Sunday, May 05, 2013

• CNBC – A Yen for Nuclear Energy: Japan’s Power Conundrum – Javier E. David
• L’Express – Fukushima: Are they all crazy? – Jacques Attali
• NHK World – Japan’s reconstruction minister visits Chernobyl

Saturday, May 04, 2013

• Deccan Herald – Japan reactor poses new risk
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: More international cooperation is needed to reduce plutonium
• Asahi Shimbun – Japan vows ‘high safety’ for Turkish reactor
• Asahi Shimbun – Tokyo protesters say no to amending constitution
• ENENews – Extremely radioactive rubble found on top of Fukushima Reactor No. 3 (PHOTO)
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation level increased at half of the measurement points in two lakes of Chiba – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Extremely radioactive debris found on the top of reactor3 North side, Tepco “Safely moved to the South side” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 2.3 µSv/h on the ground of Kunimi SA, 74 km from Fukushima nuclear plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Reservoir Leakage] Tepco to make 7 more borings beside each the leaking reservoir – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Reservoir Leakage] Tepco not to weld the new emergency tanks of 19,000m3 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Yakuza links put nation at added nuclear risk – Jake Adelstein
• Japan Times – Antinuclear drive in search of new strategies – Kazuaki Nagata
• NHK World – Japan considers new body to boost nuclear safety
• Yomiuri Shimbun – TEPCO to set up 120 tanks at Fukushima

Friday, May 03, 2013

• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ The disaster and animals (6): Dogs in the shelter are suffering from mental illness – Misuzu Tsukue
• ENENews – NHK: Unexplained water leak at Fukushima reactor immediately after 3/11 quake — Crucial cooling system disabled?
• Japan Times – Antinuclear drive in search of new strategies – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Abe clinches nuclear technology deal with Abu Dhabi
• China Post – Nuke 4 construction should be completed: Taipei deputy mayor – Lauly Li
• Power Engineering – Experts divided on controversial nuclear plant – Huang Chiao
• Taipei Times – Costs of nuclear power remains a divisive issue
• Taipei Times – Taipei poll shows dip in opposition to nuke plant – Mo Yan-chih
• Taipei Times – Chu Wen-chen takes Taipower helm – Helen Ku

Thursday, May 02, 2013

• Wall Street Journal – Japan’s Nuclear Plan Unsettles U.S. – Jay Solomon And Miho Inada
• Asahi Shimbun – Nuclear watchdog to answer unresolved questions about Fukushima disaster – Jin Nishikawa
• ENENews – Expert: Fukushima nuclear material to wash up on beaches and be blown over surrounding countryside
• ENENews – NBC News: Fears that Fukushima plant could “break apart” during cleanup process
• ENENews – NHK: Black smoke at Japan nuclear plant — Fire alarm sounds after test
• Fukushima Diary – Reactor2 temperature spiked up by 30? after M5.5 of 4/14/2013, Tepco “The thermometer has low credibility” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco’s newly built emergency tank would be full only within 10 days – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Under ground contamination] Tritium detected in 2 of 4 seaside observation holes, “max was 3,800,000 Bq/m3? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Out of control] Tritium measured outside of 4 from5 reservoirs, max reading 1.9 times much as 1 week ago – Iori Mochizuki
• NHK World – Japan police introduce radiation-proof vehicles
• Taiwan News – Experts divided on controversial nuclear plant – Huang Chiao-Wen And Scully Hsiao

