Sunday, March 11, 2012

• San Diego Union-Tribune – Rally at San Onofre nuclear power plant draws hundreds – Caroline Dipping
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Fire Hazard could be State’s Tsunami – David Lochbaum
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Lessons Not Learned by The U.S. Government – Rochelle Becker & John Geesman
• San Francisco Chronicle – Tsunami experts creating flood maps, escape routes – David Perlman
• St. George Daily Spectrum – Mistakes too costly in nuclear age – Thomas Sowell
• Grand Forks Herald – Monticello, Minn. nuclear plant workers speak about Japan nuclear disaster – Leslie Brooks Suzukamo
• York Daily Record – Timeline for Peach Bottom and TMI since Fukushima disaster
• Hudson Reporter – No more Fukushimas–Anti-nuclear power peace walkers rest in Weehawken on 250-mile journey – Gennarose Pope
• Bronxville.Patch – Indian Point, One Year After Fukushima – Liz Giegerich
• CBS Local – Year After Japan Nuclear Meltdown, Group Protests Outside Pilgrim Nuclear Plant
• CNN blog – Nuclear safety lessons explored post-Fukushima – Elizabeth Landau
• Huffington Post – How To Survive A Nuclear Meltdown
• NIRS – Spring Anti-Nuclear Actions 2012
• UN: Al Jazeera – Beyond Fukushima –The devastating accident in Japan was a deadly reminder that nuclear safety cannot be taken lightly – Yukiya Amano
• BBC News – Fukushima disaster: Pawb anti-nuclear protest marks anniversary
• BBC News – Japan tsunami: Silence to mark one year anniversary
• BBC News – Japan quake: Loss and recovery in numbers
• BBC News – Japan evacuees: New year, new baby
• Bloomberg – Fukushima Evacuees Run Into Tepco Red Tape, ‘Sponger’ Attacks on Payments – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
• CBS News – The scar that a tsunami left on Japan
• Enformable – Fukushima Anniversary – Top 125 FOIA documents and transcripts during the first week of the Fukushima disaster – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Post-Fukushima – Lack of “safety culture” the legacy of nuclear disaster – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Fukushima Anniversary: Theatre of the Absurd – Joy Thompson
• The Guardian – After the earthquake: changing Japan – Masahiro Matsumura
• The Guardian – Japan marks first anniversary of earthquake and tsunami – Justin McCurry
• Huffington Post – Japan Earthquake: Radiation Concerns In The U.S. Remembered After Fukushima (PHOTOS)
• Huffington Post – 100 Miles From Fukushima (PHOTOS) – Kathleen Massara
• Huffington Post – Landing In Tokyo On The Heels of The 2011 Earthquake (PHOTOS) – Mia Aquino
• Los Angeles Times – Assessing Fukushima, one year later – Robert Peter Gale and F. Owen Hoffman
• Los Angeles Times – Japan’s 1,000-year-old warning – José Holguín-Veras
• New York Times – The End of Japanese Illusions – Yoichi Funabashi
• Reuters – Japan: One year later
• Reuters – Japan mourns tsunami dead; grapples with aftermath – Yoko Kubota
• Reuters – Insight: Japan missed tsunami wake-up call for change – Tomasz Janowski and Linda Sieg
• Xinhua News – Japan’s earthquake anniversary highlights lessons to be learned – Jon Day
• Xinhua News – Japanese protest against nuclear power in Tokyo
• Daily Yomiuri – ONE YEAR AFTER THE DISASTER / Summaries prove government’s ineptitude / Chaos reigned at nuclear emergency response HQ over decision-making process, evacuation zones – Toshiaki Sato and Koichi Yasuda
• Daily Yomiuri – ONE YEAR AFTER THE DISASTER / Evacuees being left in limbo / Survey shows 57% from Fukushima Pref. still hope to return home
• Fukushima Diary – Numayu’s blog shut down – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Iodine 131 measured from well water in Minamisoma – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Delusional pretexts to attack Iran – Gwynne Dyer
• Japan Times – Power reform now or never
• Japan Times – An uphill struggle for food exporters
• Japan Times – ‘Invisible enemy’ stalks Fukushima
• Japan Times – Human error amplified crisis: Amano
• Japan Times – Tepco president renews apology – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Antinuke protests erupt nationwide – Deccan Chronicle
• Japan Times – Nation marks first anniversary of disasters – Eric Johnston
• Japan Today – Only 2 nuclear plants have seawalls – Fukushima Daiichi, Daini
• Kyodo News – Opinion: Japan must depart from policy based on ‘nuclear safety myth’ – Masakatsu Ota
