The Fukushima Elephant In The Room
The NY Times published an article today looking at the limbo Fukushima evacuees live in. Most in Namie and other
Read moreThe NY Times published an article today looking at the limbo Fukushima evacuees live in. Most in Namie and other
Read moreIn a recent interview with a DPJ politician involved with the early response to the Fukushima disaster he stressed that
Read moreUPDATE: Kyodo News is reporting that PM Abe had no actual knowledge of the situation at Fukushima Daiichi’s port when
Read moreIn an open letter to US President Obama the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists urged him to change his support for
Read moreThe power companies in Japan are already demanding reactor restarts after the LDP won the election. via Jiji This article
Read moreJapan’s upcoming election one would assume to be a referendum on nuclear power. Even with considerable interest on the subject
Read moreA recent Jiji News poll asked about public sentiment on nuclear power. Only 9.6% want a continuation of nuclear power.
Read moreLast week the odd political dance between the US and Japan ended with Japan backing off of their plan to
Read moreThe new nuclear regulatory agency in Japan intended to bring more public disclosure and transparency to the industry has closed
Read moreThe US state department has apparently pressured Japan to end their new policy of nuclear power phase out. The US
Read moreJapan announced last week a vague plan to end nuclear power in the 2030’s that was retracted within days after
Read moreThe current government in Japan has declared they will shut 3 older nuclear reactors in Japan at the Mihama and
Read moreKyodo news is reporting Japan’s DPJ government has already began to back off of their campaign promise to end nuclear
Read moreJapan’s DPJ has announced that they intend to phase out the use of nuclear power by 2030. While the campaign
Read moreTwo Japanese politician made claims predicting greater doom and gloom if Japan ends nuclear power. Japan’s defense chief claimed nuclear
Read moreRecent statements by the governing political party in Japan have taken things into surreal territory. The recent public polling showed
Read moreInitial counts of the public responses on Japan’s future nuclear power use report 90% want an end to nuclear power.
Read moreThe organizers of the Friday night protests in Tokyo had their meeting with Prime Minister Noda Wednesday. At the meeting
Read moreDuring the Hiroshima bombing anniversary memorials Prime Minister Noda made a series of sweeping statements. “Japan needs to teach younger
Read moreThis weekend brought a number of unusually large protests against the reactor restart at Oi and nuclear power in Japan.
Read moreFormer Prime Minister Kan provided his testimony to the national Diet in Japan recently. In his comments he fended off
Read moreWhile there has been an almost hyper-focus on METI minister Yukio Edano related to the issue of reactor restarts and
Read moreThe new safety measures introduced at the last minute intended to sway local governors to allow the Oi reactor to
Read moreThe Japanese government failed to put in place the needed changes to launch the planned new nuclear agency. This new
Read moreAn Asahi poll over the weekend showed that 80% do not trust the government on nuclear safety and 57% oppose
Read moreWhile the establishment political parties in Japan keep on with business as usual the people seem busy making change all
Read moreThe prefecture assembly has adopted a petition to force the decommissioning of all 10 nuclear reactors in the prefecture. All
Read moreEdano’s new role as head of METI could drastically shake up the office tasked with both regulating nuclear power companies
Read moreAs of Thursday JST 80% of Japan’s nuclear reactors will be shut down. Kyushu Electric’s #2 reactor at Sendai will
Read moreYoshihiko Noda was elected as the new Prime Minister of Japan. Little is known of Noda outside of Japan. How
Read moreThe official count so far has risen to seven power companies that NISA colluded with to fake public support for dangerous
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