Sunday May 1st, 2011

• Daily Yomiuri – Handpicked adviser’s resignation a blow to Kan
• Daily Yomiuri – Forced to abandon homes / Villagers resent lack of choice in government’s evacuation plan – Yutaka Hojo
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt defends safety standards
• Daily Yomiuri – Dike to be built at N-plant / Aftershocks, tsunami seen as greatest threat to ending crisis
• Daily Yomiuri – U.S. military winds down disaster relief operation
• Daily Yomiuri – Radioactive traces found in Tohoku, Kanto breast milk
• Japan Times – Worker found overexposed to radiation
• Japan Times – Worker found overexposed to radiation
• Japan Times – Kan’s leadership poor: poll
• Mainichi Daily News – Another female worker at nuke plant exposed to radiation above limit
• Mainichi Daily News – 10 nations urge new push for non-proliferation
• Mainichi Daily News – Radiation exposure levels near limit for 2 Fukushima nuke workers
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan files protest over French TV show on quake, nuke emergency
• American Scientist – NRC Sees New Challenges for Japanese Nuclear Plant
• AP Google – AP Impact: Ties bind Japan nuke sector, regulators
• The Independent – Parents fight back over raised radiation limits – David McNeill
• New York Times – Japan’s Prime Minister Defends Handling of Crisis – Martin Fackler
• UPI – Japan nuke workers nearing max exposure
• Xinhua News – TEPCO to build makeshift bulwark around Fukushima nuclear plant

Saturday April 30th, 2011

• Asahi Shimbun – Chubu Electric seeks restart of ‘most dangerous’ nuke plant
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: First Fukushima compensation guidelines released
• Japan Times – It is time to target who calls the shots in Japan when disaster strikes – Roger Pulvers
• Japan Times – Tepco pair caught radiation overdose
• Japan Times – Three years eyed to remove disaster debris
• Japan Times – IAEA team to inspect Fukushima plant this month
• Japan Times – The lowdown on sieverts and a healthy diet – Hiroaki Sato
• Japan Times – Tepco pair caught radiation overdose
• Japan Times – Kan nuclear adviser fed up, quits
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan nuclear crisis dashes 77-year-old widow’s hopes of living quietly at home
• Mainichi Daily News – Cabinet nuclear advisor resigns in protest over government response to plant crisis
• Mainichi Daily News – Quake reconstruction panel member says Fukushima should abandon nuclear power
• Mainichi Daily News – A-bomb survivor and anti-nuke activist from disaster area tell their stories
• Mainichi Daily News – Weather chief draws flak over plea not to release radiation forecasts
• Nikkei – Nuclear-Safety Adviser’s Exit A Misunderstanding: Edano
• AsianWeek – Was That A Nuclear Cloud Over Fukushima? – Arthur Hu
• Bloomberg – Nuclear Adviser to Japan’s Prime Minister Quits Over Crisis – Naoko Fujimura and Michio Nakayama
• Bloomberg – Tepco Says Fukushima Worker’s Radiation Nears Limit Allowed – Naoko Fujimura and Michio Nakayama
• Dominican Today – Greenpeace marine radiation monitoring blocked by Japanese government
• Global Research – Fukushima: Nuclear Apologists Play Shoot the Messenger on Radiation – Dr. Helen Caldicott
• ITN – Inside Japan’s tsunami-hit nuclear reactors
• New York Times – Japan’s Prime Minister Defends Handling of Nuclear Crisis – Martin Fackler
• NIRS – Nuclear Crisis in Japan
• Reuters – Putin raps Japan over nuclear crisis reaction – Darya Korsunskaya
• Reuters – Japan lower house passes emergency budget for quake relief – Hugh Lawson
• World Nuclear News – No significant damage to fuel at unit 4
• Xinhua News – 76% say Kan lacks leadership over nuclear crisis, quake: survey
• AFP Google – Thousands protest against nuclear plant in Taiwan
• Focus Taiwan – U.S. to help Taiwan handle nuclear emergencies
• Focus Taiwan – Protesters rally against nuclear energy in Taiwan
• Taipei Times – Anti-nuclear rally draws legions – Lee I-Chia

