Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

Major Energy and Environmental News and Commentary affecting the Nuclear Industry.

Monday, January 21, 2013

Fukushima Updates 1/21

Here are the topic summaries for today's Fukushima updates. Please click the link for the full reports.
 
The Nuclear Regulatory Authority has drafted a proposed outline for new nuclear safety regulations including a high-volume water injection system which would be located in a separate building from the reactor and turbine buildings for each unit, an increase in the number of emergency power generators intended to prevent full station blackouts and new earthquake/tsunami criteria... Japanese nuclear utilities are disagreeing with part of the proposed boiling water reactor vent filtering requirement... A type of rockfish called “murasoi” was caught inside the break-wall at Fukushima Daiichi with a Cesium concentration 2,500 times Japan’s legal limit... Some of the subcontractors involved with Fukushima area decontamination may have failed to pay their workers properly in order to increase profits.
 

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