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Decades to clean up Fukushima nuclear plant. Cooling battle continues

Japan’s Kan says nuclear clean-up could take decades,  Jul 9, 2011, (Reuters) (reporting by Kaori Kaneko and Kevin Krolicki, editing by Miral Fahmy and Sugita Katyal) – Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Saturday it will take decades to clean up and decommission the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant after the world’s worst atomic accident since Chernobyl.

Kan’s comments marked the first time that Japan’s government has offered a timeframe for the clean-up at Fukushima beyond the emergency measures now underway to shut down its reactors.

“It will take three, five, ten years, or eventually several decades to take care of the accident,” Kan told local officials from his Democratic Party ofJapan meeting in Tokyo…….

Efforts to cool the Fukushima reactors currently hinge on a complex and hastily constructed system to decontaminate thousands of tonnes of water being pumped into the reactors and then to circulate it back through the reactors……http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/09/us-japan-nuclear-hosono-idUSTRE7680Z520110709

July 9, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | - Fukushima 2011