The NAIIC Report: Self-Flagellation
by Dennis Riches / nf2045.blogspot.com / July 10, 2012 / Last week the government of Japan released a major report on the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. The Official Report of the The National Diet of...
View ArticleJapan Considering Deregulation to Spur Energy Industry Competition
via 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...
View ArticleTepco Seeking Swift Deal to Hike Power Rates
via 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...
View ArticleTEPCO to reveal meltdown vids
by 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...
View ArticleTEPCO ordered to cut rate hike
via 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...
View ArticleTEPCO to review Fukushima report amid contradictions
via 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...
View ArticleEx-PM Hatoyama joins anti-nuclear demo outside his old office
via 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...
View ArticleJ-gov Investigating Doctored Dosimeters
by 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...
View ArticlePanel: Fukushima crisis worsened by “myth” of nuclear safety
by 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...
View ArticleAnti-nuclear ‘human chain’ to surround Diet building
via 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...
View ArticleJR Pulls Out Steam Locomotive to Encourage Fukushima Tourism
via 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...
View ArticleAnti-nuke rally outside Japanese Diet draws 200,000
via 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...
View ArticleTEPCO Gets $13 Billion Bailout (+ $30 Billion for Compensation Payouts)
by 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...
View ArticleJapan’s pro-bomb lobby speaks up amidst nuclear debate
via 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...
View Article68% of Japanese At Hearings on Nuclear Power Want Its Complete Abolition
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...
View ArticleFukushima town in push to exempt evacuees from medical fees
by Takaaki Tamura / The Asahi Shimbun / August 03, 2012 The town of Namie, in the no-entry zone surrounding the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, is set to issue its own radiation dose book for...
View ArticleFukushima local governor required Tepco to announce it was safe after the...
via InfoShop.org / August 9, 2012 / Around 13:20 of 3/14/2012, just after reactor 3 exploded, Sato, Fukushima governor required Tepco to announce “there was no concern that radiation from reactor 3 may...
View ArticleJgov says entire Fukushima Daiichi and Daini plants should be written off
via 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...
View ArticlePay for Play? – Nuclear industry’s shady payments since Fukushima crisis
via 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...
View ArticleDespite all the numbers, energy policy questions fall short
by Eric Johnston / The Japan Times / August 23, 2012 Numbers, numbers everywhere. So what are we to think? That’s the question activists, academics and members of the public are asking as they follow...
View Article#Antinuclear Japan: Nearly 90% Favor “Zero Nuke” Policy
via ex-SKF / August 22, 2012 / That’s the number from analyzing 7,000 comments from the public on the national energy policy. 80,000 more to go. The committee members who have been analyzing the public...
View ArticleJGov says 50 trillion yen investment needed to end nuclear power
via 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...
View ArticleMinister: Japan to set energy policy but ‘no stance’ on nuclear
via The Asahi Shimbun / September 4, 2012 / Japan is scheduled to set national energy policy early next week, national policy minister Motohisa Furukawa said on Sept. 4, although he said the government...
View ArticleJapan risks angering both sides with energy mix plan
by Linda Sieg / via Chicago Tribune / September 7, 2012 / Efforts by Japan’s government to craft an energy mix that will respond to growing anti-nuclear sentiment among voters after the Fukushima...
View ArticleJapan energy deadlock deepens; government fails to announce policy mix
by Linda Seig / via Reuters / September 10, 2012 / Deadlock in Japan between anti-nuclear activists and advocates of atomic power deepened on Monday as the government failed to produce an expected...
View ArticleJapan to end nuclear power dependency by 2040
by 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...
View ArticleJapan Sets Up New Nuclear Regulator After Fukushima ‘Failure’
By Yuji Okada / Bloomberg / September 18, 2012 / Japan’s new nuclear regulator starts operation tomorrow as part of measures the government introduced after the Fukushima disaster to try and establish...
View ArticleCabinet fails to OK new nuclear strategy, removes 2030 deadline for nuclear...
via 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...
