Japan group seeks local referendum on nuclear power / Reuters / February 14, 2012 / TOKYO, Feb 14 (Reuters) – A group of Japanese activists submitted a petition to the western city of Osaka on Tuesday seeking a referendum on scrapping atomic powe…
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by Takeo Miyazaki and Kunihiko Yasue / Daily Yomiuri / February 15, 2012 / A fierce tug-of-war between the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. over the utility’s management is becoming more apparent as the government seeks a level of control …
Continue readingby Arnie Gundersen / Fairewinds.com / Feb 6, 2012 / New Containment Flaw Identified in the BWR Mark 1 from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo. Fairewinds shows that the nuclear industry’s plan to vent the containment at Fukushima Daiichi could …
Continue readingTaro Nishijima / Daily Yomiuri / February 14, 2012 / LOS ANGELES–The impending arrival of debris swept into the Pacific after the tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake has many residents of the West Coast of the United States and Hawa…
Continue readingChris Meyers / Reuters / February 13, 2012 / OKUMA, Japan, Feb 13 (Reuters) – Back home for just three hours, a tearful Miyoko Takeda sorted through her belongings. She left behind the kimonos she once wore as a traditional dancer, fearful they m…
Continue readingNew Fukushima scare blamed on faulty thermometer / Reuters / February 13, 2012 / (Reuters) – A scare over temperatures rising near danger level in a reactor at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where workers are battling to prevent a resurgence of…
Continue readingby CommonDreams / via prd34.blogspot.com / February 3, 2012 / An upcoming study shows the future for birds and insect life around Fukushima has been badly damaged, an ominous sign of things to come. The study, set to be published next week in Environme…
Continue readingFor all of those within 100 miles of San Clemente, please try to make an appearance at our City Council Meeting tonight!
6:00pm at City Hall 100 Avenida Presidio (Oral Communications Part 1 – not
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Continue readingTemperature Soars Inside Fukushima Reactor
TOKYO – The temperature of a reactor at
Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has soared and remained
mysteriously high Monday, despite more water being pumped through it.
The facility’s …
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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 SimplyInfo.org / January 27, 2012 / Japan is now down to 3 operating nuclear reactors. With an estimated 30% of their electricity coming from nuclear power there were considerable concerns about meeting the power demand. Last summer Japan institute…
Continue readingvia nf2045.blogspot.com / February 1, 2012 / A couple weeks ago I was interviewed on Corbett Report Radio by independent radio journalist James Corbett (see also his blog Fukushima Update). After the interview, I thought of dozens of ways I could have …
Continue readingBy REBECCA SMITH Nuclear reactors in the central and eastern U.S. face previously unrecognized threats from big earthquakes, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday. Experts said upgrading the plants to withstand more substantial …
Continue readingRadioactive water spills into containment dome, yet there is no danger
to the public, officials say.
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Here we go again. The public rela…
Continue readingNUCLEAR CRISIS–9 MONTHS ON / Focus on radiation screenings ended up claiming patients’ lives : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri) NUCLEAR CRISIS–9 MONTHS ON / Focus on radiation screenings ended up claiming patients’ lives The Yomiuri Shimbun … Continue reading
The 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 readingWatch Nuclear Aftershocks on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.
Travel to three continents to explore the debate about nuclear power: Is it safe?
What are the alternatives? And could a Fukushima-style disaster happen in the U.S.?
One man’s fear mon…
Continue readingvia BeyondNuclear.org / On Friday, January 27th, the tent occupation in front of METI in Tokyo faces eviction by order of minister Yukio Edano. The eviction order follows a controversial public meeting where government officials met with nuclear indust…
Continue readingvia sanonofresafety.org / About California Nuclear Initiative On November 18, California’s Secretary of State approved the ballot initiative that seeks the closure of the two remaining nuclear power plants in California, thus starting the countdown …
Continue readingby James Corbett / FukushimaUpdate.com / January 26, 2012 / Hot on the heels of news that the Japanese government somehow lost its records of its early meetings on the Fukushima disaster comes a leak of a document we previously reported on that outline…
Continue readingvia GoddardsJournal: Sources cited: DOE: “Supporting Our Nation’s Nuclear Industry” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LkHYerK8y8 DOE low-dose study: http://lowdose.energy.gov/pdf/2011/PNAS.pdf DOE low-dose study press release http://new…
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 readingvia Japan Times / January 23, 2012 / The health ministry is not calculating how much radiation workers at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant absorbed after they evacuated or while off the clock, casting doubt on the adequacy of the current radiation contr…
Continue readingby Michael Platt / Calgary Sun / January 22, 2012 / There’s no need to panic — probably. But not knowing whether to shrug or cower over radioactive iodine falling on Calgary as a result of a meltdown in Japan last year has Canada’s top nuclear cr…
Continue readingvia nf2045.blogspot.com / January 22, 2012 / Book Review Yaroshinskaya, Alla, A. (2011) Chernobyl: Crime without Punishment. Transaction Publishers. The Chernobyl catastrophe was largely forgotten and dismissed by the world as soon as the smoldering…
