Sunday, April 22, 2012

• DBKP – Japan Chemical Plant Explosion: Radioactive Depleted Uranium on Site (Video)
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Japanese Chemical Plant with Radioactive Waste Struck by Lightning
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Gundersen Updates Fukushima Reactor Status
• Huffington Post – The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Is Far From Over – Robert Alvarez.
• The Independent – Naoto Kan: The man who says he saved the world – David McNeill
• New York Times – Rice Farmers Seek to Save Their Crops From Salt – Yuriko Nagano
• Power Engineering Magazine – Japan utility group did not compile plan on reprocessed plutonium usage
• Daily Yomiuri – Vietnam ‘trusts Japan N-plant tech’
• Daily Yomiuri – Recovery workers to get radiation limits
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco increased water injection amount to reactor 2 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 7290 Bq/Kg from carnation in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – MAFF prohibits private sector from applying strict safety limits – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Huge scale of A-bomb gene study revealed
• Japan Times – One dead, 11 hurt as glue factory blows
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan, Vietnam confirm progress on nuclear power, rare earths
• Focus Taiwan – Shutdown of nuclear plants urged ahead of Chernobyl anniversary – Christie Chen

Saturday, April 21, 2012

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• Infowars – TEPCO: Not Enough Money To Handle Fukushima Nuclear Reactor 4 Problems – Alexander Higgins
• EU Times – Russia Stunned After Japanese Plan To Evacuate 40 Million Revealed
• EU Times – Massive Radioactive Wave from Japan Approacing US West Coast
• EU Times – Fukushima Reactor 2: Radiation Comparable to What We See in Space
• Daily Yomiuri – New radiation limits on food doing more harm than good
• Fukushima Diary – 2170 tones of over 8000 Bq/kg melted slag has no place to go in Tochigi – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – NISA covering nuke meetings in greater detail
• Japan Times – Editorial: Cutting CO2 without reactors
• Japan Times – TV ‘wide shows’ question decision to restart Oi reactor – Philip Brasor
• Japan Times – Chernobyl expert takes a look at Tohoku’s trees – Winifred Bird
• Japan Times – Incredible images capture surreal disaster zone – Barbara Bayer
• Japan Times – Viable nuclear reactors down to 50
• JapanToday – France’s Areva offers to reprocess spent Fukushima fuel
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Now is not time for political bickering
• Mainichi Daily News – Hibakusha: Head director of A-bomb victims’ association, backed by family, continues fight
• Mainichi Daily News – 3 Fukushima farmers seeking 3.4 billion yen for decontamination ask for mediation
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan holds off on additional sanctions on N. Korea for time being
• China Post – Taipower explains NT$100 million to be spent for bolts at nuke power plant
• Focus Taiwan – Taiwan to diversify energy resources: economics minister

Friday, April 20, 2012

• Fortune – Fukushima Daiichi: Inside the debacle – Bill Powell and Hideko Takayama
• Nuclear Engineering – Four Fukushima questions
• Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
• Platts – Japan installed nuke capacity 46.15 GW after Tepco officially scraps 4 reactors – Takeo Kumagai
• Reuters – Japan firms want ‘safety first’ on nuclear restarts: poll – Izumi Nakagawa and Tetsushi Kajimoto
• Wall Street Journal blog – News Flash: Crippled Fukushima Reactors Officially Closed – Phred Dvorak
• Wall Street Journal blog – Hunger Strike Launched at Antinuclear Tent City – Eleanor Warnock
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt to nudge Kyoto, Shiga, govs on reactors
• Daily Yomiuri – Shimokobe’s managerial skills remain unknown – Chiaki Toyoda
• Daily Yomiuri – Trade deficit likely to grow / Red ink reflects lasting effects of disaster, increased LNG imports – Mitsuhiko Totsuka
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO reform mustn’t be delayed by govt’s energy policy
• Denki Shimbun – US policy to proceed with new nuclear construction
• Denki Shimbun – Debris removal by remote operation at Fukushima I NPS
• Fukushima Diary – NRC’s Operation Center Fukushima Transcript Audio Clips March 16 2011 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – 70% of farmers tilling land again
• Japan Times – Lawyer crusades for more disclosure – Keiji Hirano
• Japan Times – Trade deficit grows to record ¥4.41 trillion – Jun Hongo
• Japan Times – Tomioka cherry blossoms get no-go zone treatment
• Japan Times – Bailout official to head Tepco
• Mainichi Daily News – Despite cost, adherence to gov’t nuclear fuel reprocessing policy still seen
• Mainichi Daily News – Electricity sales mark record drop in FY 2011 in Japan
• Mainichi Daily News – Political tension should not hamper talks on nuclear agency: Hosono
• Mainichi Daily News – Hibakusha: Pressing on with the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons
• Mainichi Daily News – U.N. urges action against nuclear trafficking
• Focus Taiwan – Activists call for shutdown of aging nuclear power plant
• Taipei Times – Environmentalists warn of threats from nuclear plants – Lee I-chia
• Taiwan Today – Lawmakers move to expand Taiwan’s nuclear emergency zones – June Tsai

