji Press – Reconstruction Promises Ring Hollow to Disaster-Area Voters
• Asia-Pacific: Kyodo News – Ailing TEPCO to give 100,000 yen to each management-level employee
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 1,973 Fukushima plant workers have higher risk of thyroid cancer
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Parties’ campaigns should show new society with less nuclear power
• Southeast Asia: Bangkok Post – Letter: Nuclear not the answer – Ken Albertsen
• Europe: The Guardian – Nuclear power: leaks show new EU push – Terry Macalister
• Europe: London Times – Taxpayers will foot the bill for nuclear reactor compensation – Tim Webb
• Europe: RFI – French police investigate sabotage in nuclear train crash

Thursday, July 18, 2013

• Los Angeles Times – Edison starts legal action in San Onofre nuclear plant shutdown – Marc Lifsher
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Edison assigns blame for broken nuke plant – Morgan Lee
• The Oregonian – EPA issues $187,620 fine to NW company for waste handling practices –
• Lubbock Avalanche-Journal – Ex-workers at Fort Bliss concerned about exposure to radioactive residue
• Michigan Radio – Palisades, Davis-Besse on list of dozen nuclear plants ‘most at risk’ of closing early – Lindsey Smith
• Fremont News Messenger – Expert: Future of Ohio nuclear power plants in doubt
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – NRC cites TVA again at nation’s worst-rated nuclear plant – Dave Flessner
• Huntsville Times blog – Film on nuclear energy dangers, discussion of Browns Ferry safety set Saturday at Lowe Mill – Paul Gattis
• Aiken Standard – Column: Spent fuel storage means long-term risks – Tom Clements
• Aiken Standard – Column: Spent fuel worth a look – Don Bridges
• Bloomberg BusinessWeek – Southern Co. challenged on nuclear plant costs – Ray Henry
• Baltimore Sun – Report: Calvert Cliffs, other nuclear reactors at risk of early retirement – Jamie Smith Hopkins
• Beaver County Times – Report says early retirements plague nuke industry – Rachel Morgan
• Boston Globe – Warming bay water threatens to shut down Plymouth nuclear reactor – Peter Schworm
• Barre Montpelier Times Argus – Panel has many Fukushima questions – Susan Smallheer
• Ecowatch – Renewable Energy Races Ahead as Nuclear and Fossil Fuels Falter – July 17, 2013
• Salon – The nuclear waste in that tuna roll–After Fukushima, small quantities of radiation have been found in bluefin tuna. How worried should we really be? – Brad Jacobson
• UN: Bloomberg – Atom-Treaty Overhaul Needed, IAEA Lawyer Says – Jonathan Tirone
• Oceania: New Zealand Herald – Sick children and friends dead from cancer make vet think they got it wrong – Wayne Thompson
• Asia-Pacific: The Economist – Limiting the fallout–A rare protest prompts the government to scrap plans to build a uranium-processing plant. Is anti-nuclear activism on the rise?
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Steam Detected at Damaged Fukushima Reactor – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Survey: Most Japanese think Fukushima nuclear accident not settled
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – 57% think another nuke disaster ‘probable’: poll – Kazuaki Nagata
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Politicians ignore nuclear evacuees – Alabama News Blog
• Asia-Pacific: Jiji Press – Early Conclusion Unlikely in Monju Fault Probe
• Asia: World Nuclear News – Guangdong nuclear fuel centre ‘cancelled’
• Europe: TODAY Singapore – The clean-up quandary of nuclear waste – Sylvia Pfeifer
• Europe: Virtual-Strategy Magazine – Westinghouse Wins Contract to Continue Supporting Spain’s El Cabril Waste Repository

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

• San Antonio Express – Army probes radiation in bunker at Texas post – Juan Carlos Llorca
• Southern Alliance for Clean Energy – Governor Ignores Reality of Vogtle Cost Increases
• Sunshine Coast Daily – ‘No plans’ for uranium mining and nuclear energy – Rae Wilson
• Florida Times-Union – Governor blames nuclear opponents’ suits for $1 billion in delays in Plant Vogtle construction – Walter C. Jones
• Aiken Standard – Citizens board opposes spent fuel storage at SRS – Derrek Asberry
• All Things Nuclear – Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit #10: Generic Communications – Dave Lochbaum
• Bloomberg – Early Shutdown Seen for Reactors as Demand, Nat Gas Drop – Christine Harvey
• Business Insider – This Scary Interactive Map Shows What Happens If A Nuke Explodes In Your Neighborhood – Brian Jones
• South America: Inside Costa Rica – Nuclear radiation scare in Osa yesterday
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Ex-prime minister sues Abe for libel over Fukushima comments
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – The limits of radioactive waste – Donald Wood
• Asia-Pacific: Jiji Press – Monju Reactor Facing Dim Prospectslear power plant in Taiwan – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia: Global Times – Nuclear power won’t solve national energy dilemmas – Zhang Tingbin
• South Asia: The Hindu – CNDP seeks an immediate halt to commissioning of Kudankulam plant
• Europe: The Ecologist – Legal Challenges to New Nuclear: Can We Trust Government? – Paul Dorfman
• Europe: The Guardian – The sea is invisible to us – so it’s become our trash heap – Philip Hoare
• Europe: Press Association – Millions for reactor communities

