Sunday, July 22, 2012

• NBC News – Reports: Workers told to underplay Fukushima radiation dosage
• Reuters – Japan probes under-reporting of Fukushima radiation dosage
• UPI – Japan investigates nuke plant shields
• Asahi Shimbun – Seafood caught off Fukushima coast sold outside prefecture – Tetsuya Kasai
• Asahi Shimbun – Organizers getting fatigued from growing anti-nuke protests
• Asahi Shimbun – Ministry to search for dosimeter shields at Fukushima plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Radiation dosages ‘falsified’ / N-plant workers told to cover meters with lead to lower readings
• Daily Yomiuri – Edano suggests spin-off for separation of power generation, distribution
• Daily Yomiuri – No. 4 N-reactor at Oi plant resumes power supply
• Fukushima Diary – [Ajisai Revolution] World Wide Protest needs Japanese organizer – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Mainichi] 20 meter crack found halfway up Mt. Fuji after quake – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Ishihara Tokyo Governor is going to have detailed examination – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Okinawa contamination] Fishing boat from Miyagi drifted to Okinawa, 1850km away – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Reactor3] Fukushima worker “got exposed to 2.55mSv, 38 cameras, concrete falling off” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Health ministry investigates faked Fukushima radiation level readings – Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Zero option draws favor as government reactor meetings shift to west Japan – Eric Johnston
• Japan Times – This summer, signs of setsuden will again be all around us
• Japan Times – Strength in numbers for protesters, but just how many are there? – Philip Brasor
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear crisis grip on hometown has Fukushima family contemplating moving away for good
• Nippon News – Pictures of the Week (July 14 – July 20)
• North Africa: Japan Times – Egypt’s atomic ambitions derailed by Fukushima crisis

Saturday, July 21, 2012

• AFP Yahoo! – Japan firm ‘told workers to lie’ about radiation dose
• BBC News – Japan to probe Tepco radiation cover-up claim
• Enformable – April 9th, 2011 – Summary of Naval Reactors “Warm” and “Hot” Zones around Fukushima Daiichi
• Enformable – April 1st, 2011 – MELCORE source term for use towards Tokyo
• Enformable – March 25th, 2011 – Strong concern about likelihood of very rapid stress corrosion cracking in the reactor primary system
• Enformable – March 23rd, 2011 – What We would Do (The US BWR Operating Community)
• Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for July 17th – July 19th, 2012
• Power Engineering – Leak delays N-regulator nominations; Govt shelves candidate list amid LDP ire
• Reuters – Japan probes under-reporting of Fukushima radiation dosage
• UPI – Radiation readings masked at Fukushima
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO subcontractor used lead to fake dosimeter readings at Fukushima plant
• Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuclear Friday movement spreads beyond capital
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Relief program for Minamata disease patients must be kept open
• Daily Yomiuri – No. 4 N-reactor at Oi plant resumes power supply
• Daily Yomiuri – Restrictive rule should be abolished – Shinichi Murao
• Daily Yomiuri – Opposition’s refusal may delay N-plant restarts / Personnel proposal must pass Diet soon to avert possible power shortage in winter months – Yuichi Suzuki and Koichiro Ashikaga
• Daily Yomiuri – Parties shouldn’t delay N-body nominations
• Fukushima Diary – [Ajisai Revolution] Ex-PM Kan advised Noda to meet the organizer of the protest – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Asahi] TEPCO subcontractor used lead to fake dosimeter readings at Fukushima plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima worker was ordered to shield dosimeter with lead cover to make integral dose look low – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Japanese government shamelessly undermines the independence of Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Masao Hasegawa
• Japan Times – The spirit behind Japanese cohesion – Jeff Kingston
• Japan Times – Editorial: Japan as number four
• Japan Times – Strength in numbers for protesters, but just how many are there? – Philip Brasor
• Japan Times – Counterpoint: Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto: ‘What Japan needs now is dictatorship’ – Roger Pulvers
• Japan Times – Industry crisis team
• Japan Times – Tepco crisis workers faced exposure scam–Job boss wanted dosimeters encased in lead
• Japan Times – Tepco to review Fukushima report amid contradictions
• Japan Times – Tepco gets nod for 8.47% price hike
• Japan Times – Hatoyama joins weekly antinuclear rally outside prime minister’s office
• Japan Times – NPOs hold alternative gatherings after utility shills get voice in state-run ‘public hearings’ – Ayako Mie
• Japan Times – Tepco to review Fukushima report amid contradictions
• Mainichi Daily News – Oi nuclear plant’s No. 4 reactor begins generating power
• Mainichi Daily News – Chugoku Electric intended to dispatch worker to public hearing to support nuclear power

