Sunday, February 03, 2013

• Orange County Register – Nuclear-plant foes celebrate anniversary of its shutdown
• Albuquerque Journal – Research Sheds Light on 7 Accidental Deaths at LANL – Kathaleen Roberts
• Dayton Daily News – Gulf War veterans still sick and not getting better – Andrew McGinn
• USA Today – Fate of Ohio centrifuge project murky in 2nd Obama term – Deirdre Shesgreen
• ArcaMax – Critics fear $7 billion plutonium fuel factory boondoggle – Sammy Fretwell
• OpEdNews – Clothes with Radioactive Zippers? – William Boardman
• Canada: Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre – No Nuke Dump
• Canada: MetroNews Canada – Protestors block CP Rail tracks over Lansdowne Ave. uranium plant
• Europe: The Independent – Nuclear storage clean-up bill could cost £70bn – Steve Connor
• Europe: Beyond Nuclear – Victory! No radioactive waste dump in Cumbria, UK
• Europe: Bloomberg – U.K.’s Cleanup of Sellafield Nuclear Site Too Slow, Panel Says – Craig Stirling
• Europe: Reuters – Centrica set to scrap plans to build new UK nuclear plants- FT

Saturday, February 02, 2013

• Sacramento Bee – SMUD wins $34.6 million nuclear waste suit, but won’t see the money soon – Mark Glover
• San Diego Union-Tribune – No more blank checks for utilities – Rochelle Becker
• San Diego Union-Tribune – State AG to enter probe on nuclear plant – Morgan Lee
• Pottstown Mercury – NRC: Exelon’s nuke plant shut-down fund may be short by $1 billion – Evan Brandt
• NY Newsday – Letter: High costs and nuclear power – Arthur “Jerry” Kremer
• Asia-Pacific: AFP Google – Powerful 6.9 earthquake shakes northern Japan – Karyn Poupee
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – TEPCO releases trove of images taken during early days of Fukushima Daiichi disaster
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Nuclear watchdog in hot water over leaked report to Tsuruga plant operator
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Photos show workers’ eye views of Fukushima disaster aftermath
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Citizens’ lack of resolve leaves nuclear door wide open for next disaster – Roger Pulvers
• Asia-Pacific: Jpubb – Exposure Dose Evaluation of the Workers at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Nuclear Watch: Inside Fukushima
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Anti-nuclear group starts red envelope campaign – Lee I-chia
• South Asia: The Hindu – The Nuclear affair – Bhavana Akella
• Europe: The Independent – Law could force nuclear waste on Cumbria – Mike Glover

Friday, February 01, 2013

• Fierce Energy – NRC SONGS Review: “incomplete, inconclusive, inconsistent” – Barbara Vergetis Lundin
• Fox5SanDiego – Customers continue paying for inactive nuke plant – Misha DiBono
• Laguna Beach Patch – Experts, Activists Discuss Anniversary of San Onofre Shutdown – Adam Townsend
• Orange County Register – Event marks San Onofre anniversary – Gary Headrick
• San Diego Union-Tribune – New voice in San Onofre investigation: California’s attorney general – Morgan Lee
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Higher Fees, Risks OK’d for Nuke Trust – Morgan Lee
• San Jose Mercury News – Weapons-grade plutonium could be trucked to Livermore, watchdog groups say – Jeremy Thomas
• San Jose Mercury News – Sacramento utility gets $35M in nuclear waste case
• Tri-City Herald – Governor Jay Inslee wants more tanks at Hanford – Annette Cary
• Telluride Daily Planet – Sheep Mountain Alliance appeals uranium mill ruling – Heather Sackett
• CancerKick – Cancer map may show enormous St. Louis cluster – Leisa Zigman
• Strategic Defence Intelligence – Energy Solutions to recycle contaminated metals for US Navy
• Asbury Park Press – Gotsch: Nuclear concerns warranted – Paula Gotsch
• Plymouth.Patch – NRC Denies Another Pilgrim Watch Request
• New York Times – Energy Secretary to Depart, as Administration Vacancies Mount – Matthew L. Wald
• Global Research – Reject Nuclear Power – Here’s Why – Jim McCluskey
• Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – The Sunflower: Issue #187 – February 2013
• Platts – Exelon’s decommissioning cost estimates violated regulations: US NRC – Steven Dolley
• NRC Blog – The Public Meeting on Public Participation That Wasn’t All That Public – Darren Ash
• House Committee on Energy and Commerce – An Unhappy Anniversary: With 15 Years of Broken Promises, Nuclear Waste and Liability Costs Continue to Pile Up
• Asia-Pacific: AFP Google – Japan police arrest mobster over Fukushima clean-up
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Utilities forecast 1 tril. yen in losses / High fuel costs, evolving safety standards and possible faults cloud projection –
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Activists accuse minister of lying – Loa Iok-sin
• Asia: Xinhua News – China’s first AP 1000 nuclear power reactor to come online
• Europe: BBC News – Is it all over for Cumbrian nuclear waste store plans?
• Europe: DutchNews – Support for development aid and nuclear power continues to shrink
• North Europe: Bellona – COMMENT: Hitachi should expect no state backing from Japan for reactor project in Lithuania – Andrei Ozharovsky

