Sunday, March 24, 2013

• YouTube – Japan’s Nuclear Waste: Managing a Lethal Legacy; NHK Documentary
• Xinhua News – Japanese PM visits Fukushima to check reconstruction
• ENENews – Show host during Nuclear Power Special: “I go to ENENews frequently” — #1 program in time slot, 3.5 million weekly listeners (AUDIO)
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (10): SDF general left food for pets at Fukushima – Hidefumi Nogami
• Asahi Shimbun – Teachers return to clean classrooms 2 years after Fukushima disaster
• Asahi Shimbun – 3/11 still too raw to make hard and fast decisions about preservation issues
• Daily Yomiuri – Ministry ignored call to enhance Fukushima off-site center
• Daily Yomiuri – Abe visits Fukushima towns, vows to speed up rebuilding
• Daily Yomiuri – Hokkaido Electric eyes rate hike in September
• Daily Yomiuri – Japan Atomic Power plans hiring freeze
• Daily Yomiuri – Editorial: Better management crucial at Fukushima nuclear power plant
• Fukushima Diary – The former Fuji TV announcer Yamakawa, “Home grown rice and vegetables caused me health problems in Chiba” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – IAEA, “Reactor5, 6 and Fukushima Daini are operational” though reactor5&6 still need coolant system – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Fractured fuel ?] Over 5 and 1 Sv/h in the turbine buildings of reactor1 and 2, “Higher than in reactor buildings” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Abe visits Fukushima to check reconstruction efforts
• Mainichi Daily News – Abe to comprehensively decide on restart of reactors in Japan
• Mainichi Daily News – Criticism arises over nuclear agency’s fees to view documents
• TEPCO – TEPCO News Update
• Focus Taiwan – GE engineers to help with safety tests at No. 4 nuke plant – Lin Meng-ju and Jamie Wang
• Taipei Times – Nuclear waste poses huge problem – Wang Chung-ming
• Taipei Times – Taipower miscalculated: DPP – Lee Yu-hsin and Stacy Hsu
• Taipei Times – Premier to discuss power plant with local officials – Mo Yan-chih

Saturday, March 23, 2013

• Enformable – Watchdog experts evicted from post-Fukushima conferences
• Pacific Free Press – The Fukushima Disaster is Not Getting Better – Nelle Maxey
• Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima cleanup contractors told workers to lie about pay in ‘surprise’ inspections
• Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima cleanup contractors told workers to lie about pay in ‘surprise’ inspections
• Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuclear activists protest government eviction plan
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Government ignores voices of Okinawa in Futenma move
• ENENews – 16 million Bq/liter of Cesium-137 in Fukushima Daiichi Spent Fuel Pool No. 1 — More than in June 2011 — Almost 5,000 times Unit 4’s levels
• ENENews – Study: Up to 900 trillion becquerels of strontium-90 into ocean from Fukushima plant — “Direct discharges of cooling water”
• ENENews – Japan Journalist: Situation at Fukushima Daiichi “way worse than officially announced” — Nuclear workers think Fukushima can’t be settled — “They have problems everywhere” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – “Significant volatile fission products” deposited 300 kilometers from Fukushima plant
• ENENews – Study: Fukushima fallout at Canadian embassy in Tokyo was 225,000 Bq/m² — Far in excess of limit set for radiation control zones
• ENENews – Study: Fukushima fallout at Canadian embassy in Tokyo was 225,000 Bq/m² — Far in excess of limit set for radiation control zones
• ENENews – Study: Fukushima radiation plume already north of Hawaii as of June 2012 (MAP)
• Fukushima Diary – Ducks in Aomori decreased since last year by over 50% – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Am-241 and Pu-238/239/240 measured from offshore Fukushima, Miyagi, Ibaraki, MEXT “Within normal range” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Battlefield journalist “Nuclear workers think Fukushima can’t be settled.” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fishery agency released 3 million salmon fry in Soma city Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco to drill a hole on the first floor of reactor2 for torus room investigation on 3/24~25 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima worker “Power outage frequently happens in Fukushima plant” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Female decontamination workers are recruited in 72km from Fukushima plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Editorial: Accident highlights nuclear peril
• Mainichi Daily News – Teachers collect students’ memories at radiation tainted Fukushima school
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO owes over 10 billion yen to gov’t in unpaid decontamination costs
• AsiaOne – Nuke referendum can be scrapped: Taipei City Mayor
• Taipei Times – Hau’s nuclear comments spark concern – Mo Yan-chih

