Nuclear energy has never been ‘safe.’ Nuclear energy is inherently Unsafe and always will be. Nuclear energy is not clean or green. It causes massive pollution from mining to reprocessing. Nuclear waste is impossible to make safe. The American Department Of Defense is recycling spent uranium from nuclear plants – By making uranium tipped ammunition for weapons used in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Levels of radiation and pollution in these war-torn regions has gone up. The citizens of these countries are paying the price.
Cleaning up after a nuclear disaster is also fraught with problems and can take decades to complete.
Euronews website report:
The operators of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have postponed the extremely complicated and difficult task of removing damaged atomic rods.
New video footage from a robot has revealed new leaks within the damaged reactors meaning the rods now can’t be taken out as planned.
One of the fuel assemblies was damaged as far back as 1982 when it was mishandled during a transfer and is bent out of shape.
Kazuaki Matsui, the executive director of Japan’s Institute of Applied Energy said: “It’s very difficult to remove a spent rod because parts of the wall and the bottom of the reactor are all melted. We’ve never had to deal with this before so that adds to the complication.”
Meanwhile, decontamination workers say mismanagement is to blame for the delay of radiation removal work.
The initial plan called for the clean-up in the affected towns to be finished by March this year but the government now says the work will be delayed by as much as three years.
Link to the article at Euronews