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Paul J. Koenig: Fukushima is still looming dangerLa Crosse TribuneI find it unbelievable that the news media hasn't covered the continuing story of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, which at this point is worse than Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, a…

Radioactive fallout from Fukushima nuclear meltdowns caused abnormalities in …The Japan Times"We conclude that artificial radionuclides from the Fukushima (No. 1) nuclear power plant caused physiological and genetic damage" to pale grass bl…

Fukushima boss Masao Yoshida breaks silence on disasterThe AustralianTHE boss of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant at the time of the disaster has told of how he and his workers felt they would die as they heard debris from one of three explosions cl…

The HinduNuclear Power Dispute over Hiroshima MemorialJournal of Turkish WeeklyAt the Hiroshima Peace Memorial ceremony, 50000 people asked “for no more nuclear victims” amid rising anti-nuclear sentiment in post-Fukushima Japan. Prime Minister Yos…

AFPVideo Shows Fukushima Crisis TalksNew York Times (blog)As Hiroko Tabuchi reports in Friday's New York Times, the Tokyo Electric Power Company released 150 hours of video this week that was recorded during teleconferences last year in the first d…

WBEZ (blog)Weekend Passport: Indie meets MPB, Fukushima's hula girls and a Midwestern …WBEZ (blog)Mônica da Silva at Taxim Friday, August 10th, 10:00 p.m. at 1558 N. Milwaukee Ave. / 21 and over / $5 cover at the door. Mônica da Silva's sto…

Japan prepares to tap into geothermal powerSydney Morning HeraldBy spring 2014, Tsuchiyu, 15 kilometres from Fukushima, will be generating 250 kilowatts of electricity – about a quarter of the city's total needs – at a geothermal plant hidden away …

IAEA: Japan nuclear plant closer than Fukushima to quake epicenter is …Washington PostTOKYO — The Japanese nuclear power plant that was closest to the epicenter of last year's earthquake suffered more ground shaking than Fukushima but was large…

IAEA: Nuke plant near Fukushima largely undamagedAlbany Times UnionInternational Atomic Energy Agency group head Sujit Samaddar speaks during a press conference in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 10, 2012. Nuclear experts, led by Samaddar, have found that the Onaga…

San Francisco ChronicleIAEA: Nuke plant near Fukushima largely undamagedSan Francisco ChronicleTOKYO (AP) — The Japanese nuclear power plant that was closest to the epicenter of last year's earthquake suffered more ground shaking than Fukushima b…

IAEA: Nuke plant near Fukushima largely undamagedThe Associated PressBy MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press – 1 day ago. TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese nuclear power plant that was closest to the epicenter of last year's earthquake suffered more ground…

Mainichi Daily NewsFukushima Town Lifts Entry Ban On ResidentsRTT NewsA shopkeeper who went home opened the windows of his house and placed fresh flowers at the Buddhist family altar after nearly 17 months since the Fukushima nuclear power plant was kn…

IAEA: Nuke plant near Fukushima largely undamagedBoston.comTOKYO (AP) — The Japanese nuclear power plant that was closest to the epicenter of last year's earthquake suffered more ground shaking than Fukushima but was largely undamaged because it …

IAEA: Nuke plant near Fukushima largely undamagedAustin American-StatesmanNuclear experts, led by Samaddar, have found that the Onagawa nuclear power plant that was closer than Fukushima to the epicenter of the March 11, 2011 devastating earthquake was…

IAEA: Nuke plant near Fukushima largely undamagedHuffington PostTOKYO — The Japanese nuclear power plant that was closest to the epicenter of last year's earthquake suffered more ground shaking than Fukushima but was largely undamaged because it …

San Francisco ChronicleJapan seeks to lessen nuclear energy useSan Francisco ChronicleNagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue said the accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, which was crippled by a tsunami last March, has exposed the risk of nuclear technology…

Videos Shed Light on Chaos at Fukushima as a Nuclear Crisis UnfoldedNew York Times“I fear we are in acute danger,” he said. “But let's calm down a little. Let's all take a deep breath. Inhale, exhale.” That moment, as some of Japan'…

Fukushima local governor required Tepco to announce it was safe after the …Infoshop NewsAround 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 …

The HinduFukushima and Hiroshima are on Japan's mindPravdaAt the nuclear power plant "Fukushima-1" three working units were stopped by the emergency protection, all emergency systems worked normally. However, after only an hour power supp…

The GuardianFukushima fishermen battle to turn the tide on a crippled industryThe GuardianEndo was hopeful that consumers would quickly grow accustomed to seeing even more Fukushima seafood reappear on supermarket shelves: "I'm looking forward…

Evacuees face tough choice when looking for workAsahi ShimbunJob offers in Fukushima Prefecure, site of last year's nuclear accident, are a dime a dozen, relatively speaking. But that's not much of a consolation for people who were forced to ev…

New York TimesNagasaki vows to help Fukushima victims, urges end to nukesAsahi ShimbunNAGASAKI–Nagasaki marked the 67th anniversary of the city's atomic bombing on Aug. 9 with a pledge to continue its support for victims of last year's nuclear…

