As the news dwindles… Haven’t seen an article other than dupes of the same story about mass protests across Japan on 6-11. No numbers. My guess is that these were very large protests… Possibly the reason why no numbers are mentioned.
There were also protests in both New York and San Francisco, as well as around the world. A mass action in Germany was apparently called off at the last minute and of course the Swiss and Italy have come out against more nuclear! An interesting turn of events would be in Taiwan where a planned protest had low turnout. Funny, that the major media in Taiwan has been downplaying Fukushima for some reason as they have GE reactors there and also have a similar problem with earthquakes.
More leaks, even TEPCo’s shareholders are calling for them to give up on nuclear, new reports, whistleblowers, new hot zones, yet little or no coverage on the impacts to coastal fishing (one story). Also a story digging up a report on an 1980 NRC report claiming that GE reactors were safe… Of course there are many more… Sorting through the stories, of which most are out of Japan would take lots of time to do a better job… Posting more summaries would be nice.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
- Japan Times – High level of strontium found at Fukushima plant
- Japan Times – Kan calls for reform of power industry
- Japan Times – New York adds its voice to global no-nuke demos
- Mainichi Daily News – Japanese stage antinuclear protest in New York
- Mainichi Daily News – Mass demonstrations against nuclear power held in Japan 3 months after quake
- Bloomberg – Japan Amateur Radiation Sleuths Using Borrowed Geigers Seek Hidden Dangers – Sato, Sakamaki and Tsuyoshi Inajima
- Bloomberg – Adviser to Japan’s Kan Urges Nuclear Waste Rethink, WSJ Reports – Jae Hur
- Energy Collective – Fukushima Comparable to Chernobyl [Robert Alvarez] – Anja Atkinson
- Global Research – Photos. Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant . Crippled, Contaminated with Radioactive Materials – Daisuke Tsuda
- IBNLive – Water treatment system testing at Fukushima plant hits snag
- Wall Street Journal – Tepco Delays Plan to Treat Toxic Water – Yoshio Takahashi
- Xinhua News – TEPCO starts ventilating No. 2 reactor to lower radiation levels
Saturday, June 11, 2011
- TEPCO – Status of TEPCO’s Facilities and its services after the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake (as of 4:00 PM, June 11)
- Daily Yomiuri – Fewer want to return home / Delayed recovery dampens evacuees’ hopes for the future
- Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear Crisis: How it Happened / Government, TEPCO brushed off warnings from all sides
- Daily Yomiuri – 90,000 in shelters; most debris still uncleared 3 months on
- Daily Yomiuri – Survivor recalls terror of tsunami – Yuichi Sato
- Japan Times – 150 police officers to attend Tepco shareholders’ meeting
- Japan Times – Tepco vents No. 2 reactor while U.S. surveys ocean
- Japan Times – Three months marked since killer quake, tsunami
- Mainichi Daily News – Young parents moving away from areas near damaged Fukushima plant
- Mainichi Daily News – 2 TEPCO workers confirmed with radiation doses more than twice limit
- NIKKEI – TEPCO Starts Ventilating No. 2 Reactor
- NIKKEI – U.S. Research Institute Conducts Marine Survey Around Fukushima Pref.
- CNN – Japanese protesters demand safer energy amid nuclear crisis – Anisha Bhandari and Kyung Lah
- CTV – Anti-nuke protests in Japan, 3 months after quake
- New York Times – Protests Challenge Japan’s Use of Nuclear Power – Hiroko Tabuchi
- Reuters – Japan anti-nuclear protesters rally 3 months after quake – Antoni Slodkowski
- Yahoo! News – Anti-nuke protests in Japan, 3 months after quake – Jay Alabaster
- Xinhua News – Japan nuclear: Hot spots of radiation found in Minami Soma City
- Focus Taiwan – Organizers disappointed at low turnout at anti-nuclear events
Friday, June 10, 2011
- Asahi Shimbun – Government committee to review quake forecasting
- Daily Yomiuri – Govt must go all out to restart suspended nuclear reactors
- Daily Yomiuri – Burglars hit evacuees’ homes in Fukushima Pref.
- Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear Crisis: How it Happened / Government radiation data disclosure–too little, too late
- Daily Yomiuri – KEPCO to seek 15% electricity cut / Prospects dim of restarting some reactors
- Denki Shimbun – Release of radioactive material twice as high as the initial estimate
- Denki Shimbun – Investigation of the Fukushima calamity from a neutral standpoint
- Denki Shimbun – Investigation of the Fukushima calamity from a neutral standpoint
- Denki Shimbun – Shutdown of nuclear plants having major impact on Japan’s anti-global warming measures
- Japan Times – Pursuing a new energy policy
- Japan Times – Tepco exposures irk ministry
- Japan Times – Novelist Murakami slams nuclear policy
- Mainichi Daily News – 2 TEPCO workers confirmed with radiation doses more than twice limit
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO ordered to improve working conditions at crisis-hit nuclear plant
- Mainichi Daily News – Kan says he cannot walk off job soon
- Mainichi Daily News – Over 1,000 to stage antinuclear plant rally in Fukushima
- Mainichi Daily News – 40% of disaster-hit hospitals and clinics find rebuilding difficult
- Mainichi Daily News – Ex-adviser raps gov’t for worsening local residents’ radiation exposure
- Mainichi Daily News – Sludge from contaminated water would be packed with radioactive substances: TEPCO
- Mainichi Daily News – Shareholders urge TEPCO to give up nuclear power
- Mainichi Daily News – Retailer told to stay mum about radiation level in tea
- Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima’s Date City to give dosimeters to all children
- Mainichi Daily News – Crisis-hit Fukushima city mayor seeks gov’t body near no-entry zone
- Mainichi Daily News – Cabinet to OK bill Tues. to aid compensation for nuclear disaster
- Mainichi Daily News – Novelist Murakami raps Japan’s nuke policy during award speech
- ABC – Japan ‘concealed’ data during nuke crisis – Ali Moore
- AP Google – Utility reprimanded over 2 workers’ high radiation
- AFP Google – Japan recalls Shizuoka tea over radiation fears
- AFP Google – Murakami criticises Japan’s nuclear policy
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – The Fukushima Accident–Three Months In – James M. Acton, Mark Hibbs
- CNN – Michio Kaku: Power company covered up level of nuclear contamination, and there’s a rabbit in Japan born without ears. Coincidence? – David Handelman
- CNN – Japan adds four new areas to radiation threats – Junko Ogura
- World Nuclear News – Tests soon at Fukushima treatment plant
- Xinhua News – Japan nuclear: Hot spots of radiation found in Minami Soma City
- Focus Taiwan – Highly radioactive container detected at Kaohsiung Harbor
- Deutsche Local – Study sees no power price hikes as Merkel touts nuclear phaseout
- Bellona – Swiss parliament cements decision to go non-nuclear in landslide vote, paving the way for renewables – Charles Digges
Thursday, June 09, 2011
- Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Time for a hard look at nuclear power in Japan
- Daily Yomiuri – Worry over N-payments / Govt may hike share as TEPCO’s fiscal health declines – Hideyuki Ioka and Tamaki Aikyo
- Daily Yomiuri – Government Report to IAEA / Challenges of a nuclear disaster, responses and the lessons learned
- Daily Yomiuri – 1,700 kids living 20-30 km from N-plant
- Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear Crisis: How it Happened / Hydrogen blasts at plant surprised experts
- Japan Times – Energy draft misses the point
- Japan Times – Scrutinizing Fukushima crisis
- Japan Times – Unsigned treaties up Japan’s nuke suit risk – Minoru Matsutani
- Japan Times – Widen evacuation zone for children, pregnant women: Greenpeace chief – Jun Hongo
- Japan Times – Radioactive strontium detected 62 km from Fukushima No. 1 plant
- Japan Times – Noda emerges as likely Kan successor – Masami Ito
- Japan Times – Radioactive strontium detected 62 km from Fukushima No. 1 plant
- Mainichi Daily News – PM rules out early resignation, suggests exit after August
- Mainichi Daily News – Strontium contamination found outside nuclear crisis exclusion zone
- Mainichi Daily News – U.S. study called quake concerns over Fukushima-type containment ‘negligible’
- Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Radiation leaking from Fukushima power plant should be monitored more closely
- Mainichi Daily News – Blackout hits Fukushima nuclear plant’s Nos. 1, 2 units
- Mainichi Daily News – Draft reconstruction proposal calls for tax hikes
- PanOrient News – Fukushima Citizens Remain Exposed to High Levels of Radiation: Greenpeace Warns
- ABC – Fukushima whistleblower – Mark Willacy
- ABC – Nuke worker speaks out about tsunami taboo – Mark Willacy
