Sunday, May 20, 2012

• Huntington News – Boxer Enters Nuclear Fight
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Kansai leaders oppose govt call to back Oi reactor restarts
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – Weekend Editiorial: to restart or not to restart, that is the question – Masao Hasegawa
• South Asia: Indian Express – Mega study to track cancer around n-plants – Anil Sasi
• Europe: BBC News – Environmental group slams Kent nuclear waste bunker proposal

Saturday, May 19, 2012

• San Diego Union-Tribune – Onofre Outage Could Boost Power Prices – Morgan Lee
• Seattle Times – Wash. nuclear plant to receive license renewal
• CityWeekly – Diverse Coalition: Green River Nuclear Power Plant Plant Protest
• Salt Lake Tribune – Water envy–Leave the Green River alone
• Norristown Patch – Nuclear Officials Knew of Faults Upon Licensing Plant – Teresa McMinn
• Radio4All – If You Love This Planet: Dr. Helen Caldicott interviews Arnold Gundersen
• Washington Post – Energy Department cuts payments to 4 federal lab workers – Carol D. Leonnig
• Yahoo! News – US House passes huge defense spending bill – Michael Mathes
• Asia-Pacific: OpEdNews – Get Ready to Shake, Rattle and Glow — The Worst is Yet to Come at Japan’s Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant – Vincent Guarisco
• East Asia: Yonhap News – U.S. House passes bill recommending tactical nukes in S. Korea
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Nuclear waste plan divides community
• Europe: Enformable – London protest breaks out over controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project as British officials send letter to Indian Prime Minister – Lucas W Hixson

Friday, May 18, 2012

• Las Vegas SUN – New scrutiny for CA nuke plant, as restart looms
• Tri-Valley CAREs – Bad Day for Nuclear Safety and Democracy
• Salt Lake Tribune – Report: Green River is No. 2 most endangered river in U.S. – Brett Prettyman
• Washington Post – United States Enrichment Corp., bailed out once, seeks more federal money for new project – Steven Mufson
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Ex-DOE computing exec Michael Strayer indicted on 13 federal counts; ORNL ties to allegations – Frank Munger
• North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network – $560 Million in Cost Overruns at South Carolina Nuclear Project
• ANWAG – House of Representatives Puts U.S. Nuclear Weapons Workers’ Health and Lives at Risk (pdf-220K)
• Enformable – Feds Cut Nuclear Emergency Exercises, Avoid Public Scrutiny
• Reuters – Column: Rising costs argue against new nuclear – Gerard Wynn
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – May 17th, 2012 FOIA Archive Release – RASCAL Estimations – SPEEDI Data – Communications – Status Updates
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: NHK exec’s assignment to TEPCO board is ill-advised

Thursday, May 17, 2012

• Huffington Post – San Onofre: We Can’t Ignore the Warning Signs – Erich Pica
• KPBS – Nuclear Activists Take Concerns About San Onofre To Sempra – Alison St John
• Los Angeles Times – San Onofre’s future hinges on finding cause of abnormal tube wear – Abby Sewell
• Power Engineering Magazine – Boxer requests design documents for San Onofre
• Press-Citizen – Nuclear bill would have been a disaster for Iowa – Mike Carberry
• The Tennessean – Feds quietly cut safety drills at nuclear power plants – Jeff Donn
• Patriot-News – Nuclear power regulators call for fewer immediate evacuations in an accident – Donald Gilliland
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Mega-lawsuit claims nuke contamination in Armstrong – Mary Ann Thomas
• Asia-Pacific: Greenpeace International – Fukushima nuclear disaster: who profits and who pays? – Jan Haverkamp
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Oi town bombarded with protests after nuke reactors’ restart approved
• Europe: Daily Telegraph – Who will bury Britain’s nuclear waste in their backyard? – Louise Gray
• Europe: Bloomberg – Germany’s Altmaier Supports Nuclear Phase-Out, Bild Reports – Naomi Kresge

