Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cleanup May Take More Than 40 Years

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @11:01AM from the public-to-forget-about-it-within-40-months dept.

mdsolar writes "'A U.N. nuclear watchdog team said Japan may need longer than the projected 40 years to decommission the Fukushima power plant and urged Tepco to improve stability at the facility. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency team, Juan Carlos Lentijo, said Monday that damage at the nuclear plant is so complex that it is impossible to predict how long the cleanup may last.' Meanwhile, Gregory B. Jaczko, former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has said that all 104 nuclear power reactors now in operation in the United States have a safety problem that cannot be fixed and they should be replaced with newer technology."

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Lies! Lies! ALL LIES! by Un+pobre+guey · 2013-04-23 11:43 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Lies! It's clean, I tell you, it's clean! Get it through your thick stone cranium: Nuclear power is the cleanest of them all!
Sheesh...
No one in the nuclear industry is credible by mdsolar · 2013-04-24 00:19 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Remember that they kill off whistle-blowers in the nuclear industry. Just mention the name Silkwood and chuckle and no one is going to say anything. The example of Tommy Hook helps with the intimidation.