Thursday, January 31, 2013

• Christian Science Monitor – Nuclear waste storage in limbo as Obama axes Yucca Mountain funds – Michael B. Farrell
• Contra Costa Times – Weapons-grade plutonium could be trucked to Livermore, watchdog groups say – Jeremy Thomas
• Contra Costa Times – At Livermore forum, nuclear watchdog groups oppose lab weapons testing plan – Jeremy Thomas
• KPBS – San Onofre Shutdown, One Year Later – Megan Burke, Marissa Cabrera, Maureen Cavanaugh, Amita Sharma, Alison St John
• KPCC – San Onofre 1st anniversary FAQ: Everything you need to know about the troubled nuclear plant – Ben Bergman
• Livermore.Patch – Letter to the Editor: Plutonium Bomb Cores Coming to Livermore Labs is Potentially Illegal – Marylia Kelley
• NBC Bay Area – Plutonium Plan Mobilizes East Bay Community – Kris Sanchez
• San Francisco Bay View – CPUC’s San Onofre investigation: Parties cry foul – Barbara George
• Facing South – Watchdogs dig up troubling questions about federal loan guarantees for Southern Co. nuclear reactors – Sue Sturgis
• Aiken Leader – MOX Construction at SRS Faces Suspension in Sequestration “Exchange Monitor” Reports – Thomas Clements
• Washington Post blog – End of the road for uranium in Virginia? – Peter Galuszka
• Brattleboro Reformer – Shut It Down group pays fines, then protests – Mike Faher
• Network World – FBI pursuit of Stuxnet leaks reignites whistleblower debate – Taylor Armerding
• NTI – NRC May Issue New Nuclear Safety Rules Despite Denying Petition – Douglas P. Guarino
• NY Times blog – Nuclear Opponents Invoke Solyndra – Matthew L. Wald
• Washington Post blog – Nuke commission’s meeting on public engagement doesn’t engage public – Emily Heil
• Asia-Pacific: Slate Magazine – Could Scientists Have Prevented the Fukushima Meltdown? – Jessica M. Morrison
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Gangster illegally hired workers for decontamination projects – Kenji Ogata
• Asia-Pacific: NHK World – US expert questions Japan’s nuclear fuel cycle
• South Asia: Reuters – Factbox: Weapons, nuclear power, roads and welfare: India’s budget cuts – Frank Jack Danie
• Europe: Bellona – UK plans to build permanent nuclear repository near Sellafield struck down by local vote – Charles Digges
• Europe: The Guardian – Nuclear expansion plan thwarted after Cumbria no vote to underground store – Martin Wainwright and Terry Macalister
• North Europe: DR. Materialet – Radioactive waste could be sent abroad

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

• Pahrump Valley Times – DOE sets 2048 deadline for waste repository – Steve Tetreault
• ENS – U.S. Plans to Ship Plutonium Bomb Cores Across Three States
• Slate Magazine – America’s Nuclear Dumpsters – Geoffrey Brumfiel
• CISAC Stanford University – Science Seminar: Next Steps for U.S. Nuclear Waste Policy: Implementing the Recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission
• Enformable – NRC representation of San Onofre outage contested – Lucas W Hixson
• Cibola County Beacon – EPA Reports on Navajo Uranium Pollution – Dick Kamp
• Pueblo Chieftain – Uranium mill cleanup plan OK’d – Tracy Harmon
• HNN Huntingtonnews – ANWAG: Nuclear Workers Updates – Terrie Barrie
• EcoFriend News – Vogtle Nuclear Project/The Next Solyndra? – FOIA Documents to Show Disturbing Issues in Taxpayer-Backed Loan Guarantee
• CambridgeBlog – Nuclear Waste –Too Hot to Touch – William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley
• CounterPunch – Women &Children First! (to be Harmed by Radiation) – John LaForge
• CounterPunch – End the Nuclear Lobby – Peter G. Cohen
• NEI Nuclear Notes – Some Thoughts on the Wall Street Journal Story on Natural Gas and Nuclear Energy – Eric McErlain
• Reporters Without Borders – Press Freedom Index 2013
• Asia-Pacific: Discovery News – Radioactive Cattle Found Near Fukushima – Tim Wall
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – No-go zone debris to be cleared
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Japan dives to 53rd in press freedom list
• Europe: BBC News – Cumbria nuclear project rejected by councillors
• Europe: The Guardian – Cumbria rejects underground nuclear storage dump – Martin Wainwright
• Europe: Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Policy and Commission Brief 23 – 30 January 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Europe: Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 23 – 30 January 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Europe: Reading Evening Post – Safety concerns at Atomic Weapons Establishment
• Europe: Sky News – Cumbria Votes Against Nuclear Waste Site
• Europe: Bloomberg – Spain’s Monthly Wind Power Tops 6 Terawatt-Hours for First Time – Alex Morales