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

• Las Vegas SUN – Letter: Kentucky is fit for nuclear waste – Bruce Karley
• MyNews3 – Nuclear waste shipments raise concerns for Nevada politicians – Mackenzie Warren
• Santa Ynez Valley News – Diablo Canyon reactor shuts down
• San Diego Reader – Nuclear waste storage remains a concern at San Onofre – Dave Rice
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Nuke plant replacement to cost $1.6B – Morgan Lee
• Tri-City Herald – Retaliation alleged at BPA, interim administrator named – Annette Cary
• Beyond Nuclear – Help hold NRC’s feet to the fire — please attend Palisades Webinar, Tues., July 16, 5:30 PM Eastern
• Johnson City Press – Protesters cite study that reveals depleted uranium near Jonesborough’s Aerojet Ordnance – Gary B. Gray
• Augusta Chronicle – Divided committee narrowly opposes more nuke waste at SRS – Rob Pavey
• Moody’s – Rating Action: Moody’s places Duke Energy and three utility subsidiaries on review for possible upgrade
• The Nation – 68 Years Ago: The Nuclear Age Is Born–Amid Secrecy, Cover-up and Radiation Threat – Greg Mitchell
• NAS – Project Update: – Research Directions In Human Biological Effects Of Low Level Ionizing Radiation.
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Japan Prepares to Vote. Not That You Would Know. – William Pesek
• Asia-Pacific: GlobalPost – Human error causes Taiwan’s nuclear plant shutdown
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – [Column] The brand new lie of Tepco ~Leaked water takes 100 years to reach the sea – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Anti-nuclear votes split between Tokyo candidates in election
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Late A-bomb survivor followed lost decade with years of activism
• Europe: in-cumbria – Sellafield Breaks Nuclear Waste Record – Design News
• Russia: Peak Oil – Chernobyl at Sea? Russia Building Floating Nuclear Power

Monday, July 15, 2013

• Las Vegas SUN – Sandoval pushes Department of Energy for meeting on nuclear waste – Andrew Doughman
• Los Angeles Times – How San Onofre’s new steam generators sealed nuclear plant’s fate – Abby Sewell and Ken Bensinger
• Salem-News – A Spent Fuel Accident at San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dump Could Cost a Trillion Dollars – Ace Hoffman
• ANWAG blog – Does NIOSH Have Something to Hide? – Terrie Barrie
• Wall Street Journal – Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Casks – Global Market Size, Regional Analysis, Competitive Landscape and Key Country Analysis to 2020
• World Nuclear News – US nuclear liability premiums adjusted
• UN: Reuters – Ageing nuclear reactors pose safety challenge -IAEA – Fredrik Dahl
• Oceania: ABC – Dust-up over nuclear waste dump hits eight years
• Asia: All Things Nuclear – Nuclear Energy in a Changing China – Gregory Kulacki
• South Asia: The Hindu – Anti-nuke protesters will be at it, again
• Europe: The Guardian – Greenpeace activists break into EDF nuclear power plant in France – video
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – What to do with nuclear waste?
• Europe: World Radio Switzerland – Traces of caesium-137 found in Lake Biel

Sunday, July 21, 2013

• Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Watch: Abenomics Trumps Nuclear Issue in Fukushima – Tatsuo Ito
• Zero Hedge – “Who Could Trust Such A Company?” – The Big Fat Lies About Radiation Exposure of Workers At Fukushima
• Japan Times – Roadblock to U.S. nuclear arms cuts – by Richard Weitz
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] What can be anticipated after the pro nuclear government stands – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Breaking/House of Councillors election] Yamamoto Taro won, Pro-nuke parties to win over half of the seats – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima thyroid detailed inspection to be conducted in the hospital of chairman of health investigative committee – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] Question about the credibility of WHO data – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Former Fukushima worker “A lot of the workers didn’t take iodine tablets for side effect warned about” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 2,000 Fukushima workers had thyroid exposure over 100 mSv / Tepco reported WHO only “178 workers” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Maritime Safety Agency, “Sr-90 and Cs-137 density in seawater became the highest in past 40 years” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Former town mayor Idogawa “JP Gov knew 311 to happen 8 days before, 3/3/2011 but gov & power companies concealed it” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Mystery] Impurities come into EVERY sample ONLY from reactor2 water intake – Iori Mochizuki
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Decontamination delayed in Iitate
• Yomiuri Shimbun – TEPCO again seeks early reactor checks

