The news coverage on Fukushima continues to dwindle in volume.   I’m having health problems, so there won’t be a review.

Sunday August 14th, 2011

• Asahi Shimbun – Negative publicity overseas pummels agricultural exports
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Government needs to set clear overall radiation safety standards
• Japan Times – Irradiated soil should be stored temporarily in Fukushima: Gemba
• Arirang News – NHK: Radioactive Material Detected in Fukushima Children’s Thyroids
• Bloomberg – Japan Prepares for Its First Import of Radioactive Waste Since Earthquake – Yuriy Humber, Chisaki Watanabe and Stuart Biggs
• Pacific Free Press – Nelle’s Fukushima Meltdown Update: RE Arnie Gundersen Interview Aug. 14, 2011 – Nelle Maxey
• Reuters – Japan eyes global nuclear compensation treaty-Nikkei – Chikako Mogi

Saturday August 13th, 2011

• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima farmers in a jam / Fruit growers see orders plunge due to fears over radiation – Shinsuke Ishiguro
• Daily Yomiuri – Disaster areas need more staff
• Daily Yomiuri – Fire festival bans radioactive wood
• Daily Yomiuri – New N-agency to be free from industry ministry
• Daily Yomiuri – Create environment for N-evacuees’ return
• Japan Times – Locals’ radiation exposure said low
• Mainichi Daily News – Radiation contamination leaves Fukushima schools unable to drain pool water
• Mainichi Daily News – Kyoto scraps plan to use firewood from disaster area for bonfire over radiation concerns
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t urged to take appropriate measures to ensure safety of rice
• NHK World – Hosono vows no disruption in nuclear response
• AFP Google – Kyoto rejects ceremonial wood over radiation fears – Shigemi Sato
• Bloomberg – Mushrooms Join Growing List of Radioactive Threats to Japan’s Food Chain – Naoko Fujimura
• MENA FN – Quake stops damaged nuclear plant’s desalination system in Japan?
• ScienceBlogs – Japan Nuclear Disaster Update 33: Fukushima is as interesting as it’s ever been – Analiese Miller and Greg Laden

Friday August 12th, 2011

• Denki Shimbun – First panel meeting held to investigate public opinion manipulation scandal over nuclear power
• Japan Times – Environment Ministry gets nuke role
• Mainichi Daily News – Sacked top nuclear officials to receive extra retirement bonuses
• Mainichi Daily News – U.S. bases in Japan trained personnel in waging nuclear war: TV documentary
• Mainichi Daily News – Test to decontaminate radiation-tainted soil performed at school in Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – Sasebo mayor urges gov’t to dispose of nuke waste at U.S. Navy base
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Legally Supported Compensation Setup Needed To Provide Relief For Nuke Crisis Victims
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to foster radiation control specialists
• Mainichi Daily News – ASEAN, nuclear-weapon states may reach protocol agreement in Oct.
• AP Google – Giant tent to go up over Japan nuclear reactor – Eric Talmadge
• AFP Google – Japan to set up new nuclear watchdog
• Reuters – Japan says to set up new nuclear safety watchdog – Linda Sieg and Kiyoshi Takenaka
• Focus Taiwan News – Taiwan to realize nuclear-free goal in a pragmatic way: official – Chou Yung-chieh and Lilian Wu

Thursday August 11th, 2011

• Al Jazeera – Nuclear safety: A dangerous veil of secrecy – Dorothy Parvaz
• Platts – Fukushima fallout in US to hit existing plants hardest; new plants have their own challenges – Peter Maloney
• Reuters – Groups step up call for NRC delay after Fukushima – Eileen O’Grady and Scott DiSavino
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Fukushima and the Doomsday Clock – Kennette Benedict
• Asahi Shimbun – Schools in Fukushima clearing radioactive dirt, but nowhere to dump it
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt releases plan to deal with N-ash
• Daily Yomiuri – Local govts worried by N-ash
• Japan Times – Half of rice harvest to be tested for cesium – Kanoko Matsuyama
• Japan Times – Clash over restarting Tomari nuclear reactor averted
• Japan Times – State must buy, restore ruined farms: group
• Japan Times – Nuke regulation inadequate, admits sacked NISA chief
• Japan Times – Vested interests may stymie energy bill: Kono
• Japan Today – 20,425 dead or missing as Japan marks 5 months since disaster
• Japan Today – TEPCO says it has lost contact with 143 nuclear plant workers
• Mainichi Daily News – Bureaucratic walls keep disabled nuke crisis refugee out of temporary home with ramp
• Mainichi Daily News – Outgoing nuclear agency chief was aware of possible meltdown at Fukushima plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear accident minister: Key to resolving plant crisis is workers’ health, safety
• Mainichi Daily News – Water treatment system enjoys record-high 77 percent operating rate
• Mainichi Daily News – NISA under fire over hiring of former TEPCO subsidiary worker as nuclear inspector
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima to create nuclear-free society through reconstruction
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan’s farm group to urge gov’t to buy disaster-damaged farmlands
• NHK World – Circulatory cooling begins at No.1 reactor pool
• AP Google – Japan to set up new nuclear safety agency – Mari Yamaguchi
• ABC – Japan’s nuclear agency hides radiation results
• AFP Google – Strong 5.9 quake jolts Japan disaster zone
• Asia Times – What happened at Fukushima? – David McNeill and Jake Adelstein
• Bloomberg – Rice Is Next Japanese Food-Radiation Risk From Fukushima Nuclear Fallout – Kanoko Matsuyama
• Frontier Post – Atomic bombing of Hiro-Saki – Muhammad Daheem
• Gather – Japan Nuclear Crisis Update – Five Months in Hell; Not Finished Yet – Chuck Larlham
• NPR blog – Japan Takes Nuclear Safety Agency Away From Trade Ministry – Bill Chappell
• Radio New Zealand – Japan watchdog deletes child radiation results
• World Nuclear News – Assembly of Fukushima cover underway
• Asia: Reuters UK – China completes post-Fukushima nuclear safety inspection – David Stanway