Thursday, April 19, 2012

• Bloomberg – Company Turnaround Lawyer Shimokobe Accepts Job to Run Tepco – Takashi Hirokawa
• Reuters – Update 1-Japan bailout official accepts Tepco chairman job – Yoko Kubota
• Washington Post – Noda says Japan running out of time to hike taxes, restart reactors – Chico Harlan
• World Nuclear News – Fukushima fuel removal buildings
• Daily Yomiuri – Shimokobe accepts govt request to become TEPCO chairman
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukui govt committee deems Oi N-plant safe
• Daily Yomiuri – Japan, Ukraine to work together in N-accidents
• Fukushima Diary – Cesium from sewage sludge is increasing in Chiba – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Red forest appeared in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Oregon senator urged J ambassador to accept international help – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Bailout official to head Tepco
• Mainichi Daily News – Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel would cost more than burying part of it
• Mainichi Daily News – Reporters visit cherry blossom beauty spot lost to Fukushima nuke disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Shimokobe to decide about TEPCO’s chairman post after gov’t request
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t plans to complete decontamination of Minamisoma city by fiscal 2013
• Nikkei – Burying All Spent Fuel Poses Higher Costs: Nuclear Panel

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

• Enformable – TEPCO sends robot into Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 2 Torus Room – Finds high radiation levels but no signs of leaks – Lucas W Hixson
• Morningstar News – Tokyo Electric Power Co says it discovered 160,000 becquerels of cesium 134 per cubic centimeters in outflow water from the spent fuel rod pool
• Reuters – Update 1-Japan eyes bailout body official as Tepco chairman – Yoko Kubota and Kentaro Hamada
• World Nuclear News – Japanese nuclear fuel cycle under review
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima poems to be shared with world
• Daily Yomiuri – Realistic discussions needed on restarting nuclear reactors
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt to give Oi restart explanation next week
• Fukushima Diary – Irradiated whales – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Notice put in front of elementary school of Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Fukushima: Probability theory is unsafe – Kenichi Ohmae
• Mainichi Daily News – Head of Fukui gov’t nuclear panel says Oi reactors can operate safely
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO finds no damage at Fukushima No. 2 reactor’s suppression pool
• Mainichi Daily News – Cobalt-60 detected on 86 bicycle baskets made in China
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Japan should push N. Korea to abandon missile, nuclear programs
• Mainichi Daily News – DPJ under fire from own members for approving reactivation of nuclear reactors
• Enformable – New radiation monitoring network to serve Taiwan post-Fukushima – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Taipower facing more questioning after damaged reactor anchor bolts revealed at Guosheng Nuclear Power Plant – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Taipower forced to halt operations after lawmakers accuse utility of “flat out lying” – Lucas W Hixson