• Mainichi Daily News – Noda vows to achieve speedy reconstruction of disaster-hit areas
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Japan must lead in NPO revolution
• Mainichi Daily News – Once ‘ideal’ Fukushima village begins to drift apart after nuclear disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan marks 1 year from quake-tsunami disaster, nuclear crisis
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t asks 3 Fukushima Pref. towns to temporarily store radioactive waste
• Wireless Watch Japan – 3.11 Looking Back – Looking Forward
• Focus Taiwan – Over 1,000 protest in Taipei against nuclear power
• Focus Taiwan – Japan says big thank you to Taiwan on quake anniversary
• Radio Taiwan – Groups protest Taiwan’s nuclear power on Fukushima disaster anniversary
• Taipei Times – Thousands march against nuclear power – Lee I-chia
• Southeast Asia: Philippine Daily Inquirer – Editorial: Lessons of 3/11
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – March against nuke power
• South Asia: Economic Times – Fukushima Disaster: Nuclear power is a risk without independent regulation
• South Asia: The Hindu – “Fukushima tragedy teaches cautious approach to n-power”
• Europe: The Guardian – Letters: Nuclear sites, sea-level rise and tsunamis
• Europe: RFI – Anti-nuclear human chain to link 200 kms between Lyon and Avignon

Saturday, March 10, 2012

• Santa Barbara Independent – In the Shadow of Diablo, Remembering Fukushima – Jane Swanson
• Newburyport Daily News – Nuclear crisis brings change – Angeljean Chiaramida
• Keene Sentinel – A nuclear power anniversary: Vermont Yankee is not Fukushima – Meredith Joan Angwin
• CNET News – Nuclear renaissance? More like nuclear standstill – Martin LaMonica
• The Examiner – Forgotten Bomb challenges “peaceful atom” myth with facts – M. Abby Joseph
• Huffington Post – Opportunities and Dangers, One Year After Japan’s 3/11 Crisis – Joshua W. Walker
• Huffington Post – Fukushima Anniversary: How Climate Change Endangers Nuclear Safety – Lucia Graves
• New York Times – Nuclear Fallout – Kristen Iversen
• Xinhua News – U.S.experts talk about future disaster prevention one year after Japanese earthquake
• UN: IAEA – One Year On–The Fukushima Nuclear Accident and Its Aftermath
• UN: IAEA – One year after Fukushima, nuclear safety is stronger
• Canada: Owen Sound Sun Times – Public needs to get educated on spent nuclear fuel storage plan – Phil Mcnichol
• Asia-Pacific: Al Jazeera – Japan’s radiation: Ignorance isn’t bliss – D. Parvaz
• Asia-Pacific: AlterNet – Meltdown intel emerges ahead of Japan anniversary
• Asia-Pacific: AsiaOne – Nothing stirs in Japan’s nuclear ghost town
• Asia-Pacific: AsiaOne – Japan quake anniversary puts focus on nuclear safety
• Asia-Pacific: AsiaOne – Japan govt knew N-meltdown was probable
• Asia-Pacific: BBC News – Japan to mark Fukushima quake and tsunami anniversary
• Asia-Pacific: BBC News – Radiation fears hang over Fukushima – Damian Grammaticas
• Asia-Pacific: CNN – What Fukushima accident did to the ocean – Ken Buesseler
• Asia-Pacific: CNN – Low-tech cleanup follows Japan’s lingering high-tech disaster – Matt Smith
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Mail – Japanese workers remove bus from rooftop a year after it washed up following Tsunami
• Asia-Pacific: Forbes – Fukushima’s Refugees Are Victims of Irrational Fear, Not Radiation – Christopher Helman
• Asia-Pacific: Huffington Post – Japan Earthquake Anniversary: Fukushima Meltdown Risk Early Known, Documents Reveal – Mari Yamaguchi
• Asia-Pacific: The Independent – Fukushima meltdown risk ‘kept secret for months’ – Mari Yamaguchi
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times blog – Nuclear Risk and Fear, from Hiroshima to Fukushima – Andrew C. Revkin
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times blog – Remembering Japan’s Catastrophe
• Asia-Pacific: Power Engineering Magazine – Beyond Fukushima
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Temperature of reactor 6 is unstable – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – 520 µSv/h in Futabamachi Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Fukushima citizen 90 mSv of thyroid exposure – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Parties should work together on an effective nuclear agency
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Govt offers to build sites for N-soil
