[CLICK HERE to watch the full report on BoilingFrogsPost.com] by James Corbett BoilingFrogsPost.com 28 February, 2012 During the nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan’s northeast last March, the world watched i…
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via The Corbett Report / February 28, 2012 / Paul Gunter is the Director of the Reactor Oversight Project at BeyondNuclear.org. As a long-time anti-nuclear activist, Gunter and Beyond Nuclear have been ringing the alarm bells about the GE Mark I Boilin…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 26, 2012 / A small leak was found in one of the two lines of Toshiba/IHI/Shaw’s cesium absorption system “SARRY” on February 25, 2012. SARRY is housed inside the Miscellaneous Solid Waste Volume Reduction Treatme…
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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 readingGovt releases new radiation readings / Daily Yomiuri / February 26, 2012 The government has announced the latest radiation readings from areas in the no-entry zone and the expanded evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 25, 2012 / As if irradiating the population with Fukushima-origin radionuclides is not enough, TEPCO says it will introduce smart meters to its household customers by the fall of 2013. Privacy concern about smart meters? Nah. The …
Continue readingvia Mainichi Daily / February 25, 2012 / The government is set to demand that all 17 board members of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, resign at the utility’s next shareholder meeting in June, go…
Continue readingDecontamination info center opens in Fukushima / NHK / February 25, 2012 The Environment Ministry and Fukushima Prefecture have begun to provide people concerned about radiation with information on how to clean up contaminated property. Officials at an…
Continue readingvia Environmental Science & Technology Gregory A. Wetherbee†*, David A. Gay‡, Timothy M. Debey§, Christopher M.B. Lehmann‡, and Mark A. Nilles † U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Branch of Quality Systems, Mail Stop 401, Bldg. 95, Box 25046, …
Continue readingJoin us for a day of PEACEFUL PROTEST at San Onofre, the nuclear power plant with the worst safety record of all 104 reactors in America.Aging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
Continue readingby Ian Macleod / The Ottawa Citizen / February 23, 2012 / OTTAWA — With the approaching anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster as a backdrop, Ontario’s top energy executive is urging Canada’s nuclear industry not to retreat in the face of …
Continue readingCruise finds Fukushima pollution / BBC News / February 22, 2012 Radioactive elements from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant have been detected in seawater and marine organisms up to 600km from Japan. But the scientists who made the discovery st…
Continue readingvia JapanToday / February 22, 2012 TOKYO — The operator of Japan’s tsunami-crippled nuclear plant is to cover a large swathe of seabed near the battered reactors with cement in a bid to halt the spread of radiation, the company said Wednesday. A cl…
Continue readingvia Fairewinds.com Arnie Gundersen at the Japan National Press Club from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo. The Japan National Press Club hosts Arnie Gundersen. Over 80 journalists were present where questions were asked regarding the nuclear disast…
Continue readingWe were giving an interview down in front of the nuclear power plant. The reporter was surprised that we could get so close to the plant and at how low the Tsunami Wall actually was. I told him we could take a walk for a closer look. After…
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Continue readingProblems shut down Fukushima Unit 2 noble gas detection system and spent fuel cooling systems / Enformable.com / February 20, 2012 TEPCO began constant monitoring of noble gas in the PCV of Reactor 2 on February 19th, as they were decreasing the amou…
Continue readingGov’t emergency headquarters refused to conduct additional thyroid testing on children / Mainichi Daily / February 21, 2012 / The government’s Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters did not fulfill requests from the Cabinet’s Nuclear…
Continue readingReturn to Fukushima: Japan’s ground zero / Belfast Telegraph / February 21, 2012 / The journey to Fukushima Daiichi begins at the border of the 12-mile exclusion zone that surrounds the ruined nuclear complex, beyond which life has frozen in time…
Continue readingby Michael Hanlon / The Telegraph / February 21, 2012 / I watched the terrible events which took place in Japan on March 11 last year with an appalled fascination. The first truly epic natural disaster to be recorded and beamed into a billion homes in …
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 20, 2012 / Minister of the Environment Goshi Hosono, who was better known for his extramarital affair with a popular actress before Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant blew up, tells the citizens of Japan on an NHK interview: “I…
Continue readingby Justin McCurry / The Guardian / February 20, 2012 / The manager of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan has conceded that it will be very difficult to remove the facility’s melted nuclear fuel, but dismissed fears that one of the damaged…
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 readingFukui reactor to go offline Tues, leaving only 2 online in Japan / Japan Today / February 20, 2012 FUKUI — Kansai Electric Power Co will shut down the No. 3 reactor at the Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture for scheduled maintenance at midnig…
Continue readingby Laura Kenyon / Greenpeace International / February 19, 2012 / Nearly a year after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, it’s time to take a look at its legacy and take an opportunity to stand in solidarity with the people who continue to suffer th…
Continue readingby Kevin Voigt / CNN / February 20, 2012 / Japan — battered by a strong yen, slowing global demand and increased oil and gas imports due to last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster — posted a record trade deficit of $18.7 billion in Jan…