Friday, July 20, 2012

• Bloomberg – Former Japan Leader Joins Protest Over Atomic Plant Restarts – Isabel Reynolds
• Enformable – April 9th, 2011 – Summary of Naval Reactors “Warm” and “Hot” Zones around Fukushima Daiichi
• Enformable – April 1st, 2011 – MELCORE source term for use towards Tokyo
• Enformable – March 25th, 2011 – Strong concern about likelihood of very rapid stress corrosion cracking in the reactor primary system
• Enformable – March 23rd, 2011 – What We would Do (The US BWR Operating Community)
• Enformable – March 18th, 2011 – NRC experts worried ground contamination and shine dose from steam plumes after water injection to SFP
• GlobalPost – 36% of Fukushima children have abnormal thyroid growths: study – Faine Greenwood
• NY Times blog – Trying to Tally Fukushima – Matthew L. Wald
• Reuters – Tokyo’s efforts to restore trust in nuclear power hit new snag – Tetsushi Kajimoto
• Reuters – Update 1-Ex-Japan PM joins anti-nuclear demo outside PM’s office – Mari Saito and Tetsushi Kajimoto
• SmartPlanet – A tale of two radioactive beaches, as Fukushima’s reopens – Mark Halper
• World Nuclear News – Emotionally fuelled Japanese take to the streets
• Daily Yomiuri – Inquiries may lead to N-plant closures – Koichi Yasuda
• Daily Yomiuri – Power firms reexamine dangers from faults – Masayuki Takata and Kohei Masuda
• Daily Yomiuri – Leak delays N-regulator nominations / Govt shelves candidate list amid LDP ire
• Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear safety confirmation must be prompt, careful
• Daily Yomiuri – More TEPCO restructuring seen / Govt decision to trim electricity rate hike could wipe out utility’s profits – Chiaki Toyoda and Tadaaki Inoue
• Daily Yomiuri – Continuous checks necessary on TEPCO power rates
• Fukushima Diary – Mass of whip ray found going upstream of river in Chiba – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Ajisai Revolution] Photos of the protest on 7/20/2012 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Ajisai Revolution] Protest is ongoing all around in Japan – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Ajisai Revolution] Anonybus to help protestors – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Reactor4] The biggest concern is corrosion to release fuel assemblies from channel box – Iori Mochizuki
• House of Japan – Fukushima reactors status 20 Jul 2012
• Japan Times – Damages rules set for nuclear crisis evacuees
• Japan Times – Radioactive waste disposal outside Fukushima a vague vow
• Mainichi Daily News – Remote-controlled decontamination tractor unveiled in Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – Radiation dosage website abandoned due to opposition from Fukushima Pref.
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Fault probes at nuclear plants overdue in quake-prone Japan

Thursday, July 19, 2012

• The Economist – The restart of two nuclear reactors has belatedly lit a fuse under the Japanese
• Enformable – March 16th, 2011 – The RASCAL inputs withheld from States – Please do not share this information outside of NRC
• Enformable – TEPCO workers remove both spent fuel assemblies from Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 4 Spent Fuel Pool
• New York Times – Japan: Estimate of a Cancer Toll – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Reuters – Japan’s Tepco baffled by criticism of its role in nuclear disaster – Aaron Sheldrick and Linda Sieg
• Reuters – Table-Japan nuclear plant ops (Ohi No.4 restarts) – Osamu Tsukimori and Risa Maeda
• Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Watch: Signs of Progress at Spent-Fuel Pool – Phred Dvorak
• Xinhua News – Japan restarts second nuclear reactor despite protest
• Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuclear protests show Japan is becoming an ordinary nation, scholar says
• Asahi Shimbun – VOX POPULI: Don’t play dice with nuclear power
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO to sell staff hospital
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO reconstruction on tightrope – Hironori Kanashima
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO rate hike reduced to 8.47%
• Daily Yomiuri – Oi No. 4 reactor hits criticality
• Daily Yomiuri – Research planned on faults at N-plants
• Fukushima Diary – [Reactor4] Taken fuel assemblies were 100 times more radioactive than normal – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Dream technology] Fuel assemblies are hung up by human workers – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Reactor4] Photos and videos to take out the new fuel assemblies – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Government allows TEPCO rate hike as high as 8%By Adam Westlake
• Japan Daily Press – Anti-Nuclear protesters find an unlikely aide in jellyfishBy Radhika Seth
• Japan Daily Press – Aug 6 Hiroshima ceremony to be attended by 73 international ambassadorsBy Adam Westlake
• Japan Daily Press – TEPCO removes 2 fuel rods from Fukushima nuclear plantBy Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Tepco is ordered to cut rate hike
• Japan Times – Hamaoka plant holds power-out drill
• Japan Times – 73 envoys due for Hiroshima bomb ceremony
• Mainichi Daily News – 2nd unused nuclear fuel assembly taken from Fukushima plant

