Sunday, October 09, 2011
- AP Google – IAEA team in Japan; Fukushima starts thyroid tests – Eric Talmadge
- BBC News – Fukushima children undergo tests
- The Guardian – International nuclear inspectors arrive in Fukushima – Justin McCurry
- Washington Post – As compensation payouts begin, Tepco pays the price for its nuclear disaster – Chico Harlan
- Japan Times – Fukushima begins child thyroid checks
- Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima Pref. starts thyroid exams for children
- Mainichi Daily News – Disarmament group to call for nuclear club talks
Saturday, October 08, 2011
- Daily Yomiuri – Cesium contamination seen unlikely in young plants
- Daily Yomiuri – Saury fishermen’s body to ban fishing near Fukushima N-plant
- Daily Yomiuri – Farmers frustrated on removing tainted straw
- Japan Times – Conditions are ripe for the volcano of Japan’s betrayed to erupt again – Roger Pulvers
- Japan Times – Tsunami signs at nuke plant village stoke safety fears
- Japan Times – Like Astro Boy, humans may be able to live with radiation – Rowan Hooper
- Japan Times – U.S. cuts Fukushima plant travel alert to 20 km
- Jpubb – Cause and Countermeasure for the detection of iodine from the main exhaust stack of Unit 7, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO uses low-level radioactive water to spray Fukushima nuclear compound
- Mainichi Daily News – Noda says nuclear power budget may be diverted for decontamination, compensation
- Mainichi Daily News – Cooperative bans saury fishing within 100 km of Fukushima nuclear plant
- Mainichi Daily News – 5 big tsunamis may have hit nuclear plant village in past 1,000 years
Friday, October 07, 2011
- Canada: Canada.com blog – Troubled AECL gets new leadership – Jason Fekete
- Canada: CanadianBusiness – Feds name Robert Walker as new CEO and Peter Currie as new chairman for AECL
- AP Google – US eases travel alert around Japan nuclear plant
- AFP Google – Japan cabinet approves $156bn recovery budget
- Globe and Mail – Residents of Japanese town contaminated by Fukushima refuse to return – Mark Mackinnon
- The Guardian – Fukushima: third worker death ‘not related to radiation’ – Justin McCurry
- Press TV – Citizens doubt radiation decontamination mission of IAEA experts
- World Nuclear News – Turbine failure case closed
- Reuters – Moody’s says may view any Tepco loan waiver as default – Tim Kelly
- Daily Yomiuri – Kashiwa locals to check food radiation levels
- Daily Yomiuri – New safety rules for workers near N-plant
- Denki Shimbun – Government panel urged TEPCO to cut costs by 2.5 trillion yen
- Denki Shimbun – “Things are getting better gradually,” said doctor helping out at Fukushima I
- Japan Times – Okutama cesium level seen spiking – Mizuho Aoki
- Japan Times – Power pricing system under scrutiny – Miya Tanaka
- Japan Times – Radiation fears send fish hauls spiraling
- Japan Times – Helping hand for Tepco
- Japan Times – Better reactor backup power eyed
- Japan Times – Tokyo guarantees debris plan is safe – Takahiro Fukada
- Japan Times – Local disposal for radioactive waste
- Japan Times – Nuclear power’s face looking rested – Michael Richardson
- Mainichi Daily News – True radiation decontamination still a long way away
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t releases new radiation map for Tohoku, Kanto districts
- Mainichi Daily News – Osaka residents voice radiation concerns over Fukushima-made bridge girders
- Mainichi Daily News – Sumitomo Metal to review production plan for nuclear plant steam tubes
- Mainichi Daily News – Fish catch in tsunami-hit areas plunges as nuclear crisis dampens demand
- Mainichi Daily News – Yamaguchi pref. gov’t to sell half of stake in Chugoku Electric
Thursday, October 06, 2011
- AFP Google – Japan nuclear plant worker dies
- Bloomberg – Power Companies Borrow Record in Loans as Cost of Fuel Jumps: Japan Credit – Shigeru Sato and Emi Urabe
- Bloomberg – Japan Test Reactor Was Shaken Beyond Design Limit in March Quake – Tsuyoshi Inajima
- The Economist – Radiation in Japan: Hot spots and blind spots–The mounting human costs of Japan’s nuclear disaster
- Mainichi Daily News – Hiroshima mayor to continue seeking U.S. presidential visit
- Mainichi Daily News – ‘Good-bye Nuclear Power’ protestors hope message rings loud for the future
- Mainichi Daily News – Your Party chief Watanabe urges end to nuclear power
- Mainichi Daily News – Noda dismisses speculation of turning back in favor of nuclear power
- Mainichi Daily News – 250 disabled nuclear evacuees still can’t find homes
- Mainichi Daily News – Energy-saving technologies shine at Japan’s largest high-tech fair
- Mainichi Daily News – Ozawa pleads not guilty in trial over political funds scandal
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to mandate strengthened alternative power source at nuke plants
- Japan Times – Cesium surges in ash halt Kashiwa incinerator – Hiroko Nakata
- Japan Times – Tokyo guarantees debris plan is safe – Takahiro Fukada
- Japan Times – Auditors call for large cut in nuke subsidies funds
- Tokyo Times – Recent study shows radon gas in the air may predict earthquakes
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
- AFP Google – Nuclear contamination found beyond Japan no-go zone
- OilPrice – Fukushima Nuclear Plant has 38-Hour Margin for Meltdown – Joao Peixe
- Press TV – Radiation monitors and energy conservation focus of Japan tech fair
- UPI – Japan takes steps to revise energy plan
- World Nuclear News – Clean-up in Fukushima
- Japan Times – IAEA team to help decontaminate area around nuclear plant
- Japan Times – Panel to suggest provisionally hiking annual radiation exposure limit
