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Japan lawmaker: Move parliament to Fukushima – Yahoo! News

A Japanese lawmaker said Friday that his country should move its parliament to Fukushima to provide an economic boost and show confidence in a region struck by a nuclear crisis after a massive earthquake. Yasuhisa Shiozaki, who was the government’s … Continue reading

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Chubu Electric plans to stop Hamaoka nuclear power plant – The Mainichi Daily News

Chubu Electric Power Co. plans to stop all reactors at its Hamaoka nuclear plant in central Japan following Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s request to do so for security reasons, company sources said Friday. [Link] Hamaoka is infamous. Something’s afoot here. … Continue reading

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asahi.com:Despite Kan’s struggles, Ozawa’s envisioned coup fizzles

“Rather than becoming stable, (the plant) is stably spewing radiation,” Ozawa said, before suggesting, “A commando team or something needs to be sent into the plant to resolve the situation from inside.” Despite those take-action words, he failed to show … Continue reading

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Debito writes about the flyjin controversy

But it’s the NJ who got it particularly bad, since the worst critics were from within their own ranks. The word “fly-jin,” remember, was coined by a foreigner, so this meanness isn’t just a byproduct of systematic exclusion from society. … Continue reading

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Japanese Government Finally Divulges What It Has Been Hiding: SPEEDI Radiation Simulations from March 12 | EX-SKF

Now, after more than 50 days and after so much contamination of soil, water, air and ocean with radioactive iodine, cesium, strontium, plutonium, americium, curium, among other yet to be disclosed nuclides that have exposed the residents in Japan to … Continue reading

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Tight-lipped Tepco lays bare exclusivity of press clubs | The Japan Times Online

Tsunehisa Katsumata, chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co., admitted in a news conference on March 30 that on the 11th, the day the twin disasters hit the Tohoku region and crippled Tepco’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, he was traveling … Continue reading

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Relaxed radiation dose rule for children draws flak – The Mainichi Daily News

On Friday, Toshiso Kosako, a professor in the University of Tokyos graduate school, said at a news conference, “Radiation exposure close to 20 millisieverts per year is extremely rare even for people engaged in nuclear business. Its unacceptable to apply … Continue reading

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Why you should treat low level radiation as bad for you!

What is the effect of radiation on the human body? Obviously at high levels it is detrimental. How about at low levels? This is clearly a contentious point. People like Ann Coulter have tried to popularize the belief that low … Continue reading

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U.S. medical group blasts Tokyo radiation policy on Fukushima children – The Mainichi Daily News

Physicians for Social Responsibility, a U.S. nonprofit organization of medical experts, has condemned as “unconscionable” the Japanese government’s safety standards on radiation levels at elementary and middle schools in nuclear disaster-stricken Fukushima Prefecture. … The medical experts group is part of … Continue reading

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福島第一原発3号機の爆発についての解説 4月26日

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