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

• Enformable – TEPCO workers at Fukushima Daiichi remove two unused nuclear fuel rods from the spent fuel pool of Reactor 4 – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – March 15th, 2011 – Japan asks DOE for iodine tablets
• Enformable – March 16th, 2011 – No matter what, it is vital that everyone stays on same page regarding the facts, even as the situation worsens in Japan
• Enformable – March 13th, 2011 – Fukushima Daiichi Units 1 and 3 have experienced core damage – the reactor cores were completely uncovered for a period of time
• Enformable – March 25th, 2011 – If we disagree we will say so, but once the decision is made we are good little soldiers and march on
• IEER – Groups: Japanese Report on Fukushima Reactor Disaster is “Real Wake Up” Call For Sleeping U.S. Regulators
• FierceMarkets – Fukushima not out of the realm in U.S. – Barbara Vergetis Lundin
• Nature – Fukushima’s uncertainty problem – Geoff Brumfiel
• Reuters – Corrected-Nuclear issue puts increasing pressure on Japan government – Linda Sieg
• Reuters – Japan to restart second reactor amid faultline concerns – Risa Maeda
• UPI Asia – Japan nuclear plant may be on fault
• U.S. News&World Report – Report: Fukushima Radiation Could Kill More Than 1,000 – Jason Koebler
• Washington Post – Japanese anti-nuclear demonstrations grow – Mure Dickie
• Asahi Shimbun – No. 4 reactor at Oi nuclear power plant goes back online
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO removing fuel from Fukushima No. 4 reactor on trial basis
• Asahi Shimbun – EDITORIAL: KEPCO doesn’t need to restart No. 4 reactor at Oi plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Tsunami drill performed at Hamaoka N-plant
• Daily Yomiuri – DPJ loses another member
• Daily Yomiuri – N-rod taken from Fukushima plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Progress slow under new zoning system – IBNLive
• LexisNexis – Opinion: Remove security clause from atomic law to avoid hurting Japan’s interests – Kyodo News Service
• Japan Times – Kepco again fires up Oi plant’s reactor 4
• Fukushima Diary – Thousand small fish found dead in Kasumi river Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [ABC] Fukushima radiation may kill 1,300 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 20% of junior high school students have hypertension in Tochigi. Gov “It’s stress.” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Reactor4] One fuel assembly was taken out, the rest for tomorrow – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Deformed plants in South Ibaraki – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Oi plant reactor 4 set to be fired back up
• Japan Times – Fuel rod removed from Fukushima plant pool
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to remove 2 unused assemblies from Fukushima No. 4 spent fuel pool
• Mainichi Daily News – 3 more DPJ members to quit as nuclear power issue fractures party further
• Mainichi Daily News – Experts say active fault situated below Shika nuclear plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Gov’t should be fair in listening to public opinion on nuclear power

