TEPCO stated the radiation analysis team for Fukushima mostly consists of outsourced staff, in the press conference of 2/10/2014. fukushima-diary.com About three hundred out of fifteen hundred fuel assemblies have been removed from Fukushima Unit 4 spent fuel pool in three months tepco.co.jp The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission granted the country's only uranium conversion plant permission to restart Monday as regulators continue to investigate an emergency shutdown. nuclearstreet.com The Washington State Senate has passed a measure that would create a taskforce to study the possibility of using nuclear energy in the state in the future. sfgate.com