Japan Fukushima Plant Clean Up May Take 40 Years
Damaged Unit 3 of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plan. Photo source: Greenpeace / Air Photo Service
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Japan’s government said Wednesday that it could take 40 years to clean up and fully decommission a nuclear plant that went into meltdown after it was struck by a huge tsunami.
Nuclear crisis minister Goshi Hosono suggested that the timetable was ambitious, acknowledging that decommissioning three reactors with severely melted fuel plus spent fuel rods at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant was an “unprecedented project,” and that the process was not “totally foreseeable.”
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