Saturday, July 20, 2013

• Canada: Maclean’s Canada – Book Review: A Short History of Nuclear Folly – Rudolph Herzog
• Oceania: 3News NZ – Gathering marks 40 years since Mururoa nuclear protest – Jono Hutchison
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO makes lump-sum bonus payment to managers to stop brain-drain
• Asahi Shimbun – CRUCIAL VOTE: Protesters say candidates skirting nuclear power issue
• ENENews – AFP: Steaming Fukushima reactor is ‘baffling’ — Tepco: We still don’t know what caused it and are currently investigating
• Fukushima Diary – Potential Strontium-90 density increased 22 times much in 3 days at 24m from the sea – Iori Mochizuki
• Mainichi Daily News – Recommendation for iodine tablets in case of nuclear disaster expanded to all ages
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Decontamination delayed in Iitate
• Yomiuri Shimbun – TEPCO again seeks early reactor checks

Friday, July 19, 2013

• AFP Google – Thyroid cancer risk for 2,000 Fukushima workers: TEPCO – Hiroshi Hiyama
• Enformable – Fukushima Daiichi not only crisis TEPCO faces – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Steam emitting from Fukushima Daiichi reactor halts work – Lucas W Hixson
• New York Times – Steam Detected at Damaged Fukushima Reactor – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Asahi Shimbun – EDITORIAL: Japan Atomic Power should face reality and decommission its reactors
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO now says 2,000 Fukushima workers exposed to high radiation doses
• ENENews – AFP: Steaming Fukushima reactor is ‘baffling’ – Tepco: We still don’t know what caused it and are currently investigating
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] Possibility of seawater coming up to the plant side – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 36,000,000,000 Bq/m3 of Cs-134/137 measured from retained water of reactor2 trench / Tritium density under analysis – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [From where?] Unverified substance found accumulated 1.3m in a manhole of reactor2 trench – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – MHI hit for U.S. nuclear plant flaw
• Japan Times – 80% think another nuke disaster ‘probable’: poll – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Nearly 2,000 at Fukushima No. 1 face higher thyroid cancer risk
• Japan Times – Promises of reconstruction ring hollow in disaster areas
• Jiji Press – 2,000 Fukushima Workers Face Higher Thyroid Cancer Risks
• Jiji Press – TEPCO Chief Reiterates Hopes to Seek Reactor Checks Early
• Jiji Press – Reconstruction Promises Ring Hollow to Disaster-Area Voters
• Kyodo News – Ailing TEPCO to give 100,000 yen to each management-level employee
• Mainichi Daily News – 1,973 Fukushima plant workers have higher risk of thyroid cancer
• Mainichi Daily News – Parties’ campaigns should show new society with less nuclear power
• NHK World – TEPCO hopes extra pay will stop managers quitting
• GlobalPost – Taiwan nuclear power plant returns to service after shutdown

