Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

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

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Fukushima Updates

Here are the topic summaries for today's Fukushima updates. Please click the link for the full reports.
 
Due to local complaints of illegal decontaminated waste disposal, the Ministry of the Environment is beefing up its examinations of the work in Fukushima communities... Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced a $136 billion budget expansion designed to both stimulate Japan’s shaky economy and speed up 3/11/11 tsunami and earthquake reconstruction... The Environment Ministry wants $125 million of the budget expansion to create research centers for Fukushima decontamination... Work on building the new enclosure around Fukushima Daiichi unit #4 reactor building has begun. A link to the first steel column emplacement is posted... What is the best, most scientifically-supported model that should be utilized to set radiation exposure standards?
 

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