fukushima cleanup Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:39:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Cleaning Up Fukushima May Take up to 40 Years, IAEA Panel Says https://www.greenoptimistic.com/iaea-fukushima-cleanup-40-year-20130425/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/iaea-fukushima-cleanup-40-year-20130425/#respond Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:39:09 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=36589 It may take 40 more years to decommission the Fukushima power plant, said a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency recently. The damage, they say, is so complex, that it’s not possible to predict how long the cleanup may last, but in either scenario it won’t take less than 30 to 40 years. The […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/iaea-fukushima-cleanup-40-year-20130425/feed/ 0 36589 Detecting Damaged Nuclear Reactors Using Muons Radiography https://www.greenoptimistic.com/detecting-damaged-nuclear-reactors-using-muons-radiography-20121018/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/detecting-damaged-nuclear-reactors-using-muons-radiography-20121018/#respond Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:14:12 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26839 Cosmic rays can be used to gain information from damaged nuclear reactors. This conclusion was made by a team of researchers from the multidisciplinary research institution- Los Alamos National Laboratory. In their attempt to understand what happened inside the reactor at Fukushima after the disaster, they assessed two existing methods: Los Alamos’s scattering method for […]

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