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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Fukushima Updates

Today's Fukushima updates are headed by a commentary, followed by some other updates. Please click the link for the full reports.
 
Earthquake phobia threatens Japan’s electrical infrastructure...
The majority of the currently-idled Japanese nukes are ready to produce the electricity which would alleviate the nation's current electrical shortage. The energy supply situation in Japan is critical, but it seems the majority of the country’s news outlets and politicians don’t really care. They would rather dwell on fear concerning exaggerated assumptions of earthquake impacts on operating nukes. Will the Japanese people ever be made aware of what’s really the case? And, if they are made aware, when will they say “Enough!!” and demand rational recovery from the very real tsunami-spawned, politically-exacerbated economic disaster ravaging Japan?
 
Other updates - A Commissioner of Japan's new nuclear regulatory agency (NRA) told the UN the situation at Fukushima Daiichi remains “precarious”... The NRA has released a listing of the range of types of nuclear accident initiators they will address in their new regulations... Half of last year’s reconstruction funds designated for the Tohoku region have not been used.
 

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