Sunday, May 27, 2012

• Business Week – Japan’s Edano Recalls Threat of Evacuation at Fukushima Plant – Monami Yui and Peter Langan
• China Post – Japan says Fukushima spent-fuel risk contained
• New York Times – Spent Fuel Rods Drive Growing Fear Over Plant in Japan – Hiroko Tabuchi and Matthew L. Wald
• Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Daiichi’s Unit 4 Spent-Fuel Pool Up Close – Phred Dvorak
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima No. 4 building shown to press
• Daily Yomiuri – N-fuel pool, ruined structure seen up close
• Daily Yomiuri – Edano: PM’s office did not block use of ‘meltdown’
• Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear commission must collect all data necessary
• Fukushima Diary – JP gov gave up decontaminating only by Japanese resource – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Edano, former Chief Cabinet Secretary admits he knew melt through on 3/13/2011 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tritium is contained 34 times the amount of total gamma nuclides in desalinization apparatus – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Alga was known to selectively absorb radionuclides – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco removing 2 fuel assemblies from reactor4 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Tepco may try to remove unused fuel assemblies from feared No. 4 pool
• Japan Times – Hosono visits Fukushima plant to quell fears over No. 4’s pool
• Japan Times – Edano alleges Tepco planned No. 1 pullout – Kazuaki Nagata

Saturday, May 26, 2012

• CBS News – Japan minister visits nuke plant amid pool concern
• Daily Yomiuri – Central govt must redouble Fukushima rebuilding efforts
• Enformable – Japan struggling with burden of decontamination and rehabilitation of Fukushima disaster – Lucas W Hixson
• Reuters – Japan says Fukushima spent-fuel risk contained – Kevin Krolicki and Kiyoshi Takenaka
• UPI Asia – Tepco: No. 2 reactor key radiation source
• Daily Yomiuri – Central govt must redouble Fukushima rebuilding efforts
• Daily Yomiuri – No. 2 reactor source of most contamination
• Daily Yomiuri – Sudo to quit NHK to focus on TEPCO post
• Fukushima Diary – Actual Fukushima worker “In case of the major aftershock, all the reactors will be in crisis” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima parents are to sign on the letter of consent for the thyroid test of their children – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Video] Reality in Fukushima 2 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima’s nuclear fallout spreads through ordinary life in Japan – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Reactor 4 open for press – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tokyo bay sea ground soil will contain 4,000 Bq/Kg of cesium by March 2014 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco has no clue for the worst senario of SFP4 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco plans to increase water injection of reactor 3 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Nuclear power profiteers seem keen to risk getting blood on their hands – Roger Pulvers
• JIJI Press – Fukushima Plant’s No. 4 Reactor Building Opened to Media
• Mainichi Daily News – Mainichi uncovers more secret nuclear commission meetings

Friday, May 25, 2012

• Bloomberg – Japan to Set Up Marine Energy, Offshore Wind Power Test Sites – Chisaki Watanabe
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Reform the Japanese power system. Nationalize Tepco. – Kay Kitazawa
• Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 22nd – May 24th, 2012 – Christine McCann
• New Scientist – Fukushima-exposed children and workers ‘OK for now’ – Andy Coghlan
• Reuters – Japan eyes smaller nuclear role but no exit strategy – Linda Sieg
• Reuters – Three-quarters of Japanese firms oppose nuclear power – Tetsushi Kajimoto and Izumi Nakagawa
• World Nuclear News – Higher estimate of Fukushima releases
• World Nuclear News – Energy policy key to Tokyo Olympic bid
• Denki Shimbun – TEPCO trying to win public understanding on rate hike
• Fukushima Diary – West side of the reactor4 building bulged – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Collapsed door stopped robot from surveying in reactor3 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Video] Robot decontamination by remote control in reactor1 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Japanese going violent – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Spreading contamination of tritium – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Foreign visitors to Japan in April returns to pre-tsunami levelBy Adam Westlake
• Mainichi Daily News – Atomic commission chief admits attendance at secret session on nuclear fuel cycle
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to promote renewable ocean energy
• Mainichi Daily News – Edano creates stir with suggestion gov’t could partially bear nuclear decontamination costs
• Mainichi Daily News – Director zooms in on Fukushima disaster victims to question true wealth
• Mainichi Daily News – Aichi Prefecture to use local waterways for small-scale hydro power
• Mainichi Daily News – Hosono in favor of atomic power comprising 15% of Japan’s energy
• Mainichi Daily News – Sudo to resign as chairman, member of NHK board of governors
• Tokyo Times – UN: Fukushima workers’ deaths not from radiation