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

• San Diego Union-Tribune – Rules set for San Onofre investigation – Morgan Lee
• KSL-TV – Group gathers to remember Utah downwinders at vigil – Devon Dolan
• EarthFix – Gearing Up For This Week’s Report On Idaho’s Nuclear Future
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #127: Helicopter Attack on Point Beach? – Dave Lochbaum
• Cibola County Beacon – EPA Reports on Navajo Uranium Pollution – Dick Kamp
• Financial Times – Lakes waste plan causes nuclear fission – Andrew Bounds
• Lacey.patch – Lautenberg: Answers Needed on Oyster Creek Safety Procedures – Sen. Frank Lautenberg
• American Chemical Society – Energy Department Announces Radioactive Waste Strategy – Jeff Johnson
• NEI – NEI’s Resource Guide for the 113th Congress
• Canada: BlackburnNews – Mayors On Nuke Watch – Josh Boyce
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Japanese Ministry to Double Budget for Clean Energy Development – Chisaki Watanabe
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – New NRA rules tough on tsunami, could delay reactor restarts – Ryuta Koike
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima decontamination faces severe labor shortages
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – March 11 destruction still scars Fukushima nuke plant – Asahi Shimbun
• Europe: Energy Pulse – Not Business But Personal: Nuclear Energy – Ferdinand E. Banks, Professor
• Europe: ITV News – West Cumbria nuclear waste debate: argument AGAINST
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Hundreds take part in underground nuclear waste store protest – Ian Duncan
• Europe: Whitehaven News – West Cumbria faces the biggest decision in its history
• East Europe: Sofia Globe – Outcome of Bulgaria’s nuclear referendum appears headed for Parliament

Monday, January 28, 2013

• Forbes – U.S. To Bury Almost All Existing Nuclear Waste; Recycling Deferred At Least 20 Years – Jeff McMahon
• Pacific Free Press – Surviving Nuclear with Harvey Wasserman – David Swanson
• Deseret News – Utahns pause to honor downwinders and call for Senate ratification of Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty – Marjorie Cortez
• Twin Falls Times-News – Bringing nuclear waste to Idaho – Alex Stuckey
• Nebraska Watchdog – New concerns arise at troubled nuclear power plant – Joe Jordan
• Kansas City Star – Honeywell begins massive move to new weapons-parts facility – Kevin Collison
• HNN Huntingtonnews – NIOSH Emails Indicate Careful Posture on Contractor and Energy Worker Compensation – Terrie Barrie
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Comments Sought on Potential Recycling of Cold War Radioactive Scrap Metals – Ohio Sierra Club Nuclear Free Committee
• Jackson Clarion Ledger blog – Nuclear testing in Mississippi: a little known history – LaReeca Rucker
• WJBF-TV – Discussions On SRS Waste Clean Up Begin This Week – Randy Key
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Active fault to scuttle Tsuruga plant – Kazuaki Nagata
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Over 500 Fukushima residents to file damage suit against gov’t, TEPCO
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – NPO calls for institutionalized retreats for Fukushima children – Asahi Shimbun
• South Asia: IPS – Bangladesh Must Pause Down the Nuclear Path – Peter Custers
• Europe: BBC News – Cumbria’s nuclear decision has 100,000 year legacy
• Europe: Times & Star – Hundreds take part in underground nuclear waste store protest – Ian Duncan
• North Europe: Copenhagen Post – Government leaning toward allowing uranium mining in Greenland – Ray Weaver
• East Europe: Sofia News Agency – Ex Bulgarian Minister: Nuclear Referendum was Damaged Goods in Democratic Packaging