Sunday, January 01, 2012

• Morningstar News – Some Japan Nuclear Safety Panel Members Received Donations From Nuclear Industry-Report
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear decontamination law goes into full force
• Mainichi Daily News – Strong quake jolts eastern, northeastern Japan

Saturday, December 31, 2011

• Orange County Register blog – Nuclear energy, 2011: ‘The year of Fukushima’ – Teri Sforza
• Australian Eye – More than half of nuclear radiation zone evacuees in Japan have yet to return home – Nigel Shelbourne
• Japan Times – Counterpoint: For how much longer will Japan’s fate remain in the hands of amateurs? – Roger Pulvers
• Japan Times – Rice farmers respond to challenge of slow consumption, prospect of TPP
• Japan Times – What 2011 means for Japan in 2012 and beyond
• Japan Times – DIY cesium scanning store may be ‘new normal’ – Jun Hongo
• Japan Times – Media awards: Tokyo powers down as idols power up – Philip Brasor
• Japan Times – Brit envoy, three Japanese staff hailed for disaster efforts
• Japan Times – Editorial: Quality of governance in 2012
• Japan Times – Editorial: The great unraveling
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear decontamination law to go into full force Sunday
• Mainichi Daily News – GSDF commander says he thought Japan done for as he faced Fukushima nuke crisis

Friday, December 30, 2011

• Atlantic Wire – The Yakuza and the Nuclear Mafia: Nationalization Looms for TEPCO – Jake Adelstein
• Business Week – Sumitomo Mitsui to Consider Loans to Tepco on ‘Three Conditions’ – Shigeru Sato
• The Examiner – Fukushima: Cover up a human rights violation – Deborah Dupre
• Ria Novosti – Japan sets up four expert groups for another Fukushima probe – David Guttenfelder
• World Nuclear News – Fault lines in Japanese nuclear regime
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO neglected anti-flood measures at Fukushima plant despite knowing risk
• Radio Taiwan – Orchid Island residents protest nuclear waste facility
• Taipei Times – Tao march against Lanyu nuclear leak – Loa Iok-sin

Thursday, December 29, 2011

• Global Research – Fukushima: Diseased Seals in Alaska tested for Radiation
• Bloomberg – Japan May Plan ‘Good Tepco, Bad Tepco’ – Yuriy Humber and Yuji Okada
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Everyone Downwind for Fallout from Fukushima – Tony Rutherford
• Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear Accident Interim Report / Law dysfunctional in face of unimaginable disaster
• Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear Accident Interim Report / Without water, reactor cores heated up
• Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear Accident Interim Report / Fears slowed SPEEDI info
• Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear Accident Interim Report / Prime Minister’s Office caused delay in release of info
• Daily Yomiuri – Japan, India agree to boost maritime security cooperation – Yoshihiro Kiyonaga
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima hospitals in financial strife / Services being cut as medical facilities’ losses top 12 billion yen due to nuclear crisis – Joji Takagai
• Daily Yomiuri – Japan, India make trade push / Noda, Singh agree to cooperate on infrastructure development
• Denki Shimbun – TEPCO to raise electricity rates for business customers
• Mainichi Daily News – Last of evacuation shelters closed in Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t request for nuclear storage facility site sends shockwaves through Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Gov’t should promote renewable energy as myth of nuclear power’s cheapness shattered
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t asks Fukushima to host interim waste storage facility
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan starts operating new centrifuges for enriching uranium
• Mainichi Daily News – Prosecutors drop case against actor Yamamoto, antinuclear protesters
• Tokyo Times – 10,000 free flights to Japan: Cancelled

