Sunday, June 09, 2013

• Asahi Shimbun – Nagasaki declaration to take swipe at nuclear pact with India
• Fukushima Diary – Citizens’ radiation monitoring station, “0.34Bq/Kg from lunch box dropped on asphalt” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 0.453µSv/h in the park for Rock in Japan Fes 2013 (No postponement for rain) – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Co-60, corrosion product detected from gas samples of reactor1, 2 and 3 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Ag-110m detected from gas sample of reactor1 and 3, “The boiling point is 2,164?” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 467 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from decontamination water in Kohriyama city Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 27,000 Bq/Kg from the soil in front of the swings for children of Fukushima city – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Focus – Abenomics Needs a Reboot Rather than Nuclear Restarts – Andrew DeWit
• Japan Focus – Scientists and Research on the Effects of Radiation Exposure: From Hiroshima to Fukushima – Sawada Shoji
• Japan Times – Fukushima kids’ thyroids screened – Tomohiro Osaki
• Japan Times – Fishermen to Tepco: Scrap plan to release No. 1 plant water into Pacific
• Japan Times – Rally against nuclear power
• JIJI Press – TEPCO Fixes Cooling System at Fukushima No. 2 N-Plant
• Kyodo News – TEPCO completes transfer of radioactive water to steel tanks

Saturday, June 08, 2013

• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Abe should stop using diplomacy to promote nuclear power
• Fukushima Diary – Former Fukushima worker “Tepco is very forward with restart of Fukushima Daini nuclear plant, now it’s up to the gov” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco still transferring contaminated water to the spare tank even after the leakage of 6/5/2013 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 102.5 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from Sayama green tea leaves for sale – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 40,000 Bq/Kg from farm soil in Fukushima city – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 222,495 Bq/Kg from street gutter mud of public hall in Fukushima city, 66km from Fukushima nuclear plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Fukushima kids’ thyroids screened – Tomohiro Osaki
• Japan Times – Rally against nuclear power
• Japan Times – Fukushima kids’ thyroids screened – Tomohiro Osaki
• Japan Today – Incidences of thyroid cancer on the rise among Fukushima children – Jessica Kozuka
• JIJI Press – TEPCO Fixes Cooling System at Fukushima No. 2 N-Plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Bill establishing new power supply/demand coordinating agency set to pass Diet
• Mainichi Daily News – Data reveals that 75 percent of decontamination work in housing areas remains unfinished
• Mainichi Daily News – Monju reactor’s sodium heater temporarily halted by error
• Taipei Times – Editorial: Cartoon

Friday, June 07, 2013

• Bloomberg – Abe Signs Deal With Hollande on Japan-France Nuclear Ties – Isabel Reynolds & Takashi Hirokawa
• Reuters – France, Japan join forces for larger share of nuclear market – Antoni Slodkowski
• Asahi Shimbun – Japan, France to tighten nuclear, defense ties
• ENENews – Asahi: “Unexpectedly high” number of thyroid cancers in Fukushima children – Experts: Premature to say nuclear disaster played no role
• ENENews – Fairewinds: Radiation levels actually rising in Fukushima – Started going up again last fall (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Asahi: Tepco ‘failure’ may have increased Fukushima radiation release – Concern over ‘lethal levels’ escaping from ruptured containment vessel
• Fukushima Diary – English version of Fukushima plant survey map shows atmospheric dose lower than Japanese version by 90% – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 18,756 Bq/kg of Cs-134/137 measured from the mud in street gutter in Setagaya Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Mystery] The latest Fukushima health report can’t be copied, changed to word format or change encode – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Tepco admits culpability in Fukushima farmer’s suicide
• JIJI Press – Decontamination Complete for 98 Pct of Schools Outside Fukushima
• JIJI Press – Over 10,000 People Have Yet to Apply for Compensation from TEPCO
• Mainichi Daily News – Restarting nuclear plants necessary: Keidanren chief
• Mainichi Shimbun – Belarus shares experiences handling radiation contamination in Tokyo symposium
• NHK World – Abe, Hollande to cooperate on nuclear energy
• Taipei Times – Lu launches new petition for nuclear referendum – Mo Yan-chih
• Taipei Times – Bicyclists start referendum drive – Lee I-chia