Thursday, July 18, 2013

• AFP Google – No radiation spike at Fukushima despite steam: TEPCO – Miwa Suzuki
• The Economist – Limiting the fallout–A rare protest prompts the government to scrap plans to build a uranium-processing plant. Is anti-nuclear activism on the rise?
• New York Times – Steam Detected at Damaged Fukushima Reactor – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Reuters – Steam rising from reactor building in Fukushima – Antoni Slodkowski
• Asahi Shimbun – Company tied to pro-nuclear mayor in Fukushima defaulted on unsecured loans
• Asahi Shimbun – Steam rising from reactor building in Fukushima
• Asahi Shimbun – Company tied to pro-nuclear mayor in Fukushima defaulted on unsecured loans
• Asahi Shimbun – EDITORIAL: More must be done to help Fukushima evacuees rebuild their lives
• Asahi Shimbun – Survey: Most Japanese think Fukushima nuclear accident not settled
• Asahi Shimbun – Company tied to pro-nuclear mayor in Fukushima defaulted on unsecured loans
• ENENews – Alarm as steam rises from Fukushima No. 3 reactor – Concern about uncontrolled chain reaction – Contains highly lethal MOX fuel – Tepco: “We don’t believe an emergency situation is breaking out” (VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – [Steaming reactor3] Tepco “The steam is the heated rain, same thing happened last year but didn’t report it” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Video] “Steam” from the top of reactor3 building – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco to hold an extraordinary press conference about reactor3 “steam” at the headquarters – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] What could have happened to reactor3 ? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Steam still coming up from reactor3 at 13:00 JST / Tepco prepared to inject boric acid – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Breaking] Tepco “Steam / Gas coming up from the top of reactor3, ambient dose and dust not verified” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – TEPCO seeks approval of local community to resume nuclear reactors in Niigata – Faith Aquino
• Japan Daily Press – TEPCO says steam spotted in Fukushima plant’s No 3 reactor – Ida Torres
• Japan Times – 57% think another nuke disaster ‘probable’: poll – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – The limits of radioactive waste – Donald Wood
• Japan Times – Politicians ignore nuclear evacuees – Alabama News Blog
• Jiji Press – Early Conclusion Unlikely in Monju Fault Probe
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO sees steam but no crisis at nuclear plant
• NHK World – Nuclear experts in 2nd day of Monju fault survey
• Focus Taiwan – Interior minister to visit Japan on nuclear energy trip – Elaine Hou

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

• Enformable – Japan Atomic Power challenges safety regulator – Claims no fault under Tsuruga reactor in face of decommissioning – Lucas W Hixson
• Asahi Shimbun – Construction firm’s loans saved business–and post–of pro-nuclear mayor
• House of Japan – Panel starts investigation on geologic faults at Monju reactor site
• Asahi Shimbun – Construction firm’s loans saved business–and post–of pro-nuclear mayor
• Asahi Shimbun – CRUCIAL VOTE: Although quiet on the issue, LDP, New Komeito at odds on nuclear policy
• Asahi Shimbun – Ex-prime minister sues Abe for libel over Fukushima comments
• ENENews – 25 times as many people in Fukushima area developed thyroid cancer after disaster – Japan Expert: My heart breaks greatly that those U.S. servicemembers suffered radiation exposure
• ENENews – More U.S. military reveal radiation-related illnesses after Fukushima: Arm shrunk to half its size – Immune system attacking body – Leukemia, testicular cancer, thyroid problems, rectal bleeding, brain tumor
• ENENews – Japan Biologist: Radioactivite contamination from Fukushima disaster is most reasonable explanation for butterfly deaths and abnormalities – “I think maybe this is a very touchy issue, politically”
• Kyodo News – Panel starts investigation on geologic faults at Monju reactor site
• NHK World – Regulators inspect fault under Monju reactor
• Fukushima Diary – [Sea contamination] 212,000 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from Spotbelly rockfish in Fukushima nuclear plant port – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima citizen “A near supermarket sells only Fukushima rice or Miyagi rice, quit selling Hokkaido rice” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tokyo opened Kasai seaside park beach / “but don’t soak your face” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Cs-134/137 density in reactor3 seawater became the highest since last year – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 1,000,000Bq/m3 of all ß nuclides detected in seawater of reactor3 screen/Highest ever, 14 times much as 1 week ago – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Today – Nuclear Regulation Authority probes faults beneath Monju reactor
• Japan Times – Panel probes Monju geologic faults
• Japan Times – The limits of radioactive waste – Donald Wood
• Jiji Press – Monju Reactor Facing Dim Prospects
• Jiji Press – TEPCO Briefs Assembly Members on N-Reactor Restart Plans
• Jiji Press – NRA Starts On-Site Survey of Faults under Monju N-Reactor
• Jiji Press – NRA Holds 1st Meeting on N-Plant Safety under New Standards
• Mainichi Daily News – Panel starts investigation on geologic faults at Monju reactor site
• Yomiuri Shimbun – NRA mulls safety of 5 N-plants
• Enformable – Typhoon Soulik shuts down Jinshan nuclear power plant in Taiwan – Lucas W Hixson