Wednesday August 10th, 2011

• Bloomberg – Jaczko Votes for NRC Fukushima Report, Spurns Calls to Delay – Brian Wingfield
• Platts – Fukushima fallout in US to hit existing plants hardest; new plants have their own challenges – Peter Maloney
• Reuters – U.S. nuclear regulator tied up by process: chairman – Roberta Rampton
• Reuters UK – Factbox-U.S. proposed new nuclear power reactors – Scott DiSavino and Eileen O’Grady
• Asahi Shimbun – THE END IS NEAR: With conditions met, Kan to step down
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt inspection abilities stretched to limit
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO teetering on financial edge – Chiaki Toyoda and Tadaaki Inoue
• Daily Yomiuri – No. 2 N-plant was prepared for venting
• Daily Yomiuri – Kan irresponsibly toying with nuclear policy review
• Japan Times – Chiba rice free of radioactivity
• Japan Times – Cattle giant files for bankruptcy
• Mainichi Daily News – Kyushu Electric Power destroyed documents on pluthermal plant proposal, panel claims
• Mainichi Daily News – Hibakusha: A-bomb survivor calls on U.S. to take lead in eliminating nuclear weapons
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to begin building cover over Fukushima reactor Wed.
• Mainichi Daily News – No radioactive substance detected in rice in Chiba
• Mainichi Daily News – Nagasaki Univ., IAEA to cooperate in radiation medicine research
• Mainichi Daily News – Panel meets to probe gov’t role in manipulation of nuclear symposiums
• Nikkei – Lower House Starts Debate On Japan-Jordan Nuke Plant Pact
• Atomic Power Review – Nuclear Energy in Japan: August 10, 2011
• Bellona – Japan ignored its own radiation forecasts in days following disaster, imperiling thousands – Charles Digges
• The Guardian – From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan’s atomic tragedies – Amy Goodman
• Nuclear Engineering – Three Japanese ministers fired after Fukushima
• Nuclear Engineering – Japan will continue nuclear power export marketing
• Reuters – Rice from town near Tokyo is radiation-free, tests show – Yuko Takeo
• Xinhua News – Nagasaki mayor calls for energy shift from nuclear power at A-bomb memorial

