Sunday, March 18, 2012

• Green Left Weekly – Japan: One year after Fukushima, people speak out – Daniel P. Aldrich
• Green Left Weekly – Australia’s role in the Fukushima disaster – Jim Green
• Enformable – Nuclear Terms and Acronyms
• Yahoo!7 News – 80% in Japan ‘support nuclear phase-out’
• Daily Yomiuri – Heads of 4 municipalities favor restarting N-reactors after govt OK
• Daily Yomiuri – Local govts seek state judgment on N-reactors / Safety fears, economic impact complicate local authorities’ ability to decide on reactivation – Takayuki Arita
• Daily Yomiuri – Virtual fight starts against N-plant terror
• Daily Yomiuri – Insurers sell services for mega solar plants
• Daily Yomiuri – Local govts have duty to air residents’ wishes – Takaaki Suzuki
• Daily Yomiuri – State-run universities remain popular in disaster-hit region
• Daily Yomiuri – Town asked to accept debris ash / Govt wants Tomioka to bury radioactive residue in private landfill
• Fukushima Diary – Cement company in Okinawa will recycle radioactive debris – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – “Don’t play in the park for longer than 1 hour a day” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Cesium measured from plankton 600km from Fukushima plants – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radioactive wind hits Tokyo from 3/17 to 3/19 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fire or light at Fukushima plants – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Third of Fukushima kids got first radiation lessons from disaster: poll
• Japan Times – Thousands drill for Tsuruga nuke plant disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Huge offshore wind-power project sparks backlash from Fukushima fishing community

Saturday, March 17, 2012

• St. Paul Pioneer Press – New post-Fukushima nuclear regs could cost Xcel millions – Leslie Brooks Suzukamo
• Enformable – Post-Fukushima Japan resumes work on nuclear fuel facility in Aomori Prefeture – Lucas W Hixson
• Fukushima Diary – Death marathon again – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Corium may have been penetrated completely 15 hours after meltdown – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Australia considers accepting radioactive debris – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Cardiac arrest case was doubled after 311 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Reactor1 heated – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Onna son voted unanimously to accept radioactive debris in Okinawa – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Video] Inside of the SFP and container vessel of reactor 4 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Awaiting a nuclear tsunami?
• Japan Times – Plan to N-shrine reactors for millennia – Edan Corkill
• Japan Times – Lucky Dragon’s lethal catch – Mark Schreiber – E.A.S. Sarma
• Japan Times – Editorial: Time for antinuclear protests
• Japan Times – Toyama concludes cadmium cleanup
• Mainichi Daily News – No. of visitors to Japan shrinks 19% in Feb.
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima evacuees upset over gov’t plan for set compensation amounts
• Mainichi Daily News – Long-term nuclear evacuees should get 6 mil. yen each: gov’t panel
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima evacuees upset over gov’t plan for set compensation amounts
• Mainichi Daily News – Radioactive material not detected on pollen: researcher
• Mainichi Daily News – Evacuated residents of Fukushima no-go area set up temporary town nearby
• Mainichi Daily News – Seeing the U.S. base issue in a different light
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan using overseas food aid to help dispel contamination fears
• Mainichi Daily News – Long-term nuclear evacuees should get 6 mil. yen each: gov’t panel

Friday, March 16, 2012

• Forbes – Nuclear Scientist Responds To Critics Of His Belief That Fukushima Refugees Are Victims Of Fear, Not Radiation – Christopher Helman
• Reuters – Update 1-IAEA: “significant” nuclear growth despite Fukushima – Fredrik Dahl
• IEEE Spectrum – No Nukes and No Blackouts in Japan? – John Boyd
• New Scientist – Don’t compare Fukushima to Chernobyl – Don Higson
• Reuters Africa – UPDATE 1-TEPCO to request 700 bln yen additional funding – Nikkei
• Reuters – Japan atomic regulator blocked crisis plan revamp – documents – Yoko Kubota
• YouTube – Global Fukushima Action Day 2012
• Denki Shimbun – International symposium held on Fukushima I decommissioning
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco is trying to put new heating gauge for reactor2 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Marine contamination may have reached north to Hawaii – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – SFP of reactor4 became cloudy – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Naha Okinawa is generally going to accept radioactive debris – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – NISA iced safer nuke evacuation zones
• Japan Times – Kan hero, or irate meddler? Jury out on if he thwarted Tepco pullout at No. 1 – Reiji Yoshida
• Japan Times – State panel riven on future use of atomic power
• Japan Times – App displays photos of disaster area
• Japan Times – Kan blasted Tepco, said no retreat from No. 1
• Mainichi Daily News – Holes in radiation decontamination law leave some Fukushima residents in doubt
• Mainichi Daily News – Okinawa and disaster-struck Tohoku region sacrificed for Tokyo: Okinawan novelist
• Mainichi Daily News – Holes in radiation decontamination law leave some Fukushima residents in doubt
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO admits hiring another former gov’t official after Fukushima meltdowns
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuke crisis far from under control as TEPCO’s ‘inadequate predictions’ continue

