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Government secretly backtracks on Fukushima decontamination goal

via The Asahi Shimbun / June 16, 2013 / With the government facing difficulty in finding disposal sites, municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture are being unofficially notified that the goal for...

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TEPCO puts radioactive water decontamination process on hold, yet another...

via News on Japan /June 17, 2013 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), operator of the disaster stricken Fukushima nuclear power facility, put on hold the ongoing test run of its water decontamination...

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Japan finds highly toxic strontium in #Fukushima groundwater

via TheStar.com / June 19, 2013 / High levels of toxic strontium-90 have been found in groundwater at the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the utility that operates the facility said...

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‘Eat and Support’ #Fukushima Rice, Without Knowing and Without Choice

via EX-SKF / June 19, 2013 / From rice to be grown and harvested in 2013, the national government is buying up 250,000 tonnes for the government’s rice reserve; of that, 40,000 tonnes, or 16%, may come...

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Ohi reactors likely to remain online beyond July

via NHK World / June 20, 2013 / Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority will allow the country’s only 2 running reactors to stay online after new nuclear safety guidelines take effect in July. The...

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(Another) Leak found at Fukushima Daiichi desalting device

via NHK World / June 21, 2013 / TEPCO says radiation-contaminated water was found to have leaked from a desalinating device at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The plant operator...

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Japanese health and welfare sector lacking post-disaster plans

via NHK World / June 24, 2013 / A government white paper says many hospitals and welfare facilities need help with contingency planning. The 2011 earthquake and tsunami taught Japanese service...

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Tritium level rising in #Fukushima plant port

via NHK World / June 25, 2013 / Officials from Tokyo Electric Power Company say the level of radioactive tritium has been rising in sea water near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. They say...

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War and the New Nuclear Danger: #Fukushima and Beyond

Global Research News Hour Episode 31: via Global Research.ca / June 24, 2013 / One of the most severe industrial accidents in history occurred two and a half years ago when the Fukushima Daiichi...

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TEPCO shareholders want out of nuclear power

via NHK World / June 26, 2013 / A group of shareholders at Tokyo Electric Power Company is demanding the utility withdraw from the business of nuclear power generation. TEPCO operates the crippled...

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First MOX shipment since Fukushima disaster arrives in Fukui

via Japan Times / June 27, 2013 / Japan’s first shipment of mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel since the Fukushima nuclear crisis broke out in March 2011 arrived early Thursday at the Sea of...

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New map of radioactive iodine released from Fukushima Daiichi

via Enformable.com / June 28, 2013 / The American Health Physics Society released a map which shows how far radioactive iodine spread in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.  The map was...

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Toxic groundwater found in Fukushima No. 1 well just 6 meters from Pacific

via Japan Times / June 30, 2013 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday it has detected high levels of radioactive substances, including strontium, emitting beta rays in groundwater taken from a well...

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Japan made secret promise with U.S. to restart pluthermal nuclear program

via The Mainichi / July 1, 2013 / A Japanese prime ministerial envoy secretly promised to the United States that Japan would resume its controversial “pluthermal” program, using light-water reactors to...

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Opinion: We cannot allow return to nuclear power without proper debate

via Asahi Shimbun / July 2nd, 2013 / POINT OF VIEW by Hirohito Ono / The run-up to July’s Upper House election will likely focus on the economy and foreign policy issues, but one topic that must be...

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#Fukushima waste incinerator takes shape

via World Nuclear News / July 2nd, 2013 / Construction of an incinerator is underway at the Fukushima Daiichi plant to burn the low-level waste (LLW) being generated from the clean-up and...

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TEPCO Intends to Restart Reactors Elsewhere

via NY Times / June 3rd, 2013 / The operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said Tuesday that it would ask regulators to allow it to restart two reactors at a separate site in...

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Japanese Govt. gives up on #Fukushima Pref. decontamination efforts

via Nuclear-News.net / June 4th, 2013 / Government officials held a meeting in Tamura-city in Fukushima prefecture to explain to residents that they need to look after themselves from now on....

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Scientists detect highest cesium levels in a year in #Fukushima

via The Asahi Shimbum / July 8, 2013 / Radioactive cesium levels found in moss on a rooftop in downtown Fukushima exceeded 1.7 million becquerels, the highest levels detected in a year, researchers...

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Whose Fault?

If an earthquake fault caused a nuclear accident at California’s Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, whose fault would it be?  Did you know that Diablo Canyon is adjacent to two active earthquake...

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#Fukushima: Massive Leaks and Radioactive Fallout Continuing On a Daily...

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 –...

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#Fukushima Pond Leak Update: All 7 In-the-Ground Water Storage Ponds Are...

via ex-SKF / April 12, 2013 / Jiji Tsushin (4/13/2013) says TEPCO has reported to the Nuclear Regulatory Authority that the in-the-ground water storage pond No.1 is indeed leaking into the surrounding...

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Fukushima kids sue for evacuation

by Yuri Kageyama / Japan Times / April 18, 2013 / Despite high stakes, lawsuit getting scant media attention Their demand: The right to live free of radiation. The plaintiffs who started the legal...

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Leaks, Rats and Radioactivity: Fukushima’s Nuclear Cleanup Is Faltering

by Bryan Walsh / via Time / May 1, 2013 / Honestly, if the consequences weren’t potentially so dire, the ongoing struggles to clean up the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northern Japan would be the...

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Terrorist drill held for Fukushima plant

via Japan Times / May 12, 2013 / Police and the Japan Coast Guard conducted a joint drill Saturday to prepare for a possible terrorist attack on the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. About 150...