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – ONE YEAR AFTER THE DISASTER / New energy in Fukushima / Projects under way to replace mainstay of N-power generation
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – ONE YEAR AFTER THE DISASTER / Recovery continues, step by step / Graduation ceremony held in tsunami-damaged school; bus removed from building
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – ONE YEAR AFTER THE DISASTER / Recovery continues, step by step / Graduation ceremony held in tsunami-damaged school; bus removed from building
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – MARCH 11–ONE YEAR ON / Frustrated with slow recovery / Leaders in quake-hit prefectures see little or moderate progress
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – MARCH 11–ONE YEAR ON / 80% of Fukushima preschools limit kids’ outdoor time
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – MARCH 11–ONE YEAR ON / Many mementos awaiting their owners – Daisuke Ichikawa
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – MARCH 11–ONE YEAR ON / City shifts to higher ground, goes high-tech / Tsunami-hit Higashi-Matsushima relocates, plans to set up online medical, welfare services for residents
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – MARCH 11–ONE YEAR ON / 20,000 households in disaster-hit areas may face relocation
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – MARCH 11–ONE YEAR ON / Fishery community battles back
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Three towns near Fukushima No. 1 asked to store radioactive soil, waste
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – A year on, Tohoku stuck in limbo – Jun Hongo
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Madarame wants to exit Nuclear Safety Commission
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Editorial: Moving forward with reconstruction
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Catastrophe revisited 12 months on – Rob Gilhooly
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Public wary of official optimism – Philip Brasor
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Young hopes bloom eternal – Edan Corkill and Tomoko Otake
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Disaster had major impact on NPB – Wayne Graczyk
• Asia-Pacific: TheLibertyWeb – Fukushima was not as serious as Chernobyl – Interview with Professor Jun Takada
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima town seeks 19 billion yen from TEPCO for real estate damage
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – High radioiodine levels found in thyroids of Fukushima residents post-meltdown
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Municipalities around Fukushima nuclear plant divided over ‘new town’ scheme
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Chubu Electric eyeing 250 bil. yen in loans from 3 megabanks
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Japan to mark 1st anniversary of quake, tsunami that killed thousands
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Radiation fears prompt some to relocate from even Tokyo area
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to indicate in March whether all Fukushima reactors to be scrapped
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to build interim storage facilities for radiation-tainted waste
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – M5.5 quake jolts Ibaraki Pref., vicinity, no tsunami warning issued
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear safety commission chief intends to step down at end of March
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – IAEA chief says nuclear power is safer than 1 year ago
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Taipower finishes safety checks on nuclear power plants – James Lee
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Anti-nuclear protesters plan nationwide marches
• Asia-Pacific: Taipei Times – Lessons from Japan on building up resilience – Margareta Wahlstrom
• South Asia: The Hindu – Is Helen Caldicott’s Nuclear Madness still relevant? – John Vergis Vilanilam

Updated – Friday, March 09, 2012

• San Jose Mercury News – Ben Davis Jr.: California doesn’t know if Fukushima can happen here – Ben Davis Jr.
• HNN Huntingtonnews – “Pray for Japan” Documentary Marks Anniversary of Disaster – Tony Rutherford
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima evacuees join antinuclear demonstration in N.Y.