Thursday, May 24, 2012

• BBC News – WHO : Post-Fukushima radiation levels in Japan ‘low’
• Bloomberg – Noda Risks Party Rupture in Push to Pass Japan’s Sales Tax Bill – Isabel Reynolds and Takashi Hirokawa
• Bloomberg – Fukushima’s Estimated Radiation Leak Doubles Versus Government – Tsuyoshi Inajima, Yuji Okada and Kanoko Matsuyama
• CNN – Hard lessons for U.S. nuclear safety from Fukushima meltdown – Daniel P. Aldrich
• Enformable – Reporters without borders blasts TEPCO and Japan over unacceptable restrictions on freelance journalists
• Enformable – New TEPCO estimates show over 900,000 TBq of Cs-137 and I-131 released from Fukushima Daiichi
• Enformable – JNES analysis shows Unit 1 water level 80% lower than TEPCO estimates – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – TEPCO profits most from higher priced regulated sales of electricity to residential districts rather than negotiated deals with corporate customers – Lucas W Hixson
• The Guardian – Fukushima gets mixed radiation report from WHO – Justin McCurry
• Natural News – Tokyo soil so contaminated with radiation it would be considered nuclear waste in US – Ethan A. Huff
• Stars and Stripes – Concerns grow over stability of Japan nuclear plant – ByWyatt Olson
• World Nuclear News – WHO on Fukushima doses
• Fukushima Diary – 1.28µSv/h at Fukushima service area – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – M6.0 in Aomori was not an aftershock of 311 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Debris Shipments from Miyagi Reduced to Third – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Mothers protested against accepting debris to be ignored – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 107.2 Bq/kg of cesium from Fukushima pork – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Radiation didn’t cause Fukushima No. 1 deaths: U.N.
• Mainichi Daily News – JAEC had secret ‘study meeting’ of nuclear advocates to draft reprocessing policy report
• Mainichi Daily News – ‘Secret meeting’ on fuel cycle was like gathering of ‘nuclear villagers’
• Mainichi Daily News – Oi plant can restart without Kansai leaders’ nod: Fukui gov.
• Mainichi Daily News – M6.0 quake jolts Aomori, other northeastern Japan areas
• Mainichi Daily News – Kitakyushu starts trial incineration of quake-tsunami debris
• Tokyo Times – Japanese develop plaster to filter contaminated water [VIDEO]

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

• Enformable – TEPCO profits most from higher priced regulated sales of electricity to residential districts rather than negotiated deals with corporate customers – Lucas W Hixson
• Huffington Post – Fukushima Deaths Not Caused By Radiation, UN Says – George Jahn
• Reuters – Most Fukushima radiation doses within norms: WHO – Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles
• UPI – Concerns focus on Fukushima unit stability
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO estimate sees more radiation than NISA’s
• Daily Yomiuri – Govts pursue renewable energy – Atsuki Kira
• Fukushima Diary – 107.2 Bq/kg of cesium from Fukushima pork – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Japanese can live abroad – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 25.36 µSv/h from the used car to export – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima students having their brain atrophied – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Utilities milking homes; Tepco eyes higher hike
• Mainichi Daily News – Portion of wages paid to some Fukushima plant workers may have gone to gang: police
• Mainichi Daily News – Japanese electric utilities earn 69% of profits from households
• Mainichi Daily News – Water inside Fukushima No. 1 reactor may be only 40 cm deep
• Mainichi Daily News – Protesters block delivery of quake-tsunami debris in Kitakyushu

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

• Enformable – FOIA Archive Release – Fukushima Daiichi – GAP Framework Definitions – San Onofre – Radiological Emergency Equipment
• Enformable – Japanese retail electricity to be fully deregulated after agreement reached by METI technical committee – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Japan reaches out to US firms for decontamination aid in Fukushima – Lucas W Hixson
• Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 18th – May 21st, 2012 – Christine McCann
• Xinhua News – Japanese government to nationalize operator of Fukushima nuclear power plant
• Xinhua News – Local residents in SW Japan block delivery of quake-tsunami debris
• Denki Shimbun – Inviting U.S. firm group for decontamination in Fukushima
• Japan Daily Press – Japanese government’s control of TEPCO increases to 76%By Adam Westlake
• Fukushima Diary – Debris truck raised atmospheric dose from 0.06 to 0.612µSv/h – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Brain shrinkage seen in Tohoku PTSD cases
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t panel eyes 4 energy mix scenarios for 2030 with focus on future of nuclear power
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Healthy competition needed in liberalization of Japan’s electricity market
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima worker concerns about ground settlement of Fukushima plants – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Storm warning to Fukushima plants for the morning of 5/23/2012 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco will not solve SFP4 problem ahead of schedule – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Infant death of heart disease doubled as 2010 in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Debris truck raised atmospheric dose from 0.06 to 0.612µSv/h – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Kitakyushu city starts incineration of disaster debris to arrest nonviolent protesters – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Water level is only 40cm from the bottom in reactor1 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare banned staff from researching Fukushima contamination – Iori Mochizuki
• Focus Taiwan – No need to halt 4th nuclear plant project: atomic energy minister – Lin Meng-ju and Scully Hsiao
• Taiwan Today – Referendums to decide Taiwan’s nuclear waste storage site – June Tsai

Monday, May 21, 2012

• Enformable – Japanese university developing building plaster made with zeolite to absorb cesium – Lucas W Hixson
• Nuclear Engineering – Japan evaluates reprocessing options
• Reuters – Table-Support for Japan PM remains low over nuclear safety – Kaori Kaneko
• Ria Novosti – Japanese Boost Nuclear Submarine Reactor Disposal
• Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Daiichi’s Unit 4 Spent-Fuel Pool: Safe or Not? – Phred Dvorak
• Fukushima Diary – Japanese not allowed to get on a bus on the grounds that “people from Tokyo are contaminated” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – A baby in 0.36µSv/h – Iori Mochizuki
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima exodus a torment for the physically disabled
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan cannot let material fears obscure danger of nuclear power
• Mainichi Daily News – Huge tsunami may have occurred in Okinawa every 150 to 400 years: study
• Mainichi Daily News – Noda sticks to passage of tax hike legislation in current Diet session
• Mainichi Daily News – Instant noodles highlighted as strategic item in event of disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Tests show freshwater fish take in radioactive cesium via feeds
• Japan Daily Press – Kansai leaders reject government request to restart Oi nuclear reactors – Adam Westlake