Category Archives: Japan news

A new open and crowdsourced initiative to deploy more geiger counters all over Japan looks to be a go. Safecast, formerly RDTN.org, recently met and exceeded its $33,000 fund-raising goal on Kickstarter, which should help Safecast send between 100 and … Continue reading →

As critical repairs continue at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, its operator is finding it difficult to find people willing to work at the plant. The tally of workers at the plant as of May 3 was … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

“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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →