Tokyo -- The decommissioning of four reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will likely take more than 30 years to complete, according to a report by Japanese officials.
The draft report, released by Japan's Atomic Energy Commission of the Cabinet Office on Friday, said the removal of debris -- or nuclear fuel -- should begin by the end of 2021.
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This spring’s nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant released almost double the amount of radiation the Japanese government has claimed, according to a new analysis. The authors say the boiling pools holding spent fuel rods played a role in the release of some of the contaminants, primarily cesium-137 — and that this could have been mitigated by an earlier response. …
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Renewable energy reaches new heights On September 21, 2010 Swiss company Solar Impulse flew its first solar powered plane from Payerne to Geneva. André Borschberg, pilot and co-founder of Solar Impulse, notes the significance of this flight, "the Swiss solar flights represent a major step forward for our team, taking us away from our customary airspace. We have learned to work together …
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Europe Forges ahead with Ocean Wave PowerBy Jen BalboaOcean Power’s PowerBuoy deployed at the United States Marine Corps Base in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. Photo from Ocean Power Ocean Power Technologies Inc. will use a grant of 2.2 million euros ($2.9 million) from the European Commission to continue developing a 1.39-megawatt wave energy project off the northern coast of Spain.The grant is part of a …
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