Tuesday August 9th, 2011

• Asahi Shimbun – Nagasaki mayor calls for denuclearization
• Daily Yomiuri – Nagasaki marks A-bombing
• Daily Yomiuri – Final test at Hokkaido N-power reactor sought
• Japan Times – Radiation forecasts ignored; Namie not warned – Eric Talmadge
• Japan Times – Evacuation advisory outside 20-km lifted
• Japan Times – Kepco plans to restart five aging thermal power units by next summer
• Japan Times – Tepco posts ¥572 billion loss since April – Minoru Matsutani
• Japan Times – Nuclear power debate heating up – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Fukushima fish radiation excessive, Greenpeace says – Jun Hongo
• Japan Times – Editorial: Improve radiation mapping
• Japan Times – Tepco posts loss of ¥571 billion – Minoru Matsutani
• Japan Times – Nagasaki urges nuke policy shift on anniversary
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO logs 572 bil. yen net loss in April-June on nuclear crisis
• Mainichi Daily News – Evacuation advisory for outside 20-km zone of nuke plant to be lifted
• Mainichi Daily News – Kono renews call for end to nuclear power, eyes another run for LDP president
• Mainichi Daily News – 14,000 Fukushima children change schools in wake of quake, nuclear crisis
• Mainichi Daily News – Parents facing tough decision to move children out of Fukushima amid radiation fears
• Mainichi Daily News – High school students form human chain to seek abolition of nuclear weapons
• Mainichi Daily News – Nagasaki gives tepid reaction to U.S. envoy’s attendance at ceremony
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: New nuclear safety agency must be independent, have real ability to manage crises
• Mainichi Daily News – No Fukushima workers listed by subcontractors overexposed to radiation
• Mainichi Daily News – Study says nuclear fuel at Fukushima reactor possibly melted twice
• Mainichi Daily News – Kan calls for study on scrapping Monju fast-breeder reactor
• Mainichi Daily News – Kan, U.N. chief Ban agree on enhancement of nuclear safety
• NHK WORLD – Nagasaki atomic bombing remembered
• YokosoNews – 311 Disaster Update #47
• Atlantic Wire – Risks of Radiation Ignored After Fukushima Meltdown – Rebecca Greenfield
• AP Google – Japan to lift some nuclear evacuation advisories – Mari Yamaguchi
• AP Google – Japan utility records massive loss from disaster – Yuri Kageyama
• AP Google – AP Impact: Japan ignored own radiation forecasts – Eric Talmadge
• AP Google – Nagasaki remembers bombing; US has representative
• AFP Google – Japan’s TEPCO logs $7.4bn quarterly loss – Yuka Ito
• AFP Google – Nagasaki calls for shift from nuclear power – Hiroshi Hiyama
• BBC News – Japan nuclear crisis: Fukushima alert eased
• Daily Telegraph – Nuclear rice fears halt Japan trade – Rowena Mason
• Democracy Now – Atomic Cover-Up: The Hidden Story Behind the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Greenpeace International blog – Contaminated seafood and government cover-up at Fukushima – Justin McKeating
• Oman Daily Observer – Fear of nuke radiation – Takehiko Kambayashi
• Reuters – Japan’s Hokkaido Elec applies for full ops at nuclear reactor – Risa Maeda and Osamu Tsukimori
• Reuters – Crisis-hit Tokyo Electric posts $7.4 billion quarterly loss – Taiga Uranaka
• Reuters – Tepco won’t go insolvent if compensation funds come -pres – Taiga Uranaka
• Reuters – Japan’s Kansai considers restarting 5 mothballed units – Osamu Tsukimori
• World Nuclear News – Japan plans cutting evacuation zone

Monday August 8th, 2011

• Huffington Post – From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Lessons for Today’s Nuclear Crisis – Greg Mitchell
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: New nuclear regulatory body must be powerful, independent
• Asahi Shimbun – Pyongyang: No uranium enrichment plant other than Yongbyon – Yoshihiro Makino
• Asahi Shimbun – Report suggests second meltdown at reactor at Fukushima plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt opinions divided over N-plants – Chiaki Toyoda
• Daily Yomiuri – Kashiwa – Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reactors key to TEPCO
• Daily Yomiuri – Close legal gap so evacuees can return to their homes
• Daily Yomiuri – Dosimeter figures questioned / People’s fears raised, calmed depending on radiation readings
• Daily Yomiuri – Kan Cabinet support at all-time low of 18%
• Daily Yomiuri – City starts decontamination work
• Japan Times – Unit 3 MOX likely melted through
• Japan Times – Disaster bankruptcies climb again
• Japan Times – Nuke plant hires not overexposed
• Japan Times – Kan cagey over U.N. nuke safety trip
• Japan Times – Decent man Kan dealing with LDP’s fallout
• Japan Times – Stop claiming food is safe, ministry told
• Japan Times – U.S. to send first envoy to Nagasaki A-bomb rites
• Mainichi Daily News – Nagasaki mayor: We must do away with myths and face reality
• Mainichi Daily News – Water treatment system at Fukushima plant stops for 7.5 hours, cause unknown
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan’s continued promotion of overseas nuclear power expansion calls for reflection
• Mainichi Daily News – No quotation set for Tokyo rice futures on huge buy orders
• Mainichi Daily News – U.N. chief Ban encourages crisis-hit evacuees in Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan’s current account surplus down 50.2% in June
• Mainichi Daily News – Ban says Kan eager to attend Sept. 22 U.N. nuclear safety meeting
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan to refrain from claiming safety of Japanese foods
• Mainichi Daily News – Sunflower radiation absorption project blossoms around Japan
• Nikkei – Power Firms Join In Extending Relief To Fukushima Evacuees
• AFP Google – Japan rice futures soar on nuclear fears
• Bellona – Japan’s prime minister wants a future without nuclear power – Charles Digges
• Bloomberg – Tepco May Take More Fukushima Losses – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Bloomberg – Tepco May Announce More Fukushima Losses in Quarterly Earnings – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Bloomberg – Rice Futures Halted in Tokyo as Radiation Weighs On First Trades Since ’39 – Jae Hur and Yasumasa Song
• Bloomberg – Japan Has 13,255 Megawatts of Nuclear Capacity Online: Table – Yuji Okada
• The Guardian – After Fukushima, Japan’s ‘authority myth’ is crumbling – Martin Dusinberre
• New York Times – Japan Hid Radiation Path, Leaving Evacuees in Peril – Norimitsu Onishi And Martin Fackler
• NPR – Nuclear Power Criticized On Hiroshima Anniversary – Frank Langfitt
• Reuters Africa – Japan’s Kansai considers restarting 5 mothballed units – Osamu Tsukimori
• Asia: Yale University – China’s Nuclear Power Plans Unfazed by Fukushima Disaster – David Biello