Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

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

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Fukushima Updates 6/5

Here's the topics of today's Fukushima updates -
 
The discovery of trace levels of radioactive Cesium in the Fukushima Daiichi groundwater has dominated the Japanese Press... Tepco has found a new leak at F. Daiichi... Researchers at Fukushima University say they have confirmed 12 child thyroid cancers unrelated to F. Daiichi... Former PM Naoto Kan is in America, preaching the antinuclear gospel... Tokyo’s annual report on the environment for 2012 rated the F. Daiichi accident as the No. 1 on-going issue... Meanwhile, the government’s 2013 white paper “Annual Report on the Environment” no longer lists nuclear energy as the biggest environmental issue... The Shika nuclear station, Fukui Prefecture, does not sit on a seismic fault... A government panel has ordered a settlement over a suicide-related Fukushima lawsuit... The American researchers who discovered Cesium contamination in Pacific tuna say consumption of the fish is safe.
 

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