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Company officials feared such openness would “make people worry about
the safety” of nuclear power, he said.
Fukushima governor accepts surveys
for radioactive waste storage facility
Despite local objections, Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato on Nov. 28
made the “agonizing” decision to allow surveys at 12 candidate sites for
interim storage of soil contaminated with radiation from the nuclear
accident.
Taking iodine before fallout hits is key: NRC
The Nuclear Regulation Authority released Friday the results of a
computer simulation on how the use of iodine tablets by people around
nuclear plants can protect their thyroids from excessive exposure to
radiation in the event of a severe catastrophe.
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review
A bumped valve accidentally increased the amount of water injected
into unit 3 at Fukushima Daiichi this week, while Tokyo Electric Power
Co. announced its response center will be used as a formal reconstruction
headquarters.
It’s about time: Feds bar BP from new contracts
I rarely get a chance to say this, but the feds are on a roll when it
comes to the matter of BP. Although I’ve been quite critical over the last
two-and-a-half years of the government’s response to the Deepwater
Horizon spill, there’s little to criticize in its recent aggressive posture
toward the oil giant and its wanton recklessness that killed 11 workers and
caused massive environmental damage throughout the Gulf of Mexico.
Just before Thanksgiving, the U.S. Justice Department announced a
$4.5 billion criminal penalty against BP — the largest ever — and, more
importantly, held out the prospect of collecting a much larger civil penalty
for BP’s gross negligence in the matter, monies that would not undo the
damage but could go along way toward the job of environmental
restoration. One lingering criticism was the question of why BP had not
been barred from going after lucrative federal contracts.
Now, that is exactly what has happened: