Radiation News Roundup December 23, 2014

The government said it will declare that all remaining designated radiation hot spots in residential areas in Fukushima Prefecture are safe for residents. japantimes.co.jp

Entergy Corp., owners of the soon-to-shut-down Vermont Yankee nuclear plant confirmed in a regulatory filing that it would cost $1.24 billion to decommission the facility that has been providing power since 1972. nuclearstreet.com

South Korean President Park Geun-hye called for a full investigation of the data breach of the country's nuclear plant operator as an anti-nuclear hacker or hackers continued to post plant data online. nuclearstreet.com

EnBW will sue its 46% owner, the state of Baden-Württemberg, as well as the German federal government, over the unlawful shutdown of two reactors in 2011.  world-nuclear-news.org