Sunday, March 11, 2012

• Orange County Register blog – ‘Danger Zone: Aging nuclear reactors’ – March 11th, 2012, 12:00 am · · posted by Teri Sforza, Register staff writer
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Rally at San Onofre nuclear power plant draws hundreds – Caroline Dipping
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Fire Hazard could be State’s Tsunami – David Lochbaum
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Technology Can solve America’s Energy Crisis – John Parmentola
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Safe U.S. Plants Even Safer with New Measures – Tony Pietrangelo
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Lessons Not Learned by The U.S. Government – Rochelle Becker & John Geesman
• San Diego Union-Tribune – San Onofre Studies wait for Answers about Cost, Oversight – Morgan Lee
• San Francisco Chronicle – Tsunami experts creating flood maps, escape routes – David Perlman
• Capital Times – One year after Fukushima, nuclear business as usual in Wisconsin – Bill Christofferson
• Hudson Reporter – No more Fukushimas–Anti-nuclear power peace walkers rest in Weehawken on 250-mile journey – Gennarose Pope
• Huffington Post – How To Survive A Nuclear Meltdown
• BBC News – Japan quake: Loss and recovery in numbers
• Enformable – Fukushima Anniversary – Top 125 FOIA documents and transcripts during the first week of the Fukushima disaster – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Post-Fukushima – Lack of “safety culture” the legacy of nuclear disaster – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Fukushima Anniversary: Theatre of the Absurd – Joy Thompson
• Huffington Post – Japan Earthquake: Radiation Concerns In The U.S. Remembered After Fukushima (PHOTOS)
• Huffington Post – 100 Miles From Fukushima (PHOTOS) – Kathleen Massara
• Huffington Post – Landing In Tokyo On The Heels of The 2011 Earthquake (PHOTOS) – Mia Aquino
• Los Angeles Times – Assessing Fukushima, one year later – Robert Peter Gale and F. Owen Hoffman
• Reuters – Japan: One year later
• Xinhua News – Japanese protest against nuclear power in Tokyo
• Fukushima Diary – Numayu’s blog shut down – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Antinuke protests erupt nationwide – Deccan Chronicle
• Japan Today – Only 2 nuclear plants have seawalls – Fukushima Daiichi, Daini
• Radio Taiwan – Groups protest Taiwan’s nuclear power on Fukushima disaster anniversary
• Taipei Times – Thousands march against nuclear power – Lee I-chia
• Southeast Asia: Philippine Daily Inquirer – Editorial: Lessons of 3/11
• Deccan Herald – March against nuke power
• Times of India – Anti-Jaitapur activists call for boycott – Sandeep AsharSandeep Ashar
• RFI – Anti-nuclear human chain to link 200 kms between Lyon and Avignon

Saturday, March 10, 2012

• Santa Barbara Independent – In the Shadow of Diablo, Remembering Fukushima – Jane Swanson
• San Diego Union-Tribune – San Onofre studies wait for answers – Morgan Lee
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – Diablo Canyon digs into the details to ensure safety – David Sneed
• Mid-Hudson News – Riverkeeper predicts IP could be first nuke plant to have license renewal rejected
• CNET News – Nuclear renaissance? More like nuclear standstill – Martin LaMonica
• New York Times – Nuclear Fallout – Kristen Iversen
• Canada: Owen Sound Sun Times – Public needs to get educated on spent nuclear fuel storage plan – Phil Mcnichol
• Al Jazeera – Japan’s radiation: Ignorance isn’t bliss – D. Parvaz
• CNN – What Fukushima accident did to the ocean – Ken Buesseler
• Huffington Post – Japan Earthquake Anniversary: Fukushima Meltdown Risk Early Known, Documents Reveal – Mari Yamaguchi
• The Independent – Fukushima meltdown risk ‘kept secret for months’ – Mari Yamaguchi
• New York Times blog – Remembering Japan’s Catastrophe
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima citizen 90 mSv of thyroid exposure – Iori Mochizuki
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima town seeks 19 billion yen from TEPCO for real estate damage
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to indicate in March whether all Fukushima reactors to be scrapped
• Taipei Times – Anti-nuclear protesters plan nationwide marches
• Southeast Asia: Bangkok Post – Nuclear power on the ropes
• The Hindu – Is Helen Caldicott’s Nuclear Madness still relevant? – John Vergis Vilanilam
• News International – PPC calls for halt to pursuit of nuclear energy – Shahid Husain
• The Guardian – Sellafield: ‘It was all contaminated: milk, chickens, the golf course’ – John Vidal
• Bloomberg – EDF U.K. Hinkley Point Nuclear Site Attracts Protests, BBC Says – Sarah Jones
• Deutsche Local – Merkel defends nuclear phase out
• Der Spiegel – Nuclear Lobby Pushes Ahead with New Reactors

