Sunday, February 19, 2012

• Greater Milwaukee Today – The radiation rundown – Joann Petaschnick
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Nuclear power faces headwinds – Thomas Content
• Danville Register & Bee – A daughter of Elliot Lake remembers – Inka Milewski
• New Haven Register – Yale summit warns of growing nuclear dangers – Randall Beach
• Forbes – How Many Lives Does Nuclear Energy Have? – Ken Silverstein
• Mother Jones – Nuclear Weapons on a Highway Near You – —By Adam Weinstein
• Europe: BBC News – Notice served to campers protesting at Hinkley Point
• Europe: The Guardian – Why we must phase out nuclear power – Caroline Lucas, Rebecca Harms, and Dany Cohn-Bendit
• Europe: Herald Scotland – ‘Lives at risk’ from poor nuclear safety regimes at Trident bases on Clyde – Rob Edwards
• Europe: The Independent – Sparks fly as council squares up to EDF over N-power plan costs
• Europe: For Argyll – Herald reveals Faslane and Coulport failed 11 out of 13 nuclear safety tests
• East Europe: Irish Independent – Chernobyl still affecting millions – Adi Roche
• South Africa: Nairobi Standard – Abandon nuclear energy programme, Unep boss urges Kenya – Peter Orengo

Saturday, February 18, 2012

• North County Times – San Onofre: No record of reactor-pool falls like one at local nuclear plant – Paul Sisson
• Daily Camera – Study: Rocky Flats area still as contaminated with plutonium as 40 years ago – Laura Snider
• Kingsport Times News – Report gives details on Nuclear Fuel Services acid leak – Brad Hicks
• The Tennessean – Report: Nuke contractor overbilled TVA – Anne Paine
• New York Times – Suit Seeks to Block Nuclear Plant – Robbie Brown
• Vermont Public Radio – Sorrell Announces State Appeal of Vermont Yankee Ruling – Ross Sneyd
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Nuke crisis caused by Japan, not quake: Kan
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Number of foreign visitors to Japan down in Jan. for 11th month
• Asia-Pacific: PanOrient News – Greenpeace: Nuclear Safety Regulations Inadequate
• Europe: Daily Express – Fury as Energy Giant EDF to Build Nuclear Plant in Britain – David Jarvis

Friday, February 17, 2012

• Lincoln County Record – Blue Ribbon Report Changes Focus on U.S. Nuclear Waste – Dave Maxwell
• Orange County Register – San Clemente panel urges radiation monitoring in new city blueprint
• San Clemente Times – Reactor Inspection Called for on SONGS’ Unit 3 Generator – Stacie N. Galang
• Reuters – Radiation ruled out, for now, as cause of Alaska seal deaths – Yereth Rosen
• Daily Camera – Letter: Rocky Flats should be left alone – Eva Dunlap
• Business Insider – Never-Before-Seen Film Of Scientists Constructing The Atomic Bomb In The Remote Desert Of Los Alamos – Dina Spector
• Missouri News Horizon – Exclusive: Security Questions at Omaha Nuke Plant – Joe Jordan
• CNN – U.S. nuclear plants similar to Fukushima spark concerns – Matt Smith
• Huffington Post – The Unclear Nuclear Revival – Elliott Negin
• Mother Nature – U.S. nuclear industry’s fate rests with new reactors – Scott DiSavino and Eileen O’Grady
• NEI – Nuclear Industry Opposes Latest DOE Bid to Re-Impose Cleanup Tax in FY 2013 Budget
• NEI Nuclear Notes – A Preview of CNN’s Report on Vermont Yankee
• Union of Concerned Scientists – Documents Show Direct Link Between Corporate Money, Anti-Science Campaigns – Kevin Knobloch
• NRC – NRC Requests Information from 11 Nuclear Plants Regarding Fuel Performance During Accidents
• UN: IAEA – Latin American and Caribbean Nuclear-Weapons-Free-Zone Treaty Nears Half-Century
• Canada: Huffington Post Canada – Point Lepreau Nuclear Plant Gets 5-Year Licence
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Only 10 prefectural governments willing to accept quake rubble
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Taipower assessing completion time, cost of fourth nuclear power plant – Huang Chiao-wen, Sherry Tang and Lilian Wu
• East Asia: Dong-A Ilbo – Why protest the nuclear summit?
• Europe: BBC – Nuclear deal ‘very important’
• Europe: Daily Telegraph – Secret nuclear risk report lost by official
• Europe: The Guardian – Why we must phase out nuclear power – Caroline Lucas, Rebecca Harms, and Dany Cohn-Bendit

