Sunday, January 27, 2013
- AFP Google – Japan launches new satellites to boost surveillance
- Asahi Shimbun – Energy policy post-Fukushima: Japan needs to show leadership – Klaus Töpfer and Ulrich Mans
- Daily Yomiuri – Editorial Weather – Restart Nuclear Power Plants, Boost Exports To Recoup Trading Ground
- ENENews – Intense M5 quake hits near Fukushima border (MAP)
- ENENews – Feature documentary on Fukushima kids with newly discovered thyroid cysts and nodules
- ENENews – Video: 240,000 Bq/m2 detected on road 80 kilometers from Fukushima disaster
- Fukushima Diary – Radioactive tea leaves are exported from Japan to Hongkong – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Tepco to exterminate fish in Fukushima plant port – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Ecological effect] Swans significantly decreased in the hazard area – Iori Mochizuki
- NHK World – NRA to warn Tsuruga plant fault may be active
- TEPCO – TEPCO News
Saturday, January 26, 2013
- Asahi Shimbun – Hiroshima considers anti-quake reinforcement for Atomic Bomb Dome
- Daily Yomiuri – Background checks planned for N-workers
- ENENews – Former Prime Minister Kan: Evacuation after Fukushima could have reached 50 million people
- ENENews – Tears During UN Presentation: Children trapped in high radiation areas after Fukushima disaster — Living and going to school with radiation levels of Chernobyl’s mandatory evacuation zone (VIDEO)
- Fukushima Diary – [The cost of concealment] Tepco spent $400,000 on disclosing their video record of accident management meetings – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Tepco can’t disclose the circuit diagram of the thermometer in reactor2 for saving “intellectual property of Toshiba” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Coolant water leaked 3 times only within 1 week due to the bad installation and freezing “Same as last year” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Possible nuclear explosion ?] Reactor1 had possible shock wave and black smoke like reactor3 on 3/12/2011 – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Reactor2 temperature decreasing since the volume of injection water was increased – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Analysis] What’s happening to the ecology of Japanese lakes ? – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Ghost of Chernobyl ?] 1.5 Bq/Kg of Cs-137 from maple syrup in Canada – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Express] 0.07 ~ 0.10µSv/h on the second floor of Universal City station in Osaka,”As double as before 311? – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Coolant water leaked 3 times only within 1 week due to the bad installation and freezing “Same as last year” – Iori Mochizuki
Friday, January 25, 2013
- AFP Google – World’s biggest nuke plant may shut: Japan report
- Bloomberg – Kansai Electric Estimates Safety Measures to Cost $3.1 Billion – Tsuyoshi Inajima
- Chemistry World – Reassessing the health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident – Rebecca Brodie
- Enformable – Radioactive cesium in calves found higher than mothers after Fukushima Daiichi disaster – Lucas W Hixson
- Enformable – TEPCO plans to dump water stored at Fukushima Daiichi into Pacific – Lucas W Hixson
- World Nuclear News – Fossil imports burn Japanese trade again
- ENENews – Worker reported smoke coming from Common Pool Building at Fukushima Daiichi
- ENENews – Lawyer: Thyroid abnormalities in 55% of Fukushima girls tested age 11 to 15 (VIDEO)
- ENENews – “Death River”: Radiation detector goes over limit in Fukushima City – 430,000 Bq/kg of cesium (VIDEO)
- ENENews – “Serious concern” over long term health consequences from Fukushima disaster – New Study: 8 times more cancer deaths than predicted
- ENENews – Decontamination during recess — Children play next to adults shoveling radioactive dirt (VIDEO)
- Fukushima Diary – Tepco shows off the new replacement of polyethylene pipe – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – The count of influenza cases per medical institution is the highest in Fukushima all around in Japan – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – In 2013, JP gov to purchase 200 times much Fukushima rice as last year – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Minamisoma city board of education refused decontamination of private nursery school – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Mass infection of influenza in Fukushima, “They had all been vaccinated” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – 1.6 mSv/h was measured in Futabamachi before the explosion of 3/12/2011 – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Idogawa Ex-Futabamachi mayor “I resigned because I can’t accept 20mSv/y standard. can’t take responsibility for future” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Sankei newspaper reported 95% of “the people” are for setting up military, 92% of respondents were male – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – 29 Bq/Kg from Iwate beef, reported in Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Meaningless food regulation] 370 Bq/Kg from dried mushroom in Chiba, “for sale” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – The detailed situation and burnt cable of the smoke coming up from common spent pool – Iori Mochizuki
- Japan Daily Press – Suspicions of criminal negligence result in questioning of former TEPCO chairman – Cherrie Lou Billones
- Japan Daily Press – Government advisory says restarting half of Japan’s nuclear reactors could save $20 billion – Ida Torres
- Japan Times – Hitachi Zosen to get nuke fuel firm
- Japan Times – Tepco plans to dump ‘cleaned’ Fukushima No. 1 water
- Nikkei – Hitachi Zosen To Acquire U.S. Maker Of Nuclear Waste Containers
Thursday, January 24, 2013
- AFP Google – Toshiba, GE expanding power generation ties
- Bloomberg – Former Tepco Chairman Said Questioned in Fukushima Legal Probe – Jacob Adelman
- Bloomberg – Japan’s Metal Smelters See 12 Billion Yen Cost Rise on Power – Jae Hur & Ichiro Suzuki
- Reuters – Japan faces nuclear shutdown for second time since Fukushima – Aaron Sheldrick
- Reuters – Update 1-Japan’s 2012 LNG imports at record high on nuclear woes – Risa Maeda and Osamu Tsukimori
- Daily Yomiuri – Editorial – Niigata Made Right Decision In Rejecting Nuclear Referendum
- Daily Yomiuri – N-plant neighbors may get iodine pills
- Daily Yomiuri – Group to plant cherry trees in Fukushima Pref.
