via The Asahi Shimbun / August 9, 2012 / Lead radiation shields forced on workers at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to cover their dosimeters masked radiation readings by about 30 percent. Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the pla…
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by Mari Yamaguchi / via BusinessWeek / August 10, 2012 / The Japanese nuclear power plant that was closest to the epicenter of last year’s earthquake suffered more ground shaking than Fukushima but was largely undamaged because it was designed wi…
Continue readingBy Kwang Weng Kin / The Jakarta Post / August 9, 2012 / Five hundred days and four voluminous reports later, the truth about the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 plant remains elusive. The Fukushima disaster was triggered by a huge earthquake an…
Continue readingby Justin McCurry / via The Guardian / August 9, 2012 / One by one they are unloaded, weighed and tipped into plastic vats of ice – hundreds of octopuses that flail and whip the melting ice into a foaming mollusk soup. In this state they look far fro…
Continue readingvia NHK / August 9, 2012 / A survey by the Tokyo metropolitan government shows the number of foreign visitors to the Japanese capital sharply dropped last year. Officials attribute the plunge mainly to the March 11th disaster and the nuclear accident i…
Continue readingvia YouTube / August 8, 2012 / This is the truth about the radiation count in Fukushima in the exclusion zone. It is sad that there is a cover up on information that should be made public that is not being made public.That Japanese government along wit…
Continue readingby Harvey Wasserman / CounterPunch / August 7, 2012 / Our lives still hang by a Devil’s thread at Fukushima. The molten cores at Units 1, 2 & 3 have threatened all life on Earth. The flood of liquid radiation has poisoned the Pacific. Fukushima??…
Continue readingvia InfoShop.org / August 9, 2012 / Around 13:20 of 3/14/2012, just after reactor 3 exploded, Sato, Fukushima governor required Tepco to announce “there was no concern that radiation from reactor 3 may affect human body because the wind blows from No…
Continue readingvia WallStreetJournal / August 6, 2012 / On Monday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. for the first time released footage taken inside its command centers during last year’s devastating accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The visuals won’…
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Continue readingvia Time / August 6, 2012 / A growing number of Japanese workers who are risking their health to shut down the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are suffering from depression, anxiety about the future and a loss of motivation, say two doc…
Continue readingby Yuji Okada / Bloomberg / August 7, 2012 / As the first hydrogen explosion rocked the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) officials scrambled to prevent a second blast, at one point weighing the use of firearms to shoot …
Continue readingby Masaomi Ogawa / The Asahi Shimbun / August 7, 2012 / It took a visit to this historic city by a group of students to realize the atomic bombing 67 years ago was more than something from the distant past learned only in school textbooks. The group ca…
Continue readingBy Chisake Watanabe / Bloomberg / August 7, 2012 / Hot springs operators in Tsuchiyu, a town about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Fukushima’s stricken nuclear station in Japan, plan to build a geothermal power plant as part of recovery efforts…
Continue readingvia The Daily Yomiuri / August 8, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. has at long last made public, albeit partially, video images of in-house teleconferences held during the crisis at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to discuss countermeasures. The…
Continue readingDecision Follows 24 Groups’ June Petition in Wake of Major Waste Confidence Rule Decision; Most Reactor Projects Already Stymied by Bad Economics and Cheaper Fuel AlternativesWASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Nuclear Regula…
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The Nuclear Fuel Cycle is the Achilles heal of the nuclear industry. From uranium mining to the deadly spent fuel of reactors, here’s the news that never makes the national news for a reason. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin includes a lot of Department of Energy news.
