Sunday, February 24, 2013

• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP (13): U.S. officials frustrated with Japanese at crisis meetings – Hiroyoshi Itabashi
• Asahi Shimbun – Survey: No nuclear plants meet new safety standards
• Asahi Shimbun – Ideology and reality: what Germany’s anti-nuclear stance tells us – Takeshi Yamawaki
• ENENews – Corbett Report: Thyroid cancers skyrocketing right now in Fukushima — Guardian: “The issue is bound to escalate further” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Guardian: Fukushima families on edge of meltdown — “Nobody trusts the government any more” — Officials “afraid of triggering an exodus”
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima worker “Human worker can’t get into torus room of reactor1, needs underwater vehicle” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 0.5µSv/h from the street dust in Edogawa Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation level offshore Fukushima river increased to be 95 times much as 1 month before – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima youth, “I will have children in Fukushima to contribute toward Fukushima.” – Iori Mochizuki

Saturday, February 23, 2013

• Oceania: Xinhua News – Aussie nuke tests victims seek justice – Christian Edwards
• Before It’s News – Powerful Lies: The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and The Radioactive Effects On Human Health
• The Guardian – After Fukushima: families on the edge of meltdown – Abigail Haworth
• ENENews – Gundersen soon after 3/11: Photo shows nuclear fuel is exposed to air at Fukushima Unit 4 fuel pool — Clean path for plutonium to escape offsite (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Japan TV: The Nuclear Waste Curse — Animation shows spent fuel rods being exposed in Fukushima pool (VIDEO)
• Focus Taiwan – Ma calls for honest communication over nuke plant controversy
• Taipei Times – Ma promises to listen to public on nuclear issue – Shih Hsiu-chuan and Chris Wang
• Taipei Times – Academics call for halt to New Taipei City nuclear power plant construction – Tang Chia-ling and Stacy Hsu

Friday, February 22, 2013

• Bloomberg – Japan Atomic Said to Seek Rollover of 104 Billion Yen Loans – Tsuyoshi Inajima & Emi Urabe
• Enformable – TEPCO workers collect water from Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 1 torus room – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – TEPCO releases video footage of Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 3 spent fuel pool – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – TEPCO workers survey Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 torus room – Lucas W Hixson
• World Nuclear News – Shikoku joins rate hikers
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO to face lawsuits over hospital evacuation deaths
• Daily Yomiuri – Xenon detected day after N. Korean N-test
• Daily Yomiuri – Research for geothermal projects to start in natl parks
• Daily Yomiuri – Trial OK’d for new device to remove radioactivity
• Daily Yomiuri – New way to remove cesium from rice fields
• ENENews – “Surprise” – Mainichi: It’s emerged that radiation surged to 700 times normal before people evacuated near Fukushima plant – Residents exposed to “high levels”
• ENENews – “Pile of sediments” filmed at Fukushima Unit 1 – Tepco taking sample from corner of torus room (VIDEO &PHOTOS)
• Fukushima Diary – Public prosecutors won’t prosecute Katsumata of Tepco, Fukushima citizens demanded Tepco to surrender to justice – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Another step to discharge contaminated water to the sea] Tepco to make a trial run of ALPS – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fallout detected in Fukushima Daini too – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Photos and videos of Tepco’s SFP investigation in reactor3 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco investigated the operation floor of reactor2 with gamma camera – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Photos, videos and other details about reactor1 torus room investigation – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Global team must dismantle No. 1: IAEA
• Japan Times – Fukushima No. 1 water cleaner to be tested
• Mainichi Daily News – Nationwide nuclear plant monitoring system stops working for over an hour
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima radiation spread to residential areas hours before venting
• Mainichi Daily News – Hibakusha: Hiroshima bomb survivor pleads case of black rain victims – Asahi Shimbun
• NHK World – Nuclear Watch: Nuclear Waste Curse
• China Post – DPP denies flipflop over Fourth Nuclear Power Plant – Enru Lin
• Taiwan News – Taiwan opposition leader to cycle against nuclear plant
• Taipei Times – Ma should learn from Chiang: DPP
• Taipei Times – President, KMT lawmakers discuss nuclear safety – Mo Yan-chih
• Taiwan Today – AEC touts radiation monitoring app – Rachel Chan

