Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

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

Friday, January 11, 2013

Fukushima Updates

Here are the topic summaries for today's Fukushima updates. Please click the link for the full reports.
 
Fukushima internal radiation exposures are declining. 92% of 7,000 adult examinations and 99.9% of the 1,700 given to children since April 1, 2012, have no detectible levels of radioactive Cesium... The Tokyo Cabinet Office wants to upgrade medical facilities within 5 kilometers of Japan’s nukes to avoid evacuating patients in the event of a nuclear accident... Nearly a billion dollars from Tokyo's expansion will be used to build a modern radiological research center in Fukushima Prefecture... Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ordered his Cabinet to focus heavily on quake/tsunami reconstruction, and not only on Fukushima recovery... Survivors of the 3/11/11 tsunami have begun teach-ins concerning their disaster experiences... Rice from Miyagi Prefecture has been found to contain more than double the national limit for radioactive Cesium... Tokyo Electric Company will install filtration devices on the “vents” of their nuclear plant containments.
 

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