Sunday, August 28, 2011

• Daily Yomiuri – Reactors ‘could restart this year’ / Kaieda makes 1st reference to specific time period for suspended facilities
• Japan Focus – Japan’s 3.11 Earthquake, Tsunami, Atomic Meltdown:
• Japan Times – Global fiscal reactor meltdown contains a warning for Japan – Noriko Hama
• Japan Times – Tepco eyes 10% rate hike for spring
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO eyes over 10 percent hike in electricity charges
• Mainichi Daily News – Experts split on how to decommission Fukushima nuclear plant
• AFP Google – Anger in tsunami zone over Japan power games – Shingo Ito
• Reuters – Japan’s Tepco denies double-digit pct price hike report – Kiyoshi Takenaka
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Spent Fuel Pools Show Significant Damage
• New York Times – Japanese Island’s Activists Resist Nuclear Industry’s Allure – Hiroko Tabuchi

Saturday, August 27, 2011

• Daily Yomiuri – Evacuees want PM with vision
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt too hasty in deciding on prolonged evacuation
• Japan Times – Forgotten atrocity of the atomic age – Michael Hoffman
• Japan Times – Cesium release equal to 168 Hiroshima A-bombs
• Japan Times – Kan wants Fukushima nuke waste storage site
• Mainichi Daily News – Local leaders steamed at government’s ‘buck-passing’ radiation decontamination plan
• Mainichi Daily News – NSC planning to set evacuation zones around nuclear power plants in advance
• Mainichi Daily News – Hot-spot cleanups hampered by public resistance to local disposal sites
• Mainichi Daily News – No quick way to remove radioactive substances from soil: experts
• Mainichi Daily News – Hokkaido Electric Power admits asking workers to support ‘pluthermal’ plan at symposium
• Mainichi Daily News – New law forcing utilities to buy renewable energy expected to give wind power a boost
• Mainichi Daily News – 60% of survey respondents say gov’t info on disasters least reliable
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan nuke plant radiation leak exceeds Hiroshima
• Nikkei – Govt Eyes Revival Law, Nuclear Waste Facility For Fukushima
• PanOrient News – TEPCO Sees No Comparison Between A-Bomb and Fukushima
• AP Google – Nuclear power key topic in close Japan leader race – Malcolm Foster
• AsiaOne – Japan PM ‘sorry’ over Fukushima no-go zones
• Bloomberg – Japan to Spend $2.9 Billion to Clean Up Tepco Radiation Spills, Kyodo Says – Kanoko Matsuyama
• Bloomberg – Tokyo Electric Seeks Minimum 10% Increase in Power Rates, Yomiuri Reports – Kanoko Matsuyama
• New York Times – Japanese Isle’s Aged Activists Resist Nuclear Industry’s Allure – Hiroko Tabuchi
• Reuters – Areas near Japan nuclear plant may be off limits for decades – Osamu Tsukimori and Nathan Layne
• Washington Post – In Japan, new nuclear agency tests ability to reform – Chico Harlan
• Xinhua News – Backgrounder: 5 DPJ lawmakers to run for Japan’s ruling party top-spot

