Sunday, June 16, 2013

• AFP Google – Japan PM to tout nuclear exports at central Europe summit – Anna Maria Jakubek
• Asahi Shimbun – Government secretly backtracks on Fukushima decontamination goal
• Fukushima Diary – Multiple nuclide removing system ALPS possibly leaks in the test operation – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Former decontamination volunteer in Fukushima had a cancer in his throat – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Media started reporting increasing heart attack of youth, “It’s due to having too much fast food” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Not radiation effect] 26 y.o male runner died of heart failure in marathon of Niigata prefecture – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 19,000 Bq/Kg from the drain of balcony in Setagaya Tokyo, May 2013 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Hypothesis] Why doesn’t Cs-134 decrease endlessly in seawater of Fukushima nuclear plant port? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “1.01 µSv/h in the park of Kohriyama city Fukushima” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] 133 Bq/Kg from knitted hat in Kanagawa prefecture in March 2011 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Nuclear stance helps Shizuoka Gov. Kawakatsu win second term
• Japan Times – NRA inspection clears Oi reactors
• JIJI Press – Regulators Check Oi N-Reactors against New Safety Standards
• Kyodo News – Abe, E. Europe leaders agree to deepen nuclear cooperation
• Yomiuri Shimbun – NRA starts Oi plant reactors inspection
• Focus Taiwan – United Daily News: Think carefully before scrapping nuclear plant – Maia Huang
• Taipei Times – Allow Yilan nuclear referendum: group – You Ming-chin and Jake Chung

Saturday, June 15, 2013

• Asahi Shimbun – Utilities seek resumption of plutonium-thermal power generation
• ENENews – Director of Pro-Nuclear Power Film: No one ever will get sick or die from Fukushima’s radioactive contamination
• ENENews – Director of Pro-Nuclear Power Film: No one ever will get sick or die from Fukushima’s radioactive contamination
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “1.01 µSv/h in the park of Kohriyama city Fukushima” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] 133 Bq/Kg from knitted hat in Kanagawa prefecture in March 2011 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Meteorological agency missing the weather data of 45km South from Fukushima nuclear plant on 5/14/2013 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Bright band ?] Cloud circle above Fukushima nuclear plant again – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco lost 22 people’s personal information for nuclear damage compensation, “Left on the train” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima medical university joined 1 billion yen of liability insurance for potential lawsuit, “Paid from Tax” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Almost 60% of public opposes Japan’s export of nuclear tech: survey
• Japan Times – Tepco loses info on nuclear redress
• Kyodo News – NRA sees no critical problem at Oi nuclear plant
• Mainichi Daily News – NRA conducts on-site inspection at Oi nuclear plant
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO employee forgets compensation records on train
• NHK World – Nuclear regulators inspect Ohi power plant

Friday, June 14, 2013

• Bloomberg – Yen’s Slump Failing to Stem Exodus of Factories From Japan – Andy Sharp & Yuki Hagiwara
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Cleanup From Fukushima Daiichi: Technological Disaster Or Crisis In Governance? – Art Keller
• Wall Street Journal – Two Years Later, Slow Progress on Cleanup
• Asahi Shimbun – Energy white paper ignores DPJ government policy of zero nuclear plants – Yuriko Suzuki
• Asahi Shimbun – LDP to campaign in July Upper House poll on plan to restart nuke reactors – Tomoyoshi Otsu
• Asahi Shimbun – Energy white paper ignores DPJ government policy of zero nuclear plants – Yuriko Suzuki
• ENENews – “Chilling Phenomena”: Fungus emitting radiation 70 times higher than nearby asphalt – “A boy sitting on that patch could do real damage to his gonads”
• ENENews – Tepco sells food from Fukushima during ‘Recovery Bazaar’ at Tokyo headquarters – “People formed long lines to buy them”
• ENENews – Fukushima Doctor: Many who were robust farmers are unable to stand up without help – They look completely different now
• ENENews – Experts: Shock during first trip to Fukushima — Radiation levels so high far away from reactors that full protection suit would be used in U.S., yet people were walking around — “Contamination far more widespread than most understand”
• Japan Daily Press – 71-year old doctor opts to stay with Fukushima town’s residents – Faith Aquino
• Japan Times – Fukushima No. 1 faces labor crunch as better jobs attract workers – Yuri Kageyama
• Japan Times – Tepco again corrects water radiation level
• JIJI Press – Public Housing Planned for 3,700 Evacuees from Fukushima N-Crisis
• JIJI Press – Japan Govt Clarifies Break with Zero Nuclear Policy
• JIJI Press – Japan’s SDF to Join N-Plant Guard Drill
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t recognizes three cancer-stricken print workers as workplace disaster victims
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t white paper on energy barely refers to nuclear phase-out goal
• Kyodo News – TEPCO loses personal info related to nuclear compensation claims

