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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Fukushima Updates

Here are the topic summaries for today's Fukushima updates. Please click the link for the full reports.
 
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)... Many evacuees from the Fukushima no-go zone feel the election is only window-dressing and the politicians really don’t care about them... The reasons central to Prime Minister Noda’s nuclear policy decision in mid-September... It seems there is a small light at the end of the decontamination waste-disposal issue... The NRA has decided to have three foreign experts as consultants... In an attempt to stem the tide of increasing liquid natural gas (LNG) costs, Japan is negotiating with the United States about shale gas imports... Forty residents from near the F. Daiichi nuke have filed a new lawsuit against Tepco asking for nearly $23 million in damages.
 

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