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

• BBC News – Fukushima’s disease risk: A major fallout? – Richard Black
• Bloomberg – Fukushima Radiation May Cause 1,300 Cancer Deaths, Study Finds – Jason Gale
• Bloomberg – Japan Utilities Drop on Nuke Safety Concern: Tokyo Mover – Jason Clenfield, Norie Kuboyama and Tsuyoshi Inajima
• EurActiv – German researchers say Pacific will dilute Fukushima radiation [fr]
• The Guardian – Fukushima beach reopens to the public – Justin McCurry
• New York Times – Tokyo Rally Is Biggest Yet to Oppose Nuclear Plan – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Phys.Org – Global health impacts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster calculated
• Rocket News – Fukushima’s disease risk: A major fallout? – Richard Black
• SmartPlanet – Study estimates Fukushima radiation-caused deaths, cancers – Laura Shin
• Reuters – Update 1-Govt may delay financial support for Tepco – Nikkei – Aditi Shrivastava
• Reuters – Japan reviews nuclear plant sites as faultline worries mount – Osamu Tsukimori
• Reuters – Nuclear issue puts increasing pressure on Japan government – Linda Sieg
• World Nuclear News – Olkiluoto 3 delayed beyond 2014
• Asahi Shimbun – Prosecutors ignore criminal complaints over Fukushima nuclear accident – Asako Mitsuhashi
• Asahi Shimbun – Hope and despair for rezoned village near Fukushima nuclear plant – Yasuhito Watanabe
• Asahi Shimbun – NISA warns of active fault beneath Shika nuke plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Active fault may lie under Shika N-plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima village evacuation relaxed
• Fukushima Diary – [English illiterate top echelons] NHK “Fukushima crisis is still on-going” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Reactor4] New assembly taken out on 7/18, IAEA might visit Fukushima plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Small Japanese village becomes first to go 100% solar powerBy Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Openness vowed at nuke policy hearings – Masami Ito
• Japan Times – U.S. group supplying radiation data – Yuri Kageyama
• Japan Times – Consumer panel tells Tepco to cut pay 30% – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Should Tepco customers foot bill for nuclear fiasco? – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Consumer panel tells Tepco to cut pay 30% – Kazuaki Nagata
• Mainichi Daily News – Residents reluctant to return to Iitate despite progress in lifting evacuation zone
• Nippon News – Sayonara Nukes “100,000 People’s Call to Abolish All Nuclear Power Plants”

Monday, July 16, 2012

• Inside Climate News – How Fukushima Challenged a Core Tenet of U.S. Nuclear Safety: An Expert’s View – Elizabeth Douglass
• Bloomberg – Tokyo Anti-Nuclear Rally Attracts Thousands in Growing Protests – Aya Takada, Shunichi Ozasa and Scilla Alecci
• Economist Business Insider – 36 Percent Of Fukushima Children Have Abnormal Growths From Radiation Exposure – Michael Kelley
• Enformable – March 25th, 2011 – Dose calculations for Fukushima Daiichi Dry-Well vent valves and the temporary pit
• Enformable – Government report on Fukushima likely to be critical of TEPCO – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – More alarms sound at the Ohi nuclear power plant during Reactor 4 restart – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – March 25th, 2011 – Presentation from Japan Nuclear Technology invokes questions about official analyss of Reactor 4 explosion – Lucas W Hixson
• Financial Times – My time in Japan’s closed nuclear village – Gregory Clark
• Global Research – Fukushima Panel: Information on Radiation Release Suppressed
• LA Times blog – Massive Tokyo protest pushes against nuclear power
• Power Engineering – 1st geothermal power plant to be built
• UPI – Tepco said to withhold Fukushima info
• World Nuclear News – Iitate evacuation relaxed
• Yahoo!7 News – Massive anti-nuclear rally staged in Tokyo – Yahoo! AFP
• Yahoo!7 News – Nuclear operator to release secret Fukushima tapes – Mark Willacy
• Asahi Shimbun – Nuclear-free movement attracts new breed to massive Tokyo rally
• Asahi Shimbun – VOX POPULI: How much longer can government ignore anti-nuclear voices?
• Fukushima Diary – Decontamination by using bacteria failed – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – NHK admitted birds are dying in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Ajisai Revolution] 170,000 people joined protest in Tokyo “We won’t die in insult.” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Japan’s largest anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo draws over 170,000By Adam Westlake
• Japan Daily Press – Japan’s Anti-Nuclear demonstrators get louder and adamantBy Radhika Seth
• Japan Daily Press – Japan allows first geothermal power plant to be built inside national parkBy Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Massive Tokyo rally decries atomic power
• Japan Times – Alarms go off during unit 4’s restart in Oi
• Japan Times – Massive Tokyo rally decries atomic power
• Japan Times – Nuclear engineers ditching Japan for a bigger paycheck
• Mainichi Daily News – 1st Fukushima beach opens since nuclear disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Antinuclear rally draws 170,000 people at central Tokyo park
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear energy hearing disrupted by presence of power company official