Sunday, May 12, 2013

• Asahi Shimbun – LDP to include campaign pledge calling for restart of nuclear reactors – Tomoyoshi Otsu
• Asahi Shimbun – Anti-terrorist drill held at second Fukushima nuclear plant
• Japan Times – Clinic opens in fallout-hit Namie
• Japan Times – A-bomb survivor passes on wisdom to Fukushima kids – Hiroki Sato and Kentaro Okada
• Japan Times – LDP locks sights on reactors, Constitution
• Japan Times – Terrorist drill held for Fukushima nuclear plant
• Japan Times – NRA asks Kepco to recheck Oi safety
• Mainichi Daily News – A-bomb survivors pass on own experiences to support Fukushima
• Mainichi Daily News – Drill against terror attack on Fukushima nuclear plant conducted

Saturday, May 11, 2013

• Fairewinds Energy Education – What Did They Know and When? Fukushima Daiichi Before and After The Meltdowns Symposium: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident (pdf-19M)
• Asahi Shimbun – Labor ministry disciplines 3 worker dispatch companies – Toshio Tada
• ENENews – Kyodo: Terror drill at Fukushima nuclear plant — Fears about ‘highly fragile’ cooling systems
• ENENews – ‘Emergency decontamination’ needed in places used by Fukushima kids — Highly radioactive material accumulating — City Official: Many times higher than previous record for urban areas
• ENENews – Tepco to demolish makeshift cover at Fukushima Reactor No. 1 — Trying to remove “radioactive material” — Will take 4 years for new one (PHOTO)
• Fukushima Diary – 1.16µSv/h in the park for Rock in Japan Fes 2013 (No postponement for rain) – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Second year disaster related deaths in Fukushima are 14 times much as Miyagi and Iwate – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Concern about the soundness of ground] Fukushima worker “1m deep ground fissure came to us near reactor5,6 on 311? – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – A thermometer in reactor1 indicating temperature unusually increasing “2? in 4 days” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Fallout level in Fukushima city in increasing trend since the summer of 2012 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 46 volcanic quakes and 3 tremors in Mt. Zao in Miyagi this April, Meteorological agency “No immediate eruption risk” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “Hospital food is full of shiitake mushroom even for a pregnant woman” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Terrorist drill held for Fukushima nuclear plant
• Japan Times – Nagasaki firms warned for sending workers to stricken nuke plant
• Japan Times – LDP locks sights on reactors, Constitution
• Japan Times – NRA asks Kepco to recheck Oi safety
• Japan Times – LDP locks sights on reactors, Constitution
• Japan Times – Tepco to expose fuel pool for extract
• Taiwan News – Taipower should pay for Orchid Island health checks: Control Yuan

Friday, May 10, 2013

• Asahi Shimbun – Cover on Fukushima reactor building to be demolished – Jin Nishikawa
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “They took away my glass badge because the exposure dose was too high” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 430,000 Bq/Kg and 280,000 Bq/Kg measured from dust near public libraries, pref gov blockaded irrelevant place – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [11months concealment] Sr-90 measured from children’s food in Fukushima, Fukushima gov “not dangerous level” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco to dismantle reactor1 cover to remove the spent fuel assemblies, “4 years to start removing the fuel” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Black smoke from near the north side of reactor6, Tepco “Not fire” – Iori Mochizuki
• ENENews – ‘Emergency decontamination’ needed in places used by Fukushima kids – Highly radioactive material accumulating – City Official: Many times higher than previous record for urban areas
• ENENews – Tepco to demolish makeshift cover at Fukushima Reactor No. 1 – Trying to remove “radioactive material” – Will take 4 years for new one (PHOTO)
• Japan Daily Press – Still no decision on fault line under Tsuruga nuclear plant as deadline nears – Ida Torres
• Japan Daily Press – New documentary shows plight of Fukushima nuclear plant evacuees – Ida Torres
• Japan Times – Tepco to expose fuel pool for extract
• Mainichi Daily News – Researcher uses GPS data to investigate evacuee movements after nuclear disaster
• NHK World – TEPCO to remove cover of Fukushima reactor bldg.

Thursday, May 09, 2013

• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ The disaster and animals (9): Protection of cats in no-go zone took a back seat – Misuzu Tsukue
• Asahi Shimbun – Editorial: First of all, Japan should think about nuclear nonproliferation
• ENENews – Cover over Reactor No. 1 to be removed at Fukushima plant – Radiation levels expected to rise
• ENENews – Report: Tepco now dumping contaminated water from Fukushima plant into ocean – 200 tons of radioactive groundwater “pumped out”
• Fukushima Diary – Minamisoma municipal Gov doesn’t release the food contamination data even after newspaper covered that – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – JAL served Fukushima game fowl for in-flight meal of business class last March and April – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Cs-137 measured from 2 of the 2 eel samples in Ibaraki, “Max was 13.2 Bq/Kg” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “Tom Cruise, I don’t really care about radiation but more about mental trauma of Japanese people.” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Express] “Young member of Tepco came to METI to ask to change all the executives of Tepco” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Leakage] Tritium found leaking from 3 of 5 reservoirs, “Max was 300,000,000 Bq/m3? – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Tepco eyes dumping groundwater
• Japan Times – Fukushima activist fights fear and discrimination based on radiation – Mizuho Aoki
• Japan Times – Editorial: New nuclear safety standards
• Mainichi Daily News – Confusion prevails as decision deadline approaches on Tsuruga nuke plant
• RocketNews24 – Japanese Documentary Tells the Real Story of the Daiichi Nuclear Plant Evacuees – Andrew Miller

