Sunday, October 07, 2012

• AFP Google – Japan PM tours troubled Fukushima nuclear plant
• ENENews – Watch: Kids exercise on top of 120,000 Bq/m2 — Situation is deteriorating, many children are sacrificed (VIDEO)
• ENENews – PM Noda at Fukushima Plant: “Such an appalling, severe environment” — Heat coming down as radiation is emitted
• ENENews – Former Japan Ambassador: US gov’t is main reason why crisis at Fukushima Unit 4 has been “toned down” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Watch: US gov’t is main reason why crisis at Fukushima Unit 4 has been “toned down” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Women of Fukushima: I became really sick — “Terrible diarrhea, skin spots, vomiting, joint pain” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Japan Diplomat: Ground underneath Fukushima Unit 4 is sinking — More than 30 inches in some areas — Now in danger of collapse (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Kyodo: Fukushima No. 4 reactor “was damaged by the M9.0 quake and tsunami”
• ENENews – “Unusually Serious”: Nurses evacuating from Fukushima Prefecture fearing effects of radiation -Mainichi
• ENENews – Study: 15-year-olds from Fukushima town got an estimated 77,000 becquerels of iodine-131… in just 4 hours — Area a destination for evacuees fleeing radiation
• ENENews – New 3/11 Footage of Tepco: Can we borrow some cash? We’d really appreciate it — No money to buy batteries to power Fukushima equipment (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Fukushima Worker: We are starting to have cancers — My co-worker had surgery for cancer, internal exposure suspected
• ENENews – Press Conference: Gov’t may have manipulated Fukushima radiation levels
• ENENews – Hiroshima Univ. Historian: Don’t believe Tepco’s lies — Fukushima meltdowns caused by quake not tsunami — Smoke, radiation spike, loss of coolant, collapsed walls and pipes were all before wave hit (VIDEOS)
• ENENews – Radiation and Health Specialist: Children with over 11 Bq/kg of cesium start to see heart problems -Study (AUDIO) – Cindy Folkers
• Hydrogen Fuel News – Japan again turns to geothermal energy to replace nuclear power – John Max
• Daily Yomiuri – Noda visits Fukushima nuclear plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Effective nuclear safety measures urgently needed
• Daily Yomiuri – Shale gas TEPCO’s new hope / Utility wants to cut costs, electricity charges with alternative fuel – Hiroyuki Tanaka
• Fukushima Diary – 3/13/2011, Tepco had no cash to buy batteries, went to a DIY store but it was closed. Reactor3 exploded the next day – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Noda gets close look at Fukushima plant – Reiji Yoshida
• Japan Times – Editorial: Nuclear industry steamrolls on
• Mainichi Daily News – Farming family in Fukushima village decontaminate own land
• Tepco – White Smoke Coming Out from the Cesium Absorption Tower Temporary Storage Facility at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (pdf-184K)

Saturday, October 06, 2012

• Enformable – March 22nd, 2011 – Details on source of white smoke from unit 2 – Suspect some torus damage
• Power Engineering – Reactors to be allowed to resume once they are confirmed safe: Edano
• Asahi Shimbun – New nuclear plant splits residents of straitened town
• Asahi Shimbun – New government could revive frozen nuclear plant plan
• Asahi Shimbun – As disaster-hit Tohoku struggles, work proceeds smoothly on government buildings
• Asahi Shimbun – Group: Ministry may have manipulated Fukushima radiation readings
• Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima disaster-response video now online
• Fukushima Diary – 16,800 Bq/Kg of cesium was measured from sewage sludge ash in Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Iodine131 measured for 67% in Yamanashi, “2400 Bq/Kg on 8/16/2012? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Des melons jumeaux soudés à Fukui – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Nurses evacuate Fukushima to save their children from the potential risk of radiation – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Kawauchi elementary school held a sports meeting, “22km from Fukushima plant” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Elementary school in Tokyo banned parent’s circle, joining SNS, exchanging emails
• Iori Mochizuki – [Mainichi] Stress alone caused ulcers after 3.11 disasters
• Fukushima Diary – Contaminated water leaked from water purification equipment of reactor6 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Government OK irrelevant on nuke restarts: Maehara – Masami Ito

