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FUKUSHIMA (Japan) News, Dec 27, 2011


Fukushima Probe Highlights Regulator in Response Failure
Fukushima Probe Highlights Regulator in Response Failure
Bloomberg
Enlarge image Fukushima Probe Highlights Regulator in Response Failure Fukushima Probe Highlights Regulator in Response Failure David Guttenfelder/Pool via Bloomberg Workers in protective suits and masks work at the crippled Tokyo Electric Power Co. ...
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Busby: Fukushima 'criminal event' calls for investigation
RT
A newly released report on the Fukushima nuclear crisis says it was down to the plant's operators being ill-prepared and not responding properly to the earthquake and tsunami disaster. A major government inquiry said some engineers abandoned the plant ...
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Fukushima rice farmers asking 'until when will this continue?'
Mainichi Daily News
Eiji Watanabe stands in a warehouse full of this year's harvested rice in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 24. He has nowhere to ship the rice. (Mainichi) FUKUSHIMA -- With the government announcing a possible ban on future rice planting in ...
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Mainichi Daily News
Indian Pt. and Fukushima: Alike or Not?
New York Times
To the Editor: Victor Gilinsky, in “Indian Point: The Next Fukushima?“ (Op-Ed, Dec. 17), doesn't mention major differences between Indian Point and theFukushima plants, never acknowledges their entirely different physical environments and doesn't ...
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Will Fukushima ocean trash become a campaign issue in 2012?
allvoices
They might be radioactive recliners and rocking chairs, parked in the sand after traveling thousands of miles by sea from Fukushima, Japan, to beaches on the western shores of the United States and Canada. The French environmental group Robin des Bois ...
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New plants to clean Fukushima debris
The Japan Times
FUKUSHIMA — Three experimental plants are scheduled to open next month inFukushima Prefecture to test ways to reduce the amount of radioactive material in debris and soil there, sources said Monday. Under the aegis of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, ...
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Fukushima Disaster: A Failure of Imagination
Emergency Management (blog)
"Interesting analysis on the whole. FYI - 6.8% of the total allocation under the support heading is " There is an interim report out, Japan Panel Cites Failure in Tsunami in which some people are called to task for their actions in responding to the ...
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Canadians choose bin Laden killing as top story of 2011: poll
Vancouver Sun
By Linda Nguyen, Postmedia News December 27, 2011 Japan's Fukushimanuclear disaster, an extravagant Royal Wedding and the political upheaval of the Arab Spring were just some of the big stories dominating headlines around the world in 2011. ...
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Gov't decides basic policy of reclassifying Fukushima evacuation zones
Mainichi Daily News
One-year-old Himari, center, held by her mother Tomomi Sato, left, undergoes a radiation screening test at the welfare office in Oyama,Fukushima Prefecture, on May 24, 2011. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The government decided on Monday its basic policy ...
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Mainichi Daily News
SDF to end Fukushima relief operations, complete post-disaster mission
Mainichi Daily News
(AP Photo/Hiro Komae) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa on Monday ordered the Self-Defense Forces to end their nine-month mission in Fukushima Prefecture to support those affected by the nuclear crisis triggered by the March 11 ...
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Mainichi Daily News
Ministry to buy up cesium-tainted rice from Fukushima Pref.
Mainichi Daily News
A farmer hangs rice straw to dry in her paddy in Nihonmatsu,Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 12. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Farm minister Michihiko Kano said Tuesday his ministry will buy up rice from farmers in Fukushima Prefecture whose products mark ...
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Mainichi Daily News
TEPCO seeks nearly $9b extra for compensation
ABC Online
Tokyo Electric Power Co asked a government-backed bailout body for an additional 690 billion yen ($8.7 billion) to help compensate victims of the nuclear crisis at itsFukushima Daiichi power plant. To help Japan's biggest utility, known as TEPCO,...
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Vermont Yankee safety, Japan, NRC turmoil: 3 hot topics at advisory panel meeting
vtdigger.org
Chris Miller, director of the division of reactor safety for the NRC's Region 1, which has jurisdiction over Vermont Yankee, gave a presentation on the commission's actions in response to the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in ...
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Locals fume at poor N-crisis response
The Daily Yomiuri
The interim report on the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has produced an angry backlash toward the poor response by the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. among people who were forced to evacuate from around the stricken plant. ...
