Nuclear experts from France, U.S. to help with Fukushima clean-up
Source: Japan Today
The Japanese government will team up with experts in the United States and France to develop brand new technologies to collect melted fuel from crippled reactors at Fukushima, an official says.
Removal of the melted rods at the nuclear plant, which was wrecked by a tsunami five years ago, is one of the biggest challenges of the mammoth cleanup, a huge project expected to take up to four decades.
Scientists have long warned the technology required for the complex—and potentially dangerous—task does not yet exist, and would have to be invented.
Entombing the uranium rods in concrete and effectively abandoning the site—as was done after the meltdown at Chernobyl in 1986—has been ruled out by the Japanese government as politically unacceptable, leaving innovation as the only possible solution.
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