Sorry about the delay in posting this.  Was working on MUSE concert and a conference.

Sunday August 7th, 2011

• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: We must leave nuclear power behind us
• Asahi Shimbun – Hiroshima’s Peace Declaration “Review energy policies”
• Asahi Shimbun – Hiroshima Peace Symposium: Experts call for nuclear disarmament
• Asahi Shimbun – Hiroshima Peace Symposium: Fukushima disaster should trigger nuclear disarmament – Susumu Maejima
• Daily Yomiuri – Kan used ceremony in Hiroshima for own ends
• Daily Yomiuri – Kan uses peace ceremony to voice private view / Prime minister ignored advice against linking nuclear power plants with 1945 atomic bombing
• Daily Yomiuri – Minami-Soma to clean hot spots in city
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO’s problems affect Tokyo plan to bury utility lines
• Daily Yomiuri – The trauma of disaster victims / Jobs, consultation services needed to assuage bleak future of survivors – Miyahara and Imai
• Japan Focus – What happened at Fukushima? – David McNeill & Jake Adelstein
• Japan Times – Cleanup plan in works for Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – U.N. chief Ban arrives in Japan to meet disaster victims, officials
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t eyes halving area of high annual radiation exposure in 2 yrs
• Mainichi Daily News – Underground electric cable damaged during survey at Fukushima plant
• Bloomberg – Japan Revives Rice Futures Trade as Fukushima Radiation Threatens Harvest – Aya Takada and Yasumasa Song
• Bloomberg – Fukushima Water Decontamination System Resumes Operation – Yusuke Miyazawa
• Washington Post – In a switch, Japan’s A-bomb survivors turn against nuclear energy – Chico Harlan
• Taipei Times – Stop building the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant: Lu – Lee I-chia

Saturday August 6th, 2011

• Moderate Voice – The Prices of Nuclear Power – Robert Stein
• Student Operated Press – The Danger of Secrets: Hiroshima and the Atomic Bomb – Donna Cavanagh
• Daily Yomiuri – Hiroshima marks city’s A-bombing
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt plans 85.7 billion yen to help beef farmers
• Daily Yomiuri – Official N-crisis compensation to begin in Oct.
• Daily Yomiuri – Compensation list needs work – Mitsuhiko Totsuka and Masakazu Matsushita
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt must ensure progress on N-disaster compensation
• Daily Yomiuri – Regain public trust with unified N-safety body
• Japan Times – Japan no match for aftereffects – David Wood
• Japan Times – Alternatives to a ‘lethal reality’ – Michael G. Driver
• Japan Times – Fabricated public opinion is the norm – Philip Brasor
• Japan Times – Plant’s 3-km-zone evacuees may get home visit
• Japan Times – Fukushima nuke crisis invoked at Hiroshima event – Eric Johnston
• Mainichi Daily News – A-bomb survivor in Fukushima likens nuclear plants to nuclear bombs
• Mainichi Daily News – Saga Gov. sought local assembly members’ help over restart of Genkai nuclear reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – Hibakusha: Reflections from three atomic bomb survivors
• Mainichi Daily News – Hiroshima Peace Declaration
• Mainichi Daily News – Lessons learned from A-bombing should be applied to welfare of Fukushima residents
• Mainichi Daily News – Russian envoy pledges not to repeat Hiroshima, Fukushima calamities
• Mainichi Daily News – Kan commits to reducing reliance on nuclear power at Hiroshima memorial
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan should conduct computer simulations on nuclear weapons: Ishihara
• Mainichi Daily News – Reactor utilization rate drops to record low of 33.9% in July
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO required to compensate tourism industry over nuclear crisis
• PanOrient News – Tokyo Governor Ishihara Wants Computer Simulations on Nuclear Weapons
• AP Google – Japan’s Hiroshima city marks atomic bombing – Koji Sasahara
• AFP Google – UN chief heads to Japan as nuclear crisis simmers – Harumi Ozawa
• AFP Google – Japan PM in Hiroshima vows nuclear-free future – Toru Yamanaka
• BBC News – Hiroshima memorial: PM Naoto Kan makes nuclear pledge
• Bloomberg – Kan Vows to Push for Nuclear-Free Society – Sachiko Sakamaki and Yuriy Humber
• Huffington Post – Hiroshima Photographs Attempt To Measure Damage (PHOTOS) – Adam Harrison Levy
• New York Times – Atomic Bomb Survivors Join Opposition to Nuclear Power – Martin Fackler
• Reuters – Update 1-Japan PM brings his nuclear-free vision to Hiroshima – Kim Kyung Hoon
• UPI – Japan observes ironic nuclear anniversary
• Xinhua News – 66th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing commemorated in Japan
• South Asia: Times of India – Shun nuclear progammes, youths appeal
• Europe: BBC News – Rallies held across Scotland to mark Hiroshima bombing

