Sunday, March 31, 2013

• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (13): SDF members recruited for Fukushima mission brought emotional baggage – Hiroyoshi Itabashi
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO paid membership fee to nuclear lobby group after Fukushima disaster
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (12): Should SDF really take over fire department’s task? – Hiroyoshi Itabashi
• ENENews – Map: Species of sea snail now entirely extinct in large area around Fukushima nuclear plant
• ENENews – Japan PM discusses restarting Fukushima Daiichi reactors — Safety to be confirmed?
• Fukushima Diary – 100 small fish found dead in Koriyama city Fukushima, the reason is unverified – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – JP Gov plans to ban using imported food ingredients for school lunch – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 44 countries restricting import of food from JP, MAFF “may present a case to WTO” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – A sort of spiral shell thais clavigera entirely extinct in 30km coastal area of Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Second core damage and major radiation discharge occurred in reactor1&3 from 3/20 to 3/23/2011 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Former Tepco employee, “470Bq/kg from child’s clothes, 130Bq/Kg from hair in Minamisoma” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Notice] The plan of researching Svalbard for a radiation resort – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima worker Happy11311 leaving Fukushima plant, “Next job is not decided” – Iori Mochizuki
• NHK World – Govt. rezones Namie Town near Fukushima No.1 plant
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Turning point for evacuation center / Ex-Futaba inhabitants confused by closure plan
• Focus Taiwan – Safety inspection at fourth nuclear plant to begin in May: MOEA
• Focus Taiwan – Ma invites anti-nuclear mothers to visit fourth nuclear power plant
• Focus Taiwan – Referendums can be manipulated by framing of question: Nobel laureate (update)
• Taipei Times – Responsiblity for nuclear waste – Pan Han-shen

Saturday, March 30, 2013

• New York Times – Japan: Nuclear Plant’s Operator Cites Poor Preparation – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Asahi Shimbun – Abe’s advisory council calls for early restart of nuclear reactors – Tomoya Fujita
• Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuke activists mark 1st anniversary of weekly protests
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima N-reactors ‘likely to remain inert’
• ENENews – NHK: “Many people have reported medical problems since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began” (VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima worker Happy11311 leaving Fukushima plant, “Next job is not decided” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “Sightseeing place possibly accumulates radiation from tourists’ shoes” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Concealment] J gov excluded Fukushima and Miyagi for tapwater test of Sr-90 in 2011 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Yamashita stated on NCRP “Obesity, hyperlipidemia, and liver dysfunction increasing, but it’s due to evacuation” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation accumulating in lakes and rivers around Metropolitan area – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Yokohama city gov to ask Tepco for 3 billion yen of compensation for 2012 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Thyroids test normal in Fukushima
• Japan Times – Tepco testing new water decontamination system at Fukushima No. 1 plant
• NHK World – Govt. panel to urge coal power plant deregulation
• Focus Taiwan – Dealing with nuclear power plant issues not easy: U.S. psychologist – James Lee

