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5 tons of seawater may have entered Hamaoka nuclear reactor (May 19, 2011)
   
TEPCO starts removing tainted water at No. 3 reactor (May 18, 2011)
   
Nuclear fuel at Fukushima No. 1 unit melted after full exposure (May 13, 2011)
   
Industry ministry holds meeting for energy policy review (May 13, 2011)
   
Gov’t plans to supervise TEPCO management for over 10 yrs (May 12, 2011)
   
TEPCO finds another leak of radioactive water into sea (Mary 12, 2011)
   
Hiroshima Memo: Sufferers of nuclear accident identify with atomic bombings (May 11, 2011)
   
Containers from Japan seized in Netherlands due to radioactivity (May 11, 2011)
   
Nuclear crisis evacuees briefly return to homes in no-go zone (May 11, 2011)
   
Renewable energy could meet 77% of global supply by 2050: U.N. panel (May 10, 2011)
   
Chubu Electric agrees to shut Hamaoka nuke plant (Mary 10, 2011)
   
Workers reenter troubled No. 1 reactor building at Fukushima plant (May 9, 2011)
   
Kan seeks that TEPCO compensate damage from unfounded radiation fears (May 9, 2011)
   
Chubu Electric plans to stop Hamaoka nuclear power plant (May 9, 2011)
   
25 years of experience since Chernobyl to be utilized for Fukushima (May 6, 2011)
   
Gov’t assumed massive radiation exposure from Fukushima nuclear plant (May 6, 2011)
   
Seabed radiation 100-1,000 times normal level off Fukushima plant (May 6, 2011)
   
Workers enter No. 1 reactor building for 1st time since explosion (May 6, 2011)
   
Expertise of Hiroshima to be used in long-term study of health effects on Fukushima residents (May 2, 2011)
   
Another female worker at nuke plant exposed to radiation above limit (May 2, 2011)
   
No upper limit on TEPCO’s damages costs for nuclear accident: Edano (May 2, 2011)
   
U.S. medical group blasts Tokyo radiation policy on Fukushima children (May 2, 2011)
   
U.N. chief stresses urgency of reviewing global nuclear safety regime (April 27, 2011)
   
Japan reviewing policy to export nuclear technology (April 27, 2011)
   
Chernobyl accident victims mourned at 25th anniversary (April 26, 2011)
   
Most Japanese reactors yet to have enough backups for stable cooling (April 26, 2011)
   
Hiroshima Memo: Indiscriminate and far-ranging damage caused by the nuclear crisis (April 25, 2011)
   
Radiation from crippled nuclear plant upending lives in eastern Japan (April 25, 2011)
   
Judges tend to side with utilities in atomic power plant cases (April 25, 2011)
   
TEPCO’s contamination map shows radiation levels at 150 plant areas (April 25, 2011)
   
41% of local gov’ts undecided on future of nuclear power plants (April 25, 2011)
   
Maps on radiation levels around crippled nuke plant to be compiled (April 22, 2011)
   
Fukushima gov. won’t allow TEPCO to resume reactor operations (April 22, 2011)
   
Small amounts of radioactive iodine found in breast milk (April 21, 2011)
   
Kan visits Fukushima to explain no-entry zone policy (April 21, 2011)
   
Tokyo Electric admits fuel could be melting at Fukushima nuke plant (April 21, 2011)
   
HICARE marks 20th anniversary of medical care for nuclear-affected sufferers (April 21, 2011)
   
Opinion: What does “Fukushima” signify? (April 20, 2011)
   
Japan seeks ‘calm response’ to Fukushima accident at Chernobyl confab (April 20, 2011)
   
Fukushima nuke workers at risk of depression, overwork death (April 20, 2011)
   
TEPCO starts moving highly radioactive water to storage facility (April 19, 2011)
   
Fukushima plant not to have meltdown if cooling continues: Edano (April 19, 2011)
   
Renewable energy generation exceeds nuclear power (April 18, 2011)
   
Accumulated radiation tops 17,000 microsieverts in Fukushima’s Namie (April 18, 2011)
   
TEPCO says stabilizing troubled reactors to take at least 6 months (April 18, 2011)
   
