Sunday, July 29, 2012

• Bloomberg – Nuclear Power Opposed by 70% at Japan Hearings, Asahi Reports – Andy Sharp
• New York Times – In Conservative Japan Enclave, Antinuclear Candidate Gains Ground – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Japan Times – Yamamoto likely winner of Yamaguchi gubernatorial race
• Japan Times – Antinuke demonstrators form human chain around Diet building – Setsuko Kamiya And Mizuho Aoki
• Mainichi Daily News – Antinuclear rally to encircle Diet with candlelight
• Mainichi Daily News – Voting starts in Yamaguchi governor’s race, focus on nuclear plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Green party launched in Japan to oppose nuclear energy

Saturday, July 28, 2012

• New Straits Times – Will Fukushima report impact Japan’s nuke policy? – Takahiro Suzuki
• UPI Asia – NISA OKs aging Japanese reactor
• Asahi Shimbun – NISA dismisses fears over failing Genkai reactor strength
• Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima cleanup at a standstill in most evacuated areas
• Asahi Shimbun – Keidanren pans government’s three nuclear energy proposals – Minoru Nagata
• Asahi Shimbun – SDP leader takes anti-nuke campaign to bar in Tokyo
• Asahi Shimbun – Nagasaki Peace Symposium: Fukushima disaster figures big in discussions – Hiroshi Matsubara
• Japan Times – Ministry tries to justify fallout data delay
• Japan Times – DPJ scrambles to stop Ozawa exit sparking mass defections – Masami Ito And Natsuko Fukue
• Japan Times – Ishikawa urges NISA to monitor Shika fault probe
• Mainichi Daily News – Political parties perplexed over anti-nuclear protests
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima disaster worker says subcontractors siphoned money from wages
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear agency deems aging No. 1 reactor at Genkai plant safe until 2033

Friday, July 27, 2012

• Enformable – Disaster-hit areas of Japan face unprecedented obstacles in monumental efforts to decontaminate and restore the nation – Lucas W Hixson
• Asahi Shimbun – Candidates for nuclear regulatory commission paid by power utilities – Satoshi Otani
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: KEPCO’s arrogance on display in comments about restarting reactors
• Daily Yomiuri – Roster of new N-body nominees put to Diet
• Denki Shimbun – Final report of government investigation panel on Fukushima accident released
• Japan Daily Press – Radiation physicist Shunichi Tanaka promoted to lead nuclear safety regulatorBy Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Fukushima probes leave questions – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Cows pose road hazard, Tepco told
• Japan Times – Soil issue buried for lack of storage – Kazuma Tarumi
• Japan Times – No. 1 workers’ radiation doses soared 16-fold
• Japan Times – Editorial: Suspicious geological faults
• Japan Times – Editorial: Reducing Tepco’s costs
• Mainichi Daily News – Cabinet Office official deleted emails on secret meetings of pro-nuclear parties

Thursday, July 26, 2012

• Enformable – March 12th, 2011 – Chairman of Japan Atomic Energy Commission’s high-level report on Fukushima Daiichi sequence of events
• Enformable – March 28th, 2011 – The consensus view on the recommendation of not flooding the drywell – Units 2 and 3 are well vented already due to failed containments
• Enformable – March 29th, 2011 – USAF Point Paper on Contaminated Water at Fukushima Plant
• Enformable – March 28th, 2011 – Reactor 4 Spent Fuel Pool Specs and Question About Where Cooling Water Is Going
• Enformable – Local government officials call for oversight of Shika underground fault probe – Lucas W Hixson
• Pacific Free Press – Fuku Kids Unwitting Radioactive Guinea Pigs – John C.K. Daly
• Platts – IAEA delegation to visit Tohoku Electric’s quake-hit Onagawa nuclear plant – Takeo Kumagai
• Reuters – Nuclear expansion on track despite Fukushima-OECD report – Eric Onstad
• Reuters – Japan govt names radiation physicist as new atomic regulator head – Tetsushi Kajimoto
• Asahi Shimbun – Radiation doses 4 times larger for ‘outside workers’ at nuclear plants – Toshihiro Okuyama
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Ensure candidates are qualified for nuclear regulatory agency
• Asahi Shimbun – Professor warned about safety problems in using contracted workers at nuclear plants – Toshihiro Okuyama
• Asahi Shimbun – Utilities to start fault surveys at nuclear plants in August – Ryuta Koike
• Fukushima Diary – Reality of Japanese beach – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Ajisai Revolution] Asahi “They started having a protest every Wednesday” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Japanese actor Takeda Tetsuya “couldn’t stop nosebleed, face became bloody” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Tunnel eyed to probe fault at nuke plant
• Japan Times – Editorial: Obsession with a safety myth
• Japan Times – Toshiba system to cleanse water at Tepco plant
• Japan Times – Nuclear politics in Yamaguchi – Eric Johnston
• Japan Times – Kepco pushes Takahama restart
• Japan Times – Tepco gets OK to raise electricity rates 8.46%
• Japan Times – Mihama reactor 2 turns 40 years; future uncertain
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear disaster minister defended then PM Kan for handling of Fukushima crisis: panel
• Mainichi Daily News – Hibakusha: A-bomb survivor continues pushing forward despite husband’s death
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Japan needs major shift in energy policy to cut ties to nuclear power

