From CBC News/Canada:

First Nations communities in the Elliott Lake area say the gates to the backyard are firmly shut even though business leaders there are on board with being considered a long-term storage site for nuclear waste.

The North Shore Tribal Council said there’s going to be opposition to the area becoming a nuclear waste storage site. The council represents seven First Nations across the North Shore of Lake Huron.

Tribal Council CEO Alan Ozawanimke said the chiefs have one message for the nuclear waste management group looking around Canada for potential sites: “Don’t waste your financial resources if you plan to conduct a study in this area because they’re going to oppose it.”

Read the full story: First Nations vow to fight nuclear waste storage plans – Sudbury – CBC News.

A former nuclear regulator, an economic analyst and a congressional think-tank adviser say 2011 marked the fall of the so-called U.S. nuclear renaissance, despite regulators’ approval last week of a new reactor design.

The experts said 2012 likely will bring more challenges for the nuclear industry in the wake of triple meltdowns at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant after a crippling 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in March.

Read the rest of the story:  In the wake of triple meltdowns, experts say America’s nuclear initiative waning | timesfreepress.com.

The fissure was a “superficial crack in a wall that serves no safety significance,” Dominion spokesman Richard Zuercher said today in an interview.The 5.8-magnitude earthquake may have caused ground motion that surpassed the power plant’s design, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Aug. 29. The facility’s two reactors, located about 11 miles 18 kilometers from the epicenter, are shut until the company and NRC complete their analysis of data from the facility following the temblor.

via Dominion Says Crack Found at North Anna Containment Building – Bloomberg.

The revived reactor, in Hollywood, Ala., is not expected to be completed before 2018 to 2020 — or about a half-century after the project was first announced, and following nearly a quarter-century of limbo.

via Alabama Nuclear Reactor, Partly Built, to Be Completed – NYTimes.com.