The decommissioning of the Fukushima 1 nuclear plant is delayed by a single problem : Where to dispose of the uranium fuel rods ? Many of those rods are extremely radioactive and partially melted, and some contain highly lethal plutonium.
Besides the fissile fuel inside the plant’s six reactors, more than 7 tons of spent rods have to be removed to a permanent storage site before workers can bury the Fukushima facility under concrete. The rods cannot be permanently stored in Japan because (…)
La boutique
Précédent
Thèmes