Radiation News Roundup June 10, 2015 Japan’s excessively firm belief in the safety of its nuclear power plants was among the main reasons why the country was unprepared to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster of 2011, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief said Monday. sputniknews.com Six years after the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the government and TEPCO. plan to pull the plug on compensation to business operators for losses they incurred due to the forced evacuation. ajw.asahi.com US government contractor says that Fukushima is so fragile it can turn into a global catastrophe at any moment. enenews.com While Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 remains a matter of international dispute, the United Nation’s nuclear power watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has declared that the nuclear power plant on the peninsula is Ukrainian. nuclearstreet.com
