Sunday, February 05, 2012

• Reuters – Most Japanese towns undecided on nuclear stress tests: survey
• Asahi Shimbun – Experiment to dispose of nuclear waste hits another roadblock – Jin Nishikawa
• Mainichi Daily News – Residents launch thermal power project to revive spa resort in Fukushima
• Tokyo Times – Japan plans to join pact on nuclear compensations

Saturday, February 04, 2012

• Daily Yomiuri – Health ministry should rethink radiation regulatory plan
• Daily Yomiuri – Furnace fault delays tests at spent nuclear fuel plant
• Daily Yomiuri – 573 deaths ‘related to nuclear crisis’
• Daily Yomiuri – Disaster-hit areas to host intl meeting
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt eyes relaxation of rules on construction of renewable energy plants
• Japan Times – Nuclear crisis given lightweight treatment – Jeff Kingston
• Mainichi Daily News – Falsified labor deals rampant at Japan’s nuke plants, says suspect
• Mainichi Daily News – Tokyo gov’t unveils transport of incinerated radioactive sludge from sewage plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Competition, stability, affordability must be watchwords in gov’t electricity system reform
• Mainichi Daily News – High levels of radioactive cesium detected in Yokohama
• Mainichi Daily News – Test to vitrify radioactive liquid waste to be suspended at Rokkasho
• Mainichi Daily News – Hibakusha: Too early to call it quits
• Mainichi Daily News – Excessive radioactive cesium levels found at 38 Fukushima rice farms
• Taiwan News – Taipower keeps lid on visit international experts to check Taiwan’s nuclear safety

Friday, February 03, 2012

• Bloomberg – Tepco President Rebuked by Rescue Fund Chief on Utility Rate Increase – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
• Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for January 31st – February 2nd, 2012 – Christine McCann
• Reuters – Analysis:Nuclear crisis bolsters Japan push for utilities reform – Linda Sieg
• Washington Post – More leaks of radioactive water found at crippled Japanese nuclear plant
• Xinhua News – Operating rate of Japan’s nuclear reactors at record low in Jan.
• Daily Yomiuri – Cold affects power supplies / Some regions close to blackouts as consumption rates soar
• Denki Shimbun – Did nuclear safety myth magnify the damage of accident?
• Denki Shimbun – Cabinet approves bills for nuclear safety reform
• Japan Times – Scientists say contamination of ocean fish minimal so far – Mizuho Aoki
• JIJI Press – Japan Nuclear Fuel to Postpone Trial by One Month
• Mainichi Daily News – Indictment of contractors exposes illicit work at nuke plants
• Mainichi Daily News – Chernobyl experts hopeful on Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan asks IAEA nuclear crisis support network to add new category

Thursday, February 02, 2012

• Daily Kos – New Leak at Fukushima: Frozen Pipe “Drops Off”
• Earthweek – Japan Reactor Fallout Increased in January
• Irish Times – Bird life badly hit by nuclear fallout in Japan – DAVID McNEILL
• Reuters – Japan governor wants nuclear safety pledge in writing – Risa Maeda
• Reuters – Update 1-Fukushima reactor leaks, radiation tiny -Tepco – Mark Bendeich and Kiyoshi Takenaka
• UPI – Report: Water leak from reactor pipe fixed
• Japan Times – Advisers charge reactor stress tests ignore lessons of March 11 – Yuriy Humber
• Mainichi Daily News – Hibakusha: Now is the time to discuss radioactive ‘black rain’
• Mainichi Daily News – Researchers produce device to create biofuel from contaminated lumber
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima farmers furious over lack of consideration in decontamination subsidies
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear crisis leads to 61% plunge in Hitachi’s April-Dec. profit
• Tokyo Reporter – Pipe at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi plant breaks, leaks 8.5 tons of radioactive water, Kyodo says

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

• Bloomberg – Japan’s Nuclear Plant Safety Tests Ignore Fukushima Lessons, Advisers Say – Yuriy Humber
• New York Times – Atomic Agency Backs Safety Tests for Japan’s Reactors – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Nuclear Engineering – IAEA completes review of Japanese stress tests
• Reuters – Major new leak at Japan’s nuclear plant – Kyodo – Mark Bendeich
• Reuters – Update 1-Japan Jan nuclear plant usage falls to 10.3 pct – Risa Maeda
• Reuters – Analysis:Nuclear crisis bolsters Japan push for utilities reform – Linda Sieg
• Daily Yomiuri – Feasibility key for revamped N-safety scheme – Koichi Yasuda and Yoshihiro Kiyonaga
• Daily Yomiuri – Evacuated village to reopen from April
• Daily Yomiuri – Declaration ‘just the beginning’ / Mayor’s plea for villagers to return to Kawauchi draws mixed reactions
• Daily Yomiuri – Feasibility key for revamped N-safety scheme – Koichi Yasuda and Yoshihiro Kiyonaga
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt sticks to 40-year limit for nuclear reactor operations
• Daily Yomiuri – Editorial: New agency must reshape nuclear safety administration
• Japan Times – Fuel costs put four utilities in the red
• Japan Times – Dairy firms to disclose milk radiation test results
• Japan Times – Fukui nuclear plants key issue in Kyoto mayor race – Eric Johnston
• Japan Times – Fukushima puts East Asia nuclear policies on notice – Kazuaki Nagata
• Mainichi Daily News – Hibakusha: A-bomb survivor’s son to keep telling late father’s story
• Mainichi Daily News – Residents wary of call to return to village near crippled Fukushima plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Nuclear regulatory reform must weed out entrenched interests
• Mainichi Daily News – IAEA says Fukushima office still under consideration, no decision yet
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO sees no change in 17% electricity rate hike plan for companies
• Mainichi Daily News – 1,704 people seek shutdown of Genkai nuclear plant in largest group suit
• Asia: Epoch Times – Japanese Atomic Agency Exposes Nuclear Accident in Beijing – Xiong Bin and Lan Zhu