Wednesday, May 08, 2013

• Daily Telegraph – Rieko Sato’s two challenges in Japan: rebuilding Tepco after a nuclear crisis, and being a woman – Danielle Demetriou
• New York Times – OpEd: When Nature Is Not Enough – Nassrine Azimi
• UPI Asia – Fukushima debris cleanup delayed
• Xinhua News – TEPCO eyes dumping groundwater from Fukushima plant
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO to dump groundwater to ease crisis at Fukushima nuclear plant
• Asahi Shimbun – Fukushima closes 2 parking lots for emergency decontamination work
• Asahi Shimbun – TEPCO to dump groundwater to ease crisis at Fukushima nuclear plant
• ENENews – Hospital Official in Fukushima: “Extremely scary data” – Stroke rate spiking in people ages 35 to 64 – 3.4 times higher than before (VIDEO)
• ENENews – Asahi: Tepco to dump groundwater from Fukushima nuclear plant into Pacific Ocean – Trying to “avoid a total collapse” of system for handling radioactive water (PHOTO)
• Fukushima Diary – Fukushima high school makes students clean pool, “Atmospheric dose is 0.5µSv/h” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Vice-principal of Minamisoma hospital, “Shudderingly scary data, stroke rate spiked 3.4 times much in 35 – 64 y.o” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Distributed ?] 16,740 Bq/Kg from PROCESSED shiitake mushroom – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Citizen’s lab “Food contamination would last for 10 years” – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Citizen’s lab”Average contamination of food samples in Nagano was 154 Bq/Kg, highest in Japan, 150% of safety limit” – Iori Mochizuki
• Japan Times – Sky-high radiation known from get-go
• Japan Times – Fukushima debris disposal falling short – Jun Hongo
• Japan Daily Press – TEPCO: Fukushima radiation levels could exceed limits – John Hofilena
• Japan Times – Kyoto’s cultural treasures at mercy of Fukui reactors – Eric Johnston
• Mainichi Daily News – 70% of nuclear experts still ‘comfortable’ with atomic power: survey
• Mainichi Daily News – TEPCO eyes dumping groundwater from Fukushima plant
• Taiwan Today – Hong Kong scholar addresses nuclear safety – Meg Chang

Tuesday, May 07, 2013

• IEEE Spectrum – Japan’s Utilities Suffer Staggering Losses – Bill Sweet
• Enformable – Highly radioactive debris recovered from atop crippled Fukushima Daiichi reactor – Lucas W Hixson
• Global Research – Is Japan Developing a Nuclear Weapons Program? – Peter Symonds
• New York Times – When Nature Is Not Enough – Nassrine Azimi
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ The disaster and animals (8): Woman repeatedly rescued pets in the Fukushima off-limits zone – Misuzu Tsukue
• Asahi Shimbun – Last remaining pupil at Fukushima school hides his loneliness – Noriyoshi Otsuki
• ENENews – Radiation level to spike at Fukushima plant – Blamed on recent radioactive leaks (PHOTO)
• Fukushima Diary – Tepco to restart nitrogen gas injection into reactor1 – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – 1,637 Bq/Kg from Shiitake mushroom produced in Miyagi – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – [Checkmate] Atmospheric dose in plant area jumps up by 6.4mSv/y for direct radiation from contaminated water – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – JP Gov to lift all the hazard areas in Fukushima – Iori Mochizuki
• NHK World – Whitebait fishing resumed after nuclear disaster
• Japan Times – Fukushima debris disposal falling short – Jun Hongo
• Japan Times – Fukushima debris disposal falling short – Jun Hongo
• Japan Times – Nuclear regulators assemble for three-day meeting
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to review Fukushima quake debris disposal plans due to nuclear disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t to review Fukushima quake debris disposal plans due to nuclear disaster
• Mainichi Daily News – Japan losing its moral compass with nuclear reactor exports
• Yomiuri Shimbun – High-radiation debris found at nuclear plant
• Focus Taiwan – Taipower says 3rd nuclear plant is not near Hengchun Fault – Lin Meng-ju and Y.L. Kao

Monday, May 06, 2013

• Asahi Shimbun – CROOKED CLEANUP: Yakuza taking slice of lucrative decontamination work
• Asahi Shimbun – Solar power taking off in a big way across Japan – Toru Nakagawa
• Asahi Shimbun – PROMETHEUS TRAP/ The disaster and animals (7): Dogs in shelter finally get some attention – Misuzu Tsukue
• ENENews – Ex-Fukushima Nuclear Worker: Concern about land subsidence at plant due to pumping up groundwater – “I think Tepco knows”
• ENENews – Study: Vast area of 60 million people contaminated from Fukushima disaster (PHOTO)
• ENENews – ‘Happy’ Fukushima nuclear plant worker interviewed: “It’s like a war zone”
• Fukushima Diary – U-235 identified in a park of Takahagi city Ibaraki, 80km from Fukushima nuclear plant – Iori Mochizuki
• Fukushima Diary – Former Fukushima worker “Pumping up ground water may cause Fukushima plant a land subsidence” – Iori Mochizuki
• House of Japan – Fukushima N-Plant Workers Got Used to Radiation Shortly after Crisis
• JAIF – News Update
• Japan Daily Press – Japan’s disaster reconstruction minister visits, learns from Chernobyl – Adam Westlake
• Japan Times – Nuclear regulators assemble for three-day meeting
• TEPCO – TEPCO News Update
• Yomiuri Shimbun – High-radiation debris found at nuclear plant
• Focus Taiwan – Taipower says 3rd nuclear plant is not near Hengchun Fault