- AFP Google – Japan’s TEPCO shares plunge 20% to new low
- Bloomberg – Power Cuts Spread to West Japan as Nuclear Restarts Put on Hold – Yuriy Humber and Yuji Okada
- Bloomberg – Kansai Electric Postpones Bond Issue Amid Nuclear Disaster – Yusuke Miyazawa
- Bloomberg – Power Cuts Spread to West Japan as Nuclear Restarts Put on Hold – Yuriy Humber and Yuji Okada
- Global Research – Radiation: It’s Official: “Nuclear Fuel Has Melted Through Base of Fukushima Plant”
- Global Research – Fukushima: Blatant Coverup of Radiation – Lucas Whitefield Hixson
- Press TV – IMF advises Japan to triple sales tax – Michael Penn
- Radio Australia – Insiders say Japan’s TEPCO has history of cover-ups
- Reuters – Analysis: Risks too great for full Japan nuclear shutdown – Chikako Mogi
- Reuters – Corrected-Japan may have no nuclear reactors running by next April -ministry – Risa Maeda
- Reuters – Analysis: Risks too great for full Japan nuclear shutdown – Chikako Mogi
- Reuters – Special Report: After Japan, where’s the next nuclear weak link? – Nick Carey, Margarita Antidze and John Ruwitch
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
- Reuters – Australia says Fukushima disaster won’t curb uranium demand – James Regan
- Asahi Shimbun – Behind the Myth: Accident management proved inadequate at nuclear plant – Tomooki Yasuda
- Asahi Shimbun – Japan cites insufficient measures at Fukushima plant
- Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima Lessons: Government admits failures in Fukushima crisis
- Asahi Shimbun – Behind the Myth: ‘Nuclear village’ rules itself in TEPCO hierarchy – Atsushi Komori
- Asahi Shimbun – Eiji Oguma: Disaster highlights Tohoku’s unique structural weaknesses
- Asahi Shimbun – Unwanted radioactive sewage sludge piling up
- Daily Yomiuri – Report on nuclear safety an intl pledge by Japan
- Daily Yomiuri – Report to IAEA heavy on safety proposals / Govt urges drastic changes to plants, reactors; could have hefty price tag to implement
- Daily Yomiuri – PM Office’s hand seen in IAEA report
- Daily Yomiuri – Govt report calls for 28 N-safety steps
- Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear Crisis: How it Happened / Kan’s visit ‘wasted time’
- Japan Times – Ministry inspects worker exposure
- Japan Times – Saga town may be first to see reactor restart
- Japan Times – Tepco release of tainted water halted
- Japan Today – Blackout hits Fukushima nuclear plant’s Nos. 1, 2 units
- Mainichi Daily News – Fisheries Agency opposes Fukushima Daini nuke plant water release plan
- Mainichi Daily News – Saga Pref. town to approve rebooting of serviced reactors
- Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear accident inspection must give public a fair view of Fukushima crisis
- NIKKEI – Tepco Planning Another Radioactive Water Release
- AP Google – Japanese village’s nuclear reality sets in slowly – Eric Talmadge
- AFP Google – Watchdogs urge completion of post-Fukushima checks
- Bloomberg – Tepco to Install Air Filters at Fukushima No. 2 Reactor – Tsuyoshi Inajima
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – Fukushima Nuclear Disaster a Failure of Regulation, Not Operation – James M. Acton
- The Guardian – Fukushima nuclear plant may have suffered ‘melt-through’, Japan admits – Justin McCurry
- The Guardian – Fukushima nuclear power plant update: get all the data – Ami Sedghi
- Reuters – Japan may have no nuclear reactors running by next April -ministry – Risa Maeda
- Reuters – Update 1-Japan May nuclear plant usage falls to 40.9 pct – Risa Maeda
- Reuters – Power outages at Japan’s Fukushima plant, cooling continues – Shinichi Saoshiro and Yoko Kubota
- Wall Street Journal – Tepco’s Accidental Bankruptcy? Delaying a bailout makes radical solutions easier to envision – Joseph Sternberg
- Washington Post – Cold reality for Japanese village whose residents thought they had escaped nuclear disaster
- Washington Post – Japan report promises independent nuclear agency – Chico Harlan
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
- Canadian Press – Divide over future of nuclear energy overshadows talks on boosting safety post-Fukushima – Angela Charlton
- TEPCO – Status of TEPCO’s Facilities and its services after the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake (as of 4:00 PM, June 7)
- Daily Yomiuri – Investigative panel holds 1st session
- Daily Yomiuri – Govt to test vegetable radioactivity / Data on cesium absorption from soil aimed to help Fukushima farmers
- Daily Yomiuri – ‘Melt-through’ at Fukushima? / Govt report to IAEA suggests situation worse than meltdown
- Daily Yomiuri – Investigative panel holds 1st session
- Denki Shimbun – Contaminated water at Fukushima I reaches 105,000 tons
