Sunday, October 02, 2011

• Financial Times – Plutonium 40km from Fukushima plant – Mure Dickie
• UPI – Japan finds plutonium far from Fukushima
• Asahi Shimbun – Evacuation directive lifted near Fukushima no-entry zone
• Asahi Shimbun – EDITORIAL: Diet panel must focus on disaster, not politics
• Daily Yomiuri – No explosion at No. 2 reactor / TEPCO: Only 3 hydrogen blasts occurred at Fukushima N-plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima Pref. spends all reserve funds
• Daily Yomiuri – New rice 10%-20% more expensive
• Japan Times – Tepco concludes own crisis manual useless
• Japan Times – Nuke plant has 38-hour margin for meltdown
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO finds own nuclear accident manual useless
• Mainichi Daily News – Japanese robot set to contribute toward Fukushima plant’s cold shutdown
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima plant crisis could erupt if water injection stops for 38 hrs
• Mainichi Daily News – Data released about plutonium found in soil outside Fukushima plant
• PanOrient News – Anti-Nuclear Tent at METI Building

Saturday, October 01, 2011

• Canada: NOW Toronto – Nuclear decisions–The Liberals sneaky nuke plan in the Green Energy Act – Ellie Kirzner
• Asahi Shimbun – Disaster-experienced Niigata throws lifeline for Fukushima evacuees
• Daily Yomiuri – Tests show all 143 reactors in EU safe – Takehito Kudo
• Daily Yomiuri – Majority of N-crisis evacuee households report health, financial woes
• Daily Yomiuri – Plutonium detected outside N-plant site
• Daily Yomiuri – Fake questions on N-energy / Report finds 7 cases of events staged to promote nuclear power
• Japan Times – Press miss the point at antinuke demo – Philip Brasor
• Japan Times – Japan’s leaders still don’t get it — but whither that ‘heretical’ 1960s spirit? – Roger Pulvers
• Japan Times – Wave power excites as next energy source
• Japan Times – EDITORIAL – The Nuclear Test Ban At 15
• Mainichi Daily News – Highly toxic plutonium detected in soil 45 km away from Fukushima nuclear complex
• Mainichi Daily News – Evacuation advisory lifted as crippled Fukushima reactors move closer to ‘cold shutdown’
• Mainichi Daily News – Most radioactive cesium that spread to forests accumulated in leaves
• Mainichi Daily News – Chiba incineration plant to suspend operations due to high levels of radioactive substances
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear-related budget sought by science ministry drops by 4.3 billion yen
• Mainichi Daily News – Radiation invades cycle of life through fallen leaves
• Mainichi Daily News – Closeness of gov’t, utilities seen behind manipulated symposiums
• Mainichi Daily News – Tokyo gov’t hit with complaints over accepting disaster debris
• Mainichi Daily News – Science ministry announces postponement of Monju trial run
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan gov’t lifts evacuation advisory for 20-30 km zone

