Sunday, September 23, 2012

• CBS San Francisco – High-Security Nuclear Materials Removed From Lawrence Livermore Lab
• San Diego Union-Tribune – RELIEF FOR RATEPAYERS? – Morgan Lee
• Columbia Riverkeeper – Hanford Dangerous Waste Permit Public Hearing this Thursday
• Oak Ridge Today – Ohio Republican introduces bill to transfer nuclear facility security to military – John Huotari
• Salt Lake City Weekly – Utah Anti-Nuke campaigners host Saturday 5-k walk – Stephen Dark
• The Nation – Courting nuclear disaster – Eric S. Margolis
• Fukushima Diary – DC rally on 9/20 – Iori Mochizuki
• South Asia: IBNLive – Kudankulam protest: Fishermen block sea approach to Tuticorin Port
• South Asia: Indian Express – Haryana n-plant project clears land hurdle – Varinder Bhatia

Saturday, September 22, 2012

• Toledo Blade – Editorial: Nuclear quagmire
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Special nuke materials removed from Livermore – Frank Munger
• Fiscal Times – Nuclear Attack on Wind Turbines — Energy Wars Begin – Merrill Goozner
• UN: IAEA – Doors Close on 56th Annual Session of IAEA General Conference
• Voice of Russia – Another accident at Fukushima plant
• Japan Times – Town hosting stricken Fukushima No. 1 plant bans residents from returning for five more years
• Japan Times – Futaba worst hit by Fukushima fallout
• Mainichi Daily News – News Navigator: What is the ‘specified waste’ from the Fukushima accident?
• South Asia: IBNLive – KKNPP: Officials gear up for port blockade
• Europe: The Guardian – Should China be involved in the UK’s nuclear energy infrastructure? – Paul Dorfman

Friday, September 21, 2012

• The Blaze – Why Was the Gov’t Testing the Effects of Atomic Bombs on Beer? – Liz Klimas
• Power Engineering – Report suggests nuclear facility’s problems are serious
• Santa Maria Times – Looking into Diablo Canyon’s faults – James Murr
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford B Reactor park bill defeated, but not dead yet – Annette Cary
• Reuters – Idaho wildfire roars through former uranium mine site – Laura Zuckerman
• Des Moines Register blog – MidAmerican Energy eyes Fremont, Muscatine counties for possible nuclear plant – Perry Beeman
• HNN Huntingtonnews – “New” Documents Demonstrate Prior Portsmouth Puzzles – Tony E. Rutherford
• AllGov – Safety Officer Fired for Shutting Down Dangerous Nuclear Reactor
• South Florida Business Journal – Ex-FPL employee alleges nuclear plant decision led to retaliation – Paul Brinkmann
• Augusta Chronicle – Steel plates sent to Plant Vogtle fail NRC inspections – Rob Pavey
• Spartanburg Herald Journal – SRS is not suitable for high-level radioactive waste
• BurlingtonFreePress – Burlington Quakers plan religious witness at Vermont Yankee
• AllGov – Government Engineers Warn of Nuclear Plant Flood Risks
• CNN – Midnight votes planned in Senate – Ted Barrett
• CounterPunch – On a Pedestal of Nuclear Immorality – Saul Landau
• Fairewinds Energy Education – The Ongoing Damage and Danger at Fukushima – Arnie Gundersen joins Helen Caldicott
• The Hill – Anti-nuclear group finds little hope in NRC, presidential race – Zack Colman
• International News Magazine – Lies, Damn Lies, and Nuclear Lies. – David Swanson
• NEI Nuclear Notes – A Nuclear Energy Question We’d Like to See Asked in the Presidential Debates
• News-Medical – Radioactive iodine may predispose young thyroid cancer patients to second primary malignancies
• Reuters – Pentagon should take over U.S. nuclear plant security -lawmaker – Roberta Rampton
• Oceania: Sydney Indymedia – A week of nuclear decisions and pro nuclear hype – Huntington News
• Oceania: truthout – Marshall Islanders Stand Before UN Council – Barbara Rose Johnston
• AFP Google – Japan will go nuclear free, PM insists – Kyoko Hasegawa
• Bellona – Japan backtracks on 2040 nuclear phase out plan – Charles Digges
• Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for September 18th to September 20th, 2012 – Christine McCann
• RTT News – Radiation-Hit Town In Japan Bans Residents’ Return For 5 Years
• Asahi Shimbun – Chubu Electric argues that 18-meter wall can beat 23-meter tsunami – Ryo Takano
• Mainichi Daily News – Experts who value nuclear power plunged by 30 percent after Fukushima disaster
• South Asia: Hindu Business Line – Fuel loading begins at Kudankulam
• East Europe: Bloomberg – Romania Gets No Bids for Nuclear Reactors, Ziarul Financiar Says – Andra Timu