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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 The Japan Times / August 5, 2012 / Almost 90 percent of the public supports the disposal of tsunami debris outside disaster-hit areas, a Cabinet Office survey showed Saturday. Some 88.3 percent of respondents said the incineration of debris by muni…
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / August 3, 2012 / A year and half after the start of the nuclear crisis, many who attended the government’s latest public hearing on energy policy in Fukushima on Wednesday still expressed concern about the impact of radiatio…
Continue readingby Takaaki Tamura / The Asahi Shimbun / August 03, 2012 The town of Namie, in the no-entry zone surrounding the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, is set to issue its own radiation dose book for evacuees this month in the hope it will lead to a natio…
Continue readingvia The Telegraph / August 3, 2012 / Octopus from the sea off Fukushima is back on sale at Tokyo’s Tsukiji Seafood Market – at a premium price. It is the first time since Tokyo Electric’s Fukushima No 1 Nuclear Power Plant started lea…
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / August 5, 2012 / Around 70 percent of citizens who wished to air their views on the future of nuclear power at public hearings held by the government wanted to discuss its complete elimination, officials said Saturday. A series of…
Continue readingvia The Mainichi / August 4, 2012 / We must condemn Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) over its restrictions on news media access to footage of videoconferences it held immediately after the outbreak of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The utility will sh…
Continue readingby Robert Gilhooly / New Scientist / August 2, 2012 / WITH nuclear power on the ropes in Japan, it could be solar power’s time to shine. Minamisoma City in Fukushima prefecture has signed an agreement with Toshiba to build the country’s big…
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Aging Nuke Plants On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
PLEASE Turn off a light for Fukushima USA / San Clemente
Mr. Collins,Thank you so much for your call this morning regarding the next NRC meeting on San Onofre. I believe we both seek to have a truly excellent quality public meeting to discuss the serious problems confronting the health and well being o…
Continue readingAs citizens of Southern California, we are deeply concerned about Southern California Edison’s projected restart of San Onofre Reactor Number 2 on or about November 18, 2012 and reactor number 3 on December 31, 2012. SCE’s plan to start the reactor…
Continue readingvia AJC / July 31, 2012 / A contentious debate over nuclear power in Japan is bringing another question out of the shadows: Should Japan keep open the possibility of making nuclear weapons — even if only as an option? It may seem surprising in the on…
Continue readingby Kaname Ohira and Mari Fujisaki / The Asahi Shimbun / July 31, 2012 / The bailout of embattled Tokyo Electric Power Co. got under way July 31, with an equity investment of 1 trillion yen ($12.78 billion) in taxpayer money. Public funds will also be u…
Continue readingAlong with the tragic loss of life, the destruction of homes, farms, businesses and property, and the beginning of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami exposed the biggest secret of all: that the myth of the necessity of…
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The Nuclear Fuel Cycle is the Achilles heal of the nuclear industry. From uranium mining to the deadly spent fuel of reactors, here’s the news that never makes the national news for a reason. This edition of the Radiation Bulletin includes a lot of Department of Energy news.
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 NHK / July 29, 2012 / A large rally has been held in Tokyo to protest the restart of a nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture. The demonstrators gathered in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo on Sunday. They were protesting the recent resumption of the No.3 a…
Continue readingvia JapanToday / July 30, 2012 / Strong expansion of nuclear power as a carbon-free energy source in Asia is expected to press ahead despite the Fukushima accident in Japan that soured sentiment in some countries, a benchmark report says. An earthquake…
Continue readingvia The Yomiuri Shimbun / July 30, 2012 / A steam locomotive ran between the JR Tohoku Line’s Koriyama and Fukushima stations on the weekend as a promotional event to boost tourism in areas affected by the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake. Th…
Continue readingvia Japan Today / July 29, 2012 / Thousands of people are expected to form a “human chain” around Japan’s Diet building on Sunday as part of demonstrations aimed at ending nuclear power after last year’s disaster at Fukushima. The protest is th…
Continue readingvia Mainichi Daily / July 26, 2012 / A major shift in the nation’s energy policy is needed if Japan is to reduce its reliance on nuclear power. Not only must the scope of energy conservation be expanded, the nation must promote the introduction o…
Continue readingMainichi Daily / July 28, 2012 / A man hired to help bring the disaster at the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant under control has accused subcontractors of forcing him to work under illegal conditions and skimming off part of his wages. The 45-year-…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / July 28, 2012 / Decontamination work started at a cemetery and a shrine in Tamura city, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 27 despite a political stalemate that has put much of the program on hold in districts evacuated following the…
Continue readingvia Fukushima Voice / May 19, 2012 / Consideration of thyroid disorders, pulmonary function, bone marrow function based on the studies from the Chernobyl nuclear accident, etc. Michiyuki Matsuzaki, M.D. Internal Medicine Department Fukagawa Municipal…
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Continue readingvia Daily Yomiuri / July 25, 2012 / Retired Japanese engineers are set to embark on a monthlong tour of the United States to seek that country’s support to realize their desire to help contain the Fukushima nuclear crisis. The group wants to work…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / July 25, 2012 / Subcontracted staff at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are working for as little as 30 percent of the daily rates paid by Tokyo Electric Power Co. on short-term, sometimes illegal contracts. Nine out of t…
Continue readingby Tina Gerhardt / The Indypendant / July 25, 2012 / On March 11, 2011, Japan was hit by a massive earthquake–measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale –and a tsunami with waves up to 65 feet high, leading to a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiich…
Continue readingvia NHK / July 24, 2012 / The second reactor to resume operation in Japan after the nuclear accident in Fukushima is now generating power at full capacity. Officials raised the output of the No.4 reactor at the Ohi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture, ce…
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / July 26, 2012 / The trade deficit grew to a record ¥2.915 trillion from January to June as rising energy imports more than offset a recovery in exports, the government said Wednesday. The sluggish outcome highlights the difficult…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / July 25, 2012 / Radioactive strontium-90 from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has been detected for the first time in 10 prefectures outside Miyagi and Fukushima, the science ministry said July 24. The highest r…
Continue readingThe Yomiuri Shimbun / July 26, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. has introduced new compensation criteria for victims who own houses or housing lots in areas evacuated due to the crisis at the utility’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, and anno…
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