Sunday, December 11, 2011
- Canada: CTV – Nuclear waste dump idea sparks unease in Ontario
- AsiaOne – Fukushima govt given details of recovery bill
- Sky News Australia – Fukushima fallout slows nuclear industry
- Mainichi Daily News – Nobel laureate, citizens urge abolition of nuclear reactors
Saturday, December 10, 2011
- Pacific Free Press – Japan’s Other Radioactive Exports: Car’s Filters Contaminated
- Reuters – Radioactive water leaks at Japan’s Kyushu nuclear plant – Chikafumi Hodo
- Ria Novosti – Russia to start direct uranium supplies to Japan – Rosatom
- Science Codex – Scientists assess radioactivity in the ocean from Japan nuclear power facility
- UPI – Japan nuke plant leaks radioactive water
- Washington Post – Akihiro Takahashi, survivor of atomic blast at Hiroshima, dies at 80 – T. Rees Shapiro
- Xinhua News – Radioactive water leaks inside Japan plant
- Daily Yomiuri – Stable electricity supply must precede sale of TEPCO plants
- Japan Times – Radioactive water leaks at Genkai
- Japan Times – First batch of Miyagi tsunami debris arrives in Tokyo
- Japan Times – Wild monkeys to carry forest fallout monitors
- Japan Times – Wild monkeys to carry forest fallout monitors
- Japan Times – Radioactive water leaks at Genkai
- Japan Times – Meiji ignored tipoffs on cesium in formula
- Mainichi Daily News – Massive signature campaign on nuclear power launched in Tokyo, Osaka
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO goal of rationalizing operations doubtful
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to depend on foreign companies for Fukushima plant insurance
- Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Japan needs more discussion before exporting atomic energy technology
- Mainichi Daily News – Meiji ignored info on cesium-tainted baby food for 2 weeks
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to cut costs by extra 103 bil. yen, mull sales of power plants
- Mainichi Daily News – Japan’s reactor capacity utilization rate rebounds to 20.1% in Nov.
Friday, December 09, 2011
- AP Google – Radioactive water leaks inside Japan plant – Yuri Kageyama
- BBC News – Japan’s Yukio Edano rebuffs Tepco bailout claim
- Bloomberg – Tepco May Ask Government to Buy Stake to Avoid Collapse, President Says – Chisaki Watanabe and Stuart Biggs
- Greenpeace USA blog – Living with Fukushima City’s radiation problem – Ike Teuling
- HNN Huntingtonnews – Op-Ed: Fukushima’s owner adds insult to injury — Claims radioactive fallout isn’t their’s – John LaForge
- Reuters – Update 2-Japan trade min: no arrangements for Tepco fund injection – Yoko Kubota
- Reuters – Update 1-Japan’s quake-hit nuclear plant scraps plan to dump water into sea – Shinichi Saoshiro
- Reuters – Update 1-Hokuriku to triple oil purchases as nuclear plant shut – Osamu Tsukimori
- Reuters – Japan’s Shikoku restarts mothballed unit as scheduled – Osamu Tsukimori
- Daily Yomiuri – SDF battling with brooms, brushes – Dai Adachi and Setsuko Kitaguchi
- Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO N-plant to get foreign insurer
- Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear crisis panel must calmly find the truth
- Denki Shimbun – Contaminated water leaked from Fukushima I NPS
- Japan Times – Fresh sanctions slapped on Iran over nuke drive
- Japan Times – Tepco mulls 10% rate hike tied to ’13 Niigata reactor restart
- Japan Times – Diet OKs new agency to run Tohoku postdisaster reconstruction efforts
- Japan Times – Residents’ exposure tops safety limit
- Japan Times – Plant’s ex-chief has esophageal cancer: Tepco – Kazuaki Nagata
- Japan Times – More rice in Fukushima banned
- Japan Times – Tepco mulling 10% hike in electric bills
- Mainichi Daily News – At northern U.K. nuclear facility, decades of dismantling work remain
- Mainichi Daily News – Radiation levels in Koriyama children exceed annual limit: survey
- Mainichi Daily News – Japan’s parliament OKs nuclear accords with 4 countries
- Mainichi Daily News – Lower house panel seeks cut in budget for prototype nuclear reactor
Thursday, December 08, 2011
- AP Google – US official: Fukushima fuel worries were justified – Ray Henry
- Arirang News – Japan’s Nuclear Reactors undergo Shutdown and Radiation found in Rice in Other Areas
- Asia Times – Returnees fear Fukushima’s invisible touch – Donald Kirk
- Bloomberg – Japan Expands Rice Ban as Contamination Spreads – Aya Takada
- Bloomberg – Tepco May Release Decontaminated Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Into Sea – Takeshi Awaji
- Greenpeace International blog – Living with Fukushima City’s radiation problem – Ike Teuling
- PR Newswire – Honeywell UOP Adsorbents Successfully Used to Remove Radiation From Water at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
- Reuters – Tepco eyes $39 billion bailout in move towards nationalization – Mayumi Negishi
- Reuters – Japan mulls $13 billion Fukushima bailout – Linda Sieg and Kentaro Hamada
- Reuters – Tepco eyes $39 bln bailout in move towards nationalisation -Kyodo – Mayumi Negishi
- Reuters UK – Tepco may dump decontaminated water from nuclear plant into sea – Shinichi Saoshiro
- Xinhua News – Japanese gov’t considers injecting 1 trillion yen to TEPCO
- Xinhua News – Kansai Electric closes nuclear reactor on malfunction
- Daily Yomiuri – Govt raises fund limit for TEPCO
- Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO head plans to sell thermal power plants – Chiaki Toyoda
- Japan Times – Fishermen slam plan to release tainted water
- Japan Times – Tepco may be nationalized to stay afloat
- Japan Times – Fishermen slam plan to release tainted water
- Japan Times – Tepco may be nationalized to stay afloat
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO president plans streamlining measures, wants help for compensation
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to put troubled TEPCO under its control with infusion of 1 trillion yen
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to place TEPCO under its control in bid to split company
- Mainichi Daily News – News Navigator: How much time and money are needed to dispose of the Fukushima reactors?