Thursday, June 06, 2013

• Platts – US nuclear plant operators estimate $3.6 bil in post-Fukushima costs – William Freebairn
• BBC News – Fukushima nuclear plant: Radioactive water leak found
• Oncology Update – Thyroid cancer spike in Fukushima
• World Nuclear News – Fukushima isolation condensers under scrutiny
• Asahi Shimbun – Experts: More data needed to assess radiation’s role in cancer among Fukushima kids
• Asahi Shimbun – Family blasts TEPCO’s refusal to apologize for Fukushima farmer’s suicide – Ryujiro Komatsu
• Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima evacuees could lose right to seek damages from TEPCO – Shinichi Sekine
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO reports another radioactive water leak from storage tank
• Asahi Shimbun – Experts: More data needed to assess radiation’s role in cancer among Fukushima kids
• Asahi Shimbun – Radiation levels fall 40 percent in Fukushima evacuation zones – Jin Nishikawa
• Asahi Shimbun – Kan now sorry he pushed export of nuclear plant technology – Erika Toh
• Japan Daily Press – 3-year limit may prevent Fukushima evacuees from claiming compensation from TEPCO – Faith Aquino
• ENENews – Japanese Diplomat: We are facing global catastrophe over next 40-100 years because of Fukushima nuclear disaster (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Asahi: “Unexpectedly high” number of thyroid cancers in Fukushima children – Experts: Premature to say nuclear disaster played no role
• ENENews – Asahi: Tepco ‘failure’ may have increased Fukushima radiation release — Concern over ‘lethal levels’ escaping from ruptured containment vessel
• Fukushima Diary – [Survey] 20% of over 18y.o in Fukushima feel unhealthy or very unhealthy in 2012 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – M3.9 hit Fukushima Hamadori area, where Fukushima nuclear plant is located – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima pref gov not to conduct radiation test for under 4 y.o evacuating to Yamagata – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Spare tank for leaking reservoirs started leaking too, Tepco didn’t weld it – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – New chairman of Fukushima health investigative committee is a former bureaucrat of the Ministry of Welfare – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Average tumor size of Fukushima children in 2012 bigger than 2011 by 28% – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 12 children already had surgery in Fukushima, all were Papillary thyroid cancer – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – New tainted water storage tank at Fukushima No. 1 plant leaking
• Japan Times – High-level radiation zones now less than quarter of 2011 crisis levels
• Japan Times – Kyushu in push to host accelerator
• JIJI Press – 9 More Fukushima People Found with Thyroid Cancer
• JIJI Press – Locals Briefed on TEPCO Groundwater Release Plan
• JIJI Press – Tainted Water Leaks from Tank at Fukushima N-Plant
• Kyodo News – Restarting nuclear plants necessary: Keidanren chief
• Mainichi Daily News – 4 members leave Fukushima panel overseeing prefectural health survey
• Mainichi Daily News – Momentum builds for LDP to push for nuclear reactor reactivation to back ‘Abenomics’
• Mainichi Daily News – Petition against removal of A-bomb victim figures delivered to Hiroshima museum
• NHK World – Keidanren chief visits Fukushima nuclear plant
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Japan, France to promote N-cooperation

Wednesday, June 05, 2013

• KPBS – Lessons From Fukushima For San Onofre – Alison St John
• San Diego Union-Tribune – In San Diego, Fukushima legacy comes calling – Morgan Lee
• Foreign Policy and Security Research center – Japan seeks to adopt Belarus’ post-Chernobyl agricultural practices
• New York Times – In Reversal, Tepco Says Water at Fukushima Is Contaminated – Martin Fackler
• Reuters – Another contaminated water leak at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant – Mari Saito, Risa Maeda And Kenichiro Hamada
• Reuters – Another contaminated water leak at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant – Mari Saito, Risa Maeda and Kenichiro Hamada
• SimplyInfo – The Marketing-Speak of The UNSCEAR Report On Fukushima
• Yahoo! News – Inside Japan’s solar boom – Carmel Lobello
• World Nuclear News – Areva venting systems for Japanese BWRs
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO’s failure at math may have increased radiation release at Fukushima plant – Toshihiro Okuyama
• Asahi Shimbun – Radioactive cesium found in groundwater at Fukushima plant; fishermen furious
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Abe’s growth strategy misses the big picture by reverting to nuclear energy
• Asahi Shimbun – NRA releases images of debris inside Fukushima reactor building – Jin Nishikawa
• ENENews – Report: Japanese rice “allegedly caused diarrhea” — Officials told not to send any more donated rice — Locals say gov’t is playing with public’s health
• ENENews – “Thyroid cancer hits Fukushima” — Japan Official: “We need to take a careful look at it”
• ENENews – Reuters: Another contaminated water leak at Fukushima Daiichi — Nuclear plant in “precarious state”
• ENENews – Kyodo: 27 Fukushima minors with confirmed or suspected thyroid cancer — Almost tripled since last report in February
• ENENews – Video: Kids walk in park 3 times more radioactive than ‘radiation control area’ — 100 kilometers from Fukushima Daiichi — “Must be closed immediately”
• ENENews – “Everything that is being said here in Japan are lies” — “If children touch the ground containing radiation their reproductive organs are going to be deformed or sterile” (VIDEO)
• ENENews – “Thyroid cancer hits Fukushima” — Japan Official: “We need to take a careful look at it”
• ENENews – Reuters: Another contaminated water leak at Fukushima Daiichi — Nuclear plant in “precarious state”
• ENENews – Kyodo: 27 Fukushima minors with confirmed or suspected thyroid cancer — Almost tripled since last report in February
• ENENews – Kyodo: 27 Fukushima minors with confirmed or suspected thyroid cancer — Almost tripled since last report in February
• Fukushima Diary – 12 children already had surgery in Fukushima, all were Papillary thyroid cancer – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 12 Fukushima children diagnosed to have thyroid cancer, 15 more suspected to have cancer, “300% up since February” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Fukushima thyroid cancer cases rise to 12 confirmed, 15 suspected – John Hofilena
• Japan Daily Press – Ex-PM Naoto Kan attends anti-nuclear symposium in California – Faith Aquino
• Japan Times – Thyroid cancer found in 12 minors in Fukushima
• Japan Times – NRA updates nuclear crisis responses, iodine provision
• Japan Times – High-level radiation zones now less than quarter of 2011 crisis levels
• Japan Times – Kan shares lessons of Fukushima in U.S.
• Japan Times – Abenomics cannot succeed without cheap nuclear power – Ulrike Schaede
• Japan Times – Thyroid cancer hits 12 kids in Fukushima
• Japan Times – Kan shares lessons of Fukushima in U.S.
• JIJI Press – 9 More Fukushima People Found with Thyroid Cancer
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuke regulators inspect damaged Fukushima reactor building to analyze disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Cooperation needed on radioactive waste disposal facilities
• NHK World – Kan: Only nuclear-free society can avoid accidents
• NHK World – Nuclear evacuation guidelines updated
• NHK World – Shika plant operator finds no sign of active fault
• NHK World – TEPCO settlement in farmer suicide
• NHK World – Photos released of Fukushima reactor probe
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Panel to set rules to scrap N-reactors
• Taipei Times – Ma on ‘energy tour’ when quake struck – Jake Chung

