Sunday June 5th, 2011
- IAEA – Fukushima Nuclear Accident Update Log
- Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Kan should exit gracefully, not cling to power
- Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO eyes design flaw in hydrogen explosion – Hiroyoshi Itabashi
- Asahi Shimbun – How long can Kan remain prime minister?
- Daily Yomiuri – Tanks readied for radioactive water
- Daily Yomiuri – Worried residents near evacuation zone weigh leaving – Hiroyuki Sato
- Japan Times – Water treatment system tested
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to see 570 billion yen net loss, excluding nuclear compensation
- AP Google – Japan nuclear plant moves radioactive water
- AFP Google – Fukushima to get 370 tanks for radioactive water
- Bellona – Fukushima officials warn of radioactive water leaks into Pacific by June 20 – Charles Digges
- Reuters – Pressure mounts on Japan PM to quit amid coalition talk – Linda Sieg
- Reuters – Tepco sees Y570 bln net loss 2011/12 excluding compensation-Kyodo – Tetsushi Kajimoto
Saturday June 4th, 2011
- TEPCO – Press Release (Jun 04,2011) – Status of TEPCO’s Facilities and its services after the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake (as of 9:00 AM, June 4)
- Daily Yomiuri – Use IAEA report to boost nuclear power plant safety
- Daily Yomiuri – Access blocked to post-disaster info on disabled / Only 1 pref., city in Tohoku provided data
- Japan Times – Tepco projecting ¥570 billion net loss in 2012
- Japan Times – Radiation in No. 1 reactor building at highest level yet
- Japan Times – Disappointing neglect of victims – Eamon Watters
- Japan Times – Asia-Pacific disaster base proposed
- Japan Times – No. 1 plant’s air radiation highest measured so far – Tepco detects 4,000 millisieverts per hour in Fukushima reactor building
- Mainichi Daily News – News Navigator: What is re-criticality?
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO says venting failure caused hydrogen explosion at No. 1 reactor
- Mainichi Daily News – 2 TEPCO employees exposed to radiation likely to get regular cancer tests
- Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima’s No. 1 reactor building radiation up to 4,000 millisieverts
- Mainichi Daily News – Radioactive gas leak at Tsuruga nuclear plant caused by holes in piping
- Arirang News – Japan Nuclear Security Office Cover Up
- Global Research – Are Nuclear Reactions Still Occurring at Fukushima?
- Huffington Post – Report From Tokyo: How Long Should TEPCO Call the Shots? – David Wagner.
- Washington Post – At stricken Japanese nuclear plant, water is the biggest worry – Chico Harlan
- Xinhua News – Japanese PM plans to resign by August: media
- Xinhua News – High radiation detected at troubled Fukushima plant: TEPCO
- Xinhua News – Japan nuclear plant could leak more radioactive water
- Yahoo! News – Japan nuke plant gets tanks for radioactive water – Yuri Kageyama
Friday June 3rd, 2011
- Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: It is essential to protect health of workers at Fukushima plant
- Daily Yomiuri – Water decontamination at N-plant to start June 15
- Daily Yomiuri – Radiation prompts halt of tea leaf shipments
- Daily Yomiuri – Diet angers disaster victims / Politicians urged to work together, push ahead with recovery efforts
- Denki Shimbun – IAEA fact-finding team compiled summary report on Fukushima accident
- Japan Times – Tepco pair’s exposure topped 250 millisievert limit – Kazuaki Nagata
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO plans to seal off water inlets at damaged nuclear plant by end of June
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to resume transferring of tainted water at Fukushima plant
- Mainichi Daily News – Kan seeks to cooperate with Vietnam over nuclear power plant safety
