by Mark Lieber / YouTube / July 24, 2012 A short educational video about the situation of children living in Fukushima one year after the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and radiation spill.
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by Alex Roslin / straight.com / July 19, 2012 / Are fish from the Pacific Ocean and Japanese coastal and inland waters safe to eat 16 months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster? Governments and many scientists say they are. But the largest collection …
Continue readingby Jason Bartashius / Deep Kyoto / July 23, 2012 / On March 18, 2011 Yuko Nishiyama and her three-year old daughter, Mariko, left Fukushima City, 60 km from the Daiichi plant, to live in Tokyo. In June 2011, Yuko her parents and Mariko relocated to Kyo…
Continue readingvia NHK / July 24, 2012 / A town in Fukushima Prefecture is expecting only 18 percent of children to return to local schools when they reopen for the first time since last year’s nuclear accident. The town of Hirono is located 20 to 25 kilometers…
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / July 23, 2012 / The Estimated Amount of Radioactive Materials Released into the Air Due to the Accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station: Progress Since May 24, 2012 Tepco July 23, 2012 Total cesium before reevaluation = 20 …
Continue readingby Rick Wallace / The Australian / July 24, 2012 / THE misguided and arrogant faith that TEPCO and nuclear regulators held in Japan’s nuclear safety “myth” contributed to the severity of the Fukushima disaster, a panel has found. R…
Continue readingby Mitsuru Obe and Phred Dvorak / Wall Street Journal / July 23, 2012 / Over the weekend, a subcontractor that worked at the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant confessed to asking some of its employees to put lead covers on their dosimeters in …
Continue readingby Kumiko Makihara / NYTimes.com / July 23, 2012 / The traditional inn nestled amid the mountainous countryside offered all the luxurious comforts for which these old-style hotels are famous. An elegant and eye-pleasing eight-course dinner was served i…
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July 20, 2012 (SAN CLEMENTE) – Yesterday’s announcement by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) stating that Southern California Edison (SCE) had complied with all regulations is yet another dange…
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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 RT / July 21, 2012 / Fears are rising in the US that the popular blue-fin tuna caught off the west coast contains radiation. Scientists say last year’s nuclear disaster in Japan is to blame, but some claim these radioactive findings may only …
Continue readingJapan’s earthquake and tsunami forced a re-evaluation of nuclear power plant protection. Now, a veteran firefighter examines the state of American preparedness and looks at what needs to be done next. by Robert Lewin / HSToday.us / June 27, 2012 / Du…
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via RT / July 22, 2012 / A company charged with decontaminating the devastated Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant encouraged its workers to falsely lower their radiation dosimeter readings by covering the devices with lead, according to a leaked tape of an …
Continue readingvia Japan Times / July 22, 2012 / The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan and Japan Atomic Power Co. said they will jointly establish an organization to support emergency responses to nuclear accidents. The body will be set up by March 2016…
Continue readingvia Mainichi Daily / July 21, 2012 / Chugoku Electric Power Co. intended to dispatch an employee to a government-led public hearing here on energy policy to express the firm’s view on nuclear power, an internal document obtained by the Mainichi S…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / July 20, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Thursday removed an unused fuel assembly from the spent-fuel pool in the reactor 4 building at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, sources said. It was the second such operation in as many days…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / July 20, 2012 / In a rare move by a former Japanese prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama joined a boisterous anti-nuclear demonstration outside his old office on July 20, a fresh sign that the ruling party he once led is fracturing ov…
Continue readingby Geoff Brumfiel / Nature / July 18, 2012 / t’s been well over a year since multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan sparked the worst nuclear crisis in 25 years — and it is remarkable how little we still know about its impac…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / July 21, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. next week plans to reassess its final report on the Fukushima nuclear disaster to address contradictions with the final report recently released by an independent Diet panel, a Tepco official s…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / July 20, 2012 / The government said Thursday it will order Tokyo Electric Power Co. to trim its rate hike for households to an average of 8.47 percent from its planned 10.28 percent after determining the utility can further reduce sal…
Continue readingvia AFP / July 19, 2012 / Japan’s usually sedate society is angry and getting organised against nuclear power, with the kind of snowballing protest movement not seen for decades. Weekly demonstrations outside the prime minister’s residence …
Continue readingvia RT / July 17, 2012 / It’s been over a year since natural disaster ravaged a nuclear plant in Fukushima and interrupted the lives of millions of Japanese. Scientists now fear though that contaminated water is on course to America, and it could be …
Continue readingvia Japan Times / July 19, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Wednesday removed one of two unused nuclear fuel assemblies from the spent-fuel pool of reactor 4 at its Fukushima No. 1 power station. Television footage showed dozens of workers, all weari…
Continue readingJust give me the warm power of the sunGive me the steady flow of a waterfallGive me the spirit of living things as they return to clay.Just give me the restless power of the windGive me the comforting glow of a wood fireBut please take all of your ato…
Continue readingvia The Daily Yomiuri / July 18, 2012 / The government on Tuesday put into force a new zoning system in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, that will allow some residents to visit the village contaminated by radioactive emissions from the Fukushima No. 1 nuc…
Continue readingWorldwide health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident John E. Ten Hoeve and Mark Z. Jacobson Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C2EE22019A Received 23 Apr 2012, Accepted 26 Jun 2012 First published on the web 17 Jul 2…
Continue readingTONIGHT San Clemente City Council is poised to make history yet again regarding the San Onofre nuclear power plant. They will consider calling for special hearings and investigations about SAFETY, COST and RELIABILITY in formal letters to the Nucle…
Continue readingby James Corbett / FukushimaUpdate.com / July 17, 2012 On Monday Nakoso beach became the first beach in Fukushima Prefecture to re-open since the nuclear meltdowns of March 2011. The beach in Iwaki City is 65 kilometers south of the Fukushima Daiichi n…
Continue readingby Natalie Apostolou / The Register / July 16, 2012 / Japan’s troubled Tokyo Electric Power Co, Tepco, the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant, will be forced to release hundreds of hours of in-house teleconference video footage revealing executi…
Continue readingby Adam Westlake / Japan Daily Press / July 16, 2012 / Despite the scorching heat on Monday, July 16th, more than 170,000 protesters marched through Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park to demand the government bring an end to Japan’s use of nuclear power. As anti-…
Continue readingThe Radiation Bulletin is published by the Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
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 MsMilkytheClown / July 14, 2012 / Noda goes NE to see how “reconstruction” of that area is – promises to help fishermen after land sank one meter after earthquake/tsunami. Fukushima doing test catches of seafood to check safety an…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / July 15, 2012 / Tepco Chairman Kazuhiko Shimokobe has urged the government to quickly complete the screening process for its planned electricity rate hike for households to strengthen the company’s battered finances. Shimokobe s…
Continue readingvia Japan Today / July 15, 2012 / Japan should overhaul its power sector, dominated by regional monopolies, to promote competition and a stable power supply, according to a draft proposal issued by a panel of experts set up after the Fukushima nuclear …
Continue readingvia 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…
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Because the identical failure modes exist in both San Onofre Unit 2 and 3 and because
the damage to both Units is especially excessive, when compared to the remainder of the
US nuclear power plants, it is Fairewinds’ opinion that both…
Conclusion
Because the identical failure modes exist in both San Onofre Unit 2 and 3 and because
the damage to both Units is especially excessive, when compared to the remainder of the
US nuclear power plants, it is Fairewinds’ opinion that both…
by 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??…
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