2 August 2012 (Japan Times) – Prosecutors opened converging criminal probes Wednesday into the March 2011 triple-meltdown disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, looking to hold people in positions of power accountable, including then Prime Minister Naoto Kan. The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office and two other district prosecutor’s offices […]
By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press23 July 2012 TOKYO (AP) – The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant is still stumbling in its handling of the disaster 16 months later, by dragging its feet in investigations, and trying to understate the true damage at the complex, investigators said Monday. The report by a government-appointed panel […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 20 July 2012 Mr. Tomohiko Suzuki, journalist who went to work at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant last year to report how it really was in the plant, said the workers use a variety of ways to lower (i.e., fake) the radiation exposure as measured by their dosimeters. One of the ways is […]
By Aaron Sheldrick; Editing by Jeremy Laurence16 July 2012 TOKYO (Reuters) – More than 100,000 anti-nuclear protesters marched through central Tokyo on Monday to voice their opposition to atomic power, racheting up the pressure on under fire Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. On the hottest day of the year, protesters forsook their air-conditioned homes to say […]
By Risa Maeda and Linda Sieg; Editing by Robert Birsel5 July 2012 TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Fukushima nuclear crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from “collusion” among the government, regulators and the plant operator, an expert panel said on Thursday, wrapping up an inquiry into the worst nuclear accident in 25 years. Damage from the […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 3 July 2012 It’s just a bad juju after another. Water leaks, alarms going off along the power transmission lines, protesters preventing the government minister from entering the plant by land, and now this. The Reactor 3 turbine vibrates too much. From Jiji Tsushin (7/3/2012): 発電再開、５日に延期＝関電大飯３号機 Start of power generation postponed till July […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 28 June 2012 TEPCO, soon to be “effectively” nationalized, sent own workers to the Reactor 1 building at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant on June 26 to measure the water level, radiation levels and temperatures inside the Torus Room. The workers used the CCD camera fitted with thermometer and dosimeter, and fed the […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 22 June 2012 (UPDATE) Video of TV Asahi program reporting the protest in the latest post. ========================================= Well well. People in Japan did it the old-fashion way to attract media attention (not that they did it to attract attention, but…). Every single media in Japan ignored the protest on June 15 with 11,000 […]
By HIROKO TABUCHI19 June 2012 TOKYO – The United States shared detailed radiation measurements with Japan in the early days of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that the Japanese government did not make public or use in conducting evacuations, officials acknowledged on Tuesday. Lacking information about the direction of airborne particles, some evacuees fled, […]
[More protest videos here. h/t Ex-SKF] By ERIC JOHNSTON, Staff writer17 June 2012 OSAKA – The decision to restart two reactors at the Oi nuclear plant has sparked international concern, with antinuclear activists and politicians in many countries sending letters of protest and holding rallies outside Japanese embassies and consulates over the past week. Politicians […]