• Peekskill.patch – Riverkeeper Says ‘Don’t Let It Happen Here’ One Year After Fukushima – Liz Giegerich
• Bloomberg – NRC Requires Reactor Blackout Plans in First Fukushima Rules – Brian Wingfield
• Huffington Post – Harry Truman’s Lies and Fukushima – Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
• NIRS – American Nuclear Society is Right to Say U.S. Nuclear Emergency Planning Inadequate– But Wrong on Solutions (pdf-67K)
• Open Salon – “…As If Fukushima Never Happened”
• Platts – Outside of Japan and Europe, no major post-Fukushima nuclear retraction: WEC – Elaine Hiruo, Ann MacLachlan
• Reuters – U.S. NRC implements Fukushima safety recommendations – Scott DiSavino
• Sustainable Plant – Sixty Years in the Shadow of Critical Mass – Paul Studebaker
• TIME blog – Nuked: A Year After Fukushima, Nuclear Power Is Down — and Carbon Is Up – Bryan Walsh
• U.S. News & World Report – Experts on Fukushima: It Can’t Happen Here – Jason Koebler
• Xinhua News – Nuclear energy not likely to stop but can be safer after Japan disaster, experts say
• NRC – NRC to Issue Orders, Information Request as Part of Implementing Fukushima-Related Recommendations
• Asia-Pacific: Al Jazeera – Fukushima residents report various illnesses
• Asia-Pacific: Asia Times – Nuclear power back from the grave – Victor Kotsev
• Asia-Pacific: Asia Times – Downfall of nuclear nationalism – Matthew Penney
• Asia-Pacific: BBC News – Global fallout: Did Fukushima scupper nuclear power? – Richard Black
• Asia-Pacific: BBC News – One year after Japan’s huge earthquake and tsunami
• Asia-Pacific: BigPond News – Fukushima fallout continues 12 months on
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Japan’s Tsunami: Before and After the Cleanup – Chris McGrath
• Asia-Pacific: CNBC blog – Hamilton: One Year Later – Fukushima’s Wider Lessons – Daniel Hamilton
• Asia-Pacific: CounterPunch – The Dangerous Myths of Fukushima – Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman
• Asia-Pacific: The Diplomat – What Japan Must Do Now – Jeffrey W. Hornung
• Asia-Pacific: Discovery News – Japan, One Year Later: In the Radiation Zone – Ian O’Neill
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Fukushima radiation detected in Ireland by March 23rd – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Majority of residents living near Fukushima Daiichi tested for radioactive iodine in thyroid found with abnormal exposure levels – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: Financial Times – My findings in Japan’s existential fallout – Yoichi Funabashi
• Asia-Pacific: Financial Times – Fukushima: a strange kind of homecoming – Mure Dickie
• Asia-Pacific: Foreign Policy – Japan’s Nuclear Cabal – Nobuo Fukuda
• Asia-Pacific: The Guardian – How Fukushima is leading towards a nuclear-free Japan – Justin McCurry
• Asia-Pacific: The Guardian – Fukushima residents plagued by health fears of nuclear threat in their midst – Justin McCurry
• Asia-Pacific: The Independent – Japan one year on: A journey through a world shaken to the core – David McNeil
• Asia-Pacific: MSNBC – Fukushima wants to know: Is radiation still a threat? – Eric Niiler
• Asia-Pacific: MSNBC blog – Fukushima: Before, during and after – Alan Boyle
• Asia-Pacific: National Geographic – Pictures: Japan Tsunami, Then and Now
• Asia-Pacific: Nature blog – Fukushima reports redux – Geoffrey Brumfiel
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Nuclear Disaster in Japan Was Avoidable, Critics Contend – Martin Fackler
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Fukushima Could Have Been Prevented – James M. Acton and Mark Hibbs
• Asia-Pacific: NIRS – Health at a Glance in the Post-Earthquake Japan – Olson, Mary; Chou, M. S. Michelle; Chang, Y. S. Alice; Ito, Ken (pdf-810K)
• Asia-Pacific: PBS NewsHour – Fukushima Survivor: I Want ‘To Breathe Freely Again’ – David Pelcyger
• Asia-Pacific: Platts – Low nuclear output in 2012 could raise Japan’s demand for low sulfur fuel oil
• Asia-Pacific: Popular Mechanics – 40 Years of Fukushima Cleanup: Timeline – Marina Koren
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – CERAWEEK-Japan quake anniversary puts focus on nuclear safety – Eileen O’Grady
• Asia-Pacific: Salon – “None of you are getting out of here” – Carl Pillitteri
• Asia-Pacific: Der Spiegel – Cancer Fears and Depression Plague Japanese Refugees – Cinthia Briseño and Heike Sonnberger
• Asia-Pacific: Wall Street Journal – In Japan, Relief at Radiation’s Low Toll – Yuka Hayashi, Phred Dvorak and Robert Lee Hotz
• Asia-Pacific: Wall Street Journal blog – March 11, One Year On: Radioactive Pollen?
