Fukushima Realtime News

MTSU students set to depart for Fukushima cleanup detailThe Daily News JournalMURFREESBORO — A contingent of 10 students and two professors from Middle Tennessee State University will leave Nashville early Monday, June 4, to participate in the cleanu…

Wall Street JournalRadioactive Tuna In Pacific Raises Questions About Fukushima SeverityHuffington PostBy Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer: Radioactive isotopes from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster turned up in bluefin…

New York TimesFukushima fallout – U.S. regulatory agency loses top safety advocatePeople’s WorldLast week was bleak for public health and the environment: Gregory Jaczko, who has presided as chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission since the Fu…

IBTimes.co.ukFukushima Radiation May Actually Save Bluefin TunaForbes(Image credit: Getty Images North America via @daylife) This week, a trio of researchers reported that Bluefin tuna caught off the coast of southern California carried radiation from …

NRC to Hear Arguments on Post-Fukushima OrdersPatch.comPilgrim Watch argues that the NRC's directives regarding lessons learned from Fukushima are not stringent enough. By Casey Meserve A three-member Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will hear ora…

NEWS.com.auJapan Moves Closer to Restart of Nuclear PlantNew York TimesThey would be the first two of Japan's 50 functional commercial reactors to go back online after last year's accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. All of Japan's reac…

AsiaOneFukushima govt slams evacuation instructionsAsiaOneJAPAN – Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato has criticised the way the central government went about issuing evacuation instructions for residents at a hearing by the Diet's Fukushima Nuclear Acci…

95.9 WATD-FMNew Nuclear Chief Can Act Fast on Yucca, Fukushima FixesBloombergArguably the biggest item on the NRC's to-do list is to carry out the recommendations of a task force that looked at how to avoid Fukushima-like problems in the US It took…

Fukushima quake/tsunami disturbed upper atmosphere – NASAChicago TribuneWASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) – The massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Fukushima, Japan, last year wreaked havoc in the skies above as well, disturbing electrons in the upper a…

Fukushima gov. slams evacuation instructions / Sato calls central govt …The Daily YomiuriFukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato has criticized the way the central government went about issuing evacuation instructions for residents at a hearing by the Diet's F…

Telegraph.co.ukChernobyl's Real Horror Show Isn't the Radiation, It's the EconomicsThe AtlanticIf you want to measure the real impact of Chernobyl, Fukushima, and whatever nuclear disasters are in our future, tally the cost. On the 26th ann…

The GuardianJapan inches towards restarting nuclear reactorsPhys.Org4 reactor building at the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, pictured last week. Japan on Wednesday inched closer to re-starting idle nuclear reactors, just weeks after t…

Grid operators say Germany must invest $25 billionFox NewsGermany decided after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster last year to accelerate the shutdown of its atomic power plants, embarking on a transition to renewable energies. "The investmen…

Sandia Labs technology used in contaminated Fukushima wastewater cleanupGovernment Security NewsTechnology developed by Sandia National Laboratories scientists was used to remove radioactive material from more than 43 million gallons of contaminated wa…

Electricity grid operators say Germany must invest about $25 billion in new …Washington PostGermany decided last year in the wake of Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster to accelerate the shutdown of its atomic power plants, embarking on a transiti…

The RepublicJapan ministers to meet on reactor restartsChicago TribuneNuclear power supplied nearly 30 percent of Japan's electricity needs before last year's earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima plant – the world's worst nuclear a…

Asian Scientist MagazineWHO Estimates Radiation Dose From Fukushima AccidentAsian Scientist MagazineBy Asian Scientist Newsroom | Top News The World Health Organization has released its estimates on the radiation dose uptake from the Fukushima Dai-ichi…

USA TODAYReport: Nuclear plant operators haven't reassessed quake riskNorth County TimesMoreover, the office found that PG&E has never comprehensively assessed the plant for its vulnerabilities to flooding, like the kind in Japan last year when…

Sandia Labs Technology Used in Fukushima CleanupNewswise (press release)Newswise — ALBUQUERQUE, NM — A Sandia National Laboratories technology has been used to remove radioactive material from more than 43 million gallons of contaminated wastewater…

School trips to disaster-hit Fukushima city starts to come backMainichi Daily NewsFUKUSHIMA, Japan (Kyodo) — School excursions are starting to gradually return to Aizuwakamatsu in Fukushima Prefecture, a historic city severely affected by the March 20…

CBS NewsFukushima fear: Softbank unveils first cell phone with built-in 'geiger-counter'Examiner.comSince the Fukushima disaster, companies have released mobile radiation detectors that work with smartphones, such as Scosche's iPhone-compat…

NewsdayBackup power probed at ailing Cal nuke plantBusinessWeekA tsunami destroyed backup generators at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant — setting off the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. At issue at San Onofre is a vibrat…

Daily BeastOfficials probe possible threat to backup power during quake at Cal nuke plantWashington PostA tsunami destroyed backup generators at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant — setting off the world's worst nuclear disaster since Che…

San Onofre Power Plant Operated For Decades With Vulnerable Backup PowerHuffington PostA tsunami destroyed backup generators at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant – setting off the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. At issue …

msnbc.comFukushima — Is The Crisis Over For The Pacific?Forbes(Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) The March 11, 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant attracted thousands of reporters and photographers from around the world, but most h…

Mainichi Daily NewsKan defends his response to Fukushima crisis / Denies responsibility for …The Daily YomiuriFormer Prime Minister Naoto Kan tenaciously defended himself at a hearing in front of a Diet-appointed private investigative panel on Monday…

BloombergConfirm Allison Macfarlane to NRCThe Hill (blog)By Diane Curran and Mindy Goldstein – 05/29/12 12:59 PM ET Last week was bleak for public health and the environment: Gregory Jaczko, who has presided as Chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Com…

Financial TimesPragmatic citizens are unfazed by FukushimaFinancial TimesBy Michael Stothard Finland was the first western European nation to decide to build more nuclear energy plants after the Chernobyl accident in 1986, and it has been equally unfaz…

TIMEFukushima Radiation Found in Bluefin Tuna in Calif.TIMEFive months after the Fukushima disaster in Japan, researchers tested bluefin tuna caught off the coast of San Diego and found higher-than-normal levels of radiation. By Alicia Chang | AP | May…

Sandia technology used in Fukushima cleanupR & D MagazineA Sandia National Laboratories technology has been used to remove radioactive material from more than 43 million gallons of contaminated wastewater at Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclea…

A Crossroads for Japan: Revive Nuclear or Go Green?Yale Environment 360In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, Japan has idled all 50 of its nuclear reactors. While the central government and business leaders are warning a prolonged shutdown could spell…

Fukushima Radiation Found in Tuna off California CoastDaily DisruptionBut while cesium-137 is known to have entered the Pacific Ocean artificially as a result of 1960s nuclear weapons tests, the only possible explanation for the cesium-134 is fallout f…

Fukushima radiation found in tuna off California – videoThe GuardianThe Japanese government says it will look into international monitoring of fish products after low levels of radiation were found in bluefin tuna in Californian waters. A report show…