Thursday, June 13, 2013

• Enformable – Japanese scientists find fish around Fukushima Daiichi contaminated shortly after disaster – Lucas W Hixson
• Los Angeles Times – Global Voices: Fukushima made ex-premier a ‘no nukes’ crusader – Carol J. Williams
• Platts – Japan faces strong resistance to accelerated sub-bituminous coal imports – Cecilia Quiambao
• redOrbit – Marine Levels of Radioactive Strontium Spiked Following 2011 Fukushima Accident
• Asahi Shimbun – Damaged reactor building at Fukushima plant fully covered – Keisuke Katori
• Asahi Shimbun – Reconstruction official insults citizens groups, Diet members on Twitter
• Asahi Shimbun – Red Cross radiation limit for relief workers too low, say critics
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Special agency needed to accelerate decommissioning of reactors
• ENENews – Fukushima Official: Groups demanding measures to protect people from radiation are ‘lefty s**t’ – “I can’t help but only feel pity for their lack of intelligence”
• ENENews – AP: Tepco not sure where melted Fukushima fuel has fallen — Radiation levels still too dangerously high
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “Fukushima youth, I will resent Japanese scientists for the rest of my life” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [1st media coverage] A JP major newspaper reported Japanese moving abroad due to Fukushima accident increasingly – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Resuscitation] In 2005 JP media reported over 1.5 million died in Ukraine due to Chernobyl, in 2011 JP Gov “Only 43? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 260 Bq/m3 of Sr-90 measured in 30m north of reactor5, 6 discharge channel – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 0.0084 Bq/m3 of Pu-239/240 measured from 15km offshore Fukushima plant, Tepco”within the range of past readings” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 54 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 measured from Shiitake mushroom in Osaka – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation level spiked from 57.1 µSv/h to 90 µSv/h within 3 months in an elementary school of Fukushima city – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – JP Gov to join Hague Convention by the end of this year, “Children to be taken back to Japan” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation level increasing in leakage detector hole of “nearly empty” reservoir No.1 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Sweetfish to spawn significantly decreased in two major rivers of Kanto area – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Fukushima governor urges government to scrap all nuclear reactors in prefecture – Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Tepco workers get room to breathe
• Japan Times – Wales touts Hitachi reactors – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Tepco again corrects water radiation level
• Japan Times – Fukushima No. 1 faces labor crunch as better jobs attract – Yuri Kageyama
• JIJI Press – Japan Regulator OKs Rules for Aged N-Reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – Reconstruction Agency official’s tweets slander NGO, lawmakers supporting Fukushima victims
• NHK World – Fish contaminated shortly after nuclear accident
• Nikkei – TEPCO Again Corrects Radiation Level of Groundwater At Nuclear Plant
• Taipei Times – ‘Birdcage referendum’ is a farce – Chan Shun-Kuei
• Taipei Times – Japanese engineer worried by nuclear power – Lee I-chia
• Taipei Times – DPP to propose anti-nuclear, tax bills – Chris Wang

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

• FOX News – Fukushima nuclear plant operator shows off huge steel structure to help remove fuel rods
• Asahi Shimbun – Damaged reactor building at Fukushima plant fully covered – Keisuke Katori
• Asahi Shimbun – Safety measures to delay restarts of 2 Oi nuclear reactors
• Asahi Shimbun – Damaged reactor building at Fukushima plant fully covered – Keisuke Katori
• ENENews – AP: Tepco not sure where melted Fukushima fuel has fallen – Radiation levels still too dangerously high – Malcolm Foster
• ENENews – Study: Huge spike in cesium outside Fukushima long after 3/11 – “Incorporation into sediments was almost irreversible”
• ENENews – Wife of Japan’s Pro-Nuke Prime Minister: “I’m opposed to nuclear power” — “My heart aches to see him selling nuclear power overseas”
• Japan Times – Japan set to top solar power market
• Japan Times – Nuclear advocacy lands Abe in hot water with wife – Kanako Takahara
• Japan Times – Aussie POW, 93, to receive A-bomb health-care certificate
• JIJI Press – Japan Regulator OKs Rules for Aged N-Reactors
• JIJI Press – Japan’s SDF to Join N-Plant Guard Drill
• Mainichi Daily News – Regulators approve meeting room as temporary emergency command center at Oi plant
• NHK World – Fukushima governor demands scrapping all reactors
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Removal of melted nuclear fuel could start sooner