Friday, March 29, 2013

• AP Google – Japanese utility takes blame for nuclear crisis
• ENS – Japan Turns from Nuclear Fission to Nuclear Fusion
• Fortune – Google’s haunting Fukushima Street View images – Matt Vella
• Washington Post – Utility that operates Fukushima cites own shortcomings as main cause of Japan’s nuclear crisis
• YouTube – Fukushima: A legacy of unforeseen health problems
• Asahi Shimbun – Local opposition spelled end for Namie-Odaka nuclear plant
• Asahi Shimbun – Locals divided over ‘disaster museum’ proposal for Fukushima plant – Yutaka Shiokura
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO compensation begins
• Daily Yomiuri – Govts, railway firms taking action on active faults
• ENENews – Worker: Rat at Fukushima Daiichi measured 15 microsieverts per hour — “It’s a moving radioactive material”
• ENENews – TV: Unforeseen health problems now just coming to light after Fukushima disaster (VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco to start the hot test of ALPS, the multiple nuclide purification system on 3/30/2013 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Power stoppage] Tepco sounds serious, “Electric shock mark was found on the dead mouse” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 15µSv/h from the rat caught in Fukushima plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 680,000 Bq/Kg from the soil beside the agricultural reservoir in Okumamachi – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Analysis] J gov can take over Tepco for the decommissioning work of Fukushima with a major legal reform – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Shizuoka prefecture to quit radiation monitoring of school lunch in 3 cities – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco not to decommission reactor5, 6 and Daini – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 100 of 410 children required to have follow-up thyroid test in Ibaraki, “Follow-up test is 3 years later” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Tepco to set up independent office to oversee own nuclear safety efforts
• Japan Times – Satellite schools strive to keep evacuee kids
• NHK World – Tokyo Electric compiles reform plan
• NHK World – Fukushima disaster damages claim form distributed
• NHK World – TEPCO to test new water decontamination device
• NHK World – Nuclear Watch: Missed Opportunity
• NHK World – Tokyo Electric compiles reform plan
• JAIF – News Update
• Radio Taiwan International – Nuclear power policy unchanged by Nantou earthquake: Premier
• Taipei Times – Premier says valid referendum needed to decide plant fate – Shih Hsiu-chuan
• Taipei Times – Slipping up on nuclear waste issue costs Jiang – Chang Kuo-tsai
• Taiwan Today – Cabinet reiterates commitment to nuclear safety
• Taiwan Today – Only rational debate can resolve Lungmen controversy

Thursday, March 28, 2013

• AFP Google – Google reveals views of Japan’s nuclear ghost town – Harumi Ozawa
• AP Google – Japan utility scraps plan for new nuke plant
• Bloomberg – Tohoku Electric Shelves Plan to Build Nuclear Plant in Fukushima – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Bloomberg – Japan’s Oil Imports From Iran Rise to Highest Since March 2012 – Jacob Adelman
• Enformable – Japanese utilities face 1.2 trillion yen burden every year nuclear plants shut down – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – Plans for new nuclear plant construction scrapped – Lucas W Hixson
• euronews – Fukushima: A legacy of unforeseen health problems
• New York Times – Japan: A New Nuclear Inquiry
• Reuters – UPDATE 1-Japan’s nuclear fuel stockpile weighs on Urenco outlook – Geert De Clercq
• Reuters – Japan’s Tohoku Electric abandons plan for new nuclear plant – Aaron Sheldrick
• Reuters – Japan turns to coal as yen drives up energy costs – Osamu Tsukimori and Florence Tan
• World Nuclear News – Tohoku scraps plan for Namie-Odaka plant
• Xinhua News – Hiroshima updates number of A-bomb victims
• Asahi Shimbun – Tohoku Electric drops plan to build nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture
• Daily Yomiuri – Tohoku Electric scraps N-plant plans
• ENENews – Gundersen: Death toll from Fukushima disaster to be 1,000 times IAEA estimate (AUDIO)
• ENENews – “Game Changer”: Fukushima cesium releases likely 20-30 times higher than revealed (AUDIO)
• ENENews – Japan Study: Fukushima fallout “unlike the past nuclear accidents” — Radioactive silver “prominently observed”
• Fukushima Diary – 490 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from “flurry of falling cherry blossoms in Tokyo” of 2012 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Short-circuit of the cable?] Strange red flash observed at 21:34 of 3/27/2013 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Pumpkin, horsemeat and 3 other food havn’t been tested by MHLW since 311 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 56% of the evacuees in Naha have thyroid abnormality – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Osaka NPO revealed to be nuclear power propaganda tool – Adam Westlake
• Japan Daily Press – Tohoku Electric stops plans to build new nuclear plant near Fukushima – Ida Torres
• Japan Times – NRA plans its own probe of Fukushima crisis
• Japan Times – Singh to visit for rail, nuke pact talks
• Japan Times – Tohoku Electric axes planned Fukushima nuclear plant
• NHK World – Japan’s utility scraps nuclear plant construction
• NHK World – Google offers glimpse of Japan nuclear no-go zone
• NHK World – Local officials discuss radioactive waste disposal
• NHK World – Increase in flatfeet among Fukushima children
• China Post – 66% of Taipei residents want to stop Nuke 4: poll – Lauly Li
• Focus Taiwan – Cabinet stepping up public information on nuclear issue (update) – Hsieh Chia-chen, Nell Shen, Alex Jiang and Ann Chen
• Taipei Times – City poll shows 66% in favor of plant suspension – Mo Yan-chih
• Taipei Times – Premier tells Cabinet to visit nuclear power plant – Shih Hsiu-chuan

