by Gregg Webb / via IAEA / September 10, 2012 / The International Atomic Energy Agency on 7 September 2012 launched a database of radiation measurements collected in Japan following last year’s accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Stat…
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by Linda Seig / via Reuters / September 10, 2012 / Deadlock in Japan between anti-nuclear activists and advocates of atomic power deepened on Monday as the government failed to produce an expected proposal to reduce the role of nuclear power in the cou…
Continue readingvia NHK World / September 9, 2012 / Efforts to deal with problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan still face many challenges more than a year after the meltdown. Tuesday will mark one and a half years since the earthq…
Continue readingvia NHK World / September 9, 2012 / Efforts to deal with problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan still face many challenges more than a year after the meltdown. Tuesday will mark one and a half years since the earthq…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / September 7, 2012 / TEPCO still hasn’t identified the cause for the decreased water flow into the reactors (1, 2, and 3), but the company suspects some rust or foreign particles clogging the system somewhere. On September 5, a video …
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / September 7, 2012 / TEPCO still hasn’t identified the cause for the decreased water flow into the reactors (1, 2, and 3), but the company suspects some rust or foreign particles clogging the system somewhere. On September 5, a video …
Continue readingby Charlie Wells / via NY Daily News / September 7, 2012 / Scientists think there might be something fishy about the quarter-ton tuna an Australian man caught off the coast of New Zealand. It took two hours and 128 pounds of tackle for Paul Worsteling …
Continue readingby Charlie Wells / via NY Daily News / September 7, 2012 / Scientists think there might be something fishy about the quarter-ton tuna an Australian man caught off the coast of New Zealand. It took two hours and 128 pounds of tackle for Paul Worsteling …
Continue readingby Linda Sieg / via Chicago Tribune / September 7, 2012 / Efforts by Japan’s government to craft an energy mix that will respond to growing anti-nuclear sentiment among voters after the Fukushima crisis without alienating powerful pro-atomic ener…
Continue readingby Linda Sieg / via Chicago Tribune / September 7, 2012 / Efforts by Japan’s government to craft an energy mix that will respond to growing anti-nuclear sentiment among voters after the Fukushima crisis without alienating powerful pro-atomic ener…
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / September 5, 2012 / Translated Title: Circumstance of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Source: Tepco Date: September 5, 2012 Translation by Fukushima Diary At 10:30 AM on September 4, in order to examine the case of the intermitt…
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / September 5, 2012 / First, Tepco released the badly altered photo, which was deleted and replaced with an alteration of the original alteration. Now Tepco has altered their original statement on the alterations. Perhaps they will elab…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / September 4, 2012 / Japan is scheduled to set national energy policy early next week, national policy minister Motohisa Furukawa said on Sept. 4, although he said the government had not taken any particular position on the main …
Continue readingby Hiroko Tabuchi / via The New York Times / September 5, 2012 / Japan would be foolish to abandon nuclear power, the operator of the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station warned Wednesday, saying the company had not ruled out reopening two o…
Continue readingby Miako Ichikawa / The Asahi Shimbun / September 5, 2012 / In a peaceful ivy-covered restaurant in the Fussaninomiya district in Fussa, western Tokyo, several women and children are having lunch. In the corner sits a machine that looks like a rice coo…
Continue readingby Seth Robson / via Stars and Stripes / September 5, 2012 / U.S. personnel experienced elevated levels of radiation from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, but doses were not high enough to make them sick, according to the Department of Defen…
Continue readingvia Fairewinds / September 1, 2012 / Fairewinds analysis of the triple meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi determined that other Japanese reactor sites were also in jeopardy because their cooling water systems were destroyed by the same tsunami. In this fil…
Continue readingvia Kyodo / September 4, 2012 / Japan needs to invest at least 50 trillion yen in renewable energy by 2030 if it decides to completely phase out nuclear power, the government estimated Tuesday. It also predicted households would see their energy bills,…
Continue readingby Dennis Riches / nf2045.blogspot.com / August 22, 2012 / “Looking back more than a year after the event, it is clear that the Fukushima reactor complex, though nowhere close to state-of-the-art, was adequately designed to contain radiation.R…
Continue readingby Dennis Riches / nf2045.blogspot.com / August 22, 2012 / “Looking back more than a year after the event, it is clear that the Fukushima reactor complex, though nowhere close to state-of-the-art, was adequately designed to contain radiation.R…
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / September 3, 2012 / Title: Decrease in the Reactor Injection Water Amounts at Unit 1-3 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Source: Tepco Press Release Date: September 3, 2012 Emphasis Added […] At 3:00 PM on August 30, 2012, …
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / September 3, 2012 / Title: Decrease in the Reactor Injection Water Amounts at Unit 1-3 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Source: Tepco Press Release Date: September 3, 2012 Emphasis Added […] At 3:00 PM on August 30, 2012, …
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / September 1, 2012 / Photo set published August 30, 2012 only on Tepco’s Japanese-language website: http://photo.tepco.co.jp/date/2012/201208-j/120830-03j.html Direct link to photo: http://photo.tepco.co.jp/library/20120830_03/120830…
Continue readingby Hiroko Tabuchi / via The New York Times / August 29, 2012 / As Japan moves to cut back on nuclear power after last year’s disaster in Fukushima, it is running into a harsh economic reality: the cost of immediately abandoning its nuclear reactors m…
Continue readingby Deborah Dupre / Examiner.com / August 30, 2012 / The central government of Japan has ordered Aomori Prefecture to suspend shipping Pacific cod caught near the port of Hachinohe due to excessive levels of cesium detected, according to The Japan Times…
Continue readingJapan Times / September 2, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Saturday raised electricity rates for households by an average of 8.46 percent to help cover the massive costs arising from the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. About 28.7 million contracts wi…
Continue readingby Harvey Wasserman / CounterPunch / August 29, 2012 / With every atomic reactor disaster comes the inevitable whitewash. And Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal has just painted a tragic new coat over the radioactive wasteland of atomic flim-flam….
