Sunday, November 20, 2011
- Bloomberg – Fukushima Votes in First Local Election Since Nuclear Disaster – Anna Mukai
- CTV – Fukushima fallout cancer cases may be hard to detect
- Washington Post – Around the Fukushima plant, a world left behind – Chico Harlan
- Xinhua News – 5.5-magnitude quake jolts Japan’s Kanto region
- Japan Times – Whose atomic energy agency is it, anyway? – Ramesh Thakur
- Japan Times – Primer for decontamination – Sentaku
- Japan Times – GRU panel targets nuclear programs
- Mainichi Daily News – Future cancers from Fukushima plant may be hidden
Saturday, November 19, 2011
- CNN – New radiation scare for rice in Japan
- New York Times – Utility Reform Eluding Japan After Nuclear Plant Disaster – Norimitsu Onishi and Martin Fackler
- UPI – Cold shutdown possible at Fukushima
- Daily Yomiuri – No-entry zone cleanup begins / Many challenges loom in 1st decontamination efforts in area
- Fukushima Diary – Architect of Reactor 3 warns of massive hydrovolcanic explosion – Mochizuki
- Fukushima Update – Radiation Symptoms Maps
- Japan Times – Article 9 group calls for end to nuclear power
- Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima begins model decontamination project in no-entry zones
- Mainichi Daily News – Local governments invited on ‘debris-viewing’ tour in bid to accept tsunami rubble
- Mainichi Daily News – Aerial view of tsunami zone: cleaner but barren
Friday, November 18, 2011
- AFP Google – Japan minister gives up pay over Fukushima soil dump
- The Guardian – Fukushima rice banned by Japan – Justin McCurry in Tokyo
- Daily Yomiuri – N-plant cold shutdown possible this year
- Daily Yomiuri – H.K. learns from Fukushima – Shigefumi Takasuka
- Daily Yomiuri – N-fuel conditions unclear – Tatsuo Nakajima
- Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima to reexamine rice / Onami discovery leads to rethink, but inspection facilities lacking
- Denki Shimbun – Fukushima I reactors nearing cold shutdown
- Denki Shimbun – Wavering government policy on reducing nuclear power dependence
- Mainichi Daily News – News Navigator: How is the provisional radiation limit for food determined?
- Mainichi Daily News – Hokkaido Electric solicited staff for pro-pluthermal nuke project opinions
- Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: Latest radiation-tainted rice case shows gov’t must better safety measures
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t not to permit restart of 2 reactors at Genkai plant: Edano
- Mainichi Daily News – GSDF to usher radiation cleanup work in Fukushima next month
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to ease rules on establishment of solar power plants
- Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima, Tokyo saw fewer births in April-June amid radiation fears
Thursday, November 17, 2011
- AFP Google – Japan bans Fukushima rice for radiation – Shingo Ito
- AFP Google – Fukushima radiation ‘mostly fell in sea’: study
- AP Google – Japan bans rice grown near crippled nuke plant
- Bloomberg – Japan Restricts Fukushima Rice Shipments After Radiation Found – Aya Takada
- Reuters – Japan’s Kansai Elec submits 2nd nuclear reactor test results – Risa Maeda
- UPI – IEA outlines Japan’s low nuclear scenario
- UPI – Radioactive rice found near Fukushima
- Washington Post – Japan endorses reactor exports even as it debates nuclear policy at home – Chico Harlan
- World Nuclear News – Driving on with Fukushima roadmap
- Daily Yomiuri – Govt to dispatch GSDF to no-entry zone
- Daily Yomiuri – Excess cesium detected in rice / Shipments from Onami district in Fukushima city banned
- Daily Yomiuri – Anxieties grow about radiation costs / No clear criteria, answers from TEPCO have municipalities fearful for budgets – Tomoaki Tomita and Tatsuya Nozaki
- Japan Times – Fukushima, Tokyo log fewer births
- Japan Times – Officials dump sender’s radioactive soil in Saitama lot – Reiji Yoshida
- Japan Times – More than half of Fukushima fallout ended up in sea: study
- Japan Times – Kepco to raise ¥670 billion via bank loans, CP
- Japan Times – Cesium fallout widespread – Mizuho Aoki
- Japan Times – Fukushima to ban rice grown in Onami
- Japan Times – Cesium fallout widespread – Mizuho Aoki
- Japan Times – Fukushima to ban rice grown in Onami – Natsuko Fukue
- Japan Times – Tepco employees’ shares in firm rise
- Mainichi Daily News – Japan, South Korea, U.S. reaffirm cooperation in dealing with North Korea
- Mainichi Daily News – Half of radioactive materials from Fukushima fell into sea: study
- Mainichi Daily News – Most radioactive cesium piled up within 2 centimeters of soil surface
- Mainichi Daily News – Mayoral candidates for nuke disaster-struck town clash over whether to stay or go
