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Meet the Fukushima 50? No, you can’t

Posted on October 8, 2012 by CorbettOctober 8, 2012

via The Economist / October 8, 2012 / IT HAS taken the Japanese government more than 18 months to pay tribute to a group of brave men, once known as the “Fukushima 50”, who risked their lives to prevent meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear p…

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Scientists: Ministry manipulating Fukushima radiation readings

Posted on October 6, 2012 by CorbettOctober 6, 2012

via The Asahi Shimbun / October 6, 2012 / Citizens and scientists have raised concerns that the science ministry manipulated its measurement of radiation levels in Fukushima Prefecture to show figures lower than they really were. The Association for Ci…

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Drone checking radiation near Fukushima plant

Posted on October 2, 2012 by CorbettOctober 2, 2012

via NHK World News / October 2, 2012 / A Japanese nuclear research agency has begun using an unmanned helicopter to measure radiation levels in areas within a 3-kilometer radius of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Detailed studies ha…

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Cabinet fails to OK new nuclear strategy, removes 2030 deadline for nuclear phase-out

Posted on September 19, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 19, 2012

via Japan Times / September 20, 2012 / Deadline for abolishing atomic energy by 2030s not endorsed In a shocking reversal, the Cabinet on Wednesday failed to approve the government’s new energy policy by watering down its main goal — the elimin…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, jgov, News, nuclear industry

Japan to end nuclear power dependency by 2040

Posted on September 18, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 18, 2012

by David Herron / Examiner.com / September 16, 2012 / A year and a half ago one of the largest known earthquakes ever struck off the North Japanese coast, triggering a tsunami devastating the Japanese coast, as well as a massive nuclear power disaster….

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Fukushima plant clean-up efforts face challenges

Posted on September 9, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 9, 2012

via 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…

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Fukushima plant clean-up efforts face challenges

Posted on September 9, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 9, 2012

via 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…

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600-pound tuna caught near NZ to be tested for radiation

Posted on September 9, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 9, 2012

by 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 …

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600-pound tuna caught near NZ to be tested for radiation

Posted on September 9, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 9, 2012

by 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 …

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Posted in Featured, fish, food supply, Fukushima, radiation testing, video

Reactor 1: Nitrogen injected to reduce explosive hydrogen buildup

Posted on September 7, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 7, 2012

via 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…

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Update: TEPCO altered photos “for physical protection of nuclear materials”

Posted on September 5, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 5, 2012

via 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…

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TEPCO President: “Zero nuclear is a very dangerous operation”

Posted on September 5, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 5, 2012

by 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…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, News, nuclear industry, TEPCO

U.S. DoD Releases Radiation Registry for Troops in Japan

Posted on September 5, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 5, 2012

by 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…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, News, radiation dispersion map, radiation readings

Gundersen: Fukushima Could Have Been Worse

Posted on September 4, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 4, 2012

via 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…

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JGov says 50 trillion yen investment needed to end nuclear power

Posted on September 4, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 4, 2012

via 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,…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, jgov, News, nuclear industry

Water flow to Fukushima reactors drops again

Posted on September 3, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 3, 2012

via 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, …

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, News, reactor 1, reactor 2, reactor 3

Water flow to Fukushima reactors drops again

Posted on September 3, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 3, 2012

via 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, …

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, News, reactor 1, reactor 2, reactor 3

Just In: Tepco releases badly altered image of Fukushima Unit 4

Posted on September 1, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 1, 2012

via 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…

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Japan Strives to Go Nuclear-Free

Posted on September 1, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 1, 2012

by 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…

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First nuclear material is out of Fukushima

Posted on September 1, 2012 by CorbettSeptember 1, 2012

via 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…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, News, reactor 4

Thyroid tests extended to kids outside Fukushima

Posted on August 27, 2012 by CorbettAugust 27, 2012

via 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…

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Posted in children, Featured, Fukushima, health effects, News, radiation testing

Fukushima starts radiation checks on rice

Posted on August 26, 2012 by CorbettAugust 26, 2012

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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Posted in Featured, food safety, Fukushima, News, radiation testing

Miyagi, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Chiba to Have Final Disposal Sites for Fukushima Waste

Posted on August 26, 2012 by CorbettAugust 26, 2012

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…

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Op-ed: Anti-nuclear protests signal new activism in Japan

Posted on August 26, 2012 by CorbettAugust 26, 2012

by 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-…

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Scientists fear increased genetic defects in Fukushima

Posted on August 23, 2012 by CorbettAugust 23, 2012

via 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 …

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Posted in environmental effects, Featured, Fukushima, health effects, Science

Record cesium found in fish off Fukushima

Posted on August 23, 2012 by CorbettAugust 23, 2012

via 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…

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Posted in Featured, fish, food safety, food supply, Fukushima, health effects, News

Mayors defiant over proposed plans for storing radioactive waste

Posted on August 20, 2012 by CorbettAugust 20, 2012

via 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…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, News, radioactive waste

Pay for Play? – Nuclear industry’s shady payments since Fukushima crisis

Posted on August 20, 2012 by CorbettAugust 20, 2012

via 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…

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Jgov says entire Fukushima Daiichi and Daini plants should be written off

Posted on August 17, 2012 by CorbettAugust 17, 2012

via 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…

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Study Reports Low Internal Radioactivity After Fukushima Disaster

