Sunday, March 10, 2013

• AP Google – Nuclear chief: US plants safer after Japan crisis – Matthew Daly
• Columbus Free Press – Fukushima is already harming our children – Harvey Wasserman
• Oceania: Radio New Zealand – Thousands join anti-nuclear rally in French Polynesia
• ABC – Fukushima not forgotten – Dave Sweeney
• AFP Google – Thousands across Japan march against nuclear power
• AP Google – Japan’s cleanup lags from tsunami, nuke accident – Mari Yamaguchi and Elaine Kurtenbach
• Al Jazeera – Fukushima forests found to be radioactive – Steve Chao
• Bellona – Tokyo demonstrates against in force against nuclear power on eve of Fukushima’s second anniversary – Charles Digges
• Bloomberg – Fukushima Radiation Proves Less Deadly Than Feared – Robert Peter Gale & Eric Lax
• Bloomberg – Fukushima Toxic Waste Swells as Japan Marks March 11 Disaster – Jason Clenfield
• Bloomberg – Fukushima Seeks Revival in Radiation-Free Farms With No Soil – Aya Takada & Yuriy Humber
• Bloomberg – David Suzuki Says Japan Wasted Time to Rework Atomic Plan – Iain Wilson
• Deutsche Welle – Fukushima, two years later
• Getty Images – Japan To Mark 2nd Anniversary of Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake and Tsunami – Athit Perawongmetha
• Getty Images – Anti-Nuclear Protest Takes Place In Kobe – Buddhika Weerasinghe
• Greenpeace International blog – Hope from Fukushima – Junichi Sato
• Reuters – Thousands in Japan anti-nuclear protest two years after Fukushima – Mari Saito and Sophie Knight
• TIME – Two Years After Fukushima, Japan Worries About the Next Big Quake – Lucy Birmingham
• Washington Post – Work on Japanese nuclear reactor resumes
• World News – Japan’s cleanup of radiation, other toxins from tsunami and nuclear fiasco anything but clean
• Asahi Shimbun – CHECKING BACK: British father who refused to flee feels vindicated 2 years later – Louis Templado
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (4): Selection of personnel for Fukushima mission limited by unit makeup – Hidefumi Nogami
• Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuke protests fill streets around world before 3/11 anniversary
• Daily Yomiuri – MARCH 11–2 YEARS ON / 2 years on, many long to return but can’t
• Daily Yomiuri – MARCH 11–TWO YEARS ON / Reality of recovery differs from official data
• Daily Yomiuri – MARCH 11–TWO YEARS ON / Local govts plead for ‘realistic’ targets
• Daily Yomiuri – MARCH 11–TWO YEARS ON / Fukushima govts hesitant to plant rice
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt axes genome survey of Fukushima residents
• Daily Yomiuri – Dirty water an urgent issue at ruined N-plant – Yuki Inamura and Masayuki Takata
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO to face more suits over N-disaster
• Daily Yomiuri – Tsunami-hit farmers struggle to restore clean, healthy soil
• ENENews – Poster Inside Fukushima: “This is not the end — This is the beginning of a new nuclear age”
• ENENews – Tepco: It’s ‘really impossible’ for us to keep storing liquid from Fukushima reactors — We need to think about discharging it into ocean (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Tepco to wait to decommission Fukushima plant? — Official: “The radiation will be reduced” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – WSJ: Concern there are cracks in Fukushima reactor buildings leaking irradiated water into Pacific
• ENENews – AP: Over 30 million tons of nuclear waste in Fukushima alone — Smoking mounds of disaster debris, possibly from spontaneous combustion
• Fukushima Diary – The water level of Kawaguchi lake is rapidly decreasing beside Mt. Fuji, “There is no natural outlet” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Professor suggested the plan to make Fukushima plant a tourist resort – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Over 10,000 Bq/Kg measured from 10% of wild boar meat sample in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 25 Bq/Kg of Cesium-134/137 from beef produced in Ibaraki – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Two years after the 3/11 disasters
• Japan Times – Protesters rail against Abe, reactors – Ayako Mie
• Japan Times – A recharged power industry
• Japan Times – Toxic management erodes safety at ‘world’s safest’ nuclear plant – Dreux Richard
• Japan Times – Residents failed by fitful rebuilding – Mizuho Aoki
• Mainichi Daily News – 44 economies still ban, limit Japan food imports over radiation fears
• NHK World – Experts cast doubt on reactor cooling strategy
• China Post – Japan couldn’t pull plug, neither can we: Ma – Enru Lin
• China Post – More than 1,000 raise anti-nuclear flag in front of Presidential Office
• Focus Taiwan – Government to provide transparent information for referendum: premier – Lee Shu-hua and Nell Shen
• Taipei Times – Government committed to nuclear safety, Ma says – Mo Yan-chih
• Taipei Times – Anti-nuclear activists inspired by Japanese women – Chris Wang
• Taipei Times – Protesters use exercise to make nuclear point – Lee I-chia
• Xinhua News – Activists protest against nuclear power plant project in Taipei