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

• Enformable – Kamchatka Peninsula announces will test migratory birds for effects of Japan event – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Flounder caught off Ibaraki Prefecture found with Cesium contamination over national standards – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Japanese Governors push back against central Government and call for independent panel oversight into Ohi restart – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – TEPCO to begin operations to prepare for spent fuel removal at Reactor 4 – Lucas W Hixson
• Greenpeace International blog – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for April 13th – April 16th, 2012 – Christine McCann
• Huffington Post – Fukushima’s Nuclear Nightmare Is Far From Over (or the Disturbingly Deadly Act of Placing Profits Before People) – Vivian Norris.
• Platts – US senator warns that Fukushima plant cleanup is too slow – Derek Sands
• Reuters – Japan Kansai: no restart of Tanagawa Daini power plant – Osamu Tsukimori
• Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Daiichi’s Achilles Heel: Unit 4’s Spent Fuel? – Phred Dvorak
• Daily Yomiuri – Kyoto, Shiga govs. seeking lower reliance on N-power
• Daily Yomiuri – Minami-Soma planning reconstruction aid tours
• Denki Shimbun – First image obtained inside fuel pool of Fukushima I unit 3
• Denki Shimbun – Government endorsed restart of nuclear power plant
• Fukushima Diary – This is how incineration ash of 16,000 Bq/Kg is deposited – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 2040 Bq/kg from officially uncontaminated disaster debris – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 0.2 µSv/h of alpha ray in Yamagata – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Pentagon seeks for the robotic technology for nuclear plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 13,300 Bq/kg from the ash of firewood for dried bonito and concealed for 8 months – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Gas observed near reactor 3 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 20% of the children in disaster area decreased weight – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – MEXT showed the contamination level lower than actual by 20% – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Fukushima miscarriage rate stable (#2)Food passes Swiss test – Minoru Matsutani
• JIJI Press – Osaka Mayor Makes N-Waste Facility Major Issue
• Mainichi Daily News – Discontent amongst DPJ members grows over restart of Oi nuclear power plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: No choice but to decommission Hamaoka nuclear plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Edano apologizes for remarks on active reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – DPJ’s Sengoku describes halt of all nuclear plants ‘mass suicide’
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t seeks to accelerate disposal of debris from disaster-hit areas
• Mainichi Daily News – Kyoto, Shiga compile draft proposals to gov’t on nuclear policy
• Mainichi Daily News – Hamaoka nuclear plant ‘safe’ against big tsunami, operator tells gov’t
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan’s number of ‘operable’ nuclear reactors to drop to 50 from 54
• Focus Taiwan – Taipower ceases geological exploration in Hualien amid criticism
• Taiwan Today – Taipower survey raises concerns about nuclear storage site – June Tsai

Monday, April 16, 2012

• Bloomberg – Japan May Be Atomic-Power Free Next Month After Shutdown – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Masatsugu Horie
• Enformable – New polls suggest radical shift away from nuclear power in Japan – Nearly 3 out of every 5 oppose any nuclear restart – Lucas W Hixson
• The Guardian – Japan seeks to restart nuclear reactors after May stress tests – Justin McCurry
• The Guardian – Pupils return to school in Fukushima’s shadow – Justin McCurry
• UPI – Future of Japan’s nuclear energy uncertain
• World Nuclear News – Close-up on Fukushima pool debris
• Daily Yomiuri – Edano: All reactors to be idle / Comment indicates Oi reactors’ restart unlikely in near future
• Daily Yomiuri – Minami-Soma evacuees visit homes briefly
• Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear plant utilization rate hits record low
• Daily Yomiuri – Osaka to mull accepting N-waste depot
• Daily Yomiuri – N. Korea says it will not allow IAEA inspectors / Bilateral accord with U.S. likely to be called off
• Fukushima Diary – Melted reactor 4 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco concealed another contaminated water leakage – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Decontamination researcher (58) died of brain hemorrhage – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 20,290 Bq/Kg of cesium from Yacon tea and already consumed – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 3150 Bq/Kg from incineration ash of disaster debris – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 235 Bq/Kg from cherry blossom in Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – One of the last two heating gauges was broken in reactor 2 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – DPJ’s Sengoku describes halt of all nuclear plants ‘mass suicide’
• Japan Times – Bread and bequerels: a year of living dangerously – Gianni Simone
• Japan Times – Editorial: Unwise attempt to restart reactors
• Japan Times – Retail power slow to make inroads despite nuclear crisis – Hiroko Nakata
• Japan Times – Fujimura attempts to allay reactor restart fears – Masami Ito
• Japan Times – Mayor vowing caution wins new term in city hosting Hamaoka nuclear plant
• Japan Times – Nuke majors in decline at universities
• Japan Today – Fukushima damage leaves spent fuel at risk, says U.S. lawmaker
• Mainichi Daily News – 3 members of nuclear panel OK gov’t standards for judging safety of Oi reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – Minamisoma residents cleaning houses on lifting of evacuation order
• Mainichi Daily News – Another thermometer at Fukushima No. 2 reactor apparently not working
• Focus Taiwan – Taipower accused of hiding plans for nuclear waste site in Hualien
• Focus Taiwan – Fractured anchor bolts at nuclear reactor raise safety concerns