Sunday, November 18, 2012

• Enformable – In-Focus: Fukushima – TEPCO will ask to raise power rates again if unable to restart Kashiwazaki-Kariwa – Shareholder lawsuit over Fukushima disaster in Tokyo District Court
• Asahi Shimbun – Point of View/ Eiji Oguma: Japan’s nuclear lobby will die soon
• Daily Yomiuri – Museum memorializes village hit by N-crisis
• ENENews – Japan Times: Time bomb in Tokyo metropolitan area — Experts warn of accumulating Fukushima contamination
• ENENews – Fukushima worker fell 13 feet outside Unit 4 — “No radioactive material was attached on his body” — Fractured spine
• Fukushima Diary – [Mysterious Statistics] Japanese deaths of miscellaneous accident increased 17% in Jan and Feb of 2011 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Japanese public agency anticipates the increasing uterine cancer cases of under 44 y.o. for the next 30 years – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – The second thyroid cancer patient is female, 16 ~ 18 years old – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Video] Am-241 measured in Edogawaku Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki

Saturday, November 17, 2012

• National Journal – 20 Months After Nuclear Disaster, Japanese Town Struggles to Rebound – Olga Belogolova
• Asahi Shimbun – DPJ’s draft manifesto fails to outline Noda’s TPP plans – Shinichi Sekine
• Daily Yomiuri – Tsuruga crush zone report put off
• ENENews – Fukushima child suspected to have thyroid cancer -Kyodo
• ENENews – Japan Experts: Contamination from Fukushima “is almost irreversible” in coastal sediments
• ENENews – “Significant concentrations” of Niobium-95 were reported by Japan gov’t after 3/11 -Study
• ENENews – Gov’t: Radioactive black powder near Tokyo is ok, doesn’t need decontamination
• ENENews – Kyodo: Radioactive trout over 100 times gov’t limit caught in Fukushima river
• ENENews – The Guardian posts Fukushima film: Reactors not repaired at all — With one more quake Japan will cease to exist; Resulting destruction will take half of planet along with it (VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – Strontium-90 measured from west of Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Breaking] Another Fukushima child got possible thyroid cancer – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] What is going to happen for the next stage of Fukushima accident ? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “Living in Fukushima as a father” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 203 elementary school students had lips swollen or sore after school lunch in Atsugi city Kanagawa – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Debris incineration] Radiation level is jumping up near Kitakyushu city – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Black and white smoke came out from near reactor3 for 40 mins on 10/30 and 9/4/2012 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Confused report] “No decontamination is needed because the ATMOSPHERIC DOSE is less than 10,000 Bq/h”. – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 11,400 Bq/Kg from trout in Minamisoma Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [What’s leaking?] Radiation level of the seawater at reactor2 reached the highest level since August 2012 – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Tokyo restaurant’s food defeats fears of Fukushima nuclear radiation – Britney Donald
• Japan Times – Cesium in trout 110 times over limit
• Japan Times – The muddy issue of cesium in a lake – Tomoko Otake
• Japan Times – Mitsubishi Heavy develops camera for real-time visualization of radiation

Friday, November 16, 2012

• AP Google – Japan PM dissolves parliament; vote set for Dec 16 – Malcolm Foster
• Enformable – In-Focus: Fukushima – TEPCO will ask to raise power rates again if unable to restart Kashiwazaki-Kariwa – Shareholder lawsuit over Fukushima disaster in Tokyo District Court
• Enformable – In-Focus: Japan – Hiroshima and Nagasaki Mayors request President Obama to visit A-Bomb Sites – Radiation levels in Fukushima have not decreased some 60 kilometers northwest of Fukushima Daiichi
• Nuclear Street – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
• World Nuclear News – Japanese industry bolsters nuclear safety cooperation
• Asahi Shimbun – Hashimoto asks Ishihara to give on nuclear, other key issues
• Asahi Shimbun – 13,000 people file second mass complaint against TEPCO – Masakazu Honda
• Asahi Shimbun – Mitsubishi to develop, market camera capable of ‘seeing’ radiation – Yuki Takayama
• ENENews – The Guardian posts Fukushima film: Reactors not repaired at all – With one more quake Japan will cease to exist; Resulting destruction will take half of planet along with it (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Nuclear Engineer: To me it means Tepco knows about a rip in spent fuel pool liner at Fukushima Unit 3 (VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – [Mutation] White and gigantic sweet potato found in Yamanashi – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Arrested NHK announcer denied the charges – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Potential Japanese new prime minister Abe declared to restart nuclear plants in Japan – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Support for brave people expected] 40% of Fukushima evacuee families live on less than 100,000 JPY monthly – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation watcher in Kashiwa is having acute dyspnea and urticaria, “too many emergency cases at the hospital” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Over 13,000 file second criminal complaint against Tepco, Government for Fukushima disaster – Radhika Seth
• Japan Daily Press – Hiroshima mayor chides Osaka’s Hashimoto for nuclear weapons remarkBy Ida Torres
• Japan Daily Press – Japan’s abundant ground water resource is attracting huge foreign investmentBy Radhika Seth
• Japan Daily Press – Mitsubishi creates camera that can “see” radiation, goes on sale in Feb. – Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Another complaint filed over Fukushima disaster against Tepco, ex-nuclear body
• Japan Times – Fault study at Oi nuke plant may impact all offline reactors – Reiji Yoshida