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t halts shipment of tea leaves in 4 prefectures over high radiation levels
- PanOrient News – Full Text of IAEA Expert Report on Japan’s Worst Nuclear Crisis
- AP Google – 2 workers confirmed exceeded Japan radiation limit
- Bloomberg – Tokyo Electric Says Contaminated Water at Fukushima Rises – Tsuyoshi Inajima
- CNN – Fukushima fallout spurs bans on green tea
- Earth2Tech – Startup Kurion Ships Nuclear Clean Up Tech to Japan – Katie Fehrenbacher
- Energy Collective – IAEA Fukushima Report Leaves No One In Doubt – Dan Yurman
- Reuters – Japan nuclear plant could leak more radioactive water – Yoko Kubota
- UPI – Water dilemma at damaged Japan nuke plant
- World Nuclear News – Cooling success, while water builds up
- World Nuclear News – MHI eyes global growth in nuclear orders
- Xinhua News – Demand for radiation dose meters rises in Japan
- Xinhua News – Naoto Kan to stay until end of nuclear crisis
Thursday June 2nd, 2011
- Asahi Shimbun – Point of View: Don’t push rural communities to accept nuclear power plants – Atsushi Komori
- Daily Yomiuri – Radioactive water level plunges in No. 1 reactor
- Japan Times – Japan Steel Works sees shift away from nuclear
- Japan Times – The Fukushima disaster and Japan Disincorporated – Gregory Clark
- Japan Times – School radiation cleanup slammed
- Japan Times – Focus belongs on Tohoku people – Shigeo Wagatsuma
- Mainichi Daily News – No-confidence motion against Kan Cabinet falls short
- AP Google – Japan’s PM beats censure, hints at resignation – Eric Talmadge
- AFP Google – Japan restricts green tea over radiation fears
- BBC News – Japan ‘underestimates’ nuclear threat (video)
- Bloomberg – Fukushima Radiated Water May Overflow – Tsuyoshi Inajima
- Business Week – Fukushima Radiated Water May Breach Storage Trenches in 5 Days
- Environment News Service – Japan Underestimated Tsunami Hazard for Nuclear Sites
- The Guardian – Fukushima volunteers are conscious of their amortality – David McKie
- Jiji Press – TEPCO to Install Pressure Meters on Fukushima No. 1 Reactor
- Korea Herald – Japanese nuclear industry: A regrettable exception – Dominique Louis
- Nuclear Engineering – Despite explosions, unit 1 & 4 buildings stable, TEPCO concludes
- Nuclear Engineering – New water circulation systems for Fukushima Daiichi
- Reuters – Japan’s Yosano: PM Kan must continue to oversee recovery – Stanley White
- Reuters – Japan panel: need to double sales tax by 2015 for welfare – Stanley White
- Xinhua News – IAEA inspects Japan’s nuclear plant safety
- Xinhua News – IAEA fact-finding mission team leader hands over report summary to Japan
Wednesday June 1st, 2011
- TEPCO – Status of TEPCO’s Facilities and its services after the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake (as of 3:00 PM, June 1)
- Daily Yomiuri – N-compensation panel’s job not done yet / OK’s payments for damage due to radiation fears, but fails to set rules to gauge eligibility – Mitsuhiko Totsuka and Kakuchi Funatsuki
- Daily Yomiuri – No. 2 N-pool cooling system restored
- Daily Yomiuri – Govt, TEPCO must pay compensation quickly
- Japan Times – Japan’s costly lesson in risk management – Robert Shiller
- Japan Times – Tohoku Electric may tap Tepco for power shortchanging
- Japan Times – Fatigue sets in on nuke responders – Jun Hongo
- Japan Times – Risk of tsunami underestimated: IAEA – Kazuaki Nagata
- Japan Corporate News – ULVAC-RIKO Achieves Breakthrough in Renewable Energy, Generating 3kw of Electricity using 90 Degrees C Hot Water
- Japan Times – Risk of tsunami underestimated: IAEA – Kazuaki Nagata
- Japan Today – Nuclear crisis could cost Japan up to Y20 tril over 10 years: study
- Mainichi Daily News – IAEA team chief ‘impressed’ with gov’t, people over disaster aftermath
