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Monday, March 11, 2013

Fukushima Updates 3/11

Here are today's topics for Fukushima updates. Click the link for the full reports.
 
The thyroid lumps found in Fukushima children are not statistically unusual... Fukushima governor Yuhei Sato has asked Tokyo to set more realistic radiation exposure standards... Less than 1% of the foodstuffs coming from the Tohoku region are above the nation’s limits for Cesium contamination... As time passes, more Japanese consumers are buying foods from the Tohoku region... Forty-four countries continue to ban or restrict Japanese food imports due to radiation fears... Tokyo Electric Company (Tepco) is considering plugging suspected leak locations at F. Daiichi with grout... Americans have donated more than $700 million for tsunami relief efforts since 3/11/11... Tokyo Electric Company (Tepco) has been faced with class-action lawsuits on behalf of 1,600 people... The Tokyo government says it will begin the world’s first extraction of natural gas from undersea methane-hydrate deposits... A large antinuclear demonstration was held in Tokyo on Sunday to earmark the 2nd anniversary of the accident and demand nukes not be restarted.
 

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