Friday, March 22, 2013

• Bloomberg – Fukushima Lawsuit Reveals Price of ‘Abenomics’ – William Pesek
• Enformable – Japan orders TEPCO to install backup power sources at Fukushima Daiichi – Lucas W Hixson
• NavyTimes – More sailors join radiation exposure lawsuit – Gidget Fuentes
• Voice News – Author, anti-nuclear activist: Fukushima disaster is not over – Jim Bloch
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Latest failure shows Fukushima crisis far from resolved
• Asahi Shimbun – Rare earths treasure trove found in seabed near Minami-Torishima – Harufumi Mori
• ENENews – Asahi: The explosion at Fukushima Reactor 3 had seriously damaged Reactor 2 — “Worst possible case” was predicted soon after — Many workers abandoned facility
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco concealing the analysis data for Plutonium because of “the bad weather” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Wild bird society of Japan, “Unusual number of swallows have uneven tail feathers in 60km area from Fukushima plant” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Plan eludes for fissile plutonium
• Japan Times – Ministry files to start work on Futenma’s replacement
• Japan Times – Tepco snubs ¥10.5 billion cleanup tab
• Japan Times – Plan eludes for fissile plutonium
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO apologizes for delay in reporting plant power outage
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: TEPCO must build system to prevent accidents
• NHK World – Govt. tells TEPCO to add multiple power sources
• Taipei Times – Hau reiterates opposition to power plant – Mo Yan-chih
• Taiwan News – KMT heavyweight casts doubt over continued nuclear plant construction – Johnson Sun, Tseng Yin-yu and Jay Chen

Thursday, March 21, 2013

• Bellona – Rat may have caused Monday’s power shut-down at Japan’s embattled Fukushima Daiichi plant – Charles Digges
• New York Times – Rat Body Linked to Blackout at Atomic Site – Martin Fackler
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (9): SDF members told to hold their ground – Hidefumi Nogami
• Asahi Shimbun – EDITORIAL: Having a broader view of the past will help Japan shape its future
• Daily Yomiuri – Areva SA to ship MOX N-fuel to Japan
• Daily Yomiuri – Short circuit may have caused power loss at N-plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Areva SA to ship MOX N-fuel to Japan – POWERnews
• ENENews – Radioactive dust reported in Tokyo after recent fog – Over 4,000 Bq/kg of cesium – “Contamination never disappear, be careful”
• ENENews – Expert: Areas in Fukushima are recontaminated within 24 hours of being ‘cleaned up’ – Will have to be permanently evacuated
• ENENews – “Biggest radiological cleanup the world has ever seen” – Worker in Fukushima: “Radiation levels just won’t go down” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Video: Over 3,000,000 Bq/m² detected on road near Fukushima plant
• Fukushima Diary – The fog to have hit Tokyo on 3/10/2013 contained 4,362 Bq/Kg of Cesium-134/137 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 15 outside members of JP Nuclear Regulation Authority received 70 million yen from power and nuclear makers – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Teller’s sea eagle and white-tailed eagle to pass the winter in Iwate prefecture are the least since 1985 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 4.5 µSv/h on the soil of Nasushiobara city Tochigi, “officially it’s 0.151µSv/h” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco released the report about the panel board and the mouse in English – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – China Eastern Airlines to quit all the regular flights between Fukushima and Shanghai – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Oi nuclear plant in Fukui will continue operations until September – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Times – Takahama MOX fuel shipment in works – Vermont Public Radio?
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima plant outage reveals lack of backup power source 2 years after crisis outbreak
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima village gives money to families with children born after disaster
• NHK World – French firm preparing to ship MOX fuel to Japan
• NHK World – KEPCO decides to start shipping MOX fuel to Japan
• NHK World – Switchboard found burnt at Fukushima plant
• NHK World – Only one-third of nuclear damage cases settled
• NHK World – Japan posts $8 billion trade deficit for February
• Taipei Times – Motions passed to cease nuclear plant construction – Helen Ku, Shih Hsiu-chuan and Chris Wang
• Taiwan News – If nuclear referendum tomorrow, I’d vote against: Taipei Mayor

