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via NHK / July 14, 2012 / Fishermen in Fukushima, Japan, have begun a new round of test catches of marine products. The fishermen hope to be able to put them on the market if they prove safe in terms of radioactive materials following last year’s…
Continue readingvia UPI / July 14, 2012 / he Japanese government approved a long-term goal to reduce radiation exposure in the disaster-stricken Fukushima prefecture, officials said. The Cabinet approved the plan, which involves cutting the annual radiation exposure f…
Continue readingby Gregg Levine / via truthout / July 14, 2012 / Since the release of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Committee’s official report last week, much has been made of how it implicates Japanese culture as one of the root causes of the crisis. …
Continue readingvia WSJ / July 13, 2012 / Japan may have fired up its first nuclear reactor since the Fukushima Daiichi accident, but the debate over the restarts rumbles on. While safety issues and potential power shortages have dominated the debate so far, another l…
Continue readingvia NHK / July 14, 2012 / NHK has learned that a government panel of experts will say it has been unable to specify exactly how the radioactive release occurred at a reactor of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. On March 15th, 4 days a…
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / July 13, 2012 / The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will soon start test runs for removing fuel rods from a storage pool of the No. 4 reactor. Removal Procedure A crane will be used to pull each of the 2 rods out…
Continue readingby Dennis Riches / nf2045.blogspot.com / July 10, 2012 / Last week the government of Japan released a major report on the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. The Official Report of the The National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investiga…
Continue readingvia naiic.go.jp Executive summary The official report of the National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission provides a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the March 11th, 2011, including ca…
Continue readingby Yuri Oiwa / The Asahi Shimbun / July 11, 2012 / Children in Fukushima Prefecture likely received thyroid gland doses of internal radiation, despite earlier government assurances that the levels of such doses were zero, according to an independent st…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / July 10, 2012 / No radioactive cesium has been detected in tests on the breast milk of mothers in Fukushima Prefecture, the prefectural government said Monday. The Fukushima government released the results of radiation checks on the b…
Continue readingvia Japan Today / July 11, 2012 / Japan pressed Southeast Asian nations on Tuesday to lift curbs on its exports imposed after last year’s earthquake and subsequent Fukushima nuclear disaster. Speaking at a regional summit, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Japan??…
Continue readingvia RT / July 9, 2012 / On the afternoon of March 11th, 2011 – a massive 9.0 earthquake struck just off the main island of Japan – rattling the nation to its core. Nestled on the east coast of Japan – not too far from the epicenter of…
Continue readingvia SecurityManagement.com / June 19, 2012 / After the earthquake and tsunami that damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, Sean Bonner and many others recognized a need for publicly available, accurate, and detailed radiation data. He used the onl…
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The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingvia JapanToday / July 9, 2012 / apanese and foreign artists including iconic German group Kraftwerk performed at a mass weekend protest concert against nuclear energy inspired by Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. The “No nukes 2012” event wa…
Continue readingvia NHK / July 8, 2012 / A nuclear reactor in central Japan has achieved its full operating capacity. The nuclear reactor was restarted on July first after being shut down for maintenance that lasted 15 months. The output of the electric generator at t…
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Continue readingvia Japan Times / July 8, 2012 / Tepco probably won’t be able to raise household electricity bills until Sept. 1 due to prolonged talks over the size of the hike within the government, sources said Saturday. Tokyo Electric Power Co. initially hop…
Continue readingby David Shukman / via BBC / July 7, 2012 / The devastating conclusion that Japan’s Fukushima nuclear meltdown was an accident waiting to happen has grabbed the headlines. But the investigation has also unearthed worrying questions about the cata…
Continue readingvia CorbettReport.com / July 6, 2012 / With the nuclear tragedy in Japan comes an otherwise unthinkable opportunity: the chance to contemplate the replacement of nuclear energy with safer alternatives. Join us on tonight’s broadcast as we listen in o…
Continue readingvia DemocracyNow / July 6, 2012 / A Japanese parliamentary inquiry has concluded last year’s nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was “a profoundly man-made disaster — that could and should have been foreseen and …
Continue readingvia TheGhostLetters / July 7, 2012 / VIDEO DESCRIPTION: It was a rainy day in Tokyo on July 6th 2012. Yet, the Anti-Nuclear protesters still came out at the Japanese PM’s official office to again attempt to get his ear. Although, this time was di…
Continue readingvia NHK / July 6, 2012 / The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has come out against a Diet-appoited panel’s view that last year’s earthquake, and not just the tsunami, may have damaged the plant. Tokyo Electric Power Company s…
