Sunday, January 06, 2013

• Duluth News Tribune – History: Hundreds of barrels dumped by weapons plant – John Myers
• Rutland Herald – Yankee’s financial prospects seen grim – Susan Smallheer
• Japan: Forbes – How Japan Discovered Conservation: Fukushima – Jeff McMahon
• Japan: Asahi Shimbun – Double atomic bomb survivor tells story to help Fukushima victims – Ryuta Kuratomi
• Japan: Mainichi Daily News – Looking back over a year of Fukushima reporting
• South Asia: IPS – Villagers Wail Against Nuclear Power – K. S. Harikrishnan
• Europe: Herald Scotland – Government bid to silence radiation expert’s health fear – Rob Edwards
• East Europe: Sofia Globe – PM orders Bulgaria’s ruling party to vote no in referendum on nuclear power

Saturday, January 05, 2013

• Reno Gazette-Journal – RADON: The silent killer – Susan Howe
• Seattle Post Intelligencer blog – Gregoire emerges as top contender to boss EPA
• Japan: Asahi Shimbun – Evacuees told they’ll need to stay away for a generation
• Japan: Asahi Shimbun – CROOKED CLEANUP: Government mishandled complaints about shoddy cleanup work
• Japan: Mainichi Daily News – Decontamination worker says illicit dumping is daily occurrence
• Asia: All Things Nuclear – Is January Chinese ASAT Testing Month? – Gregory Kulacki
• South Asia: The Hindu – Kudankulam project employees get threatening message
• Europe: Plymouth Evening Herald – Nuclear accident at Dockyard “would cause thousands of deaths” campaigners say – Sam Blackledge
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – Merkel confirms Germany won’t export nuclear waste
• Europe: Reuters – German solar power installations at record high in 2012 – Thomas Seythal
• Europe: AFP Google – Experts okay restart of worrisome Belgian nuclear plants

Friday, January 04, 2013

• SanClemente.Patch – Edison Begins Eliminating San Onofre Jobs
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Nuclear Regulators Dismiss Protests to Private Reports – Morgan Lee
• Santa Fe New Mexican – Hiroshima Day protesters face trial in Los Alamos – Tom Sharpe
• Washington Post – Va. doesn’t need to mess around with uranium – Ryke Longest
• Long Island Press – Former Hicksville Nuclear Site Leaves Sick Employees Seeking Justice – Christopher Twarowski
• NTI – New York, Vermont Threaten To Sue NRC Over “Waste Confidence” Review – Douglas P. Guarino
• The Examiner – Top secret tsunami bomb targeted Japan – Deborah Dupre
• IEER – NRC rushing through waste confidence process (press release and official comments)
• IEER – Declaration of Dr. Arjun Makhijani Regarding the Scope of Proposed Waste Confidence Environmental Impact Statement (pdf-775K)
• ENS – Bison Group’s Victory Affects All U.S. Public Records Requests
• People’s Voice – American Nuclear Hypocrisy – Dr. Elias Akleh
• Platts – Analyis: Fifty-six US nuclear units to shut for refueling in 2013 – Tom Harrison and Wesley Becker
• Japan: Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
• Japan: OpEdNews – The most dangerous “cliff”: A fuel pool hanging 100 feet above the ground in Fukushima! – Mark Goldes
• Japan: Asahi Shimbun – Crooked Cleanup (1): Radioactive waste dumped into rivers during decontamination work in Fukushima
• Japan: Japan Times – Universities receive ¥1.7 billion in donations from power industry
• Japan: NHK World – Mountains of debris waiting to be disposed of
• Japan: Focus Taiwan News – Civic group planning anti-nuclear protest parade for March
• Europe: Deutsche Local – Nuclear power will ‘never return’ to Germany
• Europe: World Radio Switzerland – Lawsuit filed against 2 nuclear plants
• North Europe: Baltic Course – Lithuania to make decision on new NPP in mid-March
• North Europe: The World – Finland’s Nuclear Waste Disposal Dilemma – Kavita Pillay

