This news serves as a reminder that conditions at the earthquake-damaged reactors remain hazardous even though the crisis at Fukushima Daiichi no longer makes front page headlines. Radioactive water from the plant was dispersed into the ocean several times last month. Three of its reactors melted down, leaving it looking like a bombed. Water will leak through the breached reactor vessel into the containment vessel however, that plan also risks contaminating the facility around the reactor. OKUMA, Japan - A decade ago, a massive tsunami crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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TEPCO officials may fill the containment vessel with water by injecting greater volumes into the reactor core as an added precaution. During the emergency, each of the three operational nuclear reactors at the Fukushima plant shut down successfully, but the backup power and cooling systems failed. Tanks storing treated radioactive water after it was used to cool the melted fuel are seen at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), in Okuma town, northeastern Japan, Thursday, March 3, 2022. Molten fuel could possibly burn through the containment vessel, allowing radioactive material to escape into the environment. 11 years later, fate of Fukushima reactor cleanup uncertain. The twin catastrophes of the 1959 SRE liquid sodium meltdown and the ongoing 2011 Fukushima meltdowns are ample evidence of the. The good news is that the reactor’s surface temperature indicates that the fuel has cooled down, TEPCO says. The twin endorsements of an old dangerous nuclear reactor technology by Bill Gates and Joe Biden make a mockery of clean energy plans that attempt the arrest the planet’s plunge into uncontrolled overheating. Some critics have alleged that cost savings trumped safety. The containment layers were designed to prevent the melted fuel from breaching the facility, but nuclear experts have long raised serious doubts about the decades old GE design’s reliability.