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO starts system to cool spent fuel pool at Fukushima plant
- Nikkei – Vietnam To Order Japan Reactors As Planned: Incoming Pres
- Nikkei – IAEA Weightman: Direct Cause of Fukushima Disaster Was Clearly Tsunami
- Nikkei – IAEA: Japan Underestimated Tsunami Hazard
- All Things Nuclear – Fukushima Dai-Ichi Unit 3: The First 80 Minutes – Dave Lochbaum
- IEER – The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and Its Impact on Nuclear Power in the United States
- AP Google – IAEA team says Japan underestimated tsunami threat
- AFP Google – Japan’s PM faces no-confidence vote – Harumi Ozawa
- AFP Google – IAEA says Japan underestimated tsunami threat – Yuka Ito
- BBC News – Japan nuclear: UN says tsunami risk was underestimated
- Bloomberg – Most Japanese Worried About Radiation Poisoning, Poll Shows – Jim Polson
- Bloomberg – IAEA Says Japan’s Nuclear Regulators Need More Oversight After Fukushima – Shunichi Ozasa and James Paton
- Bloomberg – Japan Reports 342 Fault Lines Near Nuclear Plants, Yomiuri Says – Yuji Okada
- City Journal – Too Radioactive to Fail – Nicole Gelinas
- Quote.com – High Levels of Carcinogenic Substance Detected At Damaged Japanese Nuke Plant – German Times
- Reuters – Factbox: IAEA’s assessment of Japan’s nuclear disaster
- Reuters – RPT-Update 2-UN urges Japan nuclear safety overhaul after Fukushima – Kevin Krolicki and Shinichi Saoshiro
- Reuters – UN agency: Japan underestimated tsunami hazard for nuclear plants – Shinichi Saoshiro and Kevin Krolicki
- World Nuclear News – First IAEA report on Fukushima
- Xinhua News – Oil spill, explosion causes minor damage at Fukushima plant
- Asia: Daily Telegraph – Leading physicist calls China’s nuclear programme ‘rash and unsafe’ – Malcolm Moore
Tuesday May 31st, 2011
- Asahi Shimbun – Japan could face overseas lawsuits from nuclear crisis – Kyohei Matsuda
- Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO gets worker safety rebuke
- Daily Yomiuri – Edano: Govt gave injection order
- Denki Shimbun – Japanese Diet approval for draft nuclear agreements remains in question
- Denki Shimbun – Fukushima I “didn’t stop” pumping seawater into unit 1
- Japan Times – Stricken Fukushima nuke plant leaking oil – Kazuaki Nagata
- Japan Times – Reactor in Shimane delayed for safety work
- Japan Times – Chernobyl ‘jumper’ airs Fukushima fears – Siti Rahil
- Japan Times – Opera stars, fearing radiation, cancel
- Japan Times – Volunteers still in great need but tapering off – Jun Hongo
- Japan Times – Communication breakdown
- Japan Times – Some Fukushima soil same as Chernobyl ‘dead zone’ – Yuriy Humber and Stuart Biggs
- Japan Times – Stricken Fukushima nuke plant leaking oil – Kazuaki Nagata
- Japan Today – Nuclear crisis could cost Japan up to Y20 tril over 10 years: study
- Mainichi Daily News – As nuclear crisis hits, old farmer stays with wife, mother in evacuated village
- Mainichi Daily News – Kan rejects opposition calls to resign; vows to bring nuclear crisis under control
- Mainichi Daily News – 3 disaster devastated prefectures to form united front
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO begins streaming video of Fukushima nuclear plant on homepage
- Mainichi Daily News – Oil found leaking near sea close to crippled Fukushima nuke plant
- Mainichi Daily News – S&P cuts TEPCO rating by 5 notches to junk status
- Nikkei – Nuclear Disaster Compensation To Cover Farmers’ Lost Profits
- AFP Google – Blast at Japan nuclear plant ‘likely gas cylinder’
- AsiaOne – Stars shun NY Met Opera tour in disaster-hit Japan
- Reuters – Loud bang heard near Fukushima reactor, no radiation leak-Tepco – Yoko Nishikawa
- Reuters – Update 1-Damage to gas cylinder caused bang at Fukushima plant-Tepco – Yoko Nishikawa
