Sunday, April 28, 2013

• Global Research – Fukushima’s Catastrophic Aftermath: The Dangers of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation – Stephen Lendman
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ The disaster and animals (4): An evacuee slept on a floor for the first time in 80 days – Misuzu Tsukue
• ENENews – Video: Situation in Fukushima is beyond imagination — Many young and old people dead from heart attacks — Young woman died of leukemia
• ENENews – Highest fallout levels in Tokyo since soon after Fukushima crisis began
• Fukushima Diary – Greenpeace “Cs-137 from 2 of 30 fish samples SOLD at Supermarkets” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Over double as safety limit] 210 Bq/Kg from edible wild plants in Tochigi, 102 km from Fukushima nuclear plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Reality of Fukushima worker] “had Over 20mSv in 9 months, take-home pay is only $1,600/m” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – The leaking reservoirs may contain 1,300 Bq/m3 of Pu-238 and 110 Bq/m3 of Cm-244 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Leakage] Radiation level jumped up over 10 times much as 2 days before OUTSIDE of reservoir No.1 – Iori Mochizuki

Saturday, April 27, 2013

• UPI – Radioactivity detected in water near Fukushima
• UPI – Japanese nuclear reactors may come back online soon
• ENENews – ‘Great wall of Fukushima’ to be built underground? — Structure around reactors proposed
• Fukushima Diary – Major JP blog hosting site shut down a famous anti-nuclear blog for unknown reason – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] Woman in Fukushima city “Nosebleed like a waterfall at work” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [School lunch] 1 ~ 20 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 measured from cabbage produced in Aichi prefecture, “Already served” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “JP gov offered N. Marianas gov a huge economical support for the condition to accept disaster debris” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Radiation penetrating underground] ß nuclide detected in 13 of 22 observation holes around the leaking reservoirs – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Kepco mulls Takahama plant restart
• Japan Times – Groundwater at No. 1 plant tainted
• Japan Today – TEPCO, govt set up panel to study contaminated water problem
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima residents dissatisfied with prefectural handling of thyroid cancer screenings
• Mainichi Daily News – Steps to halt increase of radioactive water at Fukushima plant studied
• Yomiuri Shimbun – TEPCO, German firms swap plutonium
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Govt to boost financial support for TEPCO
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Radiation detected in groundwater near N-plant
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Potential power shortages remain despite govt decision not to set targets
• Focus Taiwan – Pro- and anti-nuclear groups engaged in heated TV debate – Lin Hui-chun, Kao Chao-feng and Y.L. Kao

Friday, April 26, 2013

• IAEA – IAEA Team Completes Initial Review of Japan’s Plans to Decommission Fukushima Daiichi
• Wall Street Journal blog – At Tepco, A Woman Takes the Levers of Power – Mitsuru Obe
• Asahi Shimbun – POINT OF VIEW/ Genichiro Takahashi: Resisting the force of oblivion
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ The disaster and animals (3): Pets forgotten in the mass evacuation – Misuzu Tsukue
• ENENews – TV: Clay sheet used for Fukushima nuclear waste leaked after just 8 days — Tepco: “Designed to prevent leakage completely” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Article: Fukushima Daiichi plant “did amazingly well” — “Performed beyond its best expectations”
• Fukushima Diary – Fallout level in Tokyo was the highest this March since May of 2011 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima gov skipped blood flow inspection from the thyroid test of children – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Australian embassy to transfer visa processing function from Japan to S. Korea – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco is about to discharge pumped ground water to sea, “They won’t remove 21,000 Bq/m3 of Tritium” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Concealment ?] Tepco abandoned fish samples from Fukushima plant port, “due to degradation” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Tohoku loses 10% of small businesses
• Kyodo News – Steps to halt increase of radioactive water at Fukushima plant studied
• Kyodo News – Gov’t requests TEPCO chairman Shimokobe to stay in post
• Kyodo News – TEPCO chairman mulling to stay in post beyond planned term

