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AUDIO: No way to get at Fukushima’s molten nuclear fuel, no solution known

Hear-This-wayToday on Your Call: How concerned should we be about Fukushima? http://kalw.org/post/today-your-call-how-concerned-should-we-be-about-fukushima

 

Today on Your Call: How concerned should we be about Fukushima? http://kalw.org/post/today-your-call-how-concerned-should-we-be-about-fukushima

NPR: How can Fukushima’s molten fuel be contained so it stops contaminating the planet? Nuclear Expert: There’s no way to get at molten fuel… I’ve not seen a solution to this (AUDIO) http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-melted-fukushima-fuel-solution-problem-audio
Title: How concerned should we be about Fukushima? 

Source: Your Call (NPR affiliate KALW)
Host: Rose Aguilar
Date: Aug. 29, 2013 Kevin in Felton, California: Considering the fact that the containment buildings and vessels are breached, that the floors of the structures are breached — What methodology exists to actually re-establish containment of this burned fuel, so that they can then control the water leakage that’s contaminating the planet? How are they going to re-establish a seal around this burned fuel? […]

Arjun Makhijani, Nuclear expert and President of Institute for Energy and Environmental Research: To the caller’s question, the main problem of the molten fuel at the bottom of the reactor — that is going to much more intractable, because, as I said, the infrastructure on the site has been destroyed, and how they’re going to get at that molten fuel and actually extract it, at least I have not seen any reasonable solutions to this problem.
  See also: UC Berkeley Nuclear Professor: Work to go on for thousands of years at Fukushima site if they can’t retrieve melted fuel (AUDIO)

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September 19, 2013 - Posted by | Resources -audiovicual

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