Sunday, September 30, 2012

• AFP Google – Japan PM to reshuffle cabinet
• Asahi Shimbun – Survey: 1 percent of food samples exceeded radioactive limit
• Asahi Shimbun – Minister Edano: Japan must quickly phase out nuke energy
• Daily Yomiuri – PM to visit Fukushima nuclear plant Oct. 7
• Daily Yomiuri – Hirono residents staying away / Only 10% have returned in year since town’s evacuation order lifted
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima city is going to send inspectors to Gomel in Belarus to learn their policy of health management – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 3/19/2011 Yamashita, “It’s not serious enough to take iodine tablets” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima prefecture to build the research center of anticancer drug in Fukushima city – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Cesium from mushroom made in Kyushu, sold in west coast of Japan – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Thinking about nuclear (Japanese) 9/29/2012 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima hospital imported new WBC equipment, distributer “It can’t measure internal exposure” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Indicator disordered in Monju, fast-breeder reactor – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Two kindergartens in Fukushima held a sports meeting outside – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Disaster area’s exemption of medical cost will be ended, “Only in Fukushima” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [NHK] Japan’s 1st recycled-fuel plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Flip-flop on no-nuclear energy policy bodes ill for the future of Japan – Jochen Legewie
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t must iron out inconsistencies in nuclear strategy through true public discussion

Saturday, September 29, 2012

• AP Google – Minister: Japan must quickly phase out nuke energy – Mari Yamaguchi
• Asahi Shimbun – Edano: Not up to government to decide reactor restarts
• Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuclear rallies pass the 6-month mark
• Fukushima Diary – Radioactive silver, Ag-110m measured from fishery products offshore Fukushima, “Shipment was 9/11? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Yomiuri] Fukushima tobacco farmers prepare to ship – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Black rain fell in Chiba, “5400 Bq/L of beta nuclide in March of 2011? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Cesium measured from detergent, “Material is clay silicate from Fukushima” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 2 typhoons are going to pass eastern Japan – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – J-Power may resume building nuke plant
• Japan Times – Edano’s new book says government should run nuke plants
• Japan Today – The only phase-out we can afford – Dreux Richard
• Japan Today – 25,606 people moved out of Fukushima in last 6 months, ministry says
• Jpubb – Status of TEPCO’s Nuclear Power Stations after the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake (Daily Report as of 3:00 PM, September 28)
• Jpubb – Report on the Incorrect Input Data Used in the Evaluation of Structural Strength and Seismic Capacity of the Spent Fuel Dry Cask Temporary Storage Facility to the Nuclear Regulatory Authority
• Jpubb – Correction Made to the Report on Our Facility Management Plan for Unit 1-4 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Based on the “Policy on the Mid-term Security” (Version 2) (Revision 2)
• Liberty web Global – 1000 People Gathered for a Pro-nuclear Power Demonstration On Sept 25th
• Mainichi Daily News – More standards for recognizing nuke workers’ cancers released
• Taipei Times – Activists demand survey of Lanyu radiation levels – Loa Iok-sin

Friday, September 28, 2012

• Bloomberg – Japan Minister Says Nationalization Needed to Phase Out Nuclear – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Nuclear Engineering – Upgrades underway – Caroline Peachey
• Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
• Radio Australia – Nuclear free Japan in doubt – Karon Snowdon
• Reuters – Update 1-J-Power to resume nuclear plant construction -media – Osamu Tsukimori and Risa Maeda
• Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima residents failing to complete radiation-dose paperwork
• Denki Shimbun – Speeding up environmental assessment for thermal power plants
• ENENews – Japan Engineer: Fukushima Units 1, 2, and 3 can break “much easier” than Unit 4 during quake – Buildings not reinforced (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Video shows steel beam landed on fuel racks in Fukushima No. 3 pool -Report
• ENENews – Osaka Hospital Official: “I advise people to keep records of any changes in their health conditions” after Fukushima disaster
• ENENews – Gundersen v. Tepco: Watch audience uproar after official says “there’s nothing in the fuel pool to burn” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Video: Reactor No. 1 containment filled with smoke or steam – “What destroyed the inside like this? Earthquake? Explosion?”
• ENENews – “Very Unexpected”: Large debris filmed in Fukushima Unit 1 shows something explosive happened inside containment (VIDEO)
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt to place new cesium limits on beef, rice Oct. 1
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO shows video taken inside N-reactor
• Daily Yomiuri – J-Power to resume construction of Oma nuclear plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Tokyo Gas may invest in TEPCO’s thermal plants
• House of Japan – Japan 1st recycled-fuel plant
• House of Japan – Fukushima reactors status 29 sep 2012
• Fukushima Diary – [ABC] Problem plagued nuclear reactor called world’s most dangerous – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 1100 Bq/kg from dried mushroom sold in west coast of Japan – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – More than 40,000 Bq/m2 from 82.8% of Nagareyama city in Chiba – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Lead plate of 7.5cm thickness was lost in PCV of reactor1 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – City opposes government’s plan of dumping radioactive Fukushima waste in forest – Adam Westlake