Friday April 29th, 2011

• IAEA – Fukushima Nuclear Accident Update Log
• Japan Times – Panel to probe nuke accident
• Japan Times – 25 governors hit Kan’s handling
• Japan Times – Tepco, and state, responsible: Kan – Masami Ito
• Japan Times – Sake fights fallout of Japan’s triple disaster – Melinda Joe
• Mainichi Daily News – Camera and robot team to make more accurate radiation measurements at stricken plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Tug-of-war intensifies between TEPCO and gov’t over compensation payments
• Mainichi Daily News – 45 children still in town where high levels of radiation have been detected
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima Prefecture starts taking custody of pets left in 20-km no-entry zone
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO urged to compensate farm and fishery producers, evacuees
• Mainichi Daily News – Chugoku Electric’s next president supports nuclear plant construction
• Mainichi Daily News – Chubu Electric eyes restarting Hamaoka nuke reactor in July
• Nikkei – Tepco Chief Holds Out Hope For Compensation Exemption
• Bloomberg – Tepco Slows Water Injection at Fukushima Reactor to Curb Risk of Explosion – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Channel News Asia – Japan prime minister’s nuclear adviser resigns
• Global Research – Dying for TEPCO? Fukushima’s Nuclear Contract Workers – Prof. Paul Jobin
• International Business Times – Fresh updates from IAEA on Fukushima Nuclear Plant – Anil Das
• UPI – Japan takes nuclear responsibility
• Xinhua News – China detects 30 radioactive contamination cases
• Reuters – KEPCO exec sees nuclear setback after Japan crisis – Cho Mee-young

Thursday April 28th, 2011

• Asahi Shimbun – Scientists to map radioactive contamination in Fukushima
• Daily Yomiuri – Decontamination of radioactive water at Fukushima plant may begin in June
• Daily Yomiuri – Pets in no-entry zone to be protected
• Daily Yomiuri – Blast may have helped cool rods
• The Diplomat – When Disaster Isn’t a Zero-Sum Game – Jeffrey Hornung
• Japan Times – Living with risk
• Japan Times – Evacuee mayor’s community torn – Natsuko Fukue
• Japan Times – Hamaoka reactor restart in July urged
• istockAnalyst – Increased water injection into No. 1 reactor yields positive signs
• Mainichi Daily News – Osaka governor vows to scrap nuclear power generation
• Mainichi Daily News – 89-year-old woman dies after being moved 4 times in wake of tsunami, nuclear crisis
• Mainichi Daily News – Radiation level of 1,120 millisieverts per hour detected in damaged reactor building
• Mainichi Daily News – Task force plans cleanup and recycling system for radioactive water
• Mainichi Daily News – Many schools near nuclear plant remain closed, 12,000 children affected
• Mainichi Daily News – At least 45 residents still in evacuation zone around nuclear plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Mitsubishi Heavy develops forklift with radiation-proof cabin
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan to scrap workers’ annual radiation dose limit at normal times
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t eyes drastic review of post-quake, tsunami countermeasures
• Mainichi Daily News – Long-term health survey mulled for people near Fukushima nuke plant
• Nikkei – Tepco Chief Holds Out Hope For Compensation Exemption
• Nikkei – Japan Nuclear Operator Postpones Plan To Flood Reactor Vessel
• AFP Google – Japanese government submits $49bn extra budget
• AFP Google – Japan factory output in record fall after quake – David Watkins
• AP Google – Japan factory output, consumer spending plummet
• Bloomberg – Tepco to Start Decontaminating Water at Fukushima Nuclear Plant in June – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Bloomberg – Japanese Power Plants Damaged, Closed by Quake, Tsunami – Michio Nakayama and Yuji Okada
• Business Week – Tepco to Get Storage Float in May, Decontaminate Water From June – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Cryptome – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Photos 13
• The Guardian – Fukushima nuclear power plant update: get all the data – Ami Sedghi
• Greenpeace International blog – Marine radiation monitoring blocked by Japanese government – Ike Teuling
• Los Angeles Times – Japanese drop their traditional politeness over nuclear crisis – John M. Glionna and Kenji Hall
• NIRS – Nuclear Crisis in Japan
• NY Times – Nuclear Energy — Crisis in Japan
• POWERnews – TEPCO: At Least 55% of Daiichi 1’s Core Has Been Damaged – Sonal Patel
• Reuters Africa – Ace, “De Niro” unlikely heroes of Japan nuclear crisis – Yoko Kubota
• Reuters – Chubu Elec unable to say when No. 3 Hamaoka reactor to restart – Risa Maeda
• Slate – Did industry-government collusion contribute to Japan’s nuclear disaster? – William Saletan
• TerraDaily – Chernobyl survivor warns of ‘bombshell’ in Japan
• Voice of Russia – Fukushima: unlearned nuclear lesson – Maria Domnitskaya
• Xinhua News – Japan to set up independent panel to probe into nuke accident
• Xinhua News – Crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No.1 reactor