Friday, March 09, 2012

• Las Vegas Review-Journal – Nye County renews offer to host repository – Steve Tetreault
• Mainichi Daily News – High levels of cesium found at former nuclear lab outside L.A.
• San Jose Mercury News – Ben Davis Jr.: California doesn’t know if Fukushima can happen here – Ben Davis Jr.
• Tri-City Herald – DOE releases another part of ‘Hanford Story’
• Tri-City Herald – Energy secretary to look at Hanford land transfer
• HNN Huntingtonnews – “Pray for Japan” Documentary Marks Anniversary of Disaster – Tony Rutherford
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima evacuees join antinuclear demonstration in N.Y.
• Peekskill.patch – Riverkeeper Says ‘Don’t Let It Happen Here’ One Year After Fukushima – Liz Giegerich
• Huffington Post – Harry Truman’s Lies and Fukushima – Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
• Open Salon – “…As If Fukushima Never Happened”
• U.S. News & World Report – Experts on Fukushima: It Can’t Happen Here – Jason Koebler
• Washington Post – Nuclear Regulatory Commission orders changes at US nuke plants in response to Japan crisis – Matthew Daly
• CounterPunch – The Dangerous Myths of Fukushima – Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman
• Enformable – Majority of residents living near Fukushima Daiichi tested for radioactive iodine in thyroid found with abnormal exposure levels – Lucas W Hixson
• Foreign Policy – Japan’s Nuclear Cabal – Nobuo Fukuda
• National Geographic – Pictures: Japan Tsunami, Then and Now
• New York Times – Fukushima Could Have Been Prevented – James M. Acton and Mark Hibbs
• NIRS – Health at a Glance in the Post-Earthquake Japan – Olson, Mary; Chou, M. S. Michelle; Chang, Y. S. Alice; Ito, Ken (pdf-810K)
• Popular Mechanics – 40 Years of Fukushima Cleanup: Timeline – Marina Koren
• Mainichi Daily News – One year on, Chiba Prefecture faces mountain of problems including incinerated ash
• Mainichi Daily News – Life getting worse for many Fukushima residents: Mainichi poll
• Mainichi Daily News – 57 percent of evacuees didn’t apply for compensation due to confusing forms: survey
• Mainichi Daily News – Over half of Fukushima residents ‘greatly worried’ about health after nuclear crisis
• Mainichi Daily News – Number of suicides jumped shortly after March quake in 2011
• Southeast Asia: Bernama – Radioactive Wastes Not Covered Under Basel Convention – DOE?
• IBNLive – Nuclear energy no solution: Physicist
• Bloomberg – Siemens Supports Nuclear Exit in Ad Campaign, Handelsblatt Says – Niklas Magnusson