Friday, October 05, 2012

• Alexander Higgins Blog – Top Nuclear Experts: Technology Doesn’t Yet Exist to Clean Up Fukushima – Alexander Higgins
• Energy Collective – Is Japan’s nuclear-free pathway an environmentally friendly choice? – Barry Brook
• Enformable – TEPCO releases 6 more hours of teleconference footage – Lucas W Hixson
• Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
• Reuters – Update 2-Japanese minister: reactors can restart if watchdog gives OK – Risa Maeda
• Reuters – Japan Sept nuclear plant usage 5.2 pct vs Aug 5.1 pct – Risa Maeda
• World Nuclear News – Confusion over reactor restart approvals
• Asahi Shimbun – Aomori’s apples getting squeezed by sharp drop in exports – Yuriko Suzuki
• Asahi Shimbun – Yamaguchi rejects Chugoku Electric’s license for new nuclear plant
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Reactor restarts not the responsibility of new watchdog body
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt must take responsibility on N-reactor reactivation
• Denki Shimbun – Construction of nuclear plant resumed for the first time after great earthquake
• Denki Shimbun – Fuel being removed from reactor affected by earthquake and tsunami
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima workers started having cancer – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Suppressed U.S. Military Film on the Medical Effects of the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Mainichi] Fukushima Prefecture prepared proceedings for nuke radiation meeting – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – M5.0 Akita inland area – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Japanese government says nuclear regulator decides if reactors can restart – Adam Westlake
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima Prefecture prepared proceedings for nuke radiation meeting
• Mainichi Daily News – All nuclear plants to undergo quake fault assessment: NRA official
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima city sees the bright side during lantern festival
• Mainichi Daily News – 250 million yen wasted on doubled real-estate fees for evacuee housing

Thursday, October 04, 2012

• Enformable – Japanese government denies responsibility for reactor restarts – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Japan’s government will decide restart of idled nuclear reactors – Lucas W Hixson
• Power Engineering – New regulatory body won’t determine whether to restart nuke reactors
• Power Engineering – U.S. urges Japan to keep plutonium minimum on proliferation fears
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO fits new thermometer to melted-down reactor
• Daily Yomiuri – Atomic Energy Commission must remain active on nuclear policy
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt must do more to help welfare recipients find jobs
• Daily Yomiuri – N-watchdog issues disaster guidelines
• Fukushima Diary – Disaster related death in Fukushima exceeded 1,100, “3.6 times much as Iwate and it’s increasing” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 2 golden saury from Iwate – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Abe LDP president, “Fukushima is not shutdown yet” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Material of contact lenses are from Fukushima and Ibaraki – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation level increasing at 5km area from Fukushima plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Black and white eel from Shizuoka – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Mutated petunia in Kawagoe city Saitama – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fallout still reaches beyond Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 70% of oyster died in Matsushima Bay Miyagi – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Alternative thermometer was installed in RPV of reactor2 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Mutated stag beetle of male head with female body, “Probably the first case in Japan” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 1,032 Bq/Kg from Fukushima blueberry, “133 Bq/Kg from Actinidia polygama” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Fukushima expert panel held secret meetings over nuclear crisis’ health impact – Radhika Seth
• Japan Daily Press – Fukushima nurse employment rate declining after nuclear disasterBy Britney Donald
• Japan Times – Government tries to duck reactor-restart decisions – Masami Ito
• Mainichi Daily News – New nuclear disaster guidelines raise hurdles for nuke plant reactivation
• Mainichi Daily News – Children of nuclear bomb victims meet to pass on stories to next generation
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t may judge resumption of reactors to be unnecessary: spokesman

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

• Power Engineering – Construction of new nuclear power plant in Aomori resumes.
• RTT News – Unmanned Copter To Measure Fukushima Radiation
• Asahi Shimbun – Scientists in groundbreaking study on effects of radiation in Fukushima
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Resumption of work on Oma nuclear reactor a bad idea
• Asahi Shimbun – Most Japan newspapers oppose nuclear power, some critical of disaster coverage
• Daily Yomiuri – N-watchdog issues disaster guidelines
• Fukushima Diary – MEXT excludes Saitama and Tokyo from helicopter monitoring – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Japan Today] Fukushima offers free medical care for children under 18 – Iori Mochizuki
• House of Japan – TEPCO moves spent nuclear fuel to storage pool at Fukushima No. 2 plant
• House of Japan – Fukushima reactors status 3 Oct 2012
• House of Japan – TEPCO starts removing fuel from Fukushima Daini reactor
• Japan Daily Press – Aomori nuke plant construction not welcomed by Hakodate MayorBy Ida Torres
• Japan Times – U.S. urges Japan to keep stored plutonium to a minimum
• Japan Times – Crippled Reactor 2 in Fukushima No. 1 gets new thermometer
• Japan Times – Hakodate eyes lawsuit to stop new nuke plant
• Japan Times – Tepco removing fuel from reactor at Fukushima No. 2
• Jpubb – Status of TEPCO’s Nuclear Power Stations after the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake (Daily Report as of 4:00 PM, October 2)
• Mainichi Daily News – Secret meetings held on Fukushima nuclear crisis’s impact on human health
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima faces serious shortage of nurses after nuclear disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Pro-nuclear agency’s mission draws to an end
• Mainichi Daily News – Remote-controlled helicopter measures radiation in Fukushima no-fly zone