Thursday, March 15, 2012

• Newburyport Daily News – Keeping safe from another Fukushima
• Huffington Post – A Post-Fukushima World: Truths and Confusion About Global Energy – Vivian Norris
• NRDC – What if the Fukushima nuclear fallout crisis had happened here?
• Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works – Statement of Chairman Barbara Boxer “Lessons from Fukushima One Year Later: NRC’s Implementation of Recommendations for Enhancing Nuclear Reactor Safety in the 21st Century”
• Enformable – Workers at Fukushima Daiichi fail to enter Reactor 3 Suppression Chamber area due to damaged door – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Fukushima becoming synonymous with failure and the unknown – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Cesium contamination from Fukushima disaster found penetrating deeper into ground – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Naoto Kan discusses TEPCO plans to evacuate Fukushima Daiichi in Australian news interview – Lucas W Hixson
• Nuclear Engineering – EnergySolutions to treat contaminated water at Fukushima
• Utility Products – Japanese Cost Estimate for Nuclear Power set to Rise
• Wall Street Journal blog – Sayonara Denko-Chan: Tepco Unplugs Cartoon Mascot – Toko Sekiguchi
• World Nuclear News – Fukushima water treatment stepping up
• Fukushima Diary – Naha Okinawa is generally going to accept radioactive debris
• Fukushima Diary – Troll rejected by Tokushima prefecture with the perfect answer
• Fukushima Diary – Ibaraki local gov rebelled against JP gov about fishery product safety limit
• Fukushima Diary – A Fukushima citizen proved monitoring post was manipulated
• Fukushima Diary – Fall-out is increasing in Fukushima again – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Black substance coming down to Tokyo area
• Japan Times – Angry Kan to Tepco: Contain crisis at all costs
• Japan Times – Passivity toward negligence – Gebhard Hielscher
• Japan Times – China rival for Turkey nuke plant
• Kyodo News – Water in Fukushima plant’s No. 4 spent fuel pool may be less clear
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima citizens to accuse TEPCO, gov’t of negligence over crisis
• Mainichi Daily News – No cracks or strains seen in suppression chamber of No. 2 reactor at Fukushima plant
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO under fire for hiring ex-Tokyo gov’t bureaucrat to collect energy policy info
• Mainichi Daily News – The future of nuclear industry-dependent towns is now
• Mainichi Daily News – Meltdown judgment was difficult at early stage: ex-TEPCO vice pres.
• Mainichi Daily News – Noda hints at OK for nearly completed Shimane plant reactor to operate
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t panel divided on Japan’s future use of atomic power
• Mainichi Daily News – Noda hints at OK for nearly completed Shimane plant reactor to operate

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

• Salem News – Our View: Japan’s nuclear disaster unlikely here
• Open Salon – Jill Stein Asks: ‘Has Obama Learned Nothing from Fukushima?’
• Oceania: New Zealand Listener – Spike Milligan’s nuclear-free New Zealand ads – Toby Manhire
• The Australian – Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Japanese coast, tsunami wave hits coast – Shingo Ito
• Bloomberg – Japan Seeks Restart of Fukui Prefecture Reactors, Yomiuri Says – Takehiko Kumakura
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Fukushima in review: A complex disaster, a disastrous response – Yoichi Funabashi, Kay Kitazawa
• The Guardian – EnergySolutions awarded Fukushima clean-up contract – Fiona Harvey
• Reuters – Japan ministers to meet on reactor restart-media – Risa Maeda, Kentaro Hamada
• Washington Post – A Japanese town once famous for its cherry blossoms now sits empty – Chico Harlan
• Daily Yomiuri – Local communities await decision on reactors – Akiyoshi Hatamoto and Noriko Hara
• Daily Yomiuri – Meaning of ‘local’ authority unclear – Fukutaro Yamashita
• Daily Yomiuri – Kan stresses need for stricter N-management – Hidetoshi Ikebe
• Daily Yomiuri – NSC panel finalizes ideas on N-safety
• Daily Yomiuri – Approval seen for Oi nuclear plant test results
• Daily Yomiuri – Keeping hometown spirit alive / Town plans temporary location to encourage former residents to return
• Daily Yomiuri – NSC panel finalizes ideas on N-safety
• Fukushima Diary – National Tax Agency is inspecting anti nuke newspaper – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 3,000,000 Bq/m2 of cesium from the dam in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Detectable amount of WBC in Fukushima is 300 Bq/Kg – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Alpha nuclide on the street gutter – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – JP Gov did not evacuate JP emperor to west Japan for the risk of panic – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Fukushima soil fallout far short of Chernobyl – Jun Hongo
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Creation of new nuclear regulatory agency no stage for political grandstanding
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan’s oldest reactor marks 42nd anniv., resumption unforeseen
• Mainichi Daily News – Radioactive materials may have sunk 30 cm into ground
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear safety panel to present view on Oi reactors soon

