Sunday, September 16, 2012

• Bellona – Japan offers vague, weak nuclear exit by 2040 that could have reactors chugging decades beyond deadline
• Enformable – Japan already justifying exceptions to new energy policy – Lucas W Hixson
• Financial Times – Japan counts the cost of nuclear withdrawal – Jonathan Soble
• New York Times – Japan Won’t Stop Work on Reactors, Official Says – Hiroko Tabuchi
• New Zealand Press – Radiation refugee launches anti-nuke petition – Francesca Lee
• NTI – Japan Slightly Reduces Plutonium Stockpile
• Reuters – Japan finds another gap in its disaster readiness – Mount Fuji – Sophie Knight
• Washington Post – Editorial: Japan’s zero-nuclear dream
• Daily Yomiuri – Noda to reshuffle Cabinet, DPJ execs
• Daily Yomiuri – Old Fukushima houses to be restored for evacuees
• Fukushima Diary – 34% of Fukushima city people want to evacuate, local gov “Measures need to be taken” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Attempt to analyze the SFP3 picture – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco sent emergency email to report water leakage, “71,000,000,000 Bq/m3 of ß nuclides” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Passing the nuclear waste buck – Fred Alsdorf
• Johannesburg Times – For Taiwan aborigines, nuclear waste is blessing and curse

Saturday, September 15, 2012

• AFP Google – Japan to complete reactors despite no-nuclear policy
• Deutsche Local – Germany ready to help Japan go non-nuclear
• The Guardian – Japan plans to end reliance on nuclear power within 30 years – Justin McCurry
• Nature News Blog – Japan’s nuclear sun to set? – Declan Butler
• Reuters – Nuclear’s best friends turn cold shoulder after Fukushima – Karolin Schaps and Henning Gloystein
• Asahi Shimbun – INSIGHT: How firm is the no-nuke policy? It contains get-outs, contradictions
• Asahi Shimbun – New reactors could yet go critical in no-nuclear pledge loophole
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Government needs clear road map toward nuclear-free future
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt energy strategy causes new concerns – Hironori Kanashima
• Daily Yomiuri – Edano hints N-plant building can resume
• Daily Yomiuri – Zero N-plant strategy rife with contradictions / Govt’s plan to shut down N-plants by 2030s draws criticism from businesses, Aomori Prefecture, U.S. – Ryosuke Yamauchi and Hiroshi Arimitsu
• Daily Yomiuri – Responsible govt should never adopt zero nuclear goal
• Daily Yomiuri – Centenarian couple hope to return home – Tsuyoshi Nakamura
• Fukushima Diary – Installation of new thermometer to reactor2 still takes time – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Insurance company “no coverage for damage caused by nuclear fuel material” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 7.2 Bq/Kg of cesium from pickled plum in Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – JP Gov to restart the construction of 2 nuclear plants – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – U.S. Iran sanctions again omit Japan
• Japan Times – The long tradition of sanitizing history – Jeff Kingston
• Japan Times – New no-nuke plan has vested interests worried
• Japan Times – Energy shift generates hope, anxiety – Mai Iida
• Japan Times – ‘The government could still save lives’ – David Mcneill
• Japan Times – New reactor projects still on: Edano
• Japan Times – Utility to raise cash for safety fix

