Fukushima Update – Day 233

Fukushima Update – Day 233 October 29, 2011

TEPCO seeks 1 tril. yen for N-compensation / Daily Yomiuri / October 30, 2011

Tokyo Electric Power Co. filed an application Friday with a government-backed body for about 1 trillion yen in funds to finance compensation payments in connection with the nuclear crisis at the utility’s Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

TEPCO and the Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund, which was jointly established in September by the government and power utilities with nuclear reactors, on the same day finalized the company’s emergency business plan.

The plan, which sets out specific restructuring steps as prerequisites for government assistance to the operator of the crippled plant, was submitted to Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano later Friday for approval.

Provided the minister gives the go-ahead to the emergency plan, TEPCO will start paying compensation to people affected by the nuclear crisis with the compensation body’s funds.

The amount TEPCO requested from the the compensation body is meant to cover part of the first two years of compensation payments, which are estimated at 4.5 trillion yen, government officials said.

Other Japanese Media headlines:

Govt to cap radiation limit – Daily Yomiuri
80 volunteers help scrub radiation – Japan Times
Panel lowers limit of radiation in food – Japan Times
Fallout levels twice estimate: study – Japan Times
Reactors 1-4 to take 30 years to scrap: panel – Japan Times
Gov’t should thoroughly explain health risks from internal radiation exposure – Mainichi Daily
High levels of radiation detected in Tokyo’s Setagaya, link to Fukushima unlikely – Maichinchi Daily
Local gov’ts inspect Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi – Mainichi Daily
Cesium-137 flow into sea 30 times greater than stated by TEPCO: report – Mainichi Daily
Another radioactive spot not related to Fukushima – NHK
Fuel retrieval at Fukushima to start in 10 years – NHK
Fukushima reactor building gets new covering – NHK
Over 80% of Japan’s reactors offline – NHK

ENEnews.com headlines:

France: 20 times more cesium was released from Fukushima into sea than TEPCO claims
Japan gov’t to drastically reduce allowable level of radiation in food
Major Study: Reactor No. 5 releases may explain why so much radioactive xenon detected
Emergency press conference reveals 110 microsieverts per hour at Tokyo supermarket
“High concentrations” of radiation hit US and Canada
Fukushima worker gets sick, vomits — Forced to remove protective face mask

Fukushima-Diary.com headlines:

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Cesium flew further than 1200km
8,000 Bq/Kg of radioactive sewage sludge incinerated ash is being dumped in Tokyo Bay
Breaking News: 110 micro Sv/h in Setagaya
Two sludge disposal facilities workers had sudden death within 2 weeks
Kids as dump
204 new fuel rods turned out to be in the “spent” fuel pool at reactor 4

Other headlines:

Fukushima towns struggle to store radioactive waste – Reuters
Fukushima: Exposure underrated, outcome obscure – RT
30 years to decommission Fukushima nuke plant‎ – China Daily
India, Japan to resume N-deal talks, to develop rare earths – Times of India
CNSC Invites Public to Comment on the CNSC Fukushima Task Force – MarketWatch
Ocean Absorbed 79 Percent Of Fukushima Fallout – Forbes
Chernobyl film hits home in post-Fukushima Japan – Moneycontrol.com
Greenpeace slams ‘alarming gaps’ in EU nuclear stress tests – AFP
Is Nuclear Energy a Fuel with a Future? – Huffington Post

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