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Saturday, March 12th, 2016

Fukushima Keeps Fighting Radioactive Tide 5 Years After Disaster

Author:     JONATHAN SOBLE
Source:     The New York Times
Publication Date:     MARCH 10, 2016
 Link: Fukushima Keeps Fighting Radioactive Tide 5 Years After Disaster
Stephan:   Here is the latest on Fukushima. This cancer will go on it is estimated another 40 years, although it could be another century. In addition to the $20 billion already spent it will take another $120 billion at least. And thus we see the real cost of nuclear. Utterly unproductive, incredibly toxic, and enormously expensive.
This aerial photo shows reactors of No. 1, right, and No. 2, left, at the Sendai Nuclear Power Station in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima prefecture, southern Japan, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015. Kyushu Electric Power Co. said Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, it had restarted the No. 1 reactor at its Sendai nuclear plant as planned. The restart marks Japan's return to nuclear energy four-and-half-years after the 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan following an earthquake and tsunami. Credit: Kyodo News via AP

This aerial photo shows reactors of No. 1, right, and No. 2, left, at the Sendai Nuclear Power Station in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima prefecture, southern Japan, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015. Kyushu Electric Power Co. said Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, it had restarted the No. 1 reactor at its Sendai nuclear plant as planned. The restart marks Japan’s return to nuclear energy four-and-half-years after the 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan following an earthquake and tsunami.
Credit: Kyodo News via AP

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