By Mari Saito / via Reuters / December 13, 2012 / Nearly two years after a massive earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan is failing to keep a pledge to tap global expertise to decommission its crippled reactors, …
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via Fairewinds / December 9, 2012 / In today’s Fairewinds’ podcast with Arnie Gundersen, we examine the effect of the recent earthquakes on both the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini sites, as well as potential damage from other quakes still to c…
Continue readingvia The New Zealand Herald / December 7, 2012 / Influential Japanese scientists who help set national radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country’s nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the world…
Continue readingby Roger Pulvers / The Japan Times / December 9, 2012 / excerpt: As someone who has been studying Russian affairs for 50 years, having made my first trip there in 1964, I strongly believe that the aftereffects — ecological, economic, political and ps…
Continue readingBy Takashi Kida / via The Asahi Shimbun / December 7, 2012 / The International Atomic Energy Agency said it will set up a joint program on decontamination next year with the Fukushima prefectural government as efforts continue at the crippled Fukushima…
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / December 8, 2012 / The highest cumulative radiation dose received by the teenagers employed at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant is 56.89 millisieverts, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday. About 20,000 nuclear workers h…
Continue readingvia IndiaToday / December 7, 2012 / A strong earthquake struck on Friday off the coast of northeastern Japan in the same region that was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Authorities issued a warning of a possible tsunami. The Japa…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / December 7, 2012 / Update on the Magnitude 7.3 outer-rise earthquake on December 7 off Miyagi Prefecture. (Yesterday’s report is here.) It looks something may have happened at Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant. According to TEPCO, the…
Continue readingby Jason Bartashius / via Deep Kyoto / November 30, 2012 Music lovers are you staying in town for winter vacation? If so, be sure to check out the A Summer Dream for Children charity concert on December 22nd at the Miyako Messe. Featured artists in…
Continue readingvia Business Recorder / November 25, 2012 / Japanese nuclear reactor maker Toshiba on November 21 unveiled a remote-controlled robot resembling a headless dog that they hope will be used at the battered Fukushima power plant. The tetrapod, which weighs…
Continue readingvia AsiaOne News / November 26, 2012 / The town government of Hirono and the village government of Kawauchi in Fukushima Prefecture have decided to resume planting rice next year. Both municipal governments had asked farmers to voluntarily stop plantin…
Continue readingby Yuri Oiwa / The Asahi Shimbun / November 25, 2012 / Cases of cancer caused by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident will not increase significantly, although the risk facing infants near the plant has risen, a draft report by the World Healt…
Continue readingBy Miki Aoki / via The Asahi Shimbun / November 22, 2012 / Of the many thousands of workers who have risked radiation exposure at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, only a paltry 3.7 percent are eligible for free cancer screenings provid…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / November 21, 2012 / The Fukushima Prefectural Government will abolish a nuclear fuel tax imposed on two power plants operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co., with an eye to having both decommissioned. Gov. Yuhei Sato said Monday the pref…
Continue readingBy Hiroshi Ishizuka / The Asahi Shimbun / November 13, 2012 / Persistently high radioactivity in some fish caught close to the Fukushima nuclear plant has sparked a government investigation into the physiological basis for contamination and why radiati…
Continue readingBy Shingo Ito / AFP / November 12, 2012 / Japan’s only working nuclear power plant sits on what may be a seismic fault in the earth’s crust, a geologist has warned, saying it is “very silly” to allow it to continue operating. Mi…
Continue readingBy Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yasumasa Song / via Bloomberg / November 7, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. asked the government for more aid after estimating it may need at least 11 trillion yen ($137 billion) to cover costs from last year’s nuclear disaste…
Continue readingby Ida Torres / via The Japan Daily Press / November 7, 2012 / A briefing session was held November 4 for the residents of Koriyama in the Fukushima prefecture regarding thyroid cancer screenings for children. The tests were being conducted for childre…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / November 7, 2012 / Japan’s new nuclear industry watchdog acknowledged additional errors in its maps for the expected spread of radioactive substances from a serious nuclear accident, further exasperating local governments …
Continue readingvia RTT News / November 6, 2012 / A year after reporting on the devastation caused by the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told the world body’s Member-States that nuclear power is saf…
Continue readingBy Masakazu Honda / The Asahi Shimbun / November 2, 2012 / More than 10,000 people from across Japan are seeking criminal charges against officials of Japan’s government and the utility that operates the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, after…
Continue readingby Evan Osnos / The New Yorker / November 2, 2012 / When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, it forced three nuclear reactors to shut down, including the Indian Point 3 plant along the banks of the Hudson, about twenty-five miles north of New York City…
Continue readingvia RT.com / November 4, 2012 / Members of Japan’s nuclear watchdog who are charged with drafting nuclear safety rules have received sizable funds from the atomic industry. The reports raise concerns that regulations may be diluted after last year’…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / October 25, 2012 / Rice grown by a farmer in Sukagawa, Fukushima Prefecture, returned a radioactive cesium reading of 110 becquerels per kilogram, exceeding the maximum of 100, the prefectural government announced. It is the first tim…
Continue readingvia GreenPeaceVideo As the Japanese government is allowing residents to return, environmental organisation Greenpeace continues to monitor radiation levels in the nuclear disaster stricken area of Fukushima.