Wednesday April 27th, 2011

• IAEA – Fukushima Nuclear Accident Update Log
• Asahi Shimbun – Farmers demand Fukushima compensation but obstacles remain
• Asahi Shimbun – Disaster rekindles doubts about courts’ nuclear plant rulings
• Asahi Shimbun – Nuclear plants must not turn into radiological weapons. – Fumihiko Yoshida
• Japan Focus – Dying for TEPCO? Fukushima’s Nuclear Contract Workers – Paul Jobin
• Japan Times – Nuke crisis medical response team learns hard lesson
• Japan Times – Envoy to U.N. vows ‘utmost’ effort to share nuke crisis developments
• Japan Times – Economy feels the effects
• Mainichi Daily News – High levels of radiation in areas near nuclear plant foreseen for a year
• Mainichi Daily News – Tearful widow’s plea part of 350-person protest in front of TEPCO headquarters
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima villagers launch organization demanding TEPCO, gov’t pay compensation
• Mainichi Daily News – Outlook on Japan gov’t debt rating lowered to negative
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan reviewing policy to export nuclear technology
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan will do ‘utmost’ to share Fukushima developments, envoy says
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima city removing radioactive topsoil in schools
• Nikkei – M’bishi Heavy Develops Forklift With Radiation-Proof Cabin
• Nikkei – Female Worker At Nuke Plant Suffers Radiation Dose Exceeding Limit
• Government Accountability Project blog – Japanese Governor Prosecuted for Raising Nuclear Safety Concerns: Whistleblower Daily News – Sarah Damian
• Arirang News – Radiation Readings at TEPCO Plant Rise to Highest
• Asia-Pacific Journal – Sato Eisaku’s Warning – David McNeill
• AFP Google – S&P cuts Japan outlook, ‘rebuild may hit $600 bn’ – Mike Patterson
• Bloomberg – Japan Bullet Trains Resume as 8,500 Engineers Fix Quake Damage – Chris Cooper and Kiyotaka Matsuda
• Bloomberg – Radiation Readings in Fukushima Reactor Rise to Highest Since Crisis Began – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Michio Nakayama
• Business Week – Radiation Readings at Tepco Plant Rise to Highest in Crisis – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Michio Nakayama
• Environment News Service – 25th Chernobyl Anniversary Prompts Vows of Safety, Security
• istockAnalyst – Japan to scrap workers’ annual radiation dose limit at normal times
• New York Times – Culture of Complicity Tied to Stricken Nuclear Plant – Norimitsu Onishi and Ken Belson
• OpEdNews – Fukushima = 2,000 Atomic Bombs – Bob Nichols
• Reuters – Update 1-Q+A-What’s going on at Japan’s damaged nuclear power plant? – Mayumi Negishi
• Reuters – Hitachi, Mitsubishi Heavy to study tie-up on damaged nuclear plant – James Topham
• Reuters – Japan seen tapping foreigners for nuclear crisis review-PM aide – Chisa Fujioka
• Reuters – Update 1-Kansai may delay restart of 3 nuclear reactors – Osamu Tsukimori
• World Nuclear News – Recovery and rubble at Fukushima
• Xinhua News – Farmers protest outside TEPCO building
• Xinhua News – Japan says it’s able to handle crisis
• Radio Taiwan – Movie directors to join anti-nuclear march

