Sunday, September 30, 2012

• AP Google – Officials mull seismic tests near Calif nuke plant – Jason Dearen
• Vancouver Sun – In seismic tests, officials try to balance nuke plant safety with concern for marine animals – Jason Dearen
• Santa Fe New Mexican – Costly LANL project falling farther from realization – Roger Snodgrass
• Memphis Commercial Appeal – Nuclear power industry stalled by failure to address waste
• Chapelboro – Nuclear Power Part III: Safety and Conclusion – Jeff Danner – Common Science
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Minister Edano: Japan must quickly phase out nuke energy
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Hirono residents staying away / Only 10% have returned in year since town’s evacuation order lifted
• South Asia: CounterCurrents – Just A Word Away, From Dr. Kalam To Women of Idinthakarai – Anitha.S
• South Asia: Hindustan Times – India’s ticking nuclear crisis: Part I – Charu Sudan Kasturi

Saturday, September 29, 2012

• Dana Point Times – NRC SONGS Public Meeting Set for October 9 – Brian Park
• Los Angeles Times – Environmentalists oppose PG&E plans for undersea air blasts – Louis Sahagun
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – More than 2,000 marine mammals will be harassed in Diablo Canyon seismic survey – David Sneed
• Tri-City Herald – Battelle fined for destroying bird nests, eggs – Annette Cary
• WOWT – Mishap With Truck Carrying Radioactive Waste Closes Highway
• Cleveland Leader – Researcher Claims U.S. Army Sprayed Radioactive Particles Over St. Louis for Years to Test Chemical Warfare Technology –
• Sierra Club – Attention all SC Ratepayers: PSC Hearing
• Government Accountability Project – House Passes Federal Whistleblower Protections with WPEA (S. 743) – Dylan Blaylock
• POGO – House’s Passage of Whistleblower Bill is Turning Point in Fight to Protect Truth-Tellers – Angela Canterbury
• Public Citizen – Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act Advances Through Congress
• Columbus Free Press – Lies, damn lies, and nuclear lies – David Swanson
• Asia-Pacific: AP Google – Minister: Japan must quickly phase out nuke energy – Mari Yamaguchi
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuclear rallies pass the 6-month mark
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Today – The only phase-out we can afford – Dreux Richard
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Today – 25,606 people moved out of Fukushima in last 6 months, ministry says
• Asia-Pacific: Liberty web Global – 1000 People Gathered for a Pro-nuclear Power Demonstration On Sept 25th
• South Asia: Colombo Page – India to discuss nuclear plant safety with Sri Lanka
• South Asia: DNA – Are you going to Kudankulam? – Bela Bhatia
• Europe: Daily Mirror – “The MoD are just waiting for us to die”: Nuclear bomb blast veterans still waiting for justice after 60 years
• North Europe: Greenpeace International – Pro-nuclear mudslinging in Lithuania’s nuclear referendum – Jan Haverkamp
• Russia: Reuters blog – The Soviet ticking time bomb legacy – Vasily Fedosenko

Friday, September 28, 2012

• Blog of Legal Times – DOJ Intervenes in Whistleblower Suit Involving Hanford Nuclear Site Cleanup
• Waste Management World – $730m Contract Extension at Radioactive Waste Cleanup Project in Idaho
• Minneapolis Star Tribune – Tribe faces fight to make its case over nuclear storage – David Shaffer
• Citrus County Chronicle – NRC to hear challenge to nuke plants – Pat Faherty
• Canada: CBC News – Caribou’s dip into radioactive pond upsets anti-nuclear activist
• Canada: NorthumberlandView – GreenView: Waterkeeper questions CNSC decision to exclude public presentations from Port Hope waste hearing
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Japan Minister Says Nationalization Needed to Phase Out Nuclear – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Asia-Pacific: Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima residents failing to complete radiation-dose paperwork
• Asia-Pacific: ENENews – Gundersen v. Tepco: Watch audience uproar after official says “there’s nothing in the fuel pool to burn” (VIDEO)
• Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – Fukushima reactors status 29 sep 2012
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – City opposes government’s plan of dumping radioactive Fukushima waste in forest – Adam Westlake
• South Asia: Times of India blog – Will Nuclear Power turnout to be a liability and a curse to the country? – V Mahalingam
• Europe: The Guardian – Nuclear power is the Betamax of the energy world – Natalie Bennett
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Repository decision ‘biggest county has faced’
• North Europe: Bellona – Belarusian anti-nuclear activists ‘blacklisted’ by Lithuanian government – Bellona
• North Europe: Greenpeace International – Pro-nuclear mudslinging in Lithuania’s nuclear referendum – Jan Haverkamp
• East Europe: Kingsbridge Salcombe and South – Nuclear disaster site visit ‘very humbling’
• Russia: Pravda – Is there a place for nuclear waste on Earth? – Igor Bukker
• South Africa: Johannesburg Times – Activists fear nuke risks – Graeme Hosken

