Sunday, May 27, 2012
- North County Times – Editorial: Don’t politicize nuclear agency
- San Diego Union-Tribune – Did San Onofre fix cause the problem? – Morgan Lee
- Enformable – Missing the institutional point – Have nuclear regulators gone native? – KarlGrossman
- Enformable – Nukes Run Wild – Momentous week in nuclear world – Joieau
- Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Spent Fuel Rods Drive Growing Fear Over Plant in Japan – Hiroko Tabuchi and Matthew L. Wald
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – N-fuel pool, ruined structure seen up close
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Tepco removing 2 fuel assemblies from reactor4 – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Edano alleges Tepco planned No. 1 pullout – Kazuaki Nagata
- Europe: The Guardian – EDF puts planned Somerset nuclear plant on hold – Terry Macalister
Saturday, May 26, 2012
- Daily Mail – Amazing never-before-seen pictures show aftermath of nuclear test in specially built ghost town just like in Indiana Jones
- San Diego Union-Tribune – Did fix at San Onofre cause the problem? – Morgan Lee
- Congressmen Edward J. Markey (D-MA) – Markey Blasts NRC Vote to Circumvent Rules, Shut Out Public on Pilgrim Relicense – .
- PBS NewsHour – Are U.S. Nuclear Plants Ready for a Fukushima-Like Meltdown?
- Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Japan says Fukushima spent-fuel risk contained – Kevin Krolicki and Kiyoshi Takenaka
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – No. 2 reactor source of most contamination
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – [Video] Reality in Fukushima 2 – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Nuclear power profiteers seem keen to risk getting blood on their hands – Roger Pulvers
- Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Fukushima Plant’s No. 4 Reactor Building Opened to Media
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Mainichi uncovers more secret nuclear commission meetings
- South Asia: Firstpost – Nuclear corp refuses to release safety report
- Europe: Channel 4 News – Scientist criticises plan for nuclear waste site in Cumbria
- Europe: Greenpeace International blog – UK government props up new nuclear with billions in subsidies – Justin McKeating
- East Europe: NY Times Travel – Walking the Streets of a Nuclear Ghost Town – Andrew W. Lehren
- Middle East: antiwar.com – Centrifuge Glitch Fuels Latest Iran Scare Stories–Trace Amounts of 27 Percent Enriched Uranium Produced – Jason
Friday, May 25, 2012
- Union of Concerned Scientists – UCS Gives Thumbs Up to Macfarlane as New NRC Chair – Lisbeth Gronlund
- Orange County Register – Last chance to weigh in on cancer-near-nukes study – Teri Sforza
- Deseret News – A better way needed for spent nuclear fuel – Don Hancock
- Missouri News Horizon – Exclusive: ‘Crack’ Finds Omaha’s Nuclear Plant Under Investigation Again
- Southeast Missourian – Plant evacuations – Sue Perkins-Grew, Director, Emergency Preparedness, Nuclear Energy Institute
- Michigan Live – Activists to meet NRC chairman after plant tour
- Southern Alliance for Clean Energy – Secret Documents Highlight Nuclear’s Risk
- Boston Herald – NRC commissioner votes to deny Pilgrim license
- Huffington Post – Exit Jackzo: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Free Fall – Richard Brodsky.