Tuesday, June 04, 2013

• Reuters – Fukushima plant operator reverses claim groundwater not contaminated – Risa Maeda
• World Nuclear News – Tepco seeks additional state aid
• Asahi Shimbun – Environmental government white paper removes risks of nuclear power – Tetsu Kobayashi
• Asahi Shimbun – Consolation money to place additional financial burden on TEPCO
• Asahi Shimbun – Environmental government white paper removes risks of nuclear power – Tetsu Kobayashi
• Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuke protesters surround Diet building with Upper House election looming
• ENENews – Video: “Everything that is being said here in Japan are lies” — “If children touch the ground containing radiation their reproductive organs are going to be deformed or sterile”
• ENENews – Kyodo: Tepco ‘reverses’ position — Admits Fukushima plant’s groundwater is contaminated with radioactive cesium — Wanted to dump it into Pacific Ocean
• ENENews – Reuters: Rising radioactive spills at Fukushima plant — “More contamination, less hope”
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco mis-measured radiation, 610 Bq/m3 of Cs-134/137 detected from bypass well water in the second test – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Voice – Radiological Analysis of Namie Street Dust Jun Ohnishi from Ibaraki Prefecture sent a sample of highly radioactive street dust from Namie, Fukushima, to Marco Kaltofen for analysis.
• Japan Daily Press – TEPCO admits Fukushima groundwater contaminated with radioactive cesium – Faith Aquino
• Japan Times – Tepco finds groundwater contaminated with radioactive cesium
• Japan Times – Nuclear foes stage march on Diet
• NHK World – Report: Nuclear impact is top environment issue
• Tokyo Times – TEPCO reconsiders, says groundwater is radioactive
• Tokyo Times – Tokyo protests against Abe’s plan on nuclear power
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Glitch briefly hits Monju reactor info transmission
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Matsuura becomes Japan Atomic Energy Agency head
• Taiwan Today – Ma stresses safety in nuclear power issue

Monday, June 03, 2013

• Asahi Shimbun – Consolation money to place additional financial burden on TEPCO
• Asahi Shimbun – Anti-nuke protesters surround Diet building with Upper House election looming
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “0.5µSv/h in a park of Fukushima city even after decontamination” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco considers using aquifer in great deep for contaminated water storage – Iori Mochizuki
• ENENews – Reuters: Rising radioactive spills at Fukushima plant — “More contamination, less hope”
• ENENews – Highly radioactive dust in Fukushima town — “Off the scale… radiation level beyond its capacity” (VIDEO)
• JAIF – News Update
• Japan Times – Ministry may sue Tepco for ¥16 billion
• NHK World – Rallies held to oppose restart of nuclear plants
• NHK World – Residents win radiation uncertainty compensation
• NHK World – Monju’s data transmitting system fails
• Mainichi Daily News – Large anti-nuclear rally held near Diet building
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima village residents to receive new compensation over mental damage
• Mainichi Daily News – Drug companies reluctant to voluntarily disclose payments to researchers: survey
• TEPCO – TEPCO News Update
• Yomiuri Shimbun – 42% of govts back plan for final N-waste sites
• Taipei Times – Ma talks to nuclear power plant employees