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Insight: After disaster, the deadliest part of Japan's nuclear clean-up

2013-08-14 03:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is preparing to remove 400 tons of highly irradiated spent fuel from a damaged reactor building, a dangerous operation that has never been attempted before on this scale. Containing radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 68 years ago, more than 1,300 used fuel rod assemblies packed tightly together need to be removed from a building that is vulnerable to collapse, should another large...

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