Thursday, February 16, 2012

• San Diego Union-Tribune – Generator leaks have dogged nuclear industry for years – Morgan Lee
• EIN Presswire – EM Press Release: Fourth Chapter of Hanford Story Released to Public
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: Watch DOE video explaining tank farms and vit plant
• Tri-City Herald – Ex-Hanford manager sentenced to 3 years, 10 months inP-card fraud – Annette Cary
• New Mexico Business Weekly – Four New Mexico firms vie for $200 million in LANL contracts – Kevin Robinson-Avila
• Bloomberg – Environmentalists to Contest NRC License for Southern’s Reactors – Brian Wingfield and Tom Schoenberg
• Reuters – Update 1-US groups file suit to block Southern Vogtle reactors – Scott DiSavino
• Norwich Bulletin – Millstone beginning evacuation plan survey Monday – James Mosher
• Bloomberg – Aflac Says It Studied Chernobyl in Assessing Japan Cancer Risk – Noah Buhayar
• NIRS – Emergency Preparedness–Nuclear 911 Campaign
• Platts – Nuclear advocacy group NEI says Connery appointment will promote exports – Yanmei Xie
• NRC – NRC Approves Exelon-Constellation Merger, Indirect Transfer of Five Nuclear Power Plant Licenses
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Making Music For a Ghost Town – James R. Oestreich
• Asia-Pacific: Platts – Japan’s nuclear generation capacity to fall to 4.6% over two units Feb 20 – Takeo Kumagai
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield bids to end limits for discharges – Alan Irving
• Russia: Helsingin Sanomat – Russia to store miscellaneous waste in nuclear waste repository at Sosnovy Bor plant near St. Petersburg
• South Africa: Reuters – EDF to bid with Chinese partner for S.Africa nuclear tender – Muriel Boselli