• Asia-Pacific: Washington Post – Nuclear Regulatory Commission orders changes at US nuke plants in response to Japan crisis
• Asia-Pacific: Washington Post – A year after the earthquake, building a new Japan – Yoshihiko Noda
• Asia-Pacific: Washington Post – Tomioka, Japan: Population one
• Asia-Pacific: Washington Post – Japan decontaminates towns near tsunami-hit nuclear plant, unsure costly effort will succeed
• Asia-Pacific: Washington Post – Year after nuclear disaster, improvement comes slow, if at all, to Japan’s regulatory system
• Asia-Pacific: Xinhua News – Fears of radioactive contamination remain headache for Japan
• Asia-Pacific: Denki Shimbun – TEPCO shareholders sue top management for 5.5 trillion yen in compensation
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Solatium will be cut off by the end of August – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – “Support by eating” campaign caused children internal exposure – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Tritium leakage is increasing – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Worsened situation of Japanese sea food – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Plutonium measured at 3 locations in 20~32 area – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Radioactive wind will hit Tokyo on 3/9/2012 – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Lessons to learn from the Fukushima disaster – Tadateru Konoe
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Summer power crunch looms large – Kazuaki Nagata and Hiroko Nakata
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Debris overture is welcomed – Kazuaki Nagata
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Chubu reactor safety improvements mixed bag – Chunichi Shimbun
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Fukushima soil plutonium traces not seen as threat – Minoru Matsutani
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Ikata reactor stress test results OK’d
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Summer power crunch looms large – Kazuaki Nagata and Hiroko Nakata
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Crisis HQ on day one saw meltdown threat
• Asia-Pacific: JIJI Press – Japan Govt Eyes Several Nuclear Waste Depots near Fukushima Plant
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – One year on, Chiba Prefecture faces mountain of problems including incinerated ash
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Life getting worse for many Fukushima residents: Mainichi poll
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 57 percent of evacuees didn’t apply for compensation due to confusing forms: survey
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Over half of Fukushima residents ‘greatly worried’ about health after nuclear crisis
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Japan should decrease dependence on nuclear power instead of trying to reactivate reactors
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear agency OKs Ikata nuclear reactor’s safety test results
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Number of suicides jumped shortly after March quake in 2011
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear agency OKs Ikata nuclear reactor’s safety test results
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Prospects bleak for April 1 launch of new nuclear safety agency
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Recovered remains of around 480 persons unidentified
• Europe: Swissinfo – Swiss at odds over roadmap to nuclear-free future – Olivier Pauchard

Updated – Thursday, March 08, 2012

• Daily Caller – Fukushima disaster halts progress of nuclear power in the US – Michael Bastasch
• San Clemente Times – Remember Fukushima: Disaster Bodes Ill for Local Plant – Gary Headrick
• Minneapolis StarTribune – Expert panel: 10-mile evacuation zone may not be adequate for some nuclear power plants – Dina Cappiello and Matthew Daly
• Des Moines Register – Letter: Has Iowa learned nothing from Japan? – John Liepa
• Youngstown Vindicator – Nuclear disaster offers three lessons – Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
• Yorktown.patch – Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition to Commemorate Fukushima: Year One
• Bloomberg – Nuclear Industry Must Speed Seismic Reviews, NRC’s Chairman Says – Brian Wingfield
• Civil Society Institute – Survey: Americans Not Warming Up to Nuclear Power One Year After Fukushima
• The Economist – Nuclear power: The dream that failed
• The Guardian – Big Nuclear’s cosy relationship with the Obama administration – Amy Goodman
• The Guardian – US nuclear regulator chided for slow safety reforms after Fukushima – Maureen Nandini Mitra