Saturday, March 09, 2013

• The Hill – Sen. Boxer calls for post-Fukushima safety report as anniversary approaches – Ben Goad
• AP Google – Protesters in Tokyo demand end to nuclear power – Yuri Kageyama
• AFP Google – Two years on, Fukushima suffers in nuclear shadow – Kyoko Hasegawa
• Asahi Shimbun – Filmmaker reveals enduring cost of Fukushima contamination – James Green
• Japan Times – 2011 disasters directly affected 1.1 million jobs: survey
• Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima residents hold anti-nuclear demonstration
• Daily Yomiuri – NRA: Reactor ‘likely on active fault’
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima thyroid lumps ‘not unusual’
• Daily Yomiuri – Editorial: 1-millisievert problem prevents return of Fukushima residents
• ENENews – WSJ: Molten fuel could be outside Fukushima reactor — Experts concerned it’s not being cooled properly
• ENENews – Fukushima Workers: Smoke was pouring out of Unit 1 before tsunami hit — “No doubt” quake crippled reactors — Could torpedo Japan’s attempts to restart nuclear plants (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Gundersen: “I repeat, significant new material will be presented” at Fukushima symposium — Live stream starts Monday 9a ET
• ENENews – Fukushima Workers: Plant ‘set to collapse’ from another quake or tsunami — “Critically vulnerable… completely fragile”
• ENENews – Video: Quake shifted Fukushima underground water and pushed it to surface all at once — Still gushing out 18 months later
• ENENews – Japan Times: Walls are cracked below ground at Fukushima reactor buildings — “As if the damage above ground isn’t enough to worry about”
• Fukushima Diary – M4.4 hit Tokyo twice with 12 hours interval on 3/8/2013 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco “Tepco can’t maintain the stable supply of Fukushima workers, needs help of the gov and industry” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Concealment ?] Fukushima prefecture deleted the emergency radiation monitoring data of when reactor1 exploded – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 1,140 Bq/Kg of Strontium-90 in the main gate of Fukushima plant, 8,950,000 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from vegetation – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Two years on, Fukushima evacuees seek justice and a normal life – Winifred Bird
• Japan Times – Giving the children of Fukushima a place to play is not easy – Winifred Bird
• Japan Times – Providing lessons on nuclear policy – Florian Coulmas
• Japan Times – Plummeting debris estimates belie pleas for disposal aid – Eric Johnston
• Japan Times – Tohoku has been truly rent asunder for untold generations yet to be born – Roger Pulvers
• AP Google – Taiwanese protest against nuclear power plant
• AsiaOne – Taiwan stages mass ‘No Nuke’ rally
• China Post – Permanent nuclear storage must be ready by ’21: AEC
• Focus Taiwan – 200,000 take part in Taiwan’s anti-nuclear protest
• Focus Taiwan – Market researcher promotes LEDs as way around nuclear impasse
• Radio Taiwan International – Anti-nuclear protests take place across Taiwan
• Taiwan News – Taiwanese demand a stop to nuclear energy