Thursday, September 20, 2012

• PHYS.org – Book: 30 years on Yucca Mountain
• Bay Citizen – Treasure Island residents seek answers – Matt Smith
• Citrus County Chronicle – NRC to hear challenge to nuke plants – Pat Faherty
• Cape Cod Times – Gonsalves: We’re all downwind now – Sean Gonsalves
• Daily Kos – Republican Suggested “Sprinkling” Radioactive Waste on America
• NTI – First U.S. Laser Enrichment License Expected by Month’s End – Elaine M. Grossman
• Canada: AFP Google – Quebec shutters sole nuclear plant as Ontario eyes more
• Canada: Saskatoon StarPhoenix – Uranium outlook bleak–Rebound two years off estimates
• AP Google – Japan posts $9.6B August trade gap as exports wilt – Elaine Kurtenbach
• Asahi Shimbun – Selection of radioactive waste disposal site creates unhappy locals
• Daily Yomiuri – KEPCO to post 125 billion yen net loss
• Fukushima Diary – Pneumonia is unusually increasing around in hotspot, “80% of the patients are under 14? – Iori Mochizuki
• South Asia: Daily Pioneer – It’s IAEA job to dispel fears post-Fukushima: AEC chief .
• Europe: Kent News – Shepway council reject nuclear dump proposals – Dean Kilpatrick
• Europe: Rye and Battle – Marsh nuclear plan thrown out by Kent Council

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

• Bellona – Impact to US West Coast from Fukushima disaster likely larger than anticipated, several reports indicate – Charles Digges
• Peak Oil – Scientific Paper: “The Fukushima Radioactive Plume Contaminated the Entire Northern Hemisphere During a Relatively Short Period
• Firedoglake – RIP San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, 1968 – 2012 – Gregg Levine
• MyFox Phoenix – Cleanup of uranium continues on Navajo Nation
• Milwaukee Magazine – New Nukes? Walker renews call to lift moratorium – Matt Hrodey
• Sun Sentinel – Former Saint Lucie nuclear plant manager says he was fired for preventing meltdown – Ariel Barkhurst
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Developing: Expansion of Nuclear Worker Illness Benefits Again Denied to Certain INCO Workers – Tony E. Rutherford
• OpEdNews – Nuclear Power on the Line in Vermont? – William Boardman
• Bloomberg – Uranium Recovery Postponed as Price Drops to 2-Year Low – Christopher Donville
• Huffington Post – 8 Nuclear Test Sites To Visit (PHOTOS)
• Oceania: Melbourne Indymedia – Mapping Australia’s Nuclear Sites – Past and Present
• Christian Science Monitor – Japan plans to abandon nuclear power
• New York Times – Japan Backs Off Goal to Phase Out Nuclear Power by 2040 – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Daily Yomiuri – Rokkasho N-fuel plant completion delayed
• Daily Yomiuri – Whiteboards detail tense response to nuclear crisis
• Japan Times – Vowing no more disasters, new atomic regulator launched – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Cabinet fails to OK new nuclear strategy–Deadline for abolishing atomic energy by 2030s not endorsed
• East Asia: Greenpeace International – What South Korea can learn from Japan’s nuclear phase-out – Justin McKeating
• South Asia: TwoCircles – Exempting Russians from n-liability unacceptable: CPI
• Europe: BBC News – King’s Cliffe radioactive waste site stays open until 2016
• North Europe: Copenhagen Post – Nuclear waste set to stay put – Christian Wenande

