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Monday, June 17, 2013

Fukushima Update 6/17

Today's Fukushima update topics are - 
 
The Nuclear Regulatory Authority says the 3/11/11 quake did not damage safety systems at F. Daiichi unit #1... Another waste water leak has been discovered at F. Daiichi... Currently-operating Oi units 3&4 have been given a “thumbs-up” by NRA investigators... Futaba Town, adjacent to F. Daiichi, is considering a future repopulation... The Environment Ministry will create two panels for contaminated waste storage... Former PM Naoto Kan attacks PM Abe over nuclear exports.  Other news from this past week includes - The Tokyo government feels Japan’s energy future includes nukes... A Reconstruction Agency official has been fired due to remarks made on Twitter...Tepco has shifted reactor cooling for unit #2 at F. Daiichi back to the plant’s installed system...  Last week the Japanese Press was dominated by articles that PM Shinzo Abe’s wife is antinuclear... Thyroid screenings for Fukushima children now living in Tokyo show no adversities.
 

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