Sunday, October 21, 2012

• OpEdNews – MELT DOWN?! Corporate Greed, Gov’t Corruption, and America’s Own Fukushima Disaster. – Brett Redmayne-Titley
• Texas Tribune – Texas Sierra Club Fight Over Radioactive Waste Heats Up – Nick Swartsell
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Uranium mine: ‘more than the issues we’ll lock on to’ – Alex Bainbridge
• Asahi Shimbun – Marubeni to build nation’s mega-solar power plant in Oita – Toru Nakagawa
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Scientist warns of dangers of Taiwan nuclear mishap – Lee I-chia
• Europe: BBC News – Nuclear weapons ‘outlawed’ in an independent Scotland, says Salmond
• Europe: The Independent – Government to rip up rulebook and subsidise new nuclear plants – Steve Connor
• Europe: AP Google – Poll: Germans accept nuke exit despite rising bill
• Europe: Power Engineering – Scientists pinpoint nuclear plants in high-risk zones – Diarmaid Williams
• Europe: BBC News – Spain’s nuclear legacy – Gerry Hadden
• Europe: Bloomberg – Groundwater Extraction Set Off Deadly Spain Quake: Study – Randall Hackley

Saturday, October 20, 2012

• Charlotte Business Journal – Report: Flood risk to Duke Energy nuke plant underestimated – John Downey
• Global Research – Coverup: Risk of Nuclear Melt-Down in U.S. Higher than it was at Fukushima
• Union of Concerned Scientists – Nuclear Regulatory Commission has Failed to Adequately Address Flood Risks at Nuclear Plants from Dam Failures, Report Finds – Press TV
• YouTube – Nuclear Whistleblower Speaks! Fukushima, San Onofre, & GE (Bridenbaugh) Pt.1/2
• Asia-Pacific: YouTube – Fukushima: The Hard Questions by Arnie Gundersen
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – Northern Scotland goes from nuclear to wind and waves
• Russia: Power Engineering – Russian nuclear power stations will generate more than 170 bln kWh this year – Rogozin

Friday, October 19, 2012

• Huffington Post – Leaked Report Suggests Long-Known Flood Threat To Nuclear Plants, Safety Advocates Say – Tom Zeller Jr.
• LosAlamitos.patch – State Eyes Whether Troubled Nuclear Plant Worth Cost – Adam Townsend
• Power Engineering – 850 pack meeting about San Onofre nuclear plant
• Power Engineering – Experts weigh in on plan to restart San Onofre
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Options Limited for Nuke Plants’ Trust Fund – Morgan Lee
• Courier-Journal – Nuclear waste dump opens offers a “Texas Solution” to nuclear waste – James Bruggers
• Toms River Patch – Public Meeting to be Held on Operation and Closure of Oyster Creek – Elaine Piniat
• Fairewinds Energy Education – How Citizen Scientists can Sample Radiation
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear Energy Insider Policy Brief 9 October – 17 October 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear Energy Insider Policy Brief 28 September – 10 October 2012 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Union of Concerned Scientists – Nuclear Regulatory Commission has Failed to Adequately Address Flood Risks at Nuclear Plants from Dam Failures, Report Finds
• Asia-Pacific: Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for October 16th to October 18th, 2012
• Asia-Pacific: Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Govt submits no-nuke resolution to U.N.
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – Fukushima stories leaked to the U.S. through documentary, reveals coverups – Ida Torres
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – Japan denies rice given to Haiti is contaminated with radiation – Adam Westlake
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Tepco to expand compensation for tourism industry losses
• Europe: Huffington Post UK – Will the Government Write a Blank Cheque for Nuclear Construction? – David Toke
• Europe: World Radio Switzerland – Report calls Beznau nuclear plant “unsafe”
• East Europe: Balkans Business News – Bulgaria prepares for referendum on nuclear power
• East Europe: Bloomberg – Romania Nuclear Reactors Will Cost $8.5 Billion, Bursa Says – Andra Timu

Thursday, October 18, 2012

• Santa Barbara Independent – Feds Say Diablo Canyon Earthquake Safe – Ethan Stewart
• Power Engineering – Experts weigh in on San Onofre
• Highlands Ranch Herald – Snapshots of the nuclear age
• Illinois Times – Project Censored – Yosh Golden
• Lower Hudson Journal – Nuke hearing targets evacuation costs – Michael Risinit
• NAS – Project Update: Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants
• Caribbean: Straight – Gwynne Dyer: The other Cuban Missile Crisis – Gwynne Dyer
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – March 13th, 2011 – NRC analysis shows Fukushima Daiichi worse than TMI and Chernobyl Accidents
• Asia: Reuters – TEXT-Fitch rates China Guandong Nuclear at ‘AA-‘/’A+’
• Russia: Pravda – Russia to spend over 100 billion on nuclear weapons