- Reuters – Update 1-Japan’s Chugoku Elec delays nuclear reactor launch – Osamu Tsukimori
- UPI – Japan’s damaged nuclear plant leaking oil
- Xinhua News – Oil leaks found near sea close to troubled Fukushima plant: media
Monday May 30th, 2011
- CNIC – Nuke Info Tokyo No. 142 (May/June 2011)
- TEPCO – Status of TEPCO’s Facilities and its services after the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake (as of 3:00 PM, May 30)
- Daily Yomiuri – N-plant worker regrets 17-yr career / Forced to leave Fukushima home, devotes self to caring for other evacuees – Shigeto Tanaka
- Daily Yomiuri – FROM SQUARE ONE / Energy policy overhaul faces many hurdles
- Japan Times – Ibaraki to check radiation at beaches
- Japan Times – Evacuees long for hometowns – Jun Hongo
- Japan Times – Radiation zone farmer grubs his way to survival – Jun Hongo
- Japan Times – Disaster volunteers find plenty to do in Fukushima – Minoru Matsutani
- Japan Times – Exposure of Tepco pair exceeds limit
- Japan Today – Gov’t eyes drastic reform of electric power industry by 2020
- Mainichi Daily News – 2 Fukushima workers may have exceeded radiation exposure limit
- Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima forestry industry at risk of collapse due to ongoing nuclear crisis
- Mainichi Daily News – Over 200 temporary homes left unoccupied as evacuees worry about job prospects
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to scrap upper limit of radiation exposure for workers at Fukushima plant
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO reports major rise in contaminated water level at damaged nuclear plant
- Modern Tokyo Times – Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Hysteria, Irrational and Rational Reactions – Vojin Joksimovich, PhD
- Arirang News – TEPCO: Levels of Radioactive Water inside Reactors Rise Due to Heavy Rain
- Asian Correspondent – Fukushima and global nuclear safety
- AP Google – 2 workers may have exceeded Japan radiation limit
- AFP Google – Rain pelts Japan disaster zone, stricken nuclear site
- AFP Google – S&P downgrades Japan’s TEPCO
- AFP Google – High radioactivity found in Japan nuclear workers
- AFP Google – Japanese unhappy with atomic crisis response: poll
- BBC News – Storm suspends work at Japan Fukushima nuclear plant
- Bloomberg – Fukushima Risks Chernobyl ‘Dead Zone’ – Yuriy Humber and Stuart Biggs
- Business Week – Fukushima Risks Chernobyl ‘Dead Zone’ as Radiation Soars
- Daily Telegraph – Japan fails in promise to rehouse 30,000 victims – Julian Ryall
- Financial Times – Nuclear plant construction divides Japan – Mure Dickie
- Global Research – Ongoing Nuclear Crisis in Japan: TEPCO Finally Admits Stabilizing Reactors by 2012 impossible
- The Guardian – Fukushima nuclear power plant workers face further tests
- New York Times – In Japan, a Culture That Promotes Nuclear Dependency – Martin Fackler and Norimitsu Onishi
- Reuters – No restart for south Japan reactors until safety assured -governor – Risa Maeda and Kevin Krolicki
- Reuters – Update 1-S&P cuts Tepco rating to junk, says bank write-offs more likely – Chisa Fujioka
- Reuters – Two Fukushima workers may have exceeded radiation limit – Kiyoshi Takenaka, Shinichi Saoshiro and Kevin Krolicki
- RIA Novosti – Iodine levels in two Japanese nuke plant workers 10 times above norm
- Sky News Australia – Fukushima inspected by scientists
- UPI – Fukushima stabilization deadline in doubt
- Wall Street Journal blog – It’s Not Easy Being Antinuclear – Yoree Koh
- Xinhua News – Japan nuke plant workers likely exposed to radiation far beyond legal limit
- Xinhua News – Fukushima nuclear reactors not to be affected by Typhoon Songda
- Radio Taiwan – Taipower considers closing, extending nuclear power plants
- Xinhua News – Taiwan to update nuclear plant safety facilities in wake of Japanese nuclear crisis