Sunday, November 11, 2012
- Veterans Today – Fukushima: Radiation, Politics and Public Relations – Leuren Moret, Dr. Majia Nadesan and Jim Fetzer (with Major William Fox)
- Daily Yomiuri – Govt must make assistance to TEPCO more realistic
- ENENews – NHK: Paper towels are best way to decontaminate Japan — Outside of homes wiped down by hand (VIDEO)
- ENENews – Mother: I want the world to know Fukushima is in a state of dying — I reaffirmed severe radioactive contamination — I alone can’t do anything, I tried (VIDEO)
- ENENews – M4.7 hits Fukushima — 10 quakes at Magnitude 4 and above since Thursday
- Fukushima Diary – [NHK] Decontamination: Losing the Sheltering Trees – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Traffic control staff company recruits decontamination staff in Minamisoma Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Kizuna] Road relay of young girls will be held in Fukushima on 11/11/2012, the youngest runner is 13 years old – Iori Mochizuki
- Japan Times – Hashimoto claims nuclear arms abolition is impossible
- Mainichi Daily News – S. Korean nuke expert negative about int’l fuel recycling at Rokkasho
- Focus Taiwan – Orchid Island free of radioactive contamination: AEC
- Focus Taiwan – Most oppose No. 4 nuke power plant, support referendum: poll – Wen Kuei-hsiang and Kendra Lin
- Taipei Times – Poll shows power plant concerns – Lee I-chia
Saturday, November 10, 2012
- AFP Google – Japan, US to discuss revising defence guidelines – Shigemi Sato
- Enformable – In-Focus: Japan – NRA to probe faulty fallout projections – A-Bomb survivors push Obama to do more to eradicate nuclear weapons
- Enformable – In-Focus: Fukushima – TEPCO working to remove steel beam from Unit 3 SFP
- Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO says it will see no profit without nuke plant restarts
- ENENews – NHK: “I’m really shocked” — Growths on both young daughters’ thyroids — I deeply regret making them stand outside for hours in high radiation (VIDEO)
- ENENews – Henry Kissinger-linked think tank pressuring Japanese to keep nuclear power (VIDEO)
- ENENews – Tepco to try and remove steel debris on top of fuel racks in No. 3 pool — Concern about liner? (PHOTOS)
- Fukushima Diary – RPV water level of reactor1 fuel area keeps decreasing, now it’s reaching the lowest level since 7/12/2012 – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Albino] White raccoon dog found in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Uni of California etc] Low doses from Chornobyl cleanup work was associated with a significant increase in leukemia – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – 350µSv/h from a temporary debris storage equipment in Fukushima plant – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Mutation] Yamagata newspaper reported 3 mutated agricultural products – Iori Mochizuki
- Kyodo News – S. Korean nuke expert negative about int’l fuel recycling at Rokkasho
- Japan Daily Press – Massive anti-nuclear rally canceled due to government refusal – Ida Torres
- Japan Times – Local media are too vague on Fukushima radiation risk – Philip Brasor
- Japan Times – Giving voice to the survivors of the unprecedented 3/11 disaster – Jeff Kingston
- Japan Times – Is ‘realistic’ view a path of folly? – Joel Bradbury
- Japan Times – Editorial: Let them march
- Japan Times – Fault zones under, near Monju fast-breeder to be probed
- Japan Times – Mascot bird warns kids of radiation
- Japan Times – Senior industry ministry official ‘begs’ for reactor restarts
- Japan Times – Japanese, U.S. business leaders urge Japan to participate in TPP
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO customers to have choice of renewable energy: president
Friday, November 09, 2012
- AFP Google – Cartoon bird warns Fukushima children of radiation
- CounterPunch – One Day in Fukushima – Steve Zeltzer
- Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
- Reuters – Japan power companies investment plans, fuel purchases -survey – Yuko Inoue and Risa Maeda
- Asahi Shimbun – Nuclear watchdog forced to apologize again for error-plagued maps
- Asahi Shimbun – Atomic agency plans to restart Monju prototype fast breeder reactor
- Denki Shimbun – TEPCO seeking additional government aid
- ENENews – Tepco to try and remove steel debris on top of fuel racks in No. 3 pool – Concern about liner? (PHOTOS)
- ENENews – Tepco President: I will come clean your house in Fukushima
- ENENews – Photos: Smiling mascot asks Fukushima kids to gargle to ‘stay safe’ from radiation – Radioactive sparkles on happy children
- ENENews – Now 7 quakes at Magnitude 4 and above in Fukushima since yesterday
- ENENews – Intense M5.5 quake hits Fukushima — Aftershocks follow in exact location minutes later (MAPS)
