December 12, 2012

Dec 12, 2012 | Fukushima Accident Updates

A new poll about voter preferences for the upcoming election reveals that the largest percentage of non-aligned voters is voting for the Liberal Democratic Party candidates. About half of the nation’s 42% non-affiliated voters have made up their minds – 30% say...

A Phantom Conflict of Interest in Japan

Dec 10, 2012 | Fukushima Accident Updates

The international Press reports that a “potential conflict of interest” was “buried” in last year’s 600-page congressional investigation into the Fukushima accident. Doctor Hisako Sakiyama, one of the 10 members of the Diet’s investigation team, has told the...

December 10, 2012

Dec 10, 2012 | Fukushima Accident Updates

(For today’s Commentary – A Phantom Conflict of Interest in Japan – click here) This week’s Carnival of Nuclear Energy Bloggers is being hosted by Things Worse Than Nuclear Power website, run by two MIT engineers. This week’s topics include; the...

December 7, 2012

Dec 7, 2012 | Fukushima Accident Updates

(For today’s Commentary – Japan’s Press fails to make nuclear energy the top election issue – click here) The politicians not in the LDP expressed shock at the Kyodo and Yomiuri poll results. PM Noda vowed to make new inroads to turn the tide before...

December 5, 2012

Dec 5, 2012 | Fukushima Accident Updates

Wide-spread election campaigning has come to Japan. There are nearly 1,300 candidates from eleven parties vying for 300 “single-seats” in the lower house of the Japanese Diet (congress). The Communist Party has the highest number of contenders at 299, followed by...

December 3, 2012

Dec 3, 2012 | Fukushima Accident Updates

Yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of the world’s first man-made controlled nuclear chain reaction in Chicago, December 2, 1942. To mark the occasion, I took part in a podcast hosted by noted nuclear pundit Rod Adams which included several other prominent bloggers...
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