Mar 30 2011

Japan to scrap stricken nuclear reactors

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl…

Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) made the announcement three weeks after failing to bring reactors 1 – 4 under control. Locals would be consulted on reactors 5 and 6, which were shut down safely.

Four out of control nuclear reactors.  Just think on that one.  It’s about as bad as one could think of.

Where’s Gojira when you need him?

2 comments

  1. it will be interesting to see how the spinners react to this.

  2. …Encase them in concrete sarcophagus, the “Chernobyl Option” which Dr. Michio Kaku was urging early on.

    Japan has finally conceded it has lost the battle to contain radiation at four of its crippled reactors and they will be closed down.

    Details of what that will entail have yet to be revealed, but officials said it would mean switching off all power and abandoning attempts to keep the nuclear fuel rods cool.

    The final move would involve pouring tonnes of concrete on the reactors to seal them in tombs and ensure radiation does not leak out.

    Read more: at U.K. Daily Mail

    But it is unclear whether this will include all 6 or only 1–4.

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