Friday, August 26, 2011

• PanOrient News – Greenpeace Calls on Next Japanese Prime Minister to Decommission Nuclear Plants
• Asahi Shimbun – Saskatchewan and Hitachi Sign R&D Agreement on Nuclear Medicine Technology
• Daily Yomiuri – Evacuees visit homes within 3 km of N-plant
• Daily Yomiuri – Kan slammed in exit reviews / Post-disaster performance criticized even by DPJ lawmakers
• Daily Yomiuri – Traffic signals on the blink / Roads in disaster-hit region dangerous as 90% of lights not working – Naoki Nakazawa and Kei Iguchi
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO knew waters could reach 15 meters
• Daily Yomiuri – Hitachi to develop N-projects in Canada
• Japan Times – Low levels of cesium found in rice
• Japan Times – Futaba evacuees get first home visits
• Japan Times – Kan bows out, says he did best he could – Masami Ito
• Mainichi Daily News – Abandoned salt field in Japan earmarked as site for mega solar power plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Hokkaido Electric pressed staff to support ‘pluthermal’ nuke plan at symposium: JCP
• Mainichi Daily News – Residents make first temporary visits to homes within 3 km of Fukushima plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Volume of radiation screening requests for food beyond capacity of current facilities
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t nuclear watchdog criticizes TEPCO for delayed release of tsunami estimate
• Mainichi Daily News – Parents from town near Fukushima nuke plant reluctant to go home
• Mainichi Daily News – 22% of radioactive cesium settles on eastern Japan
• Mainichi Daily News – FY2014 goal for restoring most tsunami-hit farmland in Iwate, Miyagi
• Mainichi Daily News – No radioactive substances found so far in rice harvested in Fukushima
• Nikkei – Japan Renewable Energy Bill Passes Parliament, Becomes Law
• Nikkei – Hitachi, GE In Canada Small Reactor Project
• AP Google – Japan nuke plant radiation leak exceeds Hiroshima – Mari Yamaguchi
• AP Google – Japan PM resigning amid sinking public confidence – Mari Yamaguchi
• AFP Google – Japan cuts radiation exposure limits for children
• AFP Google – Quake-prone Japan looks at geothermal energy – Shingo Ito
• Bloomberg – Japan Spurs Solar, Wind Energy With Subsidies, in Shift From Nuclear Power – Chisaki Watanabe
• Bloomberg – Japan Premier Naoto Kan Resigns After Backlash Over Handling of Earthquake – Sachiko Sakamaki and Takashi Hirokawa
• Bloomberg – Japan Says Radiation Clean-Up to Cut Children’s Exposure by 60% – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Makoto Miyazaki
• Foreign Policy – One small town in Fukushima – Josh Rogin
• Fox Business – Kansai Reactor Glitch Caused By Scratched Valve Part -Kyodo
• IEEE Spectrum – Radioactive Sludge Collects in Japan’s Sewage Treatment Plants – John Boyd
• NIRS – IPPNW letter to Prime Minister Kan calling for stricter radiation standards, expanded evacuation (pdf-291K)
• ParisTech Review – Nuclear Power’s Future in Japan and Abroad: The Fukushima Accident in Social and Political Perspective – Daniel Aldrich
• Washington Post – In Japan, new nuclear agency tests ability to reform – Chico Harlan

Thursday, August 25, 2011

• Asahi Shimbun – ‘Glass badges’ remind Fukushima students of radiation risks
• Daily Yomiuri – There’s no place like home / ‘No-entry’ residents temporarily return amid radiation fears
• Japan Times – Kepco tests reactors for restart plan
• Japan Times – Fukushima rice tests show no contamination
• Japan Times – Tepco’s personnel costs higher than firms in other fields, state panel says
• Japan Times – EDITORIAL – Accelerate Decontamination
• Japan Times – Fukushima to state: Buy the leftovers
• Japan Times – Students return from antinuke trip
• Japan Times – Ban on beef shipments lifted – Natsuko Fukue
• Japan Times – Ban on beef shipments lifted – Natsuko Fukue
• Japan Today – Fukushima cesium leaks ‘equal 168 Hiroshima bombs,’ says report
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t lifts cattle shipment ban for Fukushima, Iwate, Tochigi
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t radiation decontamination team begins operations at Fukushima hotspots
• Mainichi Daily News – ‘Hot spot’ areas found in Fukushima city worry ‘goya’ growers
• Mainichi Daily News – Panel cuts estimated release of radiogens from Fukushima plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan to seek to reduce children’s radiation dose by 60% in 2 yrs
• Nikkei – Japan Unveils Two-Year Cleanup Plan for Fukushima Prefecture
• AFP Google – Japan lifts ban on beef following radiation scare
• Bloomberg – Aging Reactors Mean Japan Faces $13 Billion Decommissioning Cost – Yuriy Humber and Masatsugu Horie
• Reuters – TABLE-Japan nuclear plant ops (Tomari No.2 shut for maintenance) – Osamu Tsukimori and Risa Maeda
• Reuters – RPT-Japan faces costly, unprecedented radiation cleanup – Yoko Kubota
• Reuters – Japan faces costly, unprecedented radiation cleanup – Yoko Kubota