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

• BBC News – Tepco shares fall on fears that it may be nationalised
• Business Week – No-man’s land attests to Japan’s nuclear nightmare – David Guttenfelder and Eric Talmadge
• CounterPunch – Christmas in the Radiation Zone – Chris Williams
• Xinhua News – Japanese PM hints at revival of nuclear talks with India
• Xinhua News – Japan government asks TEPCO to consider temporarily state control
• Daily Yomiuri – NISA ‘powerless to handle severe accident’ / Interim report: Agency merely urged TEPCO to provide information, failed to control situation – Shin Watanabe
• Japan Times – Spare us the propaganda routine – Jens Nicolay
• Japan Times – Firms’ credit ratings suffer in year of crises
• Japan Times – Editorial: Unprepared for what happened
• Japan Times – Editorial: Budget with record-high spending
• Mainichi Daily News – Radioactive cesium in cedar pollen in Fukushima poses no health hazard: gov’t agency
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima governor demands TEPCO decommission all its 10 nuke reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – Promoter of controversial fast-breeder reactor project appointed to top bureaucratic post
• Mainichi Daily News – Residents sue to seek complete suspension of Genkai reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – Workers in disaster-hit regions hope for brighter 2012
• Mainichi Daily News – Residents sue to seek complete suspension of Genkai reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t adopts report proposing drastic reform of utility system
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to enhance tsunami measures, panel doubles quake focal area

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

• BBC News – Tepco seeks an extra $9bn in aid to pay compensation
• Bellona – Panel’s interim report condemns response to disaster at Fukushima Daiichi – Charles Digges
• Bloomberg – METI Says Tepco Should Consider Temporary Government Control – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Bloomberg – Fukushima Probe Highlights Nuclear Regulator – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Stuart Biggs
• Bloomberg – Tepco Requests $8.8B More Aid for Japan Disaster – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
• Global Research – Announcement of “Cold Shutdown” of Fukushima Reactors Is Based On a Political Decision, Not Science
• New York Times – Japan Recommends Temporary State Control for Tokyo Electric – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Reuters – Japan OK helps nuclear reprocessing, not new reactor – Risa Maeda
• Reuters – Update 2-Japan trade min to call for Tepco nationalisation-Nikkei – Yoko Kubota
• Reuters – Tepco seeks $9 bln more for Fukushima compensation
• Xinhua News – Report finds Japan’s response to tsunami unsatisfying
• Daily Yomiuri – Locals fume at poor N-crisis response
• Daily Yomiuri – NISA ‘powerless to handle severe accident’ / Interim report: Agency merely urged TEPCO to provide information,
  

Monday, December 26, 2011

• The Australian – TEPCO says it ‘no longer owns’ Fukushima fallout by: Rick Wallace
• Sydney Morning Herald – Nuclear fears dominate talks between Japan and China
• BBC News – Fukushima accident: disaster response failed – report
• BBC News – Long road back for Fukushima city hit by twin disasters
• Bloomberg – Fukushima Probe Highlights Nuclear Regulator – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Stuart Biggs
• Financial Times – Report scathing of response to Fukushima nuclear crisis – Michiyo Nakamoto
• The Guardian – The fallout from the Fukushima disaster – Leo Hickman
• The Guardian – Fukushima investigation reveals failings
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Gundersen: Trillions in Damages from Fukushima
• New York Times – Report Condemns Japan’s Response to Nuclear Accident – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Reuters – Table-Japan nuclear plant ops (Genkai No.4 enters turnaround) – Osamu Tsukimori and Risa Maeda
• Reuters – Japan nuclear disaster made worse by bad preparation, communication – Shinichi Saoshiro
• Reuters – Update 1-Kyushu Elec: may not be able to meet power demand – Kaori Kaneko and Risa Maeda
• Yahoo! News – Japan probe finds nuclear disaster response failed – Yuri Kageyama
• Denki Shimbun – Up to 40 years to decommission Fukushima I reactors
• Denki Shimbun – IAEA Director General predicted increase in nuclear plants to remain strong
• Japan Times – A trilateral foundation for Indo-Pacific security – Walter Ladwig
• Japan Times – New plants to clean Fukushima debris
• Japan Times – Quake prediction myth debunked – Rob Gilhooly
• Japan Times – State, Tepco slammed for crisis response – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Kyushu utility urges power saving
• Japan Times – Report blasts government’s crisis response – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Noda asks Hu to help on six-party nuke talks
• Japan Today – Genkai No. 4 reactor shut down; only 6 reactors now operating in Japan
• Mainichi Daily News – No direct link between soil radiation and contaminated rice: survey
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima accident shows need to prepare for the unexpected: panel
• Mainichi Daily News – Ministry sets guideline to reuse contaminated waste
• Mainichi Daily News – 3 pilot plants to try decontaminating debris in Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – Fumbling gov’t faces huge challenges in 2012
• Mainichi Daily News – Genkai reactor suspended, leaving 6 reactors in service in Japan