via The Economist / October 8, 2012 / IT HAS taken the Japanese government more than 18 months to pay tribute to a group of brave men, once known as the “Fukushima 50”, who risked their lives to prevent meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear p…
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via The Asahi Shimbun / October 6, 2012 / Citizens and scientists have raised concerns that the science ministry manipulated its measurement of radiation levels in Fukushima Prefecture to show figures lower than they really were. The Association for Ci…
Continue readingvia NHK World News / October 2, 2012 / A Japanese nuclear research agency has begun using an unmanned helicopter to measure radiation levels in areas within a 3-kilometer radius of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Detailed studies ha…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / September 20, 2012 / Deadline for abolishing atomic energy by 2030s not endorsed In a shocking reversal, the Cabinet on Wednesday failed to approve the government’s new energy policy by watering down its main goal — the elimin…
Continue readingby David Herron / Examiner.com / September 16, 2012 / A year and a half ago one of the largest known earthquakes ever struck off the North Japanese coast, triggering a tsunami devastating the Japanese coast, as well as a massive nuclear power disaster….
Continue readingvia NHK World / September 9, 2012 / Efforts to deal with problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan still face many challenges more than a year after the meltdown. Tuesday will mark one and a half years since the earthq…
Continue readingvia NHK World / September 9, 2012 / Efforts to deal with problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan still face many challenges more than a year after the meltdown. Tuesday will mark one and a half years since the earthq…
Continue readingby Charlie Wells / via NY Daily News / September 7, 2012 / Scientists think there might be something fishy about the quarter-ton tuna an Australian man caught off the coast of New Zealand. It took two hours and 128 pounds of tackle for Paul Worsteling …
Continue readingby Charlie Wells / via NY Daily News / September 7, 2012 / Scientists think there might be something fishy about the quarter-ton tuna an Australian man caught off the coast of New Zealand. It took two hours and 128 pounds of tackle for Paul Worsteling …
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / September 5, 2012 / Translated Title: Circumstance of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Source: Tepco Date: September 5, 2012 Translation by Fukushima Diary At 10:30 AM on September 4, in order to examine the case of the intermitt…
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / September 5, 2012 / First, Tepco released the badly altered photo, which was deleted and replaced with an alteration of the original alteration. Now Tepco has altered their original statement on the alterations. Perhaps they will elab…
Continue readingby Hiroko Tabuchi / via The New York Times / September 5, 2012 / Japan would be foolish to abandon nuclear power, the operator of the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station warned Wednesday, saying the company had not ruled out reopening two o…
Continue readingby Seth Robson / via Stars and Stripes / September 5, 2012 / U.S. personnel experienced elevated levels of radiation from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, but doses were not high enough to make them sick, according to the Department of Defen…
Continue readingvia Fairewinds / September 1, 2012 / Fairewinds analysis of the triple meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi determined that other Japanese reactor sites were also in jeopardy because their cooling water systems were destroyed by the same tsunami. In this fil…
Continue readingvia Kyodo / September 4, 2012 / Japan needs to invest at least 50 trillion yen in renewable energy by 2030 if it decides to completely phase out nuclear power, the government estimated Tuesday. It also predicted households would see their energy bills,…
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / September 3, 2012 / Title: Decrease in the Reactor Injection Water Amounts at Unit 1-3 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Source: Tepco Press Release Date: September 3, 2012 Emphasis Added […] At 3:00 PM on August 30, 2012, …
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / September 3, 2012 / Title: Decrease in the Reactor Injection Water Amounts at Unit 1-3 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Source: Tepco Press Release Date: September 3, 2012 Emphasis Added […] At 3:00 PM on August 30, 2012, …
Continue readingvia ENEnews.com / September 1, 2012 / Photo set published August 30, 2012 only on Tepco’s Japanese-language website: http://photo.tepco.co.jp/date/2012/201208-j/120830-03j.html Direct link to photo: http://photo.tepco.co.jp/library/20120830_03/120830…
Continue readingby Hiroko Tabuchi / via The New York Times / August 29, 2012 / As Japan moves to cut back on nuclear power after last year’s disaster in Fukushima, it is running into a harsh economic reality: the cost of immediately abandoning its nuclear reactors m…
Continue readingvia Nature / August 30, 2012 / Investigations continue at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, and earlier this week the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) released photos of the first nuclear material that they’ve actually managed t…
Continue readingvia NHK / August 26, 2012 / Japan will conduct thyroid tests on children outside Fukushima Prefecture, to determine whether last year’s nuclear accident in the prefecture has anything to do with the discovery of lumps in the thyroid glands of one…
Continue readingvia AsiaOne / August 26, 2012 / The Fukushima prefectural government on Saturday began checking all bags of rice for radiation in Nihonmatsu, home to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The prefecture decided on radiation checks for the e…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / August 24, 2012 / Goshi Hosono’s Ministry of the Environment is on the sudden offensive against citizens and residents of Kanto and Tohoku, again. According to the Yomiuri Shinbun article, the Ministry of the Environment is already t…
Continue readingby Mari Yamaguchi / Associated Press / August 26, 2012 / This is Japan’s summer of discontent. Tens of thousands of protesters — the largest demonstrations the country has seen in decades — descend on Tokyo every Friday evening to shout anti-…
Continue readingvia DW.de / August 16, 2012 / The effects of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima have now become visible in butterflies. Researchers worry the effects may start to be felt among human beings. The butterflies found to be deformed as a result of radiation …
Continue readingvia The Daily Yomiuri / August 23, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. has said that 38,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram have been detected in a fish caught for sampling about 20 kilometers offshore from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclea…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / August 20, 2012 / Local government leaders were split over the government’s proposed sites for interim facilities to store the mountains of radioactive waste from decontamination work around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclea…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / August 20, 2012 / The nuclear power industry has made behind-the-scenes payments to the tune of at least 3.18 billion yen ($40 million) to six local governments hosting nuclear-power related facilities since the Fukushima disast…
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / August 18, 2012 / National policy minister Motohisa Furukawa has said that reactors 5 and 6 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and the nearby No. 2 power station should never be restarted. Furukawa made the remarks Thursday whil…
Continue readingvia the Washington Post / August 15, 2012 / Japanese researchers have found very low amounts of radioactivity in the bodies of about 10,000 people who lived near the Fukushima Daiichi power plant when it melted down. The first published study that meas…
Continue readingvia RT / August 13, 2012 / The reactors at crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant are not stable, says its former head. He urged for international expertise to be called in to make the site of one of world’s worst nuclear disasters safe. “Peopl…
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / August 12, 2012 / Radioactive fallout from the nuclear disaster in Fukushima Prefecture created abnormalities among the nation’s butterflies, according to a team of researchers. “We conclude that artificial radionuclid…
Continue readingvia NHK / August 10, 2012 / The Japanese government has lifted its entry ban on part of a town in Fukushima Prefecture that had high levels of radiation caused by the nuclear accident last year. But some residents are protesting the move. Residents in …
Continue readingby James Fontanella Khan / via The Irish Times / August 10, 2012 / BELGIUM HAS temporarily shut down one of its seven nuclear power plants after the country’s atomic energy regulator discovered “several anomalies”, including possible cracks, in t…
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 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 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’…
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 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 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 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 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…
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…
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 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 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…
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