Here are the topic summaries of today's commentary and Fukushima updates. Please click the link for the full reports.
Commentary - Should Japanese Nukes Be Scrapped Because of NRA Seismic Judgments?
-Over the past month, Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority has
concluded that geologic anomalies running near and under the Tsuruga and
Higashidori nuclear stations might be seismic. It makes no sense to
cavalierly have the two nukes in question dismantled because of the
possibility itself. Site-specific criteria should be set and the
operators given the option to either upgrade or decommission the
facility in question.
Now,
for some Fukushima updates - It appears that any return to a nuclear
“revival” in Japan must proceed with socio-political caution... The NRA
says their screenings of nukes for restarts will not begin until July,
at the earliest... The Fukushima Office for Environmental Restoration is
concerned that decontamination contractors may have illegally dumped
some of the waste material... The Potassium Iodide (KI) tablet
controversy has come to Japan... Tepco says they will begin the tedious
process of removing the fuel bundles from Fukushima Daiichi Spent Fuel
Pool #4 this year... Rod Adams, of Atomic Insights, says that the
current exclusion zones around F. Daiichi should be removed, allowing
for repopulation.
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