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

• AFP Google – Cooling systems restored at Fukushima reactors: TEPCO – Hiroshi Hiyama
• Bloomberg – Tepco Says Outage Cause at Fukushima Nuke Plant Unknown – Ma Jie & Masaaki Iwamoto
• Eurasia Review – Japan: New Accident At Fukushima – OpEd: – Alexei Lyakhov and Oleg Nekhai
• IAEA – Cooling Restored at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
• New York Times – Fukushima Blackout Hints at Plant’s Vulnerability – Martin Fackler
• Reuters – Update 1-Fukushima cooling systems restart after outage-IAEA
• UPI Asia – Japan nuke plant cooling problem solved
• Xinhua News – No Fukushima threat to China waters: authority
• Asahi Shimbun – Another bent rod found in fuel assembly at Kashiwazaki nuclear plant
• Asahi Shimbun – ANALYSIS: Cooling failure brings renewed criticism of lax TEPCO
• Asahi Shimbun – Oi nuke reactors to stay online even when new safety standards take effect
• Asahi Shimbun – INTERVIEW/ Toshitaka Katada: Don’t trust hazard maps and don’t depend on authorities – Tairiku Kurosawa
• Daily Yomiuri – Accident did not increase radiation
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO restarts cooling at Fukushima No. 1 plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Local govts need support in compiling antidisaster plans
• Enformable – Power outage at Fukushima Daiichi blamed on rodents – Lucas W Hixson
• ENENews – Seawater and sand caused blackout at Fukushima Daiichi? – Crucial power device “left on back of vehicle… exposed to the elements” (PHOTO)
• ENENews – Fairewinds: Radiation release during massive power failure at Fukushima Daiichi – 24-hour outage is unconscionable, shows plant unstable
• ENENews – ‘Rat-like animal’ blamed for Fukushima blackout (PHOTO)
• Fukushima Diary – The haul of Sagami bay is significantly decreasing for unknown reason – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – JP Gov to reduce the sorts of food to test the radiation level of “Because they measure radiation decreasingly” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – The potential Nankai megathrust earthquake would cause 220 trillion yen damage and 5 million evacuees – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Highly radioactive dust accumulated in the body of Shinkansen with no place to stock – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Nuclear disaster headquarters to lift rice planting restriction in 20km area – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – The blackout was caused by a mouse in the panel board, the board has been left on the truck since 3/18/2011 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – TEPCO: Cause of blackout at Fukushima nuclear plant still unknown – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Times – Tepco smells a rat in Fukushima No. 1 fuel pool cooling glitch
• Kyodo News – Rat suspected of causing power problem at Fukushima plant
• NHK World – TEPCO probing cause of cooling trouble
• OilPrice – Taiwanese Strongly Opposed to Expansion of Nuclear Power – John Daly

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

• AP Google – Power, cooling restored at Japanese nuclear plant – Mari Yamaguchi
• AP Google – Japan ups damage seen from feared quake to $2.3T – Elaine Kurtenbach
• AP Google – Power still out at damaged nuclear plant in Japan – Mari Yamaguchi
• BBC News – Power at Fukushima nuclear fuel ponds in Japan ‘restored’
• Bellona – Fukushima power outage to spent nuclear fuel storage ponds partially restored – Charles Digges
• Beyond Nuclear – Blackout at Fukushima – continued peril at stricken nuclear plant
• Bloomberg – Tepco Says Most Power Restored at Fukushima Plant’s Fuel Pools – Jacob Adelman & Ichiro Suzuki
• CNN – More U.S. military join lawsuit over Fukushima exposure – Peter Shadbolt
• Common Dreams – Power Outages at Fukushima Reveal Precariousness of Damaged Nuclear Facility – Jon Queally
• ENS – Power Blackout Interrupts Cooling at Fukushima Nuclear Plant
• The Guardian – Fukushima loses cooling power
• New York Times – Crucial Cooling Systems Restored at Fukushima Plant, Company Says – Martin Fackler
• PBS Frontline – For Fukushima Workers, Cancer Isn’t the Only Health Threat
• Reuters – Tepco loses power to cooling systems at Fukushima plant – James Topham and Ruairdh Villar
• Xinhua News – Spent fuel pool cooling system in Fukushima plant partially restored: TEPCO
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (8): SDF unit commander angered at lack of warning at Fukushima No. 1 plant – Hidefumi Nogami
• Daily Yomiuri – Oi N-plant to continue operations through Sept.
• ENENews – Crucial cooling systems restored, Tepco says – Local official: “We don’t believe Fukushima disaster is under control” – NYTimes: “Impossible to independently assess conditions at plant”
• ENENews – U.S. scientists find Fukushima cesium in turtles, whales, fish
• ENENews – Power still not restored at Fukushima Unit 3 fuel pool and Common Fuel Pool – No fresh cooling water for over a day – Tepco: Extremely sorry it took so long to announce blackout
• ENENews – Temperatures rise in Fukushima fuel pools after nearly 20 hours without power — Crews “scrambling” to fix problems — Tepco placing “highest priority” on Unit 4
• ENENews – Bloomberg: Gundersen says radiation levels will increase from higher temperatures at Fukushima fuel pools
• ENENews – Kyodo at 6:41p ET: Fukushima Daiichi power failure still underway — Residents anxious, Tepco remains unable to fix problem
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco to discharge ground water to the sea if it’s under 1,000 Bq/m3 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 1 Sv/h in PCV of reactor2, “reaches the fatal dose in 7 hours” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Plutonium-239/240 measured from 3km offshore of Fukushima Daiichi and Daini, Tepco “Within normal range” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Power blackout] Coolant system of common pool restarted – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Power blackout] Coolant system of reactor1,3 &4 restored, common pool to be back on by 8AM of 3/20/2013 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Residents to plant 20,000 cherry trees in Fukushima – Ida Torres
• Japan Times – No. 1 plant outage fuels worries in Fukushima
• Japan Times – No. 1 fuel pool power to be restored: Tepco – Reiji Yoshida
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t panel report predicts devastation of Nankai Trough earthquake
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Japan must show commitment to global warming countermeasures
• NHK World – Ohi nuclear plant will stay online until Sept.
• NHK World – Cooling restored at 2 Fukushima reactors
• NHK World – Fukushima urges TEPCO to restore cooling
• China Post – Why does every inspector favor nuclear power?: DPP – Enru Lin
• Taiwan News – DPP calls on Taiwan government to open up 4th nuclear plant to scrutiny
• Taipei Times – Activists demand Jiang meet them on nuclear waste – Lee I-chia

