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Fukushima Update – Day 256

Posted on November 21, 2011 by CorbettNovember 21, 2011

2 ex-TEPCO workers re-elected as assemblymen in Fukushima towns / Mainichi Daily / November 21, 2011 / Two former employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, have been re-elected as t…

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Fukushima Update – Day 255

Posted on November 20, 2011 by CorbettNovember 20, 2011

Future cancers from Fukushima plant may be hidden / Mainichi Daily / November 20, 2011 Even if the worst nuclear accident in 25 years leads to many people developing cancer, we may never find out. Looking back on those early days of radiation horror, t…

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Fukushima Update – Day 253

Posted on November 18, 2011 by CorbettNovember 18, 2011

redsun Fukushima saw fewer births after nuclear disaster / NHK / November 18, 2011 / A survey in Fukushima Prefecture shows the number of births fell by 25 percent in the 3 months following the accident at the nuclear power plant. The Japan Association of Obs…

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Fukushima Update – Day 252

Posted on November 17, 2011 by CorbettNovember 17, 2011

Wind direction forecast was concealed after the explosion of reactor 1 / Fukushima-Diary.com / November 17, 2011 / Immediately after reactor 1 had its hydrogen explosion on 3/12/2011, the wind direction forecast of meteorological bureau was concealed. …

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Fukushima Update – Day 251

Posted on November 16, 2011 by CorbettNovember 16, 2011

Smartphone geiger counter developed / Daily Yomiuri / November 16, 2011 A manufacturer in Otamamura, Fukushima Prefecture, has developed a geiger counter that allows users to display radiation readings on a smartphone. Sanwa Corp. was to release the pr…

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Fukushima Update – Day 250

Posted on November 15, 2011 by CorbettNovember 15, 2011

Parts of Japan too radioactive to farm, say int’l researchers / JapanToday.com / November 15, 2011 / Farmland in parts of Japan is no longer safe because of high levels of radiation in the soil, scientists have warned, as the country struggles to…

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Fukushima Update – Day 249

Posted on November 14, 2011 by CorbettNovember 14, 2011

Taking thyroid tests to the children in Fukushima / NHK / November 14, 2011 / Doctors in Fukushima Prefecture are hitting the road to improve children’s’ access to thyroid tests in an effort to spot possible health problems associated with …

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Fukushima Update – Day 248

Posted on November 13, 2011 by CorbettNovember 13, 2011

Fukushima’s Radiant Media Junket / BagNews / November 12, 2011 / Oh, are there photos from yesterday’s Fukushima media junket orchestrated by TEPCO and the Japanese Government. (The NYT ran 14 pics, The Daily Mail used 18, CBS ran 31.) Getty photog…

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Fukushima Update – Day 247

Posted on November 12, 2011 by CorbettNovember 12, 2011

Gov’t updates radiation maps with data on six new prefectures / Mainichi Daily / November 12, 2011 The government has released soil radiation maps covering a much broader swath of Japan than previous releases, covering six new prefectures. The ne…

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Fukushima Update – Day 246

Posted on November 11, 2011 by CorbettNovember 11, 2011

Fukushima and Its Impact Upon the Westinghouse-Toshiba Designed AP1000 Atomic Power Plant / Fairewinds.com / November 11, 2011 / Fukushima and Its Impact Upon the Westinghouse-Toshiba Designed AP1000 Atomic Power Plant from Fairewinds Associates on Vim…

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Fukushima Update – Day 245

Posted on November 10, 2011 by CorbettNovember 10, 2011

TEPCO to monitor xenon at Fukushima plant / NHK / November 10, 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Company or TEPCO says that it will install devices to detect radioactive xenon and determine any occurrence of nuclear criticality. Radioactive xenon was detected …

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Fukushima Update – Day 243

Posted on November 8, 2011 by CorbettNovember 8, 2011

Smaller increase in children’s weight in Fukushima / NHK / November 7, 2011 A survey shows that some children in Fukushima Prefecture have smaller average weight gains this year compared to the year before. A pediatrician says the results indicat…

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Fukushima Update – Day 242

Posted on November 7, 2011 by CorbettNovember 7, 2011

TEPCO begins removing cesium from spent fuel pool / NHK / November 7, 2011 / The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun removing radioactive cesium from water in the spent fuel pool of one of the damaged reactors. Tokyo Electri…

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Fukushima Update – Day 241

Posted on November 6, 2011 by CorbettNovember 6, 2011

German nuclear professor: Fukushima like a mini atomic bomb? / ENEnews.com / November 6, 2011 / Source: Bild.de Translation by: BreadAndButter Date: Nov. 5, 2011 In view of reports of an uncontrolled nuclear fission reactor accident in Japan’s Fukush…

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Fukushima Update – Day 240

Posted on November 5, 2011 by CorbettNovember 5, 2011

Tokyo Governor to Tokyo Residents Who Protest Against Disaster Debris from Iwate: “Shut Up” / ex-SKF / November 4, 2011 Now that the radioactive disaster debris from Iwate Prefecture is a fait accompli and ready to be crushed and burned and…

