Sunday, September 02, 2012
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Protesters, police at odds over security at anti-nuke demonstrations
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Editorial: Preparing for Nankai megaquake
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Zero option for nuclear power may be added to revamped energy plan
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Popular Fukushima revitalization tours receive subsidy boost from Tokyo gov’t
Saturday, September 01, 2012
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – In-Focus Japan: Japan to study genetic effects of radiation – Hokkaido working on hydrogen explosion prevention
- Asia-Pacific: Fairewinds Energy Education – It Could Have Been Worse – Arnie Gundersen
- Asia-Pacific: Power Engineering – TEPCO raises household electricity rates by 8.46%
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima could happen again, investigators say, as insufficient lessons learned – Former inquiry chiefs, from left, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Yotaro Hatamura and Koichi Kitazawa discuss the Fukushima disaster in Tokyo on Aug. 31. (Ryuta Koike)
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Countries agree to N-safety meeting
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Emergency facilities scattered around Tokyo
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Ecosystem Conservation Society-Japan “People from Fukushima to Kanagawa should not marry” – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Cobalt 58 was detected in Gunma, half-life is 71days, “Possibile recriticality around after April” – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Black substance found at Harajuku station in Tokyo, “21,346 Bq/Kg” – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Another mass death of goby was found in Shizuoka, close to Mt. Fuji. – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Tepco struggling to control the coolant system, “Adjusted the valves 7 times for 2 days” – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Radiation level picked up 7 times in Kobe – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – TEPCO: No. 4 reactor building can withstand 6-plus intensity quake
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Tepco hikes household rates to cover thermal fuel costs
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Judges hold rethink on nuke safety
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO raises household electricity rates by 8.46%
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Noda’s Cabinet to study zero nuclear energy policy Sun.
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Environment ministry to check Fukushima residents’ DNA for radiation damage
- Asia-Pacific: NHK World – Ex-US nuclear regulator chief urges transparency
Friday, August 31, 2012
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Former NRC Chairman Jaczko travels to Japan and urges transparency of nuclear regulators – Lucas W Hixson
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO: No. 4 reactor building can withstand 6-plus intensity quake
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Disaster-preparedness measures must be steadily pushed forward
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO reports drop in water injection rate at N-plant
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Other firms may increase power rates
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Feasibility of energy targets unclear – Koichiro Ashikaga
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Powerful quake hits Tohoku region
- Asia-Pacific: Denki Shimbun – New system to prevent hydrogen explosion in reactor containment
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Radiation level picked up 7 times in Kobe – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Sudden decrease of injecting water for reactor1~3, cause not known – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Renewable energy plan sees no nukes
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Doctor group urges radiation action
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Magnitude 5.6 quake jolts Miyagi
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Renewable energy plan sees no nukes
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Expressway in Fukushima nuke disaster no-go zone to be decontaminated by June ’13
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Minister gives verbal warnings to atomic energy panel chiefs over secret meetings
Thursday, August 30, 2012
- Asia-Pacific: Columbus Free Press – Murdoch’s Journal pushes tragic Fukushima flim-flam – Harvey Wasserman
- Asia-Pacific: The Examiner – Fukushima hot cod stopped from entering U.S. – Deborah Dupre
- Asia-Pacific: UPI Asia – Japanese majority favor zero nuclear power
- Asia-Pacific: World Nuclear News – Fukushima fuel assemblies inspected
- Asia-Pacific: World Nuclear News – Japan moves towards a strategy
- Asia-Pacific: Xinhua News – Offshore floating wind farm starts trial operation in western Japan
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima blasts environmentalist’s remark about marriage, deformed babies
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Changing the rules – It’s not just regulatory capture, it’s a whole new game – Lucas W Hixson
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – In-Focus Japan: Fukushima farmers continue decontamination of pasture grass – Japan to revise disaster food-security guidelines
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – Japanese government to fund algae decontamination project at over 100 contaminated sites
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima blasts environmentalist’s remark about marriage, deformed babies
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Feasibility of energy targets unclear – Koichiro Ashikaga
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Don’t rely on surveys as reason to end use of nuclear power
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – JP Gov will start genomic analysis for Fukushima people – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Cesium concentration reached mountains of Nagano – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – [Possible plutonium]18 µSv/h of alpha ray in Namiemachi, out of mandatory evacuation area – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Chairman of NPO in Chernobyl “In Belarus, girls turned to be men after secondary sexual character” – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Cesium measured from school lunch ingredient in Niigata, west coast of Japan – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Nuke plants on faults may get OK to stay online
