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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Fukushima Updates 1/1/2013

Here are the topic summaries of today's Fukushima updates. Please click the link for the full reports...and Happy New Year.
 
The debate over the geologic anomalies under the Oi nuclear station continues... Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Fukushima Daiichi to praise the people working there and say he supports the recovery efforts... Industry Minister Toshimitsu Motegi says any reactor restarts will be entirely up to the NRA... In a Monday television interview on TBS, PM Abe reinforced his desire to build modern, safety-enhanced nukes in Japan... A majority of evacuees from Okuma and Futaba towns are willing to accept temporary decontamination waste storage in their neighborhoods... American expert Dr. John Hamre, president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says that PM Abe seems to be following the best policy path for Japan’s energy future... More than 300,000 people displaced by the 3/11/11 quake and tsunami continue to live in temporary housing, largely due to government inaction on a 2011 promise to build more than 23,000 emergency public housing units... America sent a special nuclear accident response team to Japan five days after the outbreak of the Fukushima accident, and the Tokyo government literally ignored the team’s radiation monitoring data.
 

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