Sunday, May 13, 2012

• Fairewinds Energy Education – Fukushima Daiichi: The Truth and the Future – Arnie Gundersen
• Daily Yomiuri – 6 local heads favor restart of N-reactors
• Daily Yomiuri – Students shun nuclear majors / Govt, industry try to foster interest in the now-unpopular field
• Daily Yomiuri – 6 local heads favor restart of N-reactors
• Fukushima Diary – Rice planting in 30km area – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco stopped releasing plant parameters in English – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Decontamination propaganda – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 3,100Bq/Kg from field mouse in Kawauchi mura Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Nuclear watchdog autonomy
• Japan Times – Group launches petition drive for Hamaoka reactor referendum
• Mainichi Daily News – Osaka to bury debris from disaster area on man-made island

Saturday, May 12, 2012

• Greenpeace International blog – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 8th – May 10th, 2012 – Christine McCann
• Natural News – Plume-gate: Secret documents prove global cover-up of continued Fukushima radiation pollution – Ethan A. Huff
• OpEdNews – Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb – GLloyd Rowsey
• Daily Yomiuri – Seek public understanding for electricity rate hike
• Daily Yomiuri – Opposition’s N-safety plan to be OK’d by govt, DPJ
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt to ask users to conserve to help KEPCO
• Fukushima Diary – The highest atmospheric dose is in Tochigi (Apart from Fukushima) – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – SHIBUYA-AX as contaminated as Kashiwa Chiba – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Ishihara Tokyo governor plans to build a nuclear plant along Tokyo bay – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Japanese bleeding from eyes – Iori Mochizuki
• Mainichi Daily News – Fishermen in disaster-stricken areas say life now far tougher than last year
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima residents struggle with quake rubble, lack of volunteers
• Mainichi Daily News – Noda renews pitch for tax hike plan amid opposition hostility
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Gov’t should ensure independent nuclear power panel will function properly
• Mainichi Daily News – Primary schools in Fukushima city hold outdoor sports meets

Friday, May 11, 2012

• I-Nuclear – US NRC will review evacuation zone expansion, but separate from Fukushima review
• NRC – NRC Prioritizes Industry Responses to Request for Post-Fukushima Flood Hazard Evaluations
• The Economist – Tepco’s nationalisation–State power
• Enformable – Japan yet to admit the true cost of nuclear disaster and realize the lessons learned – Lucas W Hixson
• Natural News – Fukushima haunts the world – Mark Sircus
• NewsBlaze – Health Physics Presents Special Issue on U.S. Response to Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident
• Reuters – Massive fault found beneath Japan’s Mount Fuji – Kiyoshi Takenaka
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO files for 10% rate increase
• Daily Yomiuri – No summer bonuses for TEPCO staff
• Daily Yomiuri – Many evacuees not seeking work / As jobless benefits end, motivation in Fukushima low amid uncertain future – Koji Sobata and Hiroaki Ishihara
• Daily Yomiuri – Population nearly halved in ex-evacuation zone
• Daily Yomiuri – Wild monkeys to help gauge Fukushima radiation
• Daily Yomiuri – Civic group submits N-power petition
• Denki Shimbun – TEPCO showed future direction of management
• Denki Shimbun – Internal decision made on next TEPCO president
• Fukushima Diary – There are some rooms in reactor 3, which Tepco can not disclose – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – How they used to stock 100Bq/kg of radioactive waste – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Mutated canola in Noda city Chiba – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Minamisoma is 122 times more contaminated than mandatory evacuation zone in Belarus – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Tepco asks for permission to hike household rates 10.3% from July 1 – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Diet deal eyed over new nuke watchdog
• Japan Times – Group dumps Tokyo antinuke plebiscite petition on Ishihara – Mizuho Aoki
• Japan Times – Fukushima school meets outdoors
• Japan Times – Tepco survival plan depends on restarts – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Kansai power shortage a given: panel
• Japan Times – Most willing to accept disaster debris
• Japan Times – The challenge to Japan Inc.
• Mainichi Daily News – New body eyed to get on board local gov’ts not hosting Oi plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t eyes compromise with opposition over new nuclear safety agency
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t forces choice on local bodies: restart nuclear reactors or face power restrictions
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t eyes compromise with opposition over new nuclear safety agency
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t eyes compromise with opposition over new nuclear safety agency
• Mainichi Daily News – Citizens’ group seeks referendum on restart of nuclear reactors

