Sunday, January 20, 2013

• Le Monde.fr – Radioactivité record sur un poisson pêché près de Fukushima – Google translate
• Asahi Shimbun – Interview: Scholars call for greater cooperation between Hiroshima, Nagasaki in anti-nuclear push
• Daily Yomiuri – 70% of towns behind in N-plans / Municipalities struggling to prepare disaster measures by March deadline
• ENENews – Mayor from Fukushima hospitalized — Town office was 2 miles northwest of nuclear plant
• Fukushima Diary – 5 Bq/Kg from Fukushima apple juice and 5.8 Bq/Kg from Miso – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “Doctors give no advice for health problems in Shirakawa city Fukushima” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Futabamachi mayor Idogawa immediately hospitalized – Iori Mochizuki
• Mainichi Daily News – Power suppliers, individuals should be responsible for ensuring safety of nuclear plants – Asahi Shimbun
• NHK World – Contractors fail to pay decontamination workers

Saturday, January 19, 2013

• Enformable – March 26th, 2011 – Don’t build nuclear plants in highly seismic areas thank you very much
• Enformable – Record contamination detected in fish caught inside of Fukushima Daiichi harbor – Lucas W Hixson
• RT – Fish with radiation over 2,500 times safe levels found near Fukushima plant
• Asahi Shimbun – Record radioactive cesium levels found in Fukushima rockfish
• Asahi Shimbun – Probe reveals 45% of cleanup subcontractors violated labor laws
• Daily Yomiuri – Record-high cesium in fish near N-plant
• ENENews – Radio: “Continually, radioactive elements are being flushed into the Pacific” — “The Fukushima accident will never end, they have no idea how to clean it up” -Caldicott (AUDIO)
• ENENews – Caldicott: Terribly alarming what’s happening in Japan — Signs of radiation sickness reported in children after 3/11 — Lies are being fed to the people (AUDIO)
• ENENews – Fish with cesium near gov’t limit caught hundreds of miles from Fukushima
• Fukushima Diary – [Column] Even if the entire world was contaminated – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Radioactive plume reached far south island Okinawa from 3/25 to 4/25/2011 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 45 % of Fukushima decontaminators violated labor standards act, no radiation check of the area in advance in 34 cases – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – MOE’s decontamination redressing program full of blotting out – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Plutonium-239/240 measured from offshore Fukushima, Tepco “It’s within historical range, not from Fukushima” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – This is the dust sampling equipment of Fukushima nuclear plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Greenpeace “Cesium from fish sold at supermarkets” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Concern for Fukushima people – Azby Brown
• Japan Times – Editorial: Waste undermines reconstruction

Friday, January 18, 2013

• AFP Google – Japan finds high radiation levels in fish: TEPCO
• Bloomberg – Japan Panel to Start Clean Energy Tariff-Setting Talks Jan. 21 – Chisaki Watanabe
• Enformable – Japan to mandate BWR reactors to install filtered vents after Fukushima disaster – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – March 24th, 2011 – Neutron source found 1 mile from Fukushima Daiichi – Maybe from Unit 3 explosion
• Asahi Shimbun – CROOKED CLEANUP: Government confirms 5 cases of shoddy decontamination work – Asahi Shimbun
• Asahi Shimbun – Industry minister to continue nuclear fuel cycle policy
• ENENews – AFP: Record high radiation found in Fukushima fish – 2,500 times cesium limit
• ENENews – Doctor: Source of Fukushima leakage still not controlled – Reactor cores may be underneath containment (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Tepco Official: Fukushima Daiichi is on ocean and groundwater is close to surface – A ‘daunting challenge’ to keep radioactive material from spreading?
• Fukushima Diary – Plutonium-239/240 measured from offshore Fukushima, Tepco “It’s within historical range, not from Fukushima” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – This is the dust sampling equipment of Fukushima nuclear plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Greenpeace “Cesium from fish sold at supermarkets” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 254,000 Bq/Kg from rockfish in Fukushima plant port – Iori Mochizuki
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear watchdog to require filtered ventilation system for boiling-water reactors – Asahi Shimbun
• NHK World – Monitoring of decontamination work to be boosted
• TEPCO News – TEPCO News Update
• Focus Taiwan – Government blasted for issuing ‘threat’ in defense of nuclear power – 2013/01/18 21:56:06
• Taipei Times – Directors seek to boost anti-nuclear bid – Tang Chia-ling and Stacy Hsu
• Taipei Times – MOEA misleading on rate hikes: groups – Lee I-chia

Thursday, January 17, 2013

• Xinhua News – Top Japanese nuke envoy visits Seoul for talks
• Asahi Shimbun – CROOKED CLEANUP: Photos, videos show contractors lied in decontamination reports
• Daily Yomiuri – Japan, Vietnam to jointly build N-plants
• ENENews – Video: “Going from bad to worse, day by day” at Fukushima plant – “The situation don’t improve at all”
• ENENews – “Tip of the Iceberg”: Rampant violations during Fukushima decontamination – “Photos, videos show contractors lied” -Asahi
• ENENews – Gundersen: “Discovery of neutron sources off site means Unit 3 fuel was broken by Unit 3 detonation” — “I said that 18 months ago, and it looks like the NRC agrees”
• Fukushima Diary – French NHK announcer fired after evacuation following French governmental instruction – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco released the latest survey map of Fukushima plant, 200µSv/h from the west of reactor4 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 2.27 µSv/h from dog paws in Tokyo – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Oi nuclear plant panel fails to reach consensus over active fault issueBy Ida Torres
• Japan Times – Farmers still suffering from radiation fears – Patrice Novotny
• Kyodo News – Industry minister vows to maintain nuclear fuel recycling policy

