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via Reuters / July 4, 2012 Buffeted by industry worries about high electricity costs on one side and public safety fears about nuclear power on the other, Japan’s leaders are still struggling to craft a coherent energy policy more than a year aft…
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 ABC / July 1, 2012 / The operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant has managed to restore the cooling system in a pool which holds hundreds of tonnes of spent nuclear fuel at the facility. The system had failed earlier, causing the pool’s tempe…
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…
Continue readingvia MSNBC / July 1, 2012 / Dozens of protesters shouted and danced at the gate of a nuclear power plant as it restarted Sunday, the first to go back online since Japan shut down all of its reactors for safety checks following the Fukushima nuclear disa…
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 readingNHK / June 12, 2012 / The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says a new method has failed to locate radioactive water leaking from one of the reactors. Identifying the leaks is a key step towards decommissioning the plant. Tokyo Elec…
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 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…
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 JapanTimes / March 12, 2012 / Unknown risks of low-level radiation weigh heavily on locals FUKUSHIMA — Yoshiko Ota keeps her windows shut. She never hangs her laundry outdoors. Fearful of birth defects, she warns her daughters: Never have childre…
Continue readingvia sloth.gr.jp / March 9, 2012 [Editor’s Note: The following was presented to the Australian Embassy in Tokyo today in a protest linking the uranium from Fukushima to indigenous homelands in Australia in solidarity with upcoming actions all over Austr…
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…
Continue readingvia CorbettReport.com / March 1, 2012 / Last year Helen Caldicott, author of such books as Nuclear Power is Not the Answer and The New Nuclear Danger, joined us to discuss the dangers of nuclear power in the immediate wake of the Fukushima disaster. No…
Continue readingBy Akiko Okazaki / The Asahi Shimbun / February 29, 2012 / A mind-boggling 40,000 trillion becquerels of radioactive cesium, or twice the amount previously thought, may have spewed from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after the March 1…
Continue readingvia The Corbett Report / February 28, 2012 / Paul Gunter is the Director of the Reactor Oversight Project at BeyondNuclear.org. As a long-time anti-nuclear activist, Gunter and Beyond Nuclear have been ringing the alarm bells about the GE Mark I Boilin…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 26, 2012 / A small leak was found in one of the two lines of Toshiba/IHI/Shaw’s cesium absorption system “SARRY” on February 25, 2012. SARRY is housed inside the Miscellaneous Solid Waste Volume Reduction Treatme…
Continue readingGovt releases new radiation readings / Daily Yomiuri / February 26, 2012 The government has announced the latest radiation readings from areas in the no-entry zone and the expanded evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 25, 2012 / As if irradiating the population with Fukushima-origin radionuclides is not enough, TEPCO says it will introduce smart meters to its household customers by the fall of 2013. Privacy concern about smart meters? Nah. The …
Continue readingvia Mainichi Daily / February 25, 2012 / The government is set to demand that all 17 board members of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, resign at the utility’s next shareholder meeting in June, go…
Continue readingDecontamination info center opens in Fukushima / NHK / February 25, 2012 The Environment Ministry and Fukushima Prefecture have begun to provide people concerned about radiation with information on how to clean up contaminated property. Officials at an…
Continue readingby Ian Macleod / The Ottawa Citizen / February 23, 2012 / OTTAWA — With the approaching anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster as a backdrop, Ontario’s top energy executive is urging Canada’s nuclear industry not to retreat in the face of …
Continue readingCruise finds Fukushima pollution / BBC News / February 22, 2012 Radioactive elements from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant have been detected in seawater and marine organisms up to 600km from Japan. But the scientists who made the discovery st…
Continue readingvia JapanToday / February 22, 2012 TOKYO — The operator of Japan’s tsunami-crippled nuclear plant is to cover a large swathe of seabed near the battered reactors with cement in a bid to halt the spread of radiation, the company said Wednesday. A cl…