Continue readingby James Corbett / fukushimaupdate.com / January 21, 2012 / So what is happening at Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 2? Good question. Last Thursday, TEPCO ran an industrial endoscope into the reactor and found some surprising results. Following is video from…
Continue readingListen: Play in new window | Download Joining us tonight from Japan is Dennis Riches of the Nuclear Free by 2045 blog. We discuss the Fukushima crisis, its historical parallels and the largest nuclear accident on US soil: a meltdown at the Santa S…
Continue readingArnie Gundersen of Fairewinds analyzes cancer rates for young children near Fukushima using the National Academy of Science’s BEIR (Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation) VII Report. Based on BEIR VII, Fairewinds determines that at least one in e…
Continue readingby Nelle Maxey / Pacific Free Press / January 15, 2012 / Two more problems (aside from the Unit #4 mystery which I update below) have surfaced in the last week at the Fukushima plant site. First, a temperature sensor in Unit 2 is recording increasing…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / January 16, 2012 / High levels of radiation have been detected on the first floor of a newly built condominium complex in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, the municipal government said. Crushed stones used in the building’s con…
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 readingMarine debris is beginning to arrive from Alaska to Oregon. The local authorities there are gearing up for identifying types of debris so that studies can be made. If one wishes to participate locally, organize to ask local administrations to begin…
Continue readingBy Alex Roslin / via Montreal Gazette / January 13, 2012 / After the world’s worst nuclear accident in 25 years, authorities in Canada said people living here were safe and faced no health risks from the fallout from Fukushima. They said most of the …
Continue readingTEPCO Believes Mission Accomplished & Regulators Allow Radioactive Dumping in Tokyo Bay from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo. Is the Japanese government and the IAEA protecting the nuclear industry and not the people of Japan by claiming that …
Continue readingby Josh Bloom / Forbes / January 11, 2012 / Josh Bloom is a scholar at the American Council On Science and Health. Here, he writes about a new study on Fukushima’s impact on the U.S. I’ve seen some bad studies in my day, and also some irresponsible…
Continue readingThe year 2011 marked the first serious accident at a nuclear power plant in a quarter century. After the previous disaster at Chernobyl, the world’s nuclear industry axiomatically predicted that another accident—especially in an advanced countr…
Continue readingvia Bloomberg / January 11, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. is in talks with banks to borrow as much as 2 trillion yen ($26 billion) to help stave off bankruptcy as it compensates survivors of the Fukushima nuclear disaster and decommissions reactors, …
Continue readingBy David McNeill / Japan Times / January 8, 2012 Is the ongoing crisis surrounding the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant being accurately reported in the Japanese media? No, says independent journalist Shigeo Abe, who claims the authorities, and many…
Continue readingBy Gavin Allen / The Daily Mail / January 11, 2012 / The Doomsday Clock moved one minute closer to midnight after scientists agreed that a global cataclysm was more likely today. The clock, which last moved in January 2010, is a universally recognized …
Continue readingTaiwan’s TPCo (TaiPower co) has been attempting to build a 4th nuclear facility in Taiwan for nearly two decades. The battle over nuclear power in Taiwan has been a national issue for nearly 20 years and has all but been … Continue reading
The 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 readingby James Corbett / FukushimaUpdate.com / January 6, 2012 Two new valuable information resources on Fukushima have emerged in recent weeks to help people keep an even closer eye on what is happening at the plant and in the area. Firstly, there is an inc…
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 readingIs the Japanese government and the IAEA protecting the nuclear industry and not the people of Japan by claiming that Fukushima is stable when it is not? Fairewinds’ chief engineer Arnie Gundersen outlines major inconsistencies and double-speak by …
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 readingKritidis P, Florou H, Eleftheriadis K, Evangeliou N, Gini M, Sotiropoulou M, Diapouli E, Vratolis S. Source NCSR “Demokritos”, Institute of Nuclear Technology-Radiation Protection, Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory, 15310 Agia Paraskev…
Continue reading‘Criminal event’ at Fukushima calls for deeper investigation / RT / December 27, 2011 / An inquiry into the Fukushima disaster has revealed the plant operators failed to respond properly to the situation. Christopher Busby, an expert with the Europ…
Continue readingTepco is told to weigh temporary state control / Japan Times / December 28, 2011 / Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yukio Edano told Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Toshio Nishizawa on Tuesday to consider putting the utility under temporary g…
Continue readingArnie Gundersen of Fairwinds Associates (a leading nuclear expert) and Warren Pollock (http://www.wepollock.com) redefine the Fukushima nuclear incidents (meltdowns and explosions) in terms of human and total cost. Its easy to look at the details of…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / December 20, 2011 / And that’s during the 14 weeks right after the Fukushima I Nuke Plant accident that is “over” now. From a PR Newswire press release that appeared on MarketWatch/Wall Street Journal (12/19/2011): WASHIN…
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