• The Guardian – Nuclear power plants around the world – map
• Reuters – World nuclear powers on after Fukushima, costs rise – Nina Chestney and Karolin Schaps
• Scientific American blog – 1 Year after Fukushima: Could It Happen in the U.S.? – John Matson
• Truthdig – The Bipartisan Nuclear Bailout – Amy Goodman
• Wall Street Journal – Nuclear Pushes On Despite Fukushima – Chester Dawson, Brian Spegele and Selina Williams
• UN: Bloomberg – IAEA Needs Greater Nuclear Reactor Safety Powers Post-Fukushima – Tara Patel
• Asia-Pacific: Bellona – Fukushima one year on: Clean up efforts slowly gaining a toe hold as public trust in government remains low – Charles Digges
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Japan’s 3/11 Disaster Endures in Broken Families, Divided
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Japan’s 3/11 Triple Catastrophe Endures in Broken Families, Divided Towns
• Asia-Pacific: Der Spiegel – German Nuclear Inspectors Remember Fukushima – Interview by Takis Würger
• Asia-Pacific: Nature blog – Plutonium spotted far from Fukushima
• Asia-Pacific: New Straits Times – Japanese fishery products found to contain radioactive materials?
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Japan Looks Beyond Its Borders for Investors – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Japan’s Nuclear Energy Industry Nears Shutdown, at Least for Now – Martin Fackler
• Asia-Pacific: Platts – Japan nuke safety expert sees no viable alternative to nuclear power – Vandana Hari, Thomas Hogue
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Update 1-Japan lenders give wary backing to Tepco – Taiga Uranaka
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Japan lenders ready to back Fukushima operator Tepco, but wary – Taiga Uranaka
• Asia-Pacific: UPI – Ex-Tokyo FD head regrets Fukushima order
• Asia-Pacific: UPI – New data shows power of Japan tsunami
• Asia-Pacific: Xinhua News – More Japanese fishery imports found to contain radioactive materials: report
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Govt to make 1st judgment on restarting N-reactors
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Fukushima mayor has never visited nuclear plants – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Minamisoma city gov flows contaminated water to the public street – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – 33,160 people left Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – JP Gov distributes money for the local governments to accept radioactive debris – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – 13 of 21 children had urine test positive – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Noda’s definition of ‘safe’ questioned – Kazuaki Nagata
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Nearly 60 percent of mayors in disaster-hit areas want nuclear power stations abolished
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – One year on, Fukushima governor vows to replace atomic power with green energy
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima plant still needing great care a year after tsunami
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima mothers, kids speak of health concerns at N.Y. event
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Process for restarting reactors preceding new energy policy
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Religious groups declare united stance against nuclear power
• Europe: The Guardian – Dramatic fall in new nuclear power stations after Fukushima – Fiona Harvey in Brussels, John Vidal and Damian Carrington
• Europe: Irish Times – Fukushima radiation measured in Ireland – Dick Ahlstrom
• Europe: Bloomberg – EDF to Complete Post-Fukushima Nuclear Safety Measures in 2018 – Tara Patel
• Europe: Reuters – EDF to carry out post-Fukushima works in next 10 yrs – Muriel Boselli and Benjamin Mallet
• South Africa: Reuters – S.Africa goes big on nuclear a year on from Fukushima – Agnieszka Flak and Jon Herskovitz

Updated – Wednesday, March 07, 2012

• Salt Lake Tribune – New nationwide poll shows wariness about nuclear power – Judy Fahys
• New London Day – Fukushima nuclear tragedy leaves lasting mark at Millstone – Judy Benson
• The Hill – Jaczko: NRC might not meet deadline to impose nuke safety reforms – Andrew Restuccia
• MIT Technology Review – What We Learned About Nuclear Safety from Fukushima – Peter Fairley
• MSNBC – Japan disaster dims hopes for US nuclear rebirth – John W. Schoen
• Union of Concerned Scientists – NRC Needs a More Comprehensive Approach to Post-Fukushima Nuclear Safety, Report Finds
• NRC – NRC Issues Annual Assessment Letters for Nation’s Nuclear Plants
• Canada: Vancouver Free Press – Gwynne Dyer: No defensible reasons to attack Iran – Gwynne Dyer
