Sunday, February 17, 2013

• San Diego Union-Tribune – Let Engineers, Not Politicians, Decide San Onofre’s Fate
• Wicked Local Hingham – HINGHAM LETTER: Recycling nuclear waste, a bad idea – Pat Granahan
• Truthout – Ten Urgent Reasons to Reject Nuclear Power Now – Jim McCluskey
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Only 23% of homes decontaminated
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Filipino to sue TEPCO over suicide of husband in Fukushima – Yoshika Uematsu
• Asia-Pacific: Tokyo Reporter – Yamaguchi-gumi member arrested for illegal employment at nuclear plant
• Asia: Xinhua News – NE China’s first nuclear power plant starts operation
• Middle East: Global Research – New Media Scoop to Wage War on Iran: “Specialized Magnets”, Alleged “Fast-Track” to Atomic Weapons Capability
• South Africa: AllAfrica – Egypt Stresses Necessity of NPT Internationalization

Saturday, February 16, 2013

• Washoe County Republican Committee – Feds to use revised process to replace Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site
• Orange County Register – NRC plans release of key report on San Onofre – Pat Brennan
• OPB News – Apparent Hanford Leak Raises New Questions About Buried Tanks – Austin Jenkins
• New York Times – In New England, a Natural Gas Trap – Matthew L. Wald
• Rochester Democrat and Chronicle – Report: 5-plus hours to evacuate Indian Point zone – Michael Risinit
• Rutland Herald – Entergy argues Yankee mishaps don’t count – Susan Smallheer
• Democratic Underground – Another sign that we should move away from nuclear power. Hopefully we listen this time.
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima official angrily bolts meeting when restart of nuke plants mentioned
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Fukushima radiation threatens to wreak woodland havoc – Winifred Bird
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Groups promote nuclear-free homeland – Lee I-chia
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – Fast-unto-death against power project
• South Asia: Economic Times – Greenpeace criticises Francois Hollande’s nuclear pitch
• Russia: Xinhua News – Russian meteor biggest in century

Friday, February 15, 2013

• East County Magazine – Filner to NRC: Restarting San Onofre would be a “Dangerous Experiment” Threatening 8.2 Million People
• Encinitas Coast News – Plant’s restart still has stong opposition locally – Rachel Stine
• Los Angeles Times – NRC asks Mitsubishi for report on San Onofre equipment issues – Abby Sewell
• Orange County Register – Letters: Don’t blow up over nuclear power plant – Reed L. Royalty
• San Diego Union-Tribune – San Onofre Nuke Plant Complaint Rejected – Morgan Lee
• Voice of OC – Secret Report Is Said to Contradict Edison’s Claims on San O Nuke Plant – Nick Gerda
• Seattle Times blog – DOE says radioactive waste leaking from Hanford tank – Hal Bernton
• Baltimore Sun – Letter: Nuclear power is far from safe or carbon-free – Regina Minniss
• New Jersey Newsroom – Fukushima Rescue Mission Lasting Legacy: Radioactive Contamination of Americans – Roger Witherspoon
• Wicked Local Plymouth – NUKE MATTERS: Long-term nuclear waste storage at Pilgrim – Genevieve Byrne and Meg Sheehan, Cape Cod Bay Watch
• Greenpeace International – Ending the nuclear weapons age – Jen Maman and Aaron Gray-Block
• TIME – The Banality of Unilateral Nuclear Cuts – Kingston Reif
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Niigata governor “Debris incineration is almost murder” – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Groups to hold anti-nuclear rallies in March
• East Asia: Phys.Org – No health effects from Fukushima: Japan researcher – Kyoko Hasegawa
• South Asia: New Indian Express – Anti-Koondakulum stir ‘sponsored’ from outside, alleges Russia
• Russia: Bellona – Russian nuclear officials report their sites unaffected by Chelyabinsk near-miss meteorite shower – Charles Digges
• Russia: Sometimes-Interesting – The Most Contaminated Place on Earth: Chelyabinsk-40