Mother Nature NetworkA Week of Ghosts: Japan's Annual GrievingNew York Times (blog)Japan is again wrestling with nuclear issues in the wake of the Fukushima meltdown crisis in March of last year. The government shut down all 50 of the nation's …

Japan Utilities Emit Record CO2 After Fukushima DisasterBusinessweek(9501) and nine other Japanese power companies emitted a record amount of carbon dioxide in the year ended March 31 as the Fukushima Dai-Ichi disaster spurred a surge in crude and fuel…

Japan Utilities Emit Record CO2 After Fukushima DisasterBloombergTokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) and nine other Japanese power companies emitted a record amount of carbon dioxide in the year ended March 31 as the Fukushima Dai-Ichi disaster spurred a s…

LONDON OLYMPICS / Fukushima hometown always on cyclist's mindThe Daily YomiuriLONDON–Kazunari Watanabe put his heart into his bicycle races in men's keirin at the London Olympics, but his thoughts were never far from his hometown of Futaba, Fu…

Mother Nature NetworkJapan A-bomb survivors warn against nuclear powerMother Nature NetworkThe scars that still mark Sunao Tsuboi's face from the wartime bombing of Hiroshima are a grim reminder of the power of the atom as a wave of nuclear warines…

Hair-Raising Chair Enhances Scary MoviesLiveScience.comThe armrests of the Chilly Chair, a project by doctoral student Shogo Fukushima, do just that. Having one's hair stand on end is a natural response to emotions such as fear, surprise and feelin…

BloombergFukushima Watch: Highlights of Video From Inside Tepco's Nuclear Crisis CenterWall Street Journal (blog)On Monday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. for the first time released footage taken inside its command centers during last year's devasta…

Japan's Nuclear Debate Weighs Safety, EconomicsKERA NewsThe Japanese government idled the country's 50 nuclear reactors due to safety concerns after the an earthquake and tsunami caused reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant on the c…

Fukushima Watch: Video Highlights of Tepco's Nuclear Crisis Footage, Part 2Wall Street Journal (blog)Fukushima Daiichi plant manager Masao Yoshida said he was hesitant to send workers to Unit 2 to create a hole for the hydrogen to escape, fearing t…

Depth of Fukushima No. 1 evacuation plan unclear in videosThe Japan TimesScrutiny of the 150 hours of teleconferencing footage recorded by Tokyo Electric Power Co. in the initial days of the March 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 plant shows that …

Fukushima carp breeders strive to regain No. 1 spotThe Daily YomiuriFukushima carp breeders strive to regain No. 1 spot. The Yomiuri Shimbun. FUKUSHIMA–Carp breeders in Fukushima Prefecture–once the nation's No. 1 source of cultivated carp–have …

New York TimesNRC Chief Defends Regulator After Criticism of Fukushima RulesBusinessweekThe Fukushima-related rules imposed on 104 commercial U.S. reactors a year after the incident require companies such as Exelon Corp. (EXC) and Entergy Corp. (ETR) t…

Fukushima Hangs by the Devil's ThreadCounterPunchBut nothing quite matches Fukushima and how it threatens us today. Astonishing as it may seem, the GE Mark I design includes waste storage pools perched 100 feet in the air. Around the world, thousan…

The devil STILL has us death dancing at FukushimaOpEdNewsThe molten cores at Units 1, 2 & 3 have threatened all life on Earth. The flood of liquid radiation has poisoned the Pacific. Fukushima's cesium and other airborne emissions have already …

Globe and MailFukushima Hot Springs Town to Build Geothermal Plant After QuakeBloombergHot springs operators in Tsuchiyu, a town about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Fukushima's stricken nuclear station in Japan, plan to build a geothermal p…

International Business TimesFukushima teens find parallels in Hiroshima's experience and hopeAsahi ShimbunHIROSHIMA–It took a visit to this historic city by a group of students to realize the atomic bombing 67 years ago was more than something fro…

BBC NewsTepco releases recordings of Fukushima nuclear crisisBBC NewsTokyo Electric Power Company has released 150 hours of footage showing the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima. Tepco is looking to counter criticism it was unprepared for the accident, the…

BBC NewsTepco releases recordings of Fukushima nuclear crisisBBC NewsTokyo Electric Power Company has released 150 hours of footage showing the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima. Tepco is looking to counter criticism it was unprepared for the accident, the…

Tepco Weighed Using Firearms to Avoid Fukushima ExplosionBusinessweekAs the first hydrogen explosion rocked the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) officials scrambled to prevent a second blast, at one point weighing the u…

Fukushima's Children Facing High Rate of Thyroid IrregularitiesAbout – News & IssuesAccording to government research released in Japan, 36 percent of children from Fukushima Prefecture — the area around the March 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear pl…

'This is serious, this is serious,' Fukushima nuke plant chief after tsunamiCTV British Columbia NewsThe videos, seen Monday, are mainly of teleconferences between company headquarters in Tokyo and staff at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant …

International Business TimesFrom Hiroshima To Fukushima: An Atom Bomb Anniversary In The Age Of …International Business TimesAs Japan struggles to define its approach to nuclear power post-Fukushima, today's Hiroshima anniversary serves as a poig…