Thursday, May 10, 2012

• NRC – NRC to Discuss Guidance for Fukushima-Related Order and Information Request May 15, 16 in Rockville, Md.
• Bloomberg – Japan’s Nuclear Power Plants Go Dark: Today’s Pic
• CleanTechnica – Japan’s Hot Springs Could Be a Significant Source of Geothermal Energy – Charis Michelsen
• Enformable – A land of opportunity which sees no need for new nuclear reactors in foreseeable future – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – March 25th, 2011 – Fukushima Unit 1 tally of information from different sources
• The Guardian – Fukushima owner saved from collapse by Japanese government – Justin McCurry
• Platts – Japan’s Tepco plans to lift household electricity price by 10% from July – Atsuko Kawasaki
• Power Engineering Magazine – FOCUS: TEPCO’s future remains a blur even after capital injection
• YouTube – Disaster Lingering: A. Gundersen on KGO – Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 Part.1
• World Nuclear News – Tepco gets government bail-out
• Xinhua News – Japan’s Kansai may see power shortage of 15% this summer
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO’s business plan approved; utility effectively state controlled
• Daily Yomiuri – Power crisis ‘can be averted’ / Govt says restarting Oi reactors key to preventing blackouts
• Daily Yomiuri – Current acct surplus hits 15-year low
• Fukushima Diary – 30km of active fault underneath Mt. Fuji – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Strontium 90 spread over 1000km evenly in Pacific ocean – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 1.4 µSv/h of alpha ray in Niigata – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tokyo bay becoming a hot spot – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Green energy’s future murky as summer looms
• Japan Times – Fukushima farmers plant rice, pray, too
• Japan Times – Kansai to face the heat reactor-free – Eric Johnston
• Japan Times – Family of nuke crisis suicide victim to sue Tepco for damages
• Japan Times – Kepco to delay regular checks at 13 thermal plants
• Japan Times – Fukushima resort to tap spa for own power, revival pitch
• Japan Times – Editorial: Restructuring of Tepco
• JIJI Press – Japan Panel Members Criticize NISA over MOX Fuel Decision
• Mainichi Daily News – Experts urge Britain to bury plutonium rather than recycling
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Gov’t should fulfill responsibility for rehabilitation of TEPCO
• Mainichi Daily News – Panel warns of electricity shortages, power-saving requirements
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan’s FY 2011 current account surplus falls sharpest on record
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan’s GDP could shrink by up to 5% in 2030 without nuclear power
• China Post – Leaking tube at nuke plant does not pose risk: Taipower

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Special issue on the risks of exposure to low-level radiation – Jan Beyea
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – The scientific jigsaw puzzle: Fitting the pieces of the low-level radiation debate – Jan Beyea
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Lessons from Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The most exposed and most vulnerable – David Richardson
• Energy Collective – Japan Without Nuclear Power: What Does it Mean for Them, and For Us? – Christina Nunez
• Bloomberg – Japan Takes Control of Tepco in 10-Year Profit Plan – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
• Bloomberg – Japan Is Without Nuclear Power, and Could Stay That Way – William Pesek
• Deutsche Welle – Japan to take controlling stake of Fukushima operator
• The Guardian – Fukushima owner saved from collapse by Japanese government – Justin McCurry
• Reuters – Update 2-Japan to take over Tepco after Fukushima disaster – Yoko Kubota
• Washington Post – Japan to provide $12.55 billion to operator of tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant – Chico Harlan
• Xinhua News – Japan to inject 12.5 bln USD into troubled nuclear plant operator
• Daily Yomiuri – Hirose to serve TEPCO with ‘international mind’
• Daily Yomiuri – ‘New’ TEPCO faces rocky road / Restoring public image, reducing power costs among top priorities – Chiaki Toyoda and Tadaaki Inoue
• Fukushima Diary – Contaminated water leaked like blowing mist – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 250 µSv/h in Namie machi – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Ads of infants’ radiation protective clothing on newspaper – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Power company “Even if we have enough power, we need to restart nuclear plants.” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – ¥1 trillion OK’d for Tepco rehab–Taxpayers pay the tab, and get rate hike
• Japan Times – Another official Fukui visit to push Oi restart
• Mainichi Daily News – ‘Exodus’ of disaster-panicked foreigners from post-3.11 Japan doesn’t add up
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to raise household electricity rates by 10 percent
• Mainichi Daily News – 17-year-old boy worked at crippled Fukushima plant after nuke disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t decides to inject 1 trillion yen in public funds into TEPCO
• Mainichi Daily News – Keidanren chief welcomes appointment of new TEPCO president
• Mainichi Daily News – New sea wall erected to guard Onagawa nuclear plant against tsunami
• Tokyo Times – Radioactivity still a threat to Japan’s schools

