Fukushima Update 9/5

Here's the topic summaries for today's Fukushima updates. Click the link for the full reports.

 

Many of the evacuees of Kawamata town, Fukushima Prefecture, are skeptical of government decontamination efforts... Solar energy construction and operation would produce 95,000 times more waste than nuclear power plants... Police videotaping of the weekly antinuclear protests in Tokyo has been called illegal... Tokyo has proposed that a Tochigi Prefecture site be used for radioactive wastes from the Fukushima accident... Former PM Naoto Kan has gone totally antinuclear, continuing to bring his apocalyptic nightmares to Japan... The Tokyo government says the abolition of nuclear energy could potentially double the cost of electricity. Replacing nukes with renewables will take a $600 billion investment... Defense Chief Satoshi Morimoto said Japan’s nuclear industry is a deterrent to foreign attack, amplifying the nation's Hiroshima Syndrome affliction... The IAEA has agreed to assist in the F. Daiichi decontamination effort and resident health checks... Japanese judges are calling for more in-depth F. Daiichi safety analyses in legal cases involving nuclear plants... The Ministry of the Environment plans to examine the genomes of Fukushima volunteers to look for radiation damage. Experts say this move is "baseless"... The heads of three Japanese F. Daiichi investigative panels say the accident could happen again.

 

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