Here are the topic summaries for today's commentary and Fukushima updates. Please click the link for the full reports.
Commentary – Japan’s Contamination Limits Way Too Low
Japan's
new, too-low standards for radiation in food has hit an embarassing
snag. Mushrooms from Aomori Prefecture have been banned because of
Cesium levels slightly above the new limit, but the Cesium did not come
from the Fukushima accident. Unless the standards are raised to a
more-reasonable level, these disconcerting situations will happen.
Other
Fukushima updates - A new poll of mayors near nuclear stations in Japan
shows a slight majority in favor of nuke restarts if and when the
Nuclear Regulatory Authority confirms their safety... The suspected
illegal
dumping of decontamination wastes continues in the headlines; however
it might be caused by Japanese municipalities dragging their feet on the
creation of temporary storage sites combined with defining
barely-detectible levels of radiation worthy of handling as low level
waste... Two Japanese energy companies plan on building a prototype
power plant with coal as its fuel because of Japan’s current moratorium
on nukes... Physics professor Wade Allison of Oxford University
maintains that our species has evolved in a constant environment of low
level natural background radiation and have adapted to it so well that
low doses are harmless to us.
No comments:
Post a Comment