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

• Enformable – Japan working to speed up decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi reactors – Lucas W Hixson
• Enformable – March 23rd, 2011 – Fukushima disaster spurred rush of applications for emergency visas to leave Japan
• Nature – Fukushima: Fallout of fear – Geoff Brumfiel
• Nature – Editorial: A sustained commitment to mental-health treatment for Fukushima evacuees could also help survivors of future disasters.
• Asahi Shimbun – 9 utilities spent 2.4 trillion yen to sell public on nuke power
• Asahi Shimbun – Watchdog to define maximum tsunami heights for nuclear plants
• Daily Yomiuri – Editorial: Spread of renewable energy faces many hurdles
• Daily Yomiuri – Woman sues NHK for ‘unfair’ dismissal
• ENENews – ‘Neutron sources’ were found 1 mile from Fukushima plant after 3/11 – “Some fuel may have been injected from that spent fuel pool”
• ENENews – NHK announcer sues after being fired for evacuating Japan because of Fukushima disaster
• ENENews – Nature: People have ‘radiophobia’ if they believe food from Fukushima is not safe – “Japan kept people safe from the physical effects of radiation”
• ENENews – Expert to discuss radioactive material being emptied into ocean from Fukushima Daiichi -Caldicott (AUDIO)
• ENENews – Tepco Official in US: “We are still seeing leakage” — Contaminated groundwater seeping into reactor areas
• Fukushima Diary – The first floor of the steel framing of reactor4 cover was completed – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco temporarily stopped updating the plant parameters of reactor2 including the temperature data – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “This is how incineration ash of sewage sludge is stocked in Kanazawa ward Yokohama” – Iori Mochizuki
• InsideJapan – NHK former employee sues for unfair dismissal
• Japan Daily Press – Government reveals more cases of poor Fukushima clean-up efforts – Ida Torres
• Mainichi Daily News – Nuclear Regulation Authority to broaden definition of active faults
• Mainichi Daily News – French woman who fled during nuclear crisis sues NHK for firing her

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

• Enformable – Workers complete first stage of steel cover for Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 – Lucas W Hixson
• RocketNews24 – Paying Just $11 a Day, Subcontractors Ripping Off Fukushima Nuclear Accident Decontamination Workers – John Stuart
• TruthDive – Contractors employed to decontaminate Fukushima sites lacked proper knowledge
• Asahi Shimbun – Ship that survived 1954 H-bomb test draws renewed attention – Akira Hatano
• Daily Yomiuri – Toshiba developing small N-reactor / Reactor to be used to mine oil sands in Canada; initial operation by 2020 eyed
• Daily Yomiuri – Fisheries still not fully recovered
• ENENews – First layer for cover at Fukushima Unit 4 (PHOTO)
• Japan Daily Press – Tohoku farmers adversely affected by consumer fears of nuclear contamination – Cherrie Lou Billones
• Japan Times – Editorial: Stimulus package alert
• Japan Times – Advising Abe on the wisdom of a nuclear restart
• NHK World – Poll: 43% want “zero nuclear power” policy review
• NHK World – Japan to continue exporting nuclear infrastructure
• NHK World – Meeting on nuclear power generation in SE Asia

Monday, January 14, 2013

• AFP Google – Nuclear fears contaminate sales for Japan farmers – Patrice Novotny
• Enformable – March 21st, 2011 – Concentrations of I-131 within 20 km of Fukushima Daiichi 10 times maximum acceptable levels
• Enformable – Radiation data released by Japan not comparable to actual levels measured by USS George Washington
• OilPrice – New Japanese Government Looks to Bring Back Nuclear Power – Joao Peixe
• Asahi Shimbun – CROOKED CLEANUP: Fukushima city not sticking to plan to decontaminate homes – Masakazu Honda
• ENENews – Study: 88% of cesium in radioactive ash might be at risk of being transported away from Japan landfills by wind and rain
• ENENews – Asahi: Almost entire city of 300,000 people has radiation levels high enough to get decontaminated by gov’t
• ENENews – Teenagers working with Fukushima radioactive waste
• ENENews – Fukushima governor hopitalized — Bleeding from colon
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima governor, Sato hospitalized for bleeing from diverticulosis of colon – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Daily Press – Abe promises bigger focus on Tohoku recovery efforts – Ida Torres
• Japan Times – Tepco’s power bidding plan raises warming concerns
• Japan Times – Worker: Decontamination shoddy
• Mainichi Daily News – Editorial: TEPCO and gov’t must rush to bring relief to disaster victims