View ArticleJapan Backpedals on “No Nukes” Policy
by James Corbett / via CorbettReport.com / September 20, 2012 / Last week, Japan surprised the world by announcing that it plans to abandon atomic energy completely by the 2030s. But now in an abrupt...
View ArticleNoda visits Fukushima nuclear plant
via The Daily Yomiuri / October 8, 2012 / Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda visited Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant Sunday to see the site of the country’s worst...
View ArticleMeet the Fukushima 50? No, you can’t
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...
View ArticleOp-ed: Fukushima Slugfest — Japan’s New Nuclear Regulation Authority
by James Conca / via Forbes / October 9, 2012 / No one wants to make a decision on nuclear power in Japan. This is not surprising since the weak regulatory environment and complicity between government...
View ArticleSecond mass complaint coming over Fukushima disaster
By Masakazu Honda / The Asahi Shimbun / November 2, 2012 / More than 10,000 people from across Japan are seeking criminal charges against officials of Japan’s government and the utility that operates...
View ArticleNuclear watchdog admits additional errors in radiation forecast maps
via The Asahi Shimbun / November 7, 2012 / Japan’s new nuclear industry watchdog acknowledged additional errors in its maps for the expected spread of radioactive substances from a serious nuclear...
View ArticleFukushima $137 Billion Cost Has Tepco Seeking More Aid
By Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yasumasa Song / via Bloomberg / November 7, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. asked the government for more aid after estimating it may need at least 11 trillion yen ($137...
View ArticleFukushima to ax nuclear fuel tax
via Japan Times / November 21, 2012 / The Fukushima Prefectural Government will abolish a nuclear fuel tax imposed on two power plants operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co., with an eye to having both...
View ArticleMost Fukushima nuke plant workers ineligible for free cancer checks
By Miki Aoki / via The Asahi Shimbun / November 22, 2012 / Of the many thousands of workers who have risked radiation exposure at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, only a paltry 3.7...
View ArticleIAEA, Fukushima Prefecture to set up joint decontamination program
By Takashi Kida / via The Asahi Shimbun / December 7, 2012 / The International Atomic Energy Agency said it will set up a joint program on decontamination next year with the Fukushima prefectural...
View ArticleChernobyl factored in the fall of a corrupt regime — Fukushima may too
by Roger Pulvers / The Japan Times / December 9, 2012 / excerpt: As someone who has been studying Russian affairs for 50 years, having made my first trip there in 1964, I strongly believe that the...
View ArticleJapan largely excludes foreign firms in Fukushima clean-up
By Mari Saito / via Reuters / December 13, 2012 / Nearly two years after a massive earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan is failing to keep a pledge to tap...
View ArticleJapan to host nuclear safety conference in Fukushima
via AFP / December 13, 2012 / An international conference will be held in Japan’s Fukushima region over the weekend to discuss nuclear safety following last year’s atomic crisis, Tokyo said Thursday....
View Article“New Nuke Plants Possible in a Safe Location”, Says LDP’s Abe
via ex-SKF / December 19, 2012 / Japan is trying its best to pretend that the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident has been a minor inconvenience that no amount of newly printed money cannot...
View Article#Radioactive Japan Under LDP: Shintaro Ishihara’s Son to Become Minister of...
via ex-SKF / December 25, 2012 / What an in-your-face insult to citizens of Japan, particularly for people in Kanto and Tohoku contaminated by radioactive materials from the nuclear accident, and even...
View ArticleTEPCO President Denies Company-Wide Conspiracy to Thwart Diet Investigation
by Hideaki Kimura / via The Asahi Shimbun / February 12, 2013 Naomi Hirose, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., denied an organization-wide effort to interfere with a Diet investigation into the...
View ArticleAsahi Exclusive: Secret rescue mission at the Fukushima plant
The Asahi Shimbun / March 04, 2013 / Editor’s note: This is the first part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the secret missions...
View ArticleJapan 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...
View Article‘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...
View ArticleJapan 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...
View ArticleOpinion: 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...
View ArticleJapanese 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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