8/21/2011 (Video) Nuclear Family

Source: Dateline SBS
Date: 8/21/2011
by: Toshi Maeda


While much of the media’s attention has turned away from events in Japan, millions of people are still feeling the after-effects of March’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Japanese video journalist Toshi Maeda gives Dateline an insider’s view of the daily challenges still facing residents, including his own wife and young daughter.

Near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, he finds ghost towns, where those remaining struggle with little work, money or food. Close-knit families have been left divided by the disaster as members move elsewhere to try and make a living.

One family that Toshi meets, the Sakuuchis, also don't know how the radiation, at 14 times the normal level, will ultimately affect them and the youngest member of their family, four-year-old Honoka.

Contamination concerns too are affecting agricultural businesses hundreds of kilometres away, and even daily food shopping in Tokyo has become an ordeal… all with a backdrop of discontent over a lack of government transparency and action.
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Editor's Note: Below is a map of the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant sited in the video as having been shut down and the target of nuclear protesters.
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7/22/2011 Japan Utilities Push to Extend Life of Nuclear Plants

Source: Reuters via Scientific American
Date: 7/22/2011
by: Kaori Kaneko and Osamu Tsukimori

Two Japanese utilities moved on Friday to extend the life of reactors at a pair of central coastal nuclear plants, fuelling already fierce debate over energy policy in the wake of the Fukushima radiation crisis.
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5/27/2011 | Suit seeks permanent shutdown of Japan's Hamaoka nuclear plant

Source: Reuters
Date: Fri May 27, 2011 10:46am EDT

(Reuters) - Japan's Chubu Electric Power Co said on Friday that a lawsuit seeking a permanent shutdown of its Hamaoka nuclear plant had been filed by residents who live near the controversial facility south of Tokyo.
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5/21/2011 | FROM SQUARE ONE / Primer on the Tokai megaquake

Source: Daily Yomiuri Online
Date: May. 21, 2011
by: The Yomiuri Shimbun

Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, was shut down because of fears that a massive Tokai earthquake will occur.
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5/15/2011 | Trouble delayed cold shutdown of Hamaoka nuclear reactor

Source: Japan Today
Date: Sunday 15th May, 06:53 PM JST

SHIZUOKA — Chubu Electric Power Co said Sunday that cooling system trouble delayed the cold shutdown of the No. 5 reactor at its Hamaoka power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture for about two hours earlier in the day, while ruling out any external release of radioactive substances.
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5/14/2011 JST | Chubu Electric halts No. 4

Source: The Japan Times
Date: Saturday, May 14, 2011 JST

Kyodo

SHIZUOKA — Chubu Electric Power Co. on Friday successfully halted one of its two active reactors at the Hamaoka power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture, marking the first step in an unprecedented government-requested shutdown.
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