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Monday, August 20, 2012

Fukushima Updates 8/20

Here's today's Fukushima Update topic summaries. Click the link for the full reports.
 
Volunteers have “flocked” to Minamisoma to assist in tsunami debris disposal and decontamination so residents may return to their homes... National Policy Minister Motohisa Furukawa has said he feels the undamaged units at both Fukushima power stations should never be restarted... On Sunday, the Tokyo government met with the mayors of Okuma, Futaba and Naraha to explain plans for temporary waste storage facilities... Power companies have handled the summer demand across Japan - so far... Attendance at the weekly antinuclear protests in Tokyo has dropped dramatically... Friday’s demonstration marked the 67th anniversary of Japan’s surrender that ended World War II... worker at F. Daiichi was found to have misused his dosimeters... International antinuclear group, Greenpeace, has demanded that 12 nukes in Europe be shut down immediately, largely because of Fukushima.
 

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