Radiation News Roundup May 31, 2014 A Japan scientist gave butterflies food from Fukushima and the butterflies died. enenews.com The government has started soliciting candidates in and outside Japan for projects to help it separate tritium from the contaminated water building up at the Fukushima nuclear plant. japantimes.co.jp A decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week not to endorse the transfer of spent nuclear fuel from pools to dry cask storage won’t affect the anticipated transfer of the highly radioactive fuel at Vermont Yankee. timesargus.com NRC Chair Allison Macfarlane, who has spent her career studying radioactive waste issues, issued a strong dissent to the decision not to mandate movement of spent fuel from pools to dry casks. nuclear-news.net