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

• Minnesota Public Radio – What happens after a nuclear accident – Stephanie Curtis
• Facing South – A year after Fukushima, the South remains at unnecessary risk of nuclear disaster – Sue Sturgis
• Augusta Chronicle – SRS discloses secret visit from Fukushima nuclear delegation – Rob Pavey
• Lower Hudson Journal – Editorial: Lessons from Fukushima
• Democracy Now! – Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen: Fukushima Meltdown Could Result in 1 Million Cases of Cancer – Arne Gundersen
• UN: IAEA – Remembering Fukushima, Looking Ahead
• UN: Reuters – Older nuclear plants pose safety challenge: IAEA – Fredrik Dahl
• BBC News – Statement on Fukushima
• Bloomberg – Japan Remembers 3/11 Disaster, Faces Time-Consuming Recovery – Stuart Biggs, Kanoko Matsuyama and Yuji Okada
• The Conversation – Don’t hold your breath for Fukushima’s radiation toll – Tilman Ruff
• Enformable – Contaminated water accumulating at Fukushima Daiichi still poses problems for TEPCO – Lucas W Hixson
• Nuclear Engineering – NRC issues post-Fukushima orders
• Nuclear Engineering – TEPCO outlines long-term plan
• Pacific Free Press – Radiation Contamination Fears Persist in Fukushima and Beyond
• PBS NewsHour – Fukushima’s Food Fallout: Testing Groceries for Radiation in Japan
• Platts – Japan seeking US LNG, to ask for US waiver during Kuwait meeting
• Scoop – Fukushima One Year Later : The Poisoning of Planet Earth – Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri
• World Nuclear News – Pond investigation towards Fukushima fuel removal
• Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuclear demonstrations held in Japan, elsewhere – Asahi Shimbun
• Daily Yomiuri – Editorial: Nuclear power must be part of Japan’s energy future
• Daily Yomiuri – Entire country must help with debris – Yoshihiro Kiyonaga
• Daily Yomiuri – Russia’s nuclear giant to open Tokyo office – Kenichi Ogata
• Denki Shimbun – TEPCO president visited Fukushima to apologized for nuclear accident
• Denki Shimbun – Technological development to be key to decommissioning Fukushima I
• Fukushima Diary – Evacuating person to Okinawa had urine test positive – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Volcanism in Japan has become active – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – “Tokyo citizens were irradiated” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Translation of Noda’s speech on 3/11/2012 (Noise reduction) – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Probe panel reluctant to disclose politicians’ hearings
• Japan Times – Safety panel to present view on Oi reactors soon
• Japan Times – New regime for food radiation tests – Mizuho Aoki
• Japan Times – New regime for food radiation tests – Mizuho Aoki
• Mainichi Daily News – First anniversary of 3.11 disasters in photos
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan struggles to handle plutonium as fast-breeder reactor project becomes unrealistic
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t not to assess TEPCO reactor report till corrective steps taken
• Mainichi Daily News – 474,000 tons of disaster rubble remains piled up in nuke crisis no-go zone
• Mainichi Daily News – Mainichi scoop on Mongolia’s nuclear plans highlights problems in dealing with waste
• Mainichi Daily News – Lawsuit seeking to halt Genkai atomic plant draws record plaintiffs
• Mainichi Daily News – Shizuoka’s Shimada city to accept disaster debris from Iwate
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to hold ministerial meeting on disaster debris disposal Tues.
• Taipei Times – Taipower misleading public: activists – Lee I-chia
• Asia: Xinhua News – China rethinks nuclear power one year after crisis in Japan