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

• Bloomberg – Japan Prepares to Vote. Not That You Would Know. – William Pesek
• GlobalPost – Human error causes Taiwan’s nuclear plant shutdown
• Wall Street Journal blog – Energy Journal: Japan Goes Fission, Again – Ben Winkley
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO tapped into contractor’s slush fund to buy land for nuclear facility
• Asahi Shimbun – PHOTO: In Fukushima, beach-lovers starting to enjoy a normal summer again
• ENENews – Japan Biologist: Radioactivite contamination from Fukushima disaster is most reasonable explanation for butterfly deaths and abnormalities – “I think maybe this is a very touchy issue, politically”
• ENENews – MSN publishes report on ‘freaky’ fruits and vegetables said to be from areas around Fukushima nuclear plant (PHOTOS)
• ENENews – TV: Rat poison offered when entering Fukushima exclusion zone – “Vermin have the run of the place – mammals presumably suffering radiation illnesses to varying degrees” (PHOTOS)
• Fukushima Diary – A park in Nasushiobara city Tochigi “(Official) 0.42µSv/h ? (Actual) 1.82 µSv/h” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – One of Ex JP PMs Kan filed a suit against current JP PM Abe for defamation of character – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – National institute “Mt. Fuji can erupt in next mega earthquake / same state as just before the last eruption in 1707? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation level increased at all of the 18 points within 2 months in Yotsukura beach Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Iwaki city opened Yotsukura swimming beach / 3,200 Bq/kg from sand – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] The brand new lie of Tepco ~Leaked water takes 100 years to reach the sea – Iori Mochizuki
• House of Japan – Tsuruga reactor operator rejects regulators’ call
• Japan Times – Utility seeks to overturn reactor ban
• Mainichi Daily News – Anti-nuclear votes split between Tokyo candidates in election
• Mainichi Daily News – Most Mainichi site users interested in Constitution reform, nuclear power
• Mainichi Daily News – Late A-bomb survivor followed lost decade with years of activism
• NHK World – Nuclear regulator begins screening applications
• NHK World – Tsuruga reactor operator rejects regulators’ call
• Yomiuri Shimbun – NRA mulls safety of 5 N-plants
• Jiji Press – NRA Holds 1st Meeting on N-Plant Safety under New Standards
• East Asia: The Hankyoreh – Chernobyl! Fukushima! Busan?

Monday, July 15, 2013

• Fukushima Diary – [Column] The brand new lie of Tepco ~Leaked water takes 100 years to reach the sea – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Photo] “The one-woman protester surrounded by authorities” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 142 wild birds found dead in Saitama / Test result of chemical material and avian flu were negative – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Former mayor of Futaba Idogawa, “Fukushima citizen doesn’t report thyroid surgery / Pref Gov would cover it up.” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – The number of stillbirth in April. 2013 became higher than April. 2012 / first time since 2010 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 290,000,000 Bq/m3 of Tritium in the first analysis of the new boring at 38 m from the sea / Sr-90 “Under analysis” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Highest level of all ß measured from “empty” reservoir’s leakage detector hole – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – English report about 150,000,000,000Bq/m3 of Cs-134/137 in reactor3 trench shaft – Iori Mochizuki
• JAIF – News Update
• Jiji Press – Review of Policies under Abe Government (4): Disaster Reconstruction
• NHK World – Japanese FM to promote nuclear tech in Jordan
• TEPCO – TEPCO News Update

Sunday, July 21, 2013

• YouTube – Upton-Frelinghuysen Colloquy on Yucca Mountain Funding
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford tank leak was likely found too late – Annette Cary
• Crookston Times – ND to study radiation in oil drilling waste
• Harborcountry News – Release of nuclear plant ‘effluents’ into lake described as part of normal cycle – Andrew Lersten
• Oceania: New Zealand Herald – Govt on nuke illness: Show us proof – Wayne Thompson
• Oceania: Radio New Zealand – Mururoa veterans want answers about exposure to radiation
• South Asia: DNA India – Rs9,600-crore nuclear fuel facility to come up at Kalpakkam
• Europe: Singapore Today – The clean-up quandary of nuclear waste – Sylvia Pfeifer
• East Europe: Slovak Spectator – Decommissioning costs of V1 nuclear power plant still not fully covered – Jana Liptáková

Saturday, July 20, 2013

• Glendale News Press – Glendale prepares for long term cost of chromium 6 removal
• Sacramento Bee – Viewpoints: Nuclear waste bill endangers public health – Robert Gould, Harry Wang and Jimmy Hara
• Tri-City Herald – DOE says results of Hanford tank test inconclusive – Annette Cary
• HNN HuntingtonNews – Some Isotopes Were Not Calculated, Per New Huntington Pilot Plant Response, Lengthier Residue Decays Possible – Tony Rutherford HuntingtonNews.Net Reporter
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Revving up for emergencies – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Navarro, NNSA & UPF – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s Jeff Nichols says Titan ‘performing very well’ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Report: Savannah River facing possible loss of 600 jobs – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ex-TVA board member Skila Harris now at DOE – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS could miss nuclear waste cleanup deadlines – Rob Pavey
• Aiken Standard – TalkBack(#1): SRS fuel dumping
• Wicked Local Plymouth – Plymouth Selectmen still frustrated over communication with NRC – Frank Mand
• Yahoo! News – The Story of Energy: The Physics of an Atom, Part 1 – Clarissa Ai Ling Lee
• Oceania: 3News NZ – Gathering marks 40 years since Mururoa nuclear protest – Jono Hutchison
• Asia-Pacific: Yomiuri Shimbun – Decontamination delayed in Iitate