Monday, March 18, 2013

• AFP Google – Crippled Japan nuclear plant hit by power cut: report
• Daily Beast – Japan’s Anti-Nuclear Activists Losing Ground Since Fukushima Disaster – Lennox Samuels
• Daily Telegraph – Japan’s post-war nuclear ambitions revealed in newly declassified documents – Julian Ryall, Tokyo
• Enformable – Power outage at Fukushima Daiichi halts spent fuel pool cooling at multiple units – Lucas W Hixson
• Forbes – Fukushima — Fear Is Still the Killer – James Conca
• NEI – Second Observance of the Fukushima Accident Media Briefing, March 5, 2013
• Winnipeg Free Press – High cost of radiation panic – Robert Peter Gale and Eric Lax
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: End nuclear fuel recycling program for sake of future generations
• Daily Yomiuri – N-evacuees to get job assistance / Labor ministry to also help people forced to flee find rental housing
• ENENews – Kyodo: “Tepco hasn’t been able to work out steps to ensure bringing system back online” at Fukushima Daiichi – No ‘major’ changes in radioactivity levels
• ENENews – NHK: Another fuel pool loses cooling system at Fukushima Daiichi – CBC: May take days to repair
• ENENews – AP: Fukushima Daiichi blackout has continued for hours – 3 fuel pools without fresh cooling water
• ENENews – Kyodo English: ‘Problem with electric power’ at Fukushima Daiichi – Cooling systems suspended at 3 fuel pools
• ENENews – Fukushima Daiichi power blackout is top story on Japan news sites (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Blackout at Fukushima Daiichi – Cooling at fuel pools stopped
• ENENews – Just In: Blackout at Fukushima Daiichi — Cooling at fuel pools stopped
• ENENews – Japan Diplomat: We don’t know what’s happening underground of Fukushima reactors — Potential accident remains now (AUDIO)
• Fukushima Diary – [Analysis] The sudden blackout revealed the weakness of Fukushima plant, “Reactor4 has 4 days to go” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Is something living in SFP ?] Tepco injects hydrazine to prevent microorganisms from generated – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – The radioactive density of SFP of reactor 1 is 24 billion Bq/m3, 5266 times much as reactor4 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Alert] Fukushima emission to reach Tokyo area from afternoon of 3/19/2013 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Alert] Common pool of 6377 fuel assemblies lost power too, Fukushima is under storm warnings – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Alert] All power’s been down in Fukushima plant for over 3 hours, Tepco investigating the reason – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Alert] All power’s been down in Fukushima plant for over 3 hours, Tepco investigating the reason – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Breaking] Power blackout in Fukushima plant, coolant system of the pools in reactor 1,3,4 lost power – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – ¥220 trillion hit seen from Nankai quake
• Mainichi Daily News – Many local gov’ts near nuke plants miss anti-disaster planning deadline: survey
• NHK World – Blackout halts cooling system at Fukushima plant
• TEPCO – TEPCO News Update
• Focus Taiwan – Experts to begin No. 4 nuke safety tests in April: minister
• Radio Taiwan – 4th Nuclear plant safety checks to begin in early April
• Taiwan Today – Taiwan nuclear plants pass independent review – Meg Chang

Sunday, March 17, 2013

• Indymedia UK – Dangerous Myths of Fukushima – Alex Smith
• New Jersey Newsroom – Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission: Part 4 – Living with the Aftermath – Roger Witherspoon
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (7): Reactor explosion heavily damaged SUV driven by SDF personnel – Hidefumi Nogami
• Daily Yomiuri – Only 29 local govts have N-evacuation plans
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO fish sets new contamination record
• Daily Yomiuri – Tsunami debris set for N. America to rise
• ENENews – Reuters: Can’t stop groundwater from flowing into Fukushima reactors — 4 years to fix?
• ENENews – Radiation Expert: Even southern Tokyo is contaminated from Fukushima disaster — “We seriously have to think about what we should do”
• ENENews – TV: Tokyo is very contaminated from Fukushima disaster — Many people have left already (VIDEO)
• ENENews – CBS: Those Fukushima reactors are still releasing radioactive material into ocean -Expert (VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – [Analysis] There is no way of stopping ground water flowing into the plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Analysis] Spring wind may increase your internal exposure in Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Thyroid abnormality rate is 13.3% in Miyagi, “Too good” compared to the 57% of other 3 prefectures – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Digestive and skin disease jumped up to 60 times in Ukraine, “Is it the same in Japan ?” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Acute exposure and low dose exposure may both cause intelligent deterioration – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Acute exposure and low dose exposure may both cause intelligent deterioration – Iori Mochizuki
• Mainichi Daily News – Record cesium level detected in fish caught near Fukushima plant
• NHK World – N.Korea: Japan is not exempt from nuclear attack
• NHK World – Disaster preparedness plans unfinished
• NHK World – Govt. to release effective decontamination methods
• NHK World – Govt. to release effective decontamination methods
• Taipei Times – Ma must heed the public, abort Gongliao plant: Su – Chris Wang
• Taipei Times – Firms express concerns over electricity supplies if nuclear power is scrapped