Posted on August 14, 2012 by CorbettAugust 14, 2012

via 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…

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Fukushima ex-boss: ‘Reactors not stable’

Posted on August 13, 2012 by CorbettAugust 13, 2012

via 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…

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Posted in Featured, Fukushima, News, reactor 1, reactor 2, reactor 3, reactor 4, TEPCO

Radioactive fallout from Fukushima nuclear meltdowns caused abnormalities in Japan’s butterflies

Posted on August 11, 2012 by CorbettAugust 11, 2012

via 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…

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Entry ban lifted in a town in Fukushima

Posted on August 10, 2012 by CorbettAugust 10, 2012

via 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 …

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Posted in compensation, evacuation zone, Featured, Fukushima, News

Belgium shuts down nuclear plant over safety fears

Posted on August 10, 2012 by CorbettAugust 10, 2012

by 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…

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Fukushima fishermen Hoping to Resurrect Industry

Posted on August 9, 2012 by CorbettAugust 9, 2012

by 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…

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Inside the Fukushima Exclusion Zone (Video)

Posted on August 9, 2012 by CorbettAugust 9, 2012

via 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…

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TEPCO Video-Conference Footage During Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

Posted on August 9, 2012 by CorbettAugust 9, 2012

via 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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Tepco Weighed Using Firearms to Avoid Fukushima Explosion

Posted on August 7, 2012 by CorbettAugust 7, 2012

by 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 …

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Yomiuri Op-Ed: Restricted public disclosure invites public distrust

Posted on August 7, 2012 by CorbettAugust 7, 2012

via 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…

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Kids’ safety key worry in Fukushima

Posted on August 5, 2012 by CorbettAugust 5, 2012

via The Japan Times / August 3, 2012 / A year and half after the start of the nuclear crisis, many who attended the government’s latest public hearing on energy policy in Fukushima on Wednesday still expressed concern about the impact of radiatio…

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Fukushima Octopus back on sale in Tokyo at a premium

Posted on August 5, 2012 by CorbettAugust 5, 2012

via The Telegraph / August 3, 2012 / Octopus from the sea off Fukushima is back on sale at Tokyo’s Tsukiji Seafood Market – at a premium price. It is the first time since Tokyo Electric’s Fukushima No 1 Nuclear Power Plant started lea…

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68% of Japanese At Hearings on Nuclear Power Want Its Complete Abolition

Posted on August 5, 2012 by CorbettAugust 5, 2012

via The Japan Times / August 5, 2012 / Around 70 percent of citizens who wished to air their views on the future of nuclear power at public hearings held by the government wanted to discuss its complete elimination, officials said Saturday. A series of…

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Japan could become world’s second biggest solar power nation

Posted on August 3, 2012 by CorbettAugust 3, 2012

by Robert Gilhooly / New Scientist / August 2, 2012 / WITH nuclear power on the ropes in Japan, it could be solar power’s time to shine. Minamisoma City in Fukushima prefecture has signed an agreement with Toshiba to build the country’s big…

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TEPCO Gets $13 Billion Bailout (+ $30 Billion for Compensation Payouts)

Posted on July 31, 2012 by CorbettJuly 31, 2012

by Kaname Ohira and Mari Fujisaki / The Asahi Shimbun / July 31, 2012 / The bailout of embattled Tokyo Electric Power Co. got under way July 31, with an equity investment of 1 trillion yen ($12.78 billion) in taxpayer money. Public funds will also be u…

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Corbett Report: Fukushima’s Biggest Secret

Posted on July 31, 2012 by CorbettJuly 31, 2012

Along with the tragic loss of life, the destruction of homes, farms, businesses and property, and the beginning of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami exposed the biggest secret of all: that the myth of the necessity of…

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Anti-nuke rally outside Japanese Diet draws 200,000

Posted on July 29, 2012 by CorbettJuly 29, 2012

via NHK / July 29, 2012 / A large rally has been held in Tokyo to protest the restart of a nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture. The demonstrators gathered in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo on Sunday. They were protesting the recent resumption of the No.3 a…

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Anti-nuclear ‘human chain’ to surround Diet building

Posted on July 28, 2012 by CorbettJuly 28, 2012

via Japan Today / July 29, 2012 / Thousands of people are expected to form a “human chain” around Japan’s Diet building on Sunday as part of demonstrations aimed at ending nuclear power after last year’s disaster at Fukushima. The protest is th…

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Mainichi Op-Ed: Japan needs major shift in energy policy to cut ties to nuclear power

Posted on July 28, 2012 by CorbettJuly 28, 2012

via Mainichi Daily / July 26, 2012 / A major shift in the nation’s energy policy is needed if Japan is to reduce its reliance on nuclear power. Not only must the scope of energy conservation be expanded, the nation must promote the introduction o…

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Posted in alternative energy, Editorials, Featured, Fukushima, nuclear industry

Fukushima decontamination at a standstill in many evacuation areas

Posted on July 28, 2012 by CorbettJuly 28, 2012

via The Asahi Shimbun / July 28, 2012 / Decontamination work started at a cemetery and a shrine in Tamura city, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 27 despite a political stalemate that has put much of the program on hold in districts evacuated following the…

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Posted in decontamination, evacuation zone, Featured, Fukushima, News

Al Jazaeera on Japan Reactor Restarts (Video)

Posted on July 26, 2012 by CorbettJuly 26, 2012

via Al Jazeera / July 25, 2012 /

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