Thursday, March 08, 2012

• Daily Caller – Fukushima disaster halts progress of nuclear power in the US – Michael Bastasch
• HalfMoonBay.patch – Japan Looks to Silicon Valley, Stanford to Help Rebuild Power Industry
• San Clemente Times – Remember Fukushima: Disaster Bodes Ill for Local Plant – Gary Headrick
• Hanford News – Panel: US should rethink nuclear emergency plans – Dina Cappiello and Matthew Daly
• KNDO/KNDU – DOE Releases Latest “Hanford Story” Video
• Tri-City Herald – Fluor purchasers agree to settlement for allegedly accepting kickbacks – Annette Cary
• Minneapolis StarTribune – Expert panel: 10-mile evacuation zone may not be adequate for some nuclear power plants – Dina Cappiello and Matthew Daly
• Youngstown Vindicator – Nuclear disaster offers three lessons – Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
• All Things Nuclear – Public Meltdown: The Story of Vermont Yankee – Dave Lochbaum
• Civil Society Institute – Survey: Americans Not Warming Up to Nuclear Power One Year After Fukushima
• The Economist – Nuclear power: The dream that failed
• The Guardian – Big Nuclear’s cosy relationship with the Obama administration – Amy Goodman
• The Guardian – Nuclear power plants around the world – map
• Scientific American blog – 1 Year after Fukushima: Could It Happen in the U.S.? – John Matson
• Truthdig – The Bipartisan Nuclear Bailout – Amy Goodman
• Wall Street Journal – Nuclear Pushes On Despite Fukushima – Chester Dawson, Brian Spegele and Selina Williams
• Bloomberg – Japan’s 3/11 Triple Catastrophe Endures in Broken Families, Divided Towns
• Der Spiegel – German Nuclear Inspectors Remember Fukushima – Interview by Takis Würger
• Nature blog – Plutonium spotted far from Fukushima
• Xinhua News – More Japanese fishery imports found to contain radioactive materials: report
• Fukushima Diary – 13 of 21 children had urine test positive – Iori Mochizuki
• Mainichi Daily News – Nearly 60 percent of mayors in disaster-hit areas want nuclear power stations abolished
• Focus Taiwan – Religious groups declare united stance against nuclear power
• The Hindu – “Impossible to vouch for safety of nuclear reactor”–Claims to contrary nonsensical: Nobel Peace laureate
• The Guardian – Dramatic fall in new nuclear power stations after Fukushima – Fiona Harvey in Brussels, John Vidal and Damian Carrington
• Irish Times – Fukushima radiation measured in Ireland – Dick Ahlstrom

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

• Nye County – Letter to DOE, Re: Consent to Host the Proposed Repository at Yucca Mountain (pdf-1.34M)
• Orange County Register – Afternoon letters: Give balanced nuclear-power arguments
• Salt Lake Tribune – New nationwide poll shows wariness about nuclear power – Judy Fahys
• Omaha World-Herald – Nuke regulators ask: What if dams fail? – Nancy Gaarder
• MIT Technology Review – What We Learned About Nuclear Safety from Fukushima – Peter Fairley
• MSNBC – Japan disaster dims hopes for US nuclear rebirth – John W. Schoen
• Pike Research – Investments in North American Wind Energy Installations Will Total $145 Billion through 2017
• Union of Concerned Scientists – NRC Needs a More Comprehensive Approach to Post-Fukushima Nuclear Safety, Report Finds
• NRC – NRC Issues Annual Assessment Letters for Nation’s Nuclear Plants
• Bloomberg – Tokyo Seen Vunerable to Quake a Year on From Disaster – Chris Cooper and Kiyotaka Matsuda
• Bloomberg – Japan Nuclear Shutdowns Boost Current Account Deficit to Record $5 Billion – Andy Sharp and Mayumi Otsuma
• Nature – The Japanese tsunami: After shock
• Reuters – A year on, Japan nuclear film shows lives in limbo – Chris Gallagher
• Fukushima Diary – 130 million Bq of cesium has leaked to Tokyo bay in Yokohama – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – “Pu 239 will be detected at high doses” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Illustrators draw from pop culture for 3/11 exhibition – Matthew Larking
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Time to say goodbye to nuclear power
• Mainichi Daily News – 36% of evacuees from Fukushima not wanting to return: survey
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima nuclear crisis was preventable: U.S. experts
• Focus Taiwan – Anti-nuclear activists to stage protests around Taiwan
• The Hindu – How Fukushima is relevant to Kudankulam – T. N. Srinivasan, T. S. Gopi Rethinaraj, Surya Sethi
• Financial Express Bangladesh – Russia to provide fund for nuclear power plants – M Azizur Rahman
• The Guardian – Why taxpayers serve nuclear power and not the other way around – Damian Carrington
• The Guardian – UK nuclear sites at risk of flooding, report shows – Rob Edwards
• Reuters – Swiss court orders nuclear plant offline in 2013 – Katharina Bart
• Swissinfo – Future of nuclear plant on shaky ground – Clare O’Dea
• East Bellona – Comment: Rosatom scraps ancient Chernobyl reactor project at Kursk: Right decision, wrong message – Vladimir Slivyak
• East Daily Telegraph – Photographs of Chernobyl and the ghost town of Pripyat by Michael Day