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

• KCOY – Diablo Canyon Power Plant Returns To Full Power – Dave Alley
• Los Angeles Times – California plans probe of San Onofre nuclear plant – Abby Sewell
• NBC Sandiego – State May Investigate San Onofre-Related Rates – Lauren Steussy
• Orange County Register – Experts weigh in on San Onofre restart plan – Pat Brennan
• Reuters – California moves to open probe into San Onofre nuclear shutdown – Nichola Groom
• Reuters – California regulator to vote Oct 25 on San Onofre probe
• San Luis Obispo Tribune – NRC study: Diablo OK on newly found fault – David Sneed
• Cape Cod Times – Pilgrim is a key concern for Cape evacuation plans
• AP Google – Earthquake in Maine rattles New England states – David Sharp and Lisa Rathke
• Government Accountability Project – Prenatal Mercury Exposure Linked to ADHD – Study: Daily Whistleblower News – Hannah Johnson
• Oceania: ABC – Whistleblower accuses nuclear agency of cover-up
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Red Cross labels Fukushima evacuations humanitarian crisis
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Watchdog to check fault beneath Oi nuclear plant
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO terminates damages payments for emotional distress to women that marry – Asahi Shimbun
• South Asia: Power Engineering – Three strikes for Indian nuclear?

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

• KFI – San Onofre Update – David Perez
• KPBS – Researchers To Study Uranium Impacts On Navajo Children – Laurel Morales
• The Lane Report – State seeks firm to design final cap for Maxey Flats Project, low-level radioactive waste landfill
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Nuclear waste site owner levels accusations against Leechburg activist – Mary Ann Thomas
• Christian Science Monitor – Uranium woes: no relief for prices amid low demand – Jen Alic
• the Diplomat – The Second Nuclear Age – James R. Holmes
• Fairewinds – Fairewinds Japanese Speaking Tour: Fall 2012
• Caribbean: Miami Herald – Secret nukes: the untold story of the Cuban Missile Crisis – Juan O. Tamayo
• Canada: KnowNuclearWaste – Stopping Nuclear Waste in its Tracks – Saskatchewan (October 2012) – SandraCuffe
• Oceania: Scoop NZ – Radioactive waste to sit on farms for billions of years?
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Further leak at Fukushima, photos reveal other damage – Asahi Shimbun
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Govt protests N-satire aired on French TV
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Editorial: Passing the buck on nuclear power
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Japan urged to shift focus to renewable energy after Fukushima disaster – Asahi Shimbun
• South Asia: Times of India – Horrifying birth defects reported in children of Fallujah, Basra – Subodh VarmaSubodh
• Europe: CUFC Online – Nuclear Waste Repository – Lakeland V Wasteland
• Europe: The Guardian – New nuclear costs could squeeze renewables from UK energy mix – Tom Burke
• Europe: IPS – Most EU Nuclear Power Plants ‘Unsafe’ – Julio Godoy
• Europe: Energy Live News – Germany’s energy transition could save €570bn by 2050 – Priyanka Shrestha

Monday, October 15, 2012

• Lab Manager Magazine – Fifteen Scientists, Engineers Inducted into LLNL Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame
• Nuclear Engineering – NRC: Diablo Canyon could withstand earthquakes
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Letter: Keep the lights on at San Onofre
• Westword – Rocky Flats still off-limits during National Wildlife Refuge WeekBy Patricia Calhoun
• Aiken Leader – Bonnie Raitt Concert Supports Public Interest Work Focused on the Savannah River Site (SRS) – Thomas Clements
• Mid-Hudson News – Highly technical and likely lengthy hearing begins on Indian Point relicensing
• YNN Hudson Valley – Federal hearings on Indian Point
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Nuclear Engineering – New poll shows less than half support nuclear energy
• GAO – Most DOE Cleanup Projects Are Complete, but Project Management Guidance Could Be Strengthened, GAO-13-23, Oct 15, 2012
• Caribbean: The Guardian – Letters: The Russian who saved the world in 1962
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Asia-Pacific: Energy Collective – Radiation probes indicate NO melt through at Fukushima Unit 1 – Rod Adams
• Asia-Pacific: eNews Park Forest – Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, October 15, 2012 .
• Southeast Asia: Xinhua News – Nuclear energy technologies not yet suitable for Singapore: Senior official
• Europe: Bloomberg – U.K. Could Save $17 Billion a Year by Cutting Power Demand – Alex Morales
• Europe: BBC News – Lincolnshire’s ‘secret’ role in Cuban Missile Crisis
• Europe: Kent Online – Revealed: Key role of secret tunnels at Dover Castle during Cuban missile crisis – Graham Tutthill
• Europe: AP Google – Germans face hefty bill to end nuclear power – Juergen Baetz
• Europe: Xinhua News – German green energy surcharge to rise 47 pct next year
• North Europe: UPI – Lithuanians vote against nuclear plant
• East Europe: Reuters – Poland sticks to plan to build $15.8 billion nuclear power station – Maciej Onoszko