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / August 31, 2012 / Fukushima city assembly members lashed out at the leader of an environmental group who said people who live in radiation-affected areas should avoid marriage to prevent births of deformed babies. The four assem…
Continue readingvia NHK World / September 1, 2012 / Saturday marks one year since a government arbitration body began accepting damages files from victims of last year’s nuclear accident. However, arbitration officials say only one seventh of the filed damages c…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / September 1, 2012 / The Fukushima disaster needs a root-and-branch investigation far deeper than the inquiries currently held, said the lead investigators of three of those probes. Their reports, released this year, examined fac…
Continue readingby Richard Wilcox / via DissidentVoice.org / August 31, 2012 / End of the day, factory whistle cries, Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes. – Bruce Springsteen, “Factory” Bring us the living dead. People no one will miss. – Fuk…
Continue readingvia Nature / August 30, 2012 / Investigations continue at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, and earlier this week the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) released photos of the first nuclear material that they’ve actually managed t…
Continue readingvia The Mainichi / August 27, 2012 / Public elementary and junior high schools here reopened Aug. 27, a year and a half after the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami triggered a crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant and t…
Continue readingvia The Montreal Gazette / August 27, 2012 / Japanese officials reporting on the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster say that gamma rays from the rubble left by the accident are now a greater concern than radioactive cesium still being emitted from the…
Continue readingvia NHK / August 26, 2012 / Japan will conduct thyroid tests on children outside Fukushima Prefecture, to determine whether last year’s nuclear accident in the prefecture has anything to do with the discovery of lumps in the thyroid glands of one…
Continue readingvia AsiaOne / August 26, 2012 / The Fukushima prefectural government on Saturday began checking all bags of rice for radiation in Nihonmatsu, home to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The prefecture decided on radiation checks for the e…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / August 24, 2012 / Goshi Hosono’s Ministry of the Environment is on the sudden offensive against citizens and residents of Kanto and Tohoku, again. According to the Yomiuri Shinbun article, the Ministry of the Environment is already t…
Continue readingby Mari Yamaguchi / Associated Press / August 26, 2012 / This is Japan’s summer of discontent. Tens of thousands of protesters — the largest demonstrations the country has seen in decades — descend on Tokyo every Friday evening to shout anti-…
Continue readingvia AsiaOne / August 26, 2012 / About 1 in 20 primary and middle school students in the city of Fukushima refused to swim in outdoor pools during physical education classes this summer due to radiation fears, according to a municipal board of education…
Continue readingvia DW.de / August 16, 2012 / The effects of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima have now become visible in butterflies. Researchers worry the effects may start to be felt among human beings. The butterflies found to be deformed as a result of radiation …
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / August 22, 2012 / That’s the number from analyzing 7,000 comments from the public on the national energy policy. 80,000 more to go. The committee members who have been analyzing the public comments have already started to stress the …
Continue readingvia The Daily Yomiuri / August 23, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. has said that 38,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram have been detected in a fish caught for sampling about 20 kilometers offshore from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclea…
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / August 23, 2012 / Plutonium believed to be from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has been detected at 10 locations in four municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture, the science ministry said. The highest reading was 11 becquerels o…
Continue readingvia NHK / August 23, 2012 / Japan’s national scientists’ organization is to propose a radical review of the government’s plan for disposing of highly radioactive nuclear waste. The group says an initial plan to bury the waste more tha…
Continue readingvia Dawn.com / August 23, 2012 / A worker at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has died of a heart attack, the operator said Thursday. It is the fifth death at the power station since it was hit by the tsunami of March 2011. Tokyo Elec…
Continue readingby Eric Johnston / The Japan Times / August 23, 2012 Numbers, numbers everywhere. So what are we to think? That’s the question activists, academics and members of the public are asking as they follow the debate over the next long-term energy plan…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / August 20, 2012 / Local government leaders were split over the government’s proposed sites for interim facilities to store the mountains of radioactive waste from decontamination work around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclea…
Continue readingby Richard Muller / via Wall Street Journal / August 18, 2012 / Denver has particularly high natural radioactivity. It comes primarily from radioactive radon gas, emitted from tiny concentrations of uranium found in local granite. If you live there, yo…
Continue readingvia Waste Management World / August 20, 2012 / Reno, Nevada based mobile plasma arc gasification technology developer, Vision Plasma Systems (PINKSHEETS: VLNX) has reached an agreement with Cell Runner Inc. of Japan for the sale of two of its Arc Maste…
Continue readingvia UPI.com / August 20, 2012 / The Fukushima Daiichi disaster slowed but didn’t reverse the expansion of nuclear power in 2011, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in Vienna. The U.N. agency, releasing its annual report Friday, said its …
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