Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

Major Energy and Environmental News and Commentary affecting the Nuclear Industry.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Fukushima Update

Here are today's Fukushima Update topic summaries. Click the link for the full reports.
 
Environment minister Goshi Hosono warns against the immediate abolition of Japanese electrical generation from nuclear plants... Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda met with the organizers of the weekly Tokyo antinuclear protests, but nothing has changed on either side... Tokyo’s newly-formed Energy and Environment Council is investigating into the possibility of eliminating all nuclear energy in Japan by 2030... Yet another “expert” study of the Fukushima accident will be undertaken... Two men in Fukushima Prefecture have relatively high internal radioactive Cesium levels, but less than the government’s current health standard... The antinuclear activist group, Mihama no Kai, says the Oi nukes were not needed this summer and should never have been restarted... Elevated Cesium levels have been detected in some of the fish caught near the damaged Fukushima power station.
 

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