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

• AlterNet – After Fukushima, Nuclear Power on Collision Course With Japanese Public
• Enformable – In-Focus Japan: The nuclear bomb proof piano – Executive admits role in Fukushima radiation manipulation scandal
• Enformable – TEPCO warned by officials after series of car crashes involving vehicles carrying workers to Fukushima Daiichi – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – TEPCO’s do or die mission to save nuclear reactor may have caused largest radiation leaks during Fukushima disaster – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – More showdowns in Japan in near future over nuclear reactors seismic defensibility – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – March 18th, 2011 – If Fukushima Unit 4 was uncovered in a week, it was not a simple boil-off.
• Enformable – March 16th, 2011 – From Chuck and Japan Team – Unit 4 spent fuel pool-Likely dry, structural integrity uncertain, uncertain can hold water
• Enformable – March 18th, 2011 – NRC Reactor Safety Team Spent Fuel Pool Fukushima Daiichi Cooling Recommendations for mitigation of dose rates
• Enformable – April 3rd, 2011 – Has the suspected Unit 1 primary containment leakage been factored into the assumptions and subsequent recommendations
• Enformable – Japanese government to launch official investigation into Fukushima radiation monitoring scandal – Lucas W Hixson
• Reuters – Japan govt sanctions Tepco reform plan, including rate hike – Risa Maeda
• Reuters – Japan PM atomic energy stance on trial in local poll – Linda Sieg
• Asahi Shimbun – Two panels of ‘A-bomb paintings’ to be shown in Nagoya – Kentaro Yamayoshi
• Asahi Shimbun – Some Fukushima workers may have been illegally recruited
• Asahi Shimbun – Radioactive strontium from Fukushima disaster found in 10 prefectures
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Independent team should monitor radiation doses at Fukushima plant
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO may start lump-sum compensation in August
• Daily Yomiuri – Don’t decide energy option through ad hoc discussions
• Daily Yomiuri – 3 N-facilities eyed following Oi plant restart / Process to bring Ikata, Tomari and Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reactors back online filled with hurdles – Fumitsuki Funaki and Koichiro Shigematsu
• Daily Yomiuri – KEPCO relying on firms for power saving
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt OK’s 8.46% household power rate hike
• Fukushima Diary – [Reactor4] Tepco “There was no hydrogen gas from SFP4? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – MEXT admitted Strontium90 was measured in Tokyo and 9 other prefectures – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco plans to restart Fukushima plant reactor5, 6 and Daini – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Yomiuri·Jiji] Panel: Meltdown denials extremely inappropriate – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Bookoff] Areva’s decontamination facilities were secondhand – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Tepco sets date to start accepting victims’ claims
• Japan Times – Oi plant’s No. 4 reactor approaches full output
• Japan Times – The eerie silence of Japan’s dying democracy – Kevin Rafferty
• Japan Times – New task force ‘will continue probe’
• Japan Times – Japan’s accountability crisis – Christopher Hobson