Thursday, September 27, 2012

• Asia Daily Wire – Japan faces challenge nuclear waste disposal site selection
• Cutting Edge – Japan Plans Restart of Controversial Reactor – Steve Herman
• Enformable – Japan’s government stymied by persistent resistance to disposal site selection process – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Japan to restart fast breeder program at Monju in order to ‘achieve something significant for humanity’ – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – March 12th, 2011 – They may have done exactly what Mitch said – flooded the cavity and then they got a steam explosion
• Greenpeace International – Japan to go zero nukes by the 2030s … or 40s – Greg McNevin
• Asahi Shimbun – Nuclear watchdog to have outline of new safety standards by next March
• Daily Yomiuri – Ministry selects 2nd N-waste candidate site
• Fukushima Diary – [Nature] Unusual Indian Ocean earthquakes hint at tectonic breakup – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Coolant water is leaking to the next turbine building of reactor1 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima rice was sold labelled as from Nagano – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco punched an access hole to PCV of reactor1 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco developing remote controlling robots, wall crawler, airship, RPV diver, etc.. – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 110 Bq/Kg of cesium from citron in Nikko city Tochigi – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 3300 Bq/Kg from a pregnant woman in Iwaki city Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – PCV temperature is rapidly increasing in reactor1, “10? in 2 days” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 89.2% of contaminated water tank is full. New installation will be caught up with by 2016 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Today – Indian Ocean’s April mega-quake broke the records
• JIJI Press – Japan Picks N-Waste Disposal Candidate Site for Ibaraki

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

• EX-SKF – Radioactive Japan: Strange Case of 1,660 Bq/kg of Cesium from Ornamental Apple in Abiko City, Chiba
• Power Engineering – Japan Steps Away from Nuclear Power
• UN News Centre – Japan determined to pass on lessons from its nuclear disaster, UN General Assembly told
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Futenma relocation more pressing than ever
• Fukushima Diary – 89.2% of contaminated water tank is full. New installation will be caught up with by 2016 – Iori Mochizuki
• Daily Yomiuri – New N-disaster response plans on way
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO to introduce lump-sum N-payments
• Daily Yomiuri – New N-disaster response plans on way
• Daily Yomiuri – U.S. approves Hitachi-GE uranium enrichment plant
• Japan Daily Press – Nuclear Regulation Authority to set new guidelines – Ida Torres
• Japan Times – Nuclear crisis lowers curtain on Japan’s Confucian politics – Shaun O’dwyer
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to urge power companies to withdraw plans to build nuke reactors – Asahi Shimbun

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

• Greenpeace International – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for September 21st to September 24th, 2012 – Christine McCann
• New York Times blog – Fragments of Fukushima – Shreeya Sinha
• Voice of America – Japan Plans Restart of Controversial Reactor – Steve Herman
• Asia News Network – Japan lacks locations for disposal of nuclear fuel – Koichi Yasuda/Takashi Hagihara
• Daily Yomiuri – NRA chief: ‘No plant restarts before summer’
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO: No damage to N-fuel from steel beam
• Daily Yomiuri – Locations for disposal of nuclear fuel lacking / New proposal calls for temporary storage while studying stability of permanent underground sites – Koichi Yasuda and Takashi Hagihara
• Denki Shimbun – Removal of steel members started at Fukushima I unit 3
• Fukushima Diary – Group of mutated sunflowers found in Misato city Saitama – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Third steel beam found beside the fuel rack. Tepco “Fuel assemblies may be damaged” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco released reactor3 related information in English one day later than Japanese version – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Reactor3] Underwater video, “Two steel beams were found in the pool” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Rainwater flows into SFP of reactor3 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 12421.1 Bq/Kg from black substance in Gunma “It’s everywhere in the city” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [WSJ] Osaka Mayor Urges Takeshima Action on Twitter – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Videos of SFP in reactor3 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – New nuclear watchdog to dump reactor stress tests
• Japan Times – Cesium contamination in food appears to be on wane – Mizuho Aoki

Monday, September 24, 2012

• eNews Park Forest – Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, September 24, 2012 .
• Enformable – TEPCO releases video and photos of Unit 3 spent fuel pool after steel frame accident – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – In-Focus Japan: 1590 microsieverts per hour detected in Futaba just before Unit 1 explosion – More utilities seeking rate increases
• Xinhua News – Noda to tap nuke minister as policy chief
• Asahi Shimbun – VOX POPULI: Reining in global warming without nuclear power
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima tobacco farmers prepare to ship
• Daily Yomiuri – Study reveals 5 huge ancient Kanto quakes
• Daily Yomiuri – Locations for disposal of nuclear fuel lacking / New proposal calls for temporary storage while studying stability of permanent underground sites – Koichi Yasuda and Takashi Hagihara
• Daily Yomiuri – Editorial: Polarization in land prices growing in disaster-hit areas
• House of Japan – No Damage to N-Fuel from Fallen Steel Beam: TEPCO
• Japan Daily Press – New Documentary by Tetsu Kato Tackles Those Who Chose to Stay in FukushimaBy Maria Elena Ida Torres
• Europe: Belfast Telegraph – Japan and France move away from nuclear power: is it the endgame for nuclear proponents? – John CK Daly