- Daily Yomiuri – Cesium levels vary in cows
- Daily Yomiuri – Govt withdraws 25% emissions reduction goal
- ENENews – Prosecutors question ex-Tepco chairman over Fukushima – “Accused of being responsible for the injury from radiation exposure”
- ENENews – Reuters: Japan faces nuclear shutdown for 2nd time since Fukushima – Expert: They’re trying to protect their nation from diseases, death (AUDIO)
- ENENews – Tepco: We are planning to dump water from Fukushima plant into Pacific Ocean
- ENENews – TV: Radiation levels nearly doubled in Fukushima soil sample over 5-month period (VIDEO)
- ENENews – Asahi: New 3/11 footage shows “disaster loomed” at Fukushima Reactor No. 5
- ENENews – Advice Columnist: Mother terrified to return to Tokyo with 3 kids due to Fukushima contamination — Tells her “What you are experiencing is treatable” and to contact PTSD center
- Fukushima Diary – Tohoku university, “Radiocesium is more concentrated in the fetus than in the mother of Fukushima cattle” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Tepco officially announced to discharge contaminated water into Pacific ocean – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Radioactive soil from decontamination dumped beside the tapwater source in Nihonmatsu city Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Only 2 Japanese pond smelt caught from 3 days test fishing in Haruna lake Gunma – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Futabamachi mayor, “Like in Auschwitz camp, our DNA is massacred in Fukushima prefecture just like guinea pigs” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Smoke from the common spent fuel – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Radioactive soil from decontamination dumped beside the tapwater source in Nihonmatsu city Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Only 2 Japanese pond smelt caught from 3 days test fishing in Haruna lake Gunma – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Futabamachi mayor, “Like in Auschwitz camp, our DNA is massacred in Fukushima prefecture just like guinea pigs” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Smoke from the common spent fuel – Iori Mochizuki
- Japan Daily Press – Fukushima town mayor resigns over post-disaster frustrations – Cherrie Lou Billones
- Japan Times – Faults may void Tepco’s Niigata plant
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
- Enformable – Japan may halt nuclear reactors again says NRA chairman – Lucas W Hixson
- Enformable – Contaminated water still a serious issue at Fukushima Daiichi – Lucas W Hixson
- Power Engineering – Japanese nuclear power set to revive as new regulations proposed – Diarmaid Williams
- YouTube – Extremely Radioactive Snow in Fukushima! – Dr. Chris Busby
- Daily Yomiuri – Astro Boy and Uran’s Encyclopedia of Current Terminology / decommissioning
- ENENews – Yomiuri: ‘Nuclear reaction’ can be triggered when removing melted fuel from Fukushima plant
- ENENews – Fukushima Daiichi Worker: Contamination is still spreading around from plant – Significantly high levels may be spread during decommissioning work
- ENENews – Wife of Fukushima Daiichi Worker: He said to evacuate on day of 3/11 and that the nuclear plant would melt down (VIDEO)
- ENENews – Fukushima 7th Grader: “The people in the government know we are suffering and they don’t do anything” (VIDEO)
- ENENews – Japanese Journalist: “We must know that we are responsible for committing such a huge crime to contaminate the world” (VIDEO)
- Fukushima Diary – Strontium-90 detected from near the water discharge channel of reactor1~6 – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Fukushima Worker “Significantly high level of contamination may spread in the process of decommissioning” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Fukushima city rice started being served for school lunch, “will serve if it’s under 20 Bq/Kg” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Radiation level of Japanese cedar is 20 times much as back ground, Tokyo to have 5~6 times much as pollen this year – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – 65 µSv/h on the snow in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – 6.50 µSv/h from 0.001 kg of black substance – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – [Column] What is Sv, Bq, Cesium, how and why it matters – Iori Mochizuki