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Tokyo Seen Vunerable to Quake a Year on From Disaster – Chris Cooper and Kiyotaka Matsuda
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Japan Nuclear Shutdowns Boost Current Account Deficit to Record $5 Billion – Andy Sharp and Mayumi Otsuma
• Asia-Pacific: Hanford News – Health uncertainties torment Japanese in nuclear zone – Yuri Kageyama
• Asia-Pacific: MSNBC – The Fallout: TEPCO: ‘We are very sorry’
• Asia-Pacific: Nature – Japan’s nuclear crisis: Fukushima’s legacy of fear – Geoff Brumfiel & Ichiko Fuyuno
• Asia-Pacific: Nature – The Japanese tsunami: After shock
• Asia-Pacific: New York Times – From Japan, Bearing Witness in Debate Over Indian Point – Jim Dwyer
• Asia-Pacific: Reuters – A year on, Japan nuclear film shows lives in limbo – Chris Gallagher
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Robot built to explore nuclear plant
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – One Year After The Disaster / Schools with fewer students struggle to reopen / High number of families with children displaced by Fukushima disaster yet to return to municipalities
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Evacuated children, urine test positive for cesium – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – 130 million Bq of cesium has leaked to Tokyo bay in Yokohama – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Highly contaminated water still keeps leaking to the sea – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Cesium fall-out observed after the massive gas in the plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Reactor crane was removed from reactor 4 – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – “Pu 239 will be detected at high doses” – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Illustrators draw from pop culture for 3/11 exhibition – Matthew Larking
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Are we pointing at the right guy? – Edan Corkill
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Tohoku fears nuke crisis evacuees gone for good – Mizuho Aoki
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Revenge of the Japanese mandarins – Masahiro Matsumura
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Will 3/11 prove social media watershed? – Eric Johnston
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Tohoku fears nuke crisis evacuees gone for good – Mizuho Aoki
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Miyagi governor to visit Japan’s neighbors this year to promote tourism
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Evacuees from March 11 disasters losing hope of going home
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Time to say goodbye to nuclear power
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 36% of evacuees from Fukushima not wanting to return: survey
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Industry minister to tell TEPCO to cut ‘free’ contracts with affiliated firms by 30 percent
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Saving sake: 300-year-old brewery battling against impact of Fukushima nuclear crisis
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Quake severity estimate for Tsuruga nuclear plant to be reassessed
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima nuclear crisis was preventable: U.S. experts
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – U.S. envoy cites need for regional mechanism to respond to disasters
• Asia-Pacific: Tokyo Times – Fukushima officials “too slow”, says U.S. rights group
• Asia-Pacific: Tokyo Times – Fukushima toxic water could still be leaking into sea
• Asia-Pacific: Focus Taiwan – Anti-nuclear activists to stage protests around Taiwan
• South Asia: The Hindu – How Fukushima is relevant to Kudankulam – T. N. Srinivasan, T. S. Gopi Rethinaraj, Surya Sethi

Updated – Tuesday, March 06, 2012

• Bloomberg – California Nuclear Backlash Mounts After Japan Meltdown: Energy – Julie Johnsson and Mark Chediak
• PerkiomenValley.patch – Exelon: ‘Upgrades Built On Lessons From Japan’ – Teresa McMinn
• Enformable – New Nuclear Reactor Consequences Analyses downplays risk of “unlikely” nuclear accident in United States – Karl Grossman
• NRC – NRC Examining Potential Impact on Nuclear Plant Safety from Upstream Dam Failure
• Canada: Northumberland Today – No funds for nuclear municipalities – Joyce Cassin
• Canada: Xinhua News – Canadian, UAE FMs hold talks in Ottawa
• Asia-Pacific: BBC News – Shareholders sue Tepco executives for nuclear disaster
• Asia-Pacific: Enformable – One year after Fukushima – Defining and classifying a disaster (Part One) – Lucas W Hixson
