Sunday, September 23, 2012

• The Nation – Courting nuclear disaster – Eric S. Margolis
• Fukushima Diary – Tritium leakage from reactor 5 and 6 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Washington post] Japan shifts to the right – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 7m and 470kg of steel frame dropped into the SFP of reactor3, “566 fuel assemblies are in the pool” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Arnie Gundersen @Congressional Briefing Cannon House Office Building — Room 121 9/20/2012 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – DC rally on 9/20 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Leadership for a nuclear weapons-free world – Ramesh Thakur
• Japan Times – Japan’s nuclear phaseout: Is it all smoke and mirrors? – Stephen Hesse
• Mainichi Daily News – Documentary filmmaker Tetsu Kato portrays those who stayed after nuclear disaster

Saturday, September 22, 2012

• Voice of Russia – Another accident at Fukushima plant
• Asahi Shimbun – Safety first, but retain nuclear power, says new watchdog chief
• Asahi Shimbun – Atomic engineers feel less confident about nuke safety
• Daily Yomiuri – New N-body must quickly create safety guidelines
• Japan Times – Town hosting stricken Fukushima No. 1 plant bans residents from returning for five more years
• Japan Times – Futaba worst hit by Fukushima fallout
• Japan Times – Kepco braces for ¥125 billion net loss
• Japan Times – August logs 42% leap in tourism
• Mainichi Daily News – News Navigator: What is the ‘specified waste’ from the Fukushima accident?

Friday, September 21, 2012

• AFP Google – Japan will go nuclear free, PM insists – Kyoko Hasegawa
• Bellona – Japan backtracks on 2040 nuclear phase out plan – Charles Digges
• Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for September 18th to September 20th, 2012 – Christine McCann
• Huffington Post – Japan Nuclear Phase-Out Plan Falls Apart – Mari Yamaguchi
• RTT News – Radiation-Hit Town In Japan Bans Residents’ Return For 5 Years
• Asahi Shimbun – Chubu Electric argues that 18-meter wall can beat 23-meter tsunami – Ryo Takano
• Asahi Shimbun – Atomic engineers feel less confident about nuke safety
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Referendum on restart of Hamaoka plant the way to go
• Daily Yomiuri – New N-body must quickly create safety guidelines
• Daily Yomiuri – New N-body must quickly create safety guidelines
• Daily Yomiuri – New energy tax causing anxiety / Costs of tariff on fossil fuels to be passed to households, businesses
• Denki Shimbun – New nuclear safety regulatory body launched
• Denki Shimbun – Completion of reprocessing plant postponed for a year
• Japan Today – Kansai Electric projects Y125 bil loss
• Mainichi Daily News – Existence of disaster-hit coastal district in Fukushima threatened
• Mainichi Daily News – Experts who value nuclear power plunged by 30 percent after Fukushima disaster

Thursday, September 20, 2012

• AP Google – Japan posts $9.6B August trade gap as exports wilt – Elaine Kurtenbach
• Enformable – In-Focus Japan: New regulator continues proliferating promises made by predecessors – Canada still importing seafood from Japan
• New York Times – Japan, Under Pressure, Backs Off Goal to Phase Out Nuclear Power by 2040 – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Power Engineering – Japan has new nuclear regulator
• Asahi Shimbun – Selection of radioactive waste disposal site creates unhappy locals
• Asahi Shimbun – Japan gets a new nuclear safety body, now needs to write rules
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: DPJ’s credibility at stake over lack of vision
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt must retract zero nuclear target for good of economy
• Daily Yomiuri – KEPCO to post 125 billion yen net loss
• Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear regulatory body faces mountain of urgent tasks – Koichi Yasuda
• Daily Yomiuri – Anti-Japan rallies quiet in China – Seiichiro Takeuchi
• Daily Yomiuri – Coastal areas push elevation awareness
• Fukushima Diary – Mutated sunflower in Kagawa prefecture – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Pneumonia is unusually increasing around in hotspot, “80% of the patients are under 14? – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – New atomic regulator launches, vowing no more disasters – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Analysis: Nuke watchdog a ‘cosmetic’ change – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Cabinet fails to OK new nuclear strategy