Thursday, February 14, 2013

• KPBS – Complaint Says Edison Manipulated San Onofre Costs
• Los Angeles Times – Letters: How safe is San Onofre?
• LA Times blog – Edison manipulated costs at San Onofre, complaint alleges – Abby Sewell
• Orange Juice blog – Can the NRC be Trusted to Decide Fate of San Onofre? – Inge
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Consumer advocacy group says Edison misled investors – Morgan Lee
• Los Angeles Times – Manager says safety issues are ignored at Hanford nuclear site – Ralph Vartabedian
• HNN Huntingtonnews – 35 Years for Embarrassing the Guards? Intervenors Face Decades in Prison for Tying “Crime Scene” Tape on H-Bomb Factory – John LaForge
• Aiken Leader – GAO Confirms Massive $2 Billion Cost Increase for Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Plant at Savannah River Site – NNSA Outed by GAO – Thomas Clements
• Cape Cod Times – Pilgrim protesters to stand trial next month
• Democratic Underground – Al Gore’s Nuclear Power Hypocrisy
• Government Accountability Project – Former OSC Head Bloch Pleads Guilty: Daily Whistleblower News – Jack Davis
• Planet Waves – Making Angels Weep – Book Review By Carol Van Strum
• Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Questions raised over testing methods for thyroid gland doses in Fukushima – Yuri Oiwa
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Evacuee’s lonely death causes alarm – Fumito Nagase
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Talk of the Day — Battle looming over Fourth Nuclear Power Plant
• Southwest Asia: Hurriyet Daily News – Turkey’s second nuke plant to cost $25 billion
• South Asia: IBN Live – 3-day National Workshop on Radiation begins at CUJ
• South Asia: Frontier Post – India: Toxic hotspot of uranium & N-wastes – Zaheerul Hassan
• Europe: Borehamwood & Elstree Times – Sellafield legacy cost still rising
• Europe: Forest and Wye Today – Nuclear waste – Robin Larkham
• Europe: New Scientist – Nuclear waste: too hot to handle?
• East Europe: NRCU – Ukrainian Radio – French builders temporarily left Chornobyl NPP, says exclusion zone administration
• East Europe: Voice of Russia – Wear and tear blamed for roof collapse at Chernobyl

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

• LA Progressive – Could Fracking Release Radiation from Old Nuclear Tests?
• Bloomberg – Edison Sees California Nuclear Restart Decision Before Summer – Mark Chediak
• Orange County Register – NRC grilled at San Onofre meeting – Pat Brennan
• Orange County Register – Crowd grills NRC at San Onofre meeting – Pat Brennan
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Regulators Discuss San Onofre Concerns – Morgan Lee
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Regulators Raise Bar for Plant Restart – Morgan Lee
• Sustainable Business Oregon – Oregon State starts construction on $4.8M nuclear facility – Christina Williams
• Bismarck Tribune – Radioactive waste may be buried – Lauren Donovan
• Business First of Columbus – Ohio proposing tighter restrictions on radioactive fracking fluids – Evan Weese
• Augusta Chronicle – Canada’s high-level nuclear waste could be trucked to SRS – Rob Pavey
• Virginian Pilot – Anti-uranium groups launch radio ad opposing mining – Julian Walker
• Wicked Local Plymouth – Pilgrim loses power, twice, during storm – Frank Mand
• Bellona – Obama addresses environmental concerns in soft terms while wielding the big stick of the EPA – Charles Digges
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – Chalk River’s spent reactor rods to be shipped through Valley – Ian MacLeod
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – 2 more cases of thyroid cancer found in Fukushima youths – Adam Westlake
• Southwest Asia: Hurriyet Daily News – Sinop nuke plant to cost $25 billion
• Europe: Nuclear Energy Insider – Nuclear Energy Insider Policy Brief 7 – 13 February 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Europe: Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 7 – 13 February 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• East Europe: BBC News – Ukraine: Chernobyl nuclear roof collapse ‘no danger’
• East Europe: Reuters – Structure collapses at Chernobyl, Ukraine says no danger
• East Europe: Kyiv Post – Walls, roof collapse at Chornobyl nuclear power plant – Olga Rudenko

