Sunday, January 29, 2012

• Bloomberg – Atomic-Free Japan by April Roils Debate on Economic Risks – Yuriy Humber
• Reuters – Japan finds water leaks at stricken nuclear plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Lack of govt records highlights solidarity gaps – Osamu Kawakami and Koichiro Ashikaga
• Japan Times – Hosono urges towns to aid disposal effort
• Japan Times – State won’t fund free medical care in Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – IAEA to set up Fukushima office to share info on nuclear crisis
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan ‘is recovering’ from March disaster, Noda tells Davos forum
• Mainichi Daily News – Former Hokkaido Electric manager under fire over fraud
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima municipal heads urge gov’t to submit clear, concrete reparation plans
• Nikkei – Water Leaks At 14 Points At Fukushima Complex

Saturday, January 28, 2012

• AFP Google – UN nuclear agency to set up Fukushima office: report
• CNN – Resident defiant in Japan’s exclusion zone
• Daily Yomiuri – System eyed to predict spread of terror substances
• Daily Yomiuri – Radiation testing on school lunches differs
• Daily Yomiuri – Kawauchi govt heading home / Village 1st to return among those forced out by Fukushima N-crisis
• Japan Times – Fukushima casts a shadow over India’s industrial boom – Jeff Kingston
• Japan Times – No records kept of nuke crisis meetings: Okada
• Mainichi Daily News – Famed Aomori fishing port lives in shadow of new MOX fuel nuclear plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan’s plutonium stockpile builds as nuke fuel cycle policy hits dead end
• Mainichi Daily News – Post-nationalized TEPCO to solicit capital to update thermal generators
• Mainichi Daily News – Tohoku Electric expects 250 bil. yen net loss for fiscal 2011 on quake
• Mainichi Daily News – Govt failed to keep records of key nuke meetings

Friday, January 27, 2012

• Press of Atlantic City – Scientists consider, ‘If Fukushima happened in South Jersey …’ – Sarah Watson
• Arirang News – Decontaminating Highly Radioactive Areas to Put on Hold
• BBC News – Japan did not keep records of nuclear disaster meetings
• Bloomberg – Atomic-Free Japan by April Roils Debate on Reactor Restarts, Blackout Risk – Yuriy Humber
• Bloomberg – Japan’s Post-Fukushima Reactor Checks Are ‘Insufficient,’ Advisers Say – Yuriy Humber
• Bloomberg – Japan Has 3 Reactors With 6.4% of Total Capacity Online – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• The Guardian – Experts cast doubt on Japan nuclear plant tests – Justin McCurry
• IAEA – IAEA Mission Reviews Safety Assessment at Ohi Nuclear Power Plant
• NPR – Japan’s ‘Nuclear Alley’ Conflicted Over Reactors
• Reuters – Update 3-Japan says can avoid summer power cuts even if nuclear offline – Kentaro Hamada
• Daily Yomiuri – 10 disaster teams failed to take minutes
• Daily Yomiuri – Less polluted areas to come 1st / Govt releases decontamination schedule for Fukushima Prefecture
• Daily Yomiuri – DPJ seriously blundered by not recording meetings
• Denki Shimbun – Progress in Rokkasho reprocessing plant project
• Denki Shimbun – Japan down to four operating nuclear reactors
• Japan Times – NRC briefed NISA on contingencies; Tepco in dark – Minoru Matsutani
• Japan Times – Fukui’s ‘Nuclear Alley’ conflicted over restarting reactors
• Japan Times – Summer power curbs said unlikely
• Japan Times – Nuclear foes defy order to remove tents from the grounds of METI – Minoru Matsutani
• JapanToday – Chugoku Electric shuts Shimane No. 2 reactor, leaving Japan with only 3 reactors online
• Mainichi Daily News – Antinuclear activists refuse to move tents from gov’t land
• Mainichi Daily News – Decontamination schedule sheds no light on when evacuees can return
• Mainichi Daily News – Power policy remains mired in power play
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima agricultural group proposes tougher restrictions on rice planting
• Mainichi Daily News – Testing centers inundated with requests to check gravel for radiation
• Mainichi Daily News – Bathhouse mural painter honors Fukushima hometown lost to nuke crisis
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan aims to end decontamination work in some evacuation areas by 2014
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to spend 1 tril. yen over 10 yrs toward scrapping reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – Only 3 reactors online in Japan after Chugoku Electric halts unit

Thursday, January 26, 2012

• ABC – Japan loses track of radioactive cows – Mark Willacy
• Deutsche Welle – Japan’s TEPCO to be nationalized amid IAEA inspection – Sarah Berning
• Eurasia Review – Fukushima Is So Yesterday – OpEd – William A. Collins
• The Independent – Revealed: secret evacuation plan for Tokyo after Fukushima – David McNeill
• New York Times – Japan: Nuclear Contamination Cleanup Near Stricken Plant to Start in Spring – Martin Fackler
• Reuters – Table-Japan nuclear plant ops (Shimane No.2 enters turnaround) – Osamu Tsukimori and Risa Maeda
• Reuters – Japan’s stricken nuclear operator set for $13 billion bailout – Kentaro Hamada and Linda Sieg
• Reuters – Feature-Japanese town’s dependence on nuclear plant hushes criticism – Yoko Kubota
• TIME – Japan Reactor To Undergo Safety Approval – Mari Yamaguchi
• UPI – Fukushima radiation could be ocean risk
• Washington Post – Japan losing hope for its pricey “dream reactor” – Chico Harlan
• Daily Yomiuri – Suspect cattle still untested / Location of nearly 3,000 cows in radiation scare remains unknown
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO’s capital to be boosted by 1 tril. yen
• Japan Times – Hibakusha embark on no-nukes sea voyage
• Japan Times – Freedom of press hurt by nuclear crisis: group – Hiroko Nakata
• Mainichi Daily News – Veteran nuclear experts regret Fukushima crisis, but still see need for reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO rate hike would drive some steelmakers into red
• Tokyo Times – Japan’s ‘Nuclear Alley’ conflicted over reactors
• Tokyo Times – More Japanese companies to join Fukushima cleanup