Thursday, November 15, 2012

• Enformable – Will Ohi fault study impact all offline reactors?
• Enformable – Levels of radiation around Fukushima Daiichi remain stable rather than falling off as predicted – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – In-Focus: Fukushima – TEPCO to construct cover over Unit 3 – Cesium contamination discovered in several products
• Enformable – NRA questions KEPCO’s surveys of Ohi faults
• noodls – (Nov 15,2012)A Supplementary Explanation Added on the Report on the Steel Beam Falling into Unit 3 Spent Fuel Pool at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Response to the […]
• Daily Yomiuri – Ongoing division on N-policy / Compilation of energy plan by committee unlikely by year’s end
• Daily Yomiuri – Ongoing division on N-policy / Compilation of energy plan by committee unlikely by year’s end
• ENENews – Report: Anti-nuclear blogger’s home raided by police – Computer equipment seized (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Yahoo News: Cesium over 500,000 Bq/kg detected in canal soil nearby Fukushima gov’t offices
• ENENews – AP: Massive tornados sweep through Japan — Filmed hovering along coastline — Warnings issued (VIDEOS)
• ENENews – NHK: Tepco doesn’t deny radioactive materials are seeping into Pacific (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Tepco to construct bulbous cover over Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 (PHOTO)
• ENENews – Researchers: Continuing radioactive leaks from Fukushima Daiichi — “There must be a source” — 300,000,000,000 becquerels a month thought entering Pacific
• Fukushima Diary – NHK announcer arrested over indecent assault on train, he was on the TV show to investigate Fukushima accident – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [After the road relay] 515,000 Bq/Kg of cesium in Fukushima city – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 6 celebrities reported to be hospitalized or dead within a week – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 189.7 Bq/kg from dead leaves of street trees in Tochigi – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Critical situation]Fukushima worker confesses, actual Fukushima workers are less than half of what’s reported. – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Anti-nuclear protest blogger’s home raided by police, computer equipment seized – Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Fault study at Oi nuke plant may impact all offline reactors – Reiji Yoshida
• Mainichi Daily News – 41 Fukushima residents demand 20 million yen each from TEPCO for ‘theft of homeland’
• Mainichi Daily News – Voters fed up with ‘gutter politics’
• NHK World – US Congress warns of China’s nuclear build-up
• NHK World – New camera shows radiation levels

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

• Newsvine – Radioactive sea water from Fukushima Daichi has hit the west coast of the United States
• Bloomberg – Another Japanese Prime Minister? Seriously? – William Pesek
• eNews Park Forest – Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, November 13, 2012 .
• Nature – Ocean still suffering from Fukushima fallout – Geoff Brumfiel
• UN Human Rights – UN expert to probe health rights dimension in the post-disaster Japan
• Asahi Shimbun – WWII bomb removed from airport in Japan
• Asahi Shimbun – Radiation shield halves equipment operator’s dose
• ENENews – Radioactive tea leaves found over 1,000 km from Fukushima — 80 Bq/kg detected in Western Japan; Gov’t limit is 10 Bq/kg
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima prefectural birth rate rapidly dropping in 2012 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation monitoring post of Fukushima medical university is out of order – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 276,000 Bq/Kg from soil of Kashiwa Chiba – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Contamination reached far western Japan] 80 Bq/Kg of cesium from tea leaves produced in Kagoshima – Iori Mochizuki
• Mainichi Daily News – Hiroshima mayor complains about Hashimoto’s remark on nuclear arms
• Mainichi Daily News – Fukushima held ‘secret meetings’ on format of health surveys
• NHK World – Interview with US nuclear watchdog chief
• NHK World – NRA questions nuclear operator’s Ohi probe
• NHK World – Date set for fissure survey at Fukui nuclear plant
• NHK World – UN OKs continued analysis of Fukushima radiation
• Japan Daily Press – Germany regaining trust in Japanese food importsBy Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Japanese regulators to conduct fault survey at Fukui nuclear plant
• Japan Times – Germans trust Japanese food again
• Japan Times – Chernobyl study shows need for caution in Fukushima
• China Post – New Taipei mayor ensures yet more delays for Nuke 4