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Fukushima Update – Day 239

Posted on November 4, 2011 by CorbettNovember 4, 2011

CNN: Tepco’s claim of ‘spontaneous’ fission is an “improbable phenomenon” says nuke professor / ENEnews.com / November 4, 2011 “A rare type of radioactive decay, not a renewed chain reaction, appears to have produced the radioactive xenon g…

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Fukushima Update – Day 238

Posted on November 3, 2011 by CorbettNovember 3, 2011

TEPCO Retracts Criticality Call / NHK / November 3, 2011 The operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant has retracted an earlier assessment that a continuous nuclear reaction, or a criticality, could have taken place in the damaged Number 2 reactor….

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Fukushima Update – Day 237

Posted on November 2, 2011 by CorbettNovember 2, 2011

Reactor 2 may have reached criticality – a state of self-sustaining nuclear fission / Enformable.com / November 2, 2011 / Officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) pumped water mixed with boric acid into the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 n…

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Fukushima Update – Day 236

Posted on November 1, 2011 by CorbettNovember 1, 2011

Cabinet official drinks glass of ground water from Fukushima plant to prove safety / Mainichi Daily News / November 1, 2011 / A Cabinet official looking to prove the safety of purified ground water from beneath the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant put his…

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Fukushima Update – 2011/10/31 (Video)

Posted on October 31, 2011 by CorbettOctober 31, 2011

via CorbettReport.com: In today’s Fukushima Update we highlight an editorial on the IAEA by “Nuclear Free by 2045″; note a new video interview with Aileen Mioko Smith; and go over all of today’s latest Fukushima news and updates.

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Fukushima Update – Day 235

Posted on October 31, 2011 by CorbettOctober 31, 2011

Japan Gov’t on Containing Radiation: “We don’t have experience in this field” / ENEnews.com / October 31, 2011 / KORIYAMA, Oct. 31 — “Japan still is struggling to figure out how to clean up the mess, exacerbating fears about health risks an…

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Fukushima Update – Day 234

Posted on October 29, 2011 by CorbettOctober 29, 2011

J-Gov Reserves More For Compensation Then Decontamination / Enformable.com / October 29, 2011 Oct 29 (Reuters) – Japanese officials in towns around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant reacted guardedly to plans announced on Saturday to build facilit…

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Fukushima Update – 2011/10/28 (Video)

Posted on October 29, 2011 by CorbettOctober 29, 2011

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Fukushima Update – Day 233

Posted on October 29, 2011 by CorbettOctober 29, 2011

TEPCO seeks 1 tril. yen for N-compensation / Daily Yomiuri / October 30, 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. filed an application Friday with a government-backed body for about 1 trillion yen in funds to finance compensation payments in connection with the n…

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Fukushima Update – Day 232

Posted on October 28, 2011 by CorbettOctober 28, 2011

Abnormal smoke from reactor 2 / Fukushima-Diary.com / October 27, 2011 Being abnormal is normal for Fukushima. Reactor 2 was emitting extraordinary smoke and steam on 10/22/2011 at 17:24.(JST) In the video below,it starts spreading at 1:05. When it sta…

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Fukushima Update – 2011/10/27 (Video)

Posted on October 26, 2011 by CorbettOctober 26, 2011

via CorbettReport.com: In today’s Fukushima Update we examine some new data on radiation testing and preview a paper that will be delivered next week on radiation exposures in Japan. We also go over all of the latest articles on the Fukushima crisis …

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Fukushima Update – Day 231

Posted on October 26, 2011 by CorbettOctober 26, 2011

Enformable.com / October 26, 2011 / Masato Muto works for Tokyo Electric Power Co. in a rented one-story building in Fukushima Prefecture, where only a clock and a calendar hang on the office walls, and most days, only angry people come through the fro…

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Fukushima Update 2011/10/26 (Video)

Posted on October 26, 2011 by CorbettOctober 26, 2011

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Fukushima Update – Day 230

Posted on October 26, 2011 by CorbettOctober 26, 2011

Must Read: Asahi Shinbun “Trap of Prometheus” Series Part 1 – Men in Protective Clothing (9, 10) “500 Microsieverts/Hr Radiation” / ex-SKF / October 24, 2011 / (Installment 1, Installments 2 and 3, Installments 4 and 5, In…

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Fukushima Update 2011/10/25 (Video)

Posted on October 25, 2011 by CorbettOctober 26, 2011

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Fukushima Update – Day 229

Posted on October 25, 2011 by CorbettOctober 26, 2011

Japan Official: No need to evacuate people in city of 400,000 near Tokyo / ENEnews.com / October 24, 2011 / Anonymous Local Official: “The numbers we found last week were way above what we could imagine” “In the latest sign that radioactive mater…

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