Friday, March 08, 2013

• AP Google – Stress emerges as major health issue in Fukushima – Malcolm Foster
• AP Google – AP Photos: Images from Japan’s nuclear disaster
• The Australian – Fukushima plant ‘set to collapse’ from another quake or tsunami – Rick Wallace and Tomohiko Suzuki
• The Australian – The kamikaze crew of the Fukushima nuclear power plant – Rick Wallace and Tomohiko Suzuki
• Bloomberg – Japan Returned to Growth in Fourth Quarter in Boost for Abe – Keiko Ujikane
• DigitalJournal – Fukushima two years on — The plight of 300,000 displaced Japanese – Robert Myles
• Enformable – Severity of damage found at Fukushima Daiichi forcing TEPCO to reanalyze approach to disaster – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – GE Hitachi robot developed to blast radioactive materials at Fukushima Daiichi – Lucas W Hixson
• NBC News – Rare tour of Fukushima reveals colossal decontamination efforts – Arata Yamamoto
• Peak Oil – Fukushima Two Years Later
• Reuters – Flooding complicates clean-up at Japanese nuclear plant – James Topham and Mari Saito
• Reuters – Insight: Japan’s “Long War” to shut down Fukushima – Mari Saito, Kiyoshi Takenaka and James Topham
• Asahi Shimbun – Radiation levels from internal exposure dropping in Fukushima – Fumikazu Asai
• Asahi Shimbun – TWO YEARS ON: NPO continues volunteer activities to provide radiation data in Fukushima – Kazuhiro Taira
• Asahi Shimbun – Residents concerned on effects of thyroid doses in Fukushima
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima N-plant still in disarray
• Daily Yomiuri – Ministry checking candidate interim sites for N-waste storage
• Daily Yomiuri – Japan Atomic Power to get 140 billion yen in aid
• ENENews – “Tepco must surrender” — Official admits: We caused the accident at Fukushima Daiichi, I am very sorry (VIDEO)
• ENENews – “Too many holes” in Fukushima reactors? May have to fill up suppression chambers with cement -Tepco
• ENENews – Japan Times: Melted fuel burned holes in Fukushima reactors — Explosions cracked containment vessels?
• Fukushima Diary – 1,140 Bq/Kg of Strontium-90 in the main gate of Fukushima plant, 8,950,000 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from vegetation – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Thyroid nodule and cyst found from 57% of children outside of Fukushima, MOE “Higher than Fukushima” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Nuke safety body touts voluntary measures – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Water is both the savior and the bane at Fukushima No. 1 – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Toyota shake-up seen signaling new tack, shedding of parochial mindset
• Japan Times – 3/11 disaster-linked failures reach 1,139 in two years
• Japan Times – Worried Fukushima cops considered fleeing posts after 3/11
• JIJI Press – Japan Checking Candidate Interim Sites for Fukushima Radioactive Waste
• Kyodo News – 2 computers containing data on Fugen reactor stolen from agency office
• Mainichi Daily News – Evacuated Fukushima farmer pledges not to lose to disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Mayors of disaster-hit towns bemoan manpower shortages, delayed decontamination
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to expand scope of use for disaster recovery subsidies
• NHK World – Robot developed to decontaminate Fukushima plant
• Focus Taiwan – Mother’s group established to oppose nuclear power
• Focus Taiwan – Anti-nuclear protest marches to kick off islandwide March 9
• Taiwan Today – ROC Cabinet approves draft energy safety bill – Grace Kuo

