Sunday, May 20, 2012

• Daily Yomiuri – Kansai leaders oppose govt call to back Oi reactor restarts
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco banned freelance journalists from taking cameras into Fukushima plants – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Weekend Editiorial: to restart or not to restart, that is the question – Masao Hasegawa
• Japan Times – Editorial: Planning a new environment policy

Saturday, May 19, 2012

• China Daily – Japan leak sent nuclear industry reeling – Liu Yiyu
• CTV – Fukushima Reactor 4 poses massive global risk – Andy Johnson
• Enformable – Japan panel investigating unanswered questions surrounding the Fukushima disaster – Lucas W Hixson
• Jakarta Globe – Fukushima Still Grapples With Nuclear Stress – Nassirine Azmi
• NEI Nuclear Notes – Setting the Record Straight on the Spent Fuel Pool at Fukushima Daiichi Unit #4
• OpEdNews – Get Ready to Shake, Rattle and Glow — The Worst is Yet to Come at Japan’s Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant – Vincent Guarisco
• Fukushima Diary – Dr. Helen Caldicott interviews Arnold Gundersen – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Crack on reactor 4 building – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fasciated chrysanth in Fukuoka – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Double-headed worm in Miyagi – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – JP gov is going to send disaster debris to USA – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Pink flash in Fukushima live camera – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Monitoring posts troubled 5 times within 32 hours – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 1,000 Bq/kg from human excrement in Nagano – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Japan faces a long, hot, nuclear-free summer – Mark Schreiber
• Japan Times – Reasons I don’t buy a nuclear restart – Amy Chavez
• Japan Times – Iwate disaster debris on its way to Shizuoka
• Mainichi Daily News – Shizuoka governor says he would directly contact U.S. in event of nuke disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan to support Russia’s effort to store reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – Oi mayor lauds Noda’s remark on restart of local reactors

Friday, May 18, 2012

• Enformable – May 17th, 2012 FOIA Archive Release – RASCAL Estimations – SPEEDI Data – Communications – Status Updates
• Green Road Blog – On 3/11; 15 Nuclear Reactors In Japan Were Damaged, Not 3 or 4
• Daily Yomiuri – Convincing Kan to declare N-crisis ‘took time’
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima climbers left hanging over N-fears
• Fukushima Diary – Double-headed flowers – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Namie machi bans reporting inside of the hazard area – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – BBC-Children and Radiation – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – JP Govs colluded on a bomb program disguised as innocent energy and civil programs – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Mutated canola looking like a new kind of plants – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Summer voluntary power curbs set
• Japan Times – Ex-METI Minister Kaieda admits he distrusted Tepco at start of nuclear crisis
• Japan Times – Firms say new gear visually detects radiation hot spots
• Japan Times – METI boss fired for nuclear crisis regrets underestimating tsunami threat
• Japan Times – Government doesn’t plan to issue mandatory power-saving order to western Japan
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: NHK exec’s assignment to TEPCO board is ill-advised

Thursday, May 17, 2012

• Greenpeace International – Fukushima nuclear disaster: who profits and who pays? – Jan Haverkamp
• Daily Yomiuri – NISA feared guideline change / Agency sought vow tougher quake criteria would not cause disputes
• Daily Yomiuri – LDP-Komeito N-regulation plan has troubling structural flaws
• Daily Yomiuri – Bank of Tokyo-MUFJ stops Iran deals
• Fukushima Diary – JP Gov is going to revenge people by power blackout – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Possible export from Chernobyl to Japan – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 220 Bq/kg from indoor cultivated mushroom – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 650,000,000 Bq/m2 in Minamisoma – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Possible exposure of Alaskan airline flight attendants from Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – West coast of Japan 10 times more contaminated than mandatory evacuation zone in Belarus – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Iodine 131 was measured from SFP4 – Iori Mochizuki
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Gov’t must not fear policy change on spent nuclear fuel
• Mainichi Daily News – Oi town bombarded with protests after nuke reactors’ restart approved

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

• Enformable – TEPCO admits to having ignored more warnings of Fukushima Daiichi tsunami risk – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Japan Atomic Energy Commission confirms nuclear fuel reprocessing more expensive than direct disposal – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Yokota Air Base received equivalent of chest x-ray to thyroid in 72 hours after onset of Fukushima Disaster
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO to take partial stake in LNG project
• Daily Yomiuri – Panel compiles report on future N-fuel cycle
• Fukushima Diary – 1774 Bq/kg of cesium from tea leaves – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 6 in 10 children under 12 have diabetes in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Kansai power crunch just political rivalry? – Eric Johnston
• Japan Times – Tsuruga nuke plant active fault faces study
• Japan Times – Pushing back, Fukui governor calls for clear nuclear policy
• Japan Times – Tepco halts dividends, so metro buses to run red ink – Minoru Matsutani
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima hospital finds 99 percent of young children below minimum cesium level
• Mainichi Daily News – Kitakyushu to incinerate Miyagi debris on trial basis
• Xinhua News – Taiwan probes wire purchases for nuclear plant

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

• Asian Correspondent – Fukushima fallout: Not just radiation – Graham Land
• AsianWeek – Fukushima Crisis Is Completely Over After One Year (NOT!) – Arthur Hu
• BBC News – Japan power price hike considered
• Bloomberg – Tepco Chairman Plays Down Role in Disaster Readiness, Response – Jacob Adelman
• Eurasia Review – Japan Putting Power Over Public Safety As It Restarts Two Nuclear Reactors? – OpEd
• Pakalertpress – Plume-gate: Secret documents prove global cover-up of continued Fukushima radiation pollution – Ethan A. Huff
• Denki Shimbun – Survey launched at Fukushima I in preparation for reactor building decontamination
• Denki Shimbun – TEPCO applied for raising electricity rates
• Fukushima Diary – Kepco raises power bill double – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Black substance in Hitachi city Ibaraki – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Black substance keeps coming back – Iori Mochizuki
• Kyodo News – Opinion: May 5 could mark new beginning for Japan with reactor shutdown – Arjun Makhijani
• Japan Times – Fukushima to host weekend of cultural festivals
• Japan Times – Infamous Hanford Site may yield nuke cleanup clues – Ben Dooley
• Japan Times – Tepco pays dearly for disastrous year – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Cesium spikes in Tokyo Bay samples – Jun Hongo
• Japan Times – Utilities’ bond risk climbing amid nuclear shutdowns – Yusuke Miyazawa and Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Japan Times – Firms fear summer slump over power cuts – Harumi Ozawa
• Japan Times – Tepco pays dearly for disastrous year – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Utilities’ bond risk climbing amid nuclear shutdowns – Yusuke Miyazawa and Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Japan Times – Infamous Hanford Site may yield nuke cleanup clues – Ben Dooley
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Face up to Okinawa’s outcry against ‘discrimination’ on 40th anniv. of reversion
• Mainichi Daily News – Power cuts eyed for 4 electricity companies amid worries over thermal plant stability
• Mainichi Daily News – Warnings over fault below nuke reactors in Fukui were ignored
• Mainichi Daily News – Aftershocks along Fukushima, Ibaraki borders may take over 100 years to subside
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO was warned of possible power loss from tsunami at nuclear plants in 2006
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukui gov. calls on gov’t to clarify nation’s nuclear policy
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t winning approval for Oi reactors’ restart: Edano
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO chairman complains about Kan’s visit to Fukushima Daiichi plant
• Mainichi Daily News – China’s moderate stance hampers unity with Japan, S. Korea over N. Korea
• Mainichi Daily News – Japanese airports rebounding from March 2011 quake

Monday, May 14, 2012

• BBC News – Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power reports full-year loss
• Bloomberg – Tepco Expects Narrower Net Loss as Government Takes Control (Update 1) – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
• Business Insider – How Long Will Japan’s Nuclear Recess Be? Enter Kazakhstan
• Enformable – Newly announced TEPCO directors only complicate perceived mismanagement of Fukushima disaster – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Cesium levels in rats near Fukushima Daiichi found to apparently rise in proportion to concentration of atmospheric radiation – Lucas W Hixson
• Reuters – Tepco posts annual net loss on nuclear crisis – Yoko Kubota
• Reuters – Update 1-Japan assembly agrees to restart reactors, hurdles remain – Linda Sieg and Yoko Kubota
• UPI – 6 leaders favor restarting Japan reactors
• Daily Yomiuri – Farmers plant ‘reconstruction rice’
• Daily Yomiuri – 781.6 billion yen FY11 net loss for TEPCO
• Daily Yomiuri – N-reactors’ restart OK’d by Oi town assembly
• Fukushima Diary – NHK manager will be assigned to be a director of Tepco – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – *WEF* Japanese Tsunami Reflections (Radiation Worries) – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Group launches petition drive for Hamaoka reactor referendum
• Japan Times – Oi assembly says yes to restarting reactors
• Japan Times – Kepco area faces 20% power-saving request
• Mainichi Daily News – Hamaoka plant’s neighboring governors not ready to permit reactivation: survey
• Mainichi Daily News – New Red Cross organization to be formed to help countries cope with nuclear disasters
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO logs 782 bil. yen group net loss for FY 2011
• Mainichi Daily News – Gist of joint declaration by China, Japan, S. Korea leaders
• Mainichi Daily News – Local town assembly OKs Oi nuclear reactors’ restart
• Mainichi Daily News – Hamaoka reactivation looking less feasible than before: Kaieda
• Mainichi Daily News – Children under 18 to receive free medical care in Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – Trial rice planting begins 20 kms from Fukushima nuke plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Suspended Hamaoka nuclear reactors weigh heavily on Chubu Electric
• Mainichi Daily News – Group seeks referendum to decide future of Hamaoka nuclear complex