Friday, September 14, 2012

• AFP Google – Japan to phase out nuclear energy by 2040 – Harumi Ozawa
• AP Google – Cabinet panel wants Japan to end nuclear power use – Mari Yamaguchi
• AP Google – AP Interview: Japan nuke probe head defends report – Yuri Kageyama
• Enformable – Japan’s new energy policy upsets local and international ties – Lucas W Hixson
• New York Times – Japan Sets Policy to Phase Out Nuclear Power Plants by 2040 – Hiroko Tabuchi
• New York Times – Japan Will Try to Halt Nuclear Power by the End of the 2030s – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
• Power Engineering – Japan works on nuclear waste disposal
• Press Association – Japan could abandon nuclear power
• Press Association – Nuclear probe chief defends report
• Reuters – Update 2-Japan aims to abandon nuclear power by 2030s – Risa Maeda and Aaron Sheldrick
• TruthDive – Fukushima nuclear probe chief under fire for not ‘naming individual culprits’ in investigative-report
• Voice of Russia – Russian scientists find radiation off Fukushima coast
• Asahi Shimbun – Japan aims to abandon nuclear power by 2030s
• Asahi Shimbun – Western allies concerned about Japan’s no-nuke energy policy
• Asahi Shimbun – Up-close photo of 3/11 tsunami will be shown at Photokina – Kenichiro Saito
• Denki Shimbun – TEPCO established in-house groups for nuclear reform
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt adopts strategy of zero N-energy reliance
• Daily Yomiuri – Delays in disaster restoration must be ended immediately
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO removes lid from No. 4 reactor pressure vessel
• Daily Yomiuri – Ex-police chief Ikeda to head N-agency
• Fukushima Diary – More than 1000Bq/Kg was measured in 99.4% of a village area in no-man’s-zone – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 16.57 µSv/h on the street beside students running around a junior high school in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [The Voice of Russia] Cs137 in Pacific ocean 500~800km from Fukushima, “10 times higher than norm” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Injecting water to reactor1 ~ 3 decreased again – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 10,502 Bq/Kg from Karuizawa Nagano, 253km from Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco removed the RPV lid of reactor4 – Iori Mochizuki
• House of Japan – Japan to shift energy policy
• Japan Daily Press – TEPCO forms in-house groups for structuring nuclear reforms – Radhika Seth
• Japan Times – Victims dissatisfied with Tepco compensation
• Japan Times – Blasting Fukushima disaster response, Ishihara likens Tepco to Aum
• Japan Times – Axing nuclear power for renewables an expensive goal – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
• Japan Times – No-nuke plan official, quick to draw flak – Kazuaki Nagata and Eric Johnston
• Japan Today – Main points of Japan’s post-Fukushima energy plan
• Mainichi Daily News – NISA skipped check of active fault under nuke plant due to ‘lack of data’
• Mainichi Daily News – Aomori Prefecture rejects nuclear waste, eyes continued reprocessing
• Nikkei – Japan Targets Phasing Out Nuclear Power By 2030s

Thursday, September 13, 2012

• Enformable – Japan’s new energy policy upsets local and international ties – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Japan’s new energy policy does not rely on nuclear power – Lucas W Hixson
• RIB Joint – Gundersen Does Japan P2
• Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Watch: Japanese Have Lost Faith in Nuclear Power — U.S. Regulator – Ryan Tracy
• Asahi Shimbun – Offshore wind power generation in the spotlight in Japan – Tomoya Fujita
• Asahi Shimbun – Britain, France seek Japan’s promise to accept nuclear waste
• Asahi Shimbun – Key Word: Nuclear fuel cycle policy
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima gov.’s China meeting canned
• Daily Yomiuri – U.S. expresses concern
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt to continue N-fuel recycling program
• Daily Yomiuri – Compensation sought for losses from N-fears
• Daily Yomiuri – 2 utilities to apply for rate hike / KEPCO, Kyushu Electric eye raising prices to lower deficits
• Fukushima Diary – Pictures of SFP in reactor3 are pixelated again – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – New regional antidisaster plan for TokyoBy Radhika Seth
• Japan Daily Press – Fukushima Update: First child with thyroid cancer reported – Radhika Seth
• Japan Times – Nuclear recycling program to continue amid looming storage crisis
• JIJI Press – Europe Asks Japan to Accept Nuclear Waste as Planned
• JIJI Press – Japan Govt Holds Talks on N-Fuel Cycle with Aomori
• Kyodo News – Japan to maintain plan to seek spent fuel reprocessing at Rokkasho
• Mainichi Daily News – Peaches become first Fukushima fresh food exported after disaster

