Sunday, December 25, 2011
- Global Research – Study: Fukushima Radiation Has Already Killed 14,000 Americans
- Reuters – Table-Japan nuclear plant ops (Genkai No.4 enters turnaround) – Osamu Tsukimori and Risa Maeda
- Reuters – Tepco asked banks to extend 2 trln yen loan deadline- Kyodo – Mari Saito
- Daily Yomiuri – Details of new N-agency announced / 485-strong body to tighten safety rules
- Daily Yomiuri – Parents wary of Fukushima village schools
Saturday, December 24, 2011
- NPR – In Japan, Radiation Fears Reshape Lives – Lucy Craft
- UPI – Report criticizes Fukushima evacuations
- Daily Yomiuri – New food safety rules require time for explanations, preparation
- Daily Yomiuri – Farmers relieved at new criteria – Nobuhiko Harada
- Japan Times – Ridiculous antinuclear claims – Andreas Kolb
- Japan Times – Cabinet crafts record ¥96 trillion budget
- Japan Times – ¥50 billion budgeted for new nuke agency
- Japan Times – The earthquake year
- Japan Times – The aftershocks of 2011 will be felt for many years to come – Michael Hoffman
- Japan Times – Cabinet crafts record ¥93.56 trillion budget
- Mainichi Daily News – Experts weigh in on the controversial Monju fast-breeder reactor project
- Tokyo Times – Japan to acquire two thirds share of TEPCO
Friday, December 23, 2011
- The Guardian – Japanese mothers rise up against nuclear power – Suvendrini Kakuchi
- UPI – Russia to supply uranium to Japan
- Daily Yomiuri – Govt must consider drastic step to assist TEPCO
- Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO fee hike certain to draw ire – Chiaki Toyoda and Kisaki Ozawa
- Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO seeks extra 600 bil. yen for damages / Utility seen facing even bigger burden
- Japan Times – Government evacuation order to come under fire
- Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima nuke plant worker stopped coolant injection over damage fears
- Mainichi Daily News – Toshiba, IHI develop mobile radiation-tainted water treatment system
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t unveils lower radioactive limits for food
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t council compiles basic strategy for Japan’s revitalization
- Mainichi Daily News – Tokyo to double local electric power generation capacity
- Mainichi Daily News – 6 utilities in western Japan to tie up to expand wind-power generation
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t council compiles basic strategy for Japan’s revitalization
Thursday, December 22, 2011
- BBC News – Tepco to raise electricity prices for corporate clients
- Bloomberg – Failure Guru to Report What Went Wrong After Probe at Fukushima Reactors – Stuart Biggs and Chisaki Watanabe
- CounterPunch – To the Radiation Zone – Chris Williams
- Reuters – Update 1-Tepco may seek more funds for Fukushima aid-Nikkei – Ritika Rai
- Reuters – Govt muddle, Tepco missteps cited by Fukushima panel -paper
- Xinhua News – TEPCO to raise electricity rates for firms, seek approval for household hike
- Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO to raise electricity rates by 20% for corporate users
- Daily Yomiuri – Panel slams govt’s shoddy info-sharing / Interim report to rip response to N-disaster
- Daily Yomiuri – Ministry eyes stricter limits for cesium levels in food
- Japan Times – Sato calls for wider nuke-crisis payments
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to cut R&D spending on nuclear fuel cycle program based on fast-breeder reactor
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO builds temporary storage facility for highly radioactive nuclear waste
- Mainichi Daily News – Academic critical of gov’t response to nuclear crisis lauded by journal Nature
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO omits total cost of decommissioning nuclear reactors from work schedule
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t should play leading role in decommissioning crippled nuclear reactors
- Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima gov. calls for compensation for all affected residents
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to raise electricity bills for firms, eyes hikes for households
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t eyes reviewing Japan’s pledge to cut emissions by 25% by 2020
- Mainichi Daily News – S. Korea’s Park worried about deterrent power after Okinawa reversion
- Mainichi Daily News – Aomori municipalities call on gov’t to maintain nuclear fuel recycling
- Mainichi Daily News – Genkai plant’s No. 1 unit found to contain high amount of impurity
- Tokyo Times – Japan nuclear utility says power bills must go up
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
- Bloomberg – Tepco Shares Decline After Report Company May Be Nationalized – Tsuyoshi Inajima
- Bloomberg – Tepco Sets Plans to Dismantle Fukushima Reactors – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Jacob Adelman
- New York Times – Japan Says Decommissioning Damaged Reactors Could Take 40 Years – Martin Fackler
