Sunday, April 15, 2012

• Yahoo! AFP – New underwater images show damage at Fukushima
• Zero Hedge – A Visual Tour of the Fuel Pools of Fukushima – George Washington
• Japan Times – Another thermometer breaks at Fukushima – Press TV
• Japan Times – All atomic power to halt ‘momentarily’

Saturday, April 14, 2012

• Enformable – March 24th, 2011 – New information from AEC casts doubt on GE’s analysis of venting and hydrogen explosions at Fukushima Daiichi
• UPI – Japan seeks to turn on two reactors
• Daily Yomiuri – Edano seeks local help on Oi restart
• Fukushima Diary – 390 mg/kg of lead was measured in nursery school of Yokohama – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation level picked up after the blue light – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Blue light observed near reactor 4 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Editorial: The Titanic and the nuclear fiasco
• Japan Times – Namie to seek medical fee exemption for all residents
• Japan Times – Machine fell into MOX spent-fuel pool: Tepco
• Japan Times – Oi reactor restarts hinge on assembly, locals: Fukui governor
• Japan Times – Japan should ditch atomic power, Edano says before restart decision
• Japan Times – 17 prefectures may accept debris
• Mainichi Daily News – Doubts linger over safety, necessity of nuclear reactors as gov’t eyes quick restart
• Mainichi Daily News – Edano seeks support for Fukui gov. to restart Oi nuke plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan resumes rice exports to China
• Mainichi Daily News – Ministers declare Oi nuclear reactors safe for reactivation

Friday, April 13, 2012

• Canada: Vancouver Free Press – Japanese professor says Fukushima radiation leaks are harming children’s health – Charlie Smith
• Enformable – Less than 8% of debris generated from 3 hardest hit prefectures after March 11th disaster removed from temporary storage sites – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Japan can dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions without relying on nuclear energy – Lucas W Hixson
• Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for April 10th – April 12th, 2012 – Christine McCann
• New York Times – Japan Seeks to Restart Some Nuclear Power Plants – Martin Fackler
• Reuters – Update 2-Japan declares two idled reactors safe to restart – Risa Maeda and Yoko Kubota
• World Nuclear News – Fukushima impacts global nuclear generation in 2011
• Daily Yomiuri – Panel: Possible emission cuts of up to 39% in ’30
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt expected to approve Oi restart
• Fukushima Diary – 35 tones of refueling machine on fuel storage rack in reactor 3 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Two orange lights in Fukushima live camera – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Nitrogen injection stopped again – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Archive of Fukushima live camera was removed before coolant system stopped – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 17,200 Bq/Kg from tea leaves – Iori Mochizuki
• JapanToday – 35-ton device found in spent fuel pool at Fukushima reactor
• JIJI Press – 35-Ton Device Found Fallen into TEPCO Fukushima N-Fuel Pool
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima Gov. blasts gov’t over push to restart nuclear reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – Many disaster evacuees in Tokyo still unemployed: survey
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Gov’t, businesses must cooperate as geothermal power projects gather steam
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan must heed lessons from World War II in handling nuclear power

Thursday, April 12, 2012

• Enformable – Plans for Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 4 cover revealed on same day TEPCO applied for 1 trillion yen injection of public funds – Lucas W Hixson
• Nuclear Engineering – UK firms could assist in Fukushima clean-up
• POWERnews – EPRI Report Examines Technical Factors Leading to Cooling Loss at Fukushima
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt puts off decision on Oi N-reactors
• Fukushima Diary – 3128 Bq/kg of cesium from Ibaraki mushroom – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Contaminated mushroom was served for 3 more nursery schools – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 0.27 µSv/h alpha ray on the roof of Minamisoma city hall – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Governors visit Oi nuke plant
• Japan Times – Decision on Oi reactor restarts delayed
• Mainichi Daily News – Yoroku: Marking the government’s handling of nuclear reactor assessments

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

• Enformable – Namie business owner files lawsuit against TEPCO – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Namie government may file criminal complaints over SPEEDI data – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Looming decisions to restart idled nuclear reactors in Japan may affect future election results as officials face off – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – March 16th, 2011 – USAF detects elevated radiation levels from northern tip of Japan to Tokyo
• New York Times – Tsunami Projections Offer Bleak Fate for Many Japanese Towns – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Power Engineering Magazine – Power needs prompt rush to restart reactors
• Daily Yomiuri – Kindergarten sues TEPCO for damages
• Daily Yomiuri – DPJ team urges caution over N-reactor restart
• Daily Yomiuri – Iranian envoy offers apology to Hatoyama
• Daily Yomiuri – Kyoto unable to dispose of firewood from Iwate
• Fukushima Diary – Drug abuse of Fukushima workers – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Noda to send Edano to Fukui
• Japan Times – Restart of two reactors at Fukui facility nears
• Japan Times – Japan, U.K. agree on arms development – Masami Ito
• Japan Today – TEPCO to sell additional 800 properties to raise funds for compensation
• Mainichi Daily News – Tokyo becomes largest shareholder in TEPCO
• Mainichi Daily News – Noda arranging for Edano to visit Fukui Pref. over Oi reactors’ restart

