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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

FUKUSHIMA UPDATES 11/27

Here are the topic summaries of today's Fukushima updates. Please click the link for the full reports.
 
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports there will be no statistically-significant rise in cancer due to the Fukushima Accident... Tepco has told America’s National Academy of Sciences that the company did not take sufficient anti-tsunami protection measures prior to 3/11/11 because of a public relations concern... Fukushima governor Yuuhei Sato has been in Tokyo promoting the sale of rice grown in Fukushima Prefecture... The nuclear issue keeps slipping further and further out of the public focus leading up to next month's election... Another Poll taken by the Yomiuri Shimbun reveals that the ruling Democratic Party of Japan has slipped behind the newly-formed Japan Restoration/Sunrise party coalition in popularity... The governor of Shiga Prefecture says she is will form an anti-nuclear coalition party for the upcoming election in December... It seems Greenpeace has conceded that the antinuclear forces in Japan are going to be soundly defeated in next month’s election... Japan’s Press Research Institute says public trust in the news media has reached an all-time low... The Japanese government should do more to address fears over radiation in the area around Fukushima, a U.N. health expert said Monday.
 

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