Friday, September 30, 2011

• Oceania: ABC – Mutton bird radiation warning
• CounterPunch – Agent Orange on Okinawa – Dave Lindorff
• AFP Google – Plutonium ‘detected outside Fukushima plant’
• AP Google – Japan lifts some nuclear evacuation advisories – Eric Talmadge
• BusinessWeek – Tepco Faces ‘Zombie’ Future as Fukushima Damage Claims Mount
• New Scientist – Fukushima’s radioactive sea contamination lingers – Andy Coghlan
• New York Times – Japan Lifts Evacuation Advisories Near Nuclear Plant – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Reuters AlertNet – Japan lets kids return near Fukushima nuclear plant – Yoko Kubota
• Reuters – Japan’s Hokuriku to beef up safety at sole nuke plant – Osamu Tsukimori
• Reuters – Update 1-Japan Hokuriku: to boost safety at nuclear plant, build tsunami wall – Osamu Tsukimori
• Wall Street Journal – Japan Panel Says Nuclear Agency Manipulated Forums – Mitsuru Obe
• Daily Yomiuri – New panel will test Diet’s investigative abilities
• Daily Yomiuri – 1 more step on a long road / Factory owners eager to resume work, but will employees return?
• Daily Yomiuri – Panel queries TEPCO rates / Customers pay price for flawed accounting, wasteful spending
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO compensation predicted to reach 4.54 tril. yen
• Denki Shimbun – Contaminated soil can amount to 29 million cubic meters
• Denki Shimbun – Resumption of talks on basic orientations for nuclear policy
• Denki Shimbun – Nuclear compensation support organization launched full-fledged operation
• Denki Shimbun – Japan Atomic Power signed contract for Vietnam nuclear power plant feasibility study
• Japan Times – Opposition-backed nuclear panel formed – Natsuko Fukue
• Japan Times – Nuke advocacy stand-ins took in seven events: probe – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Plutonium traces found in Iitate soil
• Japan Times – Tepco faces ‘zombie’ future as claims mount
• Japan Times – Evacuation advisory for Fukushima 20-30 km zone lifted
• Japan Times – Evacuation advisory for Fukushima 20-30 km zone lifted
• Japan Times – Cesium fallout map illustrates Kanto levels – Mizuho Aoki
• Japan Times – Tepco overestimated costs by ¥618 billion over 10 years
• Japan Times – Eight prefectures eyed for radioactive dumps – Natsuko Fukue
• Mainichi Daily News – Radiation decontamination, disposal work to cost over 1 trillion yen: ministry
• Mainichi Daily News – Tokai village mayor reflects on JCO and Fukushima crises, calls for anti-nuke shift
• Mainichi Daily News – Miyagi lifts all shipment restraints on rice produced in prefecture

Thursday, September 29, 2011

• AFP Google – Quake rocks Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant
• Bellona – Fukushima reactors nearing cold shutdown but radiation releases continue, and clean up efforts overwhelm – Charles Digges
• Bloomberg – Tepco Sees Climbing Fukushima Damage Claims – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
• Reuters UK – Tepco faces $110 billion hole in finances – Nikkei – Tim Kelly, Yoko Kubota and Arpita Mukherjee
• TIME – Can Japan’s Anti-Nuclear Protesters Keep the Reactors Shut Down? – Lucy Birmingham
• Asahi Shimbun – EDITORIAL: Noda must get Ozawa to speak to Diet about role in scandal
• Asahi Shimbun – Government to store radioactive waste in Tokyo, seven prefectures.BY HARUFUMI MORI
• Asahi Shimbun – SOCCER/ J-Village gets new life in containing nuclear crisis.BY TORU NAKAKOJI
• Asahi Shimbun – Government to raise multiple taxes; young DPJ lawmakers upset
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO may get interest payment waiver
• Daily Yomiuri – Reactor No. 2 cooled to below 100 C
• Daily Yomiuri – Reactor No. 2 cooled to below 100 C
• Japan Times – EDITORIAL – Land Prices Continue Decline
• Japan Times – Tokyo plans to store, burn debris from disaster zone – Takahiro Fukada
• Japan Times – Eight-prefecture plan for radioactive dumps – Natsuko Fukue
• Japan Times – Tokyo plans to store, burn debris from disaster zone – Takahiro Fukada
• Mainichi Daily News – Rubble from quake- and tsunami-hit areas to be disposed in Tokyo
• Mainichi Daily News – Single mom returns to town hit by nuclear crisis, but fears remain
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t panel to urge TEPCO to cut 2.4 trillion yen in costs
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to put off trial run of Monju nuclear reactor beyond FY 2011
• Tokyo Times – Japan’s alcoholic drinks to be tested for radiation
• Focus Taiwan – No.1 nuclear plant may be retired ahead of schedule: minister

