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TEPCO to remove major slope that poses threat to nuclear fuel pool
Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to excavate a massive slope that looms over a pool cooling nuclear fuel at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to avert the danger of a landslide. The move ...
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Cleanup Attempt At Japan's Fukushima Plant Could Release 14,000 Times As Much Radiation As Atomic Bomb
"The spent fuel pool cooling system is designed only to remove decay heat, not heat from an ongoing nuclear reaction." The rods are also vulnerable to fire should they be exposed to air ...
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Removing Fukushima’s melted nuclear fuel will be harder than the release of plant’s wastewater
About 880 tons of radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the reactors ... Spent fuel removal from the Unit 1 reactor’s cooling pool is set to start in 2027. The reactor top is still ...
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Was 50th anniversary movie Dr No negative for nuclear?
Now, half a century since Dr No, hampered by his steely hands, met his death in the reactor's cooling pool, countless people still fear nuclear and worries were only heightened by last year's tsunami ...