Friday August 5th, 2011

• Canada: UPI – Canada’s Cameco affected by Fukushima
• Asahi Shimbun – Kaieda picks bureaucrats from pro-nuclear faction to lead METI
• Daily Yomiuri – Local govts rap state on N-crisis / Council says government’s response caused confusion and loss of trust
• Japan Times – Old and new nuclear perils
• Japan Times – Panel to probe NISA’s alleged opinion manipulation
• Japan Times – U.S. base has nuke disaster waste
• Japan Times – Next nuclear watchdog needs teeth: Hosono – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Largest labor organization questions nuclear energy policy
• Japan Times – Tepco redress: from tourism to tea – Takahiro Fukada
• Japan Times – Public hoarding old rice over fallout fears
• Daily Yomiuri – Local govts rap state on N-crisis / Council says government’s response caused confusion and loss of trust
• Daily Yomiuri – Close reactors that fail tests, Kaieda says
• Daily Yomiuri – Chiba Pref. starts radiation tests on rice
• Daily Yomiuri – Ministry likely to buy all meat of suspect cows
• Japan Times – Nuclear regulatory revamp unveiled – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – U.S. base has nuke disaster waste
• Denki Shimbun – Nuclear accident compensation bill passed and enacted by the Diet’s Upper House
• Denki Shimbun – Research for extraction of damaged fuel from Fukushima I NPS
• Japan Times – Nuclear regulatory revamp unveiled – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – U.S. base has nuke disaster waste
• Mainichi Daily News – Hiroshima mayor: Efforts should be made to share A-bomb experiences
• Mainichi Daily News – Documents reveal U.S. plan in mid-1950s to deploy nuke arms in Japan
• Mainichi Daily News – Radioactive contamination tests begin on Chiba rice
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t unchanged on nuclear plant export negotiations after crisis
• Mainichi Daily News – Hibakusha: A-bomb survivor feels overlap with young victims of Fukushima disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Hitachi, Mitsubishi Heavy deny deal talks
• Mainichi Daily News – Last year’s rice being hoarded over radiation contamination worries
• Mainichi Daily News – Kyushu Electric’s Manabe apologies at Saga assembly over scandal
• Nikkei – Govt Steps Up Contaminated-Beef Purchasing Program
• Nikkei – Fuzzy Guidelines May Slow Fukushima Compensation
• AFP Google – Japan vows to continue nuclear plant exports
• AFP Google – Japanese parents live with radiation fear – Shingo Ito
• Bellona – Critical reactor heat gives way to critical radioactive water bulid-ups at Fukushima Daiichi – Charles Digges
• Bloomberg – Kan Vows to Push for Nuclear-Free Japanese Society at Hiroshima Ceremony – Sachiko Sakamaki and Yuriy Humber
• Bloomberg – Japan Starts Probe of Attempts to Sway Opinion on Atomic Power – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• CounterPunch – The Decision to Bomb Hiroshima – Gar Alperovitz
• The Examiner – Experts: Fukushima ‘off-scale’ lethal radiation level infers 100s millions dying – Deborah Dupre
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Lethal Levels of Gamma Radiation at Fukushima Plant, Gundersen States; Worst Disaster in Human History
• New York Times – The Icons That Survived Hiroshima – Kim Palchikoff
• Reuters – Japan PM brings his nuclear-free vision to Hiroshima – Kim Kyung Hoon
• Reuters – Japan plans new nuclear watchdog to restore faith – Yoko Kubota
• Washington Post – In a switch, Japan’s A-bomb survivors turn against nuclear energy – Chico Harlan
• Xinhua News – New A-bomb exhibits to highlight Hiroshima peace ceremony – Wang Xiaopeng