Saturday, March 16, 2013

• Bloomberg – Tepco Faces Growing Suit by U.S. Troops Over Radiation Exposure – Chisaki Watanabe
• Enformable – Japan’s post-Fukushima energy policy advisory board resumes discussions after purging members – Lucas W Hixson
• Asahi Shimbun – ‘Anti-nuclear’ voices are weak as government begins energy policy revision – Mari Fujisaki
• Asahi Shimbun – Record radioactivity found in Fukushima fish
• ENENews – U.S. gov’t model of Fukushima cesium-137 particles covering Northern Hemisphere (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Fukushima internal contamination levels to rise in 5-10 years? (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Video: Black radioactive material being reported 100 kilometers south of Fukushima Daiichi
• Fukushima Diary – Soma city recommends evacuees to consume fish and mushroom – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “Salt made from Fukushima seawater sold in western Japan” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Evacuee from Futabamachi, “Something yellow fell from the sky like large flakes of snow after explosion” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Over 8,000 Bq/Kg measured from 18 schools in Yokohama – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – News caster Otsuka to be hospitalized again for recurring acute lymphatic leukemia – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 23 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from tea powder in Shizuoka – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – U.S. military personnel suing Tepco
• Japan Times – Prefectures dally over nuclear evacuation plans – Eric Johnston
• Japan Times – METI wants tent city to move on
• Focus Taiwan – Sufficient information needed on nuclear power issue: president

Friday, March 15, 2013

• AFP Google – US military members suing over Japan nuke disaster
• Bloomberg – Japan Adds 1,178 Megawatts of Mostly Solar Energy in Nine Months – Chisaki Watanabe
• Bloomberg – Japan’s Energy Board Meets After Dropping Anti-Nuclear Members – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• CounterPunch – Fukushima isn’t Chernobyl? – Sarah D. Phillips
• Daily Telegraph – Japan’s Chernobyl: abandoned town in the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone
• POWERnews – The Second Anniversary of Fukushima: Daiichi, Japan, and the World’s Nuclear Sector
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO to invest extra 50 bil. yen for plant safety
• ENENews – Documentary shows simulation of Fukushima melt-through — Footage of molten nuclear fuel (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Jiji: Tepco Finds Most Polluted Fish since Fukushima Nuclear Accident — New record of 740,000 Bq/kg
• ENENews – Military unit severely contaminated when Fukushima Unit 3 exploded — Too radioactive to stand by each other — “Only further heightens the levels”
• ENENews – Japan Experts: Up to 93 billion becquerels a day may still be leaking into Pacific from Fukushima plant (VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – JP Gov to postpone the genomic analysis for Fukushima people for “ethical matter” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco “Fish is decreasing in Fukushima plant port” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fallout level keeps on increasing, “The highest level since last April” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tokyo University of Marine Science,”8,000,000,000 ~ 93,000,000,000 Bq of Cs-137 can leak to the sea every single day” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Record breaking] 740,000 Bq/Kg from fat greenling in Fukushima plant port – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Anti-nuclear members removed from Japan’s energy board – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Times – Abe purges energy board of antinuclear experts
• JapanToday – 126 U.S. military members to sue TEPCO
• NHK World – Experts: Cesium leak may be continuing
• Focus Taiwan – Arbitrary halt of nuclear plant work unconstitutional: premier – Chen Hsun-hsieh, Chen Wei-ting, Wang Chin-yi and Lilian Wu
• Focus Taiwan – Taiwan’s nuclear plants pass stress test: experts (update) – James Lee