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima to expand forest areas for radiation decontamination
- Asia-Pacific: Majirox News – Japan anti-nuclear protestors battle Noda’s government on nuclear policy
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
- Asia-Pacific: Reuters – Japan leans toward zero nuclear stance, caution remains – Linda Sieg
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Aomori told to stop shipping Pacific cod after isolated cases of high cesium readings – Keiichiro Inoue
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Unused nuclear fuel from Fukushima No. 4 reactor pool intact
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – April 5th, 2011 – Notes From Science Experts Call on Fukushima Disaster – SFP Assessment – External Drywell Cooling
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – April 2nd 2011 – Questions and Data on Core-Concrete Interactions
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – In-Focus Japan: Disease-related deaths soar in disaster affected prefecture – Experts warn Japanese government majority of citizens want to abandon nuclear power
- Asia-Pacific: New York Times – Japan Faces Costs of Closing Reactors – Hiroko Tabuchi
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Panel avoids tough nuclear power questions / Report refrains from policy suggestions; some members say they needed more time for discussions – Ryosuke Yamauchi and Hironori Kanashima
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Opinion remains divided on energy plan
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Upper house OK’s censure against Noda
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – M5.7 and M4.2 hit eastern Japan continuously – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – New technology of prenatal diagnosis to control down’s syndrome will be introduced in Japan – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Tepco paid only 30,000 yen for 200 million yen of compensation claim – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Noda “Nuclear plant is for national security” – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Government acknowledges most Japanese favor nuclear-free society
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Nuke crisis tested oldest sake brewer – Jun Hongo
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Concerns over halt in fishing shipments after cesium found in cod off Aomori
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – 3 evacuated Fukushima towns request temporary communities in Iwaki
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Utilities say 2 nuke plants can withstand quakes triggered by multiple active faults
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t panel says public supports zero nuclear power, but survey problems linger
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
- Asia-Pacific: Asian Correspondent – Fukushima gamma rays ‘worse than radioactivity’
- Asia-Pacific: Bloomberg – Japan Earthquake Spurred Jump in Heart Ailments: Study – Kristen Hallam
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – March 12th, – March 24th, 2011 – Estimated equivalent dose at thyroid to one year old infant from Fukushima plume
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – March 22nd, 2011 – Source terms and doses exceeding PAGs – Drywell reading source terms
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – In-Focus Japan: Nuclear power plant may be subject to referendum – TEPCO running out of space for contaminated water storage
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – TEPCO studying how to remove fuel rods from crippled Reactor 4 spent fuel pool – Lucas W Hixson
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – March 24th, 2011 – Fukushima Daiichi Reactors Spent Fuel Pool Details – Pool Locations
- Asia-Pacific: Enformable – In-Focus Japan: Gamma rays emitting from disaster debris challenge for Fukushima workers
- Asia-Pacific: Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for August 24th – August 27th, 2012 – Christine McCann
- Asia-Pacific: World Nuclear News – The health effects of Fukushima
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Asahi poll: 47% say nuclear power a top issue in next election
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Governor backs referendum on Hamaoka nuclear plant
- Asia-Pacific: Asahi Shimbun – Government to consider nuclear-free option – Ken Sakakibara
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Rice grown in Fukushima goes on sale
- Asia-Pacific: Denki Shimbun – Survey revealed psychological trauma in Fukushima nuclear plant workers
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Saitama prefecture is going to start recycling disaster debris to cement – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – 4 prefectures ended up building final disposal sites of highly radioactive waste within their lands – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Times – Editorial: Pressing Mr. Noda on nuclear power
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Shizuoka governor supports idea for referendum on restart of Hamaoka nuke plant
- Asia-Pacific: Nikkei – No Major Corrosion Found In Unused Fuel From Fukushima No. 4 Unit
Monday, August 27, 2012
- Asia-Pacific: CounterPunch – The Deadly Silence Over Fukushima – Karl Grossman
- Asia-Pacific: Stuff – Gamma rays latest concern from Fukushima
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Public comments show nuclear fears
- Asia-Pacific: Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima peaches reclaiming lost ground
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Dog survived with the dried meat sticking around the bone of dead cattle, 12km area – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – 316 µSv/h in Namiemachi, out of mandatory evacuation area – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: Fukushima Diary – Thyroid test to be conducted out of Fukushima, “Gov can no longer ignore it.” – Iori Mochizuki
- Asia-Pacific: House of Japan – Fukushima reactors status 27 Aug 2012
- Asia-Pacific: Japan Daily Press – Government to begin checking thyroids of children from outside Fukushima – Adam Westlake
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Schools in Fukushima town reopen after 1 1/2 years
- Asia-Pacific: Mainichi Daily News – Huge solar power plants spring up in idle industrial complexes