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

• AFP Google – Japan to abandon nuclear power by 2030s: report – Kyoko Hasegawa
• AP Google – Japan PM hints at a nuclear-free energy policy
• Enformable – New proposal from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would allow nuclear power plants to skip inspections and inservice testing – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Japan’s new energy policy does not rely on nuclear power – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 – March 12th, 2011 – After Explosion Destroyed the Reactor Building
• Enformable – TEPCO establishes third-party panel to improve nuclear safety and corporate management – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – In-Focus Japan: Globalization of energy innovation – IAEA Launches Fukushima Radiation Database
• Enformable – Many difficulties lie ahead in decommissioning work after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
• Reuters – Two Japan utilities to apply for rate hikes -report – Osamu Tsukimori
• Reuters – Japan aims for zero nuclear power in 2030s – media – Linda Sieg
• Reuters – Destitute North Korea accepts, then rejects, flood aid from South – Ju-min Park
• Reuters AlertNet – Helping to ease minds on radiation
• Reuters AlertNet – Handout photo of TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after being hit by a tsunami
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO sets up 3rd-party panel to improve nuclear safety, win trust – Kentaro Uechi
• Asahi Shimbun – Thyroid tests for Fukushima children find no effects from accident
• Asahi Shimbun – Radioactive fallout detected far from Fukushima – Nobutaro Kaji
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO releases 600 pics of wrecked nuclear plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Ex-MPD chief to head N-agency
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO tightens N-monitoring / 3rd-party panel to reexamine crisis, make safety recommendations – Chiaki Toyoda
• Fukushima Diary – Ministry of Education, Science and Technology’s report “110mAg measured in North Kanto” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 88 Bq/Kg from well water in Minamisoma Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Work on citizen radiation reports going slow
• Japan Times – Fukushima finds first child thyroid cancer after 3/11
• Japan Times – Foreign tourists still staying away
• Japan Times – China airline chief scrubs meeting with Fukushima governor amid Senkaku spat; youths snub kudos
• Japan Times – Editorial: DPJ leadership on the block
• Japan Times – Tepco reforms seen as reactor restart bid

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

• AFP Yahoo! – Haunting ‘Land of Hope’ part shot on location in Fukushima – Nadege Puljak
• Enformable – Many difficulties lie ahead in decommissioning work after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
• Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for September 7th to September 10th, 2012 – Christine McCann
• Reuters – Tepco brings in outside experts to monitor nuclear reforms – Neha Dimri
• Reuters AlertNet – Fukushima grapples with re-building
• RTT News – IAEA Launches Database of Fukushima Radiation Information
• Xinhua News – Japan to launch new nuclear regulatory commission
• Asahi Shimbun – Science panel recommends delaying burying radioactive waste
• Asahi Shimbun – Slow progress containing problems at Fukushima, new ones arise – Takashi Sugimoto
• Daily Yomiuri – DPJ presidential candidates must debate revival of Japan
• Daily Yomiuri – N-waste disposal needs review / Nation’s top scientists call for new policy in light of Fukushima crisis
• Daily Yomiuri – IAEA head advocates active use of peer review services for safety
• Fukushima Diary – Thyroid disease rate spiked to 43.7%, “About 1 in 2 children have nodule or cyst in Fukushima city” – Iori
• Fukushima Diary – Thyroid cancer found from Fukushima children – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Japan/korea sea contaminated as much as Tokyo bay – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Kawasaki city mayor, “School serves radioactive lunch for educational purpose.” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – New nuclear regulation authority to debut September 19th, says government – Adam Westlake
• Japan Daily Press – Four municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture still to chalk out disaster recovery plans – Radhika Seth
• Japan Times – Scientists sound alarm on plan to bury nuclear waste
• Japan Times – Disaster-area kids under hard stress
• Japan Times – NISA successor to debut Sept. 19 – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Tohoku long way from healing 18 months on
• Japan Times – Nuke waste plan scares scientists
• JIJI Press – Japan Scientists Call for Full Review of Nuclear Waste Disposal Policy – Reason Magazine

Monday, September 10, 2012

• ABC – Problem plagued nuclear reactor called world’s most dangerous – Mark Willacy
• Enformable – In-Focus Japan: 18 months after onset of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster – Japan still recovering
• Nuclear Free by 2045 – Urine tests for cesium? Government says basically, “Piss off.”
• Reuters – Update 1-Japan energy deadlock deepens; government fails to announce policy mix – Linda Sieg
• Daily Yomiuri – Chubu utility to return to bond market
• Daily Yomiuri – New device developed for seabed cesium surveys
• Fukushima Diary – Only 1 measuring point remains available to measure temperature in RPV of reactor2 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Cesium from incineration ash of normal garbage is not decreasing in Tochigi – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – More than 10% of prefectural staff suffer from mental problem in Miyagi – Iori Mochizuki
• House of Japan – One and half years after Fukushima accident
• Japan Times – Japan’s energy mix requires examining trade-offs – Takashi Kitazume
• Japan Times – Returning as DPJ chief will be the easy part – Jun Hongo
• Japan Times – International flights resume from crisis-hit Fukushima
• Japan Times – New energy policy deadline extended
• Japan Times – 18 months on, ‘stayjin’ in Tokyo, Iwaki tell a tale of two cities – Patrick Budmar
• Japan Times – New energy policy postponed amid lack of consensus