Sunday, February 17, 2013

• Peak Oil – Why Japan Can’t Quit Nuclear Power
• Daily Yomiuri – Only 23% of homes decontaminated
• Asahi Shimbun – Filipino to sue TEPCO over suicide of husband in Fukushima – Yoshika Uematsu
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP (10): SDF crew fought fear in dumping water on Fukushima plant – Hidefumi Nogami
• ENENews – American hailed as Japan’s nuclear saviour: Fukushima workers hope reactors can be made safe and start up again
• ENENews – Japan Times: Fallout from Fukushima causing problems 180 kilometers away — “It’s all become no good”… Contaminated wild vegetables, fish, wild game
• ENENews – “They Know All”: Over 5,000,000 Bq/m² of Cesium-137 in Fukushima City (VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] Yamamoto Taro “Since Osaka started incinerating debris, my mother has been sick” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] Fukushima citizen “Our clamor would cause confusion in Japanese society so we shall stay quiet” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima governor asked the government to ease the 1mSv/y restriction. “Too strict to comply with.” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Completion percentage of Minamisoma decontamination is only 1%, “will get it done by the end of 2014? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Reactor2 temperature jumped up by 120? within 12 hours – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 6 Bq/Kg of cesium from tomato ketchup produced in Miyagi – Iori Mochizuki
• Mainichi Daily News – News Navigator: What is the future of active fault inspections at nuclear plants?
• NHK World – Nuclear scientists discuss new safety rules
• NHK World – Report says fault at nuclear plant possibly active
• Tokyo Reporter – Yamaguchi-gumi member arrested for illegal employment at nuclear plant

Saturday, February 16, 2013

• Asahi Shimbun – Power industry boss: Proposed reform threatens nuclear power generation – Kentaro Uechi
• Asahi Shimbun – Toshiba develops equipment to clean up radiation using dry ice particles
• Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima official angrily bolts meeting when restart of nuke plants mentioned
• Japan Times – Fukushima radiation threatens to wreak woodland havoc – Winifred Bird
• Mainichi Daily News – Toshiba, gov’t show off nuclear decontamination robot
• Taipei Times – Groups promote nuclear-free homeland – Lee I-chia

Friday, February 15, 2013

• AFP Google – No health effects from Fukushima: Japan researcher – Kyoko Hasegawa
• Bloomberg – Revisiting Fukushima’s Ghost Towns – Brent Murray
• Energy Collective – ‘No Clinically Observable Effects’ From Fukushima Radiation: UN – Breakthrough Institute
• Enformable – Toshiba develops new decontamination vacuum robot to aid efforts at Fukushima Daiichi – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – TEPCO finds high radiation levels in Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 torus – Lucas W Hixson
• Yahoo! News – Why Japan Can’t Quit Nuclear Power – Olga Belogolova
• Daily Yomiuri – Diet OKs top nuclear regulator, 4 others
• Fukushima Diary – Thyroid nodule and cyst rate in Fukushima increased from last August by 0.6% – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 49 Bq/Kg measured from beef in Iwaki city Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 14 Bq/Kg from Pacific Cod distributed in Yokohama city – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima worker had his face and inside of the full-face mask contaminated in reactor2 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco investigated the torus room of reactor1 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Niigata governor “Debris incineration is almost murder” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – NRA to inspect Fukushima reactor after TEPCO was found lying – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Daily Press – Toshiba unveils dry ice vacuum cleaner robot to help with Fukushima nuclear cleanup – Adam Westlake
• NHK World – TEPCO begins tender to choose power suppliers
• Focus Taiwan – Groups to hold anti-nuclear rallies in March

Thursday, February 14, 2013

• Enformable – NRA conducting investigation at Monju fast breeder after safety violations – Lucas W Hixson
• Tengrinews – Obama vows to defend Japan with US nuclear umbrella
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP (9): Politicians pushed for quick SDF water drop on nuclear plant – Hiroyoshi Itabashi
• Asahi Shimbun – INTERVIEW: Japan defense chief could have pre-emptive strike ability in future
• Asahi Shimbun – Questions raised over testing methods for thyroid gland doses in Fukushima – Yuri Oiwa
• Daily Yomiuri – Evacuee’s lonely death causes alarm – Fumito Nagase
• Daily Yomiuri – Regulators inspect Monju reactor
• ENENews – Report: Now over 44% of Fukushima children have thyroid abnormalities in latest tests
• ENENews – Concern about corrosion at Fukushima Unit 4 reactor building – ‘Prevention measures’ to be implemented (PHOTOS)
• ENENews – Fukushima Child: I didn’t know about nuclear disaster until April – Small kids are playing outside, they were even playing with snow (VIDEO)
• Japan Times – Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors, abductees’ kin decry North’s nuclear test
• NHK World – Monju reactor inspected by nuclear authority
• NHK World – TEPCO: Damaged reactor can withstand quakes
• TEPCO – TEPCO News
• Focus Taiwan – Talk of the Day — Battle looming over Fourth Nuclear Power Plant

