via 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…
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via 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 readingThe above video highlights some of the mistakes that were made prior to the ongoing Fukushima disaster that echo things being said about the San Onofre Nuclear Waste Generating Station.
“By assuming that the severity or frequency would be less tha…
Continue readingThe above video highlights some of the mistakes that were made prior to the ongoing Fukushima disaster that echo things being said about the San Onofre Nuclear Waste Generating Station.
“By assuming that the severity or frequency would be less tha…
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 …
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / August 20, 2012 / The nuclear power industry has made behind-the-scenes payments to the tune of at least 3.18 billion yen ($40 million) to six local governments hosting nuclear-power related facilities since the Fukushima disast…
Continue readingvia Reuters / August 20, 2012 / People who survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as children continue to have a higher-than-normal risk of thyroid cancer more than 50 years after radiation exposure, according to a U.S. study. Thyroid c…
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The Nuclear Fuel Cycle is the Achilles heal of the nuclear industry. From uranium mining to the deadly spent fuel of reactors, here’s the news that never makes the national news for a reason. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin includes a lot of Department of Energy news.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / August 18, 2012 / National policy minister Motohisa Furukawa has said that reactors 5 and 6 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and the nearby No. 2 power station should never be restarted. Furukawa made the remarks Thursday whil…
Continue readingvia ex-skf / August 14, 2012 / It’s been about 14 months since the hastily rigged system of transporting and treating the contaminated water and circulating the treated water back into the Reactor Pressure Vessels (1, 2 and 3) to cool the melted …
Continue readingvia the Washington Post / August 15, 2012 / Japanese researchers have found very low amounts of radioactivity in the bodies of about 10,000 people who lived near the Fukushima Daiichi power plant when it melted down. The first published study that meas…
Continue readingvia The Daily Yomiuri / August 15, 2012 / A government project to build geothermal power plants in national and quasi-national parks has met with further opposition from locals in Fukushima Prefecture and Hokkaido concerned about the plan’s possi…
Continue readingvia RT / August 13, 2012 / The reactors at crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant are not stable, says its former head. He urged for international expertise to be called in to make the site of one of world’s worst nuclear disasters safe. “Peopl…
Continue readingI am calling because of my concerns over the dangers of nuclear power and nuclear waste in this country. After the worst ongoing nuclear disaster in human history at Fukushima, a growing group of U.S. citizens have come together to address concerns…
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The Nuclear Fuel Cycle is the Achilles heal of the nuclear industry. From uranium mining to the deadly spent fuel of reactors, here’s the news that never makes the national news for a reason. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin includes a lot of Department of Energy news.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingvia YouTube / August 12, 2012 / The voices of people who lived with, and who’s town was taken by the nuclear power plant. This is a record of people who have suffered an unprecedented disaster. Visiting the town of Okuma, the site of the Fukushim…
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / August 12, 2012 / Radioactive fallout from the nuclear disaster in Fukushima Prefecture created abnormalities among the nation’s butterflies, according to a team of researchers. “We conclude that artificial radionuclid…
Continue readingby Justin McCurry / via The Sydney Morning Herald / August 11, 2012 / BEFORE last year’s triple disaster in north-east Japan, Tsuchiyu drew tens of thousands of tourists in search of the recuperative qualities of its piping-hot spring water. Almo…
Continue readingvia NHK / August 10, 2012 / The Japanese government has lifted its entry ban on part of a town in Fukushima Prefecture that had high levels of radiation caused by the nuclear accident last year. But some residents are protesting the move. Residents in …
Continue readingby James Fontanella Khan / via The Irish Times / August 10, 2012 / BELGIUM HAS temporarily shut down one of its seven nuclear power plants after the country’s atomic energy regulator discovered “several anomalies”, including possible cracks, in t…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / August 9, 2012 / Lead radiation shields forced on workers at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to cover their dosimeters masked radiation readings by about 30 percent. Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the pla…
Continue readingby Mari Yamaguchi / via BusinessWeek / August 10, 2012 / The Japanese nuclear power plant that was closest to the epicenter of last year’s earthquake suffered more ground shaking than Fukushima but was largely undamaged because it was designed wi…
Continue readingBy Kwang Weng Kin / The Jakarta Post / August 9, 2012 / Five hundred days and four voluminous reports later, the truth about the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 plant remains elusive. The Fukushima disaster was triggered by a huge earthquake an…
Continue readingby Justin McCurry / via The Guardian / August 9, 2012 / One by one they are unloaded, weighed and tipped into plastic vats of ice – hundreds of octopuses that flail and whip the melting ice into a foaming mollusk soup. In this state they look far fro…
Continue readingvia NHK / August 9, 2012 / A survey by the Tokyo metropolitan government shows the number of foreign visitors to the Japanese capital sharply dropped last year. Officials attribute the plunge mainly to the March 11th disaster and the nuclear accident i…
Continue readingvia YouTube / August 8, 2012 / This is the truth about the radiation count in Fukushima in the exclusion zone. It is sad that there is a cover up on information that should be made public that is not being made public.That Japanese government along wit…
Continue readingby Harvey Wasserman / CounterPunch / August 7, 2012 / Our lives still hang by a Devil’s thread at Fukushima. The molten cores at Units 1, 2 & 3 have threatened all life on Earth. The flood of liquid radiation has poisoned the Pacific. Fukushima??…
Continue readingvia InfoShop.org / August 9, 2012 / Around 13:20 of 3/14/2012, just after reactor 3 exploded, Sato, Fukushima governor required Tepco to announce “there was no concern that radiation from reactor 3 may affect human body because the wind blows from No…
Continue readingvia WallStreetJournal / August 6, 2012 / On Monday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. for the first time released footage taken inside its command centers during last year’s devastating accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The visuals won’…
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Continue readingvia Time / August 6, 2012 / A growing number of Japanese workers who are risking their health to shut down the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are suffering from depression, anxiety about the future and a loss of motivation, say two doc…
Continue readingby Yuji Okada / Bloomberg / August 7, 2012 / As the first hydrogen explosion rocked the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) officials scrambled to prevent a second blast, at one point weighing the use of firearms to shoot …
Continue readingby Masaomi Ogawa / The Asahi Shimbun / August 7, 2012 / It took a visit to this historic city by a group of students to realize the atomic bombing 67 years ago was more than something from the distant past learned only in school textbooks. The group ca…
Continue readingBy Chisake Watanabe / Bloomberg / August 7, 2012 / Hot springs operators in Tsuchiyu, a town about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Fukushima’s stricken nuclear station in Japan, plan to build a geothermal power plant as part of recovery efforts…
Continue readingvia The Daily Yomiuri / August 8, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. has at long last made public, albeit partially, video images of in-house teleconferences held during the crisis at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to discuss countermeasures. The…
Continue readingDecision Follows 24 Groups’ June Petition in Wake of Major Waste Confidence Rule Decision; Most Reactor Projects Already Stymied by Bad Economics and Cheaper Fuel AlternativesWASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Nuclear Regula…
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