In the end of this January, the Forestry Agency announced they measured 25,400 Bq/Kg from cedar male flower in Fukushima prefecture. fukushima-diary.com

Tokyo Electric Power Co. and the government have spent 590 billion yen ($4.93 billion) battling the Fukushima nuclear disaster, but problems persist and taxpayers could lose if the situation doesn’t improve, the Board of Audit said. ajw.asahi.com

 1987 report on Israel’s top secret nuclear program released by U.S. in unprecedented move. israelnationalnews.com

An audit in Japan found that more than a third of the $1.6 billion of taxpayer funds spend on cleanup efforts at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station has been wasted, much of it because of the inability to control and contain contaminated water that has been the bane of the cleanup efforts. nuclearstreet.com