via 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…
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via 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 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 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 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 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 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…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
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 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??…
Continue readingvia SecurityManagement.com / June 19, 2012 / After the earthquake and tsunami that damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, Sean Bonner and many others recognized a need for publicly available, accurate, and detailed radiation data. He used the onl…
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 Japan Times / July 8, 2012 / Tepco probably won’t be able to raise household electricity bills until Sept. 1 due to prolonged talks over the size of the hike within the government, sources said Saturday. Tokyo Electric Power Co. initially hop…
Continue readingvia NHK / July 6, 2012 / The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has come out against a Diet-appoited panel’s view that last year’s earthquake, and not just the tsunami, may have damaged the plant. Tokyo Electric Power Company s…
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