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

• Cal Coast News – Rate payers on the hook for PG&E’s seismic study
• EPA – EPA begins three Navajo uranium mine cleanups in September / Work on the projects expected to total over $7 million
• Vero Beach Press-Journal – Man sues St. Lucie nuclear plant over job loss, claiming he was whistle-blower – Tyler Treadway
• WSLS – The politics of uranium mining – Tiffany Holland
• The Examiner – Kucinich to lead 1000s anti-nuclear, pro-renewable energy Occupiers – Deborah Dupre
• Government Accountability Project – Another Nuclear Plant Whistleblower (NY) Alleges Concerns: Daily Whistleblower News – Hannah Johnson
• Wall Street Journal – Study: Closing NY’s Indian Point would be costly
• Portsmouth Herald News – Nuke watchdogs eye containment building – Shir Haberman
• AllGov – Upgrading U.S.’s 5,000 Nuclear Warheads Could Cost Hundreds of Billions of Dollars
• The Hill – Nuclear group likes chances for waste management progress next Congress – Zack Colman
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt to scrap 3 N-reactors in Mihama, Tsuruga
• Japan Daily Press – Nearly 250 local Japanese governments fail disaster alert test – Britney Donald
• Asia: AFP Google – Major powers recognize Mongolia as nuclear weapons free
• South Asia: Reuters – Fukushima fallout seeps into India’s troubled nuclear push – Matthias Williams
• South Asia: Hindu Business Line – Anti-nuke protesters plan to intensify stir
• South Asia: IBNLive – TN: Dormant undersea volcano near Kalpakkam atomic plant?
• South Asia: Times of India – US declassifies Cold War nuclear plan
• Europe: AP Google – Swiss nuke smugglers who helped CIA to escape jail
• Russia: Scientific American – Russia Uses Lesson of Chernobyl as a Selling Point for Its Reactor Technology – Eve Conant

Monday, September 17, 2012

• Bay Area Indymedia – Commission to discuss whale-killing Diablo Canyon seismic testing – Dan Bacher
• Aiken Leader blog – Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Program at Savannah River Site Hit with Major Setback – Thomas Clements
• Nuclear Engineering – NRC to examine concrete degredation at Seabrook
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• OpEdNews – Nuclear Roulette – David Swanson
• Oceania: CounterPunch – Nuclear Betrayal in the Marshall Islands – Barbara Rose Johnston
• Columbus Free Press – Japan’s Long Atomic Sayonara – Harvey Wasserman
• Deutsche Welle – Off the grid by 2040? Critics doubt Japan’s plan
• eNews Park Forest – Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, September 17, 2012 .
• The Examiner – Fukushima dire warning: over 4 million Japanese cancer deaths – Deborah Dupre
• Fukushima Diary – White wild boar found in Saga prefecture, “1 in 100,000 boars” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Despite decision to end nuclear power, new reactors to be built – wait, what? – Adam Westlake
• Mainichi Daily News – 60 percent support gov’t policy of seeking to eliminate nuclear power: Mainichi poll
• The Hindu – Their life depends on nuclear waste!
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – Kudankulam: Gag order on nuclear plant officials – Prasad Nichenametla
• Europe: Bellona – France vows to lower nuclear dependence to 50 percent by 2025, and commits to new emissions cuts – Charles Digges
• Europe: Power Engineering – More cracks found at another Belgian nuclear power plant – Diarmaid Williams