Continue readingDaughter of deceased priest leads reconstruction prayers at makeshift shrine in Fukushima / Mainichi Daily / February 20, 2012 / NAMIE, Fukushima — The daughter of a priest here who was killed in the huge tsunami triggered by the March 11 Great E…
Continue readingDaughter of deceased priest leads reconstruction prayers at makeshift shrine in Fukushima / Mainichi Daily / February 20, 2012 / NAMIE, Fukushima — The daughter of a priest here who was killed in the huge tsunami triggered by the March 11 Great E…
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There is no official word yet, but the rumor from insiders at the plant is that the problem with the new generators may be very time consuming and difficult to resolve. It seems that the
tubes have been conf…
(Total shutdown continues due
to failing new
generators which cost us $680 Million)
I asked this question of a whistle blower who was a licensed nuclear
operator at San Onofre and got the following exp…
Japan’s nuclear evacuees denied Canadian refuge / Toronto Sun / February 18, 2012 / A Japanese woman who claimed exposure to radiation from damaged nuclear reactors has been denied refugee status in Canada almost one year after that nation was ro…
Continue readingvia DailyMotion / February 15, 2012 / Japanese Gov’t Appointed 9 College Beauty Queens… ??? sievert311 MORE ON THIS STORY: Fukushima Ambassadors to “Eat and Support East Japan”
Continue readingby Brennan David / Columbia Daily Tribune / February 18, 2012 / A Columbia-based coalition has joined 36 groups across the county in a petition that would expand emergency evacuation zones around nuclear reactors. The formal request to the Nuclear Regu…
Continue readingby Caroline Lucas, Rebecca Harms, and Dany Cohn-Bendit / The Guardian / February 17, 2012 / Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit are co-presidents of the Greens/EFA group in the European parliament On 11 March last year, Japan was hit by massive earthqu…
Continue readingBefore you read this, I’d just like to point out that this is DAY 17 without any nuclear power coming from San Onofre, and the lights are still on. I think maybe they need us more than we need them.
Mayor and Councilmembers,
After coming so far …
Continue readingYokosuka groups object to disaster debris burial / NHK / February 17, 2012 / Residents in Yokosuka, near Tokyo, are objecting to a plan to bury incinerated disaster debris from eastern Japan at a site in their neighborhood. Representatives of 10 commun…
Continue readingby Linda Sieg and Yoko Kubota / via Reuters / February 17, 2012 / Nearly a year after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, then-premier Naoto Kan is haunted by the specter of an even bigger crisis forcing tens of millions of people to flee Tokyo a…
Continue readingby Yoko Kubota / via Reuters / February 17, 2012 Nearly a year after a huge quake and tsunami sparked Japan’s Fukushima nuclear crisis, then-premier Naoto Kan is haunted by the specter of an even bigger disaster forcing tens of millions of people…
Continue readingOnly 10 prefectural governments willing to accept quake rubble / Mainichi Daily / February 17, 2012 Only 10 prefectural governments are actively considering accepting rubble from earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged areas of northeastern Honshu, while 26 ot…
Continue readingby Edoardo Magnone / ScienceDirect.com / February 15, 2012 / Abstract Suppose there is a scientist that writes a paper for a peer-reviewed journal. How likely is it that a natural disaster will terminate, change, suspend or discontinue some aspect of t…
Continue readingvia whoi.edu / February 16, 2012 / The March 11, 2011, earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent radioactivity releases from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plants resulted in the largest accidental release of radiation to the ocean in history. In a spe…
Continue readingLatest occured 2 hours ago centered 15km from plant at depth of 10km via ENEnews.com / February 17, 2012 / Title: Earthquake Information Source: Japan Meteorological Agency Date: Feb 17, 2012 04:29 JST 17 Feb 2012 Fukushima-ken Oki M2.9 1 02:42 JST 17 …
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 16, 2012 / The Japanese government is going to make these young women eat food from the nuclear-disaster affected Tohoku and Kanto to support the recovery. This is simply beyond my comprehension. Some on Twitter call it “stu…
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / February 15, 2012 / Follow-up to Radiation spikes throughout Greater Tokyo Area on Feb. 14 — One of highest seen in months (Gov’t Data) Title: National radioactivity concentration Source: atmc.jp Date: Feb. 15, 2012 Graphe…
Continue readingvia Reuters / February 16, 2012 / A state bailout fund for Tokyo Electric is likely to agree to less than 50 percent voting rights despite its planned 1 trillion yen ($12.8 billion) capital injection but will seek more if the troubled utility does not …
Continue readingDocuments show Japan, U.S. at odds over IAEA nuclear inspections / Mainichi Daily / February 16, 2012 / TOKYO (Kyodo) — Japan and the United States clashed with each other over nuclear inspection provisions with the International Atomic Energy Ag…
Continue readingSeiichi Nakate on March 11 Nuclear Accident: “We Weren’t Told About Anything, and Cover-Up and Safety Propaganda Engulfed Fukushima” / via ex-SKF / February 15, 2012 / Mr. Nakate is the head of “Fukushima Network to Protect Chil…
Continue readingby James Burgess / via HuffingtonPost.com / February 14, 2012 / As the radioactive clean-up following the disaster at Fukushima gets under way, the close relationship between the nuclear industry and the Japanese government becomes more obvious. I say …
Continue readingThermometers a Hot Topic at Fukushima Daiichi / Wall Street Journal / February 15, 2012 / Fukushima Daiichi operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Tuesday said that one of the thermometers attached to its No. 2 reactor was almost certainly on the blink. …
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