- Mainichi Daily News – Environment Ministry official under fire for dumping radioactive soil near home
- Mainichi Daily News – Volunteers struggle to look after pets orphaned by Fukushima nuclear crisis
- Mainichi Daily News – Kansai Electric to raise 670 bil. yen via bank loans, CP by March
- Mainichi Daily News – Japan mulling banning cesium-tainted rice shipments from Fukushima
- Mainichi Daily News – IEA points to rise in costs, CO2 emissions in ‘low nuclear’ Japan
- Mainichi Daily News – Excessive levels of radioactive cesium found in Fukushima rice
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t mulls sending GSDF troops for advance Fukushima cleanup
- Mainichi Daily News – Debris disposal cost in March disaster exceeds that for Hanshin Quake
- Tokyo Times – Bill for nuclear safety improvements: Y19 bn. per reactor
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
- Gather – Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Unabated – Dai-ichi Radiation Threat Remains Grave – Chuck Larlham
- New Scientist – Radiation levels in Fukushima are lower than predicted – Chelsea Whyte
- Nuclear Engineering – Decontamination system starts up for unit 2 spent fuel pool
- Reuters – Japan says rice near damaged nuclear plant contaminated – Kiyoshi Takenaka
- Washington Post – Japan pushes for reactor exports even as it debates nuclear policy at home – Chico Harlan
- Japan Times – First glimpses inside the Fukushima No. 1 compound since 3/11 – Reiji Yoshida
- Japan Times – IAEA: secure permanent waste sites
- Tokyo Times – Japanese municipality jumpstarts decontamination of houses
- Mainichi Daily News – Questions remain over tsunami safety measures at Hamaoka nuclear plant
- Mainichi Daily News – IAEA urges Japan to secure permanent sites for radioactive waste
- Mainichi Daily News – Hiroshima urges Obama to visit, won’t insist on U.S. A-bomb apology
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
- AFP Google – Firm makes iPhone Geiger counter for worried Japanese
- AFP Google – Some land in Japan too radioactive to farm: study – Miwa Suzuki
- Bloomberg – Japan’s Nuclear-Safety Steps May Cost $252 Million Per Reactor – Tsuyoshi Inajima
- Platts – Japan’s 10 power utilities consume 6 times more oil in Oct – Takeo Kumagai
- Daily Yomiuri – Smartphone geiger counter developed
- Daily Yomiuri – Decontamination of houses under way – Koichiro Takano
- Denki Shimbun – Cabinet decided on basic policy for Fukushima accident decontamination
- Denki Shimbun – GE Hitachi to partner with American company on Finnish nuclear power plant order
- Denki Shimbun – Testimony by workers on the site of stricken Fukushima I NPS
- Japan Times – Cattle in no-go zone to be tested
- Japan Times – Low-level radiation questions spur anxiety – Mizuho Aoki
- Japan Times – Second tainted bottle found in Setagaya
- Mainichi Daily News – Response rate for Fukushima’s thyroid check-ups on kids reaches 77 percent
- Mainichi Daily News – 2nd bottle found underground in Tokyo radiation case
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO gets 559 billion yen in financial aid to pay compensation
- Mainichi Daily News – Mountains limited spread of fallout from Fukushima
- Mainichi Daily News – Board of audit says lab for Monju reactor should not go to waste
- Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO shareholders ask firm auditors to sue 61 directors
Monday, November 14, 2011
- ABC – Tokyo schools checked for radiation
- BBC News – Japan farm radioactive levels probed – Jennifer Carpenter
- CBS News – Mountains curbed spread of radiation in Japan
- Global Research – Coverup: Are Fukushima Reactors 5 and 6 In Trouble Also?
- Global Security Newswire – Atomic Plant Cesium Spreads to 18 Japanese Prefectures
- Huffington Post – From Minamata to Fukushima — The Japanese Nuclear Crisis Isn’t Over Yet – Lyric Hughes Hale
- Nature – Fukushima maps identify radiation hot spots – Edwin Cartlidge
- Daily Yomiuri – Nuclear plant decommissioning presents array of challenges
- Japan Corporate News – MHI Begins Installation of Radioactive Waste Storage Facility Equipment at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
- Japan Times – Contaminated water still headache for Tepco – Kazuaki Nagata
- Japan Times – Unfinished Monju lab shouldn’t go to waste: auditors
- Japan Times – Scientific mind meltdown – Takamitsu Sawa
- Japan Times – Fukushima No. 1 tour an eye-opener – Reiji Yoshida
- Mainichi Daily News – Power plant chief details Fukushima nuclear disaster
- Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t aims for ‘cold shutdown’ of Fukushima reactors, but bemoans lack of data
- Taiwan Today – Taiwan expands safety zones around nuke plants