Thursday, February 21, 2013

• Hoover Institution – Filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick debate the bombing of Hiroshima
• IPS – Most Inhumane of Weapons – Daisaku Ikeda
• Power Engineering – Another Japanese utility applies for electricity rate hike
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP (12): Inject more water into the reactor – Hiroyoshi Itabashi
• Asahi Shimbun – High radiation bars decommissioning of Fukushima plant – Hisashi Hattori
• Asahi Shimbun – Group wants Fukushima plant preserved for Chernobyl-style tourism – Yutaka Shiokura
• ENENews – Tepco presentation shows clumps of melted nuclear fuel outside containment vessel – “Many unexpected situations are expected”
• ENENews – New footage from Fukushima Unit 3 shows “large amounts of debris and sediment accumulating on fuel racks” (VIDEOS)
• ENENews – Reporter on Unit 4 Pool at Fukushima: Water was muddy and brown – Fuel inside not visible
• ENENews – Asahi: Location of Fukushima melted fuel unknown – Could be ‘scattered’ in piping, vessels – “We’ve yet to identify all hotspots” around plant
• ENENews – Tepco finds 920 millisieverts per hour in Fukushima Unit 1 torus room — Gundersen: “There are fuel fragments outside the containment”
• Fukushima Diary – 7,500 Bq/kg of Cs-134/137 measured from wild boar in Fukushima, “Cesium measured from 100% of samples” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 171 Bq/Kg measured from a meal in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco “Molten fuel may be in various parts of reactor, takes up to 35 years to remove, international help is needed” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fallout level in Fukushima city keeps going up, “the 2nd highest since last May” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – NRA suggested the proposal to discontinue thyroid test for Fukushima children – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Ministry of Defense detected Xe-133 from the atmosphere of Aichi offshore “halflife is 5 days” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Japan, China diplomats seek cooperation in North Korea nuclear test response – Ida Torres
• Japan Daily Press – Japan Atomic Power takes rare step of selling uranium – Ida Torres
• Japan Daily Press – Ikata plant expected to be Japan’s next restarted nuclear reactor – Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Japan Atomic Power takes rare step of selling uranium to pay off loans
• NHK World – Fukui leaders call for restarting nuclear plants
• NHK World – TEPCO to try new water decontamination device
• Focus Taiwan – Safety a prerequisite for nuclear power: government spokeswoman – Huang Ming-hsi, Su Lung-chi, Hsu Chih-wei and Maia Huang
• Taipei Times – Anti-nuclear groups call for March 9 rally – Loa Iok-sin
• Taipei Times – Cabinet demotes nuclear safety body – Shih Hsiu-chuan

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

• All Things Nuclear – Fission Stories #130: Fukushima’s Dividends or Mea Culpas – Dave Lochbaum
• Bloomberg – Japan to Operate Offshore Wind Turbines With Tepco, J-Power – Chisaki Watanabe
• Bloomberg – Abe to Ask Obama for Shale Exports as Japan’s Gas Bill Soars – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Enformable – Japanese industry minister says not appropriate to say Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster contained – Lucas W Hixson
• Forbes – Bluefin Tuna From The Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown Still Have Traces of Radiation – Monte Burke, Forbes Staff
• Greenpeace International – The nuclear reality: lives in limbo after Fukushima – Rianne Teule
• World Nuclear News – MHI’s Super-Giraffe robot reaches new heights
• Asahi Shimbun – 60% of thermal power plants stand in quake-prone areas
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt fights to curb rate hikes / Shikoku Electric follows other utilities in applying to raise fees – Tadaaki Inoue and Hiroyuki Tanaka
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt must continue pushing coal thermal power generation
• ENENews – Academic Journal: Fukushima catastrophe becoming turning point in world history – “Its long-term impact and meaning are impossible to repress”
• ENENews – Japan MP: This is an emergency situation, lives must be protected – Health injury to people outside Fukushima raised (VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “0.353 µSv/h at Yokohama station” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Lawyer “Psychodiagnosis medical dept. is full of patients to suffer from strong fatigue in Kohriyama city Fukushima” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Children’s blood pressure increased by up to 20% after 311 in Fukushima, 1.8% of 9~10 y.o boys have over 90mmHg min – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fallout level in Fukushima city spiked again, “the 3rd highest reading in February” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] Clinic “Hay fever patients have nosebleed since last month, it has never happened before” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 920 mSv/h from the basement floor of reactor1, “Is fractured fuel debris in S/C ?” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Greenpeace calls on nuclear reactor manufacturers to be held responsible for Fukushima – Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – New robots reduce human risk in disaster cleanup – Hiroko Nakata
• Japan Times – Editorial: Disclosure Of Nuclear Crisis Data
• NHK World – Robots capable of coping with nuclear disasters
• NHK World – Family of dairy farmer suicide to sue TEPCO
• NHK World – Trade council chief urges balanced energy mix
• EIN News – Taiwan opposition wants to scrap new nuclear plant

