Radiation News Roundup Aug 30, 2015 While the Tokyo Electric Power Company continues the massive task of decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the company says that working conditions at the plant had improved significantly. nuclearstreet.com The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has rejected the recommendation of the high-level task force it convened after the March 2011 Fukushima disaster to require nuclear plant owners to develop and maintain plans for coping with a core-melt accident. ucsusa.org Engineers at the United States' nuclear weapons lab in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have spent the past few years designing and testing the B61-12, a high-tech addition to our nation's atomic arsenal. montherjones.com Southern Company subsidiary Georgia Power said Friday that Plant Vogtle construction expenses in the first half of 2015 had gone down compared to the last half of 2014. nuclearstreet.com
