Sunday, January 13, 2013

• The Hill – Sen. Murkowski heads for Japan to talk gas exports, nuclear power – Ben Geman
• Asahi Shimbun – Survey checks radioactive contamination in the Pacific – Yu Miyaji and Mizuho Kajiwara
• Daily Yomiuri – U.S. eyes solution for storing N-waste – Tatsuo Nakajima
• Daily Yomiuri – Worker shortages revealed at nuclear plant after disaster
• ENENews – Newly Fukushima Footage from 3/11: I can no longer force my employees to continue… many received ‘high doses’ of radiation -Plant Chief
• ENENews – Japanese Attorney: Information is being concealed — “5 people died of acute leukemia last year” in Soma, 45km north of Fukushima Daiichi
• ENENews – Mainichi: Fukushima workers stood above highly radioactive ‘rubble’ — “I had numbness in my toes for several months but I did not go to hospital”
• Fukushima Diary – 5,000 Bq/kg from the soil beside the river in Edogawa ward in Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Black substance] Nuclear expert, “Melanized fungal cells manifested increased growth with radiation exposure” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 150 Bq/Kg from Japanese mustard spinach in Fukushima, “433 bags already sold” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “5 people died of acute leukemia in Soma city last year” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Tepco’s power bidding plan raises warming concerns

Saturday, January 12, 2013

• Asahi Shimbun – Nuclear watchdog to make secondary control rooms mandatory at power plants – Jin Nishikawa
• Asahi Shimbun – Weekly anti-nuclear rallies resume in central Tokyo – Katsumoto Horikawa
• Asian Correspondent – Japan: Govt seeks to win back public support for nukes – Graham Land
• ENENews – NHK Fukushima Special: “We may not have much time left until the next catastrophe occurs” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Over 1,000,000 Bq/kg of cesium near Fukushima plant — 10 times higher than highest measurement in prior soil survey
• ENENews – Photo: Cracks found in spent fuel rods at Japan nuclear plant
• ENENews – Kyodo: “Unrivaled vast-scale decontamination” after “unprecedented event that spewed a large volume of radioactive materials on a vast tract of land” #Fukushima
• Fukushima Diary – [Evidence] Yellow cloud coming toward Yokohama on 3/16/2011 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “Fukushima university student got thyroid cancer” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 5 million tones of debris washed into the ocean, 1.5 million tones of them to reach west coast of the US – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 1,050,000 Bq/Kg from the soil beside reservoir in Fukushima, jumped up by 11 times since last summer – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Nuke foes ponder election meltdown
• Japan Times – World’s second nuclear age – Paul Bracken
• Japan Times – Abe vows to speed Tohoku recovery work
• Japan Times – Nuke foes ponder election meltdown
• NHK World – Nuclear evacuation shelters to be set up
• NHK World – US govt. spent nuclear fuel disposal plan
• Taipei Times – Mayor cautions on nuclear plant – Loa Iok-sin and Lee I-chia

Friday, January 11, 2013

• Enformable – Cracks found in spent fuel rods at Hamaoka nuclear power plant – Lucas W Hixson
• The Guardian – Fukushima 50: ‘We felt like kamikaze pilots ready to sacrifice everything’ – Justin McCurry
• The Guardian – Japan seeks to reverse commitment to phase out nuclear power – Justin McCurry
• Asahi Shimbun – Death rates spike among elderly evacuees from Fukushima – Yuri Oiwa
• Asahi Shimbun – Japan Atomic Power posts record profits with all its reactors offline – Shin Matsuura
• Asahi Shimbun – ANALYSIS: Sky’s the limit for Abe budget, adding to debt mountain
• Asahi Shimbun – Writers pledge to step up calls for nuclear phase-out – Daisuke Shimizu
• Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear agency announces N-accident prevention plan
• Daily Yomiuri – Disaster debris disposal falling behind schedule
• Denki Shimbun – TEPCO’s Fukushima Revitalization Headquarters started operations
• ENENews – Legal Expert: 3 police died of acute leukemia after being sent to Fukushima within 50 kilometers of plant
• ENENews – Asahi: Death rate spikes among elderly Fukushima evacuees
• ENENews – Guardian on Fukushima Workers: We felt like kamikaze pilots – “Acute radiation sickness” ever-present danger
• ENENews – Report: Police officer had unstoppable diarrhea after guarding Fukushima no entry zone
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] Let the people out to the clean land, let the nuclear industrial people come to work in Fukushima plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Defense counsel of Fukushima group evacuation lawsuit, “3 police officers died of acute leukemia in 40~50km area” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 2 thermometers of reactor2 started indicating increasing temperature again – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Cesium measured from 100% of wild boar samples in Fukushima, over 100 Bq/Kg from 19 of 20 samples – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Japan plans to organize International advisory team for decommissioning of Fukushima plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 39 tones of rice from the contaminated region in Miyagi were already shipped to metropolitan area etc – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Reprocessed nuclear waste to arrive in Aomori from Britain in late February
• Mainichi Daily News – Researcher creates website to keep memories of quake disaster alive
• NHK World – Amano pledges allout effort to solve nuclear issue
• TEPCO – News

