Sunday, January 08, 2012

• Gainesville Sun – James Tulenko: Safer than Daichi? – James Tulenko
•  Reuters – Japan govt eyes Tepco common shares-Jiji – Mayumi Negishi
•  Xinhua News – Japan plans to scrap nuclear plants after 40 years
•  Daily Yomiuri – N-zones may keep 25,000 from home
•  Daily Yomiuri – 2 towns at risk of disappearing / Okuma, Futaba face uncertain future due to nearby crippled N-plant – Yasushi Kaneko
•  Daily Yomiuri – Policy of decommissioning aged nuclear plants too abrupt
•  Japan Times – Editorial: Prepare for decontamination
•  Mainichi Daily News – Japan asks Saudis for stable supply of oil in wake of disaster

Saturday, January 07, 2012

• truthout – Science with a Skew: The Nuclear Power Industry After Chernobyl and Fukushima – Gayle Greene
•  Arirang News – Japan Plans to Shut Down All Nuclear Plants by 2050
•  IPS – Taiwan: Poll Will Decide Nuclear Plant’s Fate – Dennis Engbarth
•  New York Times – Japan: New Limits on Reactors – Hiroko Tabuchi
•  Japan Times – A crisis generated by leadership – R.L. Hails Sr.
•  Japan Times – Fukushima lays bare Japanese media’s ties to top – David Mcneill
•  Japan Times – Japan, Turkey eye nuclear talks, FTA
•  Mainichi Daily News – 40-year limit to promote public acceptance of nuclear plants has few, if any, real changes
•  Mainichi Daily News – Traditional burning of New Year’s decorations canceled due to fear of spreading radiation
•  Mainichi Daily News – Tunnel full of radioactively-contaminated water found at Fukushima nuclear plant
•  Mainichi Daily News – Japan, Turkey agree to restart talks on nuclear cooperation pact
•  Mainichi Daily News – Hiroshima mayor, governor protest 3rd U.S. plutonium test
•  Mainichi Daily News – U.S. gov’t says it conducted 4th plutonium test in last Nov.
•  Tokyo Times – Japan to limit reactors to 40 years…maybe

Friday, January 06, 2012

•  Bloomberg – Japan May Nationalize Nuclear Power Plants, Edano Tells Yomiuri – Taku Kato
•  Reuters – Update 1-Japan plans 40-yr limit on reactors’ life, with exceptions – Kaori Kaneko
•  Reuters – Update 1-Japan looking at taking control of nuclear power -media – Nobuhiro Kubo, James Topham and Rie Ishiguro
•  Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima exposes contradictions / Nuclear crisis prompts govt to rethink private companies’ operation of N-plants – Hiroshi Ikematsu
•  Daily Yomiuri – Govt mulls public operations of N-plants
•  Japan Times – U.S. simulated nuke test doesn’t draw flak – Masami Ito
•  Japan Times – Nuke regulators get teeth via bills – Kazuaki Nagata
•  Japan Times – Bills set to tighten nuke safety rules – Kazuaki Nagata
•  Tokyo Times – Robots to work the land in tsunami destroyed area

Thursday, January 05, 2012

• South America: Environment News Service – Ecuadorian Court Confirms $18 Billion Chevron Damage Award
•  ABC – Can Japan do better than Chernobyl? – Margaret Beavis
•  The Economist – The Fukushima black box–A dangerous lack of urgency in drawing lessons from Japan’s nuclear disaster
•  Reuters – Update 1-Japan looking at taking control of nuclear power -media – Nobuhiro Kubo, James Topham and Rie Ishiguro
•  ScienceBlogs – Japan Nuclear Disaster Update # 42: A River Runs Through It – Analiese Miller and Greg Laden
•  Japan Times – Pressure on Iran puts Tokyo in a bind
•  Japan Times – Tokyo exodus nuke report’s worst scenario – Reiji Yoshida
•  Japan Times – Domestic robots failed to ride to rescue after No. 1 plant blew – Hiroko Nakata
•  Japan Times – Nuke report’s worst case: Tokyo exodus – Reiji Yoshida
•  Mainichi Daily News – Kashiwa stops operation of incinerator again as radioactive ash fills up storage
•  Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima to conduct blanket screening of rice to be harvested in fall
•  Mainichi Daily News – Reinsurer: Record natural disaster losses in 2011

Wednesday, January 04, 2012

•  Bloomberg – Japanese Don’t Want a Nuclear Future: The Ticker – William Pesek
•  Los Angeles Times – Japan’s tsunami has dealt lasting blow to family farms – John M. Glionna
•  Daily Yomiuri – Japan, Ukraine to make pact on N-accidents
•  Daily Yomiuri – 2012: rebuilding disaster-hit areas / Mayors, town officials stress working together to recover from March 11
•  Japan Times – Get real and focus on substanceEamon Watters
•  Japan Times – New paradigm for nuclear energy – Michael Conley
•  Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t opens nuclear decontamination office in Fukushima city

Tuesday, January 03, 2012

• Columbus Free Press – 2012 is the year to finally bury nuke power – Harvey Wasserman
•  IPS News – New Year Brings Economic Aftershocks – Suvendrini Kakuchi
•  Platts – Japan’s Kyushu Electric restarts 500 MW Ainoura oil-fired unit – Takeo Kumagai
•  Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO says water level in tank at Fukushima nuclear dropped due to quake
•  Mainichi Daily News – 2 nuclear safety panel members got 7.1 mil. yen donation from industry
•  Japan Times – Nuclear Awakening: Mothers first to shed food-safety complacency – Mizuho Aoki
•  Japan Times – Crisis spawns distrust as Web alliances try to push for truth
•  Japan Times – Nuclear Awakening: Fukushima meltdowns set nuclear energy debate on its ear – Kazuaki Nagata

Monday, January 02, 2012

•  Energy Collective – Details Emerge About Failures at Fukushima – Dan Yurman
•  Japan Times – Nuclear Awakening: Fukushima meltdowns set nuclear energy debate on its ear – Kazuaki Nagata
•  Japan Today – Even higher costs and more headaches ahead for nuclear power in 2012
•  Mainichi Daily News – Energy agency boss told subordinate to cover up estimated costs to dump nuclear fuel