Thursday, April 25, 2013

• Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima’s ‘contaminated’ rice still in storage two years on – Tetsuya Kasai
• Asahi Shimbun – Japan court rejects demand to evacuate Fukushima children
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Nuclear fuel recycling just a pipe dream
• ENENews – “Gross containment failure” of Fukushima reactors – Now we are seeing plutonium far from plant
• ENENews – Japan and IAEA “grossly downplaying” Fukushima cesium releases – Chernobyl-like levels leaked from plant (AUDIO)
• Fukushima Diary – 1,527 Bq/Kg of radioactive silver from house centipede in Fukushima “Concentration factor is 700 times Cs-137? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Sendai city to take back decontamination waste from purification center to dump in elementary school – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Former vice minister of Reconstruction agency died of idiopathic interstitial pneumonias in Miyagi – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Out of control] Tritium leaked from 4 of 7 reservoirs, “1,100,000,000Bq/m3 from reservoir No.1? – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Tepco develops its own filtered venting system to hasten reactor restarts
• Japan Times – Recovery from meltdowns patchy
• Japan Times – Hunt for nuclear waste site put on fast track
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima safety monitoring body says TEPCO’s handling of radioactive water ‘sloppy’
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO shuts down cooling system for spent nuclear fuel pool at Fukushima plant
• NHK World – Japan refuses to endorse NPT statement
• NHK World – Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors speak at NPT meeting
• NHK World – Japan to strike nuclear deals with Turkey, UAE
• Nippon.com – Two Years On from Fukushima – Sven Saaler

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

• Daily Telegraph – Fukushima nuclear plant struggling with rat problem – Danielle Demetriou
• Enformable – IAEA says decommissioning Fukushima Daiichi to exceed expectations – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – TEPCO still obviously affected by organizational overconfidence – Lucas W Hixson
• Asahi Shimbun – Utility could seek 20 billion yen from TEPCO over nuclear disaster
• Asahi Shimbun – Minister indicates autumn restarts of nuclear reactors
• ENENews – Gov’t: Vegetables from inside Fukushima ‘no-go zone’ now ok to ship to stores – Farms preparing crops
• ENENews – Xenon detected in Japan – Consistent with nuclear fission event – Could be from reactor or other atomic activity – N. Korea bomb test?
• ENENews – Study: Fukushima fallout spiked year after 3/11
• ENENews – CNN shows diagram of nuclear material leaking from Fukushima reactor – “Tepco always says it’s alright… it always turns out they’re not telling the truth” (VIDEO)
• Japan Times – Hunt for nuclear waste site put on fast track
• Japan Times – Recovery from meltdowns patchy
• Japan Times – Hokkaido Electric seeks OK for rate hike
• Japan Times – Tohoku Electric, Tepco in nuclear compensation talks
• Japan Times – Fukushima nuclear plant cleanup may take more than 40 years: IAEA
• Japan Times – Japan may restart nuclear reactors from fall: Motegi
• Jiji Press – Tohoku Electric to Seek Compensation from TEPCO over N-Crisis – Altavista Journal
• JIJI Press – Nagasaki Youth Group Calls for N-Weapon Elimination in Geneva
• NHK World – Film on A-bomb survivors shown in Geneva
• NHK World – Japan to review nuclear waste disposal policy
• NHK World – 1st cherry blossom viewing after nuclear accident
• Yomiuri Shimbun – TEPCO, German firms sign plutonium swap
• Noodls – Executive Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Cabinet releases Q&A on nuclear power issues
• Taipei Times – The real price of nuclear energy – Li Shang-Jen
• Taiwan News – DPP accuses Taiwan government of nuclear intimidation

