UK’s nuclear clean-up programme to cost billions more than expected
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority declines to predict final lifetime clean-up cost amid fears total bill could exceed £100bn
See http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/23/britain-nuclear-atomic-clean-up-decommissioning?CMP=twt_gu
Nuclear Decommissioning Surge Is Investor Guessing Game
The global utility industry faces its biggest test to prove enough money was saved for shutdowns, having undergone numerous cost-overruns building atomic plants.
See http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-16/nuclear-decommissioning-surge-is-investor-guessing-game.html.
Japan finds highly toxic strontium in Fukushima groundwater
See http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=japan-finds-highly-toxic-strontium
Legal Action Challenges Uranium Industry Agreement
Saskatchewan residents file statement of claim against Cameco, Areva, three levels of government: see http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/legal-action-challenges-uranium-industry-agreement/18099 and http://committeeforfuturegenerations.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/legal-action-seeks-to-annul-uranium-collaboration-agreement/
A dangerous nun
Liz Rice, an elderly Catholic nun, has been condemned to prison for what will be the rest of her life for anti-nuclear weapons activism.
See http://socialistworker.org/2013/06/11/a-dangerous-nun