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

• Bloomberg – Tepco Rises After Report on State-Fund Injection – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Bloomberg – Tepco Idles Unit Cutting Japan Nuclear Capacity to 8.1% – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• CNN – Fukushima’s exclusion zone a ghost town – Kyung Lah
• Epoch Times – Japan’s Nuclear Temp Workers Exposed to Unmeasured Risks – Jack Phillips
• Reuters – Rpt-Update 2-Japan’s stricken nuclear operator set for $13 bln bailout – sources – Kentaro Hamada and Linda Sieg
• Reuters – Tokyo Elec to accept Y1 trln public fund injection -sources
• UPI – Japan taking center stage at Fukushima
• Washington Post – After earthquake, Japan can’t agree on the future of nuclear power – Chico Harlan
• Washington Post – Nuclear reactors staying idle
• World Nuclear News – Trade figures reveal cost of Japan’s nuclear shutdown
• Daily Yomiuri – Japan records 2.5 trillion yen trade deficit
• Japan Times – Radioactive gravel tied to more prefabs
• Japan Times – Asian quest for energy security – Michael Richardson
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear power boosters used climate change to ride to energy supremacy
• Mainichi Daily News – Village in Fukushima no-go zone to call for residents to return permanently by March
• Mainichi Daily News – Sunflower oil pressed from nuke disaster no-go zone seeds almost radiation-free
• Mainichi Daily News – Setagaya decontamination work continues 3 months after radioactive radium found
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to continue halt of new recruitment in spring 2013
• Tokyo Times – More Japanese companies to join Fukushima cleanup
• The Diplomat – Taiwan’s Nuclear Future? – Henry Philippens

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

• KIVI-TV – Report: Fallout from Fukushima coincides with spike in Boise infant mortality rate – Mac King
• Financial Times – Japan needs all the help it can get with clean-up – Mure Dickie
• Global Research – Nuclear Radiation Levels from Fukushima Are RISING
• Nuclear Engineering – Kashiwazaki-Kariwa 1&7 stress test results published
• Salem-News – Fukushima Radiation Spreads Worldwide
• UPI – IAEA team arrives in Tokyo
• World Nuclear News – IAEA double-checks Japanese tests
• Denki Shimbun – Utility industry to establish independent nuclear safety organization
• Japan Times – Fallout from Fukushima No. 1 on rise
• Japan Times – Tepco down to one operating nuclear reactor
• Japan Times – Roos says A-bomb park reflective, not celebratory – Tucson Citizen
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to shut down another reactor, to leave only 1 in service
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan, Ukraine to launch talks on nuclear cooperation this week
• Mainichi Daily News – Electric power industry extended donations to major political parties
• Mainichi Daily News – Minutes of past gov’t meetings on Fukushima crisis to be created
• Mainichi Daily News – Cash-strapped TEPCO asks for extra 500 bil. yen in loans from creditor bank
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to invite other firms to invest in 6 non-nuclear plants
• East Asia: Reuters – Japan task force kept no records of nuclear crisis response – Yoko Kubota and Shinichi Saoshiro

Monday, January 23, 2012

• ABC – Falling radiation permits search for bodies near Fukushima – Mark Willacy
• Bloomberg – IAEA May Open Permanent Office at Japan Nuclear Accident Site – Jacob Adelman
• PEJ News – The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster – One Year – Later
• Platts – Japan’s Tepco undecided on spinoff or sale of thermal power business – Takeo Kumagai
• Reuters Africa – Update 1-Japan to double guarantee on loans to Tepco – Nikkei – Ashutosh Pandey
• Reuters – IAEA begins review of Japan’s nuclear stress tests – Shinichi Saoshiro
• Reuters – Tokyo Electric to delay maintenance on 1 reactor – Osamu Tsukimori
• Xinhua News – IAEA delegation talk with Japan on nuclear stress tests
• Daily Yomiuri – YIES / Hosono: Contribute to world through decommissioning – Hiromu Namiki
• Japan Times – Tainted stone tied to 60 buildings so far
• Japan Times – IAEA team, NISA hold first talks on stress tests
• Mainichi Daily News – Radioactive crushed stone used in around 60 Fukushima buildings
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t withheld estimates showing electricity surplus to boost nuclear power: critics
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear researchers receiving questionable donations from industry, gov’t
• Mainichi Daily News – 60 percent opposed to consumption tax hike: Mainichi poll
• MajiroxNews – What was the response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster? We don’t know.
• RocketNews24 – University of Tokyo Estimates 70% Chance 7.0 Earthquake To Hit Tokyo Within 4 Years