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

• AP Google – Japanese regulators to investigate nuclear crisis
• Daily Telegraph – Japan’s ghost towns laid bare by Google Street View
• Enformable – TEPCO’s overconfidence and lack of humility blamed for Fukushima Daiichi disaster
• The Guardian – Fukushima town revealed in Google Street View two years after tsunami – Justin McCurry
• The Independent – Google Street View sends cameras into Namie, an abandoned town in Fukushima where once 21,000 people lived – David McNeill
• NY Times blog – Google Street View Captures Ghost Town in Fukushima’s Evacuation Zone – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Power Engineering – Kansai Electric eyes MOX fuel use at Takahama plant from fall of 2014
• Asahi Shimbun – Rock shells disappearing on coast near Fukushima nuclear plant – Tomoyuki Yamamoto
• ENENews – Symposium Q&A: Explosion at Fukushima Unit 3 drove nuclear fuel out of storage pool – Scattered up to 2 miles away (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Gundersen: Important new data shows “other phenomena” at Fukushima plant was releasing nuclear material – Yet to be evaluated by scientists (VIDEO)
• ENENews – In-depth report released on Fukushima plant blackout – Examines animal feces, small burn hole in fur (PHOTOS)
• ENENews – UK Newspaper: Japan facing cancer time bomb post-Fukushima? — Growing concerns about full scale of disaster
• ENENews – Japan Paper: Animal has disappeared around Fukushima plant
• ENENews – Report: Nuclear material came off unused fuel assembly removed from Fukushima Unit 4 pool — Cobalt-60 at 1,400,000,000 Bq/kg — Debris “felt like grit” (PHOTOS)
• Japan Daily Press – Japan may be facing cancer time bomb two years after Fukushima – Ida Torres
• Japan Times – Nuclear group blames overconfidence for crisis
• Japan Times – Letter: Nuclear lobby will exploit climate – Richard Wilcox
• Japan Times – Elderly 3/11 nuke evacuee deaths spiked – Mizuho Aoki
• Japan Times – Pact stifles South as nuke waste piles up – Youkyung Lee
• NHK World – Nuclear experts issue interim Fukushima report
• China Post – Saying no to nuclear power will not hurt Taiwan-US ties: MOFA – Enru Lin ,The China Post
• China Post – DPP greenlights plan to ‘green’ cities, counties – Enru Lin
• Focus Taiwan – Fate of nuke plant unrelated to Taiwan-U.S. ties: Cabinet – Hsieh Chia-chen, Lin Meng-ju and Lilian Wu
• Taipei Times – Green energy planned in DPP-administered areas – Chris Wang
• Taipei Times – NSC denies US role in nuclear energy policy – Mo Yan-chih
• Taipei Times – Lawmakers clash over nuclear-free act – Lee I-chia
• Taipei Times – Move Capital out of danger: lawmakers – Lee I-chia

