TEPCO still does not know how to handle the enormously radioactive nuclear fuel debris, or corium, sizzling hot radioactive lumps of melted fuel rods and container material. The cooling water continuously poured over the creakily dilapidated ruins itself turns radioactive, almost instantaneously. How to handle and dispose of the radioactive slurry from the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) is almost, and in fact may be, an impossible quagmire.
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Fukushima Takes a Turn for the Worse
Tokyo Electric Power Company-TEPCO- has been attempting to decommission three nuclear meltdowns in reactors No. 1 No. 2, and No. 3 for 11 years now. Over time, impossible issues grow and glow, putting one assertion after another into the anti-nuke coffers. The problems, issues, enormous danger, and ill timing of deconstruction of a nuclear disaster is always unexpectedly complicated by something new. That’s the nature of nuclear meltdowns, aka: …
January 10, 2022by Robert Hunziker Tokyo Electric Power Company-TEPCO- has been attempting to decommission three nuclear meltdowns in reactors No. 1 No. 2, and No. 3 for 11 years now. Over time, im…