via Washington’s Blog / April 6, 2013 / Is Fukushima Leaking … Or Are the the Reactors Wholly Uncontained? You may have heard that TEPCO – the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plants – announced a large leak of radioactive w…
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by John Hofilena / via Japan Daily Press / April 1, 2013 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has come out and publicly said on Friday that it deserves a majority of the blame for the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a very strong statement about the company?…
Continue readingby John Upton / Grist.org / April 1, 2013 / Fallout from that Fukushima meltdown thing a couple years back? It’s not just the Japanese who are suffering, though their plight is obviously the worst. Radioactive isotopes blasted from the failed reactor…
Continue readingvia The Tokyo Times / April 1, 2013 / Thyroid conditions among the young population in three Japanese prefectures – Aomori, Yamanashi and Nagasaki – are almost the same as in Fukushima Prefecture, according to a survey by the Environment Ministry. …
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / March 28, 2013 / Remember that power outage? TEPCO released the result of their investigation on March 25, 2013. The mouse has a mark in the stomach from an electric shock. From TEPCO’s Photos and Videos Library, 3/25/2013, “Pr…
Continue readingvia euronews / March 28, 2013 / The death rate of elderly people evacuated from old people’s facilities around the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant has tripled, according to research. The University of Tokyo tracked 328 senior evacuees and found 75 ha…
Continue readingvia Zeenews / March 28, 2013 / The nuclear disaster that hit Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture over two years ago, forcing the evacuation of over 160,000 residents, appears now to be gradually receding into the past, with key officials saying that dai…
Continue readingBy Tomoyuki Yamamoto / The Asahi Shimbun / March 27, 2013 / A type of mollusk has disappeared from an area that stretches 30 kilometers along Fukushima Prefecture and includes the site of the crippled nuclear power plant, researchers said. But they cou…
Continue readingby Ida Torres / Japan Daily Press / March 27, 2013 / It has been two years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan and caused the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant – the world’s worst nuclear disaster si…
Continue readingby Ashley Feinberg / Gizmodo / March 21, 2013 While there’s no doubt that the nuclear crisis in Fukushima back in 2011 could have been avoided, a recent discovery suggests that this week’s extended blackout was entirely out of their hands. …
Continue readingvia YouTube / March 10, 2013 / Surviving solo in the Fukushima evacuation zone. For English subtitles, click “CC” button at the bottom of the video player. Two years since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant went into full meltdown, a…
Continue readingvia Washington’s Blog / March 11, 2013 / Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen said today that the containment vessel at Fukushima reactor 2 has a large crack in it. Reactors 1, 2 and 3 all exploded. BBC reports today: They know very little about what??…
Continue readingby Lennox Samuels / The Daily Beast / March 11, 2013 / The rice fields along Prefectural Road Route 12 leading to Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are brown and hard. Trucks and SUVs drive past Usuishi Elementary School—perched silently on a hi…
Continue readingBy Anne Sewell / DigitalJournal.com / March 10, 2013 / In the run up to the second anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that caused the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, tens of thousands have taken to the streets of Tokyo in prote…
Continue readingby David McNeill / via The Independent / March 2, 2013 / They displayed a bravery few can comprehend, yet very little is known about the men who stayed behind to save Japan’s stricken nuclear plant. In a rare interview, David McNeill meets Atsufumi…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 28, 2013 / WHO says “no observable increases in cancer rates above baseline rates are anticipated” inside and outside Japan. Greenpeace is crying foul, NHK quotes experts saying WHO is overly cautious and exaggerating …
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / February 23, 2013 / A panel of experts under the Nuclear Regulation Authority has conditionally approved the trial of a new device to remove radioactive substances from tainted water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex. The adv…
Continue readingby Ida Torres / via The Japan Daily Press / February 25, 2013 / Almost two years have passed since the gigantic earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan that killed nearly 20,000 people and caused the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. A…
Continue readingvia ABC Australia / February 19, 2013 / Nearly two years after the meltdowns at Fukushima a report by Greenpeace has revealed companies that helped design and build the reactors are not required to pay any compensation and are in fact profiting from th…
Continue readingBy Adam Westlake / The Japan Daily Press / February 13, 2013 The Fukushima Prefectural government has revealed that two more people, both aged 18 or younger when the Fukushima nuclear crisis broke out in March 2011, have been diagnosed with having thyr…
Continue readingby Hideaki Kimura / via The Asahi Shimbun / February 12, 2013 Naomi Hirose, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., denied an organization-wide effort to interfere with a Diet investigation into the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, saying one official …
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 4, 2013 / These days, it almost feels as if the last sane place remaining in Japan is actually Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, where they have actual jobs to do and they are at it every single day mostly because they have no othe…
Continue readingvia The Globe and Mail / February 3, 2013 / Japanese police have questioned a former head of the nuclear safety body regarding possible criminal charges over the Fukushima nuclear crisis, news reports said Sunday. Prosecutors have interviewed Haruki Ma…
Continue readingby Cherrie Lou Bullones / The Japan Daily Press / January 21, 2013 / A murasoi fish, comparable to a rockfish, was found at a port in the area of the now-closed Fukushima nuclear power plant, which contained 254,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium, a…
