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Plutonium and Politics

Kyodo News is a respected nonprofit agency based in Tokyo, and it distributes news to just about all newspapers and tv networks in Japan. It’s interesting to compare Kyodo News latest status report on the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi plant … Continue reading

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Japan: it looks like they’re going to have to go for the Chernobyl solution

ie, cover all the stricken reactors with sand, lead and boron, and then emtomb them. For four, and possibly, six reactors this will be a massive undertaking, costing billions of dollars. Hopefully it won’t come to this. Engineers have almost … Continue reading

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