Thursday August 4th, 2011

• San Diego Union Tribune – Lessons to be learned from the disaster in Japan – Kotaro Nakamura
• Lincoln Journal Star – Cindy Lange-Kubick: From the bomb to Fukushima, in translation
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Taxes should not be used to bail out TEPCO
• Asahi Shimbun – Yoshibumi Wakamiya: Kan should step down and return to being a guerrilla lawmaker
• Daily Yomiuri – Top METI officials to be fired over N-crisis
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt must be actively involved in nuclear crisis compensation
• Japan Times – State rolls out rice disposal rules
• Japan Times – Tepco makes little headway in decontaminating water – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Hitachi, MHI mull merger options
• Japan Times – Nuclear policy trio face ax – Masami Ito
• Mainichi Daily News – Rice farmers, wholesalers worry about radioactive cesium tests
• Mainichi Daily News – Industry minister sacks 3 top officials to end cozy ties over nuclear power policy
• Mainichi Daily News – Farmers’ group stages protest at TEPCO headquarters to demand compensation
• Mainichi Daily News – Hiroshima A-bomb archive site with 3-D satellite map proving popular
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO struggling to treat contaminated water at crippled nuclear plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Hibakusha: A-bomb survivor expresses peace message through 3,000 paintings of dome
• Mainichi Daily News – Hitachi, M’bishi Heavy to start merger talks
• AP Google – Japan fires senior nuke officials amid scandals – Eric Talmadge
• AFP Google – UN leader to visit Japan nuclear zone
• AFP Google – Japan to sack top nuclear energy officials – Hiroshi Hiyama
• BBC News – Japan sacks three nuclear power officials in shake-up
• Environment News Service – Japan to Lift Evacuation Order Around Damaged Nuclear Plant
• New York Times – Japan’s Prime Minister Sacks Three Nuclear Energy Officials – Martin Fackler
• Reuters – Japan town retreats from nuclear project near Fukushima plant – Risa Maeda;
• Reuters – Update 8-Hitachi, Mitsubishi Heavy merger talks on rocks – Taiga Uranaka and Mayumi Negishi
• UPI – Japanese nuclear officials to be replaced
• World Nuclear News – Study coming on Fukushima evacuation zone
• Xinhua News – Japan to establish new nuclear safety agency
• Taiwan Today – AEC plays down controversy over No. 4 nuclear plant – Meg Chang

