By Naoko Fujimura, with assistance from Jae Hur in Tokyo; Editors: Jim McDonald, Paul Tighe13 August 2011 Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) – Mushrooms are the latest addition to threats facing Japan’s food chain from radiation spewed by Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant. Nameko mushrooms grown in the open air in Soma, a city […]
By NORIMITSU ONISHI and MARTIN FACKLER8 August 2011 FUKUSHIMA, Japan — The day after a giant tsunami set off the continuing disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, thousands of residents at the nearby town of Namie gathered to evacuate. Given no guidance from Tokyo, town officials led the residents north, believing that winter winds […]
TOKYO, August 9 (Kyodo) – Fish caught at a port about 55 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant contained radioactive cesium at levels exceeding an allowable limit, the environmental group Greenpeace said Tuesday. The samples taken at Onahama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, in late July, included a species of rockfish that measured […]
August 9 (AP) – An Associated Press investigation has found that Japanese government officials ignored radiation forecasts from their own monitoring system, failing to keep residents near a crippled nuclear plant from a predicted plume. Japan Ignored Own Fukushima Radiation Forecasts Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,Asia,pollution,infrastructure failure,corruption
By Sean Bonner 7 August 2011 The Safecasting drives officially started after my last trip to Japan, so I’ve been watching from afar as Pieter and an ever growing volunteer team of total heros have set out time and time again to try and map the radiation levels in the areas surrounding the Fukushima plant, […]
Soil contamination levels of cesium-134 and cesium-137 near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 26 May 2011. Department of Energy / Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology / The New York Times Doubting Assurances, Japanese Find Radioactivity on Their Own Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,Asia,pollution,infrastructure failure,agriculture
By Noriyoshi Otsuki and Satoru Murata5 August 2011 FUKUSHIMA–Deep in the mountains, a 4-ton dump truck unloads burlap bags that land with a thud in a hole shaped like a swimming pool 25 meters long and more than 2 meters deep. Another dump truck soon arrives, also filled with burlap bags. The two male workers […]
By Rie Ishiguro, Yoko Kubota; Editing by Edwina Gibbs3 August 2011 9:48pm EDT TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan sacked three senior bureaucrats in charge of nuclear power policy on Thursday, holding them to account for a series of scandals which have broken out in recent weeks over the government’s cozy relationship with the power industry. Japanese […]
August 3 (Yomiuri Shimbun) – Record-high radiation levels of more than 10 sieverts (10,000 millisieverts) per hour have been detected on a pipe at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co. TEPCO said Monday no workers trying to bring the plant under control have been working near the […]
By Kyung Lah (CNN)2 Aug 2011 TOKYO (CNN) – The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has detected the highest radiation levels at the facility since initial earthquake and tsunami five months ago, a company spokesman said Tuesday. The ultra-high levels of radiation were measured Monday afternoon on the grounds of the facility, […]