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

• AFP Google – UN atomic agency urges Fukushima safety improvements – Shingo Ito
• IAEA – IAEA Team Completes Initial Review of Japan’s Plans to Decommission Fukushima Daiichi
• New York Times – Fukushima Plant Operator Should Prepare Better, U.N. Watchdog Says – Martin Fackler
• Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Watch: Dead Rodents Cause Another Cooling System Halt at Stricken Plant – Mari Iwata
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ The disaster and animals (2): Daughter tells father, ‘You are stupid’ – Misuzu Tsukue
• ENENews – Study: Fukushima fallout spiked year after 3/11
• ENENews – CNN shows diagram of nuclear material leaking from Fukushima reactor – “Tepco always says it’s alright… it always
• turns out they’re not telling the truth” (VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – CTBT measured unusually high level of Xe-133 and Xe-131m 4/8~4/9, Vienna “It’s due to N. Korea” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation researcher in Ibaraki got two thyroid cysts – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 1,400,000 Bq/m3 of ß nuclide detected from reactor1 sub-drain water – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Contaminated water coming down to the sea?]Chloride concentration increased 270% of 2 weeks ago in observation holes – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Fukushima nuclear plant cleanup may take more than 40 years: IAEA
• Japan Times – IAEA tells Tepco to improve critical systems at Fukushima No. 1
• Japan Times – U.S. alarmed by nuclear recycling plan
• Japan Times – Claims against Tepco can run long
• Kyodo News – Japan to mull ways to make progress on final radioactive waste site
• Kyodo News – Suits against TEPCO to be allowed after 3-yr limit runs out
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima nuke plant forced to stop cooling system for fuel pools due to dead rats
• News on Japan – U.S. officials concerned about Japan’s plan to reprocess nuclear fuel
• NHK World – Nuclear Watch: Nuclear Waste Curse
• TEPCO – Press Releases
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Cooling suspended at Fukushima reactor
• Taiwan News – Taiwan opposition continues to block nuclear vote at Legislature

Monday, April 22, 2013

• AFP Google – UN atomic agency urges Fukushima safety improvements – Shingo Ito
• BBC News – IAEA calls for improvements at Japan’s Fukushima plant
• Bloomberg – Fukushima Leaks Won’t Seep Beyond Plant for Decades, IAEA Says – Jacob Adelman & Yuji Okada
• Enformable – TEPCO installs cover at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 Spent Fuel Pool – Lucas W Hixson
• Reuters – Fuel-rod cooling halted by rats at crippled Japan nuclear plant – Risa Maeda and Mari Saito
• Reuters – Fukushima nuclear cooling system offline for 3rd time in 5 weeks – Risa Maeda
• Wall Street Journal blog – Fukushima Watch: Dead Rodents Cause Another Cooling System Halt at Stricken Plant – Mari Iwata
• Washington Post – IAEA: Japan nuclear site cleanup may take more than 40 years, plant needs more reliable system
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO rejects ministry’s demand to pay 10.5 billion yen for decontamination work – Fukuko Takahashi
• Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima nuclear cooling system offline for 3rd time in 5 weeks
• Asahi Shimbun – Radioactive mud in Fukushima school pools tops 100,000 becquerels
• ENENews – Nuclear material in pools at Fukushima schools exceed 100,000 Bq/kg – Level nearly doubled since last year
• ENENews – Dead rodents halt Fukushima cooling system for 3rd time in recent weeks – “Three times is a trend, friends” (PHOTO)
• Fukushima Diary – [Analysis] Why J Gov didn’t evacuate Eastern JP -What Kan possibly was the most afraid of – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco had an endoscope stuck in PCV of reactor2, “Cut and drop it into PCV” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Member of the House of Representatives “Fukushima can never be settled” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Debris stopping SFP of reactor3 from fully covered – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco stopped coolant system of SFP reactor2 for finding TWO rats in power transformer – Iori Mochizuki
• JAIF – News Update
• Japan Times – IAEA tells Tepco to improve critical systems at Fukushima No. 1
• Japan Today – Fukushima produces first thesis on effects of internal radiation exposure on children – Andrew Miller
• Kyodo News – Russia partially lifts ban on food imports from eastern Japan
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima gov’t forced to reveal children’s thyroid gland tests
• Mainichi Daily News – Anti-reactor restart mayors victorious in Shizuoka elections
• Mainichi Daily News – News Navigator: What is the thyroid gland?
• Nikkei – IAEA Calls For Efforts In Radioactive Water Management At Fukushima
• TEPCO – TEPCO News Update
• Yomiuri Shimbun – 40% of radiation posts incomplete
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Cooling suspended at Fukushima reactor
• Taipei Times – Ability to handle nuclear waste questioned – Chris Wang