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

• AP Google – Japan gets cold feet on no-nukes policy proposal – Mari Yamaguchi
• AFP Google – Japan gets new nuclear watchdog
• Christian Science Monitor – Japan plans to abandon nuclear power
• The Guardian – Japan shrinks from 2040 nuclear power exit deadline – Justin McCurry
• Enformable – Japan In-Focus: Noda taps Tanaka as Nuclear Regulatory Commission head – New energy policy creates conflict in cabinet
• Daily Yomiuri – Rokkasho N-fuel plant completion delayed
• Daily Yomiuri – Whiteboards detail tense response to nuclear crisis
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt fails to OK zero N-target document
• Daily Yomiuri – Shizuoka gov. submits draft on N-plant restart referendum
• Daily Yomiuri – Competitive bids for thermal plants urged
• Fukushima Diary – JP gov banned shipping landlocked salmon from another river in Tochigi – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Cesium from 93% of fishery products 20km offshore Fukushima, highest reading was 1,350 Bq/Kg from greenling – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 33 high school students from Tochigi worked to sort disaster debris in Miyagi – Iori Mochizuki
• Jiji Press – Japan’s New Nuclear Body Resolved to Improve Transparency
• Jiji Press – (Update) Zero Nuclear Target Nowhere in Japan Cabinet Decision
• Enformable – Japan In-Focus: Japan presents new energy policy to IAEA – Germany welcomes policy and calls
• New York Times – Japan Backs Off Goal to Phase Out Nuclear Power by 2040 – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Power Engineering – Japan’s two nuclear safety bodies to be scrapped for replacement
• Press Association – Japan cool on nuclear phase-out
• Reuters – Update 1-Japan cabinet approves plan to exit nuclear energy
• Reuters – Japan cabinet ministers endorse new energy plan- trade min
• Seeking Alpha – Brief Overview of The Japan’s New Nuclear Energy Policy
• UPI – Japan drops no-nuke plan under pressure
• Wall Street Journal – Japan Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant Faces Further Delay – Chester Dawson
• Xinhua News – Noda gov’t puts off decision on zero-nuke strategy
• Xinhua News – Japan launches independent nuke regulatory body
• Zee News – Radioactive materials reach 3,200 km east of Fukushima in Pacific
• Daily Yomiuri – Rokkasho N-fuel plant completion delayed
• Daily Yomiuri – Whiteboards detail tense response to nuclear crisis
• Daily Yomiuri – ‘Transparent’ N-regulatory commission launched
• Fukushima Diary – White swallow found in Tokyo too – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – White swallow found in Nagasaki – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Contaminated water leakage, “ß-ray dose was 1.33 mSv/h on its surface” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Kitakyushu city government started internet censorship to begin debris incineration – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Atmospheric dose is high in Fukuoka prefecture – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Vowing no more disasters, new atomic regulator launched – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Cabinet fails to OK new nuclear strategy–Deadline for abolishing atomic energy by 2030s not endorsed
• Japan Times – Editorial: Ambiguous new nuclear policy

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

• Bloomberg – Japan Sets Up New Nuclear Regulator After Fukushima ‘Failure’ – Yuji Okada
• Daily Yomiuri – IAEA to watch govt’s N-plant deactivation
• Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear regulatory entity set to be launched today
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO to set up panel to reduce procurement costs
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt to scrap 3 N-reactors in Mihama, Tsuruga
• Fukushima Diary – [NTD] China’s Navy Flexing its Muscle in East China Sea – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation reached 3200km east to Fukushima in Pacific ocean by this March – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Shanghaiist.com] New Japan ambassador Shinichi Nishimiya dies before making it to China – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Disaster debris incineration will start at 500m from Maizuru Kyoto – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 582 Bq/Kg from Blueberry in Koriyama – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Nearly 250 local Japanese governments fail disaster alert test – Britney Donald
• Mainichi Daily News – Number of children at public schools near Fukushima nuclear plant halved: Mainichi survey
• Mainichi Daily News – School authorities near Fukushima nuclear plant struggle to get students back home

Monday, September 17, 2012

• AP Google – Panetta: US-Japan agree on new defense system – Lolita C. Baldor
• Columbus Free Press – Japan’s Long Atomic Sayonara – Harvey Wasserman
• Deutsche Welle – Off the grid by 2040? Critics doubt Japan’s plan
• eNews Park Forest – Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, September 17, 2012 .
• The Examiner – Fukushima dire warning: over 4 million Japanese cancer deaths – Deborah Dupre
• Reuters – Areva to benefit from Japan’s nuclear reboot-paper – Caroline Jacobs
• Fukushima Diary – Cesium from 1 in 4 local products for self-consumption in Minamisoma city Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima shipped hair crab and todarodes for the first time after 311 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – White wild boar found in Saga prefecture, “1 in 100,000 boars” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Pink grasshopper in Yamagata prefecture – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, “Safety limit food is safe enough to keep eating” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Rokkasho reprocessing plant, “If JP Gov abandons fuel reprocessing, we’ll send back spent fuel” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Despite decision to end nuclear power, new reactors to be built – wait, what? – Adam Westlake
• Japan Daily Press – Despite decision to end nuclear power, new reactors to be built – wait, what? – Adam Westlake
• Japan Daily Press – Nuclear Disarm: Hibakushas tell their horrific tales to Israel – Radhika Seth
• Japan Times – Vicious nuclear fuel cycle proving difficult to break – Kazuaki Nagata
• Mainichi Daily News – 60 percent support gov’t policy of seeking to eliminate nuclear power: Mainichi poll
• The Hindu – Their life depends on nuclear waste!