via 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…
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via 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 readingby 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.
Continue readingby 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 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 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 readingvia 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
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 readingtranslated by Dissensus Japan / July 10, 2012 Original Text from blog of Great East Japan Earthquake Relief Network in West-Chiba http://2011shinsaichiba.seesaa.net/article/273921452.html * 2012 June 9. As i added data of adults, the original title &#…
Continue readingvia JapanToday / July 9, 2012 / apanese and foreign artists including iconic German group Kraftwerk performed at a mass weekend protest concert against nuclear energy inspired by Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. The “No nukes 2012” event wa…
Continue readingvia NHK / July 8, 2012 / A nuclear reactor in central Japan has achieved its full operating capacity. The nuclear reactor was restarted on July first after being shut down for maintenance that lasted 15 months. The output of the electric generator at t…
Continue readingvia TheGhostLetters / July 7, 2012 / VIDEO DESCRIPTION: It was a rainy day in Tokyo on July 6th 2012. Yet, the Anti-Nuclear protesters still came out at the Japanese PM’s official office to again attempt to get his ear. Although, this time was di…
Continue readingvia Businessweek / July 5, 2012 / The Fukushima nuclear disaster was the result of a mix of “man-made” factors including regulators who failed to provide adequate prevention and a government lacking commitment to protect the public, said a report f…
Continue readingvia Bellona.org / July 3, 2012 / A collapse of the already tilting reactor No 4 building at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant, ¬atop which sits a spent nuclear fuel storage pool containing 1,535 fuel assemblies – including 204 unused ones – wou…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / July 3, 2012 / he government said it will support a “temporary town plan” drawn up by four Fukushima municipalities that were evacuated because of massive radioactive contamination caused by the prefecture’s nuclear …
Continue readingvia UPI / July 2, 2012 / Low levels of radioactive cesium were found in 141 infants and children in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, a study found. The average amount of cesium in the 141 samples was 2.2 becquerels per kilogram, but three cases had …
Continue readingvia Kyodo / July 2, 2012 / The Environment Ministry said Monday it detected 61 to 2,600 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in 23 varieties of freshwater fish sampled at five rivers and lakes in Fukushima Prefecture between December and Febru…
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Continue readingvia Fairewinds.com / June 27, 2012 / CCTV’s Margaret Harrington hosts Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education. Arnie and Maggie discuss their recent travels to Italy to take part in and to view an opera on the Three Mile Island …
Continue readingBy Anne Sewell / DigitalJournal.com / June 30, 2012 Shareholders of Japan’s electricity companies voted on Wednesday to reboot nuclear power in Japan. 200,000 people hit the streets yesterday to protest this. The people of Japan are outraged ov…
Continue readingMainichi Daily / June 30, 2012 / The cooling system for a spent fuel pool at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant’s No. 4 reactor automatically suspended operation Saturday morning after an alarm issued a warning at around 6:25 a.m., Tokyo …
Continue readingMarketWatch / June 27, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, said Wednesday record amounts of radiation had been detected in the basement of reactor No. 1, further hampering clean-up operations…
Continue readingby James Corbett FukushimaUpdate.com June 14, 2012 Two new reports have emerged this week from the Japanese government demonstrating how government agencies hid data from the public in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, and how they misrepresent…
Continue readingby Kyung Lah / CNN / June 11, 2012 The executives of the Japanese utility that owns the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and a number of the country’s government officials should go to jail, according to a complaint filed by more than 1,0…
Continue readingThis film is about the Tohoku region (hit by the earthquake and tsunami that occurred in Japanin March 2011), as a reminder as to the ongoing difficulties being faced by the locals attempting to rebuild their towns. Eight months after the Tsunami, Paul…
Continue readingby Dennis Riches / nf2045.blogspot.com / April 17, 2012 Twenty-four years ago, in 1988, I was living in Japan for the first time and starting to learn a little about the frightening aspects of Japan’s nuclearization. Back then, a small booklet by a w…
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Continue readingDrifting Japanese fishing trawler first major piece of Japanese tsunami debris to cross the Pacific Ocean by Simon Kent / via canoe.ca / March 31, 2012 / It was almost as if the Marie Celeste had sailed back from the watery pages of history. Seemingly,…
Continue readingDrifting Japanese fishing trawler first major piece of Japanese tsunami debris to cross the Pacific Ocean by Simon Kent / via canoe.ca / March 31, 2012 / It was almost as if the Marie Celeste had sailed back from the watery pages of history. Seemingly,…
Continue readingvia Guardian.co.uk / March 28, 2012 One of Japan‘s crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and much less water to cool it than officials estimated, according to an internal examination that renews doubts about the plant&…
Continue readingby Andy Johnson / CTV News / March 11, 2012 / In Fukushima, Japan, one year after a nuclear meltdown sent a radioactive cloud into the sky and forced residents to flee their homes and businesses, workers are painstakingly carrying out a government mand…
Continue readingvia CorbettReport.com / March 11, 2012 / James Corbett of corbettreport.com reports live from the rally against nuclear power in Osaka, Japan in commemoration of the first anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.
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Continue readingThe Economist / March 10, 2012 IN JAPAN there is no kudos in going to jail for your art. Bending the rules, let alone breaking them, is largely taboo. That was one reason Toshinori Mizuno was terrified as he worked undercover at the Fukushima Dai-ichi …
Continue readingBy Yuriy Humber and Tsuyoshi Inajima / Bloomberg / March 5, 2012 As five-year-olds charge through the corridors of a kindergarten in northeast Japan at lunchtime, teacher Junko Kamada says she is still unsure if their food is safe a year after the Fuku…
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