- NEI Nuclear Notes – Looking Back at NEA 2012
- Oceania: ABC – March marks five years of nuclear waste push – Allyson Horn
- Asia-Pacific: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Reform the Japanese power system. Nationalize Tepco. – Kay Kitazawa
- Asia-Pacific: Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 22nd – May 24th, 2012 – Christine McCann
- Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Three-quarters of Japanese firms oppose nuclear power – Tetsushi Kajimoto and Izumi Nakagawa
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Atomic commission chief admits attendance at secret session on nuclear fuel cycle
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to promote renewable ocean energy
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Sudo to resign as chairman, member of NHK board of governors
- Asia-Pacific: Tokyo Times – UN: Fukushima workers’ deaths not from radiation
- South Asia: Colombo Page – Atomic Energy Authority of Sri Lanka to conduct seminar on radiation safety
- Europe: BBC News – Consumers footing the bill for UK’s new nuclear age – Richard Moss
- Europe: Marie Claire – Nuclear energy: the facts
- Europe: Waste Management World – Why would anyone take nuclear road? – Philip Booth
- East Europe: PanArmenian.net – Three sentenced for illegal trafficking of uranium in Moldova
- Middle East: Huffington Post – Saudi Arabia Eyes Solar Power For Future – Angus McDowall and Reem Shamseddine
Thursday, May 24, 2012
- Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) – Reid Statement On Nomination Of Dr. Allison Macfarlane To Chair The Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Mother Jones – Obama Taps Nuclear “Agnostic” for Top Regulatory Post – Kate Sheppard
- Reuters – Update 1-Nuclear waste expert tapped as top US nuclear regulator – Roberta Rampton
- California Report – California Nuclear Plants Under Scrutiny – Alison St. John
- LA Times blog – Protesters ask Edison to decommission San Onofre nuclear plant – Abby Sewell
- San Clemente Patch – NRC Chief: Commission Should Revamp Nuclear Safety Rules
- San Diego Union-Tribune – NRC Eyes Changes in Plant Safety – Morgan Lee
- Tyler Morning Telegraph – Top nuclear regulator sees need to review agency rules after trouble at San Onofre nuke plant – Michael R. Blood
- Coeur d’Alene Press – Otter: No nuke waste dumping ground here – Gov. Butch Otter
- Idaho Statesman – OpEd: Nuclear Waste: Idaho will not become dumping ground; INL directive has other goals – Gov. C. L. “Butch” Otter
- Idaho Statesman – OpEd: nuclear waste: Waste can’t come to state; our valuable agreement must be protected – Phil Batt
- Lewiston Tribune – Andrus issues a new nuclear waste warning
- Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch – Letter to the Editor: Nuclear Whistleblower Points to Public Safety Failure – Joseph Carson, P.E.
- Wicked Local Plympton – NRC, picketers and protesters all at Pilgrim nuclear plant this week – Frank Mand
- Vermont Public Radio – Masked Protestors Disrupt NRC Meeting In Brattleboro
- Groton.Patch – Seven Injured in Fire On Groton-Based Nuclear Submarine [VIDEO] – Robert Cook and Marc Fortier
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Radiation: It’s just what the doctor ordered – Dawn Stover
- Enformable – Subsidies for new nuclear reactors are a “bet the farm” investment – Lucas W Hixson
- Enformable – Researchers show risk of nuclear meltdown drastically undervalued in risk assessment models – Lucas W Hixson
- Washington Post – Nuclear weapons just don’t make sense – Walter Pincus
- GAO – Uranium Mining: Opportunities Exist to Improve Oversight of Financial Assurances, GAO-12-544
- Oceania: Canberra Times – Radioactive game of passing the parcel – Richard Broinowski
- Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Fukushima’s Estimated Radiation Leak Doubles Versus Government – Tsuyoshi Inajima, Yuji Okada and Kanoko Matsuyama
- Asia-Pacific: CNN – Hard lessons for U.S. nuclear safety from Fukushima meltdown – Daniel P. Aldrich
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Reporters without borders blasts TEPCO and Japan over unacceptable restrictions on freelance journalists
- Asia-Pacific: Natural News – Tokyo soil so contaminated with radiation it would be considered nuclear waste in US – Ethan A. Huff
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Radiation didn’t cause Fukushima No. 1 deaths: U.N.
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – JAEC had secret ‘study meeting’ of nuclear advocates to draft reprocessing policy report
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – ‘Secret meeting’ on fuel cycle was like gathering of ‘nuclear villagers’
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – M6.0 quake jolts Aomori, other northeastern Japan areas
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Kitakyushu starts trial incineration of quake-tsunami debris
- Europe: The Guardian – Busting the carbon and cost myths of Germany’s nuclear exit – Damian Carrington
- Europe: Whitehaven News – Mass walk out at Sellafield
- Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield workers want nuclear dump
- Europe: Whitehaven News – 68pc want nuclear waste site search, according to Mori poll – Alan Irving
- North Europe: Baltic Course – 65% Lithuanians disapprove of building new NPP – Petras Vaida
- East Europe: Business Review USA – Battelle Engineers Work on Fix at Chernobyl
- South Africa: Zawya – Poor people will foot the bill for nuclear white elephants – Dr Gerry Wolff
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
- Orange County Register – San Onofre foes to rally today at Edison offices in Irvine – Fred Swegles
- The Oregonian – License for nuclear power plant at Hanford extended to 2043
- Daily Yonder – Green River Confronts Nuke – David Hasemyer
- Salt Lake Tribune – Bishop releases records he says undercut uranium mining ban – Thomas Burr
- Washington Post – Energy Department seeks to help USEC – Steven Mufson
- Environmental Expert – Secret Documents Highlight Nuclear’s Risk to Taxpayers
- Public Citizen – Gregory Jaczko Tried to Stand Up to Nuclear Industry; New Regulatory Chair Also Must Prioritize Public Health and Safety – Statement of Tyson Slocum
- Union of Concerned Scientists – Nuclear Regulatory Commission Must Replace Chairman Jaczko with Someone with a Proven Track Record that Puts Safety First – Statement by Edwin Lyman
- Asia-Pacific: Huffington Post – Fukushima Deaths Not Caused By Radiation, UN Says – George Jahn
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Japanese electric utilities earn 69% of profits from households
- Europe: The Guardian – Busting the carbon and cost myths of Germany’s nuclear exit – Damian Carrington
- Europe: The Guardian – British energy policy is a dark underworld of fanatics – Simon Jenkins
- Europe: Bloomberg – German Energy Shift to Cost EU175 Billion, Handelsblatt Reports – Jeff Black
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
- The Hill blog – Sen. Reid hints that Jaczko could serve out term at nuke agency – Ben Geman
- Public Citizen – Gregory Jaczko Tried to Stand Up to Nuclear Industry; New Regulatory Chair Also Must Prioritize Public Health and Safety – Tyson Slocum
- Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-MA) – Markey Thanks NRC Chairman Greg Jaczko for Years of Service – .