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

• Enformable – Government officials warn Fukushima reconstruction funds not being used on critical projects – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – J-Power to finish construction of first nuclear reactor designed to run exclusively on MOX fuel – Lucas W Hixson
• ENS – Typhoon Hits Japan as Nuclear Plant Construction Resumes
• OpEdNews – Iori Mochizuki speaks – Nick Thabit
• Daily Yomiuri – Hakodate mulls suit to stop N-plant work
• Daily Yomiuri – Can Noda’s new Cabinet be entrusted to revive Japan?
• Daily Yomiuri – Policy panel stops work on N-energy
• Fukushima Diary – PCV temperature picked up in reactor1 again – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Cesium from school lunch in Zushi city Kanagawa, “Always from frozen tangerine in Kanagawa” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – White cluster-amaryllis found in Ehime – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – White smoke came out from cesium absorption tower – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Iodine 131 measured from sewage sludge in Kumamoto – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Mutated eggplant found in Osaka – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Japanese actress Higashihara Aki got purple spot – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Plume to hit Tokyo from 10/1 to 10/3 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Heat removal seawater flow rate decreased in reactor5 too – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Fukushima decontamination clean-up commences – Ida Torres
• Japan Times – Tanaka casts doubt on ‘contradictory’ energy strategy
• Kyodo News – TEPCO starts removing fuel from Fukushima Daini reactor
• Mainichi Daily News – Abolishment of Nuclear Energy Library removes 40,000 files from public view
• Mainichi Daily News – Hakodate mayor to file suit demanding halt to construction of nuke plant

Monday, October 01, 2012

• AP Google – Japan PM reshuffles his Cabinet to boost support – Malcolm Foster
• Asian Scientist Magazine – 23 Nuclear Power Plants In Tsunami Hot Spots – Anusuya Das
• Bloomberg – Sumitomo Sees ‘Solar Bubble’ as Japan Rejects Nuclear: Energy – Yuriy Humber and Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Radio Australia – Doubts Japan will phase out nuclear power – Karon Snowdon
• Wall Street Journal – J-Power to Restart Work on New Nuclear Plant
• World Nuclear News – Construction of Japanese reactor to resume
• Xinhua News – J-Power to resume construction of nuke plant in Aomori
• Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima communities still crippled as evacuees choose to stay away
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO must compensate nuclear accident victims quickly
• Daily Yomiuri – Museum opposes decision on nuclear waste disposal
• Daily Yomiuri – Construction to resume at Oma N-plant
• Daily Yomiuri – More Fukushima kids get free medical care
• ENENews – 5pm ET: Three quakes hit Fukushima in last two hours – M5.2, M4.4 and M4.4 – Two at almost identical location and depth (MAPS)
• ENENews – Japanese NPO: “We need to start a rotating evacuation for children as soon as possible” – “Radiation just continues to accumulate” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Watch: Children Play at Nuclear Theme Park in Japan – Characters sing that it’s very safe, efficient and good for you – Photographer kicked out (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Video: Tepco’s Fukushima simulation has “100 percent error” – Bottom of containment “might be eroded or broken”
• ENENews – Kindergarten students play in dirt at school that was inside Fukushima evacuation zone – NHK broadcasts highlights (VIDEO)
• ENENews – “Like Green Starlight”: Highly contaminated ‘marine snow’ covered seafloor at least 2,000 kilometers from Fukushima by July 2011 (PHOTOS &VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – Beta nuclide in Osaka tap water spiked after typhoon – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – M6.3 Iwate offshore – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – M5.2 offshore Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Construction of Aomori nuclear power plant to continue – Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Work resumes at Oma nuclear plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Construction resumes at Oma nuclear plant in conflict with gov’t policy – Press TV