Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

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

Friday, August 31, 2012

Fukushima Updates 8/30

Here's the topic summaries for today's Fukushima Updates. Click the link for the full reports...
 
After three days of close inspection, the two fuel bundles from #4 Spent Fuel Pool at F. Daiichi have shown no visible damage... Nuclear energy cutbacks in Japan present a harsh economic reality... Fukushima Prefecture attacked an environmentalist for an unrealistic threat to young adults... Tepco reports that the decay heat from F. Daiichi’s damaged fuel cells caused them to reduce cooling water flows... The recent results of a nation-wide voluntary survey on nuclear opinion continue to draw criticism... Finally, the Japanese Press has gone public with the financial and material drawbacks of replacing nukes with renewables.
 

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