Japan, U.S. reaffirm cooperation in tackling Fukushima nuke crisis (April 18, 2011)
   
Groundwater radiation level at nuke plant rises: TEPCO (April 15, 2011)
   
Melted nuclear fuel likely settled at bottom of crippled reactors (April 15, 2011)
   
Gov’t eyes to improve info dissemination to locals near plant: Edano (April 14, 2011)
   
Commissioner calls for verifiable probe of Fukushima nuke crisis (April 14, 2011)
   
Workers continue to remove toxic water, cool spent nuke fuel pools (April 13, 2011)
   
Gov’t bans shipments of some shiitake mushrooms near nuclear plant (April 13, 2011)
   
Japan ups Fukushima nuke crisis severity to 7, same as Chernobyl (April 12, 2011)
   
Fukushima plant rattled by another quake, water injection not disrupted (April 12, 2011)
   
Hiroshima Memo: Myth of nuclear energy safety has collapsed (April 11, 2011)
   
Risk of massive radiation leaks ‘considerably smaller’: Edano (April 11, 2011)
   
Fukushima Gov. Sato rejects meeting with TEPCO president (April 11, 2011)
   
World focuses on Fukushima: Expertise must be called upon to resolve crisis (April 9, 2011)
   
Editorial: Contamination of the sea must be contained (April 8, 2011)
   
No new abnormalities observed at troubled Fukushima nuke plant (April 8, 2011)
   
Radioactive materials spread around northern hemisphere in 2 weeks (April 8, 2011)
   
Nitrogen injected into Fukushima reactor to reduce risk of explosion (April 7, 2011)
   
U.N. to study health effects of Fukushima nuclear accident (April 7, 2011)
   
Fishermen affected by nuclear crisis to get compensation (April 7, 2011)
   
Iwate brewer urges holding cherry blossom parties with Tohoku-made sake (April 6, 2011)
   
Japan defends radioactive water disposal, vows to fully inform world (April 6, 2011)
   
Radiation-shielding sheets to be installed in Sept. at earliest (April 6, 2011)
   
Highly radioactive water leaking into sea stops: TEPCO (April 6, 2011)
   
Tokyo Electric disposing of low radioactive water in Pacific (April 5, 2011)
   
Japan asks for Russian help in disposing of radioactive water: report (April 5, 2011)
   
Weather agency ordered to reveal data on projected radiation spread (April 5, 2011)
   
Fukushima crisis poses challenge to IAEA members: Amano (April 5, 2011)
   
Gov’t eyes use of huge sheet to contain radioactive substances (April 4, 2011)
   
Illegal levels of radioactive substances found in Fukushima mushrooms (April 4, 2011)
   
Gov’t aware of possibility of reactor core’s meltdown before quake (April 4, 2011)
   
Absorbent to soak up radioactive water, 2 found dead at nuke plant (April 4, 2011)
   
Hiroshima Memo: Reassessment of Japan’s nuclear energy policy is vital (April 2, 2011)
   
Director of Hiroshima University’s Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine to be advisor on radiation for Fukushima Prefecture (April 1, 2011)
   
Alliance of Right Livelihood Award Laureate appeals global nuclear phase out (April 1, 2011)
   
Editorial: Contamination of agricultural products requires stronger monitoring of soil and water (April 1, 2011)
   
Column: Entire town has evacuated from the disaster zone (April 1, 2011)
   
Groundwater at nuclear plant ‘highly’ radiation-contaminated: TEPCO (April 1, 2011)
   
Radioactive substance exceeding limit found in beef in Fukushima Pref. (April 1, 2011)
   
Kan eyes thorough review of gov’t plan to build more nuclear plants (April 1, 2011)
   
Up to 1,000 bodies left untouched near troubled nuke plant (April 1, 2011)
   
U.S. to learn lessons from Japan disaster in building new nuke plants (March 31, 2011)
   
Radioactive material detected in air, water in New York (March 31, 2011)
   
Tokyo Electric to scrap 4 reactors at troubled nuclear plant (March 31, 2011)
   