Thursday, March 14, 2013

• AP Google – Panel says no cover-up attempt by Japan nuke plant – Mari Yamaguchi
• Bellona – New Japanese nuclear regulatory agency must assert its opinion as confusion around Fukushima disaster still lingers – Charles Digges
• Ploughshares Fund – Fukushima 2013 to 20013? Legacy of the Nuclear Age – Paul Carroll
• Reuters – Japan faces higher fuel bill as nuclear shutdown enters 3rd year – Aaron Sheldrick and Osamu Tsukimori
• World Nuclear News – Fukushima frame levels up
• Asahi Shimbun – INTERVIEW: Former U.S. nuke watchdog chair says regulators must stay independent – Shiro Namekata
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (6): SDF members exposed to high radiation levels in reactor explosion – Hidefumi Nogami
• Asahi Shimbun – ANALYSIS: TEPCO inquiry admits ‘misinformation,’ but critics demand more – By HIDEAKI KIMURA/ Staff Writer
• Asahi Shimbun – Museum about Fukushima nuclear accident to open in May – Kunio Ozawa
• Daily Yomiuri – U.S.: Japan kept as Iran sanctions exception
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt funds Canada’s disposal of debris
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima town featured in kage-e shadow artwork
• ENENews – Fukushima Woman: I started to suffer health problems one after another — Just like in villages around Chernobyl (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Film: High radiation alarm went off at another Fukushima nuclear plant before tsunami hit (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Brainwashed: Tepco like a cult — Workers thought missile from North Korea caused Fukushima explosion (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Japan Nuclear Expert: “Containment vessel continued to break at various spots, one after another” from Fukushima melted fuel — “It lost the protective wall which seals in radiation” (VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – MOE, “Small animals in hazard area may have the problem with fecundity even in the ICRP standard” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 1.8 Bq/Kg of Strontium-90 measured from rainbow smelt in Minamisoma city Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Prenatal diagnosis to detect down’s syndrome and trisomy 13&18 to be introduced in Japan this April – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – The strip of ONE PIECE not to appear due to the author’s sudden illness – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – The Forestry Agency, “Internal exposure dose of cedar pollen is 0.206 µSv” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Robot investigated the lower part of the vent pipe of reactor2, “No water leakage was found” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – 3 Fukushima officials made to go on searches in radiation zones without protection – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Times – Leaders we can trust again – Ramesh Thakur
• Japan Times – Toxic management erodes safety at ‘world’s safest’ nuclear plant – Dreux Richard
• YouTube – Fukushima Daiichi: A Chronological Account of the Disaster

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

• The Guardian – Two years on, America hasn’t learned lessons of Fukushima nuclear disaster – Richard Schiffman
• NRDC blog – U.S. Nuclear Safety Progress Remains Sluggish Following Fukushima Disaster, Part I – Jordan Weaver
• Asia Times – Fukushima hits public purse – Stephen Leahy
• Bellona – Analysis: Fukushima two years later – Nils Bøhmer
• Bellona – Road to Fukushima fraught with ongoing tragedy and innovations ignored – Charles Digges
• Greenpeace International – Fukushima disaster: holding the nuclear industry liable – Kumi Naidoo
• Asahi Shimbun – Taiwan’s Ma points to Japan as role model for nuclear energy – Takio Murakami
• Asahi Shimbun – Panel says no cover-up attempt by TEPCO
• Asahi Shimbun – Empty streets, menacing crows and little hope in towns co-hosting Fukushima plant
• Asahi Shimbun – BIZ BRIEF: MHI completes 1st large-scale parts replacement at nuke plant overseas
• Asahi Shimbun – Ministry: Radioactive cesium dose drops 66% in Fukushima meals
• Daily Yomiuri – N-operator’s false answer ‘unintentional’
• Daily Yomiuri – Eyes turning to new natural resources
• Daily Yomiuri – Editorial: Government should draw up realistic nuclear power policy
• ENENews – Video: 10 million people in Japan have been abandoned in high radiation areas after Fukushima — Kanto Region extremely contaminated
• ENENews – Brainwashed: Tepco like a cult — Workers thought missile from North Korea caused Fukushima explosion (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Japan Nuclear Expert: “Containment vessel continued to break at various spots, one after another” from Fukushima melted fuel — “It lost the protective wall which seals in radiation” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Video: 10 million people in Japan have been abandoned in high radiation areas after Fukushima — Kanto Region extremely contaminated
• ENENews – Japan Professor: Fukushima release equivalent to 1,000 atomic bombs? (VIDEO)
• ENENews – “Very Eerie”: Reporter finds radiation levels 1,000 times over gov’t limit far from Fukushima plant — “A spot where kids walk to school” (VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – Battlefield journalist, “Supply of the plant workers is in a crisis” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Reactor2 was releasing 2 million Bq of radioactive material every single hour “Reactor3 may be worse.” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Contaminated water still contains 2,600 ~ 4,700 Bq/m3 of Sr-90 even after ALPS – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Breaking] JP PM Abe took down the declaration of containment of Fukushima plant made by Noda in 12. 2011 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – The third layer of reactor4 cover was completed – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] Every mover’s in fear and guilt – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Panel says TEPCO’s falsified information during probe not intentional – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Times – Japan urged to send out global SOS over No. 1 plant – Eric Johnston
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear disaster-hit Fukushima schools at the crossroads
• Mainichi Daily News – 3 men searched for people in no-go zone without protective gear for 1 month
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Strict standards needed on extending use of nuclear reactors
• NHK World – Local govts report delay in disaster plan review
• NHK World – Tokyo Gas unveils world’s largest LNG storage tank
• NHK World – TEPCO panel says misinformation not intentional
• Energy Tribune – Anti-Nuclear Storm Brewing in Taiwan – Tim Daiss
• Taipei Times – Ministry to present nuclear plant report before August – Helen Ku
• Taipei Times – RDEC to conduct nuclear power poll – Shih Hsiu-chuan