Continue readingvia RT.com / January 18, 2013 / Debris set adrift by the 2011 Japanese tsunami has made its way to Hawaii, triggering concerns over the unknown effects of the radiation it may carry from the meltdown of the Fukushima reactor. Debris has washed ashore t…
Continue readingby Justin McCurry / via The Guardian / December 27, 2012 / Lingering fears of radiation have turned children from Fukushima into the most obese in Japan, according to a government study, as parents and schools continue to restrict the amount of time th…
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / December 26, 2012 / The catastrophe at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant not only affected people directly in Fukushima Prefecture but also harmed the local economy. Sales of products from the prefectu…
Continue readingby Mario Aguilar / via Gizmodo / December 27, 2012 / Authorities expect more debris from the March 2011 Japanese Tsunami to wash up on the Pacific Coast this winter. Seasonal changes in ocean currents and North Pacific winds will push the 1.5 million t…
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Continue readingvia ex-SKF / December 19, 2012 / Japan is trying its best to pretend that the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident has been a minor inconvenience that no amount of newly printed money cannot overcome. After all, this is the country that has perfect…
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / December 19, 2012 / Follow-up to: Tepco to try and remove steel debris on top of fuel racks in No. 3 pool — Concern about liner? (PHOTOS) Tepco’s December 19, 2012 Handout (Japanese Only): http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-n…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / December 12, 2012 / The operator of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is grappling to locate the source of a leak of highly radioactive water in the crippled No. 2 reactor, and will continue trying to pinpoint the cause ne…
Continue readingvia The New Zealand Herald / December 7, 2012 / Influential Japanese scientists who help set national radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country’s nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the world…
Continue readingBy Takashi Kida / via The Asahi Shimbun / December 7, 2012 / The International Atomic Energy Agency said it will set up a joint program on decontamination next year with the Fukushima prefectural government as efforts continue at the crippled Fukushima…
Continue readingvia IndiaToday / December 7, 2012 / A strong earthquake struck on Friday off the coast of northeastern Japan in the same region that was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Authorities issued a warning of a possible tsunami. The Japa…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / December 7, 2012 / Update on the Magnitude 7.3 outer-rise earthquake on December 7 off Miyagi Prefecture. (Yesterday’s report is here.) It looks something may have happened at Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant. According to TEPCO, the…
Continue readingvia Business Recorder / November 25, 2012 / Japanese nuclear reactor maker Toshiba on November 21 unveiled a remote-controlled robot resembling a headless dog that they hope will be used at the battered Fukushima power plant. The tetrapod, which weighs…
Continue readingby Yuri Oiwa / The Asahi Shimbun / November 25, 2012 / Cases of cancer caused by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident will not increase significantly, although the risk facing infants near the plant has risen, a draft report by the World Healt…
Continue readingBy Hiroshi Ishizuka / The Asahi Shimbun / November 13, 2012 / Persistently high radioactivity in some fish caught close to the Fukushima nuclear plant has sparked a government investigation into the physiological basis for contamination and why radiati…
Continue readingBy Shingo Ito / AFP / November 12, 2012 / Japan’s only working nuclear power plant sits on what may be a seismic fault in the earth’s crust, a geologist has warned, saying it is “very silly” to allow it to continue operating. Mi…
Continue readingBy Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yasumasa Song / via Bloomberg / November 7, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. asked the government for more aid after estimating it may need at least 11 trillion yen ($137 billion) to cover costs from last year’s nuclear disaste…
Continue readingby Ida Torres / via The Japan Daily Press / November 7, 2012 / A briefing session was held November 4 for the residents of Koriyama in the Fukushima prefecture regarding thyroid cancer screenings for children. The tests were being conducted for childre…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / November 7, 2012 / Japan’s new nuclear industry watchdog acknowledged additional errors in its maps for the expected spread of radioactive substances from a serious nuclear accident, further exasperating local governments …
Continue readingvia RTT News / November 6, 2012 / A year after reporting on the devastation caused by the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told the world body’s Member-States that nuclear power is saf…
Continue readingBy Masakazu Honda / The Asahi Shimbun / November 2, 2012 / More than 10,000 people from across Japan are seeking criminal charges against officials of Japan’s government and the utility that operates the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, after…
Continue readingvia RT.com / November 4, 2012 / Members of Japan’s nuclear watchdog who are charged with drafting nuclear safety rules have received sizable funds from the atomic industry. The reports raise concerns that regulations may be diluted after last year’…
Continue readingvia GreenPeaceVideo As the Japanese government is allowing residents to return, environmental organisation Greenpeace continues to monitor radiation levels in the nuclear disaster stricken area of Fukushima.
Continue readingby Fiona Harvey / The Guardian / October 25, 2012 / Fish from the waters around the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan could be too radioactive to eat for a decade to come, as samples show that radioactivity levels remain elevated and show little sign of…
Continue readingBy Tim Hornyak / cnet.com / October 19, 2012 / You’re sweating in your bulky radiation suit, your dosimeter is freaking you out, and you’re trying to close a valve that might just save a large portion of the population from some very nasty …
Continue readingby Ethan A. Huff / NaturalNews.com / October 16, 2012 / Though the mainstream media has long since abandoned the issue, the precarious situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan is only continuing to worsen, according to a promi…
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