Gov’t may ask farmers to delay rice planting amid radiation scare (March 30, 2011)
   
TEPCO to improve tough working conditions at Fukushima nuclear plant (March 30, 2011)
   
French nuke fuel firm head, 5 experts to visit Japan to offer aid (March 30, 2011)
   
No confirmation of radioactive water overflowing into sea: agency (March 30, 2011)
   
Radioactive material detected in air of 3 southern U.S. states (March 29, 2011)
   
IAEA chief says Japan’s nuke plant needs some time to stabilize (March 29, 2011)
   
Plutonium detected in soil at Fukushima nuke plant (March 29, 2011)
   
Radioactive water removal underway, fresh seawater pollution found (March 28, 2011)
   
2 of 3 radiation-exposed workers suffer internal exposure (March 28, 2011)
   
High-level radiation suspected to be leaking from No. 3 reactor’s core (March 28, 2011)
   
Radiation victims to be sent to key medical facilities across Japan (March 28, 2011)
   
Lives “stripped in a flash of everything” (March 28, 2011)
   
3 workers exposed to high radiation, 2 sustain possible burns (March 25, 2011)
   
Toshiteru Okubo, chairman of RERF, explains effects of radiation on the human body (March 25, 2011)
   
A-bomb art exhibition is canceled, linked with nuclear crisis in Fukushima (March 25, 2011)
   
Pakistan needs to learn a serious lesson from Fukushima (March 25, 2011)
   
Restoration at nuke plant disrupted, radiation fears spread to Tokyo (March 24, 2011)
   
Queues form for radiation exposure screenings conducted by Hiroshima University medical team (March 24, 2011)
   
All 6 Fukushima reactors reconnected to external power (March 23, 2011)
   
Efforts to restore cooling function continue at nuke plant (March 22, 2011)
   
Work to restore power delayed as smoke seen at Fukushima reactors (March 22, 2011)
   
Japan raises accident severity level to 5 in nuclear crisis (March 22, 2011)
   
Gov’t orders 4 prefectures to suspend some food shipments (March 22, 2011)
   
RERF dispatches two workers to Yamagata Prefecture to measure radiation levels of evacuees (March 21, 2011)
   
A-bomb survivors hit by the earthquake and tsunami are reminded of Hiroshima, anxious about safety of other survivors in the region (March 20, 2011)
   
Message from Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (March 19, 2011)
   
Efforts to cool reactors continue in Japan nuke crisis (March 18, 2011)
   
Radiation down consistently at one point in Fukushima plant (March 18, 2011)
   
U.S. asks citizens in 80-km radius of Japan nuke plant to evacuate (March 18, 2011)
   
Commentary: Even low levels of radiation leakage a cause for concern (March 18, 2011)
   
Fukushima No. 3 reactor vents smoke, but container damage unlikely (March 17, 2011)
   
SDF choppers drop water onto crisis-hit Fukushima nuke plant (March 17, 2011)
   
Hiroshima University’s second medical team enters Fukushima to provide treatment to those affected by radiation (March 17, 2011)
   
Radiation levels shoot up in Tokyo, vicinity (March 16, 2011)
   
Fire breaks out again at Fukushima’s No. 4 reactor: TEPCO (March 16, 2011)
   
Editorial: Exert all possible efforts to prevent radiation exposure (March 16, 2011)
   
HICARE in Hiroshima to dispatch team of radiation specialists to Fukushima (March 16, 2011)
   
Hiroshima University ready to provide treatment to those affected by radiation (March 16, 2011)
   
Interview with Kenji Kamiya, director of RIRBM, on impact of radiation leakage from Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant (March 16, 2011)
   
Radiation leak feared at nuke plant, people urged to stay indoors (March 15, 2011)
   
Blast heard at Fukushima’s No.2 reactor: gov’t (March 15, 2011)
   
Crisis continues at Fukushima nuclear plant as fuel rods exposed again (March 15, 2011)
   
Explosion heard at Fukushima nuclear plant, 4 injured: TEPCO (March 14, 2011)
   
Hiroshima University sets up task force: Radiologists stand ready to assist nuclear-affected sufferers (March 14, 2011)