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All less than 50% read the rest too!Japan Post-Fukushima Reactor Checks ‘Insufficient,' Advisers SayJapan's safety review of nuclear reactors after the Fukushima disaster is based on faulty criteria and many people involved have conflicts of interest, two government advisers on the checks said.
“The whole process being undertaken is exactly the same as that used previous to the Fukushima Dai-Ichi accident, even though the accident showed all these guidelines and categories to be insufficient,” Hiromitsu Ino, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, said at a briefing in Tokyo today. [ link to news.businessweek.com] IAEA to set up Fukushima office to share info on nuclear crisisThe International Atomic Energy Agency plans to open a branch office in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture to promote international information sharing about the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said Saturday.
The plan is being considered at the request of the Japanese government, Amano told Kyodo News in the Swiss resort of Davos, where the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is being held, noting that the IAEA intends to open the office by the end of this year.
"We have told the Japanese government that the IAEA stands ready to cooperate," Amano said.State won't fund free medical care in FukushimaThe government will not pay for free medical care to be provided for people aged 18 and younger in Fukushima Prefecture, reconstruction minister Tatsuo Hirano said Saturday.
Free medical care in the nuclear crisis-hit prefecture would raise issues about the role of the national medical care system, and providing fresh funding would thus be "difficult," Hirano said in a meeting with Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato.
The meeting came after Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told Sato in November he would consider making medical care free for the prefecture's youth, one of the requests the governor made in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Sato said the decision is "extremely regrettable" and that he will consider using the prefecture's money, including compensation from Tokyo Electric Power Co., to fund free medical care.
There has been some opposition within the Noda administration to providing exceptional funding for medical needs unrelated to the nuclear crisis. [ link to www.japantimes.co.jp] Panel to issue final investigation report on nuclear crisis in JulyA government-appointed panel investigating the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant will compile its final report by the end of July and hopes to end its probe at that point, panel head Yotaro Hatamura, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, said Wednesday.
The panel also announced that it will hold a two-day meeting in Tokyo from Feb. 24 with at least four overseas experts to review the panel's interim report, released in late December.
During their stay in Japan, Richard Meserve, former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Andre-Claude Lacoste, the chairman of the French nuclear safety authority, and other foreign experts are also expected to visit the actual site of the world's worst nuclear crisis since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. [ link to mdn.mainichi.jp]
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