Sunday, November 13, 2011

• The Guardian – Journalists tour stricken Fukushima nuclear plant – Tracy McVeigh
• Market Oracle – Will Fukushima $10 Trillion Nuclear Catastrophe Bankrupt Japan?
• WashingtonsBlog – Tokyo Starts Burning Radioactive Waste from Other Areas … Tokyo Governor Tells Residents to “Shut Up” and Stop Complaining About It
• Sydney Morning Herald – Reporters at damaged reactor plant told to stay in the bus – Martin Fackler
• Sydney Morning Herald – Nuclear plant opens doors to reveal earthquake, tsunami damage – Danielle Demetriou
• Xinhua News – Anti-nuke rallies held in Japan’s Fukuoka
• Japan Times – Antinuclear-plant protesters rally in Fukuoka
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear disaster minister Hosono joins decontamination work
• Mainichi Daily News – Multiple obstacles hinder disposal of quake-tsunami debris

Saturday, November 12, 2011

• AP Google – 1st look at Japan nuke plant: rubble amid progress – David Guttenfelder
• BBC News – Japan’s Fukushima plant opened to media
• BBC News – Reporters visit Fukushima plant
• BBC News – In pictures: A first look inside Fukushima
• Huffington Post – Japan Fukushima Reactor: Eight Months After Nuclear Disaster, Plant Remains In Shambles – David Guttenfelder and Eric Talmadge
• The Guardian – Journalists tour stricken Fukushima nuclear plant – Tracy McVeigh
• The Guardian – Japan’s Fukushima plant opened to journalists – David Batty
• The Guardian – Inside Fukushima – in pictures
• New York Times – Devastation at Japan Site, Seen Up Close – Martin Fackler
• New York Times – Report Gives New Details of Chaos at Stricken Plant – Matthew L. Wald
• New York Times blog – Sights and Sounds on the Grounds of a Nuclear Disaster – Martin Fackler
• Reuters – Japan allows partial glimpse inside crippled nuclear plant – Shinichi Saoshiro
• Xinhua News – Crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant opens to journalists
• Daily Yomiuri – 3,000 travel to Fukushima N-plant every day – Koichi Yasuda
• Daily Yomiuri – Local govts must cooperate in debris disposal
• Japan Times – Fukushima No. 1 stable: plant chief – Reiji Yoshida
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t updates radiation maps with data on six new prefectures
• Mainichi Daily News – Explosion at Fukushima plant’s No. 4 reactor caused by hydrogen backflow: TEPCO
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima plant workers’ base of operations opened to media
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t cost-cutting panel to review nuclear power, 9 other areas
• Mainichi Daily News – Utility: Japan nuke crews’ conditions improving

Friday, November 11, 2011

• AFP Google – Japan opens Fukushima reactors to outside eyes
• CNBC – Japan Disaster Towers Over Nuclear Power Industry – Abby Schultz
• New York Times blog – An American Look at Fukushima, Minute by Minute – Matthew L. Wald
• New York Times blog – A Visit to Fukushima Begins – Martin Fackler
• New York Times blog – Saving Pets From Radiation in Japan – Anahad O’Connor
• Denki Shimbun – Two cabinet ministers request road map for decommissioning Fukushima I NPS
• Denki Shimbun – Japanese government to strengthen nuclear power plant anti-terrorism measures
• Japan Times – Calm at J. Village belies the danger – Reiji Yoshida
• Japan Today – Lower house approves Y12.1 trillion reconstruction budget
• Mainichi Daily News – Researchers remove 90 percent of radioactive cesium from sludge with bacteria
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to reduce radiation dose for children by 60% in 2 yrs
• Japan Times – Editorial: Paying off reconstruction debt
• Japan Times – Editorial: Nuclear export policy misguided

Thursday, November 10, 2011

• Bellona – Chain reaction scare at Fukushima only fission incident, say authorities, but environmentalists still fear criticality – Charles Digges
• MWC News – World Should Heed Murakami Warning on Nuclear Power – Sherwood Ross
• PBS NewsHour – What’s the Fallout for Dogs Near Fukushima? – Jenny Marder
• Daily Yomiuri – MHI N-plant data compromised / Infected server leaked plant designs during recent cyber-attacks
• Japan Herald – Tepco ordered to devise new roadmap for scrapping crippled Fukushima nuke reactors
• Japan Times – Noda hints at fourth extra budget
• JIJI Press – TEPCO Conducts On-Site Probes at Blast-Hit No. 4 Reactor
• Mainichi Daily News – Recovery, decontamination issues dominate Fukushima elections
• Taiwan News – Japan held a drill for leaks from US nuclear submarines – Evelyn Lin

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

• Bloomberg – Toshiba, Hitachi Plant Picked for Radiation Tests After Fukushima – Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
• Daily Yomiuri – Many evacuees ‘won’t go home’ / Uncertainty, distrust, radiation discourage displaced Fukushima people
• Japan Times – 1 in 4 residents around No. 1 plant don’t plan to return due to safety fears
• Japan Times – Tepco told to revise Fukushima road map
• Mainichi Daily News – Data surfaces showing 13,000 in Hiroshima, Nagasaki were exposed to A-bomb fallout rain
• Mainichi Daily News – Incineration of cesium-tainted vegetation resumes in Chiba Pref. city
• Mainichi Daily News – Welfare recipients top 2.05 million in July, surpass 1951 record
• Mainichi Daily News – Minamata disease exhibit offers lessons to radiation-hit Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – Residents seek court order not to restart Tsuruga reactors
• Tokyo Times – Tokyo begins large-scale safety testing of food
• Tokyo Times – After ditching Turkey, Japan will resume talks on nuclear deal

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

• AP Google – Honda shows smarter robot, helps in nuclear crisis – Yuri Kageyama
• AFP Google – Tokyo city starts radiation tests on food in shops
• Bloomberg – Nuclear Accident May Raise Japan’s Atomic Power Generation Costs – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• Reuters – Study factors accident risk into nuclear power cost estimates – Risa Maeda
• Daily Yomiuri – Survey: Students shying away from N-zone schools
• Daily Yomiuri – 90% of Fukushima candidates want N-reactors scrapped
• Japan Times – Residents sue over Tsuruga reactors
• Japan Times – More openness vowed in stress tests
• Japan Times – Radiation cleanup plan falls short – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Scrub homes, denude trees to wash cesium fears away – Mizuho Aoki
• Japan Times – Editorial: Fukushima health concerns
• Japan Times – NISA: No criticality in reactor 2
• Mainichi Daily News – Issue of nuclear reliance overshadowed by radiation cleanup pledges in Fukushima election
• Mainichi Daily News – 27 percent of residents in evacuation zones don’t want to return to their neighborhoods
• Mainichi Daily News – Japanese firm develops robot suit that could assist nuclear plant workers
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t loans Fukushima Prefecture, municipalities 700 radiation meters
• Mainichi Daily News – Hibakusha: Hiroshima man denied status as ‘bombing victim’ still passes on his stories
• Mainichi Daily News – Survey to compile detailed radiation map in Fukushima begins

Monday, November 07, 2011

• Canada: CTV – Hunger-striking vet collapses on third day of protest
• The Register – Japan develops powered armour suit for nuke workers – Lewis Page
• Daily Yomiuri – Tokyo govt to test N-safety of 500 food items
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima-produced low-cost Geiger counters hit the market
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO starts trying to remove radioactive cesium from Fukushima spent fuel pool
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear-related budget requests reveal gov’t nature and policy haven’t changed
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO to review criteria for determining ‘criticality’