• Asia-Pacific: NY Times blog – When the Dosimeters Were Screeching – Mark McDonald
• Asia-Pacific: Wall Street Journal blog – March 11, One Year On: Has the Earth Moved Under Japan’s Atomic Industry? – Chester Dawson
• Asia-Pacific: Xinhua News – Going home not option for over one third of evacuees from Fukushima: poll
• Asia-Pacific: Denki Shimbun – Capacity factor of nuclear power stations falls under 10%
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Japanese debris has already arrived at west coast of United States – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Fukushima farmers in two-front war – Mizuho Aoki
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Tsuruga nuke plant sits atop major fault
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Japan to contribute 4 mil. euros to IAEA for nuclear safety
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Gov’t must listen to communities striving to recover from nuke disaster – Denki Shimbun
• Europe: IEER – Post-Fukushima Nuclear Safety in France – Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D. (pdf-252K)

Updated – Monday, March 05, 2012

• Orange County Register – Remember Fukushima by closing San Onofre – Gary Headrick
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – UCS to release 1-yr Fukushima report – Frank Munger
• Pottstown.patch – Exelon: ‘Upgrades Built On Lessons From Japan’ – Teresa McMinn
• IPS – No Nuclear Nirvana on the Horizon – Robert Alvarez
• Kenny Side show – The Demonic Reality of Fukushima and The Absurdity of The NRC – Cindy Folkers
• UN: IAEA – IAEA and WANO Mark Anniversary of Fukushima Accident, Increase Cooperation
• South America: IPS – Tense Tug-of-War over Peru-Brazil Energy Agreement – Milagros Salazar
• Canada: CBC News – NB Power installs reactor’s final feeder tubes
• Canada: CNSC – Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission News Update
• Asia-Pacific: AFP Google – Shareholders sue TEPCO for $67 bn: reports
• Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – The Children of Fukushima Wait for UN Radiation Study – Yuriy Humber and Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Asia-Pacific: Daily Telegraph – Japan earthquake and tsunami anniversary: Japan suppressed key radiation report – Julian Ryall
• Asia-Pacific: New America Media – The World is Powerless Against Fukushima Fallout – Yoichi Shimatsu
• Asia-Pacific: YouTube – Fukushima Japan Flyby, over the “legal limit” of radiation update 3/3/12
• Asia-Pacific: Wall Street Journal – Fukushima and the Future of Nuclear Power? – William Tucker
• Asia-Pacific: Wall Street Journal – New Tariff, Nuclear Halt May Fuel Japan Solar Demand? – Mari Iwata
• Asia-Pacific: Washington Post – Japan decontaminates towns near tsunami-hit nuclear plant, unsure costly effort will succeed
• Asia-Pacific: Xinhua News – Greenpeace marks 1st anniversary of Fukushima nuclear disaster
• Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Internal document “SPEEDI result is too serious. can’t be disclosed.” – Iori Mochizuki
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – NGO: 320 banks bankrolling nukes
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – H.K. set to ease curbs on imports of Japanese food
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Government to pay debris disposal costs – Masami Ito
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Noda offers up aid to hasten debris disposal
• Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Kanagawa group starts checking food for radiation
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima village comes together for radioactive cleanup and recovery project
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 83% of local gov’ts have anxiety in distributing iodine preparation
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Noda vows to accelerate disposal of debris generated in March disaster
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Over 300 financial firms provide credit to nuclear arms firms: NGO
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – H.K. to resume some food imports from Japan
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – In the eyes of a child: 3-year-old’s life turned upside down by Fukushima crisis
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Medical personnel quitting Fukushima due to lingering fears of radiation exposure
• Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Saving sake: Struggling to restore confidence in Fukushima’s liquor-destined rice
• Asia-Pacific: Majiros News – Safety fears at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
• Europe: Daily Telegraph – Britain is a rare nuclear bright spot as public opinion shrugs off the Fukushima effect – Geoffrey Lean