- Reuters – Japan to shape post-Fukushima energy options by spring – Risa Maeda
- Reuters – Update 3-Japan: 30-40 yrs to scrap Fukushima plant – Shinichi Saoshiro
- Reuters – Update 1-Japan to take over two thirds stake in Tepco -Yomiuri
- UPI – Fukushima decommissioning timetable set
- World Nuclear News – Fukushima units enter decommissioning phase
- Daily Yomiuri – Beef up international cooperation on nuclear, abduction issues
- Daily Yomiuri – Local mayors discontent with plan to reclassify no-entry zones
- Daily Yomiuri – Govt likely to take over TEPCO / Liability fund would hold stock majority
- Japan Times – Health ministry seeking stricter food-cesium rules – Mizuho Aoki
- Japan Times – Actor uses lessons learned overseas to fight nuclear energy
- Japan Times – Fukushima ‘stable’: U.S. nuke chief
- Japan Times – Health ministry seeking stricter food-cesium rules – Mizuho Aoki
- Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima local decontamination costs bust estimates
- Mainichi Daily News – Town hosting Fukushima nuke reactors to keep getting power station subsidies
- Mainichi Daily News – Disaster survivors in Japan look back on year of hardship, lessons
- Mainichi Daily News – 50 percent of people in quake-stricken region have no prospects for rebuilding homes
- Mainichi Daily News – Quake, tsunami-hit Joban Line partially restores operations in Fukushima
- Mainichi Daily News – Town hosting Fukushima nuke reactors to keep getting power station subsidies
- Mainichi Daily News – U.S. nuclear chief says Fukushima plant stable but major task remains
- Mainichi Daily News – Steps to put residents’ lives back in order should be core of Fukushima restoration
- Mainichi Daily News – Governors urge central gov’t to address nuclear crisis more promptly
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t proposal calls for lower radioactive limit for ordinary food
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
- Bloomberg – Japan Nuclear Agency May Get 50 Billion Yen Budget After Crisis – Chisaki Watanabe
- Global Research – An Unexpected Mortality Increase in the US Follows Arrival of Radioactive Plume from Fukushima, Is there a Correlation? – Dr. Joseph J. Mangano and Dr. Janette Sherman
- Greenpeace International blog – Redefining “Cold shutdown” doesn’t hide the truth about Fukushima – Justin McKeating
- Nuclear Engineering – As cold shutdown declared, Japan turns to long-term decommissioning
- Reuters – Update 1-Japan to take over two thirds stake in Tepco -Yomiuri
- Scientific American blog – Researchers Trumpet Another Flawed Fukushima Death Study – Michael Moyer
- Power Engineering Magazine – Report that puts nuclear power cost well above 2004 estimate endorsed
- Denki Shimbun – Japanese government declared cold shutdown of Fukushima I reactors
- Japan Times – U.S. efforts to cut off Iran’s oil exports put Japan in tight spot – Jun Hongo
- Japan Times – New nuke agency to have 500 staff, ¥50 billion budget: Hosono
- Japan Times – Research reactor ceiling catches fire
- Mainichi Daily News – Cutting Japan’s dependency on nuclear power ‘basic direction’: gov’t panel
- Mainichi Daily News – New nuclear safety agency to have 500 staff: Hosono
- Mainichi Daily News – Japan hoping to enhance robot technology in wake of nuclear disaster
- Mainichi Daily News – Governor admits responsibility over manipulation of nuclear debate
- Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima to ask SDF on Tues. to end relief ops after cold shutdown
- Taiwan News – Environmentalists protest outside Taiwan’s 4th nuclear plant
- Taipei Times – Construction won’t halt at Fourth Nuclear Plant – Wu Liang-yi and Rich Chang
- Taiwan Today – Safety of Taiwan’s 4th nuclear power plant called into question – June Tsai
Monday, December 19, 2011
- Bellona – Japan’s PM declares Fukushima stable – environmentalists beg to differ – Charles Digges
- Bloomberg – Hosono Says Fukushima Plant Is in ‘Equivalent of Cold Shutdown’ – Stuart Biggs
- Bloomberg – IAEA to Send Team to Check Japan’s Nuclear Station Stress Tests – Chisaki Watanabe
- Bloomberg – IAEA to Send Team to Check Japan’s Nuclear Station Stress Tests – Chisaki Watanabe
- Bloomberg – Japan Says Nuclear Power Cost May Be 50% Higher Than Estimated – Tsuyoshi Inajima
- The Examiner – Over 462 trillion becquerels Fukushima strontium in Pacific Ocean, Seafood risk – Deborah Dupre
- Focus Taiwan – Suspend 4th nuclear plant project: environmentalists
- Platts – Japan’s nuclear operation rate at record low as Kansai begins turnarounds – Atsuko Kawasaki
- Reuters – Japan’s Hokkaido sees reactor turnaround in April – Osamu Tsukimori
- World Nuclear News – Japanese study underlines nuclear cost advantages
- Daily Yomiuri – Power plant builders may bid for work
- Japan Times – Fukushima probe to avoid assessing quake damage
- Japan Times – 3/11 memories haunt American at No. 1 plant – Reiji Yoshida
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to reclassify Fukushima no-entry zones possibly in April
- Taiwan News – Fukushima nuclear plant found 230 tons of radiation sewage – Theresa Huang