Thursday, September 27, 2012

• San Francisco Chronicle – Treasure Island health study planned – Matt Smith
• New York Times – Book Review: ‘Full Body Burden’ by Kristen Iversen–Growing Up in a Town of Weak Beer and Toxic Water – Dwight Garner
• Westword – Twenty years later, there’s still much we don’t know about Rocky Flats – Patricia Calhoun
• Florence TimesDaily – Browns Ferry lost ability to monitor earthquakes – Eric Fleischauer
• Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) – Reps. Tierney, Markey Introduce Legislation to Ensure Safety of Nuclear Plants for Local Families – .
• AllGov – Government Tries to Bury almost 2 Tons of Useless, but Still Dangerous, Man-Made Uranium
• Forbes – The Nuclear Renaissance Is Back, Industry Panel Says – Jeff McMahon
• The Hill – Bill would add nuclear relicensing rule – Zack Colman
• IPS – Pressure Mounts on Nuclear States to Ratify Test Ban – Haider Rizvi
• Nuke Power Talk – Nuclear Power and Costs: A Surprisingly Complex Issue – Dr. Gail H. Marcus
• Canada: Northumberland News – Port Hope’s radioactive waste legacy – Paul J. Rellinger
• Asia-Pacific: Cutting Edge – Japan Plans Restart of Controversial Reactor – Steve Herman
• Asia-Pacific: Greenpeace International – Japan to go zero nukes by the 2030s … or 40s – Greg McNevin
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Today – Indian Ocean’s April mega-quake broke the records
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Japan Picks N-Waste Disposal Candidate Site for Ibaraki
• South Asia: PTI – Kudankulam plant can be stopped if not safe: SC
• Europe: The Guardian – UK renewable energy output jumps by 42% – James Murray
• Europe: this is Bath – Nuclear power protest
• Europe: New York Times blog – France and Britain Weigh the Price of Nuclear Deterrence – Harvey Morris
• Europe: Bellona – France’s Total swears off artic oil drilling, putting other majors in environmental hot seat – Charles Digges
• Europe: Platts – French nuclear outlook drops on restart delays, fuel oil-fired output hikes – Robin Sayles
• Europe: Deutsche Local – Merkel: I didn’t cut corners on nuke waste
• Europe: Reuters – Germany’s Merkel denies misleading public over nuclear dump – Erik Kirschbaum
• North Europe: YouTube – The Place You Must Always Remember to Forget – Nuclear Waste the film – MrJmccammon
• South Africa: Green Times – Secrecy increases over Nuclear Energy in SA

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

• San Diego Union-Tribune – Overview: Nuclear plant idle, customers keep paying
• Tri-City Herald – Former DOE official would abolish agency, he says in new book – Annette Cary
• Huffington Post – Fort Calhoun, Nebraska Nuclear Plant, Should Remain Closed Says Environmental Group – Josh Funk
• Vermont Journalism Trust – NRC allows nuclear plants to propose alternatives to its new seismic safety assessment – Andrew Stein
• Waxahachie Daily Light – Vt. begins shipping radioactive waste to Texas
• AllGov – Government Tries to Bury almost 2 Tons of Useless, but Still Dangerous, Man-Made Uranium
• Climate Central – As the U.S. Warms, Power Plants Face New Water Limits – Andrew Freedman
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Emerging nuclear newbuild markets: What investors should know – Jason Deign
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Policy Brief – 24 September 2012 – Skaur
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief – 24 September 2012 – Skaur
• Reuters – GE, Hitachi win U.S. approval for laser-tech uranium plant – Jim Brumm
• Reuters – Refile-Nuclear energy capacity growth slowing after Fukushima-IAEA – Fredrik Dahl
• The White House – President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
• Asia-Pacific: Power Engineering – Japan Steps Away from Nuclear Power
• Asia-Pacific: UN News Centre – Japan determined to pass on lessons from its nuclear disaster, UN General Assembly told
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – New N-disaster response plans on way
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to urge power companies to withdraw plans to build nuke reactors – Asahi Shimbun
• Asia: Reuters – China nuclear reactor programme to resume in Q4 -report – David Stanway
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – ‘Action on anti-K’kulam protesters unjustified’
• South Asia: The Hindu – “Undeclared Emergency in Idinthakarai”
• Europe: Bloomberg – Biggest English Polluter Spends $1 Billion to Burn Wood: Energy – Kari Lundgren and Alex Morales
• North Europe: Baltic Course – Hitachi fails to answer important questions on Visaginas NPP
• Russia: Bellona – Dumped Russian nuclear sub shows no radioactive leaks, but still presents chain reaction dangers, research says
• Russia: CNBC – Exxon, Rosneft to Drill in Soviet Nuclear Dump – James Burgess
• Russia: Euronews – Nuclear danger grows from dumped Soviet subs