Continue readingGov’t emergency headquarters refused to conduct additional thyroid testing on children / Mainichi Daily / February 21, 2012 / The government’s Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters did not fulfill requests from the Cabinet’s Nuclear…
Continue readingReturn to Fukushima: Japan’s ground zero / Belfast Telegraph / February 21, 2012 / The journey to Fukushima Daiichi begins at the border of the 12-mile exclusion zone that surrounds the ruined nuclear complex, beyond which life has frozen in time…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 20, 2012 / Minister of the Environment Goshi Hosono, who was better known for his extramarital affair with a popular actress before Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant blew up, tells the citizens of Japan on an NHK interview: “I…
Continue readingby Justin McCurry / The Guardian / February 20, 2012 / The manager of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan has conceded that it will be very difficult to remove the facility’s melted nuclear fuel, but dismissed fears that one of the damaged…
Continue readingFukui reactor to go offline Tues, leaving only 2 online in Japan / Japan Today / February 20, 2012 FUKUI — Kansai Electric Power Co will shut down the No. 3 reactor at the Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture for scheduled maintenance at midnig…
Continue readingby Laura Kenyon / Greenpeace International / February 19, 2012 / Nearly a year after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, it’s time to take a look at its legacy and take an opportunity to stand in solidarity with the people who continue to suffer th…
Continue readingby Kevin Voigt / CNN / February 20, 2012 / Japan — battered by a strong yen, slowing global demand and increased oil and gas imports due to last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster — posted a record trade deficit of $18.7 billion in Jan…
Continue readingDaughter of deceased priest leads reconstruction prayers at makeshift shrine in Fukushima / Mainichi Daily / February 20, 2012 / NAMIE, Fukushima — The daughter of a priest here who was killed in the huge tsunami triggered by the March 11 Great E…
Continue readingDaughter of deceased priest leads reconstruction prayers at makeshift shrine in Fukushima / Mainichi Daily / February 20, 2012 / NAMIE, Fukushima — The daughter of a priest here who was killed in the huge tsunami triggered by the March 11 Great E…
Continue readingJapan’s nuclear evacuees denied Canadian refuge / Toronto Sun / February 18, 2012 / A Japanese woman who claimed exposure to radiation from damaged nuclear reactors has been denied refugee status in Canada almost one year after that nation was ro…
Continue readingby Brennan David / Columbia Daily Tribune / February 18, 2012 / A Columbia-based coalition has joined 36 groups across the county in a petition that would expand emergency evacuation zones around nuclear reactors. The formal request to the Nuclear Regu…
Continue readingYokosuka groups object to disaster debris burial / NHK / February 17, 2012 / Residents in Yokosuka, near Tokyo, are objecting to a plan to bury incinerated disaster debris from eastern Japan at a site in their neighborhood. Representatives of 10 commun…
Continue readingby Linda Sieg and Yoko Kubota / via Reuters / February 17, 2012 / Nearly a year after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, then-premier Naoto Kan is haunted by the specter of an even bigger crisis forcing tens of millions of people to flee Tokyo a…
Continue readingby Yoko Kubota / via Reuters / February 17, 2012 Nearly a year after a huge quake and tsunami sparked Japan’s Fukushima nuclear crisis, then-premier Naoto Kan is haunted by the specter of an even bigger disaster forcing tens of millions of people…
Continue readingOnly 10 prefectural governments willing to accept quake rubble / Mainichi Daily / February 17, 2012 Only 10 prefectural governments are actively considering accepting rubble from earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged areas of northeastern Honshu, while 26 ot…
Continue readingLatest occured 2 hours ago centered 15km from plant at depth of 10km via ENEnews.com / February 17, 2012 / Title: Earthquake Information Source: Japan Meteorological Agency Date: Feb 17, 2012 04:29 JST 17 Feb 2012 Fukushima-ken Oki M2.9 1 02:42 JST 17 …
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 16, 2012 / The Japanese government is going to make these young women eat food from the nuclear-disaster affected Tohoku and Kanto to support the recovery. This is simply beyond my comprehension. Some on Twitter call it “stu…
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