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

• Bloomberg – Tepco Business Plan Includes 10% Household Power Rate Rise – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
• Energy Collective – Overheated rods&rhetoric – Steve Skutnik
• Nuclear Engineering – Japan has no reactors online
• Reuters – Update 2-New Tepco head vows to be open to public opinion – Yoko Kubota and Adithya Venkatesan
• Xinhua News – TEPCO names new president
• Daily Yomiuri – 2.7 tril. yen loss projected for 9 utilities in FY12
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO appoints new chairman, president
• Daily Yomiuri – Evacuees from Fukushima survive deadly tornado
• Daily Yomiuri – Utilities face struggle to get through summer – Chiaki Toyoda
• Daily Yomiuri – Firms, residents prepare for power outages / Plans being studied; frustration growing over lack of clear predictions on expected shortages – Tadaaki Inoue and Yukiko Yamamoto
• Denki Shimbun – Japanese utilities closed books on fiscal 2011
• Denki Shimbun – All nuclear power plants shut down in Japan
• Fukushima Diary – Possible uneven settlement of reactor 4 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Tepco top redress exec named next president
• Japan Times – Nagoya mayor protests government moves to restart Oi reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – 63% of Japanese citizens say ‘no’ to restarting of Oi nuclear reactors: Mainichi poll
• Mainichi Daily News – News Navigator: What danger is still posed by offline nuclear reactors?
• Mainichi Daily News – Edano says electricity supply this summer ‘quite severe’
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan gov’t proposes postponing decision on nuclear fuel cycle policy

Monday, May 07, 2012

• Columbus Free Press – The nuclear industry has melted in Japan and France – Harvey Wasserman
• Enformable – US nuclear industry initial order in response to Fukushima Disaster consists of 300 pieces of portable equipment – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Japan is first major economy to operate in modern era without nuclear energy
• Enformable – Civil group finds high levels of radiation up to 20 mSv per year at Japanese schools after restrictions lifted – Lucas W Hixson
• The Guardian – The Fukushima nuclear plant’s slow recovery offers lessons to the US – Richard Schiffman
• Nature blog – Japan switches off its last nuclear reactor – David Cyranoski
• Reuters – Japan summer power prospects look brighter – panel – Yoko Kubota
• Reuters – Japan April nuclear plant usage falls to 2.0 pct – Osamu Tsukimori
• Reuters – TABLE-Japan nuclear ops (zero reactors online out of total 50) – Osamu Tsukimori, Yoko Kubota and Risa Maeda
• UPI Asia – Radiation found outside Japanese schools
• Daily Yomiuri – Oji Paper develops cesium-absorbing textile
• Fukushima Diary – 10.15 µSv/h at Kashiwa city hospital – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 10.12 µSv/h at Nihonmatsu kita elementary school – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 20.12 µSv/h in front of Fukushima Daisan elementary school – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 47.52µSv/h at east exit of Fukushima station – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Paranormal activity on Fukushima live camera – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 33mSv/y measured at over 26 schools in Fukushima and it’s concealed – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Does radiation travel across the sea ? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – More giant dandelions in Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Deformed oxalis – Iori Mochizuki
• Mainichi Daily News – With no nuke reactors in operation, Japan struggles to chart new energy strategy
• Mainichi Daily News – Feelings over suspension of nuclear reactor mixed in Hokkaido town
• Mainichi Daily News – With no nuclear power, providers fire up thermal plants but remain wary of glitches
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Seek a way out of reliance on nuclear power
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t checks electricity supply after halt of last running reactor