SimplyInfo.org; Fukushima News Roundup, July 12, 2015
NRA has begun work to consider BWR (boiling water reactors) for potential restarts. The initial push for restarts has
Read moreNRA has begun work to consider BWR (boiling water reactors) for potential restarts. The initial push for restarts has
Read moreJapan’s central government to offer 300 billion yen over 30 years for towns near Fukushima Daiichi to host nuclear debris
Read moreSome Okuma residents have given up on the idea of returning home and are requesting compensation for their property. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20140704_04.html
Read moreTEPCO shareholders demand Fukushima interviews be released to the public, threaten to take it to court if needed. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/nuclear.html
Read moreNuclear waste (mostly soil and plant matter) piles up around Japan with nowhere to go. Twitter user hitsuji44 shared the
Read moreTritium levels at the Fukushima Daiichi site have jumped by 17 trillion becquerels since January. There is new concern that
Read moreThe new manager of Fukushima Daiichi admitted the string of failures at the plant were embarrassing and that the plant was
Read moreUniversity students will become involved in some of the IRID research efforts to decommission Fukushima Daiichi. They are also going
Read moreSapporo in Hokkaido has made a plan to use hotels to hold up to 50,000 evacuees if there is a
Read moreTEPCO admits 1 ton an hour of water injected into reactors is leaking but they don’t know where or how.
Read moreNuclear power utilities bought political fundraising tickets with power customer cash. They spent just enough on tickets to be under
Read moreJapan ruling government to wait on decision on nuclear energy policy until after Tokyo governors race http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/politics/news/CK2014011702000199.html Candidate for Tokyo
Read moreGreenpeace made efforts to find out the nature of the companies that built Fukushima Daiichi and now benefit from the
Read moreMasami Yoshizawa is fighting to keep his cattle. He lives in the evacuation zone, defying the government order. Now the
Read moreReuters put out a special feature story on how the homeless are being recruited to do decontamination work in Fukushima
Read moreSchool bullying in Japan is up 180% with a significantly higher rate in Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures. The ministry
Read moreThe current LDP government in Japan is proposing splitting TEPCO into two companies. One would focus on decommissioning the plant
Read moreContaminated groundwater found 6m from the sea at Fukushima Daiichi. TEPCO still insists the plant isn’t leaking into the sea. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/30/national/toxic-groundwater-found-in-fukushima-no-1-well-just-6-meters-from-pacific/#.UdBR3zuLZu5
Read moreEveryone is getting in on the growing protests, even the jellyfish. Unit 3 at Oi nuclear plant, the subject of
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