- Denki Shimbun – TIT research team develops technology to purify radioactive water
- Denki Shimbun – TEPCO to keep plans for mega solar power plant development
- Japan Times – Red Cross declines blood from Fukushima
- Japan Times – Official probe begins into nuclear disaster – Masami Ito
- Japan Times – Parents urge Tokyo to rethink radiation monitoring – Jun Hongo
- Japan Times – Evacuation of hot spots mulled
- Japan Times – Nuke plant was unprepared for crisis, government admits – Kazuaki Nagata
- Japan Times – Beaches face nuke readings
- Japan Times – Beaches face nuke readings
- Japan Times – ‘Hot spots’ evacuation mulled
- Japan Times – Official probe begins into nuclear disaster – Masami Ito
- Mainichi Daily News – Only 15 percent of donations distributed to quake, tsunami victims
- Mainichi Daily News – Labor ministry inspects Fukushima nuke plant over exposed workers
- Mainichi Daily News – Political parties should prioritize efforts to control nuclear crisis over power stalemate
- Mainichi Daily News – Looming power crisis could cost electric firms 2 trillion yen
- Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear safety agency to become independent according to report for IAEA
- Mainichi Daily News – Japan seeks enhanced cooperation in response to nuclear accidents
- Mainichi Daily News – Japan mulls evacuating radiation ‘hot spots’
- Mainichi Daily News – Japan to send medical officer to U.N. nuclear watchdog
- NIKKEI – Japan To Make Nuclear Regulator More Independent
- AP Google – Japan says it was unprepared for nuclear disaster – Mari Yamaguchi
- AFP Google – Japan doubles plant radiation leak estimate
- BBC News – Japan doubles radiation estimate
- Bellona – Japan’s new radiation release measurements show earlier estimates too low by half – Charles Digges
- Bloomberg – Japan Plans ‘Fundamental’ Change in Nuclear Rules – Yuji Okada and Peter Langan
- The Guardian – Japan doubles Fukushima radiation leak estimate – Justin McCurry in Tokyo
- New York Times – Radiation’s Unknowns Weigh on Japan – Matthew L. Wald
- Reuters – Factbox: Japan’s report to IAEA on enhancing nuclear safety – Yoko Kubota, Kevin Krolicki
- Reuters – Japan makes new nuclear safety vows after quake – Yoko Kubota
- Reuters – Japan says to create independent nuclear regulator – Yoko Kubota
- UPI – Independent panel looks into crisis
Monday, June 06, 2011
- Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO faces prolonged battle against radioactive debris, water
- Daily Yomiuri – Aomori governor’s win boosting trust in nuclear safety
- Japan Times – Incineration of rubble OK’d amid radiation risk
- Japan Times – NISA doubles early fallout estimate
- Japan Today – TEPCO to see Y570 bil net loss, excluding nuclear compensation
- Japan Today – Over Y169 bil in disaster relief donations still not distributed
- Japan Times – Plutonium found in soil at Okuma
- Mainichi Daily News – Disaster victims manning front lines in struggle to tame Fukushima nuclear crisis
- Mainichi Daily News – Majority of public think that the Diet is not functioning: Mainichi poll
- Mainichi Daily News – Radioactivity of materials released in Fukushima nuclear crisis revised upward
- Mainichi Daily News – Plutonium detected in soil outside Fukushima nuke plant
- Mainichi Daily News – GSDF member recounts fearing for life in blast at Fukushima nuke plant
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to OK incinerating, burying radioactive rubble in Fukushima
- NIKKEI – Tokyo Doubles Estimate for Total Radiation Release In 1st Week After Quake
- NIKKEI – Limit Needed For Tepco Payouts: Business Group Chief
- NIKKEI – Tepco Limit-Down On Possible Legal Liquidation
- AFP Google – Japan’s TEPCO shares down 28% to record-low – Miwa Suzuki
- Bloomberg – Tepco Accident Panel to Review Regulatory System, Nikkei Says – Tsuyoshi Inajima
- Bloomberg – Tepco Plant Radiation Level Estimate Doubled by Safety Agency – Tsuyoshi Inajima
- CNN – 3 nuclear reactors melted down after quake, Japan confirms
- Financial Times – Tepco tumbles on fresh bankruptcy fears – Jonathan Soble
- Global Research – Fukushima. The Risk for Workers: “Levels of Radiation Could Increase Exponentially” – Lucas Whitefield Hixson
- New York Times – Radiation Understated After Quake, Japan Says – Hiroko Tabuchi
- New York Times – Radiation’s Unknowns Weigh on Japan – Matthew L. Wald
- Reuters – TSE head recommends court-led Tepco restructuring, stock dives – Taiga Uranaka
- Reuters – Japanese retirees ready to risk Fukushima front line – Kevin Krolicki
- Reuters – Japan’s Edano: must avoid court-led Tepco restructuring – Yoko Kubota
- Reuters – TSE head recommends court-led Tepco restructuring, stock dives – Taiga Uranaka
- UPI – Japan faces possible radioactive rubble