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Japan’s nuclear regulator warns that Fukushima’s situation is still precarious

Fukushima situation stable but still precarious: regulator (Reuters) Fredrik Dahl. 24 Oct,  – The situation at Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant has been stabilized but is still precarious, more than a year and a half after disaster struck, a senior Japanese regulatory official said on Wednesday..

… In April,
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said after visiting the site that Japan, with
assistance from the U.S. government, needed to do more to move spent
fuel rods out of harm’s way.

The NRA started operations in September, replacing two regulators that
had been widely criticized for being too close to the industry they
were supposed to monitor.

When a Reuters journalist went to the plant this month, workers were
seen putting together water filtration systems and shifting equipment
near the reactors, two of which remain capped by twisted steel and
damaged concrete.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/24/us-nuclear-fukushima-idUSBRE89N10U20121024

October 25, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Fukushima 2012