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

• Enformable – March 22nd, 2011 – Calculations to Determine Salt Accumulation in Fukushima Reactor Vessels
• Enformable – April 9th, 2011 – Though I cannot see any goal, I will do my best to save the nuclear power business
• Enformable – March 24th, 2011 – NRC received nearly all missing radiation data from March 13th – March 15th window
• Enformable – Government panel blasts safety culture and government response in latest Fukushima disaster report – Lucas W Hixson
• Huffington Post – Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Report: Plant Operators Tokyo Electric and Government Still Stumbling – Mari Yamaguchi
• New York Times – Inquiry Sees Chaos in Evacuations After Japan Tsunami – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Reuters – Tepco to get approval for household rate hike on Wednesday – Nikkei
• Asahi Shimbun – Government Probe: Many Fukushima hospital patients died during botched rescue operation – Noriyoshi Otsuki
• Daily Yomiuri – Use lessons of Fukushima to improve N-plant safety
• Daily Yomiuri – Power-saving goals to be cut / Some areas’ targets will be lowered as reactors become operational
• Daily Yomiuri – Report finds contradictions in TEPCO’s actions – Naonobu Sato
• Daily Yomiuri – Exec admits falsifying N-data / Lead-shielded dosimeters carried by workers in high-radiation areas
• Daily Yomiuri – Complaints over N-crisis to be accepted / Building cases may be difficult for prosecutors
• Daily Yomiuri – Radioactive cores hampered probes – Makoto Mitsui
• Daily Yomiuri – Retired Fukushima engineers to seek U.S. assistance
• Denki Shimbun – Removal of fresh fuel from Fukushima I unit 4
• Fukushima Diary – [Yomiuri] Retired Fukushima engineers to seek U.S. assistance – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Don’t touch moss in Hachioji Tokyo (4,370 Bq/Kg) – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Cesium measured from rice and milk sold in western Japan – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 13,200 Bq/Kg from riverside in Ibaraki, 178km from Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Probe targets ploy to shield dosimeters – Deccan Herald
• Mainichi Daily News – Release of final gov’t report on Fukushima disaster sparks residents’ criticism
• Mainichi Daily News – Lead covers meant to hide radiation exposure not effective, TEPCO subcontractor says
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: New nuke disaster report cue for Japanese people to join energy debate
• Mainichi Daily News – Yoroku: Paying heed to disaster warnings
• Mainichi Daily News – No such thing as absolute safety for Japan’s nuclear power plants
• Energy Live – Taiwan’s nuclear plans despite protests
• Taipei Times – Groups warn on cracks in nuclear reactor – Lee I-chia

Monday, July 23, 2012

• AFP Yahoo! – Japan, TEPCO ‘ignoredd nuclear accident risks’
• AP Google – Gov’t panel: Nuke plant operator still stumbling – Mari Yamaguchi
• Business Week – Fukushima Investigators Say More Study Needed on What Went Wrong – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
• LA Times blog – Japan investigating if Fukushima workers hid radiation exposure – Emily Alpert
• New York Times – In Fukushima, Surreal Serenity – Kumiko Makihara
• Reuters – Japan Fukushima probe panel urges new disaster prevention steps, mindset – Risa Maeda
• RTT News – More Investigation Urged Into Fukushima Nuke Accident
• TruthDive – Japan, TEPCO ignored atomic accident risks due to ‘myth of nuclear safety’: Report
• Wall Street Journal – 2nd Update: Japan Govt Panel Says Tepco Still Falling Short on Nuclear Safety – Mitsuru Obe and Eleanor Warnock
• Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Watch: Anti-Nuclear Candidate Gains Ground in Yamaguchi Race – Yoree Koh
• Washington Post – News Summary: Operator of crippled nuke plant still mishandling response, investigators say
• Asahi Shimbun – Official of TEPCO subcontractor: Dosimeter ruse was one-time act
• Asahi Shimbun – UPDATE: Government panel blasts lack of ‘safety culture’ in nuclear accident
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Government must answer nuclear risk questions
• Asahi Shimbun – ASAHI SURVEY: Mothers who evacuated with children face difficulties
• Daily Yomiuri – Panel: Meltdown denials extremely inappropriate
• Daily Yomiuri – Panel: Safety myth at root of N-crisis
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO ‘hesitant to probe crisis’
• Daily Yomiuri – 5 workers used covers on dosimeters
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima worker “Restart of nuclear plants will cause shortage of Fukushima workers” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Japanese media reported the number of the death to be one in tenth – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Ajisai Revolution] Photos of the 7/1 protest at Ohi plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Government, Tepco again hit for nuke crisis – Kazuaki Nagata
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear accident report calls for better administrative system after patients’ deaths