- Japan Times – Nurseries take kids to play at site with lower radiation
- Japan Times – Japan panned for pushing nuke plant exports after accident
- Mainichi Daily News – High dosage of cesium found in soil outside Fukushima no-go zone
- Mainichi Daily News – ‘Self-service’ radiation measuring facility set to open in Kashiwa
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO exec says it is difficult to cut workforce by 7,400 as demanded by panel
- Mainichi Daily News – Nurseries let Fukushima kids play at site with lower radiation level
- Mainichi Daily News – Schools in crisis-hit Minamisoma to limit outdoor activities to 2 hours
- Mainichi Daily News – IAEA to help decontaminate Japan nuke plant area
- Tokyo Times – Fukushima children found to have thyroid irregularities
- Tokyo Times – Tepco should restart reactors to survive – report
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
- AFP Google – Nuclear reactor shut down in Japan, cause unknown
- AFP Google – Nuclear experts to help Fukushima decontamination
- Bloomberg – Tepco to Sell 2.4 Trillion Yen Bonds to Pay Debt Due by 2021 – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
- Financial Times – Tepco fights to keep nuclear emergency procedures secret – Jonathan Soble
- Global Security Newswire – Japan Broadens Nuclear Facility Cleanup Plan
- IBNLive – Thyroid gland irregularities found in young Fukushima evacuees
- IBNLive – New gov’t panel plans to revise Japan’s energy policy
- New York Times – Cooling Problem Shuts Nuclear Reactor in Japan – Hiroko Tabuchi
- Platts – UN nuclear watchdog to dispatch expert mission to Japan Oct 7-15 – Claire-Louise Isted
- Reuters AlertNet – IAEA experts to help in Japan nuclear clean-up – Fredrik Dahl
- Reuters – TABLE-Japan nuclear plant ops (Genkai No.4 shut after problem) – Osamu Tsukimori, Risa Maeda and Chikako Mogi
- Reuters – Japan’s Kyushu Elec shuts nuclear unit after trouble – Osamu Tsukimori
- Daily Yomiuri – Dedicated minister for new agency / New post to be exclusively tasked with reconstruction projects, funding
- Daily Yomiuri – Panel report leaves TEPCO investors’ liability unclear – Ryosuke Yamauchi
- Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO faces rough road for business future / 3rd-party panel cites poor management, opposition to rate increases, lack of loan support – Hideyuki Ioka
- Daily Yomiuri – Use TEPCO restructuring plan for steady nuclear compensation
- Denki Shimbun – Future of nuclear plants under construction decided case by case, said Prime Minister
- Japan Times – Creditors win early round against Tepco
- Japan Times – Pronuclear Iwanai mayor re-elected
- Japan Times – U.K. expert says limits on radiation ‘unreasonable’ – Minoru Matsutani
- Japan Times – Tepco cost cut goal said well short of target
- Japan Today – TEPCO report faults operating manual; disputes hydrogen explosion
- Mainichi Daily News – Head of labor group Rengo switches to antinuclear power policy
- Mainichi Daily News – Irate Fukushima residents want compensation for all nuclear disaster evacuees
- Mainichi Daily News – Science minister vows to expand scope of radiation checks around Fukushima plant
- Mainichi Daily News – Lamenting Japan’s political poverty
- Mainichi Daily News – Japan criticized for pushing nuke plant exports despite accident
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t panel urges TEPCO to carry out tougher cost-cutting measures
- Mainichi Daily News – Thyroid gland irregularities found in young evacuees from Fukushima
- Nikkei – Edano: Too Early To Discuss Tepco Debt Waiver
- Focus Taiwan – Nuclear power plant No. 2 safe from fuel oil leak: EPA
Monday, October 03, 2011
- AFP Google – TEPCO told to cut jobs after Fukushima disaster
- Bellona – Japanese government and utilities caught rigging public opinion toward nuclear power – Charles Digges
- Bloomberg – Tepco to Cut Jobs, 2.5 Trillion Yen Costs After Fukushima – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
- Financial Times – Tepco warned over $112bn funding shortfall – Jonathan Soble
- Global Security Newswire – Plutonium Found Miles Outside Damaged Nuclear Plant
- Reuters – Nuclear seaps back into favour as Japan begins energy debate – Shinichi Saoshiro and Linda Sieg
- Reuters – Japan Sept nuclear plant usage falls to record low – Osamu Tsukimori
- Reuters – Japan begins energy debate as nuclear forces fight back – Shinichi Saoshiro and Linda Sieg
- Reuters – Tepco needs to raise $112 bln over 10 yrs-panel – Taiga Uranaka
- The Scientist – Less Money for Nuclear–Japan passes over nuclear power as it increases spending on scientific research. – Edyta Zielinska
- UPI – Report: No nuclear blast at Fukushima’s No. 2 reactor
- Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Utilities, prefectures must respect public opinion on nuclear issue
- Daily Yomiuri – Exodus of doctors, nurses adds to Fukushima Pref. woes
- Japan Today – TEPCO report faults operating manual; disputes hydrogen explosion
- Japan Times – Pronuclear Iwanai mayor re-elected
- Japan Times – Report of long-range plutonium find tardy – Mizuho Aoki
- Japan Times – Tepco cost cut goal said well short of target
- Japan Times – UK expert says limits on radiation ‘unreasonable’ – Minoru Matsutani
- Mainichi Daily News – Residents who sheltered at Onagawa nuclear plant after quake grateful for support
- Mainichi Daily News – Radioactive waste piles up at Fukushima nuclear plant as disposal method remains in limbo
- Mainichi Daily News – Pronuclear incumbent wins in Hokkaido mayoral election
- Mainichi Daily News – Civic group to collect signatures for referendums on nuclear power