Japan will decommission stricken reactors
MAR 31, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025184
Various : Despite three weeks of effort by employees in trying and dangerous conditions , Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) has not been able to cool reactors 14 at its Fukushima I power plant in northeastern Japan. Tepco chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata pledged maximum efforts to stabilize them and added that they would have to be shut down for good. The company is still considering whether to decommission the plant’s other two reactors, 5 and 6, which appear to be undamaged. It is likely that the entire station will be decomissioned. The entire process may take as long as three decades to complete.
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