Wednesday August 3nd 2011

• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima parents fret for kids – Tsuyoshi Oyabu and Yutaka Hojo
• Daily Yomiuri – More high radiation spots found / Levels of 5 and 10 sieverts detected near pipe at No. 1 nuclear reactor
• Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear crisis causes drop in private kindergarten attendance
• Daily Yomiuri – Independent N-power agency eyed / Body would consolidate oversight roles
• Japan Focus – Tokyo Shimbun’s Devastating Critique of Fukushima Compensation Bill
• Japan Times – Law on nuclear disaster compensation is enacted
• Japan Times – Taking matters into their own hands – Junko Horiuchi
• Japan Times – NISA scandal widens to two more utilities
• Japan Times – New ministry home eyed for nuke agency
• Mainichi Daily News – DPJ panel urges gov’t to buy up land near Fukushima nuclear plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Panel investigating nuclear crisis questioned Fukushima plant head
• Mainichi Daily News – UK nuke facility to close following Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to require disposal of rice found cesium-tainted in 2-phase test
• Mainichi Daily News – Residents’ group asks court to stop restart of Fukui Pref. nuke reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – Junior-high students from town near Fukushima plant to attend Nagasaki A-bomb ceremony
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear safety agency may be set up under Environment Ministry
• Mainichi Daily News – Minister urges Diet to ratify 4 nuclear pacts to export plants
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear energy can be replaced with renewable energy
• Mainichi Daily News – Saga governor apologizes over remark on Genkai power plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Damages eyed for cattle farmers in 17 prefectures over tainted straw
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan’s ban on cattle shipments expands to Tochigi Pref.
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to make radioactive material concentration map for farmlands
• AFP Google – Japan law creates body to pay nuclear victims
• BBC News – Japan’s parliament approves Tepco compensation plan
• Bloomberg – Japan to Fire Top Energy Officials After Fukushima Nuclear Plant Disaster – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
• Bloomberg – Japan’s Parliament Passes Bill on Tepco Compensation for Disaster Victims – Sachiko Sakamaki and Takashi Hirokawa
• Global Research – Fukushima Nuclear Radiation Highest Ever, Exceeds Capacity of Measuring Device …Fuel Likely Leaking Out Of Containment Vessel
• NEI – NEI’s Health Physicist Comments on the High Radiation Levels Found Near Fukushima
• NEI – New Cooling Water System Lowering Temperature in Reactor 4 Fuel Storage Pool
• New York Times – Japan Passes Law Supporting Nuclear Plant Operator – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Reuters – Japan sacks top officials over nuclear disaster – Rie Ishiguro, Yoko Kubota
• Reuters – Japan’s Kan to sack 3 nuclear officials, Kaieda to go soon-Asahi – Rie Ishiguro
• Reuters – Fukushima disaster not “unforeseen”-NRC commissioner – Roberta Rampton
• Reuters – Update 2-Hitachi, Mitsubishi Heavy to begin merger talks -Nikkei – Jochelle Mendonca and Megha Mandavia
• Reuters – Japan to announce new nuclear watchdog – Yoko Kubota
• Reuters – Japan’s radiation scare to hit beef output – Chikako Mogi
• UPI – Sharp radiation spike found at Fukushima
• World Nuclear News – Second high radiation reading
• Xinhua News – Japan’s parliament enacts nuclear disaster compensation law