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to decide Dec. 16 on ‘cold shutdown’ of Fukushima plant
- Mainichi Daily News – GSDF troops begin cleanup at Fukushima municipal gov’t offices
- PanOrient News – Greenpeace: Relocation of Pregnant Women and Children Exposed to Radiation Vital
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
- AFP Google – Tokyo ‘not doing enough’ for Fukushima: Greenpeace
- Al Jazeera – Revised textbooks spark row in Japan – Steve Chao
- Bloomberg – Tepco Shares Fall After Mainichi Report – Aaron Sheldrick
- Reuters – Update 1-Japan mulls $12.9 bln capital injection in Tepco-media – Taiga Uranaka
- Reuters – Update 1-Kansai Electric to manually shut Mihama nuclear unit – Risa Maeda and Shinichi Saoshiro
- Reuters – Hokkaido Elec to submit reactor test results Wednesday – Risa Maeda
- UPI – Japan plans Fukushima cleanup
- World Nuclear News – Nuclear exports remain Japanese priority
- Daily Yomiuri – Govt panel sets N-payment scope, amounts
- Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO set to sell off some power plants
- Japan Times – Panel to say Fukushima crisis prevention measures inadequate
- Japan Times – Hong Kong says Meiji baby formula is safe
- Japan Times – Tepco eyes selling thermal plants to raise cash
- Japan Times – Tepco eyes selling thermal plants to raise cash
- Japan Times – Cesium-laced baby formula sparks concern, but risk low – Jun Hongo and Mizuho Aoki
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t panel divided over whether to reduce dependence on nuclear power generation
- Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima crisis raises nuclear energy costs to level on par with thermal power generation
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t nuke crisis compensation guidelines criticized for lack of rationale
- Mainichi Daily News – Yoko Ono visits Fukushima, encourages children forced to evacuate
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO mulls selling some thermal plants to raise compensation funds
- Mainichi Daily News – Damages recommended for voluntary evacuation zones in Fukushima
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
- AP Google – NRC chief: Nuke industry must heed lesson of Japan – Matthew Daly
- ABC – Fukushima secrecy over workers and conditions – Mark Willacy
- AFP Google – Fukushima radioactive water ‘leaked into Pacific’
- Bloomberg – Voluntary Evacuees Around Fukushima Plant May Be Compensated – Tsuyoshi Inajima
- Bloomberg – Radioactive Cesium in Meiji Milk Spurs Recall – Kanoko Matsuyama and Yuriy Humber
- Daily Telegraph – Fukushima pets to be rescued from no-go zone – Danielle Demetriou
- Energy Matters – Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Could Cost $257 Billion
- Mother Jones – Fukushima Fallout – Julia Whitty
- New York Times – Colossal Nuclear Cleanup Challenges Japan – Martin Fackler
- Reuters – Update 1-Tepco plans $1.3 bln in additional cost cuts -media – Risa Maeda and Mayumi Negishi
- Reuters – Japan sees atomic power cost up by at least 50 pct by 2030 -Nikkei – Shinichi Saoshiro
- Reuters – Cesium found in milk powder made by Japan’s Meiji – Yuka Obayashi and Shinichi Saoshiro
- Reuters – Update 1-Japan panel says no atomic power cost assessment yet – Risa Maeda and Shinichi Saoshiro
- Science Codex – Researchers assess radioactivity released to the ocean from the Fukushima nuclear facility – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Denki Shimbun – METI: “Domestic nuclear policy separate from overseas export”
- Japan Times – 150-liter radioactive leak acknowledged
- Japan Times – Tour guides seek Tepco payout
- Japan Times – Nuke plant firefighters to get long-term care
- Japan Times – Lower House OKs atomic trade accords
- Mainichi Daily News – Long-term care planned for firefighters who worked at Fukushima plant
- Mainichi Daily News – Tour guides seek gov’t mediation for compensation after atomic crisis
- Tokyo Times – Scientists: best disposal site for radioactive soil is the sea
- Focus Taiwan – Meiji milk in Taiwan unaffected by radioactive contamination – Chen Ching-fang, Yang Su-min and Jamie Wang
Monday, December 05, 2011
- BBC News – Contaminated water leaks from Fukushima nuclear plant
- Bloomberg – Tepco Says More Radioactive Water Leaks at Fukushima Plant – Tsuyoshi Inajima
- CNN – New radiation scare for rice in Japan
- The Guardian – Fukushima plant leaks radioactive water – Justin McCurry
- LA Times blog – Radioactive water found leaking from Japanese nuclear plant – John M. Glionna
- World Nuclear News – Fukushima water leak plugged
- Daily Yomiuri – Editorial: Govt must aim for smooth transition to N-safety system
- Daily Yomiuri – PM Noda looks to promote nuclear exports – Shozo Nakayama
- Daily Yomiuri – Model decontamination starts / Project to test effectiveness of various methods before full-scale work
- Daily Yomiuri – World expectations high for Japan’s N-technology
- Daily Yomiuri – Checking up on the elderly in disaster-hit areas – Yasuhiro Maeda and Tomoko Koizumi
- Japan Times – Tepco starts new round of nuke claims
- Japan Times – Fukushima plant springs new water leak – Minoru Matsutani
- Mainichi Daily News – New contaminated water leak at Fukushima nuke plant may have hit ocean – Inter Press Service
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO receives 2nd round of Fukushima crisis compensation claims