Thursday, March 07, 2013

• AFP Google – IOC inspectors ‘hugely impressed’ by Tokyo bid – Shigemi Sato
• The Guardian – Fukushima two years on: the largest nuclear decommissioning finally begins – Justin McCurry
• The Guardian – Life as a Fukushima clean-up worker – radiation, exhaustion, public criticism – Justin McCurry
• Reuters – Two years after Fukushima, Japan’s nuclear lobby bounces back – Mari Saito and Linda Sieg
• Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Watch: Inside the Fukushima Daiichi Emergency Control Room – Mitsuru Obe
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (3): Keeping the public in the dark – Hidefumi Nogami
• Asahi Shimbun – Cleanup work progresses in Fukushima, but residents still concerned – Shunsuke Kimura
• Asahi Shimbun – Weekly anti-nuclear protests losing steam after change in government
• Daily Yomiuri – Improved bid draws praise / IOC commission chairman highlights ‘strong public support’ – Hiromu Namiki
• ENENews – BBC breaking news shows Fukushima protester interrupting high-profile press conference – Televised for nearly 2 minutes, forced to end event (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Radiation expert back from Fukushima: Radioactivity still very high… not declining – Health risk played down since it can’t be dealt with – Children’s playgrounds at 200 times normal levels
• ENENews – Physicians: Initial health consequences of Fukushima catastrophe are now scientifically verifiable
• ENENews – TV: Stories of what’s really going on inside Fukushima plant only just emerging – “Conditions are deteriorating” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Radio: Stories of what’s really going on inside Fukushima plant only just emerging — “Conditions are deteriorating” (AUDIO)
• ENENews – Experts on Fukushima Plant: “It’s a pipe dream” — “Basically, we are groping in the dark” — “Like going to war with bamboo sticks” — “Like the fog of war”
• Fukushima Diary – 982 Bq/Kg from Shiitake mushroom in Kashiwa Chiba – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] Greenpeace “Don’t let HITACHI walk away from Fukushima disaster” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation level in sub-drain of reactor1 and 2 picking up – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 400 Bq/Kg of Sr-90 from dry soil in 500m from reactor1 and 2, sampling date was 9 months ago – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Google begins international expansion of Public Alerts in Japan – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Daily Press – TEPCO thinking of dumping Fukushima nuclear plant water into ocean – Cherrie Lou Billones
• NHK World – Govt, TEPCO to accelerate decommission timetable
• NHK World – Many displaced Fukushima residents won’t return
• NHK World – IOC wraps up inspection tour of Tokyo
• Focus Taiwan – Talk of the Day — Polls find most people favor halt to 4th N-plant
• Taipei Times – Public must see past nuclear spin – Fang Szu-hung
• Taipei Times – KMT unveils text of nuclear referendum – Shih Hsiu-chuan
• Taipei Times – Editorial: Observations on the nuclear debate

