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Yet another Fukushima cleanup strategy – giant polyester coverings

Giant Polyester Sheets To Cover Nuclear Reactor Buildings Wall Street Journal TOKYO (Dow Jones), 14 May 11, –Giant polyester covers will soon be placed around the damaged reactor buildings at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex to help contain the release of radioactive substances into the atmosphere, the plant operator said Friday.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.TO) will install the first cover at the No. 1 reactor, the focus of recent stabilization efforts.Workers will erect a steel framework and place a giant polyester tent-like cover around the reactor building. The cover will be 55 meters high, 47 meters long and 42 meters wide.

The operation to fit the cover will begin next month. Similar covers will be placed around units Nos. 3 and 4. The work is expected to be completed by the end of the year…..The damaged buildings have come to symbolize the severity of the nuclear crisis at the plant, the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986. The loss of the roofs and filters above the reactors has led to the steady release of radioactive substances from the complex, prompting calls for measures to contain contamination in the surrounding areas.-By Mitsuru Obe, Dow Jones Newswires http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110513-705098.html

May 15, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | - Fukushima 2011