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

• Reuters – SCE begins plugging tubes at San Onofre 2 reactor in Calif
• San Clemente Times – Some Tubes Plugged in SONGS’ Unit 2 Reactor, Both Generators Remain Offline – Stacie N. Galang
• American Independent – Green groups sue U.S. government over proposed Rocky Flats land swap – Troy Hooper
• Los Alamos Monitor – LANL gets $239 million for cleanup
• Santa Fe Reporter – Who Killed Richard Burick? A simmering mystery raises questions about LANL’s past – Wren Abbott
• Blog for Iowa – Nuclear Power – ‘Off the Table’ – Paul Deaton
• PBS NewsHour – Debating the Safety, Wisdom of New Nuclear Reactors in Georgia
• Lacey.Patch – Advocates File Petition to Expand Emergency Evacuation Zones Around Nuclear Reactors – Elaine Piniat
• BurlingtonFreePress – Don’t ignore ‘unknown knowns’ in the Vermont Yankee case – Gerry Silverstein
• Alliance for Nuclear Accountability – Questioning Obama’s nuclear agenda – Marylia Kelley
• Alliance for Nuclear Accountability – DOE PLAN SUPPORTS BUDGET- BUSTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS OVERKILL, – Underfunds Clean-Up, Despite A Few Bright Spots (pdf-140K)
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Social acceptance and the Blue Ribbon Commission: A positive experience in national nuclear waste discussions – Allison Macfarlane and John Kotek
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – In hot water: The “other” global warming – Dawn Stover
• Mother Jones – Nuclear Truckers: Warheads on 18 Wheels – Adam Weinstein
• Platts – US nuclear revival unlikely absent more regulatory support: S&P – William Freebairn
• USGS – Nationwide Radium Testing of Groundwater Shows Most Susceptible Regions are Central U.S. and East Coast
• Oceania: Barrier Daily Truth – Radium Hill revisited – Paula Doran
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Japanese Official Calls Nation’s Atomic Rules Flawed – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Nuclear safety boss faults agency, utilities – Masami Ito
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Four foreign nuclear experts in Taiwan to inspect nuclear plants – Huang Chiao-wen and Sofia Wu
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – 6 commercial fast breeder reactors in next 15 yrs
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Safe graveyard
• Europe: BBC News – How did we forget about mutually assured destruction? – Tom de Castella
• Europe: The Ecologist – Nuclear special: New study links childhood leukaemia to nuclear power plant radiation – Matilda Lee
• Europe: The Ecologist – Nuclear special Battlelines drawn as Cumbrian residents square up over nuclear waste site – Matilda Lee
• Europe: The Ecologist blog – Nuclear special: Campaigners say no to nuclear new build at Hinkley Point – Nikki Clark
• Europe: The Ecologist blog – Nuclear special: Fukushima: the social impact of a nuclear disaster – Hiroki & Ngaire Takano
• Europe: Western Daily Press – New Hinkley row as EDF gets tough
• East Europe: Polskie Radio – Polish government ‘accepts’ anti-nuclear power referendum result
• Russia: Barents Observer – Construction starts for new giant icebreaker
• Russia: Barents Observer – Online campaign against Kola NPP
• Russia: Bellona – Russia’s deputy prime minister indirectly admits ‘armaments’ were aboard nuclear sub blaze in December – Bellona demands an accounting – Charles Digges

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

• CBS 47 – Tubes shut down at San Onofre nuclear plant
• North County Times – San Onofre: Edison says repairs have begun on Unit 2 heat exchangers – Paul Sisson
• Tri-City Herald – ‘Occupy Hanford’ rally coming April 15
• Des Moines Register – Critic: Proposed MidAmerican nuclear plant is “socialism” – Perry Beeman
• Detroit News – Feds downgrade Palisades nuclear plant over safety
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ITER’s funding request bumped up to $150M – Frank Munger
• Palm Beach Post – FPL has failed to maintain nuclear plant’s emergency facility, agency says – BySusan Salisbury
• Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA7) – Markey: Don’t Act on Vogtle Nuclear Loan Guarantee Until Allison Report Recommendations Implemented, Taxpayers Protected – .
• Old Colony Memorial – Local groups say Pilgrim Nuclear Plant endangers Cape Cod Bay – Frank Mand
• Brattleboro Reformer – Protesters arrested again at VY headquarters
• WCAX – AG asks for more time on Vt Yankee appeal fees
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Social acceptance and the Blue Ribbon Commission: A positive experience in national nuclear waste discussions – Allison Macfarlane and John Kotek
• ENEWSPF – Feds Approve Unsafe New Nuclear Reactors Requiring Billions of Taxpayer Dollars .
• Huffington Post – As if a Runaway Train, the Nuclear Juggernaut Roars On – Karl Grossman
• POGO blog – Budget Breakdown: Feeding the Congressional Watchdogs – Michael Smallberg
• Tri-Valley CAREs – Nuclear Weapons Budget for FY2013 Released – Marylia Kelley
• Yahoo! News – Obama Proposes $27 Billion Budget for Department of Energy
• DOE – What Would the President’s Proposed 2013 Budget Mean to the Energy Department? – Ginny Simmons
• DOE:IG – Alleged Misuse of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Grant Funds by the Western Arizona Council of Governments
• NNSA – FY 2013 Budget Request Seeks $11.5 Billion to Achieve President Obama’s Nuclear Security Objectives, Shape Future of Nuclear Security
• Oceania: ABC – NSW Government to overturn uranium ban – Lucy McNally
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Activists protest alleged use of dogs in radiation research – Huang Chiao-wen, Lin Hui-chun, Yang Su-min and C.J. Lin
• Asia-Pacific: The Guardian – Taiwan presses ahead with home-built nuclear power plant despite safety fears – Florence de Changy
• South Asia: The Hindu – Scouting for sites to store n-waste: AEC chief
• South Asia: IBNLive – Congress MP seeks NLCs closure
• Europe: Staffordshire Sentinel – Clean-up of radioactive waste at city school cost £9,000
• Europe: Reuters – Germany powers France in cold despite nuclear u-turn – Karolin Schaps
• Russia: Reuters – Russia faced major nuclear disaster in 2011: report – Guy Faulconbridge