Continue readingScience 26 October 2012: Vol. 338 no. 6106 pp. 480-482 DOI: 10.1126/science.1228250 Fishing for Answers off Fukushima Ken O. Buesseler Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA. E-mail: kbuesseler{at}whoi.edu The triple disaster o…
Continue readingby Fiona Harvey / The Guardian / October 25, 2012 / Fish from the waters around the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan could be too radioactive to eat for a decade to come, as samples show that radioactivity levels remain elevated and show little sign of…
Continue readingvia MorningStarOnline / October 25, 2012 / Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant is struggling to find space to store tens of thousands of tons of highly contaminated water, it emerged today. About 200,000 tons of radioactive water used …
Continue readingNo change for Fukushima restrictions by Takehito Kudo / via The Daily Yomiuri / October 21, 2012 / BRUSSELS–The European Union has decided to substantially ease import restrictions on food products and animal feed from Tokyo and 10 prefectures th…
Continue readingBy Tim Hornyak / cnet.com / October 19, 2012 / You’re sweating in your bulky radiation suit, your dosimeter is freaking you out, and you’re trying to close a valve that might just save a large portion of the population from some very nasty …
Continue readingby Hiroyuki Maegawa / via The Asahi Shimbun / October 17, 2012 / GENEVA–Last year’s nuclear disaster is an ongoing “humanitarian crisis,” according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), …
Continue readingvia Japan Times / October 21, 2012 / The International Atomic Energy Agency and the Japanese government plan to set up a long-term research base in Fukushima to study ways to decontaminate radiation-tainted areas and dispose of radioactive waste, gover…
Continue readingby Ethan A. Huff / NaturalNews.com / October 16, 2012 / Though the mainstream media has long since abandoned the issue, the precarious situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan is only continuing to worsen, according to a promi…
Continue readingby John Downer Stanford University and University of Bristol ABSTRACT Both the legitimacy and governance of nuclear power plants are premised on formal calculations (probabilistic risk assessments) proving that major accidents will not happen. The 2011…
Continue readingby James Conca / via Forbes / October 9, 2012 / No one wants to make a decision on nuclear power in Japan. This is not surprising since the weak regulatory environment and complicity between government and industry in Japan led to the Fukushima disaste…
Continue readingvia The Economist / October 8, 2012 / IT HAS taken the Japanese government more than 18 months to pay tribute to a group of brave men, once known as the “Fukushima 50”, who risked their lives to prevent meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear p…
Continue readingvia The Daily Yomiuri / October 8, 2012 / Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda visited Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant Sunday to see the site of the country’s worst nuclear crisis first-hand and offer gratit…
Continue readingvia TEPCO / October 5, 2012 / A total of 161 video clips of our TV conference held at the Emergency Disaster Restoration Room, etc. (selected from approx. 150 hours of the recorded meeting during the period from the accident to March 15, 2011) have bee…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / October 6, 2012 / Citizens and scientists have raised concerns that the science ministry manipulated its measurement of radiation levels in Fukushima Prefecture to show figures lower than they really were. The Association for Ci…
Continue readingby Mari Iwata / Wall Street Journal / October 1, 2012 / Among the ranks of Japanese who’ve turned against nuclear power recently, one of the unlikeliest converts is Yoshinori Kobayashi, a comic-book artist famous for his right-wing views on Japan’s…
Continue readingby Mari Iwata / Wall Street Journal / October 1, 2012 / Among the ranks of Japanese who’ve turned against nuclear power recently, one of the unlikeliest converts is Yoshinori Kobayashi, a comic-book artist famous for his right-wing views on Japan’s…
Continue readingvia NHK World / October 6, 2012 / An elementary school in a village in Fukushima Prefecture has held an outdoor sporting event for the first time since last year’s nuclear disaster. The sporting event took place at Kawauchi elementary school in K…
Continue readingby Jason Bartashius / Deep Kyoto / October 2, 2012 / The Kyoto YWCA has offered a home stay program for Fukushima children on four occasions since March 11th each lasting for varying durations ranging from five days to nearly two weeks. To prevent radi…
Continue readingvia NHK World News / October 2, 2012 / A Japanese nuclear research agency has begun using an unmanned helicopter to measure radiation levels in areas within a 3-kilometer radius of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Detailed studies ha…
Continue readingby James Corbett / via CorbettReport.com / September 20, 2012 / Last week, Japan surprised the world by announcing that it plans to abandon atomic energy completely by the 2030s. But now in an abrupt turnaround, the Japanese Cabinet appears to be backp…
Continue readingvia YouTube / A documentary about Japan’s anti-nuclear movement in the wake of the restart of two nuclear reactors at Oi, Fukui Prefecture. This documentary attempts to explain why the March 11, 2011, disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Pow…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / September 20, 2012 / Deadline for abolishing atomic energy by 2030s not endorsed In a shocking reversal, the Cabinet on Wednesday failed to approve the government’s new energy policy by watering down its main goal — the elimin…
Continue readingBy Yuji Okada / Bloomberg / September 18, 2012 / Japan’s new nuclear regulator starts operation tomorrow as part of measures the government introduced after the Fukushima disaster to try and establish an independent supervisor of the industry. The go…
Continue readingby David Herron / Examiner.com / September 16, 2012 / A year and a half ago one of the largest known earthquakes ever struck off the North Japanese coast, triggering a tsunami devastating the Japanese coast, as well as a massive nuclear power disaster….
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / September 12, 2012 / An organization representing the nation’s scientists called on the government Tuesday to drop its plan to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive waste deep underground, saying the…
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