- Japan Times – NRA moves to require detailed measures against tsunami
- Japan Times – Robot facility aims to aid nation in nuclear crisis – Kazuaki Nagata
- Japan Times – NRA moves to require detailed measures against tsunami
- Japan Times – Robot facility aims to aid nation in nuclear crisis
- NHK World – Ohi nuclear reactors in Japan may be stopped again
- TEPCO – TEPCO News
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
- Enformable – Contaminated water still a serious issue at Fukushima Daiichi – Lucas W Hixson
- NY Times blog – An Early Nuclear Warning: Was It for Naught? – Matthew L. Wald
- UPI – Nuclear plants in Japan get new rules
- Asahi Shimbun – Watchdog to set strict evacuation rules for nuclear accidents – Jin Nishikawa
- Daily Yomiuri – Govt to train experts to deal with N-accidents
- Denki Shimbun – METI minister declared continuation of nuclear fuel cycle policy
- Denki Shimbun – Increasing amounts of contaminated water at Fukushima I NPS at issue
- ENENews – NYTimes: ‘Prophetic’ warning of Fukushima-type nuclear disaster
- ENENews – Report: Radioactivity levels rising at Fukushima Unit No. 2 sub-drain since November (PHOTO)
- ENENews – Top Japan Official: Let elderly people “hurry up and die” -Guardian
- Fukushima Diary – [Column] What is Sv, Bq, Cesium, how and why it matters – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – $4 million spent on NHK TV drama for Fukushima campaign from restoration budget of Ministry of Land – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Cesium-134/137 and iodine-131 were measured fron snow in the winter of 2012 – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – 2.08 µSv/h in front of Kashiwa high school in Chiba – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Japanese pond smelt gone nearly extinct in Haruna lake Gunma, can’t even find a sample for radiation test – Iori Mochizuki
- Mainichi Daily News – News Navigator: What are filtered ventilation systems at nuclear power plants?
- ScienceDaily – High Plutonium Breeding of Light Water Cooled Reactors
- Waseda University. – High plutonium breeding of light water cooled reactors
- Focus Taiwan News – Safety paramount for operation of 4th nuclear power plant: president – Wang Hong-kuo, Lee Shu-hua, Wen Kuei-hsiang and Maubo Chang
- Taipei Times – Environmental groups slam DPP – Chris Wang
- ddle East
- Middle East: Press TV – Iran talks rescheduled for Feb. 13: IAEA
Monday, January 21, 2013
- Bellona – Record cesium levels measured in Fukushima rockfish, signaling radiation woes in food chain far from over in Japan – Charles Digges
- Enformable – Japan’s nuclear regulatory authority releases new nuclear safety standards draft – Lucas W Hixson
- Enformable – Japanese nuclear plant operators charge over 90 million dollars per year to pay local authorities – Lucas W Hixson
- Financial Times – Japan unveils strict nuclear measures – Jonathan Soble in Tokyo
- The Independent – Fish caught close to the Fukushima nuclear plant was 2,500 times over the legal safe radiation limit – Rob Williams
- World Nuclear News – Trial operation of Rokkasho furnace
- Daily Yomiuri – N-plants will have to use flame-retardant cables
- Fukushima Diary – Issued thermometers in reactor2 indicate 208? and 134? – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Chinese media “Military confrontation may happen soon between China and Japan” – Iori Mochizuki
- Fukushima Diary – Highly radioactive sewage sludge shipped out of Fukushima for compost – Iori Mochizuki
- Japan Daily Press – Nuclear regulator releases new safety standards draft – Ida Torres
- Japan Daily Press – 14 of 20 towns still unprepared for nuclear disaster management plan deadline – Ida Torres
- Japan Daily Press – Fish with 2,500 times legal limit for radiation caught near Fukushima plant – Cherrie Lou Billones
- Japan Times – NRA drafts tightened nuke plant safety rules
- Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Inappropriate decontamination work betrays disaster victims
- NHK World – Gist of new safety standards proposed for reactors
- NHK World – Nuclear plant operators payout amount revealed