Release of evaporative condensation apparatus is within the desalination facility seen in the tsunami crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Fukushima Prefecture, in this handout recording 4. December 2011.IMG credit: Reuters/Tokyo Electric Power Co./handout
By Shinichi Saoshiro
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is located on Friday to explain that his tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant cold shutdown has reached an important milestone in efforts under control passed world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl 25 years ago.
Fukushima Daiichi plant, 240 km (150 miles) northeast of Tokyo, was on 11 March a major earthquake and tsunami 10-meter high (33-ft high), the cooling system, triggering meltdowns and radiation leaks knocked destroyed.
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is expected, that the achievement of one of the top goals of the Government at a press conference at 0900 GMT, known, but he can also warn that it decades, Fukushima that is completely shattered last six reactors.
Shut down too cold is cool under its boiling point, prevents that of fuel remains reheating, when water used nuclear fuel rods. One of the top goals of the investment manager, Tokyo electric power (Tepco), was too cold to bring the reactor closure until the end of the year.
After months of efforts, the temperature of water in all three of the affected reactors below boiling point from September, but Tepco was careful to declare a cold shutdown that say that see it, if temperatures and the amount of radiation from the plant has remained stable.
Declaring a cold shutdown have effects far beyond the plant: it's Government precondition before it approximately 80,000 residents evacuated within a radius of 20 km (12 miles) of the plant home can return.
NO GRAVE
TEPCO said earlier in the crisis that it do not want the damaged Daiichi reactors in concrete, which in the Ukraine, where reactors Chernobyl caught fire and burned dig days selected option. Instead it preferred the phasing out of nuclear fuel for storage elsewhere.
The Government and the Tepco you want to remove the undamaged nuclear rods of the Daiichi of spent fuel pools so early next year begin. With the complete dismantling of the plant expected to be up to 40 years, reported on Thursday start retrieving of fuel, which in their reactors melted up to but not for another decade, domestic media.
The enormous cost of the cleanup and compensation of the victims of the disaster has drained financial Tepco. Sources that can inject Government over $13 billion in the company already next summer in a de-facto nationalization told Reuters last week.
A massive cleanup task outside of the plant is Japan, if people are to go home. The Environment Ministry says about 2,400 km2 (930 miles) of land around the plant need to be decontaminated, an area about the size of Luxembourg.
Shocked the public believe the crisis in the nuclear energy and Japan checks its earlier plan to increase the share of electricity from nuclear energy to 50 per cent by the year 2030 by 30 percent in 2010 now.
Japan can not immediately walk away from nuclear energy, but few doubt that nuclear power in the future would play a lesser role.
Living in fear of radiation is part of life for the residents nearby and far from the plant. Cases of excessive radiation in the vegetables, tea, milk, fish and water have stoked fear despite assurances from public officials, that the levels detected not are dangerous.
Chernobyl experience has shown that fear will probably continue for many years, with local residents in the vicinity of the former Soviet factory to produce still regularly verified local for radiation before they consume 25 years after the disaster.
The announcement may not drastically Noda of support improve reviews by its unwavering commitment to a VAT hike to deal with a public debt twice the size of Japan's economy heavily eroded. Noda is also a huge list of other tasks, how such as help a stagnating economy address rise to historic highs against the yen.
(Editing by Tomasz Janowski and mark Bendeich)
By Shinichi Saoshiro
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is located on Friday to explain that his tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant cold shutdown has reached an important milestone in efforts under control passed world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl 25 years ago.
Fukushima Daiichi plant, 240 km (150 miles) northeast of Tokyo, was on 11 March a major earthquake and tsunami 10-meter high (33-ft high), the cooling system, triggering meltdowns and radiation leaks knocked destroyed.
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is expected, that the achievement of one of the top goals of the Government at a press conference at 0900 GMT, known, but he can also warn that it decades, Fukushima that is completely shattered last six reactors.
Shut down too cold is cool under its boiling point, prevents that of fuel remains reheating, when water used nuclear fuel rods. One of the top goals of the investment manager, Tokyo electric power (Tepco), was too cold to bring the reactor closure until the end of the year.
After months of efforts, the temperature of water in all three of the affected reactors below boiling point from September, but Tepco was careful to declare a cold shutdown that say that see it, if temperatures and the amount of radiation from the plant has remained stable.
Declaring a cold shutdown have effects far beyond the plant: it's Government precondition before it approximately 80,000 residents evacuated within a radius of 20 km (12 miles) of the plant home can return.
NO GRAVE
TEPCO said earlier in the crisis that it do not want the damaged Daiichi reactors in concrete, which in the Ukraine, where reactors Chernobyl caught fire and burned dig days selected option. Instead it preferred the phasing out of nuclear fuel for storage elsewhere.
The Government and the Tepco you want to remove the undamaged nuclear rods of the Daiichi of spent fuel pools so early next year begin. With the complete dismantling of the plant expected to be up to 40 years, reported on Thursday start retrieving of fuel, which in their reactors melted up to but not for another decade, domestic media.
The enormous cost of the cleanup and compensation of the victims of the disaster has drained financial Tepco. Sources that can inject Government over $13 billion in the company already next summer in a de-facto nationalization told Reuters last week.
A massive cleanup task outside of the plant is Japan, if people are to go home. The Environment Ministry says about 2,400 km2 (930 miles) of land around the plant need to be decontaminated, an area about the size of Luxembourg.
Shocked the public believe the crisis in the nuclear energy and Japan checks its earlier plan to increase the share of electricity from nuclear energy to 50 per cent by the year 2030 by 30 percent in 2010 now.
Japan can not immediately walk away from nuclear energy, but few doubt that nuclear power in the future would play a lesser role.
Living in fear of radiation is part of life for the residents nearby and far from the plant. Cases of excessive radiation in the vegetables, tea, milk, fish and water have stoked fear despite assurances from public officials, that the levels detected not are dangerous.
Chernobyl experience has shown that fear will probably continue for many years, with local residents in the vicinity of the former Soviet factory to produce still regularly verified local for radiation before they consume 25 years after the disaster.
The announcement may not drastically Noda of support improve reviews by its unwavering commitment to a VAT hike to deal with a public debt twice the size of Japan's economy heavily eroded. Noda is also a huge list of other tasks, how such as help a stagnating economy address rise to historic highs against the yen.
(Editing by Tomasz Janowski and mark Bendeich)
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