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Fukushima To Become Nuclear Dump?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the welcome-to-the-wasteland dept.

mdsolar writes "Japan's atomic energy specialists are discussing a plan to make the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant a storage site for radioactive waste from the crippled station run by Tokyo Electric Power Co."

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  1. Re:Why are nuclear plants so hard to shut down? by mortonda · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This has been repeated many times here on slashdot. The reaction stopped, but the core is still VERY hot and has to be cooled for a while. This is what failed. When the core gets hot enough, the fuel melts the containment and falls to the bottom, and might start reacting again.

    I'm not a nuclear engineer, but I wonder if we could come up with some sort of design that would allow the fuel rods to mechanically fall in different directions to spread out the heat.. ideally without any extra power needed.

  2. Safest by mdsolar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Be careful. The safest thing is to not create nuclear waste in the first place. That is only common sense.