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

• Asahi Shimbun – Couple over TEPCO dorms told reality at nuke plant – Teru Okumura
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO predicted 10-meter tsunami in ’08
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt wants to halve radiation levels in 2 years
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt to lower school radiation limit
• Daily Yomiuri – Teachers urged to study radiation
• Japan Times – Cleansing the soil of radioactivity – Peter Klomp
• Japan Times – Nuclear refugees struggle to cope with uncertain future – Mizuho Aoki
• Japan Times – Airborne radiation checks to triple as hot spots spread – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
• Mainichi Daily News – Hokkaido town agonizes over permanent radioactive waste disposal, ‘nuclear money’
• Mainichi Daily News – Firms tied to mayor of Hokkaido town profited from local nuclear research center
• Mainichi Daily News – Head of committee investigating nuclear disaster says interviewees are cooperating
• Mainichi Daily News – Plant workers’ radiation exposure from water-treatment piping within limit
• Nikkei – Tepco Reported Possibility of Huge Tsunami To Govt Before March 11
• Bellona – Half of Fukushima children exposed to radiation say leaked data – but is even that too low? – Charles Digges
• Epoch Times – Japanese Nuclear Expert Compares Fukushima to 20 Hiroshimas in Viral Video – Shannon Liao
• World Nuclear News – Tepco to try core cooling system
• Xinhua News – Pressure cooker politics for Japan’s next leader
• Taipei Times – Taiwan must use geothermal sources to generate electricity, scientists urge

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Government should not lead nuclear technology sales drive
• Denki Shimbun – Agreement for cooperation between U.S. and Japanese research institutes in the nuclear field
• Japan Times – Fukushima fallout said 30 times Hiroshima’s – Jun Hongo
• Japan Times – Shipments of beef cattle from Miyagi are resumed
• Japan Times – Crisis probe has quizzed 126 people – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Biden praises survivors’ resolve
• Japan Times – Utilities told to check data further
• Mainichi Daily News – University of Tokyo professor blasts Diet over no policy on radioactive contamination
• Mainichi Daily News – Potent radiation leak halts water decontamination operations at Fukushima plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Saga Pref. nuke safety committee head took donations from Kyushu Electric
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t should take responsibility for decontaminating soil tainted with radiation
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima gov’t seeks lifting of ban on cattle shipments
• Geek – Eye-opening blog of Fukushima robot operator taken offline – Matthew Humphries
• The Guardian – Fukushima disaster: residents may never return to radiation-hit homes – Justin McCurry
• NIRS – Nuclear Crisis in Japan
• Reuters – Update 2-Japan renewable energy push clears key hurdle – Risa Maeda

Monday, August 22, 2011

• Asahi Shimbun – Japan pins hopes on green power laws, risks abound
• Asahi Shimbun – Government, industry refocus on nuclear plant exports
• Japan Times – Restart of Tomari reactor
• Japan Times – Slow aid distribution frustrating survivors
• Japan Times – Green Party leader prods nuke power foes
• Japan Times – Fukushima hunts for cesium-resistant rice
• Japan Times – Kan to spell out no-go zone reality
• Japan Times – Fukushima tests rice radiation-resistance
• Japan Times – Task force to aid Fukushima cleanup
• Japan Times – Hot cow count in Fukushima rises to 12
• Mainichi Daily News – 74 percent favor gradual reduction of nuclear power plants: Mainichi poll
• Mainichi Daily News – Researchers search for radiation-resistant rice for Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – Some areas near Fukushima plant to remain no-go zones: gov’t sources
• AFP Google – Japan to pick new PM next week – Harumi Ozawa
• The Guardian – Energy-saving ‘setsuden’ campaign sweeps Japan after Fukushima – Suvendrini Kakuchi
• Nature blog – Does Japan’s new Fukushima exclusion zone add up?
• New York Times – Large Zone Near Japanese Reactors to Be Off Limits – Martin Fackler
• Reuters – Tokyo Elec sets maintenance dates for two reactors – Osamu Tsukimori
• Reuters – Insight: Japan struggles to rebuild, leaving lives in limbo – Yoko Kubota and Rie Ishiguro