Sunday, April 21, 2013

• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ The disaster and animals (1): Veterinarian finds puppy amid Fukushima nuke crisis – Misuzu Tsukue
• ENENews – M6.7 rocks Japan island — Followed by Intensity 4 quake in Fukushima
• EX-SKF – The Case of Disappearing 600 Tonnes of Extremely Radioactive Waste Water at #Fukushima I Nuke Plant
• Fukushima Diary – [Express-important] “My relative entered reactor4. He looks really sick and said reactor2 is too scary to get close” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation researcher “Social welfare service corporation for children stopped us from measuring radiation” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – The leaking highly contaminated water may collapse Tepco’s countermeasure for ground water – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Physical strength of elementary school students significantly decreasing in Miyagi – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Food contamination] Cs-137 from orange produced in Shizuoka, sold in Yokohama – Iori Mochizuki
• JapanToday – Quakes hit southern Honshu, Fukushima
• JapanToday – Looking at Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – NRA team maintains active fault runs directly beneath Tsuruga nuclear reactor

Saturday, April 20, 2013

• ABC – Two Years after Fukushima
• Yahoo! PRWeb – Fukushima Nuclear Plant Suffers Contaminated Water Leak
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO rejects ministry’s demand to pay 10.5 billion yen for decontamination work – Fukuko Takahashi
• Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima workers treated water leaks without dosimeters
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco crane picked up the skimmer surge tank hatch by mistake during debris removal of reactor3 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Food contamination] Cs-137 measured from milk powder produced in Tokyo sold in western Japan – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Leakage] Reservoir No.2 lost 42m3 of highly contaminated water during the night of 4/17/2013 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Sr-90 level jumped up only 2 weeks after the performance test of multiple nuclide removing system – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Former Fukushima worker “Shortage of workers is delaying water transfer plan from the leaking reservoirs” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Update – IAEA Team Probes Fukushima’s Radioactive Water – Steve Inskeep and Geoff
• Fukushima Update – one of the most contaminated villages in Fukushima lures children back with $100 book coupons
• Japan Times – Editorial: More Tepco mismanagement
• Japan Times – Saudi Arabia investment deal near completion
• JIJI Press – Progress toward Reconstruction Patchy in Fukushima

Friday, April 19, 2013

• Asia News Network – Taiwan opposition raises eyebrow over Nuke 4 inspection – Enru Lin
• Enformable – Workers at Fukushima Daiichi conducting operations without safety equipment
• Greenpeace International – Japanese court’s verdict on request to shut down nuclear plant puzzling – Justin McKeating
• Greenpeace International blog – Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for April 12th to April 18th, 2013 – Christine McCann
• Asahi Shimbun – KEPCO: 2 online Oi reactors meet new safety standards – Ryuta Koike
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (21): Fukushima plant chief cried – Hiroyoshi Itabashi
• ENENews – Asahi: Gov’t had plan to inject cement into Fukushima reactors using pipes a mile away
• ENENews – ABC: Major magnitude 7.2 quake strikes off northern Japan
• ENENews – Wired: ‘Healthy debate’ about location of Fukushima corium — Lava can melt a foot of concrete per hour — Cooling with water may not stop corium flow
• ENENews – Intense jolt hits Northeast Japan — Series of quakes near Tokyo — Country has 18 quakes M4.0 and over today
• Fukushima Diary – M4.7 hit east offshore of Chiba, max seismic intensity was 4 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Leakage] Leaking radiation takes up to 100 years to reach Pacific ocean – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Net system energy demand decreased by 8.6% in March, “Decreasing for 3 continuous months” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Geographical Survey Institute, “M6.2 caused Miyake-jima diastrophism of 2cm to NE” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Metropolitan Police Dept found seawater turned green near Miyake-jima, Maritime Safety Agency “No abnormality found” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – More Tepco mismanagement
• Japan Times – Atomic regulator starts formal checks on Oi reactor safety
• Jpubb – Water Leak from the Underground Reservoirs in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Follow-up Information No.75)
• House of Japan – Yamagata Pref. refuses to accept waste soil from Fukushima
• Kyodo News – Radioactive water problems at Fukushima nuke plant force rethink
• Kyodo News – Ex-TEPCO Chairman Katsumata to resign from all positions
• Kyodo News – Regulators start checking safety of Japan’s sole operating reactors
• NHK World – Kansai Electric stresses safety of Ohi reactors
• Taiwan News – Taiwan opposition blocks 4th nuclear plant vote

