JAPAN REACTOR MELTDOWN NEWS FULL

Much like what happened with the economic meltdown in the U.S., those behind Japan’s nuclear disaster are asking for financial assistance. This will require about “244 additional casks, at a cost of $1 million per cask.” Wyden is calling for “an international effort” to fund the placement of “spent reactor fuel into dry, hardened storage casks. If that were to occur, the lack of water would “cause melting and ignite its zirconium metal cladding-resulting in a fire that could deposit large amounts of radioactive materials over hundreds of miles.” This is significant, as the “Fukushima Daiichi site is storing nearly 85 times the amount estimated to have been released at Chernobyl.” The Fukushima site, he wrote, has an “extremely large radioactive inventory without a strong containment structure,” and “several pools could possibly topple or collapse from structural damage coupled with another powerful earthquake.” In a letter to Japan’s ambassador to the United States, he commented upon the fact that “the irradiated nuclear fuel stored in spent fuel pools amid the reactor ruins may have far greater potential offsite consequences than the molten cores.” Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) recently visited the scene and had some alarming impressions. Its collapse, according to published reports, could result in the evacuation of 1/3 of Japan’s population. However, now Reactor 4 is currently on the verge of collapse. The mainstream news reported that the deadly earthquake and tsunami killed at least 16,000 people and that airborne radiation levels in parts of Fukushima prefecture were expected to remain near dangerous levels at least until 2022.

JAPAN REACTOR MELTDOWN NEWS FULL

A year later, the site remains a toxic wasteland, and only now is the full extent of the catastrophe being revealed. On March 11, 2011, Japan endured a massive earthquake and tsunami that caused a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Prime minister says Fukushima Reactor 4 a peril to entire region.

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