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

• Enformable – TEPCO workers find fuel handling mast atop spent fuel storage racks in Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 – Lucas W Hixson
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Japan: economic prowess challenged as nuclear plants stay offline – Peter Taberner
• Asahi Shimbun – Art exhibition draws link between two nuclear disasters – Ryota Goto
• Daily Yomiuri – Hunt for fallout steps up in Japan’s skies
• ENENews – More ‘Photoshop’ at Fukushima? Tepco finishes soundness inspection of Unit 4 (PHOTOS)
• ENENews – Watch: Japanese journalists reveal radiation cover-up after Fukushima (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Kyodo: 10 Fukushima children believed to have cancer – 70% female – Several already had surgery for thyroid
• ENENews – Photos: Large device that fell in Fukushima Unit 3 pool was “found on the fuel rack”
• Fukushima Diary – [Analysis] How to make protests productive – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima sent snow to elementary schools in Okinawa – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco investigated inside of SFP3, “The debris didn’t contact the fuel storage rack” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 7 Fukushima children with thyroid problem may have cancer for 80% of possibility – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 10 children with thyroid problem consist of 3 male 7 female, average age is 15 y.o, “79 times higher rate than usual” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 2 more under 18s diagnosed as thyroid cancer, 7 more suspected to have cancer in Fukushima, “From before 311? – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – 2 more cases of thyroid cancer found in Fukushima youths – Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Tepco’s investigation obstruction

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

• Fairewinds Energy Education – Interview: Not Returning to Normal – Chiho Kaneko
• Reuters – Japan holding security meeting after N.Korea nuclear test report: NHK – Linda Sieg
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP (8): Burning the midnight oil for a plan to drop water on a reactor – Hiroyoshi Itabashi
• Daily Yomiuri – Abe announces new sanctions
• ENENews – Video: Fukushima child has radioactivity of 6,000 disintegrations per second inside body
• ENENews – Sharp increase in Fukushima doctors who don’t feel well physically since 3/11 – More than 3 times as many now say their health condition is not good
• ENENews – Attorney to Tepco: Please help us, we have troops who are dying, need medical care after 3/11 – Bone marrow transplant at NIH – Another bleeding incessantly (AUDIO)
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] Why stray dogs can’t take over the metropolis – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 350 victims to sue Tepco and Japanese government for Fukushima effect – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 90,500 Bq/Kg of cesium from the pollen of Japanese cedar in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Russia “Japan may develop nuclear weapon against the nuclear threat of N. Korea” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Cesium measured from Hokkaido beef again – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – MEXT immediately released the SPEEDI data for N. Korea nuclear test – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Surrealism] MOE reinforces radiation monitoring for the nuclear test of N. Korea – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Voice – Radioactive Cesium and Heart Chapter 4: Pathophysiological Characteristics of Effects of Radioactive Cesium on Heart – Yury Bandazhevsky
• Japan Times – Filmmaker focuses on lives near nuke sites – Keiji Hirano

Monday, February 11, 2013

• Enformable – In-Focus: Japan – TEPCO caught in another lie related to Diet Investigation – Japan wants to export nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia
• UPI – Fukushima documents to be digitized
• Asahi Shimbun – Japan offers to aid Saudi Arabia in nuclear power development – Takashi Fukuyama
• ENENews – Fukushima Worker: They are wearing tungsten vests when outside Reactor 3 – Exposed to ‘significant’ radiation
• ENENews – Audio: It’s the reality that Northern Japan is contaminated and radioactive material is constantly being spread elsewhere – “A really creepy, macabre feeling”
• ENENews – Fairewinds Podcast: I met people already who had ill health – Concern about being foresaken and sacrificed after Fukushima disaster (AUDIO)
• ENENews – Living 7 Miles from Fukushima Daiichi: “It’s like we are on a honeymoon”
• ENENews – Navy Sailors After Fukushima: They’ve got leukemia, testicular cancer, growths… They’ve had surgery to remove brain lesions and lost sight in eye (VIDEO)
• ENENews – TV: Officials outside Fukushima told not to accept voluntary evacuees from Fukushima? “Oh, finally, they confessed and gone this far” (VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – [Analysis] Senkaku / Diaoyu dispute as an ugly twin of Fukushima problem – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Debris removal of reactor3 sacrifices human worker to watch being significantly exposed – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 232,980 Bq/Kg from leaf mold of Fukushima forest “Out of evacuation zone” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 6,000 Bq/body from a child in Da-te city Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Former NRA official held at least 30 prohibited meetings with nuclear power firms – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Daily Press – Japan offers help for Saudi Arabia’s nuclear program in exchange for potential future oil – Ida Torres
• Japan Daily Press – NRA to digitize, put online 900,000 pages of Fukushima crisis documents in 2 years – Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Senior LDP lawmaker urges a swift decision on fate of offline reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t needs to determine early whether to resume reactors
• TEPCO – TEPCO News Update