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

• Science Daily – Fukushima Accident Raised Levels of Radioactive Strontium Off the East Coast of Japan by Up to 100 Times
• World Nuclear News – Areva signs up to support Japanese industry
• Asahi Shimbun – Removal of nuke fuel debris at Fukushima plant set for 2020 – Jin Nishikawa
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO sued over deaths of elderly patients during Fukushima evacuation
• Asahi Shimbun – Removal of nuke fuel debris at Fukushima plant set for 2020 – Jin Nishikawa
• Asahi Shimbun – In age of Abe, local governments still fight for nuclear-free society
• ENENews – Study: Fukushima fuel burn-up spread over entire northern hemisphere’s middle latitudes – First time measured in southern hemisphere
• ENENews – Asahi: Locations and condition of melted Fukushima fuel unknown – Mainichi: 450 tons of scattered radioactive rods… unknown where holes in reactors are… plans may be delayed
• ENENews – Study: Huge spike in cesium outside Fukushima long after 3/11 — “Incorporation into sediments was almost irreversible”
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “36 µSv/h in Ohkuma-machi Fukushima” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “2.1 µSv/h in Karuizawa Nagano” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation Effects Research Foundation,”Next generation will not possibly have genetic effect from Fukushima accident” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Former Fukushima worker “Gov’s decommissioning plan is a baseless wishful thinking” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Xe-133/135 detected from gas sample of reactor1,2,3, amount not announced, Tepco “Spontaneous fission” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “My friend in Fukushima said she wants to see a dream of hanging clothes outside” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “12 y.o son had presbyopia after evacuating Chiba” – Iori Mochizuki
• Kyodo News – Australian POW to receive A-bomb health-care certificate
• Japan Times – Nuclear advocacy lands Abe in hot water with wife – Kanako Takahara
• Japan Times – Suit over patient deaths
• Japan Times – Removal of melted fuel from stricken Fukushima reactors may be advanced a bit
• JIJI Press – 60 Pct in Fukushima Worried over Radiation Heredity
• JIJI Press – Japan Plans Earlier Removal of Fukushima Melted N-Fuel
• JIJI Press – TEPCO Sued for Inpatients’ Deaths
• Mainichi Daily News – Kyushu Electric spends 10 billion yen a year to maintain idle nuclear reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – Status of melted fuel in Fukushima reactors uncertain despite push for early removal
• NHK World – Nuclear regulators back Ohi plant safety report
• NHK World – TEPCO preparing to remove melted fuel
• Channel News Asia – Taiwan’s fourth nuclear power plant draws controversy – Victoria Jen

Monday, June 10, 2013

• AFP Google – Japan economy growing faster than previously thought – Miwa Suzuki
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Japan security cooperation with France important, but nuclear claims unfounded
• Asahi Shimbun – In age of Abe, local governments still fight for nuclear-free society
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO moves all radioactive water from leaky underground tanks – Shunsuke Kimura
• Asahi Shimbun – ASAHI POLL: 59% oppose Abe’s nuclear power policy
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO moves all radioactive water from leaky underground tanks – Shunsuke Kimura
• Asahi Shimbun – ASAHI POLL: 59% oppose Abe’s nuclear power policy
• ENENews – State of melted fuel at Fukushima plant unknown – Worker: “We opened the Pandora’s box” – Journalist: “We’re headed toward a real crisis”
• ENENews – Study: Huge spike in cesium outside Fukushima long after 3/11 – “Incorporation into sediments was almost irreversible”
• Fukushima Diary – Medical expert, “Thyroid cancer rate in Fukushima is obviously too high, related to the distance from the plant” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco doesn’t plan to build sacrophagus in Fukushima nuclear plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Green Action Japan – Is Japan headed for another Fukushima? Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority Capitulates to Electric Utility on Earthquake Assessment – Aileen Mioko Smith
• JAIF – Nuclear News
• Japan Times – Editorial: Cease promoting nuclear power
• Japan Times – Removal of melted fuel from stricken Fukushima reactors may be advanced a bit
• Japan Times – Regulators to inspect Japan’s sole operating reactors on June 15
• Japan Times – Fukushima kids’ thyroids screened – Tomohiro Osaki
• JIJI Press – New Zealand to Fully Cooperate for Japan’s Start in TPP
• Kyodo News – Japan eyes earlier start of melted fuel removal at Fukushima plant
• Kyodo News – Fukui gov. wants SDF troops deployed to sites with nuclear reactors
• NHK World – Major challenges ahead for decommissioning
• NHK World – Families of deceased hospital patients sue TEPCO
• TEPCO – News Update
• Yomiuri Shimbun – Fukushima No. 2 plant cooling system fixed
• Yomiuri Shimbun – U.S. N-plant firm to seek damages from MHI