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Energy Industry Trends to Watch in 2012
Industry Leaders Magazine
This year saw a lot of action in the energy industry: the Fukushimacrisis, the growth of solar energy alongside the collapse of Solyndra, and the entrance of shale. Here are Industry Leaders' top pics in the energy industry trends to watch in 2012: ...
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Industry Leaders Magazine
You Could Even Say It Glows: NRC Votes to Fast-Track a More Dangerous Nuclear ...
truthout
Keep in mind that the AP1000 was designed well before the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that started the ongoing Fukushima disaster, but this approval, of course, comes well after. Designers of the AP1000 assert that gravity and convection will serve ...
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Mid-February Trial Date For Packers LB Erik Walden
Salon
In the northeast region of Fukushima, a different disaster was brewing: Three reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant were melting down, irreparably damaged by the super tremor. Now, as the snows are beginning to fall again, the government has ...
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Romney Looks Beyond GOP Presidential Primary
Salon
By David Guttenfelder and Eric Talmadge, Associated Press IWAKI, Japan (AP) —Fukushima was just emerging from the snows of winter when the disaster hit — a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, the strongest in Japan's recorded history, followed by a tsunami. ...
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Police: Babysitter Beat, Dismembered Indiana Girl
Salon
By David Guttenfelder and Eric Talmadge, Associated Press IWAKI, Japan (AP) —Fukushima was just emerging from the snows of winter when the disaster hit — a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, the strongest in Japan's recorded history, followed by a tsunami. ...
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Uranium: 2011 a review and 2012 a preview
Commodity Online
It quickly topped $70/lb in February and had $75/lb in its sights before the March 11 Fukushima nuclear accident slammed it back down briefly to $50/lb. With the exception of a couple bounces, it stayed lower through the rest of the year, ...
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Commodity Online
49ers Release Wideout Braylon Edwards
Salon
By David Guttenfelder and Eric Talmadge, Associated Press IWAKI, Japan (AP) —Fukushima was just emerging from the snows of winter when the disaster hit — a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, the strongest in Japan's recorded history, followed by a tsunami. ...
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Profit And Sales Rise At Egg Producer Cal-Maine
Salon
By David Guttenfelder and Eric Talmadge, Associated Press IWAKI, Japan (AP) —Fukushima was just emerging from the snows of winter when the disaster hit — a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, the strongest in Japan's recorded history, followed by a tsunami. ...
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The top 11 animal stories of 2011
Mother Nature Network
2011 was the Year of the Rabbit, but it wasn't very lucky for this earless bunny, born near Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in May. The plant has leaked large amounts of radiation after being damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami ...
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The Man in the Mirror
The River Journal
We are in the midst of a global meltdown: not just the reactor meltdown(s) inFukushima, but the implosion of the global economic system, and the all too literal planetary meltdown as the impacts from climate change hit us faster than anyone thought ...
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Prime Minister's Office shares blame for poor disaster response
The Daily Yomiuri
In its interim report released Monday, the government panel investigating the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant pointed out errors in judgment made by the government and the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., in responding to the ...
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Japan Fukushima Disaster Turned Area Into No-Man's Land
By The Huffington Post News Editors
IWAKI, Japan — Fukushima was just emerging from the snows of winter when the disaster hit – a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, the strongest in Japan's recorded history, followed by a tsunami. The wall of ... More World News at latimes.com ...
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Breaking news : Increasing leakage of Iodine131 | Fukushima Diary
By Mochizuki
Following up this article http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/12/breaking-news-possibility-of-recriticality-again/. In the article ,I posted Iodine131 was measured at 3 garbage disposal facilities but in December , Iodine 131 was measured at 10 of ...
Fukushima Diary
Countries take lessons from Fukushima crisis - In2EastAfrica - East ...
By In2EastAfrica
Fukushima Daiichi plant. The nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant that began in March has led many governments around the world to pause, review safety measures and revise their plans for power development. A few countries like... still nuclear is an important option for the generation of power to many of developed and developing countries as the current demand for power globally is expected to double when reached 2020. Source Tanzania Daily News. Do you have a ...
In2EastAfrica - East African...
