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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Fukushima Updates 2/12

Here are the topics for today's Fukushima updates. Please click the link for the full reports.
 
On Saturday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited earthquake/tsunami-devastated Iwate Prefecture to reassure residents that they are not his administration’s forgotten people... The Diet has decided to submit a bill to extend compensation for many Fukushima accident refugees beyond the three legal year time frame... The town of Namie, half of which is inside the 20km “no-go” zone around F. Daiichi, will soon be re-zoned... Japan's government agencies are debating whether or not to build new coal-fired plants... The Asahi Shimbun accuses Tepco lying last week for telling Toshimitsu Motegi of the NAIIC that the inside of F. Daiichi unit #1 was too dark for a visual inspection in 2012... 900,000 pages of notes and other documents created by the Tokyo government about the Fukushima accident will be digitalized and available on-line in about 2 years.
 

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