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

• Cortlandt Daily Voice – Indian Point Groups To Host Vigil For Fukushima This Weekend – Nathan Bruttell
• Canada: World Nuclear News – New direction for Canadian nuclear labs
• AP Google – Japan nuke plant progressing in fuel removal plans
• CounterPunch – Fukushima and the Health Effects of Low Dose Radiation – John LaForge
• Enformable – NRA says no to Japan’s nuclear reactor restart – Lucas W Hixson
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Japan’s Tipping Point: “Will Japan Become Nuclear Free?”
• Greenpeace International – General Electric, Toshiba & Hitachi hide from their responsibilities in Fukushima – Hisayo Takada
• The Guardian – Life as a Fukushima clean-up worker – radiation, exhaustion, public criticism – Justin McCurry
• The Independent – Two years on the deadly battle to save Fukushima from an invisible, odourless enemy goes on – David McNeill
• Reuters – Insight: Japan’s “Long War” to shut down Fukushima – Mari Saito, Kiyoshi Takenaka and James Topham
• Reuters AlertNet – Members of the media visit TEPCO’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture
• World Nuclear News – Radiation declines at Fukushima
• Asahi Shimbun – U.S., China agree U.N. sanctions draft; North Korea renews threats
• Asahi Shimbun – Cesium levels still exceed standards in wild mushrooms, seafood, game
• Daily Yomiuri – Rules bent on cleanup subcontracting
• Daily Yomiuri – N-watchdog calls on govt to support health survey in Fukushima Pref.
• ENENews – News reports discuss melted Fukushima fuel being underneath containment vessels
• ENENews – Guardian: Fukushima workers trying to “stop radiation leaking into the sea” – Steel shield to keep contamination from entering Pacific?
• ENENews – Guardian: 2 years later and “still no closer to gauging state of damaged fuel” at Fukushima – Reuters: “Little useful data on fuel debris”
• ENENews – Newspaper: Father and son in Fukushima jail since January after rescuing animals inside exclusion zone
• ENENews – AP: “As a last-ditch measure” water from Fukushima reactors to be released into ocean… after ‘purified’ – No ‘immediate’ plans
• ENENews – TV: “In Fukushima, mothers with young children pray everyday for an escape” — Black cloud is concealing truth (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Reuters interviews Fukushima worker: “I get stomach aches… They should give us a medal” — NHK: Thick steel plates cover ground due to radioactive substances
• ENENews – Huffington Post — Gundersen: Radioactive steam from Fukushima reactors rolled out “like ground smog”… Chernobyl’s went high into atmosphere
• ENENews – Strange: Asahi headline about Fukushima rescuers wearing diapers — Other ‘personal’ details
• ENENews – Fukushima 50 Special: Unit 4 pool “had boiled dry, raising the spectre of a nuclear fission chain reaction” — Feared nearby nuclear plant would be evacuated
• ENENews – Cattleman: “Condition I’ve never seen before” near Fukushima plant — “More than a skin disease, they have nasty spots” — I believe it’s caused by the explosion (PHOTO & VIDEO)
• ENENews – Fukushima Special – Mother: “Everyone’s immune system has become weaker — The children’s bodies are changing” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – TV: Strange skin condition on cows near Fukushima plant
• Fukushima Diary – Express “7 more Fukushima children to have thyroid surgery” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Rubella case explosively spiking up “acceleratingly increasing since April 2011? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] Move before stunned – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [3/15/2011] Wife of Costa Rican ambassador, “Our president told us to leave, a lot of ambassadors want to do so.” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Malaysia lifted import regulation about food from Japan – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – 80% of surveyed evacuees say they won’t return to their hometowns – Ida Torres
• Japan Daily Press – Anti-nuclear movement kept alive with weekly rallies in Tokyo
• Japan Daily Press – Japan’s ruling LDP pitches ‘hope’ to victims two years after earthquake, tsunami disasters – Ida Torres
• Japan Times – Weekly rallies keeping antinuclear movement alive after LDP’s return – Morichika Nakamoto
• JIJI Press – INTERVIEW: Govt Aims to Launch Radioactive Waste Facilities in 2015
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO considers dumping water from Fukushima nuclear plant into ocean
• Mainichi Daily News – Local mayor seeks long-term support to recover from Fukushima fallout
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima farmer fights uphill battle to sell vegetables amid radiation rumors – Asahi Shimbun
• Focus Taiwan – Mothers to form anti-nuclear group ahead of protest
• Focus Taiwan – Referendum on nuclear plant only when safety ensured: premier
• Focus Taiwan – New Taipei mayor pitches for nuclear power referendum
• Taipei Times – Nuclear Power Debate: Legislator calls for cross-party proposal – Shih Hsiu-chuan
• Taipei Times – Nuclear Power Debate: TSU proposes mandatory referendums in localities – Chris Wang

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

• Greenpeace International blog – How can the nuclear industry profit from nuclear disasters? – Hisayo Takada
• Phys.Org – Scientist uses Fukushima radiation to reveal swimming secrets of Pacific bluefin tuna – Bjorn Carey
• Reuters – PDAC-After Fukushima fallout, future brightens for uranium juniors – Rod Nickel
• ABC News – Google Begins Mapping Japan’s Nuclear Exclusion Zone
• AFP Google – Fukushima lags in Japan tsunami recovery
• Enformable – NHK reporters visit Fukushima Daiichi plant – Lucas W Hixson
• Greenpeace International – Fukushima: Human Impacts
• IBTimes – Fukushima Two Years Later
• Reuters – Insight: Japan’s “Long War” to shut down Fukushima – Mari Saito, Kiyoshi Takenaka and James Topham
• Asahi Shimbun – Areva plans 1st nuclear fuel shipment to Japan since Fukushima
• Asahi Shimbun – LDP boots anti-nuke advocates from environment panel – Tetsu Kobayashi
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco failed in installing thermometers into reactor2, “4 fiberscopes all stuck in the pipe” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Is it already discharged ?] Tritium and Sr-90 density in sea water doubled in the latest data – Iori Mochizuki
• NHK World – NHK reporters visit Fukushima nuclear plant
• NHK World – Radiation in Fukushima 80km zone falls by 40%
• Mainichi Daily News – 80 percent of evacuees from 3 prefectures won’t return to hometowns: survey – Asahi Shimbun
• China Post – Greater Taipei mayors stand together on issue of Nuke 4 – Lauly Li
• Focus Taiwan – DPP legislators cite 9 ‘time bombs’ at 4th Nuclear Power Plant
• Focus Taiwan – Talk of the Day — Finally, a referendum that might count
• Focus Taiwan – Support for absentee voting in nuclear referendum gains momentum
• Taipei Times – Nuclear Power Debate: DPP mulls absentee voting for referendum – Chris Wang
• Taipei Times – Nuclear Power Debate: Taipower to take nuclear waste action
• Taipei Times – Nuclear Power Debate: DPP officials urge Chu to take stand on nuclear plant – Chris Wang