XE.com - Tepco seeks $9 bln more for Fukushima compensation
Tokyo Electric Power Co asked a government-backed bailout body on Tuesday for an additional 690 billion yen ($8.8 billion) to help compensate victims of the nuclear crisis at its Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
XE Forex News
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for December 23rd -December ...
By NonProfitBlogs
(This post is by Christine McCann)Here's the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.State of Nuclear Politics in JapanA panel investigating the causes of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster ...
Humanitarian News blogs
Will Fukushima ocean trash washing up on U.S. beaches be a ...
By noreply@allvoices.com
Dec. 27, 2011 If you see assorted pieces of glowing furniture on California beaches next year, they may not be fuel for an all-night bonfire at ye olde summertime hootenanny.
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Environmental, Health and Safety News: Tepco seeks $9 billion ...
By EHS Director
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co asked a government-backed bailout body on Tuesday for an additional 690 billion yen ($8.8 billion) to help compensate victims of the nuclear crisis at its Fukushima Daiichi power plant...Please ...
Environmental, Health and Safety News
Japanese report calls response to TEPCO nuclear meltdown at ...
A report on the response to the nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant caused by the March 11, earthquake and tsunami paints a picture of confusion. ... "All the News That's Fit to Squint" ...
The Tokyo Reporter - "All the...
Fukushima Probe Highlights Nuclear Regulator – Bloomberg ...
NISA officials left the Dai-Ichi … The fallout from the Fukushima disasterThe Guardian Japan trade min to call for Tepco nationalisation-NikkeiReuters Japan Probe: Nuclear Crisis Response FailedTIME Chicago Tribune · all 543 news articles...
Enformable
Northerntruthseeker: The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Undercover ...
By Northerntruthseeker
For the last while, there has been an almost total blackout of any news about the situation with the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. What we have been told by the controlled mainstream media is that the situation is now "under control", ...
Northerntruthseeker
Nature News Blog: Fukushima reaches cold shutdown
Today the Japanese government announced that three reactors which suffered meltdowns in early March had officially reached “cold shutdown”. Perhaps ...
blogs.nature.com/.../fukushima-reaches-cold-shutdown.html
BBC News - Japan PM says Fukushima nuclear site finally stabilised
Japan's prime minister says the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant has finally been stabilised, nine months after the earthquake and tsunami.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16212057
Japan Fukushima Disaster Turned Area Into No-Man's Land
ERIC TALMADGE and DAVID GUTTENFELDER 12/27/11 11:58 AM ET AP IWAKI, Japan — Fukushima was just emerging from the snows of winter when the disaster hit – a ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../japan-fukushima-disaster-_0_n_1...
Fukushima investigation reveals failings | World news | guardian.co.uk
Japanese government delayed giving information to the public, according to interim report into the disaster.
www.guardian.co.uk/.../fukushima-investigation-reveals-failin...
'Absolutely no progress being made' at Fukushima nuke plant ...
Tomohiko Suzuki, in full protective gear, near the Fukushima No. ... Suzuki told reporters at a Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan news conference on Dec. ...
mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/.../20111216p2a00m0na002000c.h...
NZ muttonbirds tested for Fukushima radiation | NATIONAL News
New Zealand muttonbirds are being studied to see if they were affected by radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear power plant.
tvnz.co.nz/.../nz-muttonbirds-tested-fukushima-radiation-4667...
Could New Nuclear Reactor Have Prevented Fukushima? - ABC News
The first new nuclear reactor to be built in the U.S. in three decades is one step away from breaking ground. Federal regulators approved the design for the ...
abcnews.go.com/.../could-new-nuclear-reactor-have-prevented...
Fukushima – Good News and Bad News? « Climate Denial Crock of ...
One Response to “Fukushima – Good News and Bad News?” Bruce Miller Says: December 15, 2011 at 5:43 pm. Bill Gates takes the lead – cannot operate ...
climatecrocks.com/.../fukushima-good-news-and-bad-news/
Cold Shutdown Conditions Declared at Fukushima
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano issued the following statement.
www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2011/coldshutdown.html
Japan says 30-40 years to scrap Fukushima plant - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: TOKYO (Reuters) - Decommissioning Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will take three or four decades, Japan's government said on ...
news.yahoo.com/japan-decommission-fukushima-30-40-years...
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