Thursday, January 10, 2013

• Enformable – Contaminated rice found outside of Fukushima Prefecture
• FAS ScienceWonk – Sailors sue TEPCO
• Asahi Shimbun – CROOKED CLEANUP: Environment Ministry failed to act on Asahi tip-off
• Asahi Shimbun – Scientists challenge accepted theory on where quakes occur
• ENENews – ‘First Time’: Radioactive rice with more than double gov’t cesium limit found outside Fukushima Prefecture
• ENENews – M5 quake hits Fukushima (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Fukushima Officials ‘Outraged’: A grave problem — Workers dumped waste “because they removed more radioactive materials than expected” (PHOTOS)
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] The media still have a chance for the atonement – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 208 Bq/Kg from rice produced even in Miyagi – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation level monitored in Nasu town hall in Tochigi goes down every 8AM (Not Sunday) – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Deformation] Egg in an egg – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “A German travel agent stopped offering the package tour for Japan in case of potential lawsuit” – Iori Mochizuki
• Kyodo News – Reprocessed nuclear waste to arrive in Japan from Britain in late Feb.
• Japan Daily Press – Japan to renovate hospitals near nuclear power plants – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Daily Press – Impossible to restart all reactors in three years, says Japan’s nuclear regulator – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Daily Press – Government to deal with Fukushima clean-up firms for sloppy job – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Times – 3/11 study finds clues to why faults thought ‘stable’ may suddenly slip
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO intends to accept compensation claims beyond legal time limit – Asahi Shimbun
• NHK World – TEPCO to install filtered vent at nuclear reactor
• NHK World – Abe to expand reconstruction budget
• Taipei Times – Minister warns of price rises if nuclear is ditched – Helen Ku
• Taiwan Today – AEC questions feasibility of 2025 nuke-free goal – Meg Chang

Wednesday, January 09, 2013

• AFP Google – Japan quake study sounds alarm at ‘creeping fault’ doctrine
• AFP Google – Rare photo of split mushroom cloud found in Hiroshima
• Bloomberg – Japan Power Utilities Fall on Report of New Costly Safety Rules – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Enformable – Battle over Bechtel clean-up at Hanford escalating after police reports filed – Lucas W Hixson
• Power Engineering – TEPCO plans to buy power from thermal generating sources
• Power Engineering – FOCUS: TEPCO’s long-term plan to source power raises greenhouse gas concerns
• Power Engineering – Report on the Progress of Investigation on the Bent Fuel Assembly Water Rods Found at Our Nuclear Power Station to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (Interim Report)
• World Nuclear News – Second cover assembly underway at Fukushima
• Asahi Shimbun – Nagasaki artist revitalizes stories of A-bomb survivors – Tsukasa Kimura
• Asahi Shimbun – CROOKED CLEANUP: Decontamination workers say cutting corners came naturally
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: More data needed to make decontamination work effective
• Daily Yomiuri – Hospitals, other facilities near N-plants to be refitted
• Daily Yomiuri – Hospitals, other facilities near N-plants to be refitted
• ENENews – Doctor in Fukushima: Many feel they’re being used as human guinea pigs
• ENENews – Asahi: We are reminded anew of the huge scale of contamination released from Fukushima plant – Impossible to recover pre-disaster environment – Radiation levels not dropping in certain areas
• ENENews – Fukushima ‘decontamination’ workers threatened — We were punished if we tried to resist
• ENENews – Attorney: U.S. Marine may join Fukushima lawsuit — Navy clients have bladder problems not normally seen in younger people
• ENENews – Navy sailor says clumps of hair fell out after Fukushima plume exposure — “A lot of us knew people were getting sick… bad headaches, some threw up a bit”
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] Fukushima Diary is not a public bin of frustration – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Analysis] Where Japan goes in 2013 -Part1 “Similarity of Japan after 311 and the Soviet Union before Dissolution” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco, “The reason why a lot of thermometers are broken in reactor2 is its individuality” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco announced to inject N2 into S/C of reactor1 but the flow rate of N2 didn’t change and only hydrogen gas increased – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Rare WWII photo found showing split cloud after Hiroshima atomic bomb – Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Minamata-named treaty, like disease, contentious – Keiji Hirano
• Japan Times – Environment Ministry seeks ¥11 billion for radiation decontamination study centers in Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – Installment of cover for fuel removal begins at Fukushima plant reactor
• NHK World – NRA: fuel reprocessors must meet safety standards