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

• NTI – U.S. Completes Sixth Nonexplosive Plutonium Trial
• North County Times – SAN ONOFRE: Regulators had questions about dome repairs at nuke plant – Paul Sisson
• Redlands Daily Facts – Longtime activists worry California government is softening on Santa Susana Field Lab cleanup – Susan Abram
• Tri-City Herald – DOE study looks at industrial developmentat Hanford – Annette Cary
• Truth-out – Debate on Proposed Alaska Mine Waste Storage Facility Spreads the Myth of “Monitoring in Perpetuity” – Donald G. Schweitzer
• Atlanta Journal Constitution – Nuclear industry slowed by its own waste – Kristi Swartz
• Virginian-Pilot – Hampton Roads panel backs uranium mining ban
• Bloomberg – Coal and Nuclear Power Can’t Substitute for Pricey Oil – Jeff Rubin
• ENR – Exelon Stock Slipping, Thanks to Gas Prices, Wind Glut and Nuke Stall – Julie Wernau, Chicago Tribune
• ENS – 23 Nuclear Power Plants at High Risk of Tsunami
• Canada: CBC News – CAQ threatens to hinder nuclear plant closure
• Asia-Pacific: Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for September 21st to September 24th, 2012 – Christine McCann
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times blog – Fragments of Fukushima – Shreeya Sinha
• Asia-Pacific: Voice of America – Japan Plans Restart of Controversial Reactor – Steve Herman
• Asia-Pacific: Asia News Network – Japan lacks locations for disposal of nuclear fuel – Koichi Yasuda/Takashi Hagihara
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – NRA chief: ‘No plant restarts before summer’
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Group of mutated sunflowers found in Misato city Saitama – Iori Mochizuki
• South Asia: The Hindu – Kudankulam rally reaches Kozhikode
• South Asia: Newstrack India – Anti-nuke protests: Demonstrations in Chennai
• South Asia: Times of India – Anti-nuclear villagers resort to ‘graveyard’ protest
• Europe: NW Evening Mail – Debate to be held on West Cumbria nuclear waste dump report
• Europe: Nuclear Heritage – Nuclear Waste Disposal Disaster in Germany (pdf-1.7M)
• Russia: Daily Mail – The man who saved the world: The Soviet submariner who single-handedly averted WWIII at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Monday, September 24, 2012

• Salt Lake Tribune – Letter: Like Monopoly – Dave Moore
• WCHL Chapel Hill – Common Science: Nuclear Power Part II: Waste, No Solution So Far – Jeff Danner
• Yes Vermont Yankee – Save the Date: November 7 for Crucial Meeting on Vermont Yankee
• about.com – Spent Nuclear Fuel a Growing Concern, GAO Reports – Robert Longley
• Discovery News – 23 Nuclear Plants in Tsunami Risk Zones
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Mental Floss – 2,053 Nuclear Explosions in One Video – Chris Higgins
• New York Times – Books of The Times: An Old Warrior With No Taste for Nuclear War – Janet Maslin
• Nuclear Engineering – Two thirds support nuclear in the USA
• Common Dreams – Expert: US Plan for Uranium-233 Disposal “Shocking”
• IPS – Managing the Uranium-233 Stockpile of the United States – Robert Alvarez
• New York Times – Uranium Substitute Is No Longer Needed, but Its Disposal May Pose Security Risk – Matthew L. Wald
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Asia-Pacific: eNews Park Forest – Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, September 24, 2012 .
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – TEPCO releases video and photos of Unit 3 spent fuel pool after steel frame accident – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – New Documentary by Tetsu Kato Tackles Those Who Chose to Stay in FukushimaBy Maria Elena Ida Torres
• Europe: Belfast Telegraph – Japan and France move away from nuclear power: is it the endgame for nuclear proponents? – John CK Daly
• Europe: this is Kent – Shepway council ‘dodged tendering rules’ over nuclear waste dump
• Europe: Times & Star – Nuclear dump up for debate – Victoria Brenan
• Greenland: New York Times – A Melting Greenland Weighs Perils Against Potential – Elisabeth Rosenthal
• Russia: Bellona – Further delays to drill Russia’s Arctic seas show ‘unpreparedness’ of industry to grapple with safety – Charles Digges