Tuesday, March 06, 2012

• Bloomberg – California Nuclear Backlash Mounts After Japan Meltdown: Energy – Julie Johnsson and Mark Chediak
• Chatsworth.patch – Brownley: New Data Show Radioactivity Still Lurks at Santa Susana Field Lab – Assemblywoman Julia Brownley
• 89.3 KPCC – Santa Susanna pollution data raises more questions about long term radiation than it answers – Molly Peterson
• 89.3 KPCC – Radiation found at former meltdown site in Simi Hills – Molly Peterson
• Surfer Magazine – After a month of shut down nuclear reactors at San O, the hazards of nuclear energy spell potential disaster in Southern California – Josh Saunders
• Ventura County Star – Study finds contamination at Santa Susana Field Lab exceeds limits – Teresa Rochester
• Salt Lake Tribune – EnergySolutions and Gonzales-Stoller lose bid to continue uranium cleanup – Judy Fahys
• NorthFork.patch – Study: 2011 Millstone Incident Was One of Two ‘Most Threatening’ in U.S. – Erin Schultz
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #82: Nuts! The Bolt! – Dave Lochbaum
• Bloomberg – Nuclear Industry Plan Skirts NRC Fukushima Rules, Group Says – Brian Wingfield
• Enformable – New Nuclear Reactor Consequences Analyses downplays risk of “unlikely” nuclear accident in United States – Karl Grossman
• IPS – Abolitionists Target Funds Behind Nuclear Arms Industry – Thalif Deen Republish | | Print | Send by email
• NRC – NRC Examining Potential Impact on Nuclear Plant Safety from Upstream Dam Failure
• Enformable – One year after Fukushima – Defining and classifying a disaster (Part One) – Lucas W Hixson
• Xinhua News – Going home not option for over one third of evacuees from Fukushima: poll
• Denki Shimbun – Capacity factor of nuclear power stations falls under 10%
• Fukushima Diary – Japanese debris has already arrived at west coast of United States – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Fukushima farmers in two-front war – Mizuho Aoki
• Japan Times – Tsuruga nuke plant sits atop major fault
• Daily News & Analysis – Protesters’ march to Kudankulam
• Daily News & Analysis – Uddhav plans massive anti-Jaitapur rally in Ratnagiri on March 11
• IEER – Post-Fukushima Nuclear Safety in France – Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D. (pdf-252K)

Monday, March 05, 2012

• Orange County Register – Remember Fukushima by closing San Onofre – Gary Headrick
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Restart of San Onofre Reactor to be Delayed – Morgan Lee
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Report on global fissile materials – Frank Munger
• IPS – No Nuclear Nirvana on the Horizon – Robert Alvarez
• Kenny Side show – The Demonic Reality of Fukushima and The Absurdity of The NRC – Cindy Folkers
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• AFP Google – Shareholders sue TEPCO for $67 bn: reports
• Daily Telegraph – Japan earthquake and tsunami anniversary: Japan suppressed key radiation report – Julian Ryall
• New America Media – The World is Powerless Against Fukushima Fallout – Yoichi Shimatsu
• YouTube – Fukushima Japan Flyby, over the “legal limit” of radiation update 3/3/12
• Wall Street Journal – Fukushima and the Future of Nuclear Power? – William Tucker
• Xinhua News – Greenpeace marks 1st anniversary of Fukushima nuclear disaster
• Fukushima Diary – Internal document “SPEEDI result is too serious. can’t be disclosed.” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – NGO: 320 banks bankrolling nukes
• Mainichi Daily News – In the eyes of a child: 3-year-old’s life turned upside down by Fukushima crisis
• East Asia: Bloomberg – South Korea Has 15,822 MW of Nuclear Capacity Online – Sangim Han
• Deccan Herald – Action sought against anti-Koodankulam agitators
• The Hindu – Eminent citizens object to PM’s remarks on NGOs – P. Sunderarajan
• The Hindu – Anti-nuke activists plan ‘Kudankulam Chalo’ on March 15
• NW Evening Mail – Nuclear waste dump to feature in webcast debate
• NW Evening Mail – Book recalls health fears over N-plant
• Russia: Pravda – Russia to become the Queen of peaceful atom
• South Africa: Xinhua News – Greenpeace launches anti-nuclear campaign in Cape Town