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Friday, September 7, 2012

Fukushima Updates 9/7

Here are the topic summaries of today's Fukushima Updates. Click on the link for the full reports...
 
The Tokyo government has announced that they want nuclear electricity supplies reduced to 15% by 2030 and a full abandonment at some point thereafter... A cross-party group of Diet politicians call for the immediate decommissioning of more than half of Japan’s nukes... The Tokyo government says about 25% of the debris left behind by the 3/11/11 tsunami has been disposed of... The Tokyo Electric Company (Tepco) wants to restart the seven nukes at their Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station... President Naomi Hirose of Tepco says it would be “foolish” for Japan to abandon nuclear energy... Tokyo has lifted the power conservation targets for three of Japan’s 10 major electric companies... Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda plans to use legal powers granted to his office to name members to the nation's new nuclear regulatory body... The heads of Japan’s three major Fukushima investigative committees believe the F. Daiichi accident was the result of a national institutional problem that blurred where responsibilities existed... Hokuriku Electric Power Co. has refused to tour Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima through the Shika NPS in Ishikawa Prefecture.
 

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