- ENENews – CNN: Debris from near Fukushima nuclear plant is being ground up, then burned in other parts of Japan (VIDEO)
- Fukushima Diary – Comparing to Ukraine, the ratio of healthy children in Saitama will be only 6% by 2033 – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – 760 Bq/Kg of cesium from Asian black bear in west coast of Japan – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Radiation level of the seawater at reactor2 has been increasing since late September – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [No update about Fukushima plant] 3 earthquakes hit Fukushima offshore M5.5, M4.0, M4.2 within 14 mins – Iori Mochizuki
- Japan Daily Press – Radioactive sludge remains undisposed in Fukushima – Ida Torres
- Japan Daily Press – Japanese exports on the rise as radiation fears diminish – Ida Torres
- Japan Daily Press – Atomic bomb survivors call on re-elected Obama to end nuclear weapons – Adam Westlake
- Japan Times – NRA to probe flawed nuke fallout forecasts – Kazuaki Nagata
- Japan Times – Former head lawyer to run for Tokyo governor – Mizuho Aoki
- NHK World – Tsunami debris may reach US next month
- NHK World – TEPCO explains increase in decontamination staff
- NHK World – Disposable radioactive sludge remains
Thursday, November 08, 2012
- AP Google – Japan utility seeks more funds for nuclear crisis – Elaine Kurtenbach
- Bloomberg – Fukushima $137 Billion Cost Has Tepco Seeking More Aid – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yasumasa Song
- The Economist – Rokkasho and a hard place–The government’s fudge on its nuclear future remains unconvincing
- World Nuclear News – Funding key to Tepco’s future
- Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima high school students launch nuclear study group
- Daily Yomiuri – New TEPCO policy on rocks / Utility accepts responsibility for crisis, asks for more support – Hiroyuki Tanaka
- ENENews – “Astonishing”: Thyroid abnormalities found in Fukushima kids declared ‘ok’ by gov’t – Officials ordered doctors to stop examining patients
- ENENews – 4 quakes M4.0 and above hit Fukushima in 24-hour period
- ENENews – AP: Fukushima native elected to U.S. Senate
- ENENews – Kyodo: Fukushima radiation ‘underreported’ – Metal boxes in monitors are blocking radioactivity – Hundreds of locations in multiple prefectures affected
- ENENews – Kyodo: Fukushima radiation ‘underreported’ — Metal boxes in monitors are blocking radioactivity — Hundreds of locations in multiple prefectures affected
- Fukushima Diary – The second largest book wholesaler refused to sell revealing book about nuke industry, the publisher got web attack – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Cesium level of Tokyo tap water is 4% higher than Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Fukushima gov to have all the evacuees back to the original place by 2020 – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Japanese gov admitted monitored radiation level is indicated to be 10% lower than actual – Iori Mochizuki
- Japan Times – Nuke disaster mop-up may hit ¥10 trillion
- Japan Times – NRA to continue Oi fault probe – Reiji Yoshida
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO sought more gov’t aid despite contradictions in earlier business plan
- Mainichi Daily News – Experts to gather more data before conclusion on faults under Oi plant
- Taipei Times – DPP legislator blasts AEC – Chris Wang
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
- AFP Google – Fukushima operator warns clean-up ‘may cost $125 bn’ – Kyoko Hasegawa
- AP Google – Japan utility seeks more funds for nuclear crisis – Elaine Kurtenbach
- BBC News – Tepco seeks more aid as Fukushima clean-up costs rise
- Enformable – In-Focus: Japan – More surveys at Ohi plant – Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority to establish panel to discuss iodine table criteria
- Enformable – TEPCO seeking more financial bailouts from Japanese government – Lucas W Hixson
- Enformable – In-Focus: Japan – TEPCO only has one third of decommissioning workers claimed – Kurion start-up changing business concept after Fukushima disaster
- Enformable – Nuclear Regulation Authority still split over Ohi fault probe
- LA Times blogs – Scandal threatens South Korea nuclear-export ambitions – Emily Alpert
- Platts – Tepco mulls importing up to 10 mil mt/year lean LNG to lower costs – Takeo Kumagai
- UPI Asia – Okuma residents do not want to return
- Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Watch: Status of Oi Fault Still Up in the Air – Phred Dvorak
- Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO seeks more govt support as Fukushima costs soar
- Asahi Shimbun – Nuclear watchdog admits additional errors in radiation forecast maps
- Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO suggests recovery plan / Utility seeks govt aid as it estimates reconstruction costs could double
- Daily Yomiuri – Editorial: Nuclear industry must foster personnel for the future
- Daily Yomiuri – NRA to fix radiation spread estimates again
- ENENews – TV: 200% as many radioactive products returned to Japan this year than in 2011 says Russian report (VIDEO)
- ENENews – Asahi: Fukushima Daiichi a Theme Park? Tourists ‘treated’ to re-enactment of explosions – Beeping geiger counters, people crying out… more
- ENENews – Caldicott Live on TV as US Election Called: “About half of Japan is contaminated” — Huge censorship on what’s happening with Fukushima… Host interrupts to say Obama re-elected (VIDEO)
- ENENews – Tepco: Cooling system suspended at Fukushima Spent Fuel Pool No. 3 — Will not resume until weekend
- Fukushima Diary – [Column] Fukushima reports the size of the thyroid nodule and cyst, but not the number of nodules and cysts – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Child helpline of Fukushima got 5000 calls only in one month – Iori Mochizuki
- Japan Daily Press – TEPCO requests more government financial support for Fukushima recovery – Adam Westlake
- Japan Daily Press – Freelance journalists speak out about denied access to cover nuclear protests – Ida Torres
- JIJI Press – (Update) TEPCO Seeks More Govt Support, Eyeing 10 T. Yen in Costs
- Mainichi Daily News – Hiroshima mayor seeks explanation from gov’t over anti-nuke statement snub
- Mainichi Daily News – 45 percent of Fukushima nuke plant host town residents say they won’t return: survey – Asahi Shimbun
- Taipei Times – Anti-nuclear photos mark Japanese trip – Wang Shan-yan and Stacy Hsu
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
- Los Angeles Daily News – Canoga Park: $5.6M grant to help cleanup Santa Susana center
- Enformable – In-Focus: Japan – TEPCO only has one third of decommissioning workers claimed – Kurion start-up changing business concept after Fukushima disaster
- Enformable – Nuclear Regulation Authority still split over Ohi fault probe
- Asahi Shimbun – No radioactivity found in Fukushima mothers’ breast milk – Asahi Shimbun
- Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Enough is enough. Revise Status of Forces Agreement
- Daily Yomiuri – Expert panel to discuss iodine tablet criteria
- Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear disarmament resolution adopted
- ENENews – Filmmaker: Hope is hard to come by in Fukushima — To this day women having abortions for fear of genetic damage, families breaking up
- ENENews – NHK: Concerns rising at Fukushima plant — 16,000 workers have quit, ‘severe working conditions’ blamed (VIDEO)
- Fukushima Diary – Child helpline of Fukushima got 5000 calls only in one month – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Radiation level in Yahata ward office has been increasing after starting debris incineration in Kitakyushu city – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Fukushima medical university “The younger you are, the more slowly thyroid cancer develops” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Shortage of Fukushima worker] 67% Fukushima workers have already left Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Express] Yamamoto Taro “People can’t come back to the 30km area of Chernobyl for 24,000 years.” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Radiophobia] Peptic ulcer unrelated to helicobacter pylori or analgesic increased as double in Miyagi – Iori Mochizuki
- Japan Times – Tepco to invite thermal supply bids
- Japan Times – More errors found in Japan nuclear regulatory body’s accident projections
- Japan Times – Nuke abolition resolution passed
- Japan Times – Antinuclear activists denied use of park – Setsuko Kamiya
- Japan Daily Press – Fukushima residents dissatisfied with children’s thyroid cancer screenings – Ida Torres
- Japan Times – Editorial: Cut costs before raising power rates
- Jpubb – Status of TEPCO’s Nuclear Power Stations after the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake (Daily Report as of 3:00 PM, November 5)
- Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima to halt private home support for out-of-prefecture evacuees – Asahi Shimbun
- Asia: Xinhua News – China explains abstention over Japan-led nuclear disarmament resolution
Monday, November 05, 2012
- Arms Control Today – Strains Seen in Japan’s Plutonium Policy – Daniel Horner
- Bloomberg – Japan Regulator Delays Decision on Fault Under Ohi Plant – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
- Christian Science Monitor – Japan’s nuclear dilemma: What to do with all that nuclear waste? – Winifred Bird
- eNews Park Forest – Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, November 5, 2012 .