Tuesday August 2nd, 2011

• Triple Helix – Effects of Nuclear Power on Public Health: From Three Mile Island to Fukushima – Frank Qian
• UCS – NRC Should Move Swiftly to Implement Task Force Recommendations, but Agency Needs to Do More to Protect Public
• Asahi Shimbun – Highest radiation to date at Fukushima plant another hurdle for TEPCO – Hidenori Tsuboya
• Asahi Shimbun – Fumihiko Yoshida: Japan should lead global movement toward a nuke-free world
• Asahi Shimbun – Natural energy sources a growth sector everywhere but Japan
• Daily Yomiuri – Record radiation at Fukushima N-plant / More than twice previous peak level
• Denki Shimbun – Japanese government set out policy to reduce dependence on nuclear power
• Denki Shimbun – Nuclear accident compensation system bill passed by the Diet’s Lower House
• Denki Shimbun – Issue of manipulation at nuclear power public forums widens
• Japan Times – Editorial: Economic white paper
• Japan Times – Editorial: Compensation law is flawed
• Japan Times – NISA raps Tepco for lax ID checks of employees at Fukushima No. 1
• Japan Times – NISA linked to other faked support for nuclear power
• Japan Times – Tokyo looks to build natural gas power plant – Takahiro Fukada
• Japan Times – U.S. to send Zumwalt to Hiroshima ceremony
• Japan Times – NISA tied to more faked shows of nuke support
• Mainichi Daily News – Radioactive leaf soil sold nationwide after gov’t prevention measures fail
• Mainichi Daily News – Ex-PM Nakasone, influential Shoriki played key role in promoting nuclear power
• Mainichi Daily News – 2 TEPCO workers died in tsunami after following orders to check nuclear plant damage
• Mainichi Daily News – Beef auctions recommence in Yamagata following radiation scare
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear agency asked Shikoku Electric to send employees to symposium
• Mainichi Daily News – Hiroshima mayor to urge gov’t to review energy policy at peace ceremony
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima people seek science savvy on skepticism of government
• Mainichi Daily News – Time to dismantle dangerous nuclear reactors, scrap nuclear fuel cycle program
• Mainichi Daily News – Turkey yet to decide whether to resume nuclear plant talks with Japan
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t bans all shipments of beef cattle from Iwate Pref.
• Mainichi Daily News – M6.1 quake jolts Shizuoka Pref., vicinity
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to start work by year-end to block radiation water leak to sea
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan plans 2-phase radiation tests on rice
• Mainichi Daily News – Ex-PM Nakasone, influential Shoriki played key role in promoting nuclear power
• YokosoNews – 311 Disaster Update #46
• AP Google – Japan utility seals area with high radiation level
• Bellona – Fukushima Daiichi operator reports highest radiation reading since beginning of crisis – Charles Digges
• Bloomberg – Tepco Reports Second Deadly Radiation Reading at Fukushima Plant – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Bloomberg – Let’s Get Homer Simpson’s Hands Off the Controls: William Pesek
• Bloomberg – Tepco Reports Second Deadly Radiation Reading at Fukushima Plant – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Kari Lundgren
• Bloomberg – Ukraine Gives Japan Dosimeters, Masks as Radiation Fears Persist – Yuriy Humber
• CNN – Workers find ultra-high radiation levels at Fukushima Daiichi plant – Kyung Lah
• New York Times – Fatal Radiation Level Found at Japanese Plant – Martin Fackler
• Nuclear Engineering – TEPCO completes work on unit 4 spent fuel pool
• Reuters – Update 1-Japan govt planning new nuclear safety agency – Nikkei – Ranjita Ganesan
• Reuters – Pockets of high radiation remind of Fukushima plant danger – Shinichi Saoshiro
• UPI – Japan widens beef ban

Monday August 1st, 2011

• Asahi Shimbun – Panel: Fukushima accident shows dangers posed by reactors – Susumu Maejima
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima: More ‘tainted cows’ shipped
• Japan Times – Saga chief sought to spin reactor talks
• Japan Times – Fukushima residents join antinuke campaign
• Japan Times – Two-phase tests set to check rice
• Japan Times – Actress Yoshinaga hits nuke plants
• Japan Times – Saga governor urged good spin on reactor talks
• Japan Times – Iwate beef cattle shipments banned – Masami Ito
• Mainichi Daily News – Saga gov. admits suggesting e-mails supportive of restarting reactor
• Mainichi Daily News – U.S. pressing for deal with other countries to build nuclear fuel repository in Mongolia
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear redress law vague about responsibility for Fukushima crisis
• Mainichi Daily News – Weighing economic growth against nuclear risks makes no sense
• Mainichi Daily News – Official: North Korea wants nuke talks to resume soon
• Mainichi Daily News – Veteran actress Yoshinaga urges scrapping of nuclear plants
• Nikkei – Turkey To Continue Nuclear Talks With Japan
• AFP Google – Record high radiation at crippled Japan nuke plant
• Bloomberg – High Fukushima Radiation Levels Won’t Delay Work, Hosono Says – Shunichi Ozasa
• Bloomberg – Tepco Says Water Temperature at No. 4 Spent-Fuel Pool Declines – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• New York Times – Doubting Assurances, Japanese Find Radioactivity on Their Own – Ken Belson
• Reuters – Japanese rice to be tested for radioactive cesium – Yuko Takeo
• Reuters – Q+A: What’s going on at Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant? – Shinichi Saoshiro
• Reuters – Japan July nuclear plant usage falls to 33.9 percent – Osamu Tsukimori
• UPI – Japan’s power supply dilemma
• World Nuclear News – Temperature drops in Fukushima used fuel pool
• Xinhua News – Pacific waters off Japan’s Fukushima clearly affected by nuclear crisis: China’s oceanic administration