Radiation News Roundup Jan 01, 2015

5,600 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from vacuum cleaner dust accumulated from this September in Iwaki City, Japan. fukushima-diary.com

Efforts to reduce the amount of radiation-contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant have proven helpless, and the overall amount of such water has actually increased, it has been learned. mainichi.jp

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday said that the independent adjudicatory body, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB), would hold an evidentiary hearing in January in Homestead, Fla., on behalf of Citizens Allied for Safe Energy (CASE) to consider a challenge to license amendments that permit an increase in the ultimate heat sink water temperature limit for the cooling canal system at the Turkey Point nuclear power plant. nuclearstreet.com

The Wisconsin state assembly will vote in January on legislation that could open the door for new nuclear power plants, a spokeswoman for Speaker Robin Vos said. nuclearstreet.com