- WBOC 16 – $3.4 billion Indian land royalty settlement upheld – Matt Volz
- The Reader – Turning Over Rocks–What is Uranium Mining in Nebraska Doing to Pine Ridge’s Drinking Water? – Matt Goodlett
- Aiken Standard – Oversight board cites concerns over SRS Building 235-F – Anna Dolianitis
- Bangor Daily News – Maine Yankee wins $81.69M lawsuit against federal government – Jim McCarthy
- Enformable – FOIA Archive Release – Fukushima Daiichi – GAP Framework Definitions – San Onofre – Radiological Emergency Equipment
- OpEdNews – NRC Chairman Jaczko and Congressman Markey, I Am Skeptical of You – Joe Carson
- POGO blog – 7 Types of Government Information that Would Benefit from Springtime Sunshine – Dana Liebelson
- Science Daily – Severe Nuclear Reactor Accidents Likely Every 10 to 20 Years, European Study Suggests
- UPI – Chances of nuclear accident put higher
- GAO – Nuclear Safety: DOE Needs to Determine the Costs and Benefits of Its Safety Reform Effort, GAO-12-347
- Asia-Pacific: Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 18th – May 21st, 2012 – Christine McCann
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare banned staff from researching Fukushima contamination – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Taiwan Today – Referendums to decide Taiwan’s nuclear waste storage site – June Tsai
- Europe: The Guardian – Only renewables – not nuclear – could be too cheap to meter – Damian Carrington
- Europe: The Guardian – Nuclear reactor reprieve puts UK energy plans in doubt – Juliette Jowit
- Europe: Bloomberg – EDF to Decide on Whether to Extend U.K. Reactors’ Lives by 2013 – Kari Lundgren
- East Europe: Standart News – Kozloduy Nuke Remains Intact after M 6 Earthquake
- Russia: Russia&India Report – The future of the world nuclear energy industry – Ildar Akhtamzyan
Monday, May 21, 2012
- Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) – Reid Statement On Chairman Dr. Gregory Jaczko
- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), – Senator Boxer’s Statement on Resignation of NRC Chairman Greg Jaczko
- Friends of the Earth – Statement on announced resignation of Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Huffington Post – Gregory Jaczko Resigns: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Steps Down – Ryan Grim
- New York Times – N.R.C. Chairman to Resign After Stormy Tenure – John M. Broder and Matthew L. Wald
- Reuters – Update 4-Dogged by “bully” charge, U.S. nuclear chief Jaczko resigns – Roberta Rampton
- Washington Post – Nuclear Regulatory Commission chief Jaczko resigns – Ed O’Keefe and Steven Mufson
- San Diego Union-Tribune – San Onofre in limbo as top U.S. nuclear official departs – Morgan Lee
- Idaho Statesman – Cecil Andrus: Idaho must not let more nuke waste into the state
- KSL-TV – Environmental groups, tribes join to protest nuclear power plant – Jared Page
- FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
- HNN Huntingtonnews – OP-ED: ‘Duck and Cover’ – Not Enough for the Transition Out of the Nuclear Weapons industry – Patrick T. Hiller
- NRC – Statement of NRC Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – Kansai leaders reject government request to restart Oi nuclear reactors – Adam Westlake
- Europe: NW Evening Mail – Nuclear waste plan divides West Cumbria community
- Europe: Bloomberg – Merkel Tightens Grip on Energy Overhaul as Progress Lags – Stefan Nicola
- Europe: Bloomberg – Spanish Planned Nuclear Power Plant Shutdowns for 2012 – Rachel Morison