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

• Bloomberg – Tepco Says Rat Caused Power Outage at Crippled Fukushima Plant – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Energy Collective – Nuclear Energy Safety: Lessons of Fukushima for Europe [VIDEO] – Kasper Peters
• Huffington Post – Fish Near Fukushima Reportedly Contains High Cesium Level – Malcolm Foster
• IPS – Tug-of-War Over Nuclear Future – Suvendrini Kakuchi
• SimplyInfo – Mainichi Exposes Widespread Nuclear Dark Money In Japan
• UAE National – Lessons from Fukushima, two years on – April Yee
• WashingtonsBlog – Fukushima Spews More Radiation … Due to Tepco’s Carelessness
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (11): You’re specialists, shoot water into the reactor – Hidefumi Nogami
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO concludes rat caused last week’s Fukushima blackout
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO expands agricultural fund area
• ENENews – Gundersen: “Liquid releases” of nuclear material into ocean will continue for years and years at Fukushima Daiichi – Already 10 times Chernobyl (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Graphic shows ‘direct discharge’ going from Fukushima Daiichi reactors into Pacific – Underground flow of contaminated water also indicated (VIDEO)
• ENENews – NRC: Fukushima reactor’s containment leaked at 300% per day – Assumed only 1% (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Gundersen: Image shows radioactive “thermal flare” was coming from Fukushima Reactor 3 — “Exactly where the containment should be” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Graphic: 900-mile-long “front” of most contaminated water from Fukushima Daiichi moving across Pacific toward U.S., Canada (VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – [Where from?]1.4 billion Bq/Kg of Co-60 measured from debris attached to the new fuel in SFP4, “feels like grit” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Various Japanese corporations move their main departments out of Japan – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – JR east and the bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, LTD to set the south east Asian headquarters in Singapore – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Suspicious] Premium rate of earthquake insurance to be raised by 15.5% in Japan – Iori Mochizuki
• JAIF – News Update
• Japan Daily Press – Nuclear regulator begins charging fees to view documents once free – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Times – Japanese nuclear commissioner urges limits for reprocessing spent fuel
• Japan Times – Tepco to boost compensation zone
• Japan Times – Abe ties nuke plant restarts to rebuilding
• Mainichi Daily News – Atomic energy bigwig’s NPO favored for nuke waste disposal project
• NHK World – Japan, EU begin building nuclear fusion facility
• China Post – Pull nuke plug, public unanimous: DPP – Enru Lin
• Focus Taiwan – Fate of fourth nuclear plant best decided by referendum: premier
• Taipei Times – Jiang stands firm on referendum plan – Chris Wang

Monday, March 25, 2013

• Asahi Shimbun – Prime minister wants safety first before restarting reactors
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (10): SDF general left food for pets at Fukushima – Hidefumi Nogami
• Asahi Shimbun – 3/11 still too raw to make hard and fast decisions about preservation issues
• Daily Yomiuri – Government realigns evacuation zones in Tomioka
• ENENews – Tepco: Animal caused extended power outage at Fukushima Daiichi – Nearly a foot long (PHOTO)
• ENENews – Former Japan TV Announcer: Problems with internal organs after eating radioactive food — “I’m sorry to worry you for being sick”
• ENENews – Report: Females age 18 and over wanted for work at destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant — “A job even women can do… it will last a very long time”
• Fukushima Diary – 3.7 and 4.6 Bq/Kg from rice cracker and tangerine produced in Shizuoka, “360km from Fukushima plant” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 6.1 Bq/Kg from Angelica keiskei produced in Miyakemura, 400km from Fukushima plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Female Fukushima workers recruited “from 18 years old” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Nuclear exclusion-zone designation lifted in Fukushima town, residents to visit homes – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Times – Nuclear agenda out of play – Ramesh Thakur
• Japan Times – Nuclear evacuation zone revised in Fukushima’s Tomioka
• Japan Times – Hiroshima A-bomb victims top 557,000
• Focus Taiwan – Taipei to conduct regular poll on 4th nuclear power plant
• Taipei Times – DPP calls for immediate reform of energy industry
• Taipei Times – TSU files lawsuit over referendum – Chris Wang
• Taipei Times – Deadlock over Taipower resolution – Chris Wang and Stacy Hsu
• Taipei Times – Jiang, mayors discuss nuclear plant – Shih Hsiu-chuan