Here are the topic summaries for today's Fukushima updates. Please click the link for the full reports.
As
anticipated, the nuclear-neutral Liberal Democratic Party of Japan won
yesterday’s election in a virtual landslide, taking 294 seats in the
Diet’s lower house. This led Prime Minister Noda to announce he will
resign and be replaced by LDP party-chief Shinzo Abe. How this will
affect japan's nuclear policy remains to be seen... Many people forced
to evacuate the Fukushima no-go zones voted for the LDP... An exit poll
run by the Asahi Shimbun showed that despite the LDP landslide, most
Japanese voters still want a zero-nuclear future... Fearing a major
setback, Japanese antinuclear forces held a desperate rally in Tokyo on
election-day. About 1,000 people attended... Tepco has released
photographs and
a detailed handout on their inspection of a “vent pipe” on Fukushima
Daiichi unit #2, revealing further evidence that there was no explosion
inside the Primary Containment Vessel (PCV)... The NRA has released
their new, corrected estimations of radioactive material deposition in
the hypothetical worst-case nuclear accident situation... Tepco has
formally accepted culpability for the F. Daiichi accident. The company
says a combination of bad habits and over-confidence were the roots of
the problem... A German physician has charged the World Health
Organization with a cover-up of its findings on the health impact of the
Fukushima accident.
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