Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

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

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Fukushima Updates 1/30

Here are the topic summaries for today's Fukushima updates. Please click the link for the full reports.
 
Namie Town, which stretches between 5 and 30 kilometers from Fukushima Daiichi, will do its own child radiation exposure study... Japan’s scientific community is skeptical of the Nuclear Regulatory Authority’s proposed 400,000 year seismic criterion. Hidekazu Takuyama of Kochi University made a crucial point when he said, “I don’t know what 400,000 years means.” ... Fukushima prefecture is having difficulty filling available decontamination jobs because of (here we go again) radiation fears... Assumptions that Switzerland has closed the door on nuclear power due to Fukushima may be wrong.
 

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