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

• Oceania: ABC blog – When it comes to nuclear waste….whose backyard is best? – Michaela Andreyev
• AFP Google – Japan panel eyes 7,400 job cuts at TEPCO – Miwa Suzuki
• AFP Google – Japan’s post-tsunami tourism haunted by atomic fears – Shigemi Sato
• Global Research – Fukushima and the Battle for Truth–Large sectors of the Japanese population are accumulating significant levels of internal contamination – Paul Zimmerman
• Global Security Newswire – Radioactive Soil in Japan Could Top 95 Million Cubic Feet
• Reuters – All reactors at Japan’s Fukushima plant below 100C threshold-TEPCO – Tetsushi Kajimoto
• Asahi Shimbun – Ministry sets radiation levels requiring decontamination – Harufumi Mori
• Daily Yomiuri – Calm discussions needed on nuclear energy policy
• Daily Yomiuri – Calm discussions needed on nuclear energy policy
• Daily Yomiuri – WTA did 3/11 homework – Ken Marantz
• Daily Yomiuri – Panel to urge TEPCO to cut 7,400 jobs / Suggests utility unable to repay some loans
• Japan Times – Tepco managers face demand to step down
• Japan Times – Small hydropower plants keep it local – Eric Johnston
• Japan Times – Radioactive soil can fill 23 Tokyo Domes – Setsuko Kamiya
• Japan Times – Reactor temperatures said near cold shutdown – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Toshiba, GE to sell power system
• Japan Times – Radioactive soil could fill 23 Tokyo Domes – Setsuko Kamiya
• Japan Times – Tepco managers face demand to step down
• Japan Times – Evacuation advisory outside 20-km zone to end Friday
• Japan Today – Panel eyes 7,400 job cuts at TEPCO
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to decontaminate areas with radiation exposure of 5 millisieverts or more per year
• Mainichi Daily News – Contaminated soil from nuclear crisis may total 29 mil. cubic meters
• Mainichi Daily News – DPJ divided over whether to resume operations at nuclear power plants, build new facilities
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan to raise 9.2 tril. yen in quake-relief tax hikes
• Tokyo Times – Fukushima hotels expect 50 percent income drop

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

• Bloomberg – Japan to Remove Some Restrictions on Fukushima Evacuation Zone – Makoto Miyazaki
• Bloomberg – Tepco May Face Insolvency Without Nuclear Reactors, Nikkei Says – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Financial Times – Heat rises on Tepco as Fukushima crisis eases – Mure Dickie
• Global Research – Fukushima and the Battle for Truth – Paul Zimmerman
• Reuters – Q+A-What’s going on at Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant? – Shinichi Saoshiro
• UPI – Size of nuke soil contamination assessed
• Asahi Shimbun – Fishermen’s livelihoods still drowning in Fukushima
• Asahi Shimbun – U.S. secretly asked Japan to help dump nuclear reactors – Takuya Suzuki
• Asahi Shimbun – Noda’s flip-flop on nuclear power points to naked ambition – Akira Minami
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Noda must win public support for his U.N. pledges
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt N-liability fund may take over TEPCO
• Denki Shimbun – Japan’s economic circles called on government for stable power supply
• Denki Shimbun – Aim for cold shutdown at Fukushima I NPS by the end of 2011
• Japan Times – Kepco needs ¥130 billion for thermal
• Japan Times – Evacuation advisory outside 20-km zone to end Friday
• Japan Times – Backing off from the nuke phaseout
• Japan Times – Tepco redress estimated to top ¥4 trillion
• Japan Times – Geothermal trove lies mostly untapped despite energy crisis – Eric Johnston
• Mainichi Daily News – Scores of ex-bureaucrats landed cushy jobs at TEPCO, linked to lax nuclear safety rules
• Mainichi Daily News – Kansai Electric to raise 130 bil. yen to cover reactor suspension
• Mainichi Daily News – Anti-nuclear researcher to sit on gov’t panel on energy policies
• Mainichi Daily News – Hiroshima groups irked over Foreign Ministry’s discouragement of Obama visit
• Mainichi Daily News – Noda dismisses Obama’s reported comment seeking conclusion to Futenma relocation
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t panel projects TEPCO’s compensation to top 4 tril. yen
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima city sets up scholarship to lure doctors with donated funds
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO promises to act after criticism over compensation procedure
• Tokyo Times – The youth of Fukushima: Do we have a future here?