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

• Orange County Register – Japan radiation found in O.C. kelp – Pat Brennan
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – EPRI releases analysis on Fukushima – Frank Munger
• Enformable – NRC Issues “Red” finding to OPPD for electrical breaker fire at Fort Calhoun – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – NRC hits Florida Power and Light Co. with fine for failure to maintain emergency response capabilities – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – One of UKs oldest nuclear reactors to shut down at end of April due to limited fuel stocks – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Countermeasures against expansion of leakage at Fukushima Daiichi
• Enformable – 950 becquerels per kilogram of Cesium found in Shioya Shiitake in Tochigi Prefecture – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Japans decontamination standards may not alleviate cancer risk over time – Lucas W Hixson
• EX-SKF – In Cities in Fukushima, Abnormal Has Become Normal One Year After the Nuclear Accident
• Reuters – Refile-Update 1-Japan sees nuclear contingency plans soon, before restarts – Risa Maeda
• Reuters – UK in nuclear decommissioning deal with Japan – Oleg Vukmanovic
• UPI – Calls for Fukushima compensation escalate
• UPI – Radiation could raise cancer death risk
• World Nuclear News – Japan-UK nuclear cooperation framework
• World Nuclear News – Restart decisions rest with politicians
• Xinhua News – Osaka to call for abolition of nuclear power plant
• Xinhua News – Restarting Oi nuclear reactors basically safe: Japanese PM
• Daily Yomiuri – Locals mum on restart of reactors – Hiroyuki Kume
• Daily Yomiuri – 2 yakatabune crew rescued off Fukushima
• Daily Yomiuri – Safety of Oi reactors ‘confirmed’ / Final decision to be made later this week
• Daily Yomiuri – Power needs prompt rush to restart reactors – Hideyuki Ioka and Yukiko Yamamoto
• Fukushima Diary – 3.829 µSv/h in Adachiku Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Journalist who visited Fukushima plants had thyroid disease – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 330 µSv/h in river-head area of Minamisoma – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Thyroid cancer rate grew 10 times much in 20 years in Belarus – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Restart of two reactors at Fukui facility nears
• Japan Times – More than a satellite at stake – Michael Richardson
• Japan Times – Japan, U.K. agree on arms development – Masami Ito
• Japan Times – Kansai leaders boost pressure against restart – Eric Johnston
• Japan Times – Taiwan, Japan share atomic power dilemma – Ko Shu-Ling
• Mainichi Daily News – Kansai Electric affiliates had 69 ex-bureaucrats employed as of end of fiscal 2011
• Mainichi Daily News – High levels of radioactive cesium detected in shiitake mushrooms grown in Chiba
• Mainichi Daily News – Toyama Pref. to accept quake-tsunami debris from Iwate

Monday, April 09, 2012

• Bloomberg – Japan Closer to Restarting First Reactors Since Fukushima – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Masatsugu Horie
• Global Research – The Fuel Pools of Fukushima: The Greatest Short-Term Threat to Humanity – Michel Chossudovsky
• HNN Huntingtonnews – United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium
• IPS – Radioactive Mushrooms Cloud Compensation Plans – Suvendrini Kakuchi
• Nikkei – Tepco To Sell 800 More Properties
• Reuters UK – Update 1-Tepco to sell 800 more properties – Nikkei – Meenakshi Iyer
• Xinhua News – Japanese urged to rethink counter-tsunami measures – Atsushi Ebihara
• Zero Hedge – Japan is Poisoning Other Countries By Burning Highly-Radioactive Debris – George Washington
• Asahi Shimbun – Japan nuke operator submits safety upgrade plans
• Asahi Shimbun – JR companies review tsunami risk, take precautions – Kazunori Haga
• Asahi Shimbun – Shizuoka hotels shun TEPCO in protest over rate hike
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Redesign cities and towns to make them less vulnerable to giant quakes
• Daily Yomiuri – Decontamination needed even after residents return
• Fukushima Diary – 3070 Bq/m2 of strontium 90 was measured in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Hot particles blown up – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 88 km of the great wall is planned to barricade Fukushima contaminated zone – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Emergency correspondence between JP gov and Tepco right after 311 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Former Japanese prime minister “I’m regretting to have admitted nuclear plants.” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Hirano reconstruction minister suggests to set uninhabited area around Fukushima plants – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Reactor 1 goes over 100? within 8 hours without nitrogen injection – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation over scale in Katsushika Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Energy conservation is key – Takamitsu Sawa
• Japan Times – Oi reactors secure from blackout-induced meltdowns, Edano says
• Japan Times – Kepco presents timetable for Oi reactors’ reactivation
• Mainichi Daily News – New standards for reactivating nuke reactors are too hasty and sloppy
• Mainichi Daily News – Workers collect radioactive leaves and branches in Fukushima park