Thursday, January 03, 2013

• CounterPunch – Nuclear Waste Confidence–The Eternal Problem – Russell D. Hoffman
• North County Times – Secrecy pact challenged at San Onofre – Morgan Lee
• Orange County Register – Layoffs continue at San Onofre – Fred Swegles
• San Clemente Times blog – NRC Denies License Amendment Petition – Jim Shilander
• Tampa Bay Times – Utilities nationwide could share the financial pain of the idled Crystal River nuclear plant – Ivan Penn
• Lacey.Patch – NRC Asked to Revise Plans, Regulations to Consider Post-Sandy Conditions – Elaine Piniat
• Caribbean: The Atlantic – The Real Cuban Missile Crisis – Benjamin Schwarz
• Japan: Asahi Shimbun – Foundation filled with ‘nuclear village’ officials monopolizes nuclear benefit program
• Japan: Mainichi Daily News – Shiga Gov. Kada to quit as anti-nuclear party chief
• South Asia: World Nuclear News – Indian protest movement spreads
• Europe: Bellona – New report casts shadow on Sellafield’s emergency preparedness – Charles Digges
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Ennerdale Parish Organises Own Referendum on Burying N-Waste – Alan Irving
• East Europe: The Atlantic – Inside Chernobyl’s Abandoned Hospital
• East Europe: The Verge – Exploring Chernobyl through the lens of a camera – Kimber Streams
• East Europe: Wired – Containing Chernobyl: the mission to difuse the world’s worst nuclear disaster site – Andrew Hankinson
• Russia: World Nuclear News – Ten more years for Smolensk reactor

Wednesday, January 02, 2013

• Platts – Costs drove PFS move to terminate US spent fuel storage license: exec – Elaine Hiruo
• Summit County Citizens Voice – Colorado: Rocky Flats wildlife refuge land swap finalized
• Dallas Morning News blog – Harold Simmons’ nuclear waste committee fined for violating campaign finance law – Wayne Slater
• Dallas Observer blog – The Law that Let Harold Simmons Dump Nuclear Waste in West Texas Was Greased by Illegal Political Contributions, Says Ethics Ruling – Eric Nicholson
• The State – SRS factory years behind schedule, millions over budget – Sammy Fretwell
• Bay News 9 – Lawmakers move to repeal pay now for nuclear later law
• Main Line Media News – Limerick nuke plant re-licensing delayed by courts – Evan Brandt
• Brick Patch – NRC to Hold Public Meeting on Anti-Oyster Creek Petition – Elaine Piniat
• Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – The Sunflower: Issue #186 – January 2013
• YouTube – Absurd Nuclear Waste Storage Problem: Arnie Gundersen
• Japan: YouTube – Photographing the Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima – Donald Weber
• Japan: Asahi Shimbun – More residents refuse nuclear benefits after Fukushima disaster
• Japan: NHK World – 52,000 people came to need care after disaster
• Japan: Focus Taiwan News – Anti-nuclear activists to stage protests around Taiwan – James Lee
• South Asia: The Hindu – Villagers court arrest against Jaitapur nuclear plant – Alok Deshpande
• Russia: Bloomberg – Putin Declares War on Orphans, NGOs and the U.S.

Tuesday, January 01, 2013

• Nevada Appeal – DOE: Uranium shipments to Nevada could start soon
• Ventura County Star – Letter: Cancer rates – Joan Edwards
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #123: Rudolph the Glow-in-the-Dark Reindeer – Dave Lochbaum
• Washington Post – Too many government secrets
• Oceania: Daily Telegraph – ‘Tsunami bomb’ tested off New Zealand coast – Jonathan Pearlman
• Japan: Deutsche Welle – No return to Japan’s ‘nuclear village’
• Japan: Japan Times – Goal of no new reactors in jeopardy
• Japan: Mainichi Daily News – Over 10 nuclear plants in Japan have flawed fire-prevention equipment: sources
• Japan: NHK World – Nagasaki survivors call for nuclear abolition
• South Asia: Times of India – Activists plan three-day cultural fest at Kudankulam
• Europe: Irish Times – Steel plant pollution and bribery scandal engulfs Italians – Paddy Agnew
• East Europe: Wildlife News – Chernobyl nuclear disaster site becomes a wildlife area, including over a hundred wolves – Ralph Maughan

Monday, December 31, 2012

• Tri-Valley CAREs – Tri-Valley CAREs is Quoted in Science Magazine
• Denver Business Journal – Rocky Flats wildlife refuge expanded by 1,200 acres
• WKSU News – Davis-Besse opponents suffer setback – Kabir Bhatia
• Journal Register – Limerick nuke plant re-licensing delayed by courts – Evan Brandt
• NRC Blog – Waste Confidence Public Comment Period Ending Soon
• Caribbean: Jamaica Observer – Alarm as Britain to ship dangerous waste through Caribbean Sea
• Oceania: Melbourne Age – Region’s bid for nuclear-free zone
• Japan: Platts – Japan won’t restart nuclear reactors until new safety standard set
• Japan: Japan Daily Press – PM Abe reveals plans to build new nuclear plants – Ida Torres
• Japan: Japan Times – Editorial: Back to the future for Japan?
• South Asia: Deccan Chronicle – To go nuke or not
• South Asia: India Blooms – Govt framing fake sedition charges against anti-nuke activis