Tuesday, January 08, 2013

• Enformable – Violent release of materials at Fukushima Daiichi – Lucas W Hixson
• Foreign Policy blog – Entering the post-post-Fukushima era – Joshua Keating
• Global Research – Fukushima “Decontamination” Measures Are Making Things Worse
• New York Times – In Japan, a Painfully Slow Sweep – Hiroko Tabuchi
• OilPrice – Japan’s Poor Rural Communities Need Nuclear Industry’s Jobs – Joao Peixe
• Asahi Shimbun – CROOKED CLEANUP: Ministry questions decontamination contractors; workers express hopelessness
• Daily Yomiuri – Editorial: Government must promote realistic nuclear power policy
• ENENews – Cover for Fukushima Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 – Tepco starts installing giant steel frame (PHOTOS)
• ENENews – NYTimes: Japan’s cleanup denounced — “A disgrace… absolutely irresponsible” — Company that built all six Fukushima reactor buildings is leading ‘decontamination’
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] Anti-nuke blogs’ need of becoming too big to fail before the censorship over the sharp ridge of trade-off – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Having ignored the increasing heat indicated, Tepco cancelled measuring radiation level of reactor2 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco released the overview of Fukushima headquarters – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 2 columns were installed to the steel framing for fuel removal of reactor4 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Professor “cardiac insufficiency significantly increased after 311, it wasn’t seen after other great earthquakes” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fallout spiked in Fukushima, highest reading in last 7 months – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Egypt looking to import Japanese clay following nuclear disaster – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Times – Fukushima cleanup crews cut corners – Mizuho Aoki
• Japan Times – Egypt may restart clay imports from Japan
• Japan Times – Toshiba ups its Westinghouse stake to 87%
• House of Japan – Photo found of Hiroshima A-bomb mushroom cloud split in two

Monday, January 07, 2013

• AFP Google – Toshiba boosts Westinghouse stake to 87%
• Enformable – Japan officials considering move to become reprocessing center for spent nuclear fuel generated across Asia – Lucas W Hixson
• Asahi Shimbun – Crooked Cleanup: Government to investigate Fukushima decontamination
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima children recuperate at center on Okinawa island
• ENENews – Jiji: Fukushima children recuperating at center in Okinawa
• ENENews – Fukushima Daiichi Worker: I saw black smoke that came from Common Spent Fuel Pool’s chimney – I wonder if it was the smoke of boiler… it’s not fire (VIDEOS)
• ENENews – ‘Extremely Regrettable’: Fukushima workers report dumping radioactive waste from the beginning
• ENENews – Gundersen: Truly appalling nuclear event in Japan – A lot of people are very, very concerned (AUDIO)
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] About the decrease of the number of articles – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 3/21/2011-The day G.Washington evacuated Yokosuka, possible explosion happened in reactor3 to melt the concrete of PCV – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco labelled the 2 thermometers to have shown the increase of temperature as “Broken” for unidentified reason – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Black smoke from the chimney of common spent fuel pool on 1/7/2013 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – 54% of Japan’s nuclear reactor-hosting cities approve of Abe’s restart plans – Adam Westlake