Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

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Monday, November 12, 2012

Fukushima Update

Here are today's Fukushima updates. Click on the link for the full reports.
 
Tokyo will review the money being spent on the Tohoku region’s reconstruction due to this fall’s discovery that 25% of the government’s Tohoku earthquake/tsunami funds were diverted to other projects not directly a part of the region’s recovery... The Nuclear Regulatory Authority has essentially withdrawn its recent nuclear emergency contamination projections because of numerous flaws in the prognostic system... The NRA’s study group for the Oi geologic fissure continues to makes headlines; more correctly, one persistent voice on the team - Professor Mitsuhisa Watanabe... Fears proliferate that the most contaminated areas near F. Daiichi will remain uninhabitable, just like those near Chernobyl; but, it turns out there are people living healthy lives in the Chernobyl “no-man’s-land”, despite the radioactive contamination... A non-nuclear chemical engineer in America feels energy decisions should not be based on “phobias”.
 

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