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Farmers plant rice near crippled Fukushima site

via The Star / May 22, 2013 / Farmers have resumed planting rice for market only 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, a local official said...

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Nuclear regulators acknowledge fault below Tsuruga reactor is active

via NewsOnJapan.com / May 23, 2013 / The Nuclear Regulation Authority accepted on Wednesday an assessment that a reactor at the Tsuruga plant in western Japan is sitting above an active fault, making...

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Fukushima plant struggles to keep staff

via Tokyo AP / May 23, 2013 / Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands. Increasingly the plant’s operator is...

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U.N. mulls excluding nuclear accidents from disaster prevention plan

via Kyodo News / May 21, 2013 / The United Nations is considering excluding measures to prevent a nuclear accident caused by earthquake and tsunami from a new framework on disaster risk reduction...

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#Radioactive Materials Leak at Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex...

via EX-SKF / May 24, 2013 / Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), who operates J-PARC, didn’t bother to notify the Nuclear Regulatory Agency (secretariat of the Nuclear Regulatory Authority, mostly made...

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Expand health survey beyond Fukushima: U.N

via The Japan Times / May 27, 2013 / Japan’s health survey on the effects of the March 2011 nuclear crisis should be expanded to include areas outside Fukushima Prefecture, a U.N. expert said. The...

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Fukushima subcontractor fires employees for whistle-blowing

via JapanDailyPress.com / May 27, 2013 / A subcontractor hired by the Fukushima Prefectural government to do nuclear disaster cleanup has been ordered by the Labor Standards Inspection Office to...

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At Least 4 Nuclear Plants Will Apply for Restart in July

via EX-SKF / May 27, 2013 / If they are approved, there will be 8 additional reactors, including one with MOX fuel, will be online in Japan, in addition to two reactors at Ooi Nuclear Power Plant....

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Exposed: Japanese Officials Upped Radiation Yardsticks to Dodge Compensation...

by Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams / May 26, 2013 / Japanese officials raised the level of acceptable radiation doses for evacuees of the Fukushima nuclear disaster to avoid increasing costs for...

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Ground freeze urged to curb seepage into Fukushima No. 1 radioactive basements

via JapanTimes.co.jp / May 30, 2013 / To reduce the flow of groundwater into the crippled reactor buildings at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 atomic plant, the government told Tepco on...

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Last no-go zone designation in Fukushima lifted

via JapanTimes.co.jp / via May 29, 2013 / The government lifted the last no-go zone designation in Fukushima Prefecture on Tuesday, more than 26 months after three reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 power...

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Frightened to return: A Fukushima father’s story

via Independent.co.uk / June 2, 2013 / Like most fathers, Yoji Fujimoto frets about the health of his young children. In addition to normal parental concerns about the food they eat, the air they...

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Tokyo Anti-Nuclear Rally Draws Thousands (PICTURES)

via RT.com / June 2, 2013 / Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in Tokyo to protest restarting of nuclear reactors the government is considering. Around 7,500 people participated in the...

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Video: Women of Fukushima (trailer)

Six Japanese women offer brutally honest views on the state of the clean-up, the cover-ups and untruths since the nuclear accident in Fukushima, and how it has affected their lives, homes and families....

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The Status of Nuclear Fuel Stored at #Fukushima

By Masako Sawai / CNIC / June 1, 2013 / This report summarizes the status of nuclear fuel stored at the Fukushima Daiichi (F1) and Fukushima Daini (F2) nuclear power plants. Fuel in the reactors and...

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Fukushima survey lists 12 confirmed, 15 suspected thyroid cancer cases

via Kyodo News / June 05, 2013 / An ongoing study on the impact of radiation on Fukushima residents from the crippled atomic power plant has found 12 minors with confirmed thyroid cancer diagnoses, up...

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Leak Found in Steel Tank for Water at #Fukushima

via Russia Today / June 06, 2013 / The operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Wednesday that it had found a leak in one of the hundreds of steel tanks used to store radioactive water at...

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Nuke regulators inspect damaged #Fukushima reactor building to analyze disaster

via The Mainichi / June 06, 2013 / The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has inspected the badly-damaged reactor building of the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant for the first...

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Removal of melted fuel from stricken #Fukushima reactors may be advanced a bit

via Japan Times / June 10, 2013 / The government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday they may be able to start removing the melted fuel inside the crippled nuclear reactors at the Fukushima No. 1...

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Fukushima Accident Raised Levels of Radioactive Strontium by Up to 100x

via ScienceDaily.com / June 11, 2103 / Researchers from the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) and the Department of Physics of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have...

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Damaged reactor building at #Fukushima plant fully covered

via Asahi Shimbun / June 12, 2013 / A canopy has been completed over a heavily damaged reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in preparation for removing the spent nuclear fuel...

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No clear goals in most decontamination contracts

via NHK World / June 13, 2013 / Work to remove radioactive substances from the land and surfaces of buildings has been underway across Fukushima Prefecture more than 2 years following the nuclear...

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EU Presents Post-Fukushima Nuclear Safety Rules

via Yahoo News-AP / June 13, 2013 / The European Commission proposed tougher nuclear safety rules Thursday, amid international debate about the future of nuclear energy and how to secure aging plants....

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TEPCO again corrects radiation level of groundwater at nuclear plant

via The Mainichi / June 13, 2013 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Wednesday again corrected the radiation level of groundwater samples taken from the premises of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear...

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Japan PM promotes nuclear exports at central Europe summit

via ChannelNewsAsia.com / June 17, 2013 / Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a push on Sunday for his country’s nuclear technologies at a summit in Warsaw with leaders of four ex-Communist...

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