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

• EcoWatch – New Report Reveals Scale of Steam Generator Failures at Nuclear Plant
• Orange County Register – D.C. summit offers strategies against San Onofre danger – Gary Headrick
• Poway.Patch – Expert: San Onofre’s Leak Problems Run Deep – Adam Townsend
• Power Engineering – Ratepayers to foot the bill
• San Clemente Times – Senator Seeks Answers on San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station – Stacie N. Galang
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Nuclear Plant Restart Assailed – Morgan Lee
• Veterans Today – Radiation at El Toro Hangar Unresolved
• Victoria Advocate – Upcoming changes to nuclear power emergency procedures will not affect Victoria County
• Columbia Daily Tribune – Preparations loosened for nuclear crises
• Chicago Daily Herald – Evacs and drills pared near nuke plants
• Palm Beach Post – FPL adds $600 million to cost of nuclear reactors’ project – BySusan Salisbury
• Chatham Star Tribune – Uranium mining is recipe for disaster – Karen Maute
• CNN – Kodak confirms it had weapons-grade uranium in underground lab – Dugald McConnell and Brian Todd
• Business Wire – Research and Markets: New Report – Efficient Management of Radioactive Waste Helping the Growth of the Nuclear Industry
• Enformable – Subsidized economic time bombs stunning in relation to anything else – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – An Audacious Nuclear Hypocrisy – Linda Pentz Gunter
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Kitakyushu to incinerate Miyagi debris on trial basis
• Europe: The Guardian – Energy companies blame abandonment of nuclear plans on lack of cash – Damian Carrington
• Europe: The Scotsman – MSP hits out at nuclear firm secrecy
• North Europe: Industrialinfo – Lithuania’s Nuclear Bill Jumps by €2 Billion
• East Europe: Bellona – Analysis: Belarusian leader commemorates Chernobyl by waxing enthusiastic about nuclear power, but why would Lukashenko want a new nuclear power plant?

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

• 89.3 KPCC – Fairewinds report blasts safety claims at San Onofre nuclear plant – Lisa Brenner
• CBS Local – Previously Classified Documents Unveil Potential Fire Dangers At San Onofre – Randy Paige
• Enformable – NRC releases document from June 2006 overview of SONGS steam generator replacement project
• LA Times blog – Edison, consultant spar over blame for San Onofre shutdown – Abby Sewell
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Report questions San Onofre restart plan – Morgan Lee
• SanJuanCapistrano.patch – Expert: San Onofre’s Leak Problems Run Deep – Adam Townsend
• Washington Post – California senator presses feds after report questions safety at troubled coastal nuke plant
• Salon – The GOP’s nuke-dump donor – Mariah Blake
• Chattanooga Times Free Press – Emotion and nuclear power
• Government Security News – NNSA measuring background radiation over Baltimore – Mark Rockwell
• Patriot Ledger – Federal mediators called in to avert strike at Pilgrim
• Los Angeles Times – For Kodak, nuclear reactor and weapons-grade uranium proved useful – Matt Pearce
• Portsmouth Herald News – Anti-nuke group files lawsuit against NRC – Shir Haberman
• Columbus Free Press – Will you pay as new reactors jump $900 million in three months? – Harvey Wasserman
• New York Times – Key Retired General Backs Big U.S. Nuclear Cut – Thom Shanker
• PennEnergy – DOE to invest over $47MM for training of next generation of nuclear energy leaders
• R&D Magazine – A new look at prolonged radiation exposure – Anne Trafton
• Asia-Pacific: AsianWeek – Fukushima Crisis Is Completely Over After One Year (NOT!) – Arthur Hu
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Warnings over fault below nuke reactors in Fukui were ignored
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t winning approval for Oi reactors’ restart: Edano
• South Asia: The Hindu – Relay fast begins at Idinthakarai
• South Asia: Irrawaddy News Magazine – Burma Has No Nuclear Ambitions: Thein Sein
• Europe: The Guardian – Plans to reform electricity market ‘unworkable’, say green businesses – Fiona Harvey
• Europe: openDemocracy – How to bury nuclear waste under the democratic carpet in Cumbria – Stuart Haszeldine
• South Africa: Sunday Standard – Radioactive facility not welcome in Pilikwe – Gasebalwe Seretse

Monday, May 14, 2012

• MSNBC – How long can nuclear reactors last? US, industry extend spans – Jeff Donn
• Enformable – San Onofre steam generator replacement records show MHI inspections dating back to May 2006 – Lucas W Hixson
• Orange County Register – Alert-siren testing Tuesday in San Clemente
• Poway.Patch – Document Missing in NRC San Onofre Investigation – Adam Townsend
• Farmington Daily Times – Groups urge EPA to revoke uranium permit
• Tampa Tribune – Nuclear waste costly for taxpayers – Kevin Doyle
• Mother Nature Network – Kodak had a ‘secret’ nuclear reactor
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• NYTimes blog – Willing to Pay (a Little) More for Clean Energy – Justin Gillis
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – NHK manager will be assigned to be a director of Tepco – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO logs 782 bil. yen group net loss for FY 2011
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Group seeks referendum to decide future of Hamaoka nuclear complex
• Asia-Pacific: China Post – Minister reconfirms goal of ‘nuclear-free homeland’
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Nuclear power phase-out plan confirmed
• South Asia: The Hindu – Anti-nuclear protesters heed Justice Shah’s call, end fast
• East Europe: Slovak Spectator – Court dismisses Greenpeace lawsuit over the Mochovce nuclear power plant – Radka Minarechová