Monday, March 12, 2012

• SantaCruz.Patch – Fukushima Meltdown, Cover-Up Documentary Shows in Santa Cruz – Brad Kava
• Daily Camera – Dan Frazier: What have we learned from Fukushima?
• Fox 31 KDVR – Rocky Flats remembered on anniversary of Japan disaster – Greg Nieto
• CBS Local – Hundreds Gather At Indian Point To Remember Fukushima Nuclear Plant Disaster
• Brattleboro Reformer – Protesters march on one year anniversary of Japanese nuclear disaster – Josh Stilts
• Cutting Edge – U.S. Nuclear Regulators Tighten Up, One Year after Fukushima Disaster – Ben Geman
• Earthtimes – Call for more research into nuclear disasters – Adrian Bishop
• MIT Technology Review – Despite Fukushima, Nuclear Keeps Powering Ahead
• Platts – Japan Quake a Year On: Petrochemical sector wrestles with high costs, uncertain demand – Fumiko Dobashi, Wong Wen Yin, Chen Huixin, Anton Ferkov
• Power Engineering Magazine – Fukushima still affecting U.S. nuclear industry – Pam Sohn
• Press Action blog – U.S. Nuclear Industry Operates as if Fukushima Never Happened
• GAO – DOE Loan Guarantees: Further Actions Are Needed to Improve Tracking and Review of Applications, GAO-12-157
• South America: MercoPress – One year after Fukushima, time for a more mature debate on nuclear
• CNN – Activists file lawsuit to try to stop restart of Japanese nuclear plant – Junko Ogura
• eNews Park Forest – Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, March 12, 2012 .
• Enformable – Fukushima whitewash betrayed trust of NPR listeners – Linda Lewis
• Enformable – TEPCO analysis shows Fukushima Reactor 1 suffered core damage hours earlier than estimated – Lucas W Hixson
• New York Times – The End of Japanese Illusions – Yoichi Funabashi
• PBS NewsHour – After 500 Years in Family, Rice Farmers Forced Off Land by Fukushima
• Public Radio International – As Japan tries to cleanup radiation contamination, some question whether it’s possible
• Yahoo!7 News – Majority of Japanese oppose nuclear plant restarts – poll
• Xinhua News – Japan’s nuke disaster as bad as or worse than Chernobyl: expert – Al Campbell
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt to OK geothermal plants in national parks
• Daily Yomiuri – Hirano eyes real progress this year / But minister says no miracle cure exists for reconstruction of disaster-hit region – Kenya Hirose
• Daily Yomiuri – N-plants key to power supply / Govt to embark on efforts to resume operations at reactors
• Daily Yomiuri – N. Korea asks U.S. to open liaison offices / Official say U.S. must alter ‘hostile stance’ – Yoshikazu Shirakawa
• Daily Yomiuri – Debris disposal tests national character
• Japan Times – Methane hydrate energy solution? – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Germans, French slam atomic power
• Japan Times – Chernobyl charity chief encourages residents
• Japan Times – Chronology of major events related to the nuclear crisis
• Japan Times – Thousands rally at Hibiya Park – Jun Hongo
• Japan Times – Germans, French slam atomic power
• Japan Today – 259 citizens file suit to block restart of reactors in Fukui
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan’s post-disaster age of small-scale politics
• Mainichi Daily News – Evacuee who wants to return to hometown says he can only wait a few more years
• Mainichi Daily News – Mixed reaction over plan for Fukushima county to store radioactive waste
• Mainichi Daily News – Few signs abroad of lifting of import restrictions on Japanese food products
• Mainichi Daily News – Kitakyushu assembly adopts resolution on tsunami debris assistance
• Mainichi Daily News – Antinuclear protests held across Japan on anniversary of disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Almost one year on: Aerial photos from near Fukushima nuclear plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Literary critic takes aim at nuclear power in new book
• Mainichi Daily News – Concerts, memorial events held to mark 1st disaster anniv.
• Mainichi Daily News – Missteps marred initial response of Kan gov’t to contain nuclear crisis
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima issues declaration to promote renewable energy
• Mainichi Daily News – Emperor Akihito offers condolences to victims of March disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Taiwan holds events to mark 3/11 disaster in Japan
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO vows to continue efforts to keep Fukushima plant under control
• Mainichi Daily News – Antinuclear protests held across Japan on anniversary of disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Noda to take lead in gaining local approval to restart nuclear plants
• Mainichi Daily News – Evacuees visit no-entry zone to mourn disaster victims
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear safety awareness heightened worldwide after Fukushima: symposium
• Mainichi Daily News – Mainichi’s Aikawa, Asahi’s Okudera win Vaughan-Ueda prize for journalists
• Tokyo Times – Citizens fight in court against reactor reopening
• Tokyo Times – Japan holds still in remembrance of the 2011 disaster
• AsiaOne – Over 1,000 protest in Taipei against nuclear power
• Taipei Times – Taipower hits back at protesters – Lee I-chia
• South Africa: Zimbabwe Mail – Zimbabwe to ban Japanese car imports over Nukes contamination