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

• PanOrient News – Fukushima Disaster: Costs Fall on Public
• Radio Australia – Company asking Fukushima victims to repay compensation: Greenpeace – Mark Willacy
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP (11): We are still alive! – Hidefumi Nogami
• Asahi Shimbun – Power company agrees to fund road to idle Tsuruga nuke plant
• Asahi Shimbun – Nuclear watchdog: Fault lines under Higashidori plant are active – Ryuta Koike
• Asahi Shimbun – Japan to help Kazakhstan develop nuclear power plants
• Asahi Shimbun – EDITORIAL: Why wait for the election? Abe should address nuclear power issues
• Daily Yomiuri – Shipbuilders to expand business / Megafloats for mining to help firms fight for bigger share of world market – Kohei Nakashima
• Daily Yomiuri – Assessment of fault risks at Higashidori N-plant unfair
• Daily Yomiuri – Panel eyes KEPCO upkeep fees
• ENENews – Top Japan Official: Not appropriate to say Fukushima nuclear disaster is contained
• ENENews – ABC: Fukushima victims must repay money to Tepco (AUDIO)
• ENENews – Highest Yet: Cesium in fish off Chiba coast exceeds radiation limit for first time — 200 kilometers from Fukushima plant — Due east of Tokyo
• Fukushima Diary – Additional 200 children to have re-examination of thyroid in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco to start the reliability improvement work for feed water systems of reactor2 and 3 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – M5.8 hit offshore Chiba – Iori Mochizuki
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear evacuee dies alone at temporary housing unit in Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – Mount Aso limonite helps block radiation from tainted soil: researchers
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO forms 3rd-party verification panel over false info to block on-site reactor probe
• Mainichi Daily News – Sketches depicting Chernobyl aftermath on display in Tokyo
• NHK World – Local communities oppose Ohma plant construction
• AsiaOne – Taiwan opposition wants to scrap new nuclear plant
• Taiwan Today – MOEA vows to ensure nuclear safety at Lungmen

Monday, February 18, 2013

• Enformable – Underground faults at Higashidori nuclear power plant judged highly likely to be active – Lucas W Hixson
• RT – Fukushima kids have skyrocketing number of thyroid abnormalities – report
• Asahi Shimbun – Documentary examines ordeal of nuclear evacuees – Yoshika Uematsu
• Daily Yomiuri – Faults under Higashidori N-plant active
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt faces suit over Hamaoka N-plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt to compile new quake predictions
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] Doors – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Sign of eruption ?] There has been over 1300 quakes in Hakone since mid January of 2013 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima worker doubts the reliability of the new water purifying facility Alps – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Contaminated water overflowed from the tank of reactor5 and 6 in the end – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Plant parameter of reactor1 since 7/12/2012 is missing from Tepco’s Japanese webpage – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – NRA: Higashidori Nuclear Power Plant built near an active fault line – Ida Torres
• Japan Daily Press – Government-backed researcher plays down health effects of Fukushima – Ida Torres
• Japan Times – NRA secretariat must halt collusion
• Japan Times – Faults may be active under Aomori plant
• Japan Times – Nuclear dispute shapes fight over future of fading town – Jeff Kingston
• NHK World – Report: Fault at nuclear plant may be active
• NHK World – Nuclear scientists discuss new safety rules
• NHK World – KEPCO to examine faults beneath Ohi nuclear plant
• NHK World – Panel to look into TEPCO’s alleged falsifications