Continue readingvia Businessweek / July 5, 2012 / The Fukushima nuclear disaster was the result of a mix of “man-made” factors including regulators who failed to provide adequate prevention and a government lacking commitment to protect the public, said a report f…
Continue readingvia Reuters / July 4, 2012 Buffeted by industry worries about high electricity costs on one side and public safety fears about nuclear power on the other, Japan’s leaders are still struggling to craft a coherent energy policy more than a year aft…
Continue readingvia Bellona.org / July 3, 2012 / A collapse of the already tilting reactor No 4 building at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant, ¬atop which sits a spent nuclear fuel storage pool containing 1,535 fuel assemblies – including 204 unused ones – wou…
Continue readingJames Corbett joins Danish TV program Deadline 22:30 to talk about Fukushima and what has occurred in the wake of the nuclear accident. Access the Deadline 22:30 website here: http://www.dr.dk/dr2/deadline2230
Continue readingvia Japan Times / July 3, 2012 / he government said it will support a “temporary town plan” drawn up by four Fukushima municipalities that were evacuated because of massive radioactive contamination caused by the prefecture’s nuclear …
Continue readingvia UPI / July 2, 2012 / Low levels of radioactive cesium were found in 141 infants and children in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, a study found. The average amount of cesium in the 141 samples was 2.2 becquerels per kilogram, but three cases had …
Continue readingvia ABC / July 1, 2012 / The operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant has managed to restore the cooling system in a pool which holds hundreds of tonnes of spent nuclear fuel at the facility. The system had failed earlier, causing the pool’s tempe…
Continue readingvia Kyodo / July 2, 2012 / The Environment Ministry said Monday it detected 61 to 2,600 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in 23 varieties of freshwater fish sampled at five rivers and lakes in Fukushima Prefecture between December and Febru…
Continue readingCome meet a Japanese Anti-Nuke Activist Ms. Chieko ShiinaDate; Sunday July 8thFrom 1 PM to 5 PM
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Continue readingvia TEPCO / June 20, 2012 / We, Tokyo Electric Power Company, recognize ourselves as the main party involved in the nuclear accident triggered by the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyo-Oki Earthquake on March 11, 2011. We have established the “Fukushima Nucl…
Continue readingvia MSNBC / July 1, 2012 / Dozens of protesters shouted and danced at the gate of a nuclear power plant as it restarted Sunday, the first to go back online since Japan shut down all of its reactors for safety checks following the Fukushima nuclear disa…
Continue readingvia Fairewinds.com / June 27, 2012 / CCTV’s Margaret Harrington hosts Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education. Arnie and Maggie discuss their recent travels to Italy to take part in and to view an opera on the Three Mile Island …
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The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingBy Anne Sewell / DigitalJournal.com / June 30, 2012 Shareholders of Japan’s electricity companies voted on Wednesday to reboot nuclear power in Japan. 200,000 people hit the streets yesterday to protest this. The people of Japan are outraged ov…
Continue readingMainichi Daily / June 30, 2012 / The cooling system for a spent fuel pool at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant’s No. 4 reactor automatically suspended operation Saturday morning after an alarm issued a warning at around 6:25 a.m., Tokyo …
Continue readingMarketWatch / June 27, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, said Wednesday record amounts of radiation had been detected in the basement of reactor No. 1, further hampering clean-up operations…
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingTo a pro nuker who says nuclear is clean and safe.
I do thank you for the time you took to reply. First I am very happy that for the most part I feel people working in the nuke field are good people and try to be as safe as possible, and that is…
Continue readingNHK / June 12, 2012 / The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says a new method has failed to locate radioactive water leaking from one of the reactors. Identifying the leaks is a key step towards decommissioning the plant. Tokyo Elec…
Continue readingby James Corbett FukushimaUpdate.com June 14, 2012 Two new reports have emerged this week from the Japanese government demonstrating how government agencies hid data from the public in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, and how they misrepresent…
Continue readingby Kyung Lah / CNN / June 11, 2012 The executives of the Japanese utility that owns the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and a number of the country’s government officials should go to jail, according to a complaint filed by more than 1,0…
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The US main stream media fails to cover the Fukushima disaster as a favor to the nuclear industry. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin is a day by day listing by title of all the news on Fukushima coming from the english press in Japan.
Continue readingThis film is about the Tohoku region (hit by the earthquake and tsunami that occurred in Japanin March 2011), as a reminder as to the ongoing difficulties being faced by the locals attempting to rebuild their towns. Eight months after the Tsunami, Paul…
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