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

• Enformable – NRA to investigate faults under Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant – Lucas W Hixson
• Reuters – Japan’s Tepco sees no quick re-start for biggest nuclear plant – Risa Maeda and Aaron Sheldrick
• World Politics Review – Japan’s Post-Fukushima Nuclear Energy Conundrum – Shihoko Goto
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO sees no quick re-start for biggest nuclear plant – BBC News
• Asahi Shimbun – Worries over highly radioactive fish prompt study
• Daily Yomiuri – NRA to check ground under Tsuruga plant
• Daily Yomiuri – 5 radiation monitoring posts hit by vandals
• Denki Shimbun – TEPCO explained new management policy to Fukushima governor – Denki Shimbun
• Denki Shimbun – Japanese government to reconsider its greenhouse gas reduction target
• ENENews – Asahi: Gov’t worried about highly radioactive fish — Why are radiation readings still 100s of times over official safe limits?
• ENENews – NHK Documentary: Recently deteriorating working conditions at Fukushima plant causing workers to quit — Company hasn’t been able to recruit a single employee (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Top Japan paper reports 100,000 at Tokyo nuclear protest, then alters headline (VIDEO)
• Fukushima Diary – [Former chairman of nuclear safety commission] “You can never feel reassured about nuclear power, it’s so spooky.” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Same substance in Kashiwa ?] Yellow substance stuck to street trees in Ibaraki – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] Only principal and school nurse wear masks with students wear no mask – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fukuoka school lunch association has been purchasing food from Fukushima since August 2011 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radiation level jumped up to be double in Aomori prefecture – Iori Mochizuki
• Mainichi Daily News – Radioactive contamination found in Spanish village a Cold War ‘relic’
• Mainichi Daily News – News Navigator: Is relief money for quake victims still being raised? – Denki Shimbun
• NHK WORLD – Nuclear panel to study Tsuruga plant fissures
• NHK WORLD – UN human rights expert to visit Japan’s northeast
• Taipei Times – AEC to cover professor’s injuries – Tang Chia-ling and Stacy Hsu

Monday, November 12, 2012

• OilPrice – Japan’s Last Remaining Nuclear Power Plant may be Built on an Active Fault Line – Joao Peixe
• Asahi Shimbun – Big anti-nuclear protest held near Diet building in Tokyo
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: Nuclear Regulation Authority’s integrity being put to the test
• Daily Yomiuri – ‘Zero nuclear power policy’ has no place in DPJ’s manifesto
• Daily Yomiuri – Lawmakers join rally against nuclear power
• ENENews – Japan Nuclear Engineer: “Mind-blowing… truly outrageous” — Many massive pools of contaminated water are spread around Fukushima plant
• ENENews – Top Nuclear Official: Japan in “desperate, seemingly endless battle with radiation” — “Seemingly infinite damage to the daily life of residents”
• Fukushima Diary – Another truck driver had myocardial infarction to crash into a parking bus in Hayama machi Kanagawa – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Human hair more contaminated than food] Over 100 Bq/Kg from hair of Fukushima citizen – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 12778.74Bq/kg of cesium from the HEPA filter of air cleaner in Yokohama – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Over 9.999 µSv/h in Edogawaku Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [NHK] Decontamination: Losing the Sheltering Trees – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Traffic control staff company recruits decontamination staff in Minamisoma Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• JAIF – Update
• Japan Daily Press – Former lawyer to run for Tokyo governor, vows to get rid of nuclear power – Ida Torres
• Japan Daily Press – Government official begs nuclear regulator to restart reactors so utilities can make money – Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Hashimoto stuns ‘addled’ nuke foes – Eric Johnston
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: TEPCO’s request for more funds a payback for gov’t dodging responsibility
• TEPCO – Results of Reinvestigation of Unit 1 Operation Floor at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
• Taiwan Today – AEC finds radiation levels safe on Orchid Island – Rachel Chan