UN nuclear agency looking at Fukushima contamination
Source: Al Jazeera America
Inspectors from the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived in Japan this week to monitor the ongoing cleanup and look into the continued leaking of contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
This as the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the company nominally in control of the crippled facility, has again postponed the start of procedures to remove highly radioactive fuel rods from a severely damaged storage pool inside what used to be the Fukushima plant's reactor No. 4.
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A newly constructed gantry, built around unit 4 over the past two years, was supposed to start the slow process of transferring fuel rods out of the damaged pool on Friday, but TEPCO officials said earlier this week that the system needed more testing, and that the actual removal of spent fuel would not happen until next Friday at the earliest.
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The activity around Fukushima comes as Chinese government officials appealed to the U.N. nuclear watchdog to compel Japan to provide better information on how it is handling the ongoing Fukushima disaster.
Read more: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/7/un-nuclear-agencylookingatcontaminationfromfukushima.html
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)After it went from "crisis" to "catastrophe"
nikto
(3,284 posts)Except it's real.
nikto
(3,284 posts)Absolutely unprecedented.
All nations in the northern hemisphere of the world would have
to keep people indoors for a period of months.
This is really the #1 news item in the world right now.
If you believe in God, pray for success removing the rods.
If you are an atheist, send out "positive rays", or something good in your thoughts.
This is a world-wide issue.
This is really the #1 news item in the world right now, ironically un-reported for now.
But...
If another accident happens at Fukushima, it could end up being the biggest
news story and disaster of the century so far, easy.