Friday, July 19, 2013

• KOLO – Sandoval Has “Blunt” Talk With Energy Secretary
• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Sandoval, DOE fail to reach agreement on waste shipments – Steve Tetreault
• Las Vegas SUN – Sandoval, energy secretary ‘agree to disagree,’ continue discussions on nuclear waste shipment – Cy Ryan
• Forbes – Fallout Over Nuclear Energy Debacle Underway – Ken Silverstein, Contributor
• Ventura County Star – Mitsubishi blamed in Calif. nuclear plant closure
• Tri-Valley CAREs – Tuesday, August 6 Hiroshima Commemoration at Livermore Lab
• Tri-Valley CAREs – May – June 2013 Citizen’s Watch Newsletter – Marylia Kelley
• KING5 Seattle – Navy holds public meeting on radioactive material at Magnuson Park – King 5 News
• Tri-City Herald – New undersecretary for Hanford oversight to be named – Annette Cary
• Mitchell Daily Republic – Uranium hearings scheduled – Bob Mercer
• El Paso Times – Radiation fallout: 40 people so far report contact with Fort Bliss bunker – Aaron Bracamontes
• El Paso Times – Fort Bliss official says more radiation possible – Diana Washington Valdez
• KDBC – Air Force retiree who helped bury radioactive material on Fort Bliss shares story
• KTRK ABC13 – Fort Bliss leaders seek tips on contaminated sites
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE’s big reorganization plan – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Oxide conversion nears restart at Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – NASA’s CFO nominated to become DOE under secretary – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS could miss nuclear waste cleanup deadlines–Budget cuts to slow Cold War nuclear waste cleanup – Rob Pavey
• The State – Friday letters: MOX program a pig in a poke – Joanne Williams
• The Hill blog – Moniz reshuffles Energy Dept. management structure – Ben Geman
• Oceania: Creamer’s Mining Weekly – Australia shifts focus to uranium as iron-ore, coal prices head south – Esmarie Swanepoel
• Oceania: Tennant & District Times – Nuke dump search marks 8 years
• Europe: The Guardian – Element of the week: curium | video – Grrlscientist
• Europe: in-cumbria – MPs reject bid to ‘sabotage’ plans for new Mox plant at Sellafield – Julian Whittle
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Cumbria nuclear plant in Sellafield in nuclear record books

Thursday, July 18, 2013

• The Oregonian – EPA issues $187,620 fine to NW company for waste handling practices – Print Elizabeth Case, The Oregonian
• Lubbock Avalanche-Journal – Ex-workers at Fort Bliss concerned about exposure to radioactive residue
• Louisville Courier-Journal – Company meets with Paducah, Kentucky officials about nuclear power plant
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Editorial: NNSA must take control of UPF project at Y-12
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – WAI earns $619K fee for waste work – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Nuke response training in Kazakhstan – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Town Hall on DOE’s reorganization – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – 9212: How safe for how long? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORAU wins $4.2M contract from Homeland Security – Frank Munger
• Aiken Standard – Column: Spent fuel storage means long-term risks – Tom Clements
• Aiken Standard – Column: Spent fuel worth a look – Don Bridges
• Aiken Standard – Editorial: Advisory Board vital to SRS mission
• Postscript’d – Guest columnist grant says nuclear waste inspired latest tome
• Salon – The nuclear waste in that tuna roll–After Fukushima, small quantities of radiation have been found in bluefin tuna. How worried should we really be? – Brad Jacobson
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – The limits of radioactive waste – Donald Wood
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Nuclear experts in 2nd day of Monju fault survey
• Asia: World Nuclear News – Guangdong nuclear fuel centre ‘cancelled’
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield breaks nuclear waste record – Mwgq0b
• Europe: TODAY Singapore – The clean-up quandary of nuclear waste – Sylvia Pfeifer
• Europe: Virtual-Strategy Magazine – Westinghouse Wins Contract to Continue Supporting Spain’s El Cabril Waste Repository