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

• Greenpeace International – A personal reflection on Fukushima, from a Greenpeace radiation expert – Rianne Teule
• Greenpeace International – Hope from Fukushima – Junichi Sato
• Greenpeace International – Ex-GE Engineer Highlights Critical Fukushima Reactor Design Flaw
• AP Google – PM urges anti-terrorism steps at Japan nuke plants – Mari Yamaguchi
• Bellona – Displaced Fukushima survivors come to terms with never going home again – Charles Digges
• BlackListedNews – AP: Over 30 million tons of nuclear waste in Fukushima alone — Smoking mounds of disaster debris, possibly from spontaneous combustion – Yahoo! News
• Enformable – Two years have passed since Japan nuked the rest of the world – Lucas W Hixson
• ENS – Japan Still Suffers Quake, Tsunami Effects Two Years Later
• IPS – Public Pays for Fukushima While Nuclear Industry Profits – Stephen Leahy
• Xinhua News – News Analysis: Iranian nuclear talks hobble ahead, racing with time – Wang Tengfei
• Xinhua News – Japan’s Hiroshima, Nagasaki protest against U.S.’s tests on plutonium properties
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (5): CRF units aligned against common enemy, the crippled nuclear plant – Hidefumi Nogami
• ENENews – U.S. Navy Sailor: Higher ups, senior chiefs now say they’re sick after Fukushima exposure — A bunch contacted us after seeing segment on national TV (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Study: Up to 47 quadrillion becquerels of cesium-137 released into Pacific from Fukushima — Nearly 50 times original Tepco estimate
• ENENews – Former Prime Minister: Half the people in Japan were close to being evacuated after start of Fukushima crisis (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Report: Fukushima Daiichi equal to or greater than Chernobyl? “Some startling results”
• Fukushima Diary – Earthquake Research Committee warns about the major aftershock – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [No radiation effect] Lefteyed flatfish found in Fukuoka, “There might be a genetic problem” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Reactor2 temperature is increasing again – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Suspicion of contaminated water discharge] Radioactivity density of seawater jumped up in all of reactor 1 ~ 4 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Austrian Meteorological Agency”16,700 Peta Bq of Xe133 released, 2.5 times much as Chernobyl, the largest in history” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [USA] Congenital hypothyroid cases in 5 states on Pacific ocean increased by +28% from 3/17 to 6/30/2011 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Seabed gas extraction first of its kind: METI
• JCN Newswire – MHI Completes Replacement Work on Reactor Vessel Head at Nuclear Power Plant in Brazil
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t calls off genomic testing for Fukushima Pref. residents
• Mainichi Daily News – 40% of consumers cautious about food production areas over radiation fears
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear watchdog decides to set up gov’t-run monitoring center in event of accident
• Japan Times – Responding to Fukushima’s challenges – Shinichi Nakayama and Ian McKinley
• Japan Times – Radiation within 80 km of No. 1 plant said down by half
• Japan Today – About half of tsunami debris has been disposed of, gov’t says
• Taiwan News – Government’s nuclear plant referendum proposal legitimate: premier