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

• Atlantic Wire – The Fukushima Cleanup Continues to Falter – J.K. Trotter
• Bloomberg – Japan Utilities Raising Prices Offer Abe Wrong Inflation – Tsuyoshi Inajima & Brian Swint
• Common Dreams – ‘Flood of Highly Radioactive Wastewater’ Overwhelms Fukushima Crews
• MSNBC – ‘A very fragile situation’: Leaks from Japan’s wrecked nuke plant raise fears – Arata Yamamoto and Ian Johnston
• New York Daily News – Nuclear power plant stricken in 2011 tsunami now leaking radioactive groundwater: report – Beth Stebner
• TIME – Leaks, Rats and Radioactivity: Fukushima’s Nuclear Cleanup Is Faltering – Bryan Walsh
• Truthout – Fukushima: A Dire SOS Message
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO, 7 other utilities post combined loss of 1.6 trillion yen
• ENENews – Time: Fukushima nuclear struggles “would be the stuff of comedy” – “It’s not funny, not really” – “Not sure things could be much worse if Wile E. Coyote were Tepco’s CEO”
• ENENews – Nuclear Safety Expert: “Many experts are extremely concerned we could have additional releases” at Fukushima plant — “Very, very unstable facility” (AUDIO)
• Fukushima Diary – 32 Bq/Kg from natural crucian carp in Saitama – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 1.16 µSv/h in Hitachi seaside park in Ibaraki, “111km from Fukushima nuclear plant” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Former Fukushima worker, “The surface dose of the leaking contaminated water is 2 Sv/h” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Alarm at the Temporary Dry Cask Storage Facility, Tepco “No abnormality was found” – Iori Mochizuki
• JAIF – 46th JAIF Annual Conference takes place: Chairman Imai Calls for Quick Decision on Restarting Reactors
• NHK World – Nuclear regulators to probe Fukushima disaster
• NHK World – Questions in Fukushima crisis
• TEPCO News – Press Releases

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

• AFP Google – Fukushima firm TEPCO suffers $7.0 bn annual loss
• Enformable – TEPCO loses over 7 billion dollars in 2012 – Lucas W Hixson
• Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for April 26th to April 29th, 2013 – Christine McCann
• Reuters – Japan utilities post $16 bln loss, outlook clouded on reactor restarts – Aaron Sheldrick and Osamu Tsukimori
• New York Times – Flow of Tainted Water Is Latest Crisis at Japan Nuclear Plant – Martin Fackler
• NPR – In Japan: Running Out of Places To Put Radioactive Water – Mark Memmott
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ The disaster and animals (5): Dogs wandering in the no-entry zones – Misuzu Tsukue
• Asahi Shimbun – POINT OF VIEW/ Katsuno Onozawa: Government’s lethargic response stresses Fukushima mothers
• ENENews – Radioactive material spikes in soil at Fukushima plant – 10 times higher than two days prior – Tepco: “We don’t know the cause, we’ll continue to watch carefully”
• ENENews – NYTimes: Alarming reality at Fukushima Daiichi — Plant faced with new crisis — “Tepco is clearly just hanging on day by day”
• ENENews – Japan Doctor: So enraged by response of gov’t — Fukushima children’s rashes, nosebleeds, diarrhea, fatigue blamed on radiation-phobia mothers
• Fukushima Diary – The chief of Fukushima nuclear plant to change only 18 months after the last change – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [JP West coast contamination] 70 Bq/Kg from the soil of cultivated land of Niigata – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 2,700 Bq/Kg from tea leaves picked by elementary school students in Itabashi Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Stressful hearings for lay judges
• JIJI Press – Tough Going Seen for Fukushima Radioactive Waste Facilities – Baltimore Examiner
• Mainichi Daily News – 70-year-old photographer records radiation-tainted hometown with camera
• NHK World – Monju operator says faults are not active
• NHK World – Utilities post historic losses on fuel cost rise
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Nuclear fuel cycle must be used in way that ensures proper use of plutonium

Monday, April 29, 2013

• ENENews – NPR: There’s been a melt-through, there’s cracks… Fukushima reactors not likely to stop leaking into ocean anytime soon – Levels in fish still as high as 2 years ago (AUDIO)
• ENENews – Fukushima evacuee housing compared to World War II internment camps for Japanese Americans
• JAIF – News Update
• TEPCO – TEPCO News Update
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Vegetable factory opens near ruined N-plant