Work goes on at ruined N-plant

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By Kazuki Fujisawa / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer

FUKUSHIMA NO. 1 NUCLEAR POWER PLANT — I entered the Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s power plant on Tuesday, just weeks before the fifth anniversary of the day of the start of the nuclear crisis following the Great East Japan Earthquake.

I looked around the precincts of the nuclear power plant from windows on the seventh floor — about 30 meters above the ground — of a nine-story building used as a rest facility for workers. The building was completed in May last year.

About 1,000 tanks storing more than 700,000 tons of contaminated water could be seen in the wide spaces in front of buildings accommodating reactors Nos. 1 to 4, where the decontamination and decommissioning work is being conducted.

Within the site, work to remove contaminated surface soil and pave over the scoured ground has been continuing. Thus levels of radiation are generally becoming lower.

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[7wo7rees]

1. Truly sad and frightening state of affairs. No matter what

positive spin they put on it.

[JEB]

2. Scortched, scoured and paved and very very expensive and dangerous.

We need to quit throwing money at the pipe dream of nukes and concentrate our efforts on solar, wind, tidal, geothermal and small hydro.

[KamaAina]

4. Supposedly the South Africans were working on a small nuke technology called "pebble bed"

but I still want to know what they're planning to do with the waste.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. Kick. Thx for the reminder