International Business TimesGUEST OPINION: From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Presidential campaigns and …Taunton Daily GazetteA protester in protective mask holds a placard during an anti nuclear rally in Tokyo, Sunday, March 27, 2011. Leaked water in Uni…

International Business TimesGUEST OPINION: From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Presidential campaigns and …Fall River Herald NewsA protester in protective mask holds a placard during an anti nuclear rally in Tokyo, Sunday, March 27, 2011. Leaked water in Un…

The Republic'This is serious, this is serious,' Fukushima nuke plant chief shouts on new …The RepublicTOKYO — The emergency command center at Japan's stricken nuclear plant shook violently when hydrogen exploded at one reactor and the p…

International Business TimesFrom Hiroshima to FukushimaCounterPunchNuclear reactors further compound the nuclear legacy both from an environmental and health standpoint as last year's Fukushima disaster so readily makes clear. The long term effects…

'This is serious, this is serious,' Fukushima nuke plant chief shouts on new …Washington Post… control and was ordered to do so. The videos, seen Monday, are mainly of teleconferences between company headquarters in Tokyo and staff at the F…

Japan Nuclear Disaster: Videos From Fukushima Crisis Released By Tokyo …Huffington PostThe videos, seen Monday, are mainly of teleconferences between company headquarters in Tokyo and staff at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant after the March 11, …

Video shows tension of Fukushima crisisNEWS.com.auThe images showed tense exchanges as company officials struggled with the unfolding disaster after the deadly tsunami on March 11, 2011, damaged emergency power for cooling systems at the Fukushima Daii…

PublicServiceEurope.comGlobal demand for uranium growing despite FukushimaPublicServiceEurope.comDespite the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident of March 2011, the development and growth of nuclear power looks set to continue in the coming decades. Alth…

NaharnetFukushima Refugees Cheer for Native Son in OlympicsNaharnetA Japanese track cyclist from the no-go zone around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is helping unite a community scattered by last year's quake-tsunami disaster as they cheer h…

BloombergNuclear energy wild card in Japan poll which Democrats likely to loseChicago TribuneTOKYO (Reuters) – Growing Japanese opposition to nuclear energy after the Fukushima disaster will be a wild card in a general election many expect within month…

Fukushima residents say resounding 'no' to nuclear energyYnetnewsGet out of nuclear power and do it fast, angry Fukushima residents told Japanese government officials over the weekend, at a public hearing on energy policy held in an area ravage…

HNN Huntingtonnews.netOP-ED: From Hiroshima to Fukushima – Presidential Campaigns and The Will of …HNN Huntingtonnews.netAs Albert Einstein famously said, “With the dawn of the nuclear age everything changed save [except] our modes of thinking an…

Year after Fukushima disaster, BARC course sees huge rise in aspirantsIndian ExpressIt could be the market fluctuations and drying up of jobs in several sectors or a renewed interest and focus in the nuclear energy sector a year after the Fukushima dis…

Close to 70 percent favor zero nuclear plants in 2030Asahi Shimbun1 session held in Fukushima city, participants were selected without requiring them to state which option they preferred. The crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is located in t…

Bangkok PostLondon 2012 Cycling: Fukushima refugees cheer for native sonNDTVLondon: A Japanese track cyclist from the no-go zone around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is helping unite a community scattered by last year's quake-tsunami disaste…

Bangkok PostLondon 2012 Cycling: Fukushima refugees cheer for native sonNDTVLondon: A Japanese track cyclist from the no-go zone around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is helping unite a community scattered by last year's quake-tsunami disaste…

OLYMPICS/ 3 Olympians carry hopes, heart of Fukushima in LondonAsahi ShimbunThe day the magnitude-9.0 earthquake rocked the Tohoku region, track training sessions were called off that afternoon at Fukushima University. There was no electricity. There w…

Financial TimesMount Fuji locals worry after FukushimaFinancial TimesMount Fuji locals worry after Fukushima. By Mure Dickie in Fujinomiya, Japan. Japan's highest peak, Mount Fuji ©Getty. Like many Japanese, Tomoko Tokiwa has a deep affection for …

USA TODAYDoctors: Japan nuclear plant workers face stigmaUSA TODAYTOKYO – A growing number of Japanese workers who are risking their health to shut down the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are suffering from depression, anxiety about …

RTRadioactive cesium found in Japan's fish, seawaterRTHarmless traces of radioactive cesium have been discovered in fish and seawater in several areas of Japan, as the country continues to debate whether their fish is safe to consume and anti-nuke …

Doctors: Japan nuclear plant workers face stigmaBusinessweekTOKYO (AP) — A growing number of Japanese workers who are risking their health to shut down the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are suffering from depression, anxiety about t…

Doctors: Japan nuclear plant workers face stigmaThe Associated PressTOKYO (AP) — A growing number of Japanese workers who are risking their health to shut down the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are suffering from depression, anxiety…

Doctors: Japan nuclear plant workers face stigmaHuffington PostTOKYO — A growing number of Japanese workers who are risking their health to shut down the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are suffering from depression, anxiety about the…