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Monday, January 14, 2013

Fukushima Updates

Here are the topic summaries of today's Fukushima updates. Please click the link for the full reports.
 
Japan’s tsunami debris disposal is way behind schedule, and the residues in Fukushima Prefecture have had the least attention... On Saturday, PM Shinzo Abe visited Miyagi Prefecture to inspect the status of tsunami reconstruction efforts in the worst-impacted part of the Tohoku region... The Tokyo government added another 22 billion dollars to the new disaster reconstruction budget... Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority has drafted an outline for the prevention of severe nuclear accidents due to earthquakes, tsunamis, terrorism and aircraft crashes... The NRA proposed construction of emergency public shelters for people living within 5km of nukes but would have geographic problems with leaving the area quickly... Tepco has released more teleconference footage covering the first weeks of the Fukushima crisis... The antinuclear political parties that suffered a crushing defeat with the December national election are trying to understand why they lost... Yesterday, blogging colleague Rod Adams of Atomic Insights held a podcast with esteemed radiation experts Dr. Jerry Cutler and Dr. A. David Rosen.
 

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