Tuesday April 26th, 2011

• UN: Nature – Nuclear agency faces reform calls–International Atomic Energy Agency’s remit under scrutiny – Geoff Brumfiel
• UN: Reuters – U.N.’s Ban to convene nuclear safety summit in September – Louis Charbonneau
• Daily Yomiuri – Robot ‘Quince’ to investigate nuclear plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Learn lessons from world’s worst nuclear disaster
• Daily Yomiuri – Radioactive material ‘down to 1/100’
• Denki Shimbun – Lawyers believe national government partly liable for Fukushima I nuclear accident
• Denki Shimbun – Possibility of tax revenue input to compensate for Fukushima I disaster
• Japan Times – Farmers herd in for protest
• Japan Times – Ukraine envoy: ’86 accident vastly different – Masami Ito
• Japan Times – Tepco said likely to survive crisis – Elaine Kurtenbach
• Japan Times – 16 prefectures’ pastures face radioactivity checks
• Japan Times – Tepco nixes new hiring, cuts pay across board
• Japan Times – Nuke plants’ backups fall way short
• Japan Times – Farmers herd in for protest
• Japan Times – Critics hit Kan but offer nil
• Mainichi Daily News – Public split on nuclear energy, but long-time warning deserves serious debate
• Mainichi Daily News – High concentration of radioactive water found in Fukushima’s No. 4 reactor
• Mainichi Daily News – Families want answers after 45 people died following evacuation from Fukushima hospital
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t, TEPCO under fire as they hold first joint news conference since disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Farmers’ group to request over 1.8 billion yen in compensation from TEPCO
• Mainichi Daily News – Adviser to Kan admits lack of communication with TEPCO during nuke plant crisis
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO should remain private-sector firm: finance minister
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuke crisis evacuees to start hometown visits from May
• Mainichi Daily News – Most Japanese reactors yet to have enough backups for stable cooling
• Nikkei – Kan Calls For Commission To Probe Fukushima Accident
• Nikkei – Tepco To Flood Damaged Reactors With Water
• Nikkei – Robots to Examine Reactor as Tepco Readies Water Filling Operation
• PanOrient News – Japanese NGOs Wants a “Nuclear-Free Society“
• AP Google – Farmers protest against Japanese nuke plant owner
• AFP Google – Japan says Fukushima ‘different from Chernobyl’ – Shingo Ito
• Arirang News – No. 3 & 4 Reactors at Fukushima Plant Seriously Contaminated
• Bloomberg – Tepco Workers Agree to Up to 25% Pay Cut After Fukushima Nuclear Accident – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
• CounterCurrents – Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Far From Over – Peter Symonds
• Environment News Service – Tokyo Electric Struggles to Control Unstable Nuclear Plant
• New Scientist – Japan’s nuclear plants ‘can’t keep reactors cool’ – Paul Marks
• New York Times – In Japan’s Nuclear Nexus, Safety Is Left Out – Norimitsu Onishi and Ken Belson
• NIRS – Nuclear Crisis in Japan
• Reuters – Japan: capping nuclear-related compensation scheme inconceivable – Shinichi Saoshiro
• Reuters – Table-Japan nuclear plant operations (Shikoku to shut) – Osamu Tsukimori
• Reuters – Rebuilding Japan’s disaster-hit towns may take a decade – Shinichi Saoshiro
• UPI – Risks remain at Japan’s nuclear plants
• UPI – Robots to check water leak at Fukushima
• Xinhua News – TEPCO president to resign over scandal
• Xinhua News – Protesters attend anti-nuclear rally in Japan

Monday April 25th, 2011

• Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuke candidates win seats, even in plant areas
• Asahi Shimbun – High radiation levels detected at Fukushima grounds a month after explosions
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Upgrade nuclear plant safety against disasters, cyber-attacks
• Daily Yomiuri – Map details radiation at N-plant site
• Daily Yomiuri – Spare no expense for N-plant safety
• Japan Times – Official arrogance of Chernobyl – Yulia Tymoshenko
• Japan Times – Suits to halt atomic plants have all failed
• Japan Times – Evacuees get home visits of five hours
• Mainichi Daily News – Quake, nuke crisis batter March power sales at 2 utilities
• Mainichi Daily News – Russian nuclear scientist says Fukushima disaster was predictable
• Mainichi Daily News – Subsequent generations suffer from impact of Chernobyl accident
• Mainichi Daily News – Industries left short-handed after foreign workers flee Japan following nuke accident
• Mainichi Daily News – Judges tend to side with utilities in atomic power plant cases
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t bans shipment of shiitake mushrooms from city in Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – Perspectives: How did Japan’s nuclear industry become so arrogant?
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t decides specifics of nuke crisis evacuees’ brief hometown visits
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO’s contamination map shows radiation levels at 150 plant areas
• Bloomberg – Tepco Pumps Tainted Water From Reactor Trenches, Adds Backup Power Cables – Yuji Okada and Michio Nakayama
• Nikkei – Nuclear Body To Issue Hourly Radiation Forecasts
• Nikkei – Japan Says Crippled Plant Not Leaking Radioactive Water
• ABC News – Fukushima and Nuclear Power: Playing with Fire
• Arirang News – High Levels of Cesium Detected in Soil 4km from Fukushima Nuclear Plant
• Bloomberg – Tepco to Cut Worker, Board Pay as Much as 50% to Pare Costs – Yuji Okada
• Bloomberg – Japan’s Terrifying Day Saw Unprecedented Exposed Fuel Rods
• Environment News Service – Tokyo Electric Struggles to Control Unstable Nuclear Plant
• Hawaii News Daily – Fukushima Could Be Worse – and It Will Be – Tom Burnett
• Reuters – Japan Noda: compensation scheme should keep TEPCO listed – Tetsushi Kajimoto
• Reuters – Japan’s Shikoku Elec extends reactor overhaul 2 weeks – Risa Maeda
• UPI – Health risks numerous near nuclear plant
• UPI – Movers won’t go near Japan nuclear plant
• Focus Taiwan – Singer goes partially naked to protest nuclear power