- Enformable – In-Focus: Japan – TEPCO denies deliberate attempt to cover up facts about worker exposure – Post-Fukushima survey shows shortage of evacuation sites
- Enformable – In-Focus: Japan – More rice found contaminated – Two utilities consider rate increases
- Enformable – Nuclear Regulation Authority inspects Ohi plant – May order additional investigations
- Power Engineering – Nuclear industry gave millions in grants to Japan’s safety experts
- Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Watch: Active or Not? The Battle Over the Oi Nuclear Plant’s Seismic Fault – Phred Dvorak
- UPI – Japan plans gas pipeline from Russia
- Yahoo! News – Japan’s nuclear dilemma: Is geothermal the answer? – Justin McCurry
- Asahi Shimbun – Special allowance not reaching workers involved in disaster cleanup
- Asahi Shimbun – Experts call for more studies on fault at Japan’s only active nuclear plant
- Daily Yomiuri – Experts split over Oi plant fault / Inability to agree raises questions over whether reactors are safe
- ENENews – Mothers: Child has so many thyroid cysts doctor can’t count them all — Private hospital told not to do tests on kids
- ENENews – US Paper: Fukushima kids playing above nuclear waste — Public parks are now unmarked radioactive dumps
- ENENews – Report: What is going on at Daiichi? Fukushima fallout increased Nov. 2-4 — Highest back-to-back days in months (CHARTS)
- ENENews – Gov’t Nuclear Expert: Immediately halt Japan’s only 2 operating reactors — “It’s certain there’s an active fault”
- Fukushima Diary – [Fukushima children] “Doctor couldn’t count all the thyroid cysts of my daughter” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Monitoring posts are made by nuclear power maker – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Express] “My son’s friend in Tokyo got acute lymphoblastic leukemia” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – 2 active faults found in Nagoya city – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – China refused importing Japanese frozen saury for excessive cadmium – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – A footrace festival held in Fukushima city – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – M5.4 hit North Japan offshore (Sanriku oki) – Iori Mochizuki
- Japan Times – Nuke policy to drive next election
- JAIF – Cover for Unit 4 Building at Fukushima Daiichi NPS to Be Completed in Late 2013
- Japan Times – Fault check at Oi plant hit for lack of findings – Eric Johnston
- Japan Times – Editorial: Wider nuclear emergency areas
- Kotaku – How Japan’s Nuclear Fears Are Manifested in a Cartoon Character – Brian Ashcraft
- Mainichi Daily News – Briefing on Fukushima children’s thyroid screening exposes residents’ dissatisfaction
- Mainichi Daily News – Mayor of disaster-hit Minamisoma urges national gov’t to learn from tragedy
- Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima, Nagasaki high-school students share tales of nuclear disaster, bombing
- Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Time to deal with nuclear waste disposal – Asahi Shimbun
- NHK World – TEPCO over-reports number of Fukushima workers