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

• San Diego Union-Tribune – NRC raises bar for San Onofre restart – Morgan Lee
• SanJuanCapistrano.patch – Letter: Edison Should Release All Nuclear Documents – Ron Rodarte
• McMinnville News-Register – Oregon State University to test new nuclear energy technology
• Northwest News Network – Bipartisan Group Plans Overhaul For Radioactive Waste Disposal – Anna King
• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #129: Crystal River and the Nuclear Maytag Repairmen – Dave Lochbaum, director, Nuclear Safety Project
• Enformable – The State of the Nuclear Union – Lucas W Hixson
• EurekAlert – Fallout from nuclear testing shows that the Achilles tendon can’t heal itself
• Huffington Post – Climate Change: No Breakthroughs Needed, Mr. President – Amory Lovins with Thomas Dinwoodie
• Washington Post – Q&A: Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska on her ’20/20′ vision for energy policy – Steven Mufson
• South America: Tico Times – Costa Rica signs letter supporting ban on nuclear weapons
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – Chalk River’s spent fuel rods to be shipped to U.S – Ian MacLeod
• Asia-Pacific: Fairewinds Energy Education – Interview: Not Returning to Normal – Chiho Kaneko
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Filmmaker focuses on lives near nuke sites – Keiji Hirano
• Europe: EAEM – £155bn: the cost of new nuclear power to consumers – David Thorpe
• North Europe: Bellona – Olkiluoto 3’s new-generation reactor hits more delays, casting an ill light on its viability – Charles Digges
• North Europe: Epoch Times – Sweden’s Planned Nuclear Waste Storage Faces Problems – Barbro Plogander
• South Africa: IAEA – IAEA Director General Visits South Africa

Monday, February 11, 2013

• Nuclear Street – Calif. OKs Initiative That Would Shutter SONGS, Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plants
• Platts – US NRC investigating San Onofre tube problems: agency chief – Elaine Hiruo
• Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA7) – Senator Boxer and Rep. Markey on NRC’s Response to Letter on San Onofre Safety Investigation
• San Clemente Times blog – NRC Head Confirms Investigation into SONGS Documents – Jim Shilander
• Tampa Bay Times – County will survive closure of nuclear plant – Joe Meek
• Rock Hill Herald – Editorial: Keep waste out of S.C.
• Lower Hudson Journal – Exclusive interview: NRC chairwoman on Indian Point, inspectors – Michael Risinit
• ExtremeTech – Nuclear power is our only hope, or, the greatest environmentalist hypocrisy of all time – Graham Templeton
• New York Times – Obama to Renew Drive for Cuts in Nuclear Arms – David E. Sanger
• Pacific Free Press – Radiation Coverups Theirs and Ours: Los Alamos, Ft. Calhoun, Fukushima, TSA – Corbett Report
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• DOE – Office of Nuclear Energy Launches New Website – Assistant Secretary Lyons
• Canada: CNSC – CNSC News Update
• Canada: Bullet News Huron – Underground storage of nuclear waste isn’t the answer, speaker argues – Heather Boa
• Canada: National Post – Bomb-grade uranium to be shipped secretly from Chalk River, Ontario nuclear plant to U.S. – Ian MacLeod
• Canada: Yahoo! News Canada blog – Plan in works to ship bomb-grade uranium from Ontario to U.S. in secret truck convoys – Steve Mertl
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – Former NRA official held at least 30 prohibited meetings with nuclear power firms – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – NRA to digitize, put online 900,000 pages of Fukushima crisis documents in 2 years – Adam Westlake
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t needs to determine early whether to resume reactors
• South Asia: The Hindu – PMANE warns of siege to Kudankulam nuke plant
• Europe: in-Cumbria – Top nuclear salaries rising by up to 58 per cent – Nick Turner
• Europe: Isle of Man Today – Sellafield’s nuclear waste error
• North Europe: Reuters – UPDATE 3-Finland’s Olkiluoto 3 reactor seen delayed to 2016 – Terhi Kinnunen and Geert De Clercq