Sunday, February 12, 2012

• The Guardian – Fukushima reactor readings raise reheating concern – Justin McCurry
• Utility Products – TEPCO provided radiation map to U.S. before Japanese public
• Wall Street Journal – Japan Nuclear Crisis Pushes Plants to Limit? – Mari Iwata
• Arirang News – Fukushima No.2 Reactor Temperature Exceeds Limit of 80C
• Kyodo News – Opinion: After Fukushima, lessons to reduce nuclear terror – Rebecca Johnson
• Japan Times – Fukushima No. 2 reactor temperature rises to 82 C
• Japan Times – Editorial: Japan: failure or success
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima No. 2 reactor temperature up to 82C, but not critical: TEPCO
• Mainichi Daily News – Residents near Hamaoka plant evasive about no-nuke future
• Mainichi Daily News – From atomic bombings to nuclear disaster: director turns camera toward Fukushima

Saturday, February 11, 2012

• Daily Yomiuri – Tokyo gov. opposes ‘N-vote’
• Japan Times – A future free from nuclear energy? Yakushima may be ready – Rowan Hooper
• Japan Times – Oe leads rally against nuclear power plants
• Mainichi Daily News – Residents near Hamaoka plant evasive about no-nuke future
• Mainichi Daily News – Tokyo Gov. Ishihara dismisses call for ordinance on nuclear plant referendum
• Mainichi Daily News – Citizens group runs full-page anti-nuclear ad in Mainichi
• Mainichi Daily News – Atomic energy commission to recommend background checks for nuclear workers
• Mainichi Daily News – N. Korea began enriching uranium in 1998, exported to Libya via Pakistan
• Mainichi Daily News – Farm, marine product exports fall in 2011, on 35% plunge to China
• Mainichi Daily News – Over 100,000 signatures collected for Tokai nuclear plant scrapping
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO, nuclear liability fund seeking additional 1 trillion yen in loans
• Mainichi Daily News – PM asks local gov’ts across Japan to help dispose of quake, tsunami rubble
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan central gov’t debt at record 958 trillion yen in December

Friday, February 10, 2012

• Bloomberg – Tokyo Electric Asks Lenders for Loans of 1 Trillion Yen, Nikkei Reports – Yoshiaki Nohara
• Bloomberg – Japan Demand for Oil Rising to Replace Nuclear Power, IEA Says – Dinakar Sethuraman
• New York Times – A Confused Nuclear Cleanup – Hiroko Tabuchi
• New York Times – Japan Starts Nuclear Cleanup, With Little Idea of How – Hiroko Tabuchi
• New York Times – Slideshow: Japan Begins Nuclear Cleanup
• Reuters – Update 1-Tepco asks lenders additional $12.88 bln – Nikkei – Sunayan Bhattacharjee
• Reuters – Japan priest fights invisible demon: radiation – Ruairidh Villar and Yuriko Nakao
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt to make TEPCO more transparent / 3 committees to oversee management
• Daily Yomiuri – Radioactive waste site opened to media in Okuma – Yasushi Kaneko
• Daily Yomiuri – Panel: All N-plant staff should have ID checks
• Daily Yomiuri – Approval near for Oi reactors / Agency says stress test evaluations at N-plant were adequate
• Daily Yomiuri – Fukushima No. 2 plant was ‘near meltdown’
• Denki Shimbun – Creation of training framework for decontamination workers urgently sought
• Denki Shimbun – Prolonged nuclear plant shutdown increasingly impacting economy and environment
• Japan Times – Tepco to sell ¥300 billion in securities
• Japan Times – Ehime Maru tragedy marked
• Japan Times – Tepco to shut down last reactor in March
• Japan Times – Antinuke petitioners to lobby assembly – Mizuho Aoki
• Japan Times – Nationwide antinuke rallies planned
• Japan Times – Edano to Tepco: ‘Turn over new leaf’ or we’ll cut you off
• Japan Times – Kansai exec forum skims atomic power debate – Eric Johnston
• Japan Times – Most Singaporeans still shunning visits to Japan on nuke safety fears – Siti Rahil
• Japan Times – Petition ready for Tepco nuke vote
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO has paid 229.2 billion yen in damages for nuclear crisis
• Mainichi Daily News – Municipalities dissatisfied with gov’t’s rice-planting restriction: survey
• Mainichi Daily News – FOCUS: Japan, U.S. hoping to conjure better ending after failed scenario
• Mainichi Daily News – Local leaders call for reform in electricity policy
• Mainichi Daily News – News Navigator: How is radioactively tainted farm soil decontaminated?
• Mainichi Daily News – Operations at all TEPCO nuclear reactors to be halted in March
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t wants TEPCO to ‘turn over new leaf’ in return for more aid
• Mainichi Daily News – Enough voters sign petition seeking Tokyo nuclear power referendum
• Asia One – Taiwan nuclear safety regulator plays down reactor security report

Thursday, February 09, 2012

• Platts – Japan’s Tepco maintains Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear operations after quake – Takeo Kumagai
• Reuters – Tokyo Elec says to shut last nuclear reactor on March 26 – Osamu Tsukimori
• Reuters – Tepco says to sell $3.9 bln in securities by March – Osamu Tsukimori
• Mainichi Daily News – Radioactive waste disposal site unveiled to reporters
• Mainichi Daily News – Prefectural team makes 1st inspection of Fukushima No. 2 nuke plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Oi reactor restarts still in limbo after passing stress test
• Mainichi Daily News – 2 municipalities to conclude mutual aid pact in event of disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear agency to finalize report endorsing Oi reactors stress tests
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear safety agency calls for dispersal of power sources at plants
• Focus Taiwan – Nuclear waste under strict management: Taipower
• Focus Taiwan – Taiwan dismisses nuclear waste storage concerns – Huang Chiao-wen and Scully Hsiao
• Taipei Times – Atomic body dismisses report on nuclear safety