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Sandoval, DOE chief to meet over nuclear waste plans
• Fierce Homeland Security – Future unclear for DOE’s spent nuclear fuel – Zach Rausnitz
• Yahoo! Voices – Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste Takes Time – Lana Bandoim
• El Paso Times – Fort Bliss: Radioactive residue found in Biggs Airfield bunker – Dave Burge
• El Paso Times – Fort Bliss radiation discovery a legacy of Cold War weapons race – Diana Washington Valdez
• San Antonio Express – Army probes radiation in bunker at Texas post – Juan Carlos Llorca
• Holland Sentinel – New water leak found at nuclear plant – Jim Hayden
• WDRB – Company meets with Paducah, state about plant
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: DOE moving back after asbestos saga – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ‘Pandora’s Promise’ coming to Knox – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR takes over maintenance of lab hot cells facility; about $20M in cleanup remains on hold – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Army probes rad contamination in old weapons bunker at Fort Bliss – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Beryllium test lab re-certified – Frank Munger
• Sunshine Coast Daily – ‘No plans’ for uranium mining and nuclear energy – Rae Wilson
• Aiken Standard – Bill to seize $30M from MOX retracted – Derrek Asberry
• Aiken Standard – Citizens board opposes spent fuel storage at SRS – Derrek Asberry
• Post and Courier – Right message on nuclear waste
• DOE – Sixty-Eight Students to Receive Nuclear Energy Scholarships and Fellowships
• DOE:IG – AUDIT REPORT: OAS-L-13-11: Safety Aspects of Wet Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
• Asia-Pacific: Kyodo News – Panel starts investigation on geologic faults at Monju reactor site
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Today – Nuclear Regulation Authority probes faults beneath Monju reactor
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Panel probes Monju geologic faults
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – The limits of radioactive waste – Donald Wood
• Asia-Pacific: Jiji Press – Monju Reactor Facing Dim Prospects
• Asia-Pacific: Jiji Press – NRA Starts On-Site Survey of Faults under Monju N-Reactor
• Europe: The Guardian – The sea is invisible to us – so it’s become our trash heap – Philip Hoare

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

• Las Vegas SUN – Letter: Kentucky is fit for nuclear waste – Bruce Karley
• MyNews3 – Nuclear waste shipments raise concerns for Nevada politicians – Mackenzie Warren
• San Francisco Chronicle – Sandoval pushes for meeting with energy secretary – Sandra Chereb
• San Diego Reader – Nuclear waste storage remains a concern at San Onofre – Dave Rice
• Tri-City Herald – Retaliation alleged at BPA, interim administrator named – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford cleans record amount of groundwater – Annette Cary
• Louisville Courier-Journal – Company tasked with Paducah nuke plant cleanup says it can do the job – James Bruggers
• Johnson City Press – Protesters cite study that reveals depleted uranium near Jonesborough’s Aerojet Ordnance – Gary B. Gray
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Workers at ORNL, Y-12 ratify UCOR contracts – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Grove Center, circa 1948 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Congresswoman Black at ORNL & Y-12 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCOR gets $3.09M fee for first half of FY2013 – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – TRU shopping – Frank Munger
• Augusta Chronicle – Divided committee narrowly opposes more nuke waste at SRS – Rob Pavey
• The Nation – 68 Years Ago: The Nuclear Age Is Born–Amid Secrecy, Cover-up and Radiation Threat – Greg Mitchell
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Meeting; Subcommittee for Dose Reconstruction Reviews, Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH or the Advisory Board), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• DOE – Photo of the Week: An Incredible Journey — Transporting a 50-ton Magnet
• DNFSB – Secretary Moniz Thanks the Board for Board June 20, 2013 Letter
• NAS – Project Update: – Research Directions In Human Biological Effects Of Low Level Ionizing Radiation.
• HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT – NOTICES Meetings: Meeting; Subcommittee for Dose Reconstruction Reviews, Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH or the Advisory Board), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Europe: Gloucestershire Gazette – Oldbury Power Station waste could be stored in Berkeley – Marion Sauvebois
• Europe: in-cumbria – Sellafield Breaks Nuclear Waste Record – Design News
• Europe: PR Web – Westinghouse Will Continue to Provide Nuclear Fuel in Germany for E.ON Kernkraft Plants

