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Impossible timetable set for returning Fukushima nuclear site to ‘greenfield”

Greenpeace 11th March 2021, Nine months after the triple reactor meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichinuclear plant in March 2011, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) announced that decommissioning of the site will be completed within 30-40 years.

Practically, the people of Japan were told that some time between 2041 and 2051, the site would be returned to ‘greenfield.’ In the past decade, the complexity and scale of the challenge at the Fukushima Daiichi site has become slowly clearer. The decommissioning task at the Fukushima Daiichi site is unique in its challenge to society and technology. But still, the
official time frame for TEPCO’s Road Map for decommissioning remains that set in 2011.

https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-japan-stateless/2021/03/8323f3ca-gpsummary_decommissioning_eng.pdf

March 13, 2021 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Fukushima continuing