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

• Bloomberg – Nobel Winner Oe Urges Japan to Decommission Nuclear Reactors – Chisaki Watanabe
• Bloomberg – Japan to Install Vent System for Reactors After Fukushima Crisis – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• The Guardian – Rising temperatures at Fukushima raise questions over stability of nuclear plant – Justin McCurry
• Reuters – Japan atomic watchdog postpones 1st stress test approval – Risa Maeda
• UPI – Bird numbers drop around Fukushima
• Washington Post – Messages show conflict within NRC after Japan’s earthquake and tsunami – Steven Mufson
• World Nuclear News – Stabilisation after Fukushima cooling change
• Daily Yomiuri – Tsunami was up to 21 meters in Fukushima
• Daily Yomiuri – Foreigner exodus spurs Chiba population decline
• Daily Yomiuri – Temperature inside reactor stops rising
• Daily Yomiuri – Air radiation drops after snowfall / But decontamination necessary, levels will rise once snow melts, experts say
• Japan Times – NISA to OK report on Oi reactors’ stress tests
• Japan Times – Emails bare NRC’s Fukushima chaos – Steven Mufson
• Japan Times – Reactor 2 temperatures said trending lower – Kazuaki Nagata
• Japan Times – Emails reveal chaos in U.S. over crisis – Steven Mufson
• Mainichi Daily News – Nobel Prize winner Oe stresses Japan’s ethical responsibility for ending nuclear program
• Mainichi Daily News – Power firms to install vent facilities in all domestic nuclear plants
• Mainichi Daily News – Hibakusha: A-bomb survivor vows to pass torch of anti-nuke fight to next generation
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima No. 2 reactor cools slightly after increased water injection

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

• AsiaOne – Japan’s air radiation drops after snowfall – Pioneer Press
• Pacific Free Press – Fukushima Update: Temperature Rising at TEPCO Unit 2 – Nelle Maxey
• Pacific Free Press – Fukushima Problems Continue to Mount – Nelle Maxey
• Radio Australia – Japan, US consider nuclear energy council
• Washington Post – Messages show conflict within NRC after Japan earthquake and tsunami – Steven Mufson
• Daily Yomiuri – Govt eyeing restart of Oi reactors in April
• Daily Yomiuri – Air radiation drops after snowfall / But decontamination necessary, levels will rise once snow melts, experts say
• Daily Yomiuri – TEPCO injects more water into reactor
• Daily Yomiuri – N-safety unit to be housed with METI
• Denki Shimbun – Restart of reprocessing plant final test deferred
• Denki Shimbun – Methane hydrate production test to start soon – Denki Shimbun
• Denki Shimbun – Restart of reprocessing plant final test deferred
• Japan Times – Crisis never came close to scenario meriting Tokyo evacuation: panel chief – Reiji Yoshida
• Japan Times – Water rate increased for reactor 2
• Japan Times – Utilities to adopt filtered vent units for pressurized light-water reactors
• Japan Times – Damage by animals to be studied
• Japan Times – Nuke dangers nowhere near resolved: Kan’s crisis adviser – Reiji Yoshida
• Japan Times – High cesium found in earthworms
• Japan Times – Reactor No. 2 heats up, gets more water
• Mainichi Daily News – Pro-nuclear energy town councillor’s firm had 700 million yen in nuke plant contracts
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to set up radiation yardstick for shipping Fukushima stones
• Mainichi Daily News – Utilities to adopt vent system for pressurized water reactors
• Mainichi Daily News – Study into wild animals in Fukushima, vicinity to be launched
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan, U.S. eyeing new panel for nuclear cooperation
• Mainichi Daily News – Hiroshima to sponsor young storytellers about atomic bombing – Denki Shimbun
• Tokyo Reporter – Temperature rise at TEPCO’s damaged No. 2 reactor in Fukushima, NHK says

Monday, February 06, 2012

• Bloomberg – Tepco Injects Boric Acid in Fukushima Plant – Tsuyoshi Inajima
• HNN Huntingtonnews – Shining the Light on the Triple Meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi – Margaret Harrington interviews Maggie and Arnie Gundersen
• Reuters – Update 1-Japan aims to restart nuclear reactors in April -report – Osamu Tsukimori and Kentaro Hamada
• Reuters – Japan’s Kyushu Elec nearly triples Dec-March oil, gas buy – Osamu Tsukimori
• Japan Times – Editorial: Questions over stress tests
• Japan Times – Utilities face hike in redress fund ante
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t cover-up of nuke fuel disposal cost sparks rage
• Mainichi Daily News – High radioactive cesium levels detected in worms 20 km from nuke plant
• Mainichi Daily News – Kyushu men sent to Fukushima nuke plant under falsified labor deals
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t probe into cover-up of nuclear fuel disposal costs finished without full questioning
• Mainichi Daily News – Edano key person in Japan’s nuclear future, but keeps true intentions hidden – Takao Yamada
• Mainichi Daily News – 1.5-fold rise eyed for nuke plant operators’ payments to damages fund
• Tokyo Times – Chernobyl experts hopeful on Fukushima