Monday, July 15, 2013

• Las Vegas SUN – Sandoval pushes Department of Energy for meeting on nuclear waste – Andrew Doughman
• Las Vegas SUN – DOE slow to respond to Nevada lawmakers’ nuclear waste concerns – Andrew Doughman
• Salem-News – A Spent Fuel Accident at San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dump Could Cost a Trillion Dollars – Ace Hoffman
• Aiken Standard – Column: Pay attention to debate concerning MOX plan – Clint Wolfe
• Anderson Independent Mail – Advisory panel discussing SRS waste storage
• Wicked Local Plympton – PILGRIM FUEL STORAGE RISK ASSESSMENT: NRC study says safety the same for pool or dry cask storage – Frank Mand
• ANWAG blog – Does NIOSH Have Something to Hide? – Terrie Barrie
• Wall Street Journal – Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Casks – Global Market Size, Regional Analysis, Competitive Landscape and Key Country Analysis to 2020
• DOE:IG – Inspection Report: INS-L-13-05, Follow-up Inspection on Characterization Wells at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• GAO – Nuclear Weapons: Factors Leading to Cost Increases with the Uranium Processing Facility, GAO-13-686R
• Oceania: ABC – Dust-up over nuclear waste dump hits eight years
• Southeast Asia: New Straits Times – More interest in nuke fuel thorium – Dr Ahmad Ibrahim
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – What to do with nuclear waste?
• Europe: World Radio Switzerland – Traces of caesium-137 found in Lake Biel

Sunday, July 21, 2013

• Oceania: New Zealand Herald – Govt on nuke illness: Show us proof – Wayne Thompson

Saturday, July 20, 2013

• Aiken Standard – TalkBack(#1): SRS fuel dumping

Friday, July 19, 2013

• lays – Steven Dolley
• TIME – Nuclear Energy Is Largely Safe. But Can It Be Cheap? – Bryan Walsh
• GovTrack – H.R. 2712: Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2013
• GovTrack – Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
• NAS – Project Update: Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants

Thursday, July 18, 2013

• DNFSB – Recent Board Activity Update
• UN: Bloomberg – Atom-Treaty Overhaul Needed, IAEA Lawyer Says – Jonathan Tirone

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

• DOE – Sixty-Eight Students to Receive Nuclear Energy Scholarships and Fellowships
• DOE:IG – AUDIT REPORT: OAS-L-13-11: Safety Aspects of Wet Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
• NRC – NRC Advisory Panel Subcommittee to Meet in King of Prussia, Pa., on July 24 to Discuss Nuclear Safety-Related Topics
• NRC blog – Where There’s Steam, There’s … a Steam Generator – Kenneth Karwoski

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Meeting; Subcommittee for Dose Reconstruction Reviews, Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH or the Advisory Board), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• DOE – Photo of the Week: An Incredible Journey — Transporting a 50-ton Magnet
• DNFSB – Secretary Moniz Thanks the Board for Board June 20, 2013 Letter
• NAS – Project Update: – Research Directions In Human Biological Effects Of Low Level Ionizing Radiation.
• NRC – NRC Schedules Regulatory Conference to Discuss Apparent Violation at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant
• NRC – NRC Schedules Regulatory Conference to Discuss Apparent Violation at Point Beach Nuclear Plant
• HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT – NOTICES Meetings: Meeting; Subcommittee for Dose Reconstruction Reviews, Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH or the Advisory Board), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Page 42525 [FR DOC# 2013-16964]
• NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION – NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request, Pages 42555-42556 [FR DOC# 2013-16989]
• NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION – NOTICES Proposed Revision 0 to Fitness-for-Duty Standard Review Plan, Pages 42558-42560 [FR DOC# 2013-16985]
• NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION – NOTICES Sunshine Act Meeting, Page 42560 [FR DOC# 2013-17124]
• NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION – NOTICES Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.: Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company; Maine Yankee Atomic Power Plant Issuance of Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact Regarding an Exemption Request, Pages 42556-42558 [FR DOC# 2013-16988]
• NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION – NOTICES Orders Imposing Protection Requirements for Access to Safeguards Information: In the Matter of Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power, Co., Ltd. and All Other Persons Who Seek or Obtain Access to Safeguards Information Described Herein; Order Imposing Protection Requirements for Access to Safeguards Information (Effective Immediately), Pages 42560-42565 [FR DOC# 2013-16984]
• NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION – NOTICES Requests for Nominations: Notice of Extension of Call for Nominations for the Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes, Pages 42565-42566 [FR DOC# 2013-16987]

Monday, July 15, 2013

• ANWAG blog – Does NIOSH Have Something to Hide? – Terrie Barrie
• DOE:IG – Inspection Report: INS-L-13-05, Follow-up Inspection on Characterization Wells at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• GAO – Nuclear Weapons: Factors Leading to Cost Increases with the Uranium Processing Facility, GAO-13-686R
• NRC – NRC Names New Resident Inspector at Waterford 3 Nuclear Power Plant
• UN: Reuters – Ageing nuclear reactors pose safety challenge -IAEA – Fredrik Dahl