Monday, February 13, 2012

• Orange County Register – Laguna Beach raises concerns on San Onofre’s nuclear future – Claudia Koerner
• Deseret News – Letter: No nuclear waste in Utah – Merlin Ross
• Seattle Times – Hanford cleanup budget proposed for $2.1 billion
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford Advisroy Board split on vit plant safety – Annette Cary
• Tri-City Herald – Manhattan Project guide now available
• Battle Creek Enquirer – Chuck Carlson: Lessons of Three Mile Island slipping away
• Chillicothe Gazette – 1.1 million cubic feet shipped from Piketon cleanup site
• Platts – USEC centrifuge project would get $150 million in Obama’s budget – Herman Wang
• The Hill blog – Energy Dept. nears approval of $8.3B nuke loan, setting up clash in Congress – Andrew Restuccia
• CounterPunch – Nuclear Showdown in Vermont – Dan Dewalt
• New York Times blog – Can Efficiency Counter a Loss of Nuclear Power? – Matthew L. Wald
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Asia-Pacific: AFP Google – Japan approves $8.9bn aid as TEPCO loss worsens – Shigemi Sato
• Asia-Pacific: BBC News – Tepco to get $9bn extra aid to help pay compensation
• Asia-Pacific: Public Radio International – Video: Tens of thousands remain evacuated nearly a year after Fukushima nuclear disaster
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – U.S. waits for impending arrival of debris – Taro Nishijima
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Half of female univ. students want nuke plants scrapped: survey
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Documentary on Fukushima town screened at Berlin film festival
• Asia-Pacific: Tokyo Times – Tokyo anti-nuke protest attended by thousands
• Europe: The Independent – Sellafield faces nuclear option as overspending threatens plant’s future – Steve Connor
• Europe: The Independent – Leading article: An unhappy record on reprocessing
• Europe: Bellona – Comment: Lost in translation: Freezing Germany stays true to no-nuclear goals, but nuclear France fails the cold lessons of climate change – Vladimir Slivyak
• North Europe: YLE News – Posiva: No room for Fennovoima waste in nuclear cave – Wif Stenger
• East Europe: Barents Observer – Hungary source of radioactivity
• East Europe: ForUm – Ukrainian Green Party opposes construction of radioactive waste storage near Chornobyl
• East Europe: Reuters – Update 2-Polish sea resort poll rejects nuclear plant – Maciej Onoszko
• East Europe: Warsaw Business Journal – Poland’s first nuclear plant may be delayed five years
• Russia: Barents Observer – Fire-struck sub had nuclear warheads on board
• Russia: Ria Novosti – Officer Committed Suicide aboard Nuclear Sub
• Middle East: Ha’aretz Daily – Israel nuclear reactor sent unprotected workers to search for uranium ore, lawsuit claims – Gili Cohen
• South Africa: The Standard – Abandon nuclear energy programme, Unep boss urges Kenya – Peter Orengo