Monday, March 11, 2013

• ABC News – Japan Marks 2-Year Anniversary of Triple Disaster – Akiko Fujita
• AFP Google – Activists fault WHO report on Fukushima radiation – John Biers
• BBC News – Fukushima anniversary: Tour inside nuclear power plant
• BBC News – Fukushima disaster: Long road to nuclear clean-up – Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
• Christian Science Monitor – Fukushima two years later: How safe are US nuclear plants? – David J. Unger, Correspondent / March 11, 2013
• Daily Telegraph – Japan earthquake and tsunami second anniversary in pictures
• The Guardian – Inside Fukushima’s abandoned towns, two years on – in pictures – Shiona Tregaskis
• The Guardian – Japan marks tsunami anniversary – Justin McCurry
• Huffington Post – Matsumura Naoto, Japan Tsunami Survivor, Has Highest Radiation Level In Country But Will Not Leave Village
• Huffington Post – Hiroshima and Nagasaki Survivor Portraits Show Devastating Consequences of Nuclear Attack (PHOTOS)
• Financial Times – Japan in ‘race against time’ to rebuild – Jonathan Soble in Tokyo
• Global Research – Two years after Fukushima: North Eastern Japan still a Disaster Zone – Symonds Peter
• The Guardian – Inside Fukushima’s abandoned towns, two years on – in pictures – Shiona Tregaskis
• The Guardian – Japan marks tsunami anniversary – Justin McCurry
• IPS – Fukushima Running Out of Workers – Suvendrini Kakuchi
• New Scientist – Solar plant domes spring up in Fukushima’s shadow – Rob Gilhooly
• NuclearFreePlanet – LIVE WEBCAST: Nuclear Free Planet Symposium on “The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident,” March 11-12, 2013 – Dr Helen Caldicott
• Reuters – U.N. sees progress in boosting post-Fukushima nuclear safety – Fredrik Dahl
• RT – High cost of cheap energy: Fukushima tragedy 2 years on
• Wall Street Journal – Two Years Later, Slow Progress on Cleanup
• Wall Street Journal blog – Energy Journal: Remembering Fukushima – Ben Winkley
• Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Watch: Food Exports Still Restricted by Radiation Fears – Eleanor Warnock
• Washington Post – In Japan, two years after Fukushima nuclear accident, work resumes on new plant – Chico Harlan
• Washington Post – Work on Japanese nuclear reactor resumes
• World Nuclear News – Controlling doses at Fukushima plant
• Xinhua News – Japanese protest against reopen of nuclear plants on 2nd anniv. of 2011 earthquake
• Xinhua News – Anti-nuclear protest in Tokyo
• Xinhua News – Japan marks 2nd anniversary of 2011 temblor, tsunami
• Asahi Shimbun – Abe vows nation to emerge stronger from 2011 triple disasters
• Asahi Shimbun – THEN AND NOW: Photos compare changes in disaster zone
• Asahi Shimbun – VOX POPULI: Let there be no mistake, the Fukushima crisis continues
• ENENews – Press Conference: People were trying to commit suicide aboard USS Reagan during Fukushima mission — Some tried to get off ship — It was living in fear every day, it was horrible (AUDIO)
• ENENews – U.S. Navy Sailor: They had to remove three layers of skin off my hands and arms after Fukushima exposure — Treated almost as if I had the plague (AUDIO)
• ENENews – Gundersen: The containment vessel exploded at Fukushima Reactor 2 — “There’s definitely a large crack” (AUDIO)
• ENENews – Live on BBC: They don’t know what state the Fukushima reactor cores are in (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Watch: Live stream of Fukushima Symposium in NYC
• ENENews – Fukushima Worker: “Even an elementary-school kid knows TEPCO always lies” — “We have been fooled by the government”
• ENENews – TV: Japan radiation expert says drastic measures are needed — Radioactive contamination now permanently in ecosystem — Fukushima forests must be cut down asap (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Report: Animation Foreshadowed Fukushima Meltdowns? — “An eerie coincidence” noted by many including the musicians themselves — Shown in Tokyo night before 3/11 (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Japan Professor: Leaders of Fukushima City refused to evacuate population of 400,000 after being asked by gov’t — Media didn’t report this thinking it would cause panic
• Fukushima Diary – 1,700 victims sued the gov and Tepco for 5.4 billion yen compensation – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – More than half of the injected water didn’t reach reactor3 to cause meltdown in 311 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Professor of Fukushima university, “It’s a lie to assert nobody died for Fukushima accident” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Prof. Takeda “Mass media is concealing the explosion scene of reactor4? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco took 2 years to close the blow-out panel of reactor2 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 27% of the highly contaminated water tanks will need repairs in 2016, “1,000 tones for each” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Fukushima government deleted radiation data gathered shortly after nuclear disaster – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Daily Press – Two US Navy veterans join federal lawsuit against TEPCO – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Daily Press – School rebuilding in Japan’s disaster-hit prefectures still on hold – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Times – Government lender says more people eager to buy food from radiation-tainted areas
• Japan Times – Nation marks second year since calamity
• Japan Times – Survivors recall two years of struggle – Reiji Yoshida
• Japan Times – Tokyo dust storm came complete with China sand – Mizuho Aoki
• Japan Times – Megaquake felt in space
• Japan Today – 1,650 sue government, TEPCO over Fukushima damages
• NHK World – Nuclear authority head pledges no more accident
• NHK World – Anti-nuclear protest held in Tokyo
• NHK World – Population outflow continues in Fukushima
• NHK World – Abe pledges to create roadmap for 3/11 victims
• NHK World – Residents file suits over Fukushima accident
• NHK World – Less than 1% of food exceeds new cesium limits
• NHK World – Fukushima fishermen continue test catches
• NHK World – Ceremony marks 2nd anniversary of 3/11 earthquake
• TEPCO – TEPCO News Update
• BBC News – Growing opposition to nuclear power plant in Taiwan
• Bloomberg – Taiwan Anti-Nuclear Protests May Derail $8.9 Billion Power Plant – Yu-Huay Sun
• Xinhua News – Activists protest against nuclear power plant project in Taipei
• CNN iReport – “No More Fukushima” shouts Taiwan
• Focus Taiwan – Legislators get few answers on cost of nuclear plant shutdown – Yang Shu-min, Lin Hui-chun and Elizabeth Hsu
• Taipei Times – Atomic agency, KMT say DPP amendment plan ‘inappropriate’ – Lee I-chia
• Taipei Times – Annette Lu submits local referendum proposal – Chris Wang