Fukushima Meltdown Mitigation Aims to Prevent Radioactive Flood

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More than three months after a powerful earthquake and 14-meter-high tsunami struck Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remains flooded with a salty mix of ocean and fresh water that is contaminated with the radioactive residue of three reactors and four spent fuel pools' worth of nuclear fuel. Every day an additional 500 metric tons of seawater is poured onto the still hot nuclear fuel in the stricken reactors and fuel pools. More than 100,000 metric tons of such water now sits in the basement and trenches of the reactors--or evaporates inside the hot reactor buildings, making for a radioactive onsen (hot bath). [More] (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fukushima-meltdown-radioactive-flood)

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