Thursday, April 18, 2013

• Power Engineering – Nuclear plant halt to increase Japan’s fuel costs by 3.8 tril. yen
• Yahoo! PRWeb – Fukushima Nuclear Plant Suffers Contaminated Water Leak
• Yahoo! Finance – Japan’s trade deficit quadruples
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (21): Fukushima plant chief cried – Hiroyoshi Itabashi
• Asahi Shimbun – IAEA inspects Japan’s crippled nuclear plant
• Asahi Shimbun – IAEA inspects Japan’s crippled nuclear plant
• Asahi Shimbun – EDITORIAL: Court issues timid ruling on grave issue of nuclear safety
• Fukushima Diary – [Marine contamination] Cs-134 measured from Miyagi offshore seawater, radiation level not been decreasing – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [1,900 Bq/m3] Sr-90 measured from Fukushima plant offshore seawater, Tepco admitted it’s due to the accident – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 600 tones of contaminated water “missing” from the reservoir, Tepco “Error of the measurement hardware” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Notice] The victimized Japanese made the media corporation to take revenge against media blackout – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – MOX shipment set to land in June
• Kyodo News – Utility to finish upgrading safety of 2 online reactors by June
• Kyodo News – Fukushima residents allowed to go home once a month
• Mainichi Daily News – MOX nuclear fuel shipment leaves France for Japan
• Mainichi Daily News – Yamagata Pref. refuses to accept waste soil from Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Gov’t should review standards for recognizing Minamata disease patients

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

• AFP Google – Japan island rocked by 30 quakes
• AP Google – IAEA inspects Japan’s crippled nuclear plant
• Enformable – TEPCO admits failing to meet decommissioning and decontamination goals at Fukushima Daiichi – Lucas W Hixson
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (20): TEPCO offered only a list of cellphone numbers – Hiroyoshi Itabashi
• ENENews – Intense jolt hits Northeast Japan — Series of quakes near Tokyo — Country has 18 quakes M4.0 and over today
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco masked all the tritium data of ground water contamination as “Under analysis” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 43,300 Bq/Kg from incineration ash in Chiba – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – M5.8 hit offshore Miyagi 3 hours after M6.2 in Miyake-jima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Just in case] Miyake-jima looking glowing in live camera after M6.2 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Over 20 earthquakes hit Miyake-jima island within 9 hours, Meteorological agency, “No volcanic activity observed” – Iori Mochizuki
• JapanToday – M5.8 quake strikes off Miyagi
• Kyodo News – Regulators to start checking whether Oi plant meet new requirements
• Nikkei – Japan Steel Works Plans Furloughs At Reactor Parts Plant
• NHK World – Nuclear fuel from France to Japan to resume
• Taipei Times – Ma broke pledge on nuclear safety, lawmakers say – Chris Wang and Lee I-chia

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

• Greenpeace International blog – Will a court help Japan avoid the next Fukushima Disaster? – Justin McKeating
• Reuters – Japan court rejects request to shut down Ohi nuclear reactors – Risa Maeda, Mari Saito
• Asahi Shimbun – Court rejects request to shut down Oi nuclear reactors
• Fukushima Diary – [Official monitoring post] “Comparing with personal dosimeter is banned” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Triathlon to be held in Haruna lake in Gunma, “80 million pond smelt eggs extinct, 340 Bq/Kg from surviving fish” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Minamisoma city published radiation data for the request of Fukushima Diary – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco plans to transfer contaminated water to suppression pool of reactor5 and 6 in emergency – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fallout level spiked up in Fukushima city – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Spreading leakage] Radiation level of reservoir No.3 jumped up to be 8.6 times much after transferring water – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Oi reactors can remain online: court – Eric Johnston
• Kyodo News – TEPCO transferring radioactive water to reliable container
• Mainichi Daily News – Radioactive water set to be shifted to aboveground tanks soon: TEPCO
• NHK World – French activists protest on nuclear fuel to Japan
• NHK World – Osaka court rejects demand to halt nuclear reactor

Monday, April 15, 2013

• AP Google – IAEA reviewing cleanup at damaged Japan nuke plant – Mari Yamaguchi
• Bloomberg – Fukushima Visited by IAEA as Tepco Faces Risk of Dumping Claims – Jonathan Tirone
• Enformable – Plutonium found outside of containment in marine soil at Fukushima Daiichi – Lucas W Hixson
• New York Times – Small Leak Is Discovered at Plant in Fukushima – Martin Fackler
• YouTube – IAEA begins Fukushima nuclear plant probe – ReutersVideo
• Asahi Shimbun – IAEA reviewing cleanup at damaged Fukushima nuke plant
• ENENews – Plutonium-238 from Fukushima plant detected for first time offshore — Tepco reveals data 9 months later
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco did not conduct any endurance test of the contaminated water reservoirs in advance – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Underground contamination?] High level of chloride concentration detected between the leaking reservoirs and sea – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Spreading leakage] Radiation level outside of reservoir No.1 increased 1.7 times much as one day before – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Suspicion] Tepco stated they won’t analyze leaking water for a nuclide “by mistake” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco “No plant damage from M5.2? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco admitted Pu-238/239/240, Sr-90 in sea soil are from Fukushima accident – Iori Mochizuki
• JAIF – News Update
• JIJI Press – IAEA Opens Probe into Fukushima Reactor Decommissioning
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO begins preparing to transfer contaminated water at stricken Fukushima plant
• Yomiuri Shimbun – IAEA starts reactor shutdown probe
• TEPCO – TEPCO News Update