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

• Deutsche Welle – Japan eyes nuclear reactor restart to meet energy demand
• The Guardian – IAEA approves stress tests on Japan reactors – Justin McCurry
• Radio New Zealand – Health impact small from Fukushima
• Reuters – No big Fukushima health impact seen: U.N. body chairman – Fredrik Dahl
• Reuters – UN nuclear agency approves Japan’s stress tests – Shinichi Saoshiro
• Washington Post – Japan losing hope for its pricey ‘dream reactor’ – Chico Harlan
• Washington Post – Japan Cabinet OKs bills capping nuclear reactors at 40 years, merging safety agencies
• World Nuclear News – IAEA reviews Japan’s nuclear restart process
• Xinhua News – Nuclear safety tests in Japan appropriate: IAEA
• Daily Yomiuri – IAEA OK’s stress test review process
• Daily Yomiuri – Hope growing for indoor farming in disaster-hit Tohoku region
• Daily Yomiuri – Cabinet approves nuclear bills
• Daily Yomiuri – Editorial: Ensure successful test-run of nuclear recycling plant
• Denki Shimbun – IAEA mission inspected implementation of stress test
• Denki Shimbun – Fukushima investigation panel to issue final report in July
• Japan Times – NISA upholding stress tests but too closed: IAEA – Kazuaki Nagata
• Mainichi Daily News – IAEA report on ‘stress test’ soundness does not equal go-ahead for reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – Furnace malfunction hobbles Aomori spent nuke fuel reprocessing plant – Daily News of Newburyport
• Mainichi Daily News – Niigata nursery school workers set up space for Fukushima parents and children
• Mainichi Daily News – ‘Shadow meals’ employed to keep families safe from radiation
• Mainichi Daily News – Wind power station planned in place of nuclear plant in Wakayama town
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan’s nuclear stress tests deemed consistent with IAEA standards

Monday, January 30, 2012

• AFP Google – Japan studies flora and fauna near Fukushima plant
• Environment News Service – Freezing Fukushima Nuclear Plant Leaks Water
• MSN NZ News – Japan studies radiation impact on nature
• Nuclear Engineering – Noda calls for reduction of nuclear in Japan, where only three reactors remain in operation
• Reuters – Japan govt to ask TEPCO to scale back rate hike-Asahi – Nobuhiro Kubo
• Reuters – UN nuclear agency approves Japan’s stress tests – Shinichi Saoshiro
• Reuters – Fukushima pets in no-go zone face harsh winter – Issei Kato and Kiyoshi Takenaka
• UPI – U.N. to assess Fukushima fallout effects
• Xinhua News – TEPCO ordered to prevent water leaks at stricken nuke plant
• Xinhua News – Japan finds 14 water leaks at stricken nuclear plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Stick to timetable to bring nuclear evacuees back home
• Daily Yomiuri – JNFL to resume vitrification tests shortly / 1st tests in 3 years; outcome to have significant impact on policy regarding nuclear fuel cycle – Yuta Moriyama and Yohei Odakura
• Daily Yomiuri – Special hose used to clean contaminated paving stones
• Daily Yomiuri – Defense contractors faked reports / Investigation finds evidence that Mitsubishi Electric required staff to lie
• Japan Times – Hefty yen helps cut energy costs: Koo
• Japan Times – Nuclear Power Plebiscites–Plebicites first step in pulling nuclear plug – Eric Johnston
• Japan Times – Cyber-attack disrupts website of nuclear crisis panel – Minoru Matsutani
• Japan Times – Fukushima No. 1 pipes freeze, leak
• Japan Times – Upgraded Quince robots ready for second foray – Hiroko Nakata
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t starts study of radiation effects on wildlife near Fukushima plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t, TEPCO heading for showdown over electricity rate hike
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t divided on plans to split TEPCO’s business functions
• Mainichi Daily News – Mayor protests TEPCO’s refusal to boost nuclear compensation payment
• Mainichi Daily News – Evacuees of Fukushima village report split families, growing frustration
• Mainichi Daily News – Evacuees allowed to reclaim pets during 3rd no-go zone visit, but none found
• Mainichi Daily News – Water leaks at 14 points at Fukushima complex
• Mainichi Daily News – Inside of Hiroshima’s A-bomb dome unveiled to media