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Risks in Decision n to Dismantle Cover Over Damaged Fukushima Reactor

Decision to Dismantle Cover Over Damaged Fukushima Reactor ‘Questionable’ Sputnik News 16 May 15 A decision of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to begin Friday preparatory work to dismantle the protective cover over the Reactor 1 building at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant raises questions, an expert in the nuclear energy told Sputnik.

 MOSCOW (Sputnik) — TEPCO said that it hoped to start the actual removal of the cover, which was installed by the company in 2011 to mitigate the damage done to the plant, in a week. The overall dismantling process is expected to take about a year and will be followed by a cleanup of the wreckage and waste left inside the unit since the hydrogen blast. TEPCO expects that in 2019 it will start the extraction of nuclear fuel assemblies from the spent fuel pools………..

“It [the cover] was … meant to protect the environment from the dispersion of radioactive particles. Of course, these risks continue beyond the taking off of the cover: rainwater washing out radioactivity that enters the ocean, heavy storms impacting water and nitrogen injection systems,” Mycle Schneider, an independent analyst on Energy and Nuclear Policy, said.
He cited the International Atomic Energy Agency, that has stated in its latest report that this decision may lead to “higher radiological and conventional safety risks to the work force.”……..http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20150516/1022209934.html

May 18, 2015 - Posted by | Fukushima 2015

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