via 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 …
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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…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
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 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 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 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 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 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 Japan Times / August 5, 2012 / Almost 90 percent of the public supports the disposal of tsunami debris outside disaster-hit areas, a Cabinet Office survey showed Saturday. Some 88.3 percent of respondents said the incineration of debris by muni…
Continue readingvia 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…
Continue readingby Takaaki Tamura / The Asahi Shimbun / August 03, 2012 The town of Namie, in the no-entry zone surrounding the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, is set to issue its own radiation dose book for evacuees this month in the hope it will lead to a natio…
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