Monday, March 04, 2013

• Enformable – NOAA to use Japanese funds to partially cover disposal costs of docks washed ashore after tsunami – Lucas W Hixson
• Azom – AREVA Supplies Spent Fuel Storage Metallic Casks for Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
• Bloomberg – Areva CEO Says Japan May Restart Two-Thirds of Nuclear Reactors – Francois de Beaupuy
• Energy Matters – A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission: Part 1 Radioactive Contamination of American Sailors – Roger Witherspoon
• Energy Matters – A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission: Part 2: The Navy Life – Into the Abyss – Roger Witherspoon
• Energy Matters – A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission: Part 3: Cat and Mouse with a Nuclear Ghost – Roger Witherspoon
• Reuters – Areva plans 1st nuclear fuel shipment to Japan since Fukushima – Marion Douet and Risa Maeda
• Zee News – Japan’s Monju nuclear reactor undergoes safety inspection
• Asahi Shimbun – Study: Higher radiation risk found at one evacuation route used after nuclear disaster – Yuri Oiwa
• Asahi Shimbun – English version of 3/11 disaster documentary to be screened in Tokyo, London – Michiko Kawahara
• Asahi Shimbun – Study: Higher radiation risk found at one evacuation route used after nuclear disaster – Yuri Oiwa
• ENENews – Tokyo Professor: Radionuclides are being released continuously into ocean from Fukushima plant – Coming from somewhere around reactor housings (CHART)
• ENENews – Yomiuri: 69% of people surveyed across Japan “expressed concern about the impact of radioactive material on their health or that of their families”
• ENENews – Japan Radiation Expert after 3/11: Don’t just leave Tokyo, leave the country if possible – Journalist: “I’m losing my words” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Shock? Major Japan Paper: Cancer risk in Fukushima ‘probably infinitesimal’ — More radioactive contamination should be allowed in food and where people live — Don’t question burning disaster debris
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] Nothing in reality – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Poor attention of foreign media] Only one media-Reuters-attended the first press conference of Fukushima plant chief – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fallout level in Fukushima city is in the increasing trend since last December – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima worker “Most of the workers know it takes over 40 years to decommission Fukushima plant” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco takes over 56 years to discharge all tritium to the sea on the most optimistic assumption – Iori Mochizuki
• House of Japan – Fukushima plant 2 years after crisis
• Japan Times – Faulty equipment checks prompt NRA safety inspection of Monju
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima decontamination workers’ exposure doses go unchecked
• Mainichi Daily News – Residents miffed by taxes on Fukushima nuclear disaster compensation
• Mainichi Daily News – Yoroku: Digging up the past and future
• NHK World – Governor again puts off OK for new nuclear plant
• NHK World – Nuclear security panel talks convene
• NHK World – Governor again puts off OK for new nuclear plant
• NHK World – Google begins Street View photo shoot in Fukushima
• NHK World – 1,000 firms not paying higher TEPCO charges
• China Post – Greater Taipei mayors stand together on issue of Nuke 4 – Lauly Li
• China Post – Adept political maneuvering may render hazardous policy
• China Post – Southern Taiwan students take to feet to oppose 4th nuke plant
• China Post – Ma, Jiang say will vote in nuclear referendum – Ann Yu
• Focus Taiwan – United Evening News: No ‘fixing’ of nuclear plant referendum
• Focus Taiwan – Nuclear waste disposal contract with North Korea invalid: Taipower
• Focus Taiwan – OECD experts in Taiwan to conduct stress tests on nuclear plants
• Focus Taiwan – Anti